Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has details on today’s gallery tour and Skyspace discussion at Crystal Bridges, and a sci-fi book club meeting in Bella Vista.
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Two book talks will be held at the Fayetteville Public Library today. You can also attend a gallery talk at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, or audition for “Web of Murder” at Fort Smith Little Theatre.
Jon Woodward is the executive director of 7 Hills Homeless Center in Fayetteville. He spoke with Ozarks at Large’s Kyle Kellams regarding the center’s plans for 2012.
More information is available on www.7hillscenter.org.
KUAF’s Mike Shirkey visited the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio along with his band the Block Street Pickers to perform for us. He also spoke about being honored by the Governor, his “house-parties” and more.
Little Rock rapper 607 will perform tomorrow night at Smoke and Barrel in Fayetteville. He spoke with Ozarks at Large’s Meredith Martin-Moats about his music, his fondness for Tupac Shakur and Fiona Apple, and his banjo-playing ability.
You can find his music at http://iam607.bandcamp.com/album/yik3s and http://earfear.bandcamp.com/. Be advised, his music contains language that may be offensive to some.
A Daisy of a Christmas at the Rogers Historical Museum will be shown through this week and the Science Fiction Book Club will be held at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
Kyle, Iti and Rhonda Dillard, KUAF’s underwriting director, give away gift certificates from New Design School, Live on Stage, the University of Arkansas Bookstore, Rogers Historical Museum and Dog Party U.S.A.Ozarks at Large’s Katy Henriksen was at the Improved Lighting Reading Series that was held at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville this past weekend.
Sarah Leer, the managing director of Trike Theatre, talks about the classes being offered next spring, Diggin’ Up Arkansas and the Dramatic Book Club.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, more details on a housing project known as “Mutual Self-Help Housing,” and author Kristin S. Kaufman discusses her book “Is This Seat Taken?” The University of Arkansas hosts its first fall commencement in four decades, and the Springdale Municipal Airport plans to expand to accommodate larger planes.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we talk with one Huntsville resident whose four-legged friend has learned to recycle. Plus, we have our weekly conversation with Becca Martin Brown from Northwest arkansas Newspapers and more.
Spring break day trips closer to home - Branson's Butterfly Palace and Rainforest Adventure in the north and Fort Smith Museum of History in the south.
John Kander, the first electric razor and more in our history capsule for March 18.
Roby Brock from www.talkbusiness.net reports on the semi-annual Great American Cleanup in Arkansas held March through May.
Michael Tilley from www.thecitywire.com lets us know what Fort Smith's been talking about.
A documentary film by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker duo Larry Foley and Dale Carpenter, based on stories centered around the War Eagle Creek, will be screened today at the Fort Smith Public Library at 7 p.m.
