The city of Fayetteville officially unveils a new anti-litter and beautification organization, the Fayetteville Farmers' Market gears up for a winter market, and governor Mike Beebe warns that legislators in Washington shouldn't shift funding responsibility for mandatory programs to the states.
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Adam Vines’ collection of poetry "The Coal Life" was published by the University of Arkansas Press and has earned critical praise. He was recently in Fayetteville and talked with Ozarks at Large’s Kyle Kellams.
Earlier this week on the daily edition of Ozarks at Large, we brought you a story about and performance by the reunited four-piece Still on the Hill. Here, the quartet performs "Downtown" inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.Here's the list of our bee clips for Sunday morning, December 9th, 2012
- Wynton Marsalis performs Rimsky-Korsalov's "Flight of the Bumblebee"
- Members of the cast of Arrested Development discuss Gob's plan for a bee business
- Dean Martin's version of "The Birds and the Bees"
- Winnie the Pooh in a not-so-smart disguise to get honey
- Huey Lewis sings "Buzz Buzz Buzz"
- Jerry Seinfeld wants to leave the hive in Bee Movie
- Erykah Badu sings about love in her song "Honey"
- From the first season of Saturday Night Live, the first appearance of The Killer Bees featuring guest host Elliot Gould
- Michael Caine warns the residents of Maysville that the bees are coming! From the movie The Swarm
- Slim Harpo sings "I'm a King Bee"
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Christina Thomas takes us to some beehives to find what the pollinators do during a typical winter and how they are faring this year given the unseasonably warm weather.Tonight's Sunday Symphony features works by Alfven, Brahms and Britten. Katy Henriksen gives us a preview.
Several productions of Thu Nutcracker are happening today and nexty weekend in the region. Becca Martin Brown gives us the scoop on one scheduled for next Saturday in Springdale.
Big Cat Week kicks off tonight on National Geographic Wild Channel with Snow Leopard of Afgahnastan. Christina Thomas speaks with Tony Gerber director and producer of the film about the important presence the animal maintains in that country, as well as what the experience of tracking such an elusive species was like.
On its surface, today's week in review may look like a retread of last week's, but these education stories offer a twist of innovation.
Ahead on Ozarks, how the orphan trains for of the 18th and early 19th centuries inspired Alison Moore’s new novel…and the 62nd edition of a Fayetteville tradition moves to the internet: we discover how the annual Lions Club Auction is embracing new technology.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, the effort to help residents with some college credit finish their degrees will get a big boost next week when six area institutions of higher learning will combine for a Come Back to College Fair at the Jones Center in Springdale. Plus, we explain the place where advanced math and crochet meet....and looking for the place where mindfulness and mental health intersect.
Last week the future of a proposed steel mill project in Arkansas was just one item legislators paid attention to in Little Rock. Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas covers the past seven days of Arkansas business and politics in his regular Monday rundown.
Legislators return to the state capitol this week following developments last week on the legislature's biggest decisions this session: the state's Medicaid program and whether to approve a $125 million state investment in a steel mill in northeast Arkansas.
"Fools Rush In" by Glenn Miller and "Ship of Fools" by Robert Plant
Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Media gives us the scoop on what's ahead for TheatreSquared and the Walton Arts Center.
If you've been waiting for a novel set in Miami with four good friends, a python, a Haitian family seeking a better life and the line "hyperactive poo-flinging banshee," then you're in luck. More simply, if you've been waiting for the next crime-tinged novel from Dave Barry, then your're still in luck. Even better still, Barry is headed for the Fayetteville Public Library April 12.
In winter we hear a few chirps, but with spring upon us our feathered co-inhabitants are vocally staking their nesting claims. Wildlife recordist, Joe Neal waxes on about the call of the cardinal. Neal 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.
"My Foolish Heart" by Bill Evans Trio
