Becca tells us how to go to jolly old England with a local renaissance fair.
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Here is the list for our frog montage:
1. Three Dog Night sings the song Joy to the World.
2. A scene from Disney's The Princess and the Frog, set in...
3. ...New Orleans, the home of Clarence "Frogman" Henry, the singer who made I Ain't Got No Home famous.
4. The Budweiser frogs in their commercial debut, first seen during the 1995 Super Bowl.
5. Tex Ritter's version of Froggy Went A Courtin'.
6. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and George Costanza (Jason Alexander) consider the video game Frogger.
7. The theme to the video game Frogger.
8. The one and only Michigan J. Frog in the Warner Brothers cartoon Some Froggy Evening.
9. A television ad for the 1972 film Frogs! (very scary of you were nine years old)
10. Kermit, the best muppet, sings It Ain't Easy Being Green.
Apologies to: The Wind in the Willows, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Mark Twain, TCU and Trevor the Frog. Maybe next time.
1. Three Dog Night sings the song Joy to the World.
2. A scene from Disney's The Princess and the Frog, set in...
3. ...New Orleans, the home of Clarence "Frogman" Henry, the singer who made I Ain't Got No Home famous.
4. The Budweiser frogs in their commercial debut, first seen during the 1995 Super Bowl.
5. Tex Ritter's version of Froggy Went A Courtin'.
6. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and George Costanza (Jason Alexander) consider the video game Frogger.
7. The theme to the video game Frogger.
8. The one and only Michigan J. Frog in the Warner Brothers cartoon Some Froggy Evening.
9. A television ad for the 1972 film Frogs! (very scary of you were nine years old)
10. Kermit, the best muppet, sings It Ain't Easy Being Green.
Apologies to: The Wind in the Willows, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Mark Twain, TCU and Trevor the Frog. Maybe next time.
Among many nonprofit events in the region this April will be Butterflies and Blooms benefitting Saving Grace, an organization that helps girls who have aged out of foster care.
The multi-instrumentalist performs the song he submitted for a recent contest seeking a new song about the Natural State.
We meet Tom Krohn, Arkansas Regional Coordinator for FrogWatch USA. Krohn hosts free workshops across the state, training citizen scientists to become certified frog listeners. He will be in Northwest Arkansasa April 8 & 15th at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. To learn more visit Arkansasfrogsandtoads.org.Since the year 2000, the Annie E Casey Foundation has been publishing reports regarding the well-being of our nation’s children through its “KIDS COUNT” reports. The 2013 edition was released earlier this week. But what does the new report say about the well-being of children in Arkansas?
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the former president of Heifer International speaks on the University of Arkansas campus. Plus, we take a walk through history that begins in Jasper. Peter Lippincott's second CD finds the songwriter playing multiple instruments, including a rescued French banjo.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says the annual surge of activities for spring is at full speed.
Jo Luck, the former CEO of Heifer International was on the University of Arkansas campus yesterday as part of the Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture Series. She used her time speaking to relay stories of her time working to help improve the lives of people in the developing world through agriculture.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, taking steps to improve juvenile justice in Arkansas, and the brand new Hope Supply Center in Bentonville helps those diagnosed with breast cancer in many ways.
Roby Brock from TalkBusiness.net discusses the latest Talk Business-Hendrix College Poll. Governor Beebe’s favorable numbers are high, but his influence on state legislative races might be small.
"Black Birds" by Ghost Orchard
Alma High School’s tech team is a four time national champion in the International Thespian Festival’s Tech Challenge. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas visited the Alma Performing Arts Center to meet with the team.
Last month, the Old 78s (Curly Miller, Carole Ann Rose, Melanie Palmer and Ray Palmer) performed inside Eleven, the restaurant at Crystal Bridges Musem of American Art. This is one of the songs from that September night, "Cold Morning Shout."
"Train on the Island" by Joy Kills Sorrow
Gustav Carlson is a Newton County native, and his graphic novels Backwood Folk and Eve of the Ozarks are set in the north Arkansas county.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, lists some of the Halloween events this week. Haunted houses, ballet, cemeteries, mayhem on a trolley and your chance to fire paintballs at the walking dead are all on the list.
