Backroad Anthem is working on recovering after having a trailer loaded with their musical gear stolen this weekend.
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Kirbi Allen is the 2013 Miss Rodeo Arkansas, but in a few months, she will travel to Las Vegas to compete in the Miss Rodeo America pageant.
A new documentary profiles more than two dozen LGBT elected office holders in the United States.
Becca says the UA Drama Department's studio series will begin tomorrow with performances at Nadine Baum Studios.
Hope 2013 is a free health clinic that will take place Friday and Saturday at Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville. For more information, call Kevin Fitzpatrick at 575-3777.
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas hosts a roundtable to learn how business leaders dealt with the federal government shutdown.Crawford County officials consider putting a sales tax issue for a new jail before voters during next spring's primary election. Pat Hayes jumps into the race for the Second District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. And Arkansas Tech University's Ozark Campus received final approval from the Arkansas State Board of Nursing for the college's registered nursing program.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the under-appreciated parts of the United States Constitution. Sanford Levinson, the author of the book Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance, discusses the parts of the documents many of us are unfamiliar with or don't think about often. Plus a new report, issued today, from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal production, examines animal agriculture in the United States.
Sanford Levinson recently spoke on the University of Arkansas campus and during his visit came to KUAF.
Just in time for Halloween, youth theater company Arts Live presents A Zombie High School Homecoming. It is the company's first original production to be written by one of the students and begins Halloween evening and runs through Sunday November 3.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, critical blood supply levels have led to the issuance of a code red alert. Plus, Crowder College prepares to celebrate the grand opening of its newest location.
Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Here are out ten clips relating to Buffalo, New York and the War of 1812.
1) Ten Thousand Maniacs (from the Buffalo area) sing Because the Night,
2) Robert Redford and Wilford Brimley in The Natural (filmed in Buffalo).
3) Bruce Springsteen sings about Buffalo's Erie Canal.
4) A trailer, featuring Marilyn Monroe, for the movie Niagara…set in nearby Niagara Falls.
5) Buffalo native Rick James ponders a Super Freak.
6) A BBC documentary about the assassination of President McKinley. The shooting happened in Buffalo. (as did the subsequent swearing-n ceremony of Theodore Roosevelt).
7) The only electronic song we know of about Buffalo native Grover Cleveland.
8) Judy Garland sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow…written by Buffalo native Harold Arlen.
9) Amanda Blake, another Buffalo native, as Miss Kitty on an early episode of Gunsmoke.
10) Johnny Horton sings The Battle of New Orleans, about the final battle of the War of 1812. Arkansas connection: written by Jimmy Driftwood.
Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, offers a preview of the state's politics in the coming year.
"The Boxer" by Editors
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers suggests 12 things you should do in 2014.
Kevin Kinder and Kyle Kellams compare their lists of favorite music for 2013.
