The Michigan-based band discusses how they came together as a family band, and they perform "My Love is a Tall Ship" by Jimmy Crowley.
Ozarks At Large
In this installment of What's in a Name, we look at the history of Benton, the county and the ville.
The city of Fort Smith continues to construct a 20-year plan and the University of Arkansas has news about scholarships for future students.
A Texas charter school management nonprofit, Responsive Education Solutions, had been gaining a financial stake in Arkansas—until a complaint filed to the Arkansas Department of Education revealed its science curriculum advances intelligent design. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, the controversy raises questions regarding charter authorization.
The state legislature finished business before getting ready to adjourn this year's fiscal session, and Peco Foods announces expansion in Arkansas. Those stories and more in this morning's week in review.
Ahead on Ozarks, Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gives us a list of St. Patrick's Day events happening this weekend, and we have a preview of the William S. Paley Collection exhibit at Crystal Bridges. We also learn about the latest plans for the new high school in Bentonville.
Finvarra's Wren recently stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio for a conversation and performance.
Tomorrow, The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism, will open to the public at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has a long list of St. Patrick's Day activities.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, April 18, 2014
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.
This month a new poll conducted by Talk Business and Hendrix College asked likely voters in Arkansas about health care, marijuana and more. A majority agreed that efforts to block the health care law should continue and voters were almost evenly divided on the marijuana question. Roby Brock, from Talk Business, recently sat down with State Senator Gilbert Baker, a Republican from central Arkansas and John Brummett, a columnist with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Two California entrepreneurs seek to revive Wonderland Cave, a popular local nightclub first constructed in the early 1930s in a massive underground cave complex deep beneath a mountain ridge in Benton County. For more information, visit TheWonderlandCave.com. For photos, click here.
“Table Tennis” by: Flying Lotus
Becca suggest free flix and crafts for today's entertainment suggestion.
This weekend the Young Artists Guild is producing Rapunzel in Fort Smith. Missy Gipson, the Executive Director of the Young Artists Guild, says creating the legendary hairdo was the first order of business. For more information, visit YagOnline.org
“Hair” by: The Original Broadway Cast
Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com gives us a preview of entertainment in August.