
Ozarks At Large

From new ways to find out what's going on, to new ways of getting around it, Ozarks at Large's Timothy Dennis brings us those stories and more in this morning's Week in Review.



We finish our week-long series about summer camps with a preview of Camp Invention at Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Fort Smith. For more information about any Camp Invention in the area, click here.

Congressman Tim Griffin has some questions for the top IRS official who resigned earlier this week. A festival of short films comes to Eureka Springs next month. Arkansas drivers can expect lower gas prices this month. The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts has plans for increasing the amount of college credit with which students graduate. And the region four headquarters of the Arkansas Highway Transportation Department makes the move from Fort Smith to Barling.


We continue our series of profiling summer camps with an overview of drama-themed camps. Several summer camps around the area are geared toward children bitten by the acting bug. Some of the more popular camps are held by Trike Theatre
Some other drama summer camps in the area:
- Summer Camp Explozion at UAFS
- Many camps by Arts Live Theatre
- Summer Academy for Young Actors at TheatreSquared
A conversation with Susan Szenasy, the editor-in-chief at Metropolis Magazine, about the future of design and architecture.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, November 18, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with the author of "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind." Plus, a report on recent changes for Kendrick Fincher Hydration for Life.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas recently completed a study, concluding that the use of sequential pricing based on real-time knowledge of shopper preferences could increase retailer profits. Ozarks at Larges Christina Thomas spoke with Cary Deck and John Aloysius of the Walton College of Business.
"Dream Sequence" by Spyro Gyra
This week a business plan from Picasolar took top honrs, and big money, at a competition at MIT.
"La La La Means I Love You" by Jackie Brown
Charles Banks Wilson, an American artist, was laid to rest on Tuesday in his hometown of Miami, Oklahoma. He was born and passed in Arkansas. Wilson is best known for his works of the American Indian. Wilson's works are housed in some of the most renowned museums and art galleries in the world, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Washington's Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery, the Oklahoma State Capitol where four 13 feet tall and 27 feet wide murals line the rotunda, and the Gilcrease Museum, which owns more than 300 pieces of the artist's work.
Bear hunts, mermaids and dinner, Becca Martin Brown offers plenty to occupy your Mother's Day afternoon. Plus, the upcoming season at the Arts Center of the Ozarks.
Here is a guide to clips used in our Sunday montage salute to computers:
The band Kraftwerk sings "Computer Love."
A seemingly innocent beginning to a complicated relationship in the movie War Games.
A computer discussion from The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, released in 1969.
Styx and that very odd song, "Mr. Roboto."
A not-so-innocent continuation of a complicated relationship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A computer foul up in 1957’s Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
"You’ve Got Mail!"
A very terse answer that reflects a complicated relationship in the movie The Social Network.
An ominous warning about a complicated relationship in the original, 1982 version of Tron.
The Jetsons theme.