Becca Martin Brown has some last minute activity to do with your mom or do yourself or your kids if you are a mom, or not.
Ozarks At Large
The idea of Community varies from person to person. A year long project at Fayetteville High School concludes with an open house showcasing juniors’ and seniors’ ideas of community as seen through each of their camera lenses.
The past week in Arkansas saw a visit from President Obama, hundreds of new jobs announced, and expansion plans for one decades-old stadium move forward. We have more in this morning's Week in Review.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Michael Tilley talks about a new owner for some long-abandoned real estate in Fort Smith, and the official announcement of a Whole Foods in Fayetteville. Plus, Cletus Got Shot gets ready to perform at a few festivals in the next month.
Cletus Got Shot will perform at the 2014 Artosphere Celebration and the Block Street Block Party next weekend. 
An undocumented Arkansas college student who traveled to Mexico to attain a nursing degree back in 2011, was forced to flee back across the U.S. border this winter, and risk arrest by immigration officials in order to save her own life. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, Marisol Soto somehow made it all the way back home to Pea Ridge, Arkansas. (Photo: Marisol, Andrea, and Marianna Soto)
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses a sale of some former Whirlpool real estate in Fort Smith and the eventual arrival of Whole Foods in Fayetteville.Exxon Mobil Corp. contributes $125,000 to the Arkansas Community Foundation to assist with long-term disaster recovery efforts in Central Arkansas. Two state legislators call for another financial impact analysis for the state's Private Option program, and postal workers across the state will collect food items Saturday for one of the larger food drives in the state.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, June 9, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, we learn the differences between various types of Arkansas charter schools. Plus, a UA researcher receives a grant to study the genetic composition of diatoms.
Chess, Vertac and more in our history capsule for September 1.
Becca Bacon Martin from What's Up has a variety of entertainment suggestions for the first days of September.
The cast and director of Theatre Squared's production of The 39 Steps comes into the Fermin Garner Performance Studio. They explain how four actors play more than 100 roles.
To hear another scene, with all four actors, click here.
The Thrty-Nine Steps Suite from the origianl film soundtrack, performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic.
The Rogers Historical Museum's newest exhibit, Building Rogers, uses a variety of hands-on activities to teach about the town's architectural history.
For more information, visit rogersarkansas.com/museum.
Earlier this month, a poll of voters in Arkansas' First and Second Congressional Districts indicated the Republican candidates in those races have double-digit leads over their opponents from the Democratic Party. Late last week, a new poll conducted by Talk Business and Hendrix College gathered numbers for the Third and Fourth Congressional Districts. Roby Brock, the editor and publisher of Talkbusiness.net and a regular contributor to Ozarks at Large, recently sat down with Jay Barth, a professor of political science at Hendrix College, to discuss the latest polls for Arkansas' congressional races.
More information is available at talkbusiness.net.
"Diminishing Blackness" by Frank Vignola
