Ahead on Ozarks, the initial payment to insurance carriers in relation to the state’s private option is in the mail today. And the band SX Rex will explain their name and play two songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance StudioOzarks At Large
Ahead on Ozarks, the initial payment to insurance carriers in relation to the state’s private option is in the mail today. And the band SX Rex will explain their name and play two songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance StudioAhead on this edition of Ozarks, while there won't be a red carpet, Eureka Springs will recognize achievement in independent film this weekend. Plus, an exhibit allowing patrons to get hands-on with some of the first pages and books ever printed. And, Becca Martin Brown talks haggis.
Olivia Trimble's business Sleet City Hand Painted Signs may only be just more than a year old, but her wares can be spotted all around town, including a hand-painted sandwich board outside Onyx Coffee Lab and adorning the Town Center at the Fayetteville Square during the Little Craft Show. Katy Henriksen visits Trimble in her home studio to find out more about how and why she launched her business and how she makes her custom signs.Web Extra: Images From Sleet City Signs
A collection of historical documents and books are on loan to the University of Arkansas this semester.
The latest results released from the Talk Business Arkansas-Hendrix College poll show that the chief concern among Arkansas voters is the economy as this mid-term election year gets underway. Crews with the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad continue to make repairs and determine the cause of failure to certain equipment on the railroad bridge crossing the Arkansas River at Van Buren. Cargill is ordered to pay more than $2 million in a settlement of hiring discrimination allegations, and the state of Arkansas is clawing back nearly a half million dollars from Hewlett-Packard after the company failed to meet employment projections at its facility in Conway.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with author An Na. Plus, we go behind-the-scenes at KNWA.
We speak with An Na, author of A Step From Heaven, a book that was awarded the Michael L. Prince Award when it was published a decade ago. Critics and reviewers commended the book's characters for speaking like a child without being too precocious or condescending. The author will speak this week in Fayetteville.Even though the dance troupe is difficult to describe, Becca suggests watching them tomorrow at Walton Arts Center.
In the latest installment of our spaces series, we go behind-the-scenes at KNWA to learn what it takes to produce an evening newscast.
The commercial killing of horses for food ended in the U.S. six years ago, but was revived in 2011. Three horse slaughterhouses were set to open in the U.S., including one in Missouri. But on Jan. 16th Congress declined funding USDA inspections for horse meatpacking plants, basically shutting down the industry. (Photo: “Trixie” an Amish plow horse saved from slaughter by an Ozarks horse rescue.)
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Ahead on Ozarks, Michael Tilley talks about a potential multi-billion dollar acquisition by Tyson Foods and a less-than-expected participation rate for upcoming elections in the City of Fort Smith. And, a preview of two very different ways to spend tomorrow night: the rumble of monster trucks will be in Springdale, and music from the Artosphere Festival Orchestra will be in Fayetteville.
Local Trade Partners, a northwest Arkansan trade and barter exchange, is one of the fastest growing such exchange in the country. It recently crossed the 500-member mark.
To find out more - www.localtradepartners.com.
“Adios, Virginia Pampa Mia” by Virginia Luque
KUAF’s Shades of Jazz host Robert Ginsberg spoke with Anat Cohen, an Israeli-born clarinetist. The musician and composer is in Fayetteville to perform at Walton Arts Center and Temple Shalom.
One of McKee Foods Corporation’s facilities, which is located in Gentry, recently achieved the “Zero Landfill Waste” status.
“Diggin’ My Potatoes” by The Sunshine Skiffle Band
The Northwest Arkansas Community College Culinary Arts course taught by noted Chef Tuesday Eastlack, has taken over the spacious kitchens in the Center for Nonprofits at St. Mary’s in Rogers. We visit the kitchen and student run lunch café, open five days a week.
To learn more, visit www.nwacc.edu.
The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in Arkansas. The Civil War Sesquicentennial will be celebrated between 2011 and 2015.
