Ozarks At Large

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July 4th Weekend, 2014
For this holiday weekend we listen again to music recorded inside Firmin-Garner Performance Studio during the first six months of 2014. We hear from: Pearl Brick Cletus Got Shot Sweetwater Gypsies Isayah Wofford The Riverblenders Xcluded Sons of Otis Malone Finvarra's Wren Dick Johnson Elephant Revival And a weekend update of things to do from Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers.
Here are the ten clips for our montage dedicated to streets, roads and avenues: 1. Nat King Cole gets us started with Route 66. 2. Gloria Swanson as the doomed Nora Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. 3. U2 sings Where the Streets Have No Name. 4. Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko in Wall Steet. 5. Bruce Springsteen sings 10th Avenue Freeze Out. 6. Michael Conrad offers his end-of-meeting statement on Hill Street Blues. 7. The opening theme, of course, from Sesame Street. 8. Part of the trailer from the original Nightmare on Elm Street. 9. Jack Kerouac reads from the last page of On the Road. 10. Willie is On the Road Again. Apologies to Bob Dylan’s Highway 61, the cast of Mulholland Drive, any number of other songwriters and Kraftwerk’s Autobahn (but then again, the German group was included in last week’s montage). Maybe next time.
"Intro" by XX
Congressman Tim Griffin has some questions for the top IRS official who resigned earlier this week. A festival of short films comes to Eureka Springs next month. Arkansas drivers can expect lower gas prices this month. The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts has plans for increasing the amount of college credit with which students graduate. And the region four headquarters of the Arkansas Highway Transportation Department makes the move from Fort Smith to Barling.
"Get Lucky" by Daft Punk
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses the 2014 Arkansas governor’s race and pollution at a former Whirlpool plant.
We finish our week-long series about summer camps with a preview of Camp Invention at Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Fort Smith. For more information about any Camp Invention in the area, click here.
"Luna Park" by Signal Hill
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers gives us the details on a busy outdoor weekend.