In just more than a decade, Mark Landon Smith, director of Arts Live Theatre, has taken the program to new heights. Becca Martin Brown has more on their upcoming season.
Ozarks At Large
To Fort Smith this weekend. We get a look into the life of a monster truck driver and learn how they ready those cars for a show. 
Today we listen to samples from "Half the City," the debut album from St. Paul and the Broken Bones. Picking a name for a new magazine is part art, part science, part luck. We talk with editors and publishers of three regional publications for the latest "what's in a name" feature.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Michael Tilley of The City Wire tells us about the week's news including Tyson's bid for Hillshire Brands, and the band Xcluded joins us in the studio as they release their new original album and while they have some time off between the eighth and ninth grades.Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers explains Devil's Den is celebrating its 25th Bat-o-Rama this weekend.
A damaged phone booth in Prairie Grove is attracting all kinds of attention...and reminded us it starred in an OAL story first aired in 1995.
Michael Tilley, from The City Wire, talks about the latest details regarding an acquisition of Hillshire.The Arkansas gross domestic product grew in 2013, particularly in some unexpected sectors. With one of the architects of the Arkansas Private Option defeated in a primary runoff this week, the future of the Medicaid expansion is in doubt, but Governor Mike Beebe is undeterred. Plus, this weekend marks the 149th anniversary of the end of slavery in the U.S., and the 17th annual NWA Juneteenth Celebration will mark the occasion in Springdale.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the cajun-zydeco group, Snake Eyes and the Bug Band, will perform this afternoon at the Fayetteville Public Library' we hear a conversation and a song from the band, and it's sort of like soccer but on horseback: polo in Bentonville. Plus, we celebrate the horse in our Sunday Morning Montage.
Senator John Boozman is still in the hospital after heart surgery earlier this week, but his condition continues to improve, and Fayetteville firefighters prepare to collect money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
“Ark. La. Tex.” by Brian Blade
Roby Brock with our content partner Talk Business Arkansas leads a roundtable discussion about this year’s US Senate race in Arkansas.
The University of Arkansas' Department of English is offering a showcase of all the ways the department touches the campus and the state.
"Xanadu" by The Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger
A community concert band celebrates 25 years at the Arts Center of the Ozarks on Saturday.
"In The Good 'Ole Summertime" by John Phillip Sousa
Tim Muldoon, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has developed an endoscopic microscope capable of producing sub-cellular images of tissue in real time. Web Exclusive: An Extended Interview with Tim Muldoon
