Yet to make it to high school, the five member group Xcluded has already released a full length, all original album and played gigs. The album Shadows is available on Spotify.
Ozarks At Large
Yet to make it to high school, the five member group Xcluded has already released a full length, all original album and played gigs. The album Shadows is available on Spotify.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the names of some publications like Time or Southern Living give readers a literal idea of what's printed on their pages, but what about 3W or Due South? We take a look at the thought behind the titles of some of the magazines published in our region. Plus, we talk with Roby Brock about some of the repercussions of Tuesday's primary runoff elections.Last night Kyle Kellams moderated a public discussion at the Fayetteville Public Library about one of the new works included in this weekend's Arkansas New Play Festival.
Picking a name for a new magazine is part art, part science, part luck. We talk with editors and publishers of three regional publications for the latest "what's in a name" feature.
A study released yesterday by Oxfam International suggests that many workers in Arkansas would benefit from a raise in the federal minimum wage. A matching grant from the Walton Family Foundation will soon result in a mountain bike trail in Springdale, and Fayetteville joins the Arkansas Downtown Network.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, raising the minimum wage in Arkansas. Plus, we have a report on regional accents.
To Fort Smith this weekend. We get a look into the life of a monster truck driver and learn how they ready those cars for a show. There is plenty to do in Springdale this weekend including visiting the Amtrak Exhibit Train or eating at the 10th annual Wingfest.
Regional accents, scholars say, change over time, as cultures drift and migrate around the globe. But some worry, into the 21st century and beyond, American regional accents may disappear altogether. Jacqueline Froelich talks with UA psycholinguist, Doug Behrend.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the National Veterans Golden Age Games are set to take over Fayetteville and the region this weekend; we speak with one 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who hopes to win in his competitions, and we speak with an Arkansas elder who decided to obtain his GED many, many years after his high school years had passed. Plus, while many eyes are on the happenings at the World Cup, we attend a sports match of a different nature, polo, in Bentonville.
If you secretly like Celine Dion or even Britney Spears, you may not be alone. Today, Wayne Bell of www.fayettevilleflyer.com talks about guilty pleasures.
Walmart lawyers will volunteer their time to help patients at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital with special education and Medicaid issues. The pro-bono corporate initiative is the first of its kind in the country.
Jacqueline Froelich revisits Harrison, where in 1998 she and writer David Zimmermann uncovered a terrible secret buried for almost a century: an angry white mob attacked black residents forcing them to flee. She talks with a local reconciliation task force as well as a black descendent--the first to come forward.
“Spiritual” by Charlie Haden
This weekend, the Fayetteville Roots Festival will not only host local and national artists but also offer a variety of organic food sourced from several local farms. One of these farms, the Sweden Creek Farm, will supply mushrooms to food vendors at the festival.
For more information about the Sweden Creek Farm, visit http://theold78s.com/swedencreekfarm. To take a video tour of the farm, click here.
“Farmer” by Bill Frisell
Make some art at the Art Center of the Ozarks in Springdale plus, “Who Carved the Tombstones: Tales of the Stone Carvers and Their Craft” by Abby Burnett at the Boone County Library today.
