This month's gallery show at the Fayetteville Underground includes photography, painting, mixed media works, and sculpture, including these hot glue sculptures by artist Robert Lemming.Ozarks At Large
This month's gallery show at the Fayetteville Underground includes photography, painting, mixed media works, and sculpture, including these hot glue sculptures by artist Robert Lemming.We go back to the outdoors-related stories from the past seven days in this morning's weekly review.
Ahead on Ozarks: Michael Tilley from The City Wire gets us up to date on a wild news week…from new home sales numbers to a gubernatorial candidate's comments yesterday about Arkansas' private option. Plus, Rosco Bandana joins us in the studio, and we travel to Dardanelle to see the home of Tusk, the live mascot of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Rosco Bandana hails from Gulfport, Mississippi and is back in our neck of the woods for the Yonder Mountain String Band's Harvest Music Festival.
On game days, Tusk IV, the live mascot for the University of Arkansas, travels from his home near Dardanelle to Fayetteville to help cheer on the Razorbacks.The President of the Federal Reserve is coming to NWA, a camp concerning nighttime critters and other sports this weekend are all outlined in today's notes.
Ahead on Ozarks, Whats in a name, and who was Jenny Lind? She is the namesake of a tiny unincorporated town near Greenwood and of a major road in Fort Smith. Plus, a farm tour takes mothers to the source of their families' food. And a school project teaches students the importance of homegrown produce.
We know Jenny Lind Road and the community of Jenny Lind were named after a Swedish opera singer. We're not exactly sure why. We do know that when she came to the US in 1850, there was excitement.
Women make 90% of the purchasing decisions when it comes to food. Thanks to a program from the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, they get to see where their food domes from. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas joins the group on a visit to a dairy farm.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, how members of clergy, support organizations and a T-shirt maker are helping spread relief to towns devastated by Sunday's tornadoes, and information about how anyone else can aid recovery efforts.
Former First Minister of Scotland Henry McLeish has a strong passion for education. He often speaks on the roles of education in the United States vs the United Kingdom. He spoke to Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas about learning in a modern society and his political career.
"Immigration" by Afel Bacourm and Alkiban
Last month, Irish blues singer Hozier released his "From Eden EP."
The latest Talk Business-Hendrix college poll suggests that the two front-runners in this year's gubernatorial race are nearly tied, though a few percentage points could make a difference either way come November. And, the CEO of QualChoice says that the company's recent acquisition by a national health care company may mean more jobs for Arkansas.
"Hardy Country" by Andy Summers and Robert Fripp
As part of the second phase in creating a Rogers-Lowell Community Action Plan, public input gathered in the first phase of the project has been released in a new report .
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" by Danny Elfman
Roby Brock, from Talk Business and Politics, has his Monday review of the previous week's news.
