Two public meetings were held late yesterday in Jasper to address concerns about the large CAFO in Newton County. Picasolar took home several thousand dollars from an MIT competition earlier this week. Fort Smith has finished automating trash collection, but now the city's sanitation department is turning its eye to automating recyclable collection. And speaking of Fort Smith, Senator Mark Pryor demands answers from the U.S. Air Force regarding the future of the 188th Fighter Wing.
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Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers reminds us that the Washtington Elementary PTO will host the 10th annual Tour of Homes Saturday.
Wildlife recordist Joe Neal shares this audio postcard of sharing a lake with anglers and a flock of seagulls. 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. Here is information about today’s montage dedicated to the number five:
- Beethoven’s Fifth as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
- George Brett (#5 for the Kansas City Royals) hits a home run in the 1984 All-Star Game.
- The Vogues sing "Five O’clock World."
- How to use the fifth amendment in a congressional hearing.
- School House Rock’s take on the number five, as sung by native Arkansan Bob Dorough.
- A scene from the British series MI-5.
- The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry."
- Jack Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces.
- Lou Bega’s dance hit "Mambo No. 5."
- Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0.
Bucky Ball, a geometric, LED sculpture by artist Leo Villareal, is the first temporary outdoor installation for the museum. The work gets its name from Buckminster Fuller, an architect who designed geodesic domes. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas spoke with Villareal about this and other works.
Comic Book Stores and Libraries around the region will be participating in National Free Comic Book Day. 52 special editions are available this year. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas visited a participating venue and has this report.Bucky Ball, a geometric, LED sculpture by artist Leo Villareal, is the first temporary outdoor installation for the museum. The work gets its name from Buckminster Fuller, an architect who designed geodesic domes. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas spoke with Villareal about this and other works.
Becca Martin Brown tells us about a nascent book club that will discuss old societies tomorrow night in Fort Smith.
Singer/songwriter John Legend spoke on the UA campus last night as part of the Distinguished Lecture series.
Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas gives us his weekly look back at business and politics news from the past seven days.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the 2014 Cancer Challenge aims to add to the $10 million raised with the event over the past 20 years. The three-day event this year encompasses a variety of locations and activities including golfing, running, trap-shooting and wrapping up with the more traditional gala. Plus, uncovering stories at Oak Cemetery, and if you're unsure of which stages to make it to during this weekend's Wakarusa Music Festival, Becca offers some suggestions.
Becca has a complete list of items for the weekend.
For the third consecutive production, demand for tickets means more presentations for Theater Squared.
“Jive at Five” by Buckley Mills
The Walton Arts Center has created a new program to help teach local students about instruments in an orchestra.
Three tax bills make it out of the Arkansas House. Roby Brock of talkbusiness.net gives us a report from Little Rock.
Link: www.talkbusiness.net
Music: “Fast Food Socrates” by New York Electric Piano
What would it take to live on Mars or some other icy world out there? Dr. Steve Vance, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs, tells us. He speaks tonight on the University of Arkansas campus.
Music: “Hospital Funk” by MSG (listen for a conversation with the band’s leader, Matt Smith, next month on Ozarks at Large)
