Today -- First Friday on the Bentonville Town Square, Charlie Daniels at the AMP, and Boeing-Boeing at Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville. This weekend, visit the Prairie Grove Clothesline Fair and/or the Kansas City Renaissance Festival.
Ozarks At Large
A new festival to go with First Thursday comes to Fayetteville plus, the first night of TheatreSquared’s Boeing Boeing.
Sculptor Patrick Dougherty will create a sculpture out of sticks and saplings at Walton Arts Center next spring as part of their Artosphere Festival.
The band Charliehorse will headline the Fayetteville Roots Festival after-party at Kingfish Saturday night.
Singer-songwriter Guy Clark talks to Bryan Hembree of 3 Penny Acre and Kyle Kellams about his career and new live CD in advance of his upcoming performance at Fayetteville Roots Festival.
For more information on the festival, log on to www.fayettevilleroots.com.
Artist K.C. Clifford will perform throughout the Fayetteville Roots Festival this weekend.
For more information, log on to www.kcclifford.com.
Our Director of Underwriting Rhonda Dillard announces the names of the winners of our TheatreSquared and Fayetteville Roots Festival web giveaways.
Banjoist Chandler Holt of the North Carolina band Chatham County Line talks to Kyle Kellams about the band, its latest album and its upcoming performance at the Fayetteville Roots Festival.
This weekend, the Fayetteville Roots Festival will not only host local and national artists but also offer a variety of organic food sourced from several local farms. One of these farms, the Sweden Creek Farm, will supply mushrooms to food vendors at the festival.
For more information about the Sweden Creek Farm, visit http://theold78s.com/swedencreekfarm. To take a video tour of the farm, click here.
This weekend, the Fayetteville Roots Festival will not only host local and national artists but also offer a variety of organic food sourced from several local farms. One of these farms, the Sweden Creek Farm, will supply mushrooms to food vendors at the festival.
For more information about the Sweden Creek Farm, visit http://theold78s.com/swedencreekfarm. To take a video tour of the farm, click here.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a visit to a jeweler's studio where she makes trinkets of beauty with stones, sterling silver and words on metal. Plus, we talk with blogger Mat Campbell of the Blue Hog Report about how the lawyer-turned-journalist uncovers and covers political happenings in the state.
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.
