The folks who own Milano Italian Restaurant have definitely gone upscale as they moved the restaurant from a shack-like building near Little Rock's western edge to new diggings in the Centre at Chenal shopping center.
THEATERShake on the Lake and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Performing Arts are staging "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday in the Amerine/Calhoun Glass Box at the museum.
Layne's Chicken Fingers is set to open Monday at 3711 McCain Blvd., North Little Rock. The outlet of the Frisco, Texas-based chain, Central Arkansas' second, sits between Longhorn Steakhouse and Red Lobster. [...] Hours are 10 a.m.-1 a.m. Sunday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Friday-Saturday.
Little Rock, 1911: When the city won the right to host the annual United Confederate Veterans Reunion they expected 6,000 old soldiers to be in attendance, but results doubled at 12,000. To house so many, Camp Shaver was set up in what is now MacArthur Park. A feature of entertainment was a hot air balloon which reportedly would not get off the ground.