Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, while there won't be a red carpet, Eureka Springs will recognize achievement in independent film this weekend. Plus, an exhibit allowing patrons to get hands-on with some of the first pages and books ever printed. And, Becca Martin Brown talks haggis.
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Olivia Trimble's business Sleet City Hand Painted Signs may only be just more than a year old, but her wares can be spotted all around town, including a hand-painted sandwich board outside Onyx Coffee Lab and adorning the Town Center at the Fayetteville Square during the Little Craft Show. Katy Henriksen visits Trimble in her home studio to find out more about how and why she launched her business and how she makes her custom signs.
Web Extra: Images From Sleet City Signs
Web Extra: Images From Sleet City Signs
The inaugural Eureka Springs Indie Film Fest takes to the screen Thursday through Saturday.We speak with one of the filmmakers.
A collection of historical documents and books are on loan to the University of Arkansas this semester.
The latest results released from the Talk Business Arkansas-Hendrix College poll show that the chief concern among Arkansas voters is the economy as this mid-term election year gets underway. Crews with the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad continue to make repairs and determine the cause of failure to certain equipment on the railroad bridge crossing the Arkansas River at Van Buren. Cargill is ordered to pay more than $2 million in a settlement of hiring discrimination allegations, and the state of Arkansas is clawing back nearly a half million dollars from Hewlett-Packard after the company failed to meet employment projections at its facility in Conway.
We speak with An Na, author of A Step From Heaven, a book that was awarded the Michael L. Prince Award when it was published a decade ago. Critics and reviewers commended the book's characters for speaking like a child without being too precocious or condescending. The author will speak this week in Fayetteville.
Even though the dance troupe is difficult to describe, Becca suggests watching them tomorrow at Walton Arts Center.
In the latest installment of our spaces series, we go behind-the-scenes at KNWA to learn what it takes to produce an evening newscast.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, why hundreds of people will be in Rogers this weekend to trade frags, or sections of coral. Plus, we speak to the former First Minister of Scotland about contemporary education.
The price of gasoline is creeping back up, with Iraq oil supplies at risk due to increasing civil unrest. But more American gas stations are selling American-produced ethanol fuel for a growing fleet of flexible fuel vehicles. Jacqueline Froelich reports.
Another weekend, another wide range of activities.
Becca Martin Brown says we can hear a variety of languages this summer at Opera in the Ozarks.
Many area stages fall quiet over the summer months, yet some welcome young actors through summer camps.
Links:
UAFS Academy of the Arts
Arts Live Theatre
The two candidates for Arkansas governor propose different solutions for the overwhelming number of state inmates that are being held at county jails across Arkansas. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport board recently approved a new master plan, while various interested parties in Bella Vista work to develop a master plan for recreational trails in the city.