It's thick, eight feet long. You can almost hear it swallow a pig whole. Actually, it dines on rabbits. The python and the rabbit seem apt symbols for Stone, Little Rock's leading concert promoter and, under a contract with the city, operator of the Riverfest Amphitheatre.
Stone works in a business where people are swallowed whole.
At the conclusion of his second successful season of concerts at the Amphitheatre, Stone felt like the rabbit. A judge apparently thought something like that in the case of Jim Dandy Mangrum, the former leader of Black Oak Arkansas, who got in a legal dispute with Stone, the band's former manager, over royalties. The case was tossed. Other cases were settled or dismissed, and Stone claims exoneration in all. As recently as Feb. 23, he was firing off yet another lawsuit at an opposing lawyer, and some of the same parties fired right back at him.