Our insect expert Dr. Donald Steinkraus suggests a few gifts to encourage children's interest in insects and nature.
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Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Dr. Ellen Leen-Feldner, the director of the Arkansas Interdisciplinary Sciences Laboratory at the University of Arkansas, has a new study designed to find out how parents and adolescence cope with stress and post traumatic stress disorder.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit a local yarn shop to speak with local knitters about how and what they're working on this holiday season. Plus, a discussion with a local man who lost his grandson in the Sandy Hook massacre last December, and how a church reaches out to the community with its healing touch.
The Early Morning Bourbon Girls play another song inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio, titled "Mountain Lion."
We visit a Knit Night and visit with local knitters about the ways to knit both old and new.
Becca Martin Brown discusses numbers six through ten of the top entertainment stories of 2013. She'll tell us the top five stories on next Sunday's edition of Weekend Ozarks.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Michael Tilley from The City Wire talks about the week in business and politics. Plus, members of the cast of "Good People" discuss why audiences connect with the Tony-nominated script. And, The Tri-tones; Ben Harris, Adams Collins and Drew Packard; sit down with Robert Ginsburg in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio and perform some original music.
Members of the comedy improv troupe called Phunbags discuss improv comedy and their Oct. 8 performance.
For more information: www.phunbags.org.
The University of Arkansas is one of several colleges across the country who have started a Quidditch team.
More information is available at www.twitter.com/razquidd.
The Grammy Award-winning group will kickoff Walton Arts Center's 10x10 Arts Series on Sunday. Here's a part of the Countdown Conversation held at the Fayetteville Public Library last week to discuss the quartet's upcoming Walton Arts Center performance.
More information is available at www.waltonartscenter.org or www.emersonquartet.com.
Step Afrika, the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping, will perform in Fayetteville Oct. 13.
More information is available at www.waltonartscenter.org or www.stepafrika.org.
“D&K Cadence” by The A&T Drumline (The Senate)
Becca suggests checking out an exhibit at the Shiloh Museum titled “Whatever You Do, Stay in Print.”
