Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers discusses entertainment options in the region, including a Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.Ozarks At Large
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers discusses entertainment options in the region, including a Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
Benton County native, Joe Woolbright, operator of Ozark Ecological Restoration, contracts with local and state nonprofit agencies, to help bring native grassland prairies on both public and private land back to life.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas speaks with Axiom executive Jerry Jones, the chairman of a task force called FASTER Arkansas, that's working to improve broadband access to public school students.Opponents to Arkansas' 12-week abortion ban are asking a federal judge to issue a permanent injunction to prevent the law from ever being enforced. Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport gets a $3.4 million grant that will be used for pavement upgrades, a master plan and more. Mount Sequoyah Gardens in Fayetteville is getting upgrades to make it a more appealing overlook. And, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is holding several public meetings around the state regarding a revised statewide ten-year solid waste plan.
The owner of a new drums-only store in downtown Springdale thinks Emma Avenue has unique potential to become a destination community.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we begin a series on what the Affordable Care Act will mean for Arkansans. In the first of five reports Jacqueline Froelich outlines how many parts of the new act will work. Plus a national convention devoted to recipients of the Purple Heart is coming to Rogers and will include a keynote address from Eric Shinseki, the Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs. And we spend some time with an Ozark ritual: decoration day at a local cemetery.
This weekend the annual Composer’s Showcase concert in Fayetteville will include original compositions of Rick Salonen.Though it may seem like a foreign concept to transplants to the region, natives of Washington County's rural areas still carry out the tradition of Decoration Day, on which families gather at cemeteries for fellowship and in honor of previous generations.
Becca Martin Brown gets us ready for The King and I in Rogers and an adaptation of Jane Austen in Fort Smith.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, traveling by horseback along the Buffalo River with the Buffalo River Back Country Horsemen. Plus, a discussion of the one-dimensional stereotype by which Hollywood has portrayed Arabs for more than a century.
The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.
Dr. Estes from Mercy's Bella Vista clinic discusses how to protect yourself against heat, ticks, and more.
A new theatre group brings a new take on Romeo and Juliet at the Gulley Park Gazebo and it promises to be good fun.
Snake Eyes and the Bug Band will perform this afternoon at 2:00 at the Fayetteville Public Library. Here, the band performs “Sew What You Reap”
Here are our ten clips celebrating horse for our Sunday Montage:
1. The Rolling Stones cannot be dragged away by Wild Horses.
2. Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet.
3. Michael Martin Murphy climbed the charts with Wildfire.
4. Alan Young can't seem to figure out it is Mr. Ed's birthday.
5. Cliff Nobles & Company perform the instrumental EVERY high school band in north Arkansas played at halftime in the 1970s, The Horse.
6. The Marx Brothers crack wise in the funniest horse racing movie ever made, A Day at the Races.
7. Lyle Lovett praises Trigger in If I Had a Boat.
8. The masked man rides Silver at the beginning of The Lone Ranger.
9. Hailee Steinfeld and Dakin Matthews negotiate in the latest film version of Charles Portis' True Grit. (A blast of Arkansas)
10, And we end with a double-blast of Arkansas as Arkie native Johnny Cash sings Tennessee Stud, written by Arkie native Jimmy Driftwood.
Apologies to: U2, Patti Smith, Seabiscuit, the band America, Black Beauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, War Horse and that big fake horse rolled into Troy. Maybe next time.
