This month's music review shines a light on the album The Heist, which features the work of rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis.Ozarks At Large
This month's music review shines a light on the album The Heist, which features the work of rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis.In her latest book Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture, Stephanie Schulte says that examples of pop culture like the movie War Games played prominently into how the world perceived the Internet in its earliest days.
Here is a guide to clips used in our Sunday montage salute to computers:
- The band Kraftwerk sings "Computer Love."
- A seemingly innocent beginning to a complicated relationship in the movie War Games.
- A computer discussion from The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, released in 1969.
- Styx and that very odd song, "Mr. Roboto."
- A not-so-innocent continuation of a complicated relationship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- A computer foul up in 1957’s Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
- "You’ve Got Mail!"
- A very terse answer that reflects a complicated relationship in the movie The Social Network.
- An ominous warning about a complicated relationship in the original, 1982 version of Tron.
- The Jetsons theme.
Here is a guide to clips used in our Sunday montage salute to computers:
- The band Kraftwerk sings "Computer Love."
- A seemingly innocent beginning to a complicated relationship in the movie War Games.
- A computer discussion from The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, released in 1969.
- Styx and that very odd song, "Mr. Roboto."
- A not-so-innocent continuation of a complicated relationship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- A computer foul up in 1957’s Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
- "You’ve Got Mail!"
- A very terse answer that reflects a complicated relationship in the movie The Social Network.
- An ominous warning about a complicated relationship in the original, 1982 version of Tron.
- The Jetsons theme.
Bear hunts, mermaids and dinner, Becca Martin Brown offers plenty to occupy your Mother's Day afternoon. Plus, the upcoming season at the Arts Center of the Ozarks.
Charles Banks Wilson, an American artist, was laid to rest on Tuesday in his hometown of Miami, Oklahoma. He was born and passed in Arkansas. Wilson is best known for his works of the American Indian. Wilson's works are housed in some of the most renowned museums and art galleries in the world, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Washington's Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery, the Oklahoma State Capitol where four 13 feet tall and 27 feet wide murals line the rotunda, and the Gilcrease Museum, which owns more than 300 pieces of the artist's work.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas recently completed a study, concluding that the use of sequential pricing based on real-time knowledge of shopper preferences could increase retailer profits. Ozarks at Larges Christina Thomas spoke with Cary Deck and John Aloysius of the Walton College of Business.
Ahead on Ozarks, our weekly conversation with Michael Tilley from The City Wire about an attempt to buy Arkansas Best Freight and why tobacco and Internet sales taxes are of interest in Arkansas this week. Plus two actors, two microphones and a jacket that turns into a circus. We offer a peek inside the creation of the play "Boats" on stage this weekend. And Effron White plays a brand new song.
Effron White’s been writing lately and we’ll hear the fruit of his labors, a new song titled Pressure Change.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Ahead on this weekend edition of Ozarks, a conversation with one of the authors of the Mustasia series for young readers. Plus, Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has plenty of suggestions for how to ring in the new year, and more.
During a recent trip to KUAF, Pianos and Drums performed a number of songs including this one, titled "Neo Soul."
Ozarks at Large’s insect expert Dr. Donald Steinkrasu takes a stab at playing movie critic. We take a look at insects’ role in film.
"Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers" by Trout Fishing in America
The first event outside of Eureka Springs for the Creative Energy Project will bring yarn, and plenty of it, to Bentonville.
Link: For more about Yarnology or the Creative Energy Project, www.creativeenergyproject.com
"Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers" by Trout Fishing in America
Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gives us all the details on Trout Fishing in America's newest CD.
Here are the ten clips for our montage dedicated to Georges:
1. The opening riff of George Thorogood’s Bad to the Bone
2. A scene for the original (animated) George of the Jungle.
3. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong sing George Gershwin’s Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.
4. A small portion of a documentary about George Washington Carver.
5. George Harrison’s guitar from My Sweet Lord.
6. From the 1954 (animated) version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
7. George Jones begins the greatest country song ever, He Stopped Loving Her Today.
8. Jason Alexander as George Constanza as a marine biologist.
9. George Burns explains how he met Gracie.
10. George Jetson never figures out the automatic dog walker.
Apologies to: the greatest third baseman ever. Ever. Also, apologies to: three United States presidents, the monkey always with the Man in the Yellow Hat, misters Clooney, Strait, Clinton, Carlin, Benson…about 300 kings and the Majestic Lounge. Maybe next time.
