Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Thursday, August 15, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: when you think of fertile ground for jazz you may think of New Orleans, Europe, New York City…but, Azerbaijan? Amina Figarova grew up listening to jazz in her childhood home in Baku, Azerbaijan. She’s released a dozen albums and will close the KUAF Summer Jazz Concert Series this weekend. We'll hear from her later on the show. Plus…that extra "A" in Lake Atalanta in Rogers. Why the lake is called that isexplained in the latest edition of our series "What's in a Name?" And a wilderness water trail inside the Fort Smith city limits.
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