Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks: Who to call if having a personal crisis, and we talk about the Ozark dialect.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks: Who to call if having a personal crisis, and we talk about the Ozark dialect.Becca Martin Brown gives us the lowdown on today's music, theater and other events.
The Ozark dialect is rooted in Appalachia and traces back to the British Isles, yet it can elicit a certain stigma. Susan Young with the Shiloh Museum of Ozark history, a fifth generation Arkansan, lectures widely on her culture and dialect. We bring her into the studio to talk Ozark.
The week ahead is National Suicide Prevention Week, and Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas speaks with Melody Kouchehbagh and Jenni Kirstein of the Arkansas Crisis Center about how the organization helps people at risk.
Ozarks at Large's Timothy Dennis takes a look back at the past week's stories involving education.
On today’s edition of Ozarks, just in time for Polo in the Ozarks, the sport explained. Plus, big news for the Fayetteville Farmers’ Market. And comedian Stewart Huff talks about his style of standup before his two shows tonight in Fayetteville.School is in at the UAFS Academy of the Arts and we find out about everything that’s going on there.
Springdale schools get passing grades on benchmark exams, farmers' markets in Fayetteville earn top ranks, and the University of Arkansas plans construction of a new building.
Walton Arts Center staff has been unloading trash cans for STOMP today . . . and the Wailers (yes, those Wailers) will be arriving in November.
Robert Laurence’s first novel is set in the mid-eighties . . . before cell phones and email. The story centers around the letters one writer sends to friends and how those friends’ lives are (and are not) connected. He’ll read from the book Friday night at Nightbird Books on Dickson Street. He came to our studio and talked with us about the book.
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, new enrollment numbers at the University of Arkansas; university officials announced this morning another record year for enrollment at the state's flagship campus. Plus, the testing isn't as often as it used to be, but there is still research being conducted on Arkansas deer for chronic wasting disease. We take a look at that and new hunting regulations as deer season approaches. And, the band Olassa performs inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Fourteen Fayetteville restaurants will donate portions of Thursday proceeds to the Peace at Home Family Shelter. The event comes during the first week of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Roby Brock of TalkBusiness.net recaps the business news of the past seven days, including announcement of the latest class of the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says one of the busiest months for entertainment begins today.
The 13th Annual Arkansas Insect Festival is Thursday at the Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center at the University of Arkansas. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas gives us the preview.
"Grasshopper" by Xavier Cugat
Dennis Collins has accompanied many of the area’s musicians on stage. Tomorrow at Clapp Auditorium on Mt. Sequoyah, he takes the top bill. He’ll pull out some of the songs he wrote more than thirty years ago.
