For our monthly roundup of visual arts opportunities, we meet three students included in a new exhibit at the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery on the University of Arkansas campus.
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Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says, weather permitting, the agenda is full this week of things to do.
We continue our series of local chefs creating dishes inspired by our program. In honor of Fat Tuesday, we visit the kitchen of Maudie Schmidt to hear her spin on the beignet.
John Brummett, political columnist for the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette, talks to Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Businesz about the General Assembly’s body of work so far this session.
A bill to establish an independent commission to approve public enrollment charter schools in Arkansas has stalled. Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe has asked the state education department to strike an alternative. We also look at what’s trending nationally.A bill that would initiate a study of the state's public schools' readiness to acts of violence is one step closer to becoming law. The Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas selects cities to be a part of a program studying municipal sustainable energy consumption. And Lincoln residents will get the chance to see one of the Academy Awards nominees, weeks before the ceremony takes place in Holywood.
On today's edition of Ozarks, 21c Museum Hotel officially opens. We have a report from the ribbon cutting ceremony that took place late this morning. Plus, local organizations are helping education residents about the Earned Income Tax Credit, while tomorrow night's Science Cafe will provide information on the nanotechnology work being conducted on the University of Arkansas campus.Many Arkansans do not realize they are eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit. United Way is helping educate local residents about the credit as well as providing free tax preparation services.
The Science Café series sponsored by the University of Arkansas continues tomorrow night at Powerhouse restaurant in Fayetteville. The topic will be nanotechnology and we have a preview.
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers says tonight's entertainment suggestions include auditions for “Goodbye Charlie” at Rogers Little Theater, and the band Spoken returns to Fayetteville.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks at Large, we continue our examination of the 2014 election season with a conversation with another candidate for state office. John Burkhalter is, so far, the lone Democrat seeking the Lt. Governor's office. He'll talk to Roby Brock about why he's running. Plus, a chance to step inside Son's Chapel. The structure is on the National Historic Register and is still a hub of community activity. And Samantha Fish will be in Fayetteville for the Bikes, Blues and BBQ festival this week…before she performs at George’s Majestic Lounge, she plays inside our Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas recently completed a study, concluding that the use of sequential pricing based on real-time knowledge of shopper preferences could increase retailer profits. Ozarks at Larges Christina Thomas spoke with Cary Deck and John Aloysius of the Walton College of Business.
"Dream Sequence" by Spyro Gyra
This week a business plan from Picasolar took top honrs, and big money, at a competition at MIT.
"La La La Means I Love You" by Jackie Brown
Charles Banks Wilson, an American artist, was laid to rest on Tuesday in his hometown of Miami, Oklahoma. He was born and passed in Arkansas. Wilson is best known for his works of the American Indian. Wilson's works are housed in some of the most renowned museums and art galleries in the world, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Washington's Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery, the Oklahoma State Capitol where four 13 feet tall and 27 feet wide murals line the rotunda, and the Gilcrease Museum, which owns more than 300 pieces of the artist's work.
Bear hunts, mermaids and dinner, Becca Martin Brown offers plenty to occupy your Mother's Day afternoon. Plus, the upcoming season at the Arts Center of the Ozarks.
Here is a guide to clips used in our Sunday montage salute to computers:
The band Kraftwerk sings "Computer Love."
A seemingly innocent beginning to a complicated relationship in the movie War Games.
A computer discussion from The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, released in 1969.
Styx and that very odd song, "Mr. Roboto."
A not-so-innocent continuation of a complicated relationship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A computer foul up in 1957’s Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
"You’ve Got Mail!"
A very terse answer that reflects a complicated relationship in the movie The Social Network.
An ominous warning about a complicated relationship in the original, 1982 version of Tron.
The Jetsons theme.
