Daniel Grear

Is “Me and the Devil,” the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s latest, a comedy or a drama? Written and directed by Little Rock native Steve H. Broadnax III, the play is wonderfully uncategorizable, starting in the land of laughs and then drifting naturally into engrossing depth while never losing sight of its uproarious edge.

The Conway-based literary magazine’s latest issue — officially on newsstands today — concentrates on the implications of industry in the South.

Organizers from the Arkansas chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action are hosting an event Saturday in Little Rock in honor of National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Held from 2-4 p.m. at the Awareness Center (900 S. Pine St.), the event will include speeches from gun safety advocates and information about the secure storage of firearms.

Over a dozen Arkansas Times staffers and contributors have been named finalists in contests sponsored by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the Society of Professional Journalists.

As comfortable cobbling together avant-garde-adjacent originals as they are putting a progressive bluegrass spin on musicians as varied as Radiohead, Norman Blake and Claude Debussy, the fleet-footed quintet known as Punch Brothers is made up of some of the best players in the world.

Set entirely in a living room, “God of Carnage” gathers two sets of well-to-do parents to talk through an off-stage fight on the playground between their 11-year-old sons, one of whom has had his front teeth knocked out. The show runs at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre from June 17-29.

Previous recipients of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award include Ocean Vuong, Jesmyn Ward and T.C. Boyle.

The film focuses on a bus driver played by Matthew McConaughey who’s tasked with rescuing 23 stranded elementary school students and their teacher (America Ferrara) during the 2018 Camp Fire in California.

JUNETEENTH IN DA ROCK SATURDAY 6/21. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free.

On a recent spring day, a group of Arkansas Times staffers gathered at Moody Brews in Pettaway Square with the intention of grabbing a few brews — nothing more, nothing less. Little did we know, the neighboring Smashed N’ Stacked food truck had other plans for us. The purchase of one enchanting burger led to the purchase of a second, and soon enough, the whole table was smothered in grilled beef and fried potatoes, styrofoam clamshells incessantly changing hands in a symphony of sharing. Could this be a contender for the best burger in town? Inspired, Managing Editor Benjamin Hardy began to hold court. “You know, the thing about a really good burger is it puts you in the moment,” he said. “I think the best burger is just the one you’re currently eating.” He’d stumbled upon profundity without even meaning to. Sure, not every burger is special enough to produce this kind of reaction, but when a burger passes a certain threshold of excellence, the rest of the world falls away. All of the burgers on the following list — our honest attempt at corralling the best that Central Arkansas has to offer in no particular order — give rise to a similar feeling.