
Ozarks At Large

Representatives from Walton Arts Center and Fayetteville Parks and Recreation discuss what's next for their respective projects now that a special bond election resulted in them securing funding.

University of Arkansas and War Memorial Stadium officials yesterday announced a new deal that will see only one Razorback football game to be played in the state capital in each of the next five years. And a new poll shows a still tight race between the party front runners for next year's gubernatorial election.


Thanksgiving week means the holiday-themed events are in full gear.

Art created for a national event by area elementary and middle school students will be on display through the end of 2013 and beyond.
Carroll County is one of just a few Arkansas counties that has no shelter for victims of domestic violence. Wildflowers Ministries in Eureka Springs is raising funds to secure the necessary property and expertise to open such a facility.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: how soup in Ft. Smith can help some area children have a better weekend. Plus students at the University of Arkansas will be in charge of soup, salad and everything else at the Crescent Hotel for an upcoming weekend. We also have a wrap up of the month ahead in visual arts and go to a church to learn more about how art and faith can be closely related.
Becca Martin Brown says that the unique work of art will be installed at Crystal Bridges this week.
Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala tonight at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville. Earlier this week, they stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance and played their song "It's You and It's Me."
Emily Chase recently received a national honor for her thesis work at the University of Arkansas. She told us about the creation of her paper gowns.
To see pictures of some of Emily's work, click here.
The fifteenth-annual living history tour of Oak Cemetery is Sunday. Portrayals of Fort Smith's past residents, prominent and not, all tell a story of the city's history.
Here is the key to our clips heard in this morning’s montage of famous cemeteries, graveyards and funerals in pop culture:
Thriller by Michael Jackson. The most famous dance routine set in a graveyard.
Opening moments from the original Night of the Living Dead.
The original “graveyard smash”, "The Monster Mash" by Bobby Pickett.
A wonderful Lee Marvin stumbles into a funeral in the underrated comedy, Cat Ballou.
Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman have a rough night in the cemetery in Young Frankenstein.
Opening moments from a 1940 film version of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
Abe Vigoda and Al Pacino is a pivotal scene at Don Corleone’s funeral in The Godfather.
Theme from the HBO series Six Feet Under.
Reginald Owen as Scrooge in the 1938 film A Christmas Carol as he sees his own grave.
The Crypt Keeper from an opening episode of the HBO series Tales From the Crypt.
Apologies to: that wonderful scene with Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Dick Van Dyke’s narration in the opening of the movie The Comedian, all those vampire movies, about 1000 metal songs and the still-creepy ending to Carrie. Maybe next time.