On today's edition, we learn about counterfeit bills, and the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame announces its newest inductees. Plus, an increase in Arkansas unemployment, the Walton Arts Center announces new shows, and we preview Film Score Friday.
Ozarks At Large
PJ Robowski, KUAF's music director, discusses music from the movie Pollock (a biography of abstract painter Jackson Pollock), which will be heard on tomorrow's Film Score Friday.
One of the most vocal supporters of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, Lt. Governor Bill Halter, talked with us on the one-year anniversary of the lottery's launch.
For the first time in recent memory, six, count 'em, six candidates have filed for the position of Mayor of Eureka Springs -- population 2,300. The winner will replace current Mayor Dani Joy, who is not seeking re-election because she wishes to devote herself full time to her family's restaurant business. Jacqueline Froelich sorts through the list of contenders.This month's First Friday in Bentonville embraces brats, polkas and the chicken dance. More information is available at www.downtownbentonville.org.
On this edition of Friday Ozarks at Large, we talk about the second opera in this season's John Harrison Opera Foundation series, get a preview of tomorrow's Eurekapalooza, and continue our series on great openings.
The inaugural music festival will benefit Clear Springs School. Stevie Tombstone is one of the scheduled performers and he spoke with Ozark at Large's Antoinette Grajeda earlier this week.
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, an artists' cooperative enters its 12th year in the community, and a group of high school students learn about marketing inside one local retailer, though the field trip was altered a bit as residents made purchases in anticipation of winter weather. Plus, the first group of Arkansas Teacher Corps fellows already recognizes the difference they've made in rural and low income school districts just a few months into their first semester.
There’s too much to do so it’s not the end of summer. Yes, we’re in denial.
“Groovin’” by Coleman Hawkins
Our Director of Underwriting Rhonda Dillard announces the names of the winners of our TheatreSquared and Fayetteville Roots Festival web giveaways.
Artist K.C. Clifford will perform throughout the Fayetteville Roots Festival this weekend.
For more information, log on to www.kcclifford.com.
The duo Black and Tan visit KUAF’s Firmin-Garner Performance studio to talk about their upcoming performances this weekend.
To hear another song Black and Tan performed while visiting the studio, click here.
The District Court building becomes the first City of Fayetteville building to earn this distinction.
