On this special edition of Weekend Ozarks at Large, we look back at some of our favorite musical performances of the last half of 2013 including: Don't Stop Please, Barrett Baber, Boom Kinetic, A Good Fight, Kory Montgomery, Foley's Van, The Cole Reeves Band, National Park Radio,Priscilla Dawn White, Block Street Hot Club, and the reunion of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls.Ozarks At Large
On this special edition of Weekend Ozarks at Large, we look back at some of our favorite musical performances of the last half of 2013 including: Don't Stop Please, Barrett Baber, Boom Kinetic, A Good Fight, Kory Montgomery, Foley's Van, The Cole Reeves Band, National Park Radio,Priscilla Dawn White, Block Street Hot Club, and the reunion of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls.Here are out ten clips relating to Buffalo, New York and the War of 1812.
1) Ten Thousand Maniacs (from the Buffalo area) sing Because the Night,
2) Robert Redford and Wilford Brimley in The Natural (filmed in Buffalo).
3) Bruce Springsteen sings about Buffalo's Erie Canal.
4) A trailer, featuring Marilyn Monroe, for the movie Niagara…set in nearby Niagara Falls. 5) Buffalo native Rick James ponders a Super Freak.
6) A BBC documentary about the assassination of President McKinley. The shooting happened in Buffalo. (as did the subsequent swearing-n ceremony of Theodore Roosevelt).
7) The only electronic song we know of about Buffalo native Grover Cleveland.
8) Judy Garland sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow…written by Buffalo native Harold Arlen.
9) Amanda Blake, another Buffalo native, as Miss Kitty on an early episode of Gunsmoke.
10) Johnny Horton sings The Battle of New Orleans, about the final battle of the War of 1812. Arkansas connection: written by Jimmy Driftwood.
1) Ten Thousand Maniacs (from the Buffalo area) sing Because the Night,
2) Robert Redford and Wilford Brimley in The Natural (filmed in Buffalo).
3) Bruce Springsteen sings about Buffalo's Erie Canal.
4) A trailer, featuring Marilyn Monroe, for the movie Niagara…set in nearby Niagara Falls. 5) Buffalo native Rick James ponders a Super Freak.
6) A BBC documentary about the assassination of President McKinley. The shooting happened in Buffalo. (as did the subsequent swearing-n ceremony of Theodore Roosevelt).
7) The only electronic song we know of about Buffalo native Grover Cleveland.
8) Judy Garland sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow…written by Buffalo native Harold Arlen.
9) Amanda Blake, another Buffalo native, as Miss Kitty on an early episode of Gunsmoke.
10) Johnny Horton sings The Battle of New Orleans, about the final battle of the War of 1812. Arkansas connection: written by Jimmy Driftwood.
Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit a local yarn shop to speak with local knitters about how and what they're working on this holiday season. Plus, a discussion with a local man who lost his grandson in the Sandy Hook massacre last December, and how a church reaches out to the community with its healing touch.
Last Thursday, a preliminary hearing was held before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza on a lawsuit filed last summer to strike down an Arkansas constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, approved by seventy-four percent of voters ten years ago. Jacqueline Froelich spoke with attorneys on both sides of the case, as well as a plaintiff and brings us the story.
(Photo credit: John Rankine)A Pulaski County judge dismisses a lawsuit against Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin. A New York based food company looks to acquire Siloam Springs-based Allens Canning Company. Tyson Foods is cited by OSHA for a June incident at a Kansas processing facility. The dean of the UA Honors College announces retirement, while the UA Full Circle Campus Food Pantry wins an award. And the vice chancellor of advancement at UAFS gets a new job.
The 2013 book Yonder Mountain: An Ozarks Anthology is full of words from noted Ozarkers.
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Ahead on Ozarks, the U.S. Geological Survey is investigating an increase of tremors in Oklahoma, and Adam Posnak uses African-inspired religions' and cultures' images for his pottery. His latest exhibit opens this week in Fayetteville.
In 1963, Al Kuettner covered the March on Washington and Dr. King's speech on August 28, 1963. In 2007, he talked to Ozarks at Large about that day. His memoir is titled March to a Promised Land and was published in December, 2006. He died in May 2009.
Pickin' Post host Mike Shirkey discusses his long-time relationship with music.
Those are the respective years that 3 music producers have been hosting jazz and blues shows on KUAF. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas speaks with Robert Ginsberg, Paul Kelso and Daniel Estes about how they got their start and what motivates them to keep going during the launch of our series, 3 People.
Exxon-Mobil officials meet with state lawmakers to give reassurances about the safety of the Pegasus pipeline. The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture releases a report that claims manufacturing jobs in rural Arkansas towns may never return because of long-term changes to the state's economic landscape. And, state economic development incentives recieve more scrutiny after recent layoffs by companies who accepted them.
To end our summer series on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Arkansas we examine a little known aspect of the health reform law that will greatly expand opportunities for thousands of Arkansans requiring long term health care to receive help, not in an institution, but at home. The initiative is called "Community First Choice Option."






