If a young man with a beard, wearing a t-shirt and blue plastic glasses approaches you on the street and asks “hey, do you like hip hop?’, don’t brush him off, chances are good that it is SmaR-T-Jones, and he’ll probably offer to rap for you.
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Bryce Smith is also performing at the APO tomorrow night. The upstate New York native normally plays violin, but he will play flute during tomorrow night's program.
The Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra will present a program of Russian concertos tomorrow night. Featured during tomorrow night's show will be "Fayetteville's Piano Man," Johnathon Story.Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Media gives us a litany of events for the weekend that even children can afford.
Michael Tilley of The City Wire says that a lower jobless rate doesn't necessarily mean a healthy overall workforce, and the latest on this week's economic developments in the Arkansas River Valley.Governor Mike Beebe says that a package of tax cuts approved yesterday by the Arkansas Senate is acceptable, though he worries about the cuts' impact in the years to come after he leaves office. A proposed constitutional amendment that would move ethics reform forward in the state moves closer to the ballot after receiving final approval by the legislature. The latest on cleanup efforts on the Mayflower oil spill, in spite of the potential for severe weather. Plans for the Sebastian County aquatics park move forward, and a group at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville plans to take back the night with an annual event aimed at raising awareness about sexual violence.
Lori Boatright of the Fayetteville Farmers' Market says that the sporatic Arkansas Spring weather can neither dampen nor put a chill on the five markets throughout the week.
Ahead on Ozarks, local reaction to proposed immigration reform in Washington, a preview of what our jazzman Robert Ginsburg says is "the jazz event of the year" here in Northwest Arkansas and celebrating Earth Day with kids and ukuleles.
The University of Arkansas Jazz Ensemble will perform Missing You, a ballad composed for them by Greg Yasinitsky. We talk to him about the process of writing the piece.
Jacqueline Froelich visits a local beauty school to learn what it takes to become a licensed professional stylist, and is given a haircut, by future professional, Leah Conrad.
For details about classes, visit the Paul Mitchell website and search for Fayetteville. Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas speaks with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Plus, area CEOs helping other area CEOs, and our tech ambassador Tyrel Denison is back to tell us what has been introduced in the past few weeks, and what the tech companies hope you find under a Christmas tree in a few months.
Bill Smith, our history doctor, returns to discuss how history is served (and not served) by that gigantic digital encyclopedia.
Billy Bragg, It's a Wonderful Life and more in our history capsule for December 20.
Schools are out soon (or out now) and Becca has some suggestions for the week before Christmas.
"White Christmas" by The Ventures
The annual Oxford American music issue is out. This year the magazine is devoted to music from Alabama.
Meredith Priestly is the modern day version of Scrooge. In the original work, "Christmas Carol High School", she is visited by ghosts, just like her literary ancestor. The play was written by Mark Landon Smith and directed by Jules Taylor. Part one of the play, recorded in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio at KUAF, is here.
"O Christmas Tree" by Bill Evans
