We spend an afternoon as an entomologist hunting and identifying various species of grasshoppers.
Ozarks At Large
A new award was recently created to commemorate individuals' contributions to the Fayetteville music scene.
Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas has business headlines from the past week in his weekly review.The Rogers School District already plans to expand its newest high school. Bentonville city officials move forward with an ordinance to promote increasing the city's tree canopy. And several Arkansas airports get grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
On this special edition of Weekend Ozarks, we revisit Jacqueline Froelich’s five-part series, which has been airing over the summer, examining how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect individuals, small business, non-profit health clinics, Medicaid expansion, and the insurance industry in Arkansas.
Becca Martin Brown tells us about the new "This Land" exhibit, opening this week at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
In our series on the start up of the Affordable Healthcare Act in Arkansas, we look at how small businesses will be affected.If you are a small business owner and want to know how the Affordable Care Act will affect you, visit http://sba.gov/healthcare
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is providing community clinics across the U.S. billions of dollars to provide basic health care to under-served communities. In Washington and Benton Counties Community Clinic, a ministry of St. Francis House, will get an infusion and plans to expand into south Washington County.
Next in our series on the roll-out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Arkansas, Jacqueline Froelich profiles one insurance company competing to set up shop on the state’s health insurance marketplace.
To learn more about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act visit http://HealthCare.gov
And to see what’s happening in Arkansas go to http://ARHealthConnector.org
ArkansasBlueCross.com also provides a concise list of health care law news and information.
Here are our ten clips of ten classic southern tales, each set in a different southern state. Extra points if you know the actor featured (if not actually heard) in two of our clips this week.
1. Vivian Leigh, as Scarlet, makes a vow at the end of the first half of Gone With the Wind. (Goeriga)
2. Richard Widmark, as Col. Bowie, questions the wisdom of defending the Alamo. (Texas)
3. Sally Field is encouraged to hit Shirley MacLaine in Steel Magnolias. (Louisiana)
4. Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In The Heat of the Night. (Mississippi)
5. John Wayne takes gets ready to take out four bandits in the 1969 film adaptation of Charles Portis' True Grit. (Arkansas)
6. Gary Cooper is a true shot even before he joins the military in Sgt. York. (Tennessee)
7. The five seconds we can air from Al Pacino in Scarface. (Florida)
8. Jeff Goldblum makes the case for a rationalization in the Big Chill. (South Carolina. Yes, South Carolina...who knew?)
9. Cape Fear. Scary. Robert DeNiro, of course. (North Carolina)
10. Boo Radley saves the day in To Kill a Mockingbird. (Alabama)
Apologies to: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland.
1. Vivian Leigh, as Scarlet, makes a vow at the end of the first half of Gone With the Wind. (Goeriga)
2. Richard Widmark, as Col. Bowie, questions the wisdom of defending the Alamo. (Texas)
3. Sally Field is encouraged to hit Shirley MacLaine in Steel Magnolias. (Louisiana)
4. Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In The Heat of the Night. (Mississippi)
5. John Wayne takes gets ready to take out four bandits in the 1969 film adaptation of Charles Portis' True Grit. (Arkansas)
6. Gary Cooper is a true shot even before he joins the military in Sgt. York. (Tennessee)
7. The five seconds we can air from Al Pacino in Scarface. (Florida)
8. Jeff Goldblum makes the case for a rationalization in the Big Chill. (South Carolina. Yes, South Carolina...who knew?)
9. Cape Fear. Scary. Robert DeNiro, of course. (North Carolina)
10. Boo Radley saves the day in To Kill a Mockingbird. (Alabama)
Apologies to: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, November 25, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, a look back at the second wave of feminism in politics, the new face of Arkansas' voter ID law, and Roby Brock tells us Tyson has been doing chicken right in his Talk Business Arkansas update. Plus, the use of insects in music; it doesn't happen often.
New in-store retail technologies, such as iPhone barcode scanning and self checkout lanes are transforming how we shop. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, these innovations may increase theft—what the industry refers to as “shrink.” (Photo courtesy StopLift Checkout Vision Systems)
The Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra Fayetteville Public School District, and Carnegie Hall team up for a special concert on Friday.
As we continue our series on summer camps, we explore options for dance and music camps in the area including a NWA Conservatory of Classical Ballet
Additional camps:
The Art of Motion
Infiniti Athletics
Rogers Activity Center
School of Rock
U of A Music camps
Western Arkansas Ballet
Jersusalem Jackson Greer author of "A Homemade Year," is among the 14 writers at this year's Books in Bloom in Eureka Springs.
One Little Rock author has come out with a children’s book she hopes will help parents bring their child’s early educational experiences to life.
