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?
Clint Schnekloth is the Lead Pastor at Good Shepard Lutheran Church in Fayetteville and the author of the new book, Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era.
at end of show: "Sunny of 75" by Joe Nichols
When the Arkansas Legislature convened this week, lawmakers proposed and pondered long-term solutions to the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid. The changes considered were meant to make the program more palatable to some politicians. We learn more in this morning's Week in Review.
"The Game of Love" by Daft Punk
In 1980, more than 125,000 Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro's communist regime were boatlifted to America and processed at military compounds including Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. Among the population were gay Cubans and prisoners that Castro had purged from his prisons. The Cubans were widely portrayed by the press as criminal—a stigma that's persisted. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, historians are working to clarify the record.
Photo: "Task Force Commander, Colonel Don E. Karr with Cuban refugee family"--Courtesy Fort Chaffee Museum
Charles Baum was both a philanthropist and a baseball lover. We learn more about the man behind the Arkansas Razorback's baseball stadium.
"Stubborn Love" by The Lumineers
Here are the ten sources for our Sunday Montage dedicated to bows, arrows and archers:
1) Sam Cooke sings tribute to Cupid.
2) Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) proves a point in the animated movie Brave.
3) Harry Nilsson sings Me and My Arrow.
4) Claude Rains and Errol Flynn meet in the 1939 version of Robin Hood.
5) Arya receives counter intuitive lessons on an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones.
6) Kacey Musgraves offers advice in her song Follow Your Arrow.
7) Legolas fails to impress in a scene from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
8) From the 80s: ABC's hit Poison Arrow.
9) Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) gets attention after her amazing shot in The Hunger Games.
10) The Halle Orchestra performs the greatest piece of music dedicated to an archer, Rossini's William Tell Overture.
Apologies to: Hawkeye, Green Arrow, The Golden Archer (and about 100 other comic book characters), Burt Reynolds in Deliverance, Edith Wharton, and Cock Robin. Maybe next time.
