The Riverfront Blues Festival takes the stage this weekend in Fort Smith. Becca Martin Brown has more.
Ozarks At Large
Jodi Beznoska has more on the Walton Arts Center’s Art of Wine festival, which begins this evening, as well as the second half of the Artosphere festival.
Becca's weekend entertainment suggestions include Lombardi at Rogers Little Theater, the Bentonville Art and Culinary Festival and Thunder on the Mountain.
The Walton Arts Center's biggest fundraiser, Art of Wine, is next week. Jodi Beznoska has more on the three evenings of wine tasting, plus the second half of Artosphere.
A festival organizer discusses the process that happened behind the scenes to prepare for Thunder on the Mountain.

The 10th anniversary of Wakarusa was full of live performances and rain. Check out our photos of the festival here.
We hear sounds from yesterday’s Artosphere Festival Natural Movement Series event at the Botanical Gardens of the Ozarks.
Sun Boxes, an installation by Craig Colrousso, is an audio art piece that will be scattered through Artosphere and will greet festival-goers, provided the sun is shining, that is.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson. Also, Walmart hosts its first open call for hundreds of U.S. suppliers.
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.