In his weekly recap, Roby Brock discusses Home BancShares reporting a record first quarter profit and more.
Ozarks At Large
In his weekly recap, Roby Brock discusses Home BancShares reporting a record first quarter profit and more.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, a conversation with author Joyce Carol Oates prior to her lecture in Fayetteville. Plus, a bit of tinkering before the Amazeum opens to children and the community next fall.
As you Like It will be performed by the University of Arkansas, and an Earth Day Celebration is just around the corner. Becca Martin Brown has What’s Up.
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.
One of the country's most accomplished and most respected writers is coming to the Fayetteville Town Center Monday night.
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.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we learn about traditional Native American ecological and cultural practices. Plus, we hear a roundtable discussion about recent political polling data for this year's statewide elections.
Around the World in 80 Days, and the story of a near lynching in 1930s Arkansas are the topics of TheatreSquared's ninth season, which was recently unveiled.
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
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Ahead on Ozarks, we learn the differences between various types of Arkansas charter schools. Plus, a UA researcher receives a grant to study the genetic composition of diatoms.
Our math expert Dr. Chaim Goodman Strauss left us with a poker puzzle last week. He gives us the solution on today’s Math Factor.
Proposed cuts in the federal defense budget recommend that the 188th Fighter Wing lose the A-10 Warthogs, replacing the current mission with an unmanned aircraft mission. The latest effort to sway the decision is a web-based letter-writing campaign.
Website: www.savetheflyingrazorbacks.com
“Blues Back” by Art Blakey Quartet
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com discusses the Arkansas River, home sales in northwest Arkansas, and more.
Country legend Loretta Lynn performs tonight at Walton Arts Center, and a “GenArt” event will hosted at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has the details.
“Conversation” by Shankar
Photographer Jerry Taliaferro’s exhibition “Women of a New Tribe” hopes to present the beauty of African-American women in a new light.
To listen to how NPR helped Taliaferro name this exhibition, click here.
(Photo Courtesy: Jerry Taliaferro's www.blackartphotoart.com)
