Several stories through the past seven days have had different ideas of help woven through them.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the Fayetteville Schools Hall of Honor welcomes new members. Plus, music from Joseph Israel inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Our underwriting director Rhonda Dillard stops by the studio to announce the winner of our Fayetteville Roots Festival ticket giveaway.
Several local improv comedy groups will be performing at show at Teatro Scarpino next Wednesday.
Joseph Israel will perform twice in Arkansas this weekend to celebrate the release of his latest album Kingdom Road.
In honor of the unusually cool temperatures, Becca offers a list of outdoor activities for this weekend's entertainment.
The Fayetteville Public Education Foundation yesterday announced this year’s additions to the Fayetteville Schools Hall of Honor. This year is unique as four were included rather than the three that have been added the past 16 years.
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses the latest retail sales numbers, home sales in northwest Arkansas, and a challenge to an Arkansas liquor law.Arkansas receives recognition for its work to combat human trafficking in the state, and several new laws go into effect today.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: when you think of fertile ground for jazz you may think of New Orleans, Europe, New York City…but, Azerbaijan? Amina Figarova grew up listening to jazz in her childhood home in Baku, Azerbaijan. She’s released a dozen albums and will close the KUAF Summer Jazz Concert Series this weekend. We'll hear from her later on the show. Plus…that extra "A" in Lake Atalanta in Rogers. Why the lake is called that isexplained in the latest edition of our series "What's in a Name?" And a wilderness water trail inside the Fort Smith city limits.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
On this special edition of Ozarks at Large we listen again to some of our favorite stories from 2013, including: how technology has given a woman with autism a new way to communicate, a history of the Internet and music from The Trashcan Bandits.
Roby Brock of www.talkbusiness.net talks to Maria Haley, executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, about the current state of Arkansas’ economy.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art hosts a job fair, gas prices during the Labor Day weekend up $1 a gallon from last year, FEMA funds 75% of the cost for the total replacement of the Bella Vista dam and more – on today’s edition of Ozarks at Large Half Time.
“Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman
The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in Arkansas. The Civil War Sesquicentennial will be celebrated between 2011 and 2015.
Sculptor Patrick Dougherty will create a sculpture out of sticks and saplings at Walton Arts Center next spring as part of their Artosphere Festival.
