Ozarks At Large

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Friday, July 26, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks, take three musicians who all live in different cities and have never played together, put them in a room for a day and then cut that first rehearsal short because one of the musicians' parked car is hit. Then, they play their first gig the next day. That’s what happened as the trio Piano and Drums came to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. We'll hear how their improbable story turned into a band. Plus, one of the state's most popular news blogs is going behind a paywall. Kyle talks to Alan Leveritt, the publisher of the Arkansas Times, about the changing face of digital journalism.
Here are the ten clips for our montage dedicated to streets, roads and avenues: 1. Nat King Cole gets us started with Route 66. 2. Gloria Swanson as the doomed Nora Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. 3. U2 sings Where the Streets Have No Name. 4. Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko in Wall Steet. 5. Bruce Springsteen sings 10th Avenue Freeze Out. 6. Michael Conrad offers his end-of-meeting statement on Hill Street Blues. 7. The opening theme, of course, from Sesame Street. 8. Part of the trailer from the original Nightmare on Elm Street. 9. Jack Kerouac reads from the last page of On the Road. 10. Willie is On the Road Again. Apologies to Bob Dylan’s Highway 61, the cast of Mulholland Drive, any number of other songwriters and Kraftwerk’s Autobahn (but then again, the German group was included in last week’s montage). Maybe next time.
"Intro" by XX
Congressman Tim Griffin has some questions for the top IRS official who resigned earlier this week. A festival of short films comes to Eureka Springs next month. Arkansas drivers can expect lower gas prices this month. The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts has plans for increasing the amount of college credit with which students graduate. And the region four headquarters of the Arkansas Highway Transportation Department makes the move from Fort Smith to Barling.
"Get Lucky" by Daft Punk
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses the 2014 Arkansas governor’s race and pollution at a former Whirlpool plant.
We finish our week-long series about summer camps with a preview of Camp Invention at Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Fort Smith. For more information about any Camp Invention in the area, click here.
"Luna Park" by Signal Hill
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers gives us the details on a busy outdoor weekend.