
Ozarks At Large

Jodi Beznoska, VP of Communications at Walton Arts Center, tells us about the center's busy upcoming week and offers a preview of the 2011-2012 season.
Becca suggests music, dance, poetry, comedy or drama for today's entertainment picks.
Heavy rains, floods, winds and twisters this past week have taken a toll on the state's parks and forests.

The opening of Beaver and Table Rock Lake dams' floodgates after Monday's rainfall -- on today's Ozarks at Large Half Time.
Roby Brock from www.talkbusiness.net talks to Dr. Jay Barth, a political scientist from Hendrix College, about a joint poll being conducted by talkbusiness.net and Hendrix College regarding Arkansans' perspectives on the State Legislature and political figures.

Ozark Poets and Writers Collective meet at Nightbird Books, UA Fort Smith Chorale Ensembles performances at the Fort Smith Convention Center and The Whigs at George's.
A U.S. poet laureate's visit to the University of Arkansas, National Prescription Drug Take Back Day and Eureka Springs' announcement of its 2011 Grand Illumination Grand Luminary - on this edition of Ozarks at Large Half Time.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, making inroads in the battle against lung cancer in Arkansas. After years of steady increases, the rate is dropping in the state. Plus shifts in the testing for a GED certificate in Arkansas, and a closer listen to one of the bands scheduled to appear at the 2014 edition of Wakarusa.
Becca says the Live on Stage in NWA season will begin Sept. 21.
The Center for Business & Economic Research at the UA released a study on the economic impact of legalizing retail alcohol sales in three dry counties in Arkansas.
The history is rich for an area attraction that boasts 30,000 visitors each year and temperatures of 58 degrees.
Demolition and excavation related to the downtown parking deck project gets closer to getting underway in Fayetteville. Eureka Springs aldermen pass a resolution supporting marriage equality. And the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department moves forward with plans to pave the only stretch of gravel state highway.
Every year hundreds of Arkansans toss truckloads of trash onto public, private and commercial property. Jacqueline Froelich tags along with Washington County environmental enforcement officer, Andrew Coleman, to see how he works to curb the blight.