Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Monday, July 14, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, more than 3,000 Arkansas children are in foster care custody on any single day. A new report has suggestions on how to better serve these young people. Plus, Arkansas native Louis Jordan's forays into the Caribbean and Calypso in today's edition of Arkansongs, and we hear how the four men running for Governor of Arkansas responded when asked about the legality of same-sex marriage
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