
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.
The Fayetteville Farmer’s Market was voted the country’s favorite. Tomorrow the award is handed over.
Arkansan Tav Falco helped invent a sound that later became known as "psychobilly" in 1979 when he formed Tav Falco and the Panther Burns in Memphis. Although Falco currently resides in Vienna, Austria, he's bringing his blend of blues, punk and rockabilly to the Rogue on Dickson in Fayetteville tomorrow as he tours with his Unapproachable Panther Burns. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen has this preview.
Union supporters and striking workers protested outside of Walmart's annual investors' conference in Bentonville, the drought slowly but surely improves in parts of Arkansas, and the creative economy adds jobs and revenue to the Northwest Arkansas economy.
"In Walked Bud" by Art Blakey
An Alabama law firm has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all Arkansas rice farmers against a chemical company that produces arsenic compounds and poultry integrators that mix the arsenic into their feed. The suit alleges the poultry litter, used as fertilizer, has poisoned Arkansas rice farms.
An outdoor education class that got its start as a college thesis more than ten years ago has a strong presence in a few Northwest Arkansas schools and is gaining attention nationally. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas hikes through the state park with students learning about the outdoors.
"Montreal" by Kaki King