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.
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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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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.
Becca uses less than sixty seconds to give us four great things to do tonight.
Winter roared into Arkansas bringing both an EF3 tornado and a freak blizzard to the southern portion of the state. Last year the Ozarks were buried in over a foot of snow--a region still recovering from a crushing ice storm in 2009. Jacqueline Froelich reports on what we may expect the rest of this season.
"Hillbillies From Outer Space" by the Vaughan Brothers
Matthew Hartz has been a national and world champion fiddler. Later this month he's headed to northwest Arkansas to play and teach.
To hear why The Ramones and Beach Boys influnced Mark, click here.
Governor Mike Beebe addressed a joint session of the Arkansas Legislature today just before our deadline. A full report can be heard tomorrow on Ozarks at Large.
John Brummett talked with Governor Mike Beebe about the 88th General Assembly. The conversation was recorded by our content partner www.talkbusiness.net.
"Tea for Two" by Thelonious Monk
