Organizers say a film screening Wednesday on the UALR campus could be the start of an initiative to empower women in the state through educational opportunities.
Ozarks At Large
As children, we learn you can know the age of a tree if you count the rings inside its trunk. What we might not learn is that those tree rings contain the history of each of those years.
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers reminds us that auditions at Rogers Little Theater and at the Arts Center of the Ozarks are happening this week.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas has updates on new earnings reports, state revenues, and more.The University of Arkansas’ Community Design Center last week received a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The center aims to use the money to sculpt the future of downtown Fayetteville.
Mike Ross and Bill Halter talk Medicaid at the Delta Grassroots Conference, as does Governor Mike Beebe, but Beebe also vaunts work by the state's Department of Higher Education in getting more students into college. And Hillcrest Towers in Fayetteville will be getting a facelift after receiving a sizable federal grant.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we celebrate the fifth day of the fifth month with the number "5." And, bucky ball now marks the entrance to Crystal Bridges in in Bentonville.
Here is information about today’s montage dedicated to the number five:
- Beethoven’s Fifth as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
- George Brett (#5 for the Kansas City Royals) hits a home run in the 1984 All-Star Game.
- The Vogues sing "Five O’clock World."
- How to use the fifth amendment in a congressional hearing.
- School House Rock’s take on the number five, as sung by native Arkansan Bob Dorough.
- A scene from the British series MI-5.
- The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry."
- Jack Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces.
- Lou Bega’s dance hit "Mambo No. 5."
- Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0.
So why not celebrate with the number "five?" Mathematician Edmond Harris gives us some insight into the fantastic figure.
Jayme Stone's Room of Wonders will be playing around Northwest Arkansas and helped us kick off Artosphere by stopping by the studio.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large,a report on former president Bill Clinton's address on the Affordable Care Act from his Presidential Library yesterday. And, we visit a local bike shop to learn what it takes to get back on a bicycle after not riding for years.
Some Republican state lawmakers are still floating the possibility of a partial Medicaid expansion while others want to see tax reforms during this legislative session. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality gives a clean bill of health to a piece of formerly contaminated land in southeast Fayetteville. And the diamond Hogs get even more props in two new preseason polls.
"This Ain't The Blues" by Speedy Wast and Jimmy Bryant
All major cities in Arkansas report bulked-up sales tax collections. Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses that plus homes sales figures and guns in city parks in his weekly conversation with Kyle.
The Northwest Arkansas Food Bank staff knows their services are needed in the winter as much as any other time of year. Two porjects could help stock the food pantry this month.
"Table" by The Beautiful South
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has the rundown on the Rogers Little Theater's 28th season, Wizard of Oz is included in the highlights.
Representative Charlie Collins from Fayetteville, the chair of the House Revenue and Tax Committee, talks to Roby Brock from Talk Business about possible tax policy legislation.
"Mantiqueira Range" by Antonio Carlos Jobim
