Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, some of our favorite music performances recorded at KUAF for the first half of 2013, including Smar T Jones, Yoonie Han, RJ Mischo, Little Chief, Carter Sampson, Claudia Burson, Jed Clampit and Shawn James.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, some of our favorite music performances recorded at KUAF for the first half of 2013, including Smar T Jones, Yoonie Han, RJ Mischo, Little Chief, Carter Sampson, Claudia Burson, Jed Clampit and Shawn James.
Ahead on Ozarks, a novel source to help us celebrate the Fourth…a British journalist explains how simply following a ten dollar bill around the middle of America for a month gave him insight into the country…and why he loved what he found. Then, it's a birthday party for the Fayetteville Farmer’s Market…it turns forty this week and we'll chat with the co-managers. Plus Robert Ginsburg gets us ready for the 15th annual KUAF Summer Jazz Series. It kicks off this month with Arkansas-born Bob Dorough. And Becca Martin Brown has some fireworks information for us as well.In July, 1973 a handful of farmers set up a small market. Four decades later the market celebrates a milestone anniversary.
A new addition to KUAF's late night schedule allows listeners to hear some classic jazz interviews from the past fifty years.
Steve Boggan, a journalist from London, followed a ten dollar bill around the US, including Arkansas, for thirty days. What he learned he put in his book, Follow the Money.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a look at the current landscape of politics in Arkansas. Also, learning how to care for livestock participating in the Rodeo of the Ozarks.
For the past two years the artistic director of the Reykjavik Blues Festival has also been in Eureka Springs for that town’s blues festival. During his most recent visit Halldor Bragason came to our studio.
Ahead on Ozarks: the tightrope the town of Eureka Springs sometimes must negotiate when it comes to businesses and residences. Jacqueline Froelich has that story. Plus Sanjay Gupta, the medical correspondent on CNN, was in Arkansas last week and sat down with Roby Brock to talk about the role of medical journalism and what a change in health care may mean for Arkansas. We also examine what last week's Supreme Court decision regarding the Voting Rights Act means for the state.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, spoke recently at the Clinton School of Public Service. While in Arkansas he talked with Roby Brock of Talk Business Arkansas.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks…the ill-fated effort to have the White River Watershed designated as a National Blueway. It would have been just the second river to have that designation. Plus Stewart Towns talks to Christina Thomas about his book Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause. He says the oratory of confederate veterans in the years after the Civil War ended has influenced much of the south’s perspective since.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, March 28, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Isayah's Allstars performs inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio, details on a festival that celebrates edamame, and Michael Tilley from The City Wire gets us up to date on the week in news.
Wayne Bell of www.fayettevilleflyer.com discusses season finales.
"Got a Match?" By Frank Vignola
Roby Brock, creator and publisher of www.talkbusiness.net talks about how Arkansas residents can submit a question to be answered by the governor.
"Bare Necessities" by Michelle Shocked
Billions of periodical cicadas, soon to emerge from the ground across Arkansas, will create and extremely loud buzz.
A hilltop in Madison County is now home to an alpaca farm.
More information is available at www.greengingeralpacas.com.
For video of some of the alpacas as well as products made from their fiber, click here.
There is a movement to make Fayetteville a National Wildlife Federation Community Habitat.
"Bugs" by The Gourds
