Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is four years old. There have been some bumps along the way, but the games of chance have provided hundreds of millions of dollars for scholarships. We'll talk to the lottery's second director, Bishop Woosley. Plus 40,000 students in elementary and middle schools across northwest Arkansas create art in a single day and the marvels involved with a staging of Carnival at the Alma Performing Arts Center. The show has steam punk costuming, puppets and music.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, helps us get ready for two outdoor music events.
Arkansans filing for an extension for their federal tax forms this past spring now have another, final deadline next week. For more information about the October 15th deadline, visit irs.gov.
This week we had another chance to ask musicians to play inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio. Rotem Sivan and Yaniv Taubenhaus met in Tel Aviv and have stayed musical and personal friends since.
Music from Morocco, Tokyo as well as some Jane Austen continues this year’s 10 X 10 Series at Walton Arts Center.