Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, hiking tips for a novice and Springfest returns to Fayetteville. Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, hiking tips for a novice and Springfest returns to Fayetteville. Spring makes the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains pop. We get tips about how and where to hike.
A new study shows Benton and Washington counties are the two healthiest in the state. Plus the Arkansas Legislature gets closer to a Medicaid proposal.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what goes into a TED talk. Also, musicians from the band Cutty Rye discuss and perform songs from their upcoming album. 
Daniel Hintz from Downtown Bentonville Inc., discusses the Bentonville running series and other opportunities to get outside. 
Roby Brock with our content partner Talk Business Arkansas discusses yesterday's vote on the Voter ID bill and what's next for the Arkansas Legislature. The Senate passes Voter ID bill and legislators hear more about Medicaid's future in Arkansas.
Ahead on Ozarks: Gubernatorial candidate Bill Halter sits down for a conversation, pondering the hows and whys of a sinkhole in Benton County and the band Water Liars play a pair of songs inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
The Oxford, MS duo of Justin (Pete) Kinkel-Schuster, guitar/lead vocals, and Andrew Bryant percussion, piano, vocals, just released a new album called "Wyoming" on Fat Possum's Big Legal Mess label. They played a show Mar. 9 at Nightbird Books and stopped by to play some songs in the Firmin-Garner Performance studio prior to the night's show.
To hear the musicians discuss why they love the poet Frank Stanford, check out this audio extra.
Last week, Mercy Northwest Arkansas unveiled its new EC130 helicopter named Spirit of Mercy.
For video of what it's like to ride in the Spirit of Mercy, click here.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks at Large, we'll get ready for a trapeze-flying, steampunk circus in Alma, and we'll find out how the state is preparing for a voter ID law enacted by the Arkansas Legislature earlier this year.
The annual Northwest Arkansas Gridiron will put material about newsmamkers written by local journalists on stage. The annual lampooning is Friday and Saturday, October 5th and 6th.
"Yakety-Sax" by Chet Atkins
Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas talks with James Dashner, an accountant turned children's Author, who is the featured guest at the Rogers Public Library Foundation's Conversations fundraiser.
Becca Martin Brwon tells us of a few events happening today that aren't a part of Bikes, Blues and BBQ.
"Rumble" by Link Wray
Because we mostly zoom by them in our sealed vehicles, nature recordist and essayist Joe Neal takes us into an Ozarks meadow for a listen. Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book is “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir.”
The Walton Arts Center is silent during the motorcycle rally, but makes up for it during the month of October.
