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Friday, October 18, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks:the gavel has come down to begin a special session of the Arkansas Legislature. Chris Hickey reports on the opening afternoon of a session dedicated to solving, if only temporarily, a projected spike in insurance rates for public school employees in the state. Plus: our usual Friday conversations with Michael Tilley from The City Wire and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers. And Antoinette Grajeda tries to discover the lure of following festivals for one retailer who is selling her wares right now at Mulberry Mountain for the Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Festival.
Winter classes are just about to begin for young thespians, those wanting to learn more about art, and more. Becca Martin Brown gives us the details.
Later this month, the Literacy Council of Benton County will host its 7th annual Scrabble Wars fundraiser.
For the third consecutive year Opera Fayetteville rings in the new year by staging a contemporary, English-language work.
"Sunday Morning" by Otis Taylor
To celebrate the 175th anniversary of the first photograph of the moon, here are the clips we included in our montage devoted to earth's favorite satellite: 1. Nick Drake sings Pink Moon. 2. A classic scene with Tom Hanks from Apollo 13. 3. Ella Fitzgerald's take on It's Only a Paper Moon. 4. Excerpt from a promotional film about the 1964 World's Fair. 5. REM's tribute to Andy Kaufman, Man in the Moon. 6. Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed dream about the future in It's a Wonderful Life. 7. Elvis (happy belated 79th) and Blue Moon. 8. Lon Chaney, Jr. worries about the next full moon in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman. 9. Creedence Clearwater Revival also worries about a Bad Moon Rising. 10. Neil Armstrong lands. 11. Frank Sinatra takes off. Apologies to: Jules Verne, William Shakespeare, Henry Mancini, Bill Monroe, G. Melies and those little green guys on Rocky and Bullwinkle. Maybe next time.
Fayetteville-based SFC Fluidics has received another round federal grant funding to help with research into diagnosing traumatic brain injury. Oaklawn gears up for the new horse-racing season, and they have a new app for that as well.
"If I Only Had a Brain" by Sam Pilafian