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Format: 2026-05-29
Top Trumpeters Visit KUAF
World's leading trumpeters Rex Richardson and Allen Vizzutti talk about their efforts to manage their performing schedules along with their practice schedules.

Click here for more of the conversation with trumpeters Rex Richardson and Allen Vizzutti.
Courthouse Music
Every Tuesday evening the historic Carroll County Courthouse in Eureka Springs resonates with exquisite harmony. Jacqueline Froelich takes us there. Don Matt and Scott Thompson will perform a benefit concert for Clear Spring School Scholarship Fund, Friday, April 22 at 7pm in Gavioli Chapel in Eureka Springs. For tickets 479-253-7888.
State Hospital Faces Abuse Allegations
Little Rock's Arkansas State Hospital, a facility offering behavioral health services, faces patient abuse allegations.
Ordinary Sun (Audio Extra)
Matthew Henriksen discusses baseball, poetry and jazz.
Black Stallion
The Black Stallion Literacy Foundation is promoting literacy through interaction with real horses.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a University of Arkansas student helps initiate a campus-wide composting project and Roby Brock takes a final look at the 88th General Assembly. The screening of a documentary on Newton County farmers concerned about the use of herbicides and staging of Shakespeare's Othello will take place in the U of A campus this week, and Wayne Bell talks about the discontinuation of All My Children and One Life to Live.
New Arkansas Documentary “Natural State of America”
Written and produced by environmental anthropologist, Brian Campbell, the feature film profiles Ozark organic farmers and activists in Newton County struggling to protect their property and the Buffalo National River from herbicide spraying by Carroll Electric Cooperative on power line right-of-ways. Jacqueline Froelich speaks with Campbell and brings us a preview.

Story Addendum: With regard to it's herbicide vegetation management program, Carroll Electric Cooperative says members have prioritized reliable service at an affordable cost. As for petition validation to secure a ballot position for elections to the board, every signature is validated by match to membership records--with only one signature per membership accepted.
OAL Half Time
Increase in e-filing of Arkansas tax returns, development of a low cost water-treatment system at the U of A, Northwest Arkansans' performance at the Boston Marathon and No Impact Man for the fall 2011 One Book, One Community project -- on Ozarks at Large Half Time today.
Monday, April 18, 2011
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, we learn how the University of Arkansas is converting oil from dining halls into fuel, and Bill Clinton's childhood home in Hope is dedicated as a national park facility. Also on the show, singer-songwriter Joe Purdy's performance in KUAF's Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Straight Line Stitch
After all that tax filing, head to Dickson Street for some metal music.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Friday, December 6, 2013
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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.
Spring Break Day 3
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Trout Fishing in America, tea party, local mascots at Jones Center in Springdale, and movie screenings at Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale Public Libraries.
"Listening Walk" by Julian Lage
Julian Lage
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Shades of Jazz host Robert Ginsburg speaks with guitar prodigy Julian Lage. Lage performs Saturday at the Walton Arts Center.
Johnson Switch Festival
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The City of Johnson announces the celebration of Johnson Switch Festival Day on June 11.
Torched Prairie Revives Ecosystem
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Just north of Fayetteville’s new west side waste water treatment plant is a very special meadow—which a crew of Cherokee burned last Friday. Jacqueline Froelich takes us there to explain. For a virtual tour, visit www.ecoarkansas.com
Status of Women in Arkansas
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Dr. Janine Parry, director of Arkansas poll, chaired an advisory committee to the D.C.-based Institute for Women's Policy Research in 2000-2004. She talks about the history of women representation on a state level in Arkansas.