The jazz duo Handmade Moments will release their self-titled album this Thursday at Smoke and Barrel Tavern. Expect cameos from Trout Fishing in America.
Ozarks At Large
The Fayetteville Public Schools’ Bookmobile is making an impact, through books, on young members of the community in an effort to combat summer learning loss. Catch up with them Monday, July 21 and again July 28 at the following locations:
- 9:30- Red Oak Park (Carlsbad/Boxley/Bridgeport Subdivision area off Wedington)
- 10:15- The Links at Wedington (at the roundabout in the middle of the complex)
- 11:00- Woodway Apartments (by the complex pool)
- 11:45- Crofton Manor off Mt. Comfort (on Hatterly Street)
- 12:10- Washington Plaza Apartments (Under a grove of trees towards the back entrance of the complex)
The Beaver Lake Sailing Club, headquartered near Lost Bridge, is not only a historic recreational club, the membership is engaged in numerous charitable events. The Northwest Arkansas Food Bank received support to the tune of $15,000 dollars from the ALCOA Foundation, and one economist looks at the potential economic impacts of the previously announced ArcBest expansion in Fort Smith.
If you want to relive those middle school days, the BOK Center in Tulsa is hosting a large dodge ball tournament.
On this edition of Ozarks, how ex-pats in NWA watch the World Cup. And, singer/songwriter Joe Crookston stops by the studio. 
Roby Brock, from Talk Business and Politics, takes a look back at the previous seven days in Arkansas news.Singer and songwriter Joe Crookston is back in Fayetteville this week, almost a year after his first visit at the 2013 Roots Festival.
Joe Crookston is back in Fayetteville for workshops, a concert and the screening of a documentary inspired by one of his songs.
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Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the effort to create Nerdies, a project designed to give young people not interested in sports a place to explore other hobbies and passions. We'll also visit a piece of land in Fayetteville that will soon be a teaching farm, letting young students get a hands-on approach to growing and eating healthy foods. Plus Christian Howes, one of the most critically acclaimed jazz musicians performing talks to Robert Ginsburg about Howes's upcoming concert at Walton Arts Center. And what's really happening in our brain when we listen to that music we really like again . . . and again . . .and again. We'll talk briefly to Lisa Margulis about her new book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind.
Today is the 45th anniversary of the plane crash that claimed the lives of Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays outside of Madison, Wisconsin. The sole survivor of that crash was Bar-Kays trumpet player, Ben Cauley. Cauley turned 65 this year, and Sara Hoover from our content partner WKNO in Memphis brings us his story.
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers reminds us about an exhibit on Arkansas' first great entrepreneur, which is on display at the Bentonville Public Library today.
Adam Vines’ collection of poetry "The Coal Life" was published by the University of Arkansas Press and has earned critical praise. He was recently in Fayetteville and talked with Ozarks at Large’s Kyle Kellams.
We survey four state advocacy groups about their legislative action items leading up to the Regular Session of the 89th General Assembly scheduled to convene on Monday, January 14th.
On its surface, today's week in review may look like a retread of last week's, but these education stories offer a twist of innovation.
