
Ozarks At Large


The Arkansas General Assembly advances legislation that would bar minors from buying E-cigarettes, as well as legislation that would prohibit the naming of public buildings after actively serving lawmakers. Area school districts are ranked on their online transparency, and the Diamond Hogs finally win on the road, all in today's Segment A.

Here are the ten clips in our montage about Alcatraz this morning:
1) Elvis Presley sings Jailhouse Rock.
2) Paul Muni near the end of the 1931 gem, I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang.
3) Sam Cooke’s version of Chain Gang.
4) Clint Eastwood ponders his future in Escape From Alcatraz.
5) The Clash cover I Fought the Law, originally a hit by the Bobby Fuller Four.
6) Robert Redford tries to find where the bodies are buried in Brubaker.
7) Burt Lancaster welcomes back a friend in Birdman of Alcatraz.
8) The Foggy Bottom Boys’ version of In the Jailhouse Now from O Brother! Where Art Thou.
9) Robert De Niro as Al Capone in the Untouchables. Capone was an Alcatraz resident.
10) Johnny Cash sings Folsom Prison Blues.
Meredith Martin-Moats has some thoughts about trying to take stress out of her life.
This is the first weekend of spring, even if there is still a touch of winter around. We prepare for the new season with some advice on hiking trails in the Ozarks.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, October 13, 2013
On this edition of Weekend Ozarks, an invasive rock-snot algae is threatening to take over parts of the White River, plus the latest artist at the Fayetteville Underground is stirring viewers' emotions with his work.
This month a new poll conducted by Talk Business and Hendrix College asked likely voters in Arkansas about health care, marijuana and more. A majority agreed that efforts to block the health care law should continue and voters were almost evenly divided on the marijuana question. Roby Brock, from Talk Business, recently sat down with State Senator Gilbert Baker, a Republican from central Arkansas and John Brummett, a columnist with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Two California entrepreneurs seek to revive Wonderland Cave, a popular local nightclub first constructed in the early 1930s in a massive underground cave complex deep beneath a mountain ridge in Benton County. For more information, visit TheWonderlandCave.com. For photos, click here.
“Table Tennis” by: Flying Lotus
Becca suggest free flix and crafts for today's entertainment suggestion.
This weekend the Young Artists Guild is producing Rapunzel in Fort Smith. Missy Gipson, the Executive Director of the Young Artists Guild, says creating the legendary hairdo was the first order of business. For more information, visit YagOnline.org
“Hair” by: The Original Broadway Cast
Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com gives us a preview of entertainment in August.