In the year 2026, it is common to see people using personal phones with features that combine technology from the last one hundred years into a small hand-held device. These cellphones, smart watches, or hands-free technology allow you to talk to others, take pictures, do research, or navigate to locations you have never visited.

Nicolas Cage was in Little Rock last month.

I learned this fact from a recent short piece in AY Magazine noting that filming for the movie Best Pancakes in the Country, starring Cage, was starting to wrap up. Apparently, the action movie has exactly one setting,

The bronze statue of Icarus and Daedalus has been part of the Central Arkansas Library System’s art collection since 1967. It was created in 1965 by Philadelphia artist Evangelos Frudakis (1921–2019) and donated to CALS in 1967 by Raymond Rebsamen, a businessman active in downtown revitalization and a leader of the Urban Progress Association.