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.
The annual Northwest Arkansas Gridiron will put material about newsmamkers written by local journalists on stage. The annual lampooning is Friday and Saturday, October 5th and 6th.
"Yakety-Sax" by Chet Atkins
Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas talks with James Dashner, an accountant turned children's Author, who is the featured guest at the Rogers Public Library Foundation's Conversations fundraiser.
Becca Martin Brwon tells us of a few events happening today that aren't a part of Bikes, Blues and BBQ.
"Rumble" by Link Wray
Because we mostly zoom by them in our sealed vehicles, nature recordist and essayist Joe Neal takes us into an Ozarks meadow for a listen. Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book is “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir.”
The Walton Arts Center is silent during the motorcycle rally, but makes up for it during the month of October.
