It's been a bordello, a restaurant and now a visitors center...and it's one of our favorite spaces in the region. We spent an afternoon at Miss Laura's in downtown Fort Smith,
Ozarks At Large
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas and David Goins talk to Senate Insurance Committee Chairman Jason Rapert about the state's public school employee insurance crisis.The Arkansas Department of Human Services has released numbers that show thousands of low-income Arkansans have shown intent to sign up for the state's Private Option insurance plans. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families releases a report detailing inequality of enrichment opportunities between schools across the state. And furloughed work-study employees at Northwest Arkansas Community College returned to work this morning after a two-day suspension and before negotiations in Washington showed promise.
Ahead on Ozarks, the effort to help residents with some college credit finish their degrees will get a big boost next week when six area institutions of higher learning will combine for a Come Back to College Fair at the Jones Center in Springdale. Plus, we explain the place where advanced math and crochet meet....and looking for the place where mindfulness and mental health intersect.
An effort to improve understanding in the classroom led to astonishing art.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has still more Halloween events to tell us about today.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast comes back to Walton Arts Center this weekend and we talk with the set designer about what we see behind the characters.
And interdisciplinary seminar on mindfulness and mental health titled “Mirror Program for Health and Happiness,” is taking place October 18th through the 20th on the University of Arkansas campus, facilitated by Tibetan Buddhist scholar Geshe Thupten Dorjee. To register visit artibet.com.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, January 3, 2014
On this special edition of Ozarks at Large we listen again to some of our favorite stories from 2013, including: how to make it to age 100 in Huntsville, an odds-defying collaboration between a renown musician and Trike Theater and the creation of the Ozarks at Large quiche cup.
Chief meteorologist Dan Skoff with KNWA gives us the history of the holiday and the weather and tells us whether we can expect six more weeks of winter.
Monday the Community Clinic in Rogers marked a milestone, celebrating the 100,000th patient served in the fifteen years of service by the clinic.
"Community" by Ludwig Goransson
Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge located in Southern Carroll County is now also an artist’s colony. But the painters are not human. Tigers, an occasional lion, and one very big brown bear create original abstracts. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, the furry creatives are earning their keep: the paw paintings are fetching a great deal of cash.
Web Exclusive: A Gallery of Fine Art From the Felines
Web Exclusive: A Video of Lines and Tigers and Bears. Oh My!
"Dirty Paws" by Of Monsters and Men
Shannon Wurst headed to Montana to record her fifth studio CD, Lionheart Love. But the CD release party will be in her native state this weekend.
"Mountain Goat Song" by Trunks and Tales
Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers says you have one last shot today to see a staged reading of Goat Song Revel, a play by Springdale native Dan Borengasser.
