The Last Night celebration will send the old year out with fireworks and a pig drop. Yes, a pig drop.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on the program: the end of the world concert, well one of them anyway, is tonight at Rogers Little Theater. Earl and Them will be on stage and Earl Cate talks to us about his years of playing guitar with his brother, on American Bandstand and more. Plus Gibson baskets have been part of the local tapestry for more than 100 years…we’ll spend an afternoon with Terry Gibson, a fourth-generation basket artist.Our history doctor, Bill Smith, is back for another edition of We’re History. Today he examines the lengthy relationship between aviation, daredevils and advertising. And, yes, he has a northwest Arkansas connection.
Tonight’s concert at Rogers Little Theater includes Earl and Them. Earl Cate recently visited our studio to talk about his career with the Cates Brother Band and more.
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses what’s next for the 188th at Fort Chaffee and the race for the Governor’s Mansion in 2014.Congressman Mike Ross will be leaving Washington next month, and he shared with Roby Brock what he felt were some of his achievements during his time in elected office. Plus, the Razorback baseball team is ranked number one in the nation in a preseason poll by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
Ahead on Ozarks, a new program at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is designed to strengthen arts connections at the collegiate level…downtown Fayetteville gets the fireworks and arts ready for New Years Eve…and singer/songwriter Tony Presley comes to the Firmin Garner Performance Studio to play music before he leaves town for tour.The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Moscow Classical ballet have two different takes on the holiday season and will deliver them from the stage in Baum Walker Hall this week.
Local musician/songwriter Tony Presley's musical project is called Real Live Tigers. For Presley, who self-releases and self-books tours, music a labor of love. He's got a show coming up at Nightbird Books on Dickson Street in Fayetteville Saturday night before embarking on a Southeast tour. He stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance studio recently to play us a few songs and discuss why he plays music with "Ozarks at Large's" Katy Henriksen.
Web exclusive: A Couple More Tunes From Tony Presley
The Last Night celebration will send the old year out with fireworks and a pig drop. Yes, a pig drop.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, October 21, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, the types of plants that harm bugs, butterflies and bees. Plus, a conversation with the multi-talented artist Crow Johnson.
First Friday in Downtown Bentonville will help Artoshphere get started, celebrate the return of the Farmers' Market and provide plenty of music as well.
The Army Corps of Engineers and Beaver Lake Foundation formalize a resource-sharing partnership today. Thousands of prospective Arkansas college students get word about being awarded lottery scholarship money. The port in Helena gets its first permanent tenant since being built in 1993, and Bentonville Public Schools officials hold meetings to get public input on another millage election.
"New Mexico Song" by Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains
Yesterday Tyson Foods gave a substantial check to the Springdale Public Schools Education Foundation.
Singer/songwriter John Legend spoke on the UA campus last night as part of the Distinguished Lecture series.
In the early 1900s, Minnesota entrepreneur William Kruse had a vision he would strike gold on some farmland in Rogers, Arkansas. He spent a small fortune constructing a mining operation. We visit the site, and prospect details from the archives of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Photo courtesy Rogers Historical Museum.
"After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young
