We visit the Rogers Police Department to find out about how one can protect and serve the public, as the department prepares to offer the Entry Level Police Officer Examination early next month.
Ozarks At Large
Though the plans are in the early stages, The University of Arkansas Fort Smith may begin offering its first Master's degree in a few years.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, lions and tigers and wampus cats? We learn whats in a name when it comes to high school mascots around Arkansas. Plus, lung cancer rates are on the decline in Arkansas while the use of solar energy systems is on the rise.
Our ten clips saluting sailors and sailing:
1. The theme to Popeye the Sailor Man.
2. Bob Denver and Alan Hale hatch a scheme on Gilligan's Island.
3. Christopher Cross creates the all-time yacht rock song with Sailing.
4. Gregory Peck, as Captain Ahab, ponders his life with Starbuck in Moby Dick.
5. Sloop John B by the Beach Boys.
6. Hercules ignores the orders of Jason in the 1963 version of Jason and the Argonauts. (later, the GREATEST MOVIE SCENE EVER with the sword-weilding skeletons).
7. Jimmy Buffett is Aa Son of a Son of a Sailor.
8. Russell Crowe catches up to a ship in Master and Commander.
9. Bogart and Hepburn on The African Queen.
10. Lyle Lovett sings If I Had a Boat.
Apologies to: Horatio Hornblower, Sinbad (the sailor, not the comic) and Errol Flynn. Maybe next time.
1. The theme to Popeye the Sailor Man.
2. Bob Denver and Alan Hale hatch a scheme on Gilligan's Island.
3. Christopher Cross creates the all-time yacht rock song with Sailing.
4. Gregory Peck, as Captain Ahab, ponders his life with Starbuck in Moby Dick.
5. Sloop John B by the Beach Boys.
6. Hercules ignores the orders of Jason in the 1963 version of Jason and the Argonauts. (later, the GREATEST MOVIE SCENE EVER with the sword-weilding skeletons).
7. Jimmy Buffett is Aa Son of a Son of a Sailor.
8. Russell Crowe catches up to a ship in Master and Commander.
9. Bogart and Hepburn on The African Queen.
10. Lyle Lovett sings If I Had a Boat.
Apologies to: Horatio Hornblower, Sinbad (the sailor, not the comic) and Errol Flynn. Maybe next time.
Pearl Brick tells us about her guitar, and plays another song in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.The stories behind unusual high school mascots…like Airedales or Little Johns…are the stuff of legend.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, March 7, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, Downtown Bentonville launches its new Notes at Night series, and Candy Lee stops by the studio to discuss and perform some songs off her new album.
Jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco will perform at Legacy Blues in Fayetteville this Friday. KUAF’s Robert Ginsburg spoke with him to find out more about his life and career.
State Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford discusses the status of Arkansas’ health benefits exchange under federal health care reform. Arkansas rejected setting up a state-run exchange late last year, due to widespread opposition to what some refer to as “ObamaCare.”
“Sagamore Bridge” by Pullman
Earlier this month, Kyle Kellams hosted a 10x10 Series Countdown Conversation for the Mark Morris Dance Company and classical trio Time for Three. We play excerpts from that day’s discussion.
The Arkansas Music Pavilion moves to Washington County fairgrounds this year; the Arkansas Forestry Commission considers proposal to restore commission’s firefighting positions; and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
“The Royal Household” by Alexandre Desplat
Tonight, an artists’ forum for TheatreSquared’s Tigers, Be Still will be hosted inside the Fayetteville Public Library, or read some poetry with Clayton Scott at Nightbird Books. Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has the details.
