The Other Columbus: The meaning of Anthony Bourdain
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Jones Bar-B-Q hosts a Fire Up That Grill reopening event
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Rex Nelson, senior editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Karen E. Segrave)
Rex Nelson writes three columns a week and essays for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Sunday Perspective section. He’s the author of three books the first full-length biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a biography of Arkansas educator Ben Elrod and a collection of his essays on Arkansas. He’s also the author of a popular blog known as Rex Nelson’s Southern Fried.
Nelson served for almost a decade as the policy and communications director for Gov. Mike Huckabee and then served for four years as one of George W. Bush’s two appointees to the Delta Regional Authority. He has been inducted into the Arkansas Sportscasters & Sportswriters Hall of Fame.
Jones Bar-B-Q should be smoking again
Fund-raising to rebuild the legendary
Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Marianna seems likely to be enough to restore the James Beard award winner.
A pit fire Sunday put the modest diner out of business. But owner James Jones vowed to rebuild and national attention to the fire brought an outpouring of help.
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Two Go Fund Me pages have raised almost $75,000 so far and other money has been promised from separate sources, including, according to the New York Times, a $25,000 emergency grant from Southern Restaurants for Racial Progress, a program in partnership with the LEE Initiative.