Ozarks At Large

Dave Barry is coming to the Fayetteville Public Library next month. We’ll include an interview with him on a future edition of our program, but to kick off spring break week, a small preview of that conversation. To learn more about Dave Barry’s appearance in Fayetteville: www.faylib.org.

Here are the 9 pop culture references used for today's montage:

1. "Reel Around the Sun" from a 1995 performance of Riverdance
2. Rudy gets ready to lead the Fighting Irish onto the field for the first, and only, time
3. The Band backing Van Morrison on "Tura Lura Lura (It's an Irish Lullaby)" on Thanksgiving night, 1976
4. A Lucky Charms commercial from the early '70s
5. Kermit the Frog being upstaged by none other than the late, great Ray Charles singing "It's Not Easy Being Green"
6. John Wayne tries to get his bearings from local Dubliners upon his arrival in Ireland in The Quiet Man
7. A 1979 commercial for Irish Spring soap
8. John Lennon singing "The Luck of the Irish"
9. A recent commercial for Jameson Irish Whiskey

A newly permitted industrial swine breeding operation, under construction on a tributary of the Buffalo National River, will spread millions of gallons of hog waste on adjacent pastures as fertilizer. But as word spreads about the giant hog farm, an unlikely coalition of opponents is forming to stop it.

Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses home sales numbers, the governor's race and football.