We were there for the first table read, now we sit in on one of the last rehearsals before a new script goes public in Fayetteville.
Ozarks At Large
The century-old national organization, Big Brothers Big Sisters, celebrates its 20th year in Northwest Arkansas this month. In honor of the anniversary and to fill a need, the organization has launched a 20 men in 20 days campaign.The Fort Smith Museum of History opens an exhibit this weekend honoring women responsible for breaking barriers of all kinds in Arkansas.
As many as sixty gay and lesbian owned businesses operate in Eureka Springs, and to better promote their industry, operators are organizing a business guild--the first like it in Arkansas.Exxon-Mobil is laying the blame for the March rupture of its Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower on manufacturing defects, though the Sierra Club of Arkansas doesn't buy into the claim. Senator John Boozman says that the solution to lowering interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans is to tie those interest rates to rates on U.S. Treasury notes. And the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program yesterday announced more than $2 million in grants to projects in 41 counties, including several in Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas River Valley.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, improving access to preschool education. Plus, jazz in the summertime and the continuing trend of food trucks in Northwest Arkansas.
Bob Dorough wrote for Miles Davis, we wrote for Mel Tormé, and he wrote for generations of school kids. He will perform Saturday night as part of the KUAF Summer Jazz Concert Series.
Our KUAF Summer Jazz Concert Series may be underway, but Ozarks at Large “bird man,” Joe Neal has discovered jazz in the woods, performed by the illustrious thrush quartet! Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir,” is published by Half-Acre Press. Mobile vendors; notably food trucks, trailers and carts; have increasingly become fixtures in the business landscape of Northwest Arkansas, but what regulations do new mobile businesses have to follow?
Centennial Bank has named Speaker of the Arkansas House Davy Carter the person they want to lead the company as it merges with Liberty Bank of Jonesboro.
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Friday, December 6, 2013
Ahead on this snow day edition of Ozarks at Large, our weekly conversation with Michael Tilley of The City Wire; plus the violent explusion of an African American settlement in southeastern Crawford County comes to light, ninety years after the fact.
Ozarks at Large’s Antoinette Grajeda speaks with the organizers of a new indie craft show that’s coming to Fayetteville in December.
To learn more, visit www.thelittlecraftshow.com.
Christina Thomas visited the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Filling Station in Fort Smith, the only one in the state. The Arkansas Energy Office recently announced that a CNG Conversion Rebate program will be now open to the public.
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com discusses a proposal to open Vegas-style casinos in seven Arkansas counties, the area permits rate in the Fort-Smith region going up by nearly 80%, and more.
Last week a swarm of earthworms invaded the UA Alumni House building in Fayetteville. Turns out the worms were likely fleeing vibrations caused by Oklahoma’s historic earthquakes.
“The Caterpillar” by The Cure
A play called “The Adding Machine” is tonight on the University of Arkansas campus, and George Porter, Jr. performs at George’s tomorrow.
