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Kevin Kinder from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers lets us know what we should look forward to at this year’s Wakarusa at Mulberry Mountain.
You can keep up with Kinder at his blog www.nwatunedin.com.
Stand-up comic Mike Merryfield will perform tonight at the UARK Bowl in Fayetteville. He spoke with Kyle Kellams earlier this week about his comedy style.
Local fine folk artist Linda Sheets is currently working on a book about rescued dogs, a project that hopes to raise funds to help rescue organizations around the country.
More information is available at www.scratchingthrough.blogspot.com and www.blue-eyedponystudio.com.
For a video tour of Sheets’ studio, click here.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a psychology researcher explains the relationship between low-effort thought and the tendency to lean toward conservative ideology; and fine folk artist Linda Sheets works on a book about rescued dogs.Local fine folk artist Linda Sheets is currently working on a book about rescued dogs, a project that hopes to raise funds to help rescue organizations around the country.
More information is available at www.scratchingthrough.blogspot.com and www.blue-eyedponystudio.com.
For a video tour of Sheets’ studio, click here.
Ozarks at Large’s Katy Henriksen spoke with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy earlier this week. Wilco performs tomorrow night at the AMP in Fayetteville.
Columnist Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com discusses upcoming summer movies and TV shows. He also makes a book suggestion.
For those of us sequestered inside this spring time, bird expert, Joe Neal, brings us fresh recordings of spring-fevered Ozarks forests and fields. He is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir,” is published by Half-Acre Press.
For those of us sequestered inside this spring time, bird expert, Joe Neal, brings us fresh recordings of spring-fevered Ozarks forests and fields. He is coauthor of Arkansas Birds, published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir is published by Half-Acre Press.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, December 12, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks, what the future may hold for a Benton County landmark. Plus, musical advice from Grammy-winner Mark O'Connor.
The Joint Budget Committee of the Arkansas LEgislature hears from Arkansas Department of Human Services regarding funding for the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid, while a new Talk Business Arkansas-Hendrix College poll suggests that Arkansans are supportive of the program. And, Crawford County officials are hopeful that voters will be supportive of a sales tax increase that would fund construction and operation of a new county jail.
"Daydreamer" by Young the Giant
The commercial killing of horses for food ended in the U.S. six years ago, but was revived in 2011. Three horse slaughterhouses were set to open in the U.S., including one in Missouri. But on Jan. 16th Congress declined funding USDA inspections for horse meatpacking plants, basically shutting down the industry. (Photo: “Trixie” an Amish plow horse saved from slaughter by an Ozarks horse rescue.)
In the latest installment of our spaces series, we go behind-the-scenes at KNWA to learn what it takes to produce an evening newscast.
Even though the dance troupe is difficult to describe, Becca suggests watching them tomorrow at Walton Arts Center.
The recent removal of trees along a Springdale roadway spurred a long thought-after tree farm in Springdale
"All or Nothing at All" by Switchfoot
