1st Annual The Eurekan non-traditional multi-sport festival will take place August 12-14 this year in Eureka Springs.
Ozarks At Large
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a chat with 93-year-old Arkansas native and artist Charles Banks Wilson, the city of Johnson announces the date for Johnson Switch Festival Day, presidents and chancellors of 11 public universities, colleges and university systems in Arkansas jointly announce a 16-point pledge, and Shades of Jazz host Robert Ginsburg speaks with guitar prodigy Julian Lage.The City of Johnson announces the celebration of Johnson Switch Festival Day on June 11.
On this edition of Ozarks, Walmart tests the concept of smaller stores, we hear opening arguments in the Act 1 case in the Arkansas Supreme Court, and the Arkansas House and Senate agree to a $35 million package made of six tax-cuts. Plus, Kevin Kinder talks about this year's South by Southwest highlights and other music festivals.Kevin Kinder from the Northwest Arkansas newspapers talks about South by Southwest and other music festivals.
Robert Mueller, the conductor of the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, discusses tonight’s concert at Walton Arts Center.
More information is available at waltonartscenter.org.
The Walton Arts Center has created a new program to help teach local students about instruments in an orchestra.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large we'll hear five members of the Bentonville Orchestra play live in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. Plus the latest plan to raise severance tax on natural gas in Arkansas and more.
A quintet of young musicians from the Bentonville Orchestra play in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large a conversation with the mayor-elect of Rogers, Greg Hines, about what his priorities are for 2011. Plus Fayetteville plants more than 200 new trees and we get a preview of a new orchestra.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, raising the minimum wage in Arkansas. Plus, we have a report on regional accents.
One Arkansas senator is pressing election officials to resolve issues with the state's voter ID law. Other legislators are pushing to prevent the state lottery commission from implementing video gambling games throughout the state. The FASTER Arkansas committee continues its push for changes in state law to allow public schools to connect to an existing, state-funded fiber optic network. And one Eureka Springs alderman is trying to move forward a decades-long debate on what to do about parking in that city's downtown area.
More than twenty Northwest Arkansas specialty shops sell electronic cigarettes, both disposable and rechargeable. The popular devices deliver a smooth warm nicotine-laced white vapor in variety strengths and flavors. We visit the Velvet Vapor in Rogers and also talk to an Arkansas Department of Health tobacco specialist about pending regulations and potential risks associated with “vaping.”
Our history doctor, Bill Smith, explains the relationship between politics and money is an American tradition.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, directs us to performance art and fireworks this weekend.
Jonathan Story sits down at the Mary Baker Rumsey Steinway.
