The historian and author will discuss the life and death of Edgar Allen Poe tonight on the University of Arkansas campus. We’ll hear more from him on a future edition of Ozarks at Large..
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Joe Allessi is guest trombonist at tonight's University of Arkansas Wind Symphony concert at the Walton Arts Center. On today's show, he discusses the piece he will be performing tonight, but we'll have more from the conversation on tomorrow's show.
Ozarks at Large's insect expert Dr. Donald Steinkrauss talks to Christina about how insects are used in poetry, both literally and metaphorically.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas looks at the top legislative and business stories from the last seven days.The Arkansas General Assembly is considering passage of a new Voter ID law that will require government-issued photo identification to both register and to vote. Advocates claim it will suppress fraud, but some opponents believe it will suppress progressive voting. We talk with an election rights expert about the measure, as well as how Voter ID laws are trending nationally.
Officials with the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration talk about the potential for making up federal funds lost to sequester cuts, and two public transit services team up in Northwest Arkansas to more completely serve the University of Arkansas community.
Ahead on Weekend Ozarks, celebrating both archaeology and the American Red Cross this month.Here are the ten parts of our montage devoted to all things red…
- Nena with the 1980s hit "99 Red Balloons."
- Red Skelton as one og his most famous characters, Clem Kadiddlehopper.
- The theme from John Corigliano’s score for the film The Red Violin.
- Sean Connery places an order to Sam Neill in he Hunt for Red October.
- Prince and "Little Red Corvette."
- Betty Boop in a swinging version of "Little Red Riding Hood" from 1931.
- Red Barber, before his days with NPR, calling ball two on Roger Maris. Maris delivers his 61st home run of 1961 during the at bat.
- Willie Nelson and the title song from his album The Red Headed Stranger.
- Warren Beatty and Maureen Stapleton in Reds.
- The Royals Guardsmen with their huge hit, "Snoopy Versus the Red Baron." Apologies to: Taylor Swift, Red Adair and his oil-firefighting team, Red Grange…the Galloping Ghost, the baseball club in Cincinnati, Red Buttons, and any singer who crooned about red roses.
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The pipeline, which will pump heavy crude oil mined from Canadian tar sands through Cushing, Oklahoma to Texas Gulf Coast refineries is providing hundreds of jobs for Oklahomans and sourcing steel pipe in Arkansas. Opponents claim the project is environmentally disastrous and only serves petrochemical industry interests.
(Photo courtesy of David Druding)March is national Red Cross Month. To raise awareness about the organization, Christina Thomas travels to Tontitown to speak with Jeff Patrick, director of communications for the northwest Arkansas chapter of the American Red Cross.
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Monday, September 30, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, we meet an emerging Ozarks Marshallese community organizer. Plus, we talk to the author of "Arkansas Late in the Civil War."
Last month, the first Hindu temple in Northwest Arkansas opened its doors in Bentonville. We spoke with members of the Hindu Association of Northwest Arkansas, the organization behind the temple, about the building itself and how it will serve the community, both Hindu and not.
For more information, visit the association's website here.
Roby Brock from our partner talkbusiness.net recently talked with Jay Barth, political science professor at Hendrix College, about the method Arkansans often use to place initiatives on the ballot.
"Dizzy Atmosphere" by Greg Gisbert
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, sends us to the Fort Smith Museum of History and north to Carthage, Missouri for Thursday entertainment.
In three weeks the air above the Little Rock Air Force base will be busy. The acclaimed US Navy Blue Angels are the headliners for the Little Rock Air Show at the Air Force base. Lt. Mallory Glass is the chief of public affairs at the Little Rock Air Force Base, and she tells us how an air show is put together:
"Powerhouse" by Don Byron
Essayist Joe Neal noticed that our new facility at the corner of Mountain and School Streets in downtown Fayetteville features a most ancient garden. Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book is “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir.”
