The Arkansas Legislature came to a consensus in Little Rock about how to prevent insurance rates from rising drastically for some Arkansas public school employees. The state health department sets up mass flu clinics in every county across the state. And following the federal government's reopening, new jobless numbers for August are reported.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, a hands-on approach to preparing high school students for both college and the real world. Plus, an effort to encourage those who have some college credits to return to complete their degrees. We'll also visit a hidden treasure at the 80-year old Devil's Den State Park and hear the voices of Eureka Springs.
Here are the ten clips included in our montage salute to 1,000 in honor of our 1,000th edition of Ozarks at Large since it became a daily show in August, 2010.
Apologies to: Arabian Knights (just one too many), anything with millennium in the title, the artist Sala and the 43rd-most populated city in California. Maybe next time.
- Dwight Yoakam with the right amount of twang in A Thousand Miles From Nowhere.
- A small bit from a 1972 commercial for Pfeiffer's Thousand Island salad dressing.
- Bobby Vee sings that The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
- The trailer for James Cagney's portrayal of Lon Chaney...the Man of a Thousand Faces.
- A mellow classic...If by Bread.
- Genevieve Bujold as the doomed Anne Boleyn in Anne of A Thousand Days.
- The song A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton.
- The Proclaimers sing 500 Miles...but the lyric continues, "...500 more..." adding up to 1000, right?
- Jason Robards yells at his neighbors in the Academy Award-winning film A Thousand Clowns.
- Wilson Pickett's Land of a Thousand Dances.
Apologies to: Arabian Knights (just one too many), anything with millennium in the title, the artist Sala and the 43rd-most populated city in California. Maybe next time.
The fifth annual Eureka Springs' Voices from the Silent City Cemetery Tour, which portrays Depression-era Eureka, is set for Friday and Saturday evenings, October 18th and19th, as well as October 25th and 26th. Jacqueline Froelich provides a preview. For tickets call 479-253-9417.
The efforts to help area residents with some college credit finish their degree continue next week at the Jones Center in Springdale.
Arkansas high school students graduating in 2014 and beyond are required to take an economics course. One local school is using hands-on learning methods to teach the value of small business.
This weekend, Devil's Den State Park is celebrating the fall season as well as the park's 80th anniversary.All are the focus of stories from the past week featured in this morning's Week in Review.
Ahead on Ozarks:the gavel has come down to begin a special session of the Arkansas Legislature. Chris Hickey reports on the opening afternoon of a session dedicated to solving, if only temporarily, a projected spike in insurance rates for public school employees in the state. Plus: our usual Friday conversations with Michael Tilley from The City Wire and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers. And Antoinette Grajeda tries to discover the lure of following festivals for one retailer who is selling her wares right now at Mulberry Mountain for the Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Festival.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, the New Year brings an increased need for nurse practitioners in Arkansas. And 100 CEOs have given their opinions about what they think 2014 may have in store for businesses in Arkansas. Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, has the results of that survey. Plus some of the first live music in 2014 will be inside: we have a preview of a new festival in Eureka Springs that can be attended in stocking feet.
It’s not all elections today. We take time out for another musical performance from inside our studio. Dr. Park visits the Firmin-Garner Studio and performs live accompanied by Prof. Skirmante Kezyte on the piano.
Web Exclusive: Extended Conversation With Dr. Moon-Sook Park
Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers previews a performance by the Mont Alto Orchestra. The performance will take place in Giffels Auditorium as the orchestra accompanies the silent film "The Vanishing American."
"Down" by Miles Davis
Wayne Bell, creator of the Culture Club column for Fayetteville Flyer, offers a DVD suggestion and thoughts about nearby holiday travel.
"Already Elsewhere" by Six Parts Seven
Sara Grey is returning to Fayetteville for another intimate concert Friday night. Before her travels, she talked to us from her home in Scotland.
The Army Corps of Engineers schedules a series of public meetings regarding changes to lock and dam operations along the McLelland-Kerr River Navigation System in Arkansas, record numbers of Arkansas residents have voted early this year, and the Rogers School District has followed suit of several other area school districts and applied for federal Race to the Top grant money.
"Election Day" by Lyle Lovett
