Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we say good night to iconic places and events in Fayetteville. Plus, we talk with researchers at the University of Arkansas who were sent around the world by PBS for a national show, Time Scanners. Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we say good night to iconic places and events in Fayetteville. Plus, we talk with researchers at the University of Arkansas who were sent around the world by PBS for a national show, Time Scanners. In a rare occurrence, Becca Martin Brown talks with a Bentonville gallery owner about the art scene in the city.
A group is hoping for another special session of the Arkansas legislature to get public schools connected to the ARE-ON network, plus business news in this Talk Business and Politics Update.Our content partner KUAR provides this report regarding a special legislative session which began today to address rising health insurance premiums for Arkansas’ public school employees.
The issue of a potential prohibition on video gambling was a late addition to the agenda of this week's special legislative session in Little Rock. The Red Cross pushes for more blood donations during the slow summer months, and law enforcement agencies across the state are cracking down on intoxicated driving during this week leading into the holiday weekend.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the cajun-zydeco group, Snake Eyes and the Bug Band, will perform this afternoon at the Fayetteville Public Library' we hear a conversation and a song from the band, and it's sort of like soccer but on horseback: polo in Bentonville. Plus, we celebrate the horse in our Sunday Morning Montage.Here are our ten clips celebrating horse for our Sunday Montage:
1. The Rolling Stones cannot be dragged away by Wild Horses.
2. Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet.
3. Michael Martin Murphy climbed the charts with Wildfire.
4. Alan Young can't seem to figure out it is Mr. Ed's birthday.
5. Cliff Nobles & Company perform the instrumental EVERY high school band in north Arkansas played at halftime in the 1970s, The Horse.
6. The Marx Brothers crack wise in the funniest horse racing movie ever made, A Day at the Races.
7. Lyle Lovett praises Trigger in If I Had a Boat.
8. The masked man rides Silver at the beginning of The Lone Ranger.
9. Hailee Steinfeld and Dakin Matthews negotiate in the latest film version of Charles Portis' True Grit. (A blast of Arkansas)
10, And we end with a double-blast of Arkansas as Arkie native Johnny Cash sings Tennessee Stud, written by Arkie native Jimmy Driftwood.
Apologies to: U2, Patti Smith, Seabiscuit, the band America, Black Beauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, War Horse and that big fake horse rolled into Troy. Maybe next time.
1. The Rolling Stones cannot be dragged away by Wild Horses.
2. Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet.
3. Michael Martin Murphy climbed the charts with Wildfire.
4. Alan Young can't seem to figure out it is Mr. Ed's birthday.
5. Cliff Nobles & Company perform the instrumental EVERY high school band in north Arkansas played at halftime in the 1970s, The Horse.
6. The Marx Brothers crack wise in the funniest horse racing movie ever made, A Day at the Races.
7. Lyle Lovett praises Trigger in If I Had a Boat.
8. The masked man rides Silver at the beginning of The Lone Ranger.
9. Hailee Steinfeld and Dakin Matthews negotiate in the latest film version of Charles Portis' True Grit. (A blast of Arkansas)
10, And we end with a double-blast of Arkansas as Arkie native Johnny Cash sings Tennessee Stud, written by Arkie native Jimmy Driftwood.
Apologies to: U2, Patti Smith, Seabiscuit, the band America, Black Beauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, War Horse and that big fake horse rolled into Troy. Maybe next time.
Snake Eyes and the Bug Band will perform this afternoon at 2:00 at the Fayetteville Public Library. Here, the band performs “Sew What You Reap”
A new theatre group brings a new take on Romeo and Juliet at the Gulley Park Gazebo and it promises to be good fun.
Dr. Estes from Mercy's Bella Vista clinic discusses how to protect yourself against heat, ticks, and more.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson. Also, Walmart hosts its first open call for hundreds of U.S. suppliers.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience.
On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
Here are the ten clips used in our salute to jumping:
“Jump Around” House of Pain
White Men Can’t Jump
“Jumpin Jive” Joe Jackson
Dirty Harry
“Jumpin Jack Flash” Rolling Stones
21 Jump Street
“Jump in Line” from Beetlejuice
Divergent
“Jump” Van Halen
Tony Danza on Sesame Street
As you Like It will be performed by the University of Arkansas, and an Earth Day Celebration is just around the corner. Becca Martin Brown has What’s Up.
"As You Like It' by Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra, and "THe Swallow" by The Urban Folk Quartet
Roby Brock and Scott Inmann, from Talk Business and Politics, host a roundtable discussion about what recent polls may mean for upcoming elections in Arkansas.
