The Arkansas Public Policy Panel, a statewide organization dedicated to achieving social, economic and environmental justice through citizen group action, is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary June 15th in Little Rock. We take a look back with current executive director Bill Kopsky.Ozarks At Large
The Arkansas Public Policy Panel, a statewide organization dedicated to achieving social, economic and environmental justice through citizen group action, is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary June 15th in Little Rock. We take a look back with current executive director Bill Kopsky.The 10th anniversary of Wakarusa was full of live performances and rain. Check out our photos of the festival here.
"True collaboration is that willingness to extend yourself to a new place but in a way that does not feel like anything has been given up," says singer-songwriter Tift Merritt. While collaboration between musicians of different genres is nothing new, it's difficult to do well. The album "Night," a collaboration between Merritt and classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, does just that. Reviewer Katy Henriksen explores the collaboration in which classical composers like Schubert and Purcell connect seamlessly to Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain," the folk traditional "Wayfaring Stranger," a Leonard Cohen inspired instrumental and much more to create a singular song cycle that could only come from these two musicians.
Leo G. Mazow, an Associate Professor of American Art History at the University of Arkansas, recently was awarded the Eldridge Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum for his book Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound.
In his weekly look back at the past seven days of business and political news, Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas looks at the Dassault Falcon expansion in Central Arkansas, and the replacement that will take Martha Shoffner's place as state treasurer.Adams, Garrett and Johnny perform "Sip, Drink and Toke" before their performance this afternoon in the opening concert of the third-annual Mountain Street Music Series at the Fayetteville Public Library
We take a look at how theater in the region has changed as well as what plans some theater companies have for the future.
It's the final Tuesday of May and we have classics and soon to be classics in this month’s theater preview. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas visits the Young actors Guild in Fort Smith as they rehearse BIG: The Musical.We take a look at how theater in the region has changed as well as what plans some theater companies have for the future.
The Fllipoff Pirates, a familiar local band, won the opportunity to play a set at Wakarusa tomorrow night.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, June 9, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, we learn the differences between various types of Arkansas charter schools. Plus, a UA researcher receives a grant to study the genetic composition of diatoms.
The ground beneath your home, farm or forest is known as a mineral estate and in many cases someone else owns it. And those surface landholders on lucrative ground, such as the Fayetteville Shale, may be at risk. We hear from a mineral estates expert, affected landholder and state political activist seeking to pass a landholders bill of rights.
Students will be charged 25 percent more this year for health insurance compared to last year. Mary Alice Serafini, the director of the Pat Walker Health Center, and Pam Delaney, the student health insurance representative, explained these changes.
For more information: www.health.uark.edu/insurance.
Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net recaps runoff elections in Arkansas and more in our weekly business update.
Becca Martin Brown tells us about Monday Movie Mania at the Rogers Public Library and a few other inexpensive ways to keep ourselves entertained today.
Festival organizer Steven Gates and trumpeter Richard Rulli recently spoke to Kyle Kellams about the fifth concert in the KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival. The performance is scheduled for 7:30 Thursday night inside the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
More information is available at http://www.fulbrightsummermusic.uark.edu
