Ahead on Ozarks, the calls for Arkansas’ State Treasurer to resign are mounting. Yesterday, Martha Shoffner was arraigned on several charges levied by the FBI. Plus an assessment of the damage after last night's strong storms moved through the area.
We also have a quick guide to the must-see bands coming to Wakarus later this month and our tech ambassador, Ty Dennison, lets us know whether its time to get excited about Google Glass just yet.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on Ozarks, the calls for Arkansas’ State Treasurer to resign are mounting. Yesterday, Martha Shoffner was arraigned on several charges levied by the FBI. Plus an assessment of the damage after last night's strong storms moved through the area.
We also have a quick guide to the must-see bands coming to Wakarus later this month and our tech ambassador, Ty Dennison, lets us know whether its time to get excited about Google Glass just yet.
Kevin Kinder, who blogs about music at NWA TunedIn, returns for his annual guide to the upcoming Wakarusa Music Festival.
Artists and songs we heard during this interview:
- "La Que Me Gusto" by Los Amigos Invisables
- "Sleep" by Allen Stone
- "Last Love Song" by ZZ Ward
- "Niamey Jami" by Bombino
A new Sikh Temple has opened in Rogers, the second one in the state. We visit with a local Sikh leader to learn about this enlightened and ancient religious tradition.With widespread power outages and emergency radios down for a period of time, Holland Hayden, the city's communications director, says that city crews responded quickly and effectively.
Severe weather rolled through northwest Arkansas last night, though no injuries were reported in Benton or Carroll counties. State Treasurer Martha Shoffner appeared in court yesterday, and the city of Fayetteville plans to plant its first community orchard.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: we dig into archives from the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History once again with the center’s director, Randy Dixon. He brings us the sounds of sports in Arkansas for the past 45 years, including the voices of Brooks Robinson, Paul Eels and even Richard Nixon. Plus The eulogy for a piece of northwest infrastructure that marks a change in how we drive. And opera takes center stage on this week’s edition of Arkansongs.Becca Martin Brown says the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas has just ended its latest season and is already prepping for the next one.
Randy Dixon, the director of the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History, is back with more clips of Arkansas history. This time the topic is sports.
Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, has the recap on the past week’s news in Arkansas politics and business.Arkansas's senators speak about a potential farm bill, possibly coming up for discussion this week. Martha Shoffner gets arrested over the weekend. And more severe weather heading into the area.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, January 3, 2014
On this special edition of Ozarks at Large we listen again to some of our favorite stories from 2013, including: how to make it to age 100 in Huntsville, an odds-defying collaboration between a renown musician and Trike Theater and the creation of the Ozarks at Large quiche cup.
Clint Schnekloth is the Lead Pastor at Good Shepard Lutheran Church in Fayetteville and the author of the new book, Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era.
at end of show: "Sunny of 75" by Joe Nichols
When the Arkansas Legislature convened this week, lawmakers proposed and pondered long-term solutions to the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid. The changes considered were meant to make the program more palatable to some politicians. We learn more in this morning's Week in Review.
"The Game of Love" by Daft Punk
In 1980, more than 125,000 Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro's communist regime were boatlifted to America and processed at military compounds including Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. Among the population were gay Cubans and prisoners that Castro had purged from his prisons. The Cubans were widely portrayed by the press as criminal—a stigma that's persisted. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, historians are working to clarify the record.
Photo: "Task Force Commander, Colonel Don E. Karr with Cuban refugee family"--Courtesy Fort Chaffee Museum
Charles Baum was both a philanthropist and a baseball lover. We learn more about the man behind the Arkansas Razorback's baseball stadium.
"Stubborn Love" by The Lumineers
Here are the ten sources for our Sunday Montage dedicated to bows, arrows and archers:
1) Sam Cooke sings tribute to Cupid.
2) Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) proves a point in the animated movie Brave.
3) Harry Nilsson sings Me and My Arrow.
4) Claude Rains and Errol Flynn meet in the 1939 version of Robin Hood.
5) Arya receives counter intuitive lessons on an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones.
6) Kacey Musgraves offers advice in her song Follow Your Arrow.
7) Legolas fails to impress in a scene from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
8) From the 80s: ABC's hit Poison Arrow.
9) Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) gets attention after her amazing shot in The Hunger Games.
10) The Halle Orchestra performs the greatest piece of music dedicated to an archer, Rossini's William Tell Overture.
Apologies to: Hawkeye, Green Arrow, The Golden Archer (and about 100 other comic book characters), Burt Reynolds in Deliverance, Edith Wharton, and Cock Robin. Maybe next time.
