On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
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On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience. One of the country's most accomplished and most respected writers is coming to the Fayetteville Town Center Monday night.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we learn about traditional Native American ecological and cultural practices. Plus, we hear a roundtable discussion about recent political polling data for this year's statewide elections.
Around the World in 80 Days, and the story of a near lynching in 1930s Arkansas are the topics of TheatreSquared's ninth season, which was recently unveiled.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, gives us a preview of a weekend with just about everything.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, many local businesses have received their starts as a mobile vendor before moving into a bricks and mortar location. A long-time Fayetteville store is doing the opposite now. We talk with Sidney of Sidney's Emporium. Plus, the cycle of Artosphere: artworks of festivals past are removed to make way for the new. And we learn three things about the Peace Corps and more.
For the fourth consecutive year the city will be the site for a district convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Organizers are preparing for about 43-hundred attendees the weekends of June 29th and July 6th and another 38-hundred people the weekend of July 20th.
“Summer” by Vivaldi
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us about a variety of things that can be done today.
This morning, Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor discussed his opposition to the “Farm Bill” with Kyle Kellams.
“Summertime” by Louis Armstrong
The annual University of Arkansas Literacy Symposium is staging a reader’s theatre on the life of American author and humorist, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. The performance is based on newly released double CD “Mark Twain: Words and Music” jammed with noted actors and musicians, conceptualized and created by Cindy Lovell director of the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri.
Jodi Beznoska from Walton Arts Center tells us about the last few performances that will mark the end of the 2012 Artosphere Festival.
