Jura and Alissa Margulis will perform at 8 p.m. tomorrow inside the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus.Ozarks At Large
Jura and Alissa Margulis will perform at 8 p.m. tomorrow inside the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus.
Becca from NWA Newspapers says we can listen to letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. speak today in Northwest Arkansas and tomorrow in the River Valley.
On this edition of Ozarks: the still-evolving discussion over expanded Medicaid for Arkansas. Larry Teague, the co-chair of the Joint Budget Committee at the State Legislature, talks about medicaid and the entire budget process. Plus putting Go, Dog. Go! On stage in Springdale and why making a documentary film can be a challenging task that leaves the filmmaker depressed part of the time.Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, highlights from a wage forum held in Springdale Friday afternoon. Also, a conversation with Guy Raz, host of the TED Radio hour, Trinity United Methodist Church expands its Sunday Supper program.The show's new host Guy Raz, formerly the host of Weekends on All Things Considered, spoke to us about the show.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, using flowers to create a pleasing and balanced composition, soup on this Sunday, and artist Shea Hembrey as 100 artists, and a wrap-up of the legislative news from the previous week.Here are the elements of our flower montage for Sunday’s show:
1. Nat King Cole singing Ramblin’ Rose.
2. A skunk named Flower, courtesy of Bambi (from the film of the same name).
3. The Statler Brothers singing Counting Flowers on the Wall.
4. Chris Cooper describes the beauty of nature to Meryl Streep in the film Adaptation.
5. The Foundations with their one big hit, Build Me Up Buttercup.
6. Poppies! From Wizard of Oz.
7. Tiny Tim sings Tiptoe Through the Tulips during his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1968.
8. The killer Venus flytrap threatens Rick Moranis in the 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors. Yes, the Venus flytrap does produce flowers.
9. Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby (the “run for the roses”) in record time, 1:59 2/5.
10. Lynn Anderson sings I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
Apologies to Charlie Rose, Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand, Poison, and all the romantic comedies ever where a guy gives a gal some roses. Maybe next time.
Ahead on Ozarks: the Toastmasters roll on in northwest Arkansas, Soup Sunday returns to Springdale, and Shawn James plays music inside our Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. Ahead on Ozarks, the longest zip line in Arkansas, the possible effects of sequestration on Arkansas, how small town advocates are getting a boost from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and a preview of this weekend's Gospel Fest in Fort Smith.Two exciting assemblages tonight: an all-star concert at Fayetteville Underground and the Harlem Ambassadors in Bentonville.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: a walk around the trails at Lake Fayetteville will take you past acres of charred land. We learn about the benefits of prescribed burns such as these. Plus not one, but two area towns are in the running to take over the March Madness bracket of the Greatest Southern Town. And, we climb a tree to visit the serene world of a children's treehouse, and get ready for Spring Break with options for movie lovers.
The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.
Dr. Estes from Mercy's Bella Vista clinic discusses how to protect yourself against heat, ticks, and more.
A new theatre group brings a new take on Romeo and Juliet at the Gulley Park Gazebo and it promises to be good fun.
Snake Eyes and the Bug Band will perform this afternoon at 2:00 at the Fayetteville Public Library. Here, the band performs “Sew What You Reap”
Here are our ten clips celebrating horse for our Sunday Montage:
1. The Rolling Stones cannot be dragged away by Wild Horses.
2. Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet.
3. Michael Martin Murphy climbed the charts with Wildfire.
4. Alan Young can't seem to figure out it is Mr. Ed's birthday.
5. Cliff Nobles & Company perform the instrumental EVERY high school band in north Arkansas played at halftime in the 1970s, The Horse.
6. The Marx Brothers crack wise in the funniest horse racing movie ever made, A Day at the Races.
7. Lyle Lovett praises Trigger in If I Had a Boat.
8. The masked man rides Silver at the beginning of The Lone Ranger.
9. Hailee Steinfeld and Dakin Matthews negotiate in the latest film version of Charles Portis' True Grit. (A blast of Arkansas)
10, And we end with a double-blast of Arkansas as Arkie native Johnny Cash sings Tennessee Stud, written by Arkie native Jimmy Driftwood.
Apologies to: U2, Patti Smith, Seabiscuit, the band America, Black Beauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, War Horse and that big fake horse rolled into Troy. Maybe next time.
