On Veteran's Day, the 11th day of the 11th month, we take a moment to stop and honor those who have defended our country over the years. This Saturday, a local nonprofit is celebrating a Korean War Veteran by fixing up his home in Gentry.
Ozarks At Large
This edition of Ozarks at Large includes the latest findings on a syndrome harming bats, Senator Mark Pryor on legislation designed to make smart phones and the Internet more accessible to deaf and blind people and an Arts Live Theatre readers' theatre of The War of the Worlds.Here are both parts of the readers' theatre version of War of the Worlds, presented by Arts Live Theatre.
Bo Counts, the president of Art Amiss, says the artists' collective is preparing for Halloween and the Art Amiss 13 event.
Here is the full interview with Bo Counts, the president of Art Amiss.
Here is the full interview with Bo Counts, the president of Art Amiss.
Both major party candidates for Arkansas' U. S. Senate seat are traveling across the state.
The 2010 Arkansas Poll includes questions about politics, quality of life and more. The results were released yesterday. We talked with the poll's director, janine Parry.
The poll included questions about tax cuts and more. Here's more from the interview.
To see the poll, visit www.3uark.edu/arkpoll
The poll included questions about tax cuts and more. Here's more from the interview.
To see the poll, visit www.3uark.edu/arkpoll
Not everything we want to talk about fits into a nice, radio-size package. Here is the debut of our still-nameless list of things. Today's first edition includes QR readers, the possible beginning-of-the-end of the phone book and some good ol' vinyl records.
Have an idea for a name for the segment? Email kuafinfo@uark.edu.
The Wednesday agenda includes original theatre in Breedlove Auditorium in Fort Smith and an Oscar-winner singing at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville.
Partially developed subdivisions, now abandoned, can be seen around our region. Biologist Joe Neal recently hiked one of them, a place he calls "Weedy Estates." Joe's latest book is "Birdside Baptist and Other Ornithological Mysteries."
On this edition of Ozarks, learning from disaster as the examination of this past spring's flash flood at an Arkansas campground continues. Plus the local observance of American Archives Month and archives help our history doctor recall third parties of elections past.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Ahead on Weekend Ozarks, a conversation with Arkansas photographer Tim Ernst. Also, singer/songwriter Joe Pug pays a visit to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
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.
