Research at the University of Arkansas offers some insight about what the oral arguments in front of the United States Supreme Court mean…and why it is interesting to track the interruptions made by the justices.
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Ozarks At Large
For his weekly recap of the previous seven days’ news, Roby Brock from Talk Business discusses the election and other items of note.
Mountain top removal, or strip mining for coal, is common in places like Appalachia and Arizona. But strip mining is also occurring on the north central Ozarks--not for coal, but for thick deposits of quartz sand, critical to unconventional natural gas drilling.
Ahead on this weekend edition of Ozarks, celebrating a historic mountain in Madison County as well as the Great American Smokeout.
The Great American Smokeout is this Thursday. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas speaks with Rhonda Brammell of the American Cancer Society about the national day aimed at encouraging smokers to quit.
In Madison County there’s a place called “Negro Mountain.” No blacks live there now, but it was, in the 1860s, settled by Ozark African Americans. All of them and their descendants are gone now—except for one individual. We take you to meet the last living African American resident of Madison County.
A new arcade featuring old school games is nearly open in midtown Fayetteville's Evelyn Hills Shopping Center. Ozarks at Large's resident geek Timothy Dennis visits the arcade for a preview.Ahead on this edition of Ozarks; startup companies end a more-than-three month acceleration process and vie for $150,000 prizes to be used as investments in their new companies. The first-ever ARK Challenge ended yesterday at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville. And, this is a time for anniversaries in the area: 20 years of Walton Arts Center, one year of operation at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art . . . and 20 years for one local store that has grown thanks to the web.
Fifteen fledgling companies each had a chance yesterday to explain their ventures to a room full of potential investors at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville.
Click here for more information about the ARK Challenge.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we travel back in time to take a look at the decade that was the 1980s, and The Jones Center closes in on two decades of existence and opens its services up to more than just families.
Becca says that much is in store for Rogers Little Theater's Season 29.
Our ten clips saluting sailors and sailing:
1. The theme to Popeye the Sailor Man.
2. Bob Denver and Alan Hale hatch a scheme on Gilligan's Island.
3. Christopher Cross creates the all-time yacht rock song with Sailing.
4. Gregory Peck, as Captain Ahab, ponders his life with Starbuck in Moby Dick.
5. Sloop John B by the Beach Boys.
6. Hercules ignores the orders of Jason in the 1963 version of Jason and the Argonauts. (later, the GREATEST MOVIE SCENE EVER with the sword-weilding skeletons).
7. Jimmy Buffett is Aa Son of a Son of a Sailor.
8. Russell Crowe catches up to a ship in Master and Commander.
9. Bogart and Hepburn on The African Queen.
10. Lyle Lovett sings If I Had a Boat.
Apologies to: Horatio Hornblower, Sinbad (the sailor, not the comic) and Errol Flynn. Maybe next time.
at end of show: "Jolene" by Dolly Parton
The Benton County Children's Advocacy Center recently received reaccreditation. Lake Wedington in Washington County and Shores Lake in Franklin County will soon be partially drained to allow the U.S. Forest Service to allow for some winter maintenance. And Bentonville Public Schools begins to think about names and mascots for its second high school that will be built in Centerton.
‘The Orchard” by Fire on Fire
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will move a Frank Lloyd Wright house to northwest Arkansas.
A stage is transformed to an ice rink this week in Fayetteville.
