Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Friday, January 10, 2014
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.
The efforts to help area residents with some college credit finish their degree continue next week at the Jones Center in Springdale.
The fifth annual Eureka Springs' Voices from the Silent City Cemetery Tour, which portrays Depression-era Eureka, is set for Friday and Saturday evenings, October 18th and19th, as well as October 25th and 26th. Jacqueline Froelich provides a preview. For tickets call 479-253-9417.
Becca tells us about an effort in Springdale to encourage high school students to find their niche.
Here are the ten clips included in our montage salute to 1,000 in honor of our 1,000th edition of Ozarks at Large since it became a daily show in August, 2010. Dwight Yoakam with the right amount of twang in A Thousand Miles From Nowhere. A small bit from a 1972 commercial for Pfeiffer's Thousand Island salad dressing. Bobby Vee sings that The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. The trailer for James Cagney's portrayal of Lon Chaney...the Man of a Thousand Faces. A mellow classic...If by Bread. Genevieve Bujold as the doomed Anne Boleyn in Anne of A Thousand Days. The song A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. The Proclaimers sing 500 Miles...but the lyric continues, "...500 more..." adding up to 1000, right? Jason Robards yells at his neighbors in the Academy Award-winning film A Thousand Clowns. Wilson Pickett's Land of a Thousand Dances. Apologies to: Arabian Knights (just one too many), anything with millennium in the title, the artist Sala and the 43rd-most populated city in California. Maybe next time.
Legislators are dealing with insurance rates for public school employees and residents of Harrison are dealing with a controversial billboard.
"Soul Sacrifice" by Santana