
Ozarks At Large


Organizers say a film screening Wednesday on the UALR campus could be the start of an initiative to empower women in the state through educational opportunities.
As children, we learn you can know the age of a tree if you count the rings inside its trunk. What we might not learn is that those tree rings contain the history of each of those years.
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers reminds us that auditions at Rogers Little Theater and at the Arts Center of the Ozarks are happening this week.

The University of Arkansas’ Community Design Center last week received a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The center aims to use the money to sculpt the future of downtown Fayetteville.


Here is information about today’s montage dedicated to the number five:
- 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 British series MI-5.
- The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry."
- Jack Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces.
- Lou Bega’s dance hit "Mambo No. 5."
- Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0.
So why not celebrate with the number "five?" Mathematician Edmond Harris gives us some insight into the fantastic figure.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the effort to create Nerdies, a project designed to give young people not interested in sports a place to explore other hobbies and passions. We'll also visit a piece of land in Fayetteville that will soon be a teaching farm, letting young students get a hands-on approach to growing and eating healthy foods. Plus Christian Howes, one of the most critically acclaimed jazz musicians performing talks to Robert Ginsburg about Howes's upcoming concert at Walton Arts Center. And what's really happening in our brain when we listen to that music we really like again . . . and again . . .and again. We'll talk briefly to Lisa Margulis about her new book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind.
Youth Bridge Executive Director Nancy Hairston tells us about the upcoming Starry, Starry Night fundraiser.
More information available at www.youthbridge.com
Ozarks at Large’s Katy Henriksen talks to Canadian rocker Spencer Krug from the band Moonface that is set to perform this Saturday at Fayetteville’s Smoke and Barrel Tavern.
More information about the performance is available at www.smokeandbarrel.com
Arkansas Lottery Commission hopes to save money with the approval of a revised contract with its largest vendor; a group of University of Arkansas international students help rebuild Joplin for a day; and more – on today’s Segment A.
“The Set Break” by Gil Melle
Today, we begin a series on a farm to school project taking place this summer in Fayetteville. Over the coming months, Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas will give us updates on a program that connects schools with local food producers with the aim of serving their fruits and vegetables in school cafeterias and teaching kids about where there food comes from.
Today, she provides us with a bit of background on farm to school.
Syrian journalist and activist, Omar al Muqdad has been covering the Syrian Revolution since it began in March 2011, part of the Arab Spring.
Because his life was at risk, the U.S. State Department granted him political asylum. He recently settled in Fayetteville. Jacqueline Froelich met with the self-described media smuggler to bring us his story.
“Ian McKay was Right” by El Ten Eleven