Walton Arts Center kicks off its jazz series Friday night with two performances by the Edmar Castañeda Quartet.Ozarks At Large
Walton Arts Center kicks off its jazz series Friday night with two performances by the Edmar Castañeda Quartet.
Fayetteville will host the inaugural NWA Hispanic Heritage Festival and Health Fair Friday and Saturday at the Washington County Fairgrounds.
Becca discusses the eclectic music lineup at the Arkansas-Oklahoma State Fair, which includes a performance by Sevendust.Tuesday night a five-person panel examined various elements of the Trayvon Martin shooting...from legal issues to press coverage....on the University of Arkansas campus.
The U of A gets $1.4 million of federal transportation money to start a Maritime Research and Educational Center. UAFS gets ready to unveil a new master plan. A Fort Smith school gets named a National Blue Ribbon School. And a volunteer fair set for this week aims to connect area non-profit organizations with people willing to help out.
Ahead on Ozarks: the approaching enrollment period for new Arkansas health care plans means many people in the state have questions about how they'll be affected. Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, seeks answers to some of the questions from three people close to the health-care issue. Plus theater returns in full force. No fewer than thirteen productions will be on area stages in the next month. We'll have a rundown and meet the young, earnest cast of the University of Arkansas’ Clean House…the first play of the U of A season. And how mammals in the University of Arkansas’ museum collection are being preserved.
In the next four months more than a dozen productions will be on stage in the region. The cast of The Clean House, which opens the University of Arkansas 2013-14 season, helps get us ready.
Becca Martin Brown says even though the BBBQ Rally has left, you can still get your ears filled with sound by making a short trip to see Nine Inch Nails in concert.
Well, maybe not lions and tigers, but the UA collection does have more than 250 river otters. They recently received a grant to rehouse their mammal collection. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas has more. 
Roby Brock, from Talk Business Arkansas, talks to three people who have followed the evolution of health care reform in Arkansas. The enrollment period for new plans begins in a week.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, January 31, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the Sons of Otis Malone bring all kinds of instruments into our studio and play three songs from their new CD, Bad Country. Plus Michael Tilley from The City Wire on the week that was in Arkansas business and politics and the dreaded white-nose syndrome has been found in bats in Arkansas.
Deputy chairman of Christie's International Amy Cappellazzo discusses the effects of globalization on the growing market for post-war contemporary art.
"Morritz's Theme" by John Corigliano
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas newspapers has an exhaustive list of things to do over the weekend.
Earth Day celebrations in Fayetteville will last a little longer than, well, a day.
The first Bicycle Fayetteville Day festival will be hosted tomorrow.
"Bicycle Race" by Queen
The Rocky Mountain Elk were introduced to the Buffalo National River watershed thirty years ago and their numbers have increased steadily. Now the National Park Service and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission are developing an Environmental Assessment for Management of Elk on the watershed. Jacqueline Froelich reports.
"Noise" by Rick Cotler
