Comic Book Stores and Libraries around the region will be participating in National Free Comic Book Day. 52 special editions are available this year. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas visited a participating venue and has this report.Ozarks At Large
Comic Book Stores and Libraries around the region will be participating in National Free Comic Book Day. 52 special editions are available this year. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas visited a participating venue and has this report.Bucky Ball, a geometric, LED sculpture by artist Leo Villareal, is the first temporary outdoor installation for the museum. The work gets its name from Buckminster Fuller, an architect who designed geodesic domes. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas spoke with Villareal about this and other works.
Becca Martin Brown tells us about a nascent book club that will discuss old societies tomorrow night in Fort Smith.
Singer/songwriter John Legend spoke on the UA campus last night as part of the Distinguished Lecture series.
Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas gives us his weekly look back at business and politics news from the past seven days.
Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala tonight at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville. Earlier this week, they stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance and played their song "It's You and It's Me."
Tom Vilsack, the country's Secretary of Agriculture, was the esteemed speaker of yesterday's Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture at the University of Arkansas. He took the opportunity to speak candidly with the standing room only crowd about short-, medium-, and long-term ag public policy goals, and about opening lines of communication. Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala Sunday night at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville.
Michael Tilley of The City Wire says that the latest tax revenue report for the city of Fort Smith has some good news, and the latest hospitality numbers in Northwest Arkansas look promising.We continue our series previewing this weekend's poetry festival at Nightbird Books. Katie Nichol grew up in St. Cloud, Minnesota and says she started writing poetry when she was about 12 years old:
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Republican Attorney General runoff candidates discuss medical marijuana and the death penalty. Also, we take a look back at the desegregation of public swimming pools.
The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in Arkansas. The Civil War Sesquicentennial will be celebrated between 2011 and 2015.
Columnist Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com discusses Florence & The Machine and Miranda Lambert’s new albums, upcoming movie releases, and other big entertainment news for the month of November.
“One” by U2
The first-ever local food guide for northwest Arkansas is now available. Kyle Kellams talks to two of the creators of the guide.
For more information, log on to www.nwalocalfoodguide.org.
We visit Joplin to find out how things are five months after the EF5 tornado. We found most of the community at dawn hanging out with the wild “Extreme Makeover Home” crew, revealing seven houses built in seven days--completed just in time for Halloween.
“Keep Breathing” by Ingrid Michaelson
Rural Community Alliance, a Fox, Arkansas-based grassroots non-profit organization that works toward revitalizing low-income rural communities in the state, received a $75,000 grant from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.
