Stacy Leeds, Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, has pledged $50,000 to start The Public Interest and Rural Community Sustainability Fund to get law school students to the areas they are needed most.Ozarks At Large
Stacy Leeds, Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, has pledged $50,000 to start The Public Interest and Rural Community Sustainability Fund to get law school students to the areas they are needed most.
Plus, Goveror Mike Beebe advocates for more broadband in Arkansas’ public schools. Roby Brock has more in this week’s TalkBusiness Arkansas Update.Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin faces a lawsuit after allegedly failing to comply with the state's Freedom of Information Act. Governor Mike Beebe calls on more lawmakers to think less about slashing taxes and more about providing essential services and projects for Arkansans. And a new partnership between the Clinton School of Public Service, Walton College of Business and Rockfish Interactive hopes to encourage students to pursue public service through entrepreneurship.
On this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we learn more about the number pi, albeit casually. Plus, we meet Penelope the pet skunk, and we visit Springdale's hidden treasure.
During a recent visit to the studio, Don't Stop Please performed an original song called Henry and the Great Salt Lake.Monday is Pi Approximation Day (a.k.a. Casual Pi Day) because when written in the day/month format (22/7) the date equals 3.14 or the mathematical constant known as pi (hooray math jokes!). In honor of the day, today's montage focuses on pi(e).
1. "American Pie" by Don McLean
2. Clip from The Three Stooges
3. Clip from the television show What Would You Do?
4. "Amore" by Dean Martin
5. Clip from the movie American Pie
6. "Cherry Pie" by Warrant
7. "The Worst Pies in London" from the movie adaptation of Sweeny Todd
8. Clip from The Life of Pi movie trailer.
9. Clip from the movie Blazing Saddles
10. "3.14 Apple Pi" by Bo Burnham
1. "American Pie" by Don McLean
2. Clip from The Three Stooges
3. Clip from the television show What Would You Do?
4. "Amore" by Dean Martin
5. Clip from the movie American Pie
6. "Cherry Pie" by Warrant
7. "The Worst Pies in London" from the movie adaptation of Sweeny Todd
8. Clip from The Life of Pi movie trailer.
9. Clip from the movie Blazing Saddles
10. "3.14 Apple Pi" by Bo Burnham
Becca Martin Brown gives us the scoop on a new exhibit in Fort Smith about Hattie Caraway, the first woman ever to serve as a U.S. Senator, featuring the writer formerly of Fayetteville.
Since the caves we've learned to avoid, at all cost, the stinkiest of Earth's creatures: the skunk. But one young Carroll County couple has bypassed all instinct to take abandoned and injured skunks into their home.To get more info on Casual Pi Day (22/7), we speak with our mathematics expert, Dr. Edmond Harris.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Don’t Stop Please is a band recently re-located to northwest Arkansas from central Arkansas. We asked them to bring all of their instruments to our studio. And some other musicians…young people involved with the Drum Corps International spend all day practicing, all night performing…and somewhere, somehow some time sleeping. Christina Thomas catches up with one DCI ensemble as they make their way through our part of the world.
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Ahead on Ozarks, a company that began on the University of Arkansas campus is on a list of 2013's top technological inventors. Plus the founders of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls…Rebecca Champagne and Meredith Martin Moats…talk about the band's upcoming reunion show at Maxine's Tap Room and play a couple of songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
Austin-based singer/songwriter Joe Pug returned to Fayetteville last month for a performance at George's Majestic Lounge.
Quiet by Kaki King
The Walton Family Foundation gives the University of Arkansas more than $2 million, Fayetteville prepares to host NCAA championships, and more.
March of the Trolls by Edvard Greig
The historic park, just east of Rogers, is a popular spot for residents to play, picnic and fish. City planners say the park is
antiquated and plan to develop it. Naturalists say places on the park are critical habitat so ought to be left wild. (Photo: A goldfinch feasts on thistle—Joan Reynolds)
Roby Brock talks to the the executive director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub.
Such a Scream by Tom Waits
Mark O'Connor gives some musical advice prior to his performance tomorrow night at Walton Arts Center.
Girls in Oslo by BigBang
