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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.
Erin Morgenstern’s novel The Night Circus is her first book. The bestseller is set inside a mysterious circus where almost anything can happen and arrives on the outskirts of town with no warning. For more about the book and Erin Morgenstern, visit www.erinmorgenstern.com
"Two Hours From Tulsa” by RJ Mischo
We’ve put together nine iconic sounds of songs, movies, theater and TV connected to work. The montage includes, in order: 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton, Glengarry Glen Ross, the BBC version of The Office, Sam Cooke’s version of Working in a Coal Mine, Norma Rae, 16 Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Apartment, The Devil Wears Prada, Coffee Break from the new Broadway cast recording of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Office Space.
With the price of natural gas at a ten year low, due to a drilling glut, some members of Congress are pushing the Department of Energy to hurry up and construct liquefied natural gas export terminals to ship U.S. methane overseas.
Recordist and essayist, Joe Neal illustrates the transition from summer to fall made apparent by the quell of songbirds. Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book is “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir.”
Ozarks At Large's Timothy Dennis takes a look at infrastructure news from the past week.