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Format: 2025-05-31
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.
Ability Tree
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Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas visits the office of Ability Tree, an organization that not only helps children with special needs, but also their immediate families. More information about Ability Tree is available at www.abilitytree.org.
Huge Drug Trial Winnings Potential Boost for State’s Medicaid Fund
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An Arkansas Judge in Pulaski County has fined pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary nearly $1.2 billion dollars for concealing risks associated with the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. Winnings from the suit, likely be appealed, will be deposited into the state’s Medicaid Trust Fund.
Fulbright Statue Returns to the U of A Campus
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Monday afternoon, the statue of former United States Senator and Fayetteville native J. William Fulbright was returned to its rightful place at the west entrance to Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus. The event also celebrated the 107th birth anniversary of Fulbright.
"Tip of the Iceberg" by The Farewell Drifters
Former Fulbright Scholar Discusses Experiences
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Chase Stoudenmire, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas and a former Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Georgia, visited KUAF’s Firmin-Garner Performance Studio with Professor Kate Mamiseishvili, who encouraged him to go to Georgia, to talk about his experiences.
“In the Morgue of the Mastermind”
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Professional Actor Keith Scales is staging a midnight theater production at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs based on the life of Norman Baker, who operated a popular and unorthodox cancer hospital at the Crescent in the 1930s. Shrouded in mystery, Baker has finally been brought to light, based on Scale’s historical research.