Ahead on this edition of Ozarks…the 2013 Northwest Arkansas Education Report Card has numbers, plenty of numbers, relating to 17 public school districts in Washington and Benton Counties. We'll talk to Gary Ritter, the director of the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas about the report. And the three-person band The Room Outside plays inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. We'll also talk to Michael Tilley from The City Wire about the week’s news and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers about the upcoming weekend’s entertainment opportunities.
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Golfers, cowboys and more in our history capsule for September 10.
Theatre, music, festivals, bicycles, concerts and more. You might feel winded just listening to everything Becca describes in the weekend prep.
The Boone County skies will light up tonight with a balloon glow. The rest of the weekend the hot-air contraptions will be flying overhead.
Mike Block has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Darol Anger, Mark O'Connor and many other great musicians. He's helping the world re-think the cello. He performs tonight on the University of Arkansas campus and Thursday he came to KUAF to talk and perform inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. For more about Mike, www.mikeblock.net.
A dedicated group of Fayetteville residents have just completed a "Green Infrastructure and Wildland Urban Interface" project, one of six pilot projects in the Southeastern U.S.
To see their final report and view their DVD click here.
"Whaley Bridge Two-Step" by Pat Savant
