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Ozarks At Large

Format: 2025-05-11
A Salute to Summer
This weekend marks the summer solstice, the official start to summer. We celebrate summer in this week’s montage with commercials, songs, and movie clips of summer.
  1. "Summertime" by Janis Joplin
  2. A clip from the movie Dazed and Confused
  3. Ball Park Frank commercial
  4. "Summer Nights" from Grease
  5. A clip from the movie Dirty Dancing
  6. "Summertime" by the Fresh Prince
  7. A clip from the movie One Crazy Summer
  8. "Summertime" by Sublime
  9. A clip from the movie Wet Hot American Summer
  10. A clip from the movie Summer of ‘42
  11. "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran
Opera Returns to Eureka Springs
Becca Martin Brown gives us the details on this season of Opera in the Ozarks, with performances in Eureka Springs, and Sunday performances in Bentonville.
Two Bitcoins and a Haircut
Our Tech Ambassador, Tyrel Denison, attempts to explain Bitcoin.






Armed to Farm
The annual Armed to Farm program in Northwest Arkansas is a collaboration of many that aims to arm veterans with pitch forks and knowledge in an effort to help them recover from active duty and prepare them for a career in small farming. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas talks with a few of the key players and some vets.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks: we finish our series on the Arkansas Research and Technology Park, and Christina Thomas goes to the farm to find out more about a project connecting U.S. vets to agriculture.Plus, Becca Martin Brown will give us a guide to a low cost weekend of entertainment, and Michael Tilley talks to Kyle about the latest economic numbers for Arkansas and a very odd form of tourism developing to our immediate west.
Songs on the Fly
The band 1 Oz. Jig brings their guitar, bass, trombone, trumpet and drum sticks to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Armed to Farm
The annual Armed to Farm program in Northwest Arkansas is a collaboration that aims to arm veterans with pitch forks and knowledge in an effort to help them recover from active duty and prepare them for a career in small farming. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas talks with a few of the key players and some veterans.
Unemployment Numbers Different for NWA, Ft. Smith
Michael Tilley from The City Wire talks about the latest unemployment numbers for the region and the odd industry of tornado-chasing tourism.




Thursday, June 20, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks we'll talk to six of the more than 80 musicians who participate in the Artosphere Festival Orchestra. This month, for the third consecutive year, the orchestra is formed in mere days to present concerts all over northwest Arkansas. We also continue our series on what happens at the Arkansas Research and Technology Park, and we find out what happens at the Office of Innovation.

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Do you know Johnny Winter?
The Riverfront Blues Festival takes the stage this weekend in Fort Smith. Becca Martin Brown has more.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Thursday, December 5, 2013
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Ahead on Ozarks, an artists' cooperative enters its 12th year in the community, and a group of high school students learn about marketing inside one local retailer, though the field trip was altered a bit as residents made purchases in anticipation of winter weather. Plus, the first group of Arkansas Teacher Corps fellows already recognizes the difference they've made in rural and low income school districts just a few months into their first semester.
Siloam Springs to Reduce Ambulance Service
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If voters fail to approve an $85 rural ambulance fee, Siloam Springs will no longer respond to 911 calls in rural areas surrounding the city.
Big News from Arkansas Biggest Companies
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Roby Brock has the latest in this week's Talk Business Arkansas update.
"Stay" by Rihanna
Revisiting the 1927 Mississippi River Flood Through Fiction
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"Tilted World" by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly, both University of Arkansas graduates, takes readers inside a different era,when Prohibition was big business and foot travel was as likely as horse or car travel in rural Mississippi. The two will read from their novel Friday evening at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
"Skyfall" by Adele
I Need to Get that Book
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University of Arkansas Fort Smith's "Read This" 2014 book is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
"Young Lion" by Vampire Weekend, and at end of show: "Vernon is a Company Man" by Les Claypool
Area Bridge Shutdown, Private Option Talks Continue
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From Benton and Crawford counties to Little Rock, this edition of the Week in Review covers stories from across the area and state.