Augusta Read Thomas, Reasons to be Pretty, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band among the long list of events on Walton Arts Center's calendar.
Ozarks At Large
Magnetic fire flies or magnetic fireflies? -- Augusta Read Thomas' world-premiere performance tomorrow promises to be stunningly imaginative.
On this spring fundraising edition of Ozarks at Large, federal aid for the Razorback Regional Greenway is reinstated, W. Dale Warren gives a sneak peek into next week's University of Arkansas Concert Bands' performances, and teen-duo Strawberry Swing performs in KUAF's Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.Arts Live Theater's "The Secret Garden" opens tonight and another performance of Fort Smith Little Theater's "Sex Please, We're Sixty."
W. Dale Warren, director of Concert Bands and Associate Professor of Music in the University of Arkansas Department of Music, has a rundown of the University of Arkansas Concert Bands' next week's performances.
On this spring fundraising edition of Ozarks at Large, Grammy-nominated musician John Two Hawks performs in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio and the much-debated issue of redistricting looks closer to a resolution. Wayne Bell discusses local blogs and their appeal, and jazz entertainer Barbara Mashburn discusses her scholarship foundation's annual fundraiser.Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com talks about local blogs and how they've affected the consumption of local information by Northwest Arkansans.
Grammy Nominated Indigenous musician John Two Hawks is hosting “Honoring Our Native Ways'” taking place Saturday April 16th at the Marriot Hotel in Tulsa. Appearing with him will be Yankton Sioux artist Joseph Chamberlain, designated the 2011 Pendleton Legendary Blanket artist. Both met with Jacqueline Froelich in our performance studio.Fayetteville chef William McCormick of Farrell's Lounge and restaurateur Jerrmy Gawthrop of Greenhouse Grille talk about participating in Walton Arts Center's Chopped in the Ozarks competition. The event will begin at 6 p.m. today in Starr Theater.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks…the 2013 Northwest Arkansas Education Report Card has numbers, plenty of numbers, relating to 17 public school districts in Washington and Benton Counties. We'll talk to Gary Ritter, the director of the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas about the report. And the three-person band The Room Outside plays inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. We'll also talk to Michael Tilley from The City Wire about the week’s news and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers about the upcoming weekend’s entertainment opportunities.
Roby Brock gives us an update on the Big River Steel project and more in his weekly business update.
Becca says kids activities for this week include a fishing derby tomorrow.
Dr. Peter Ungar, an anthropologist at the University of Arkansas, discusses how he looks at teeth to determine the diets of our ancestors and how what we and other animals eat today affects our pearly whites. He is also the author of Teeth: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press.
The latest state revenue report shows a surplus for the end of the fiscal year. State and local leaders celebrated the opening of the 71-B Flyover last night in Fayetteville, and Rogers is working on building a new, modern fire station for the central part of the city.
The Oklahoma Department of Health has confirmed the state's first death due to Heartland virus—a new tick-borne illness discovered in the mid-South. So far no cases have been documented in Arkansas. Jacqueline Froelich spoke with an Oklahoma epidemiologist to find out the status of the virus and how to avoid be bitten.
