Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, gives us a preview of a weekend with just about everything.
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USDA Forest Service officials gathered with tribal foresters and scientists for an annual three-day conference in Fayetteville last week. Jacqueline Froelich met with three indigenous participants to talk about traditional ecological and cultural practices.
Web Exclusive: An Extended Interview With Everett Walker
Roby Brock and Scott Inmann, from Talk Business and Politics, host a roundtable discussion about what recent polls may mean for upcoming elections in Arkansas.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Mexico's history is long, rich and often misunderstood. We talk with a historian who has written eleven books on the subject. Plus, a conversation with a gubernatorial candidate who cites his business background as sufficient experience to serve in higher office in the state. And, a preview of the inaugural Homegrown Festival, debuting next week in Siloam Springs
American Native is one of several local vendors participating in the inaugural Homegrown Festival in Siloam Springs next week. That, and other performances, are happening in the area today.
Roby Brock talks with GOP gubernatorial hopeful Curtis Coleman as Talk Business Arkansas continues a series with 2014 candidates.The Arkansas Lottery Commission approves video games like keno to be used in the state. The ACLU of Arkansas files suit against the state for its new voter ID law. And recently passed ordinances concerning urban agriculture and food trucks take effect today in Fayetteville.
On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
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On this edition of Ozarks, we take a look at a new study that analyzes high school graduation rates in Arkansas. Also Dick Johnson stops by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Michael Tilley from www.thecitywire.com discusses Fort Smith issues along with the final map after the redistricting debate is settled by the Arkansas Legislature.
"Fast Food Socrates" by New York Electric Piano
Magnetic fire flies or magnetic fireflies? -- Augusta Read Thomas' world-premiere performance tomorrow promises to be stunningly imaginative.
A 17th-generation musician, Ustad Ghulam Farid Nizami is a master of classical Indian, Sufi and Pakistani folk music. He performs this weekend in Fayetteville and Eureka Springs. More information available at www.ustadnizami.com/shows.html.
Augusta Read Thomas, Reasons to be Pretty, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band among the long list of events on Walton Arts Center's calendar.
Millions of dollars of promised federal aid to construct a pedestrian and bicycle trail connecting Fayetteville to Bentonville cut last February by Congress has been reinstated. Jacqueline Froelich reports. Details on the Razorback Regional Greenway can be found at www.nwarpc.org.
"228" by Bones & Tones
