Summer’s officially here! On today’s Ozarks at Large, a CCC tradition continues at Devil’s Den and organizers prepare for the annual Cancer Challenge. Paul Haas, conductor of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, discusses SoNA’s inaugural season and a visit to Carroll County in search of Mountain Boomers.Ozarks At Large
Summer’s officially here! On today’s Ozarks at Large, a CCC tradition continues at Devil’s Den and organizers prepare for the annual Cancer Challenge. Paul Haas, conductor of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, discusses SoNA’s inaugural season and a visit to Carroll County in search of Mountain Boomers.The summer softball games continue a tradition started by Civilian Conservation Corp who built the Devil’s Den State Park.
On Ozarks at Large today, Arvest Bank donates close to 466,000 meals to Northwest Arkansas charities and food banks, and a visit to the oldest continuously-operating general store in the state of Arkansas. Michael Tilley has news from the River Valley and Jodi Beznoska on the hard work that goes into putting together the calendar for Walton Arts Center.Ozarks at Large’s Luke Gramlich visits the small town of Oark in Johnson County to see the longest continuously operating general store in the state of Arkansas.
Becca reminds us that trumpeter Allen Vizzutti will be performing at UA Fort Smith this evening.
On today’s edition of Ozarks at Large, Michael Tilley comments on Arkansas’ economic numbers, Meredith Martin-Moats asserts the importance of the weekly small-town newspaper and Jodi Beznoska returns to talk about warm-weather fun at Walton Arts Center. University of Arkansas professor Mohja Kahf, a Syrian American, talks about the struggle in Syria, we visit the Drennen-Scott House in Van Buren and the first ever NWA Towel Day is celebrated today.On today’s edition of Ozarks, a proposed measure to ban smoking in all Fayetteville city bars fails to gain ground and the latest on Apple’s iCloud service. Plus, a local Sam’s Club works to reduce waste as part of Walmart and Sam’s Club’s ultimate goal of a zero-waste future.Yesterday, the Fayetteville City Council voted on an amendment to an ordinance that proposed to ban smoking in all city bars. The measure failed due to the lack of enough support from the council. Alderman Mark Kinion speaks about his decision to vote against the proposed amendment.
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Monday, December 9, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we learn about undergrounding. Plus, a conversation with the author of "Hanging On Upside Down: The Life and work of Marianne Moore."
Route 66 Playhouse brings together actors and musicians from the region to recreate the “Golden Age of Radio.”
“Green Hornet” by Link Wray
Today, violinist Boujidara Kouzmanova and guitarist Virginia Luque perform together at 7 p.m. at Covenant Church in Fayetteville. In today’s conversation, Boujidara talks about how a balance between the intense sound of violin and the easy sound of guitar is achieved.
Admission to the concert is free. For more information, call 442.5267.
For a video of Boujidara playing a love song, click here.
More than 400 of Arkansas’s 1081 public schools are listed as needing improvement under “No Child Left Behind.” But critics say the federal law is sorely in need of improvement so will provide waivers to applicant states.
Michael Tilley of www.thecitywire.com discusses Arkansas metros’ income gains, the review of water, sewer efficiency in Fort Smith and First National Bank’s Sam M. Sicard’s passing.
“After” by Joshua Redman
Springfield, Missouri is preparing to host the inaugural Birthplace of Route 66 Festival this weekend. In honor of the event, this week we’ll talk about some interesting places along the route in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.
Today, we make a stop in Galena, Kansas and meet Melba the Mouth.
