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Format: 2025-06-18
A Salute To St. Patrick's Day, The Irish, and All Things Green
Here are the 9 pop culture references used for today's montage:
  1. "Reel Around the Sun" from a 1995 performance of Riverdance
  2. Rudy gets ready to lead the Fighting Irish onto the field for the first, and only, time
  3. The Band backing Van Morrison on "Tura Lura Lura (It's an Irish Lullaby)" on Thanksgiving night, 1976
  4. A Lucky Charms commercial from the early '70s
  5. Kermit the Frog being upstaged by none other than the late, great Ray Charles singing "It's Not Easy Being Green"
  6. John Wayne tries to get his bearings from local Dubliners upon his arrival in Ireland in The Quiet Man
  7. A 1979 commercial for Irish Spring soap
  8. John Lennon singing "The Luck of the Irish"
  9. A recent commercial for Jameson Irish Whiskey
St. Patrick's Day Myths Debunked
Did you know that St. Patrick wasn't Irish? He was British. We talk to Tom Kennedy, history professor emeritus about today's holiday.
House Fire Inspires Family Concert
Candy Lee is putting together a first-time-ever concert bill with her band, The Sweets, plus Shannon Wurst and Still on the Hill. The proceeds will help a family who recently lost their home.
Hit The Ground Running
Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers tells us that Spring Break is scarcely long enough to fit in all of the activities going on this week.
New Swine Factory Farm Near The Buffalo River Creates Alarm
A newly permitted industrial swine breeding operation, under construction on a tributary of the Buffalo National River, will spread millions of gallons of hog waste on adjacent pastures as fertilizer. But as word spreads about the giant hog farm, an unlikely coalition of opponents is forming to stop it.



Friday, March 15, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we have our weekly conversation with Michael Tilley from The City Wire, we listen to an Irish jig inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio




Central Arkansas Library Opens
Little Rock’s new Children’s Library and Learning Center will have its grand opening ceremony tonight.
New Coaster Debuts
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers tells us that a new, wooden roller coaster at Silver Dollar City will open during Spring Break.
Parade Returns for Sophomore Year
The second annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Fayetteville begins at noon tomorrow. Event organizer Don Brown and musicians Richy McCusker and Carol Witter, recently stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio for a conversation and a musical performance.

Home Sales Numbers Increase
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses home sales numbers, the governor's race and football.





Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Tuesday, October 8, 2013
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Ahead on Ozarks: Governor Mike Beebe, Walmart and Redman and Associates come together to announce new jobs headed to northwest Arkansas. And John Brown University in Siloam Springs continues to move ahead with the establishment of a nursing program after the announcement of a six-million dollar gift. We'll also find out why glue has an important role in the latest exhibit at the Fayetteville Underground and get an idea of the deep connection between a church and the city of Bentonville.
A Fiddler on the Roof, a Leg Lamp, a Big Green Ogre and More
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Becca says that much is in store for Rogers Little Theater's Season 29.
A Salute to Spinach-Eating Sailors
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Our ten clips saluting sailors and sailing: 1. The theme to Popeye the Sailor Man. 2. Bob Denver and Alan Hale hatch a scheme on Gilligan's Island. 3. Christopher Cross creates the all-time yacht rock song with Sailing. 4. Gregory Peck, as Captain Ahab, ponders his life with Starbuck in Moby Dick. 5. Sloop John B by the Beach Boys. 6. Hercules ignores the orders of Jason in the 1963 version of Jason and the Argonauts. (later, the GREATEST MOVIE SCENE EVER with the sword-weilding skeletons). 7. Jimmy Buffett is Aa Son of a Son of a Sailor. 8. Russell Crowe catches up to a ship in Master and Commander. 9. Bogart and Hepburn on The African Queen. 10. Lyle Lovett sings If I Had a Boat. Apologies to: Horatio Hornblower, Sinbad (the sailor, not the comic) and Errol Flynn. Maybe next time.
at end of show: "Jolene" by Dolly Parton
Benton County CAC Accredited, Lakes To Be Drawn Down
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The Benton County Children's Advocacy Center recently received reaccreditation. Lake Wedington in Washington County and Shores Lake in Franklin County will soon be partially drained to allow the U.S. Forest Service to allow for some winter maintenance. And Bentonville Public Schools begins to think about names and mascots for its second high school that will be built in Centerton.
‘The Orchard” by Fire on Fire
Frank Lloyd Wright House Headed to Bentonville
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will move a Frank Lloyd Wright house to northwest Arkansas.
Cooling Down Walton Arts Center
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A stage is transformed to an ice rink this week in Fayetteville.