On this edition of Ozarks, Boar’s Head Players Summer 2011 Season kicks off Thursday and KUAF/Fulbright Chamber Music Festival will feature Piazzolla, Strauss and Mendelssohn in its fourth concert. Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Library gets letters that offer an insight into the state during the beginning of the Civil War and the Young Actors Guild in Fort Smith hosts summer theater classes.Ozarks At Large
On this edition of Ozarks, Boar’s Head Players Summer 2011 Season kicks off Thursday and KUAF/Fulbright Chamber Music Festival will feature Piazzolla, Strauss and Mendelssohn in its fourth concert. Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Library gets letters that offer an insight into the state during the beginning of the Civil War and the Young Actors Guild in Fort Smith hosts summer theater classes.Piazzolla, Strauss and Mendelssohn are featured in the fourth KUAF/Fulbright Chamber Music Festival.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a scrutiny of slumping housing numbers in Arkansas and a preview of the third installment of KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival. An update on the forthcoming United States Marshals Museum in Fort Smith and Wayne Bell from Fayetteville Flyer lists entertainment choices for the summer.A preview of the third performance in the KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival.
On this edition of Ozarks, a preview of the latest exhibits in the Fayetteville Underground and Artosphere comes to a close.Jodi Beznoska, VP of Communications for Walton Arts Center, previews the final events of Artosphere and tells us what tickets will go on sale next week.
On this edition of Ozarks, Google creates a digital wallet and city of Rogers prepares to host an international festival.Stephen Gates is back to give us a preview of the second performance in the KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival.
The city of Rogers will host the 11th annual Northwest Arkansas International Festival this Saturday.
For more information, visit www.rogerslowell.com.
On today's edition of Ozarks, a preview of a Saturday garden tour, a Wakarusa Festival giveaway and Becca Bacon Martin from NWA Newspapers with the rest of the holiday weekend roster of events.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we learn the trick of the trade with a monster truck driver. Plus, if you had a magazine, how would you choose its name? Would it be literal, a hint as to what's expected inside, or something completely different?
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says Toto (and Dorothy) will be here soon.
Louis Jordan is one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Still, many Arkansans might not know about their native son. Stephen Koch, the host of Arkansongs, has written a new book about him.
Here is the list of the ten clips we used as our salute to The Wizard of Oz (and the explanation for each):
1. Pinball WIZARD by the Who
2. Jed Clampett as played by Buddy Ebsen, the actor originally cast as the...
3. ...TIN MAN, also the inspiration for a song by America.
4. A 1961 documentary about Ham, sent into space by NASA...a real-life FLYING MONKEY.
5. John Cougar Mellencamp sings Rain on the SCARECROW.
6. Famous television doctor, Dr. OZ.
7. The song Africa by TOTO.
8. A 1966 commercial for the game TWISTER. (as in the phenomenon that sent Dorothy to Oz)
9. The Tokens sing the (cowardly?) LION sleeps tonight.
10. Elton John with the title song from his album Goodbye YELLOW BRICK ROAD.
Apologies to the band Kansas and the song Witchy Woman by the Eagles. Maybe next time.
Next year an LLM degree at the University of Arkansas will be obtainable in a face-to-face setting or from a distance.`
at end of show: "Amanda Jewell" by Ricky Skaggs
Michael Tilley, from The City Wire, helps us dissect an odd news week.
