Nothing has happened to Brick Fields, the Fayetteville-based blues duo...except they won the 2013 Ozark Blues Society's challenge, added members to their band and released their new CD. To celebrate they came to the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.Ozarks At Large
Nothing has happened to Brick Fields, the Fayetteville-based blues duo...except they won the 2013 Ozark Blues Society's challenge, added members to their band and released their new CD. To celebrate they came to the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
In this morning's Week in Review, we look at the stories we've covered concerning the partial shutdown of the federal government that started as the calendar flipped over to October.
Fourth District Congressman Tom Cotton says that he thnks the government shutdown will negatively impact national security, while Senator Mark Pryor gives his account of yesterday's shooting near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Arkansans for Compassionate Care get their proposed ballot title approved by the state attorney general. And John Brown University gets a sizable contribution toward the school's forthcoming nursing program.
Transporting Transformations: Cuba In and Out is the new exhibit just up at 21c Bentonville. This diverse exhibit explores paradox in the years following Fidel Castro's retirement. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen speaks with Alice Gray Stites, chief curator and director of art programming for 21c, about the exhibit, as well as her philosophy "art is a verb," which she presented for the TEDx conference at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm. Web Exclusive: Pictures of the new 21c Exhibit
It's not too early to get your holiday portraits made. And if you have them made at an upcoming event at Mt. Sequoyah, your sitting fee will benefit the Northwest Arkansas Family Network.A thirty-two million dollar grant has been awarded to the University of Arkansas' College of Education and Health Professions.
Arkansas DHS officials say that more than 55,000 Arkansans have expressed their intent to enroll in the Arkansas Private Option. September revenue for the state is reported as higher than August numbers. Arkansas National Guard members feel the pressure of the federal shutdown. Arvest announces plans to acquire a North Little Rock-based bank. And Greer's Ferry Lake celebrates its 50th anniversary.
At 12:01 a.m. ET yesterday, the continuing resolution funding the federal government wasn't the only legistlation to expire. We speak with an agricultural economist to find out what the Farm Bill's reversion to 64-year old policy means for Arkansans.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the duo Still on the Hill talks about their new album, and how Beaver Lake inspired the songs. Plus, we learn about how Gunderpickles started with a family recipe, and we honor the 100th anniversary of Mother's Day in our Sunday Morning Montage, a song from Cletus Got Shot and more.
Last Friday, former president Bill Clinton was at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where doctors are working to find genetic causes of childhood cancer. It’s work that would not be possible without the first map of the human genome, which was completed while Clinton was President. Eleanor Boudreau from our partner station WKNO in Memphis filed this report.
Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas talks to Matt Melson, a wildlife biologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, to find out how wild animals survive in extremely hot and dry conditions.
“New Slang” by The Shins
The Migration Policy Institute based in Washington D.C., with financial support from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation in Little Rock, commissioned Dr. Rafael Jimeno to conduct a scientific survey of Marshallese migrants who’ve settled in Springdale, the first study of it’s kind.
"When I Survey" by Various Artists
First United Methodist Church in Springdale will host a community block party next month.
"Community" by Cluster
Author Megan Bergman talks to Ozarks at Large’s Katy Henriksen about her book “Birds of a Lesser Paradise,” a collection of short stories that was just cited by the Huffington Post as a must-read.
