From a book sale in Eureka Springs to a Comeback to College Fair in Springdale, we have this list of happenings in our listening area.
Ozarks At Large
This weekend, Devil's Den State Park will celebrate the fall season as well as the park's 80th anniversary.
Arkansas high school students graduating in 2014 and beyond are required to take an economics course. One local school is using hands-on learning methods to teach the value of small business.As a November reduction in SNAP benefits approaches, the River Valley Regional Food Bank is getting ready for an increase in demand for their services.
Arkansas two U.S. Senators sound off about the end of the partial federal government shutdown. Governor Mike Beebe calls a special session of the Arkansas Legislature in order to solve the crisis facing the state's teachers' insurance system. And the Sebastian County Library System begins looking to the future as a needs assessment is conducted.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, a discussion on the public school employee insurance crisis. Plus, the history of Miss Laura's in Fort Smith.Saturday night, singer/songwriter Bobby Bridger will be joined by guitarist John Inman at the Benton County School of the Arts in Rogers.
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.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, January 5, 2014
On this special edition of Weekend Ozarks at Large, we look back at some of our favorite musical performances of the last half of 2013 including: Don't Stop Please, Barrett Baber, Boom Kinetic, A Good Fight, Kory Montgomery, Foley's Van, The Cole Reeves Band, National Park Radio,Priscilla Dawn White, Block Street Hot Club, and the reunion of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls.
Nic Pizzolatto and Tony Tost are both graduates of the University of Arkansas's creative writing and translation graduate program, but their ties to Arkansas are not the only thing they have in common. Both have broken into the world of screenwriting, specifically for television. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen spoke with both Pizzolatto and Tost on how they ended up writing for the screen, how having an MFA in creative writing is beneficial to the writing process and more.
Here are our doctor references for this morning's montage . . .
Robert Palmer singing "Bad Case of Loving You"
Robert Young as the always-calm Marcus Welby (while he lit a cigarette for his patient's wife.)
The theme from "ER"
Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein as the monster stirs
That's Rex Harrison as Dr. Henry Higgins responding to Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady"
Omar Sharif and Tom Courtenay share an awkward moment in "Dr. Zhivago"
The first moments of the pilot episode of "Doogie Howser, MD"
Jodi Foster's Clarice first meets Anthony Hopkins' Dr. Hannibal Lecter in "Silence of the Lambs"
An episode from "Dr. Who" highlighting the main character's ability to be eccentric
Jackson Browne's great song "Doctor My Eyes"
Nic Pizzolatto and Tony Tost are both graduates of the University of Arkansas's creative writing and translation graduate program, but their ties to Arkansas are not the only thing they have in common. Both have broken into the world of screenwriting, specifically for television. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen spoke with both Pizzolatto and Tost on how they ended up writing for the screen, how having an MFA in creative writing is beneficial to the writing process and more.
"Everyday I Write The Book" by Elvis Costello
Our tech ambassador, Ty Dennison, is back to help navigate the digital waters of Holidays 2012.
"Archangel" by Burial
Friday is Fibonacci Day, and Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas talks with Dr. Edmond Harris about the significance of the age-old number pattern.
"One Two Three" by Kunal Ganjawala and Raghav Sachar
