Augusta Read Thomas, Reasons to be Pretty, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band among the long list of events on Walton Arts Center's calendar.
Ozarks At Large
On this Spring Fundraising edition of Ozarks at Large, the issue of congressional redistricting remains unresolved and the Arkansas Supreme Court upholds a lower court decision to enable adoption and fostering of children by unmarried couples. Famed author Alexander McCall Smith talks about "The Very Small Things in Life" and Carroll Country high school students learn about philanthropy. Today also marks the start of KUAF's Spring 2011 Fundraiser.Popular author Alexander McCall Smith talks about seeing the poetry in everyday interactions. He talks today at 7 p.m. at the Fayetteville Public Library.
An honors recital at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall today and Little Big Town performs tomorrow at Walton Arts Center.
Fay Jones School of Architecture student Elizabeth Philips researches better lighting techniques in spaces for the visually impaired.
The spread of invasive plant species in Fayetteville calls for some immediate measures.
On this edition of Ozarks: the 88th General Assembly of the Arkansas State Legislature is set to end this week, and a report on how food expiration dates contribute to landfills. Plus, the Rotary Club of Fayetteville hopes to eradicate polio globally and University of Arkansas poet Michael Heffernan is featured, yet again, on Writer's Almanac.Energy Corps correspondent Christina Thomas talks to University of Arkansas food scientist Dr. John Marcy about what food expiration dates really mean.
On this edition of Ozarks, Fort Smith Symphony's John Jeter discusses an April 16th concert, Arkansas legislature considers ecologically responsible natural gas development, a conversation on why some Northwest Arkansas towns shrunk in the last decade, and a preview of Yaniv Taubenhouse's performance for Shades of Jazz.
John Jeter, director and conductor at the Fort Smith Symphony, on a historic concert being performed by the Fort Smith Symphony on April 16, featuring selected works of William Grant Still.
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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.
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.
