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.
This morning, the Bentonville Public School District broke ground on its new high school project in Centerton.
In early May, Arkansas’s ban on same-sex marriage was struck down as unconstitutional by a state court. Hundreds of couples obtained wedding licenses before a stay was ordered by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Now a second lawsuit, filed in federal court, will soon be considered. Jacqueline Froelich talks with Little Rock attorney Jack Wagoner about his case.
UA Professor Angie Maxwell argues that the attention the South received throughout the 20th century in regards to three particular events has shaped the Southern Identity that exists yet today. She discusses her book The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiorty, and the the Politics of Whiteness with Ozarks’ Christina Karnatz.
