Although Spring Break is not over, registration deadlines are nearing for some summer camps.
Ozarks At Large
In the olden days, your local apothecary prepared all your medications. Now, your pharmaceutical industry mass produces everything from prescription Ambien to Xanax.But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, the lost art of individualized compounding is undergoing a revival—and more intense review. (Photo: Collier Drug Compounding Lab Staff-- front row left to right: Denise Roark, Jana Evensen, Corrie Stout, Melissa Mashburn, back row: Andrew Mize, Justin Bolinger.)
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas leads a roundtable discussion, which includes newly-elected House Speaker-designate Jeremy Gillam.The design for the Ben Geren Aquatics Park in Fort Smith has been finalized and will soon be let out for bid. And, a journalist that was once critical of the Clintons speaks about the state of the news media.
Ahead on Ozarks, distance education will have a strong presence in a program on the University of Arkansas campus next fall, plus Rogers Little Theatre brings a comedy classic to the stage. We go behind the scenes with The Man Who Came To Dinner.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, makes suggestions for a spring break St. Louis trip.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, how little pieces of blue plastic are being recycled at Mercy hospital. We'll also go to First Tee of Northwest Arkansas in Lowell to find out how golf and life are intricately connected. Plus, we'll hear a song from Elephant Revival recorded in the4 Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
A conversation with writer \Leonard Mlodinow about his book Subliminal and how best to convince listeners to support public radio.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has a musical suggestion for this week.
Dr. Marcus Eriksen made a promise to himself in a foxhole during the Gulf War that has developed into a passion for the planet’s water.
"Comets" by Cocoon
Dartmouth College professor and internationally respected sustainable fuels expert Lee Lynd says that food and fuel crops don't necessarily have to compete for the same farmland.
"Takes on the Farmer Feed Us All" by Ry Cooder
One worker is dead and others injured after an accident yesterday at Nuclear One in Russellville, unemployment in Arkansas remained stable in February, say officials with the state's Department of Workforce Services, and an annual film festival gets ready to raise the opening curtain this week in Batesville.
"The Fool on the Hill" by Koto Ensemble
