Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: a historic dam near Eureka Springs needs some help to stay strong, the Young Actors Guild in Van Buren prepares a Big musical, and a conversation about efforts to get more veterans hired in Arkansas.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: a historic dam near Eureka Springs needs some help to stay strong, the Young Actors Guild in Van Buren prepares a Big musical, and a conversation about efforts to get more veterans hired in Arkansas.
It's the final Tuesday of May and we have classics and soon to be classics in this month’s theater preview. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas visits the Young actors Guild in Fort Smith as they rehearse BIG: The Musical.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas discusses the hiring of veterans with Linda Nelson, the Arkansas District Director of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Black Bass Lake which once served as a drinking water source for Eureka Springs, is now a lovely city park. But the 120-year old dam that impounds the lake is in trouble. We hear from two residents working to save the relic.Governor Mike Beebe is expected to name a replacement tomorrow to fill the office of state treasurer after former treasurer Martha Shoffner resigned last week amid federal extortion charges. Senator Mark Pryor responds to an attack ad that claims he is soft on gun control. And the Old State House Museum in Little Rock will soon debut an exhibit featuring the past
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Suri Surinder, the chief operating officer of the ALPFA Institute at the University of Arkansas, discusses a scientific model of determining good leadership. And, the unique qualities of the number "five." 
Here are the selections for our montage dedicated to the number five:
Apologies to: Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, Brooks Robinson, the chemical element boron, Kurt Vonnegut, the Pentagon and Subway restaurants with their five-dollar-footlong jingle.
- "Beethoven's Fifth" as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- George Brett (#5 for the Kansas City Royals) hits a home run in the 1984 All-Star Game
- The Vogues sing "Five O'clock World"
- How to use the fifth amendment in a congressional hearing
- School House Rock's take on the number five, as sung by native Arkansan Bob Dorough
- A scene from the Britich series MI-5
- The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry"
- Jach Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces
- Lou Bega's dance hig "Mambo No. 5"
- Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0
Apologies to: Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, Brooks Robinson, the chemical element boron, Kurt Vonnegut, the Pentagon and Subway restaurants with their five-dollar-footlong jingle.
Doctor Edmond Harris, a professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas, talks with Christina Thomas about the special nature of the simple prime number five.With Martha Shoffner's resignation as state treasurer still fresh, Governor Mike Beebe prepares to name a replacement. That's just one of the stories that Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas brings us in his weekly update of the last seven days of business and political news.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, November 22, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks, the Bentonville High School Chamber Choir prepares for their final madrigal dinner and we’ll hear a preview from the Firmin Garner Performance Studio. Plus the holiday lights are turned on in Fayetteville and Bentonville this weekend and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has the details on those and other events worth our attention this last weekend before Thanksgiving.
Urgent Care Centers are affordable walk-in clinics which serve both cash-only as well as insured patients seeking acute care. But with millions more Americans enrolling onto the health insurance marketplace--and fewer primary care physicians available to see them--urgent care clinics may fill a critical gap. We visit with urgent care provider, Dr. Robert Karas.
A recent report from the Northwest Arkansas Council says the military-related impact on Washington and Benton counties is in excess of $150,000,000.
Link: To see the full report: click here
Events cancelled by ice and snow are slated for the next foew days, graduation is this weekend at the U of A, and the Razorback swimming and diving team earns a favorable ranking.
The latest incarnation of the television does much more than just go to your favorite channel.
“Better?” by The Propellorheads
The 2013 book Yonder Mountain: An Ozarks Anthology is full of words from noted Ozarkers.
