Dan Sanker, the chief executive officer of CaseStack in Fayetteville, authored the book “Collaborate: The Art of We.” The book highlights the art of cooperation in the business world.
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Nova Scotia-based puppetry company Mermaid Theatre will stage their adaptation of three Eric Carle books for children for a benefit show.
NPR's Guy Raz spoke with Kyle Kellams about the eight edition of the Three Minute Fiction contest.
Fort Smith witnesses a decrease in homeless numbers. We take a look at the reasons behind the reported decrease.
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The Illinois River Watershed Partnership is organizing the fifth annual Riparian project in six cities in Arkansas and Oklahoma this Saturday.
More information is available at www.irwp.org.
Columnist Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com discusses the return of Mad Men, and why fans of Snow White and Casablanca should look forward to the rest of March.
Militant Grammarian Katherine Shurlds is back on Ozarks at Large. Today, she targets Facebook posts.
Ozarks at Large’s Meredith Martin-Moats took a trip with her family to the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock. She details her trip for us.
To visit Meredith Martin-Moats’ blog Boiled Down Juice: www.boileddownjuice.com.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, conversations with documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney regarding his documentary “The City Dark,” and author Gary B. Agee about his book on Daniel Rudd, the founder of National Black Catholic Congress. Also on the show today, a preview of the Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week; and Peace Corps recruiter Curt Baker visits KUAF.
Ozarks at Large’s Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar spoke with documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney regarding his documentary film “The City Dark.” The film deals with the issue of light pollution.
“The City Dark” will be screened next Monday at 5:30 p.m. inside Verizon Ballroom in the University of Arkansas Union. The screening is part of a new series launched by the U of A Honors College called “Honors College Invites” which hopes to bring scholars and experts to the region to benefit the community.
To watch a trailer, click here.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, April 20, 2014
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.
Bill Parry, from the cast of Memphis, talks to us about the musical, life on the road and the changes theater has had in the past couple of decades. Memphis is at Walton Arts Center through the weekend.
"Big Love" performed by Will Mann, from the Memphis soundtrack
The Valley of the Vapors music festival turns Hot Springs into a hotbed of DIY and experimental music each March. There's a new documentary film out about the fest making its Northwest Arkansas debut at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville this Saturday. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen has more.
The Arkansas Legislature considers a ban on the parental rights of convicted rapists, as well as a bill barring school districts from considering home school students as public school students. Plus, University of Arkansas chancellor G. David Gearhart calls for an independent audit of the university's advancement division.
"We Will Become Silhouettes (Matthew Dear's Not Scared Mix)" by The Postal Service
In reaction to the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school massacre, Arkansas schools continue to bolster security—from hiring armed guards to installing heavy surveillance. We check districts around the region, talk with school security experts, look at current state legislation, and hear from former U.S. Congressman Asa Hutchinson on the status of his National School Shield Emergency Response Program, commissioned by the National Rifle Association.
We talk to an expert who has studied norovirus for 10 years about the symptoms and conditions to lead to its exposure to humans.
