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Format: 2025-02-10
Candy Lee Set to Release "The Gate"
Candy Lee will release her new CD "The Gate" later this month with a release party at Smoke and Barrel in Fayetteville. She let us listen to the CD early and performed in our studio as well.
To hear more from our time with Candy, click here
Quinn Montana
Quinn Montana wants people to think more about what they eat. Her new book is titled "Worship Your Food."
While in our studio Quinn Montana also discussed bad eating habits and the ease with which people can break those habits. You can hear that and more from our conversation here.
Full Show for Wednesday, August 11, 2010
On this edition of Ozarks at Large: Conversations about an eastern corridor through northwest Arkansas continue. Plus remembering Windy Austin, learning Facebook and an opera about Bill Clinton's boyhood.
Teaching Facebook
Social media websites like Facebook are no longer just a way for students to interact with classmates after class. Several businesses have now signed-up, logged in and are discovering ways to increase their audience all with a few strokes of a keyboard or clicks of the mouse. A new website created by two Fayetteville residents is offering tutorials for businesses new to the site.
More information is available by visiting weteachfacebook.com or facebook.com/WeTeachFB.
ADA Walk
It's been two decades since the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Several local organizations marked the occasion by hosting events throughout Northwest Arkansas. For more information about the Americans with Disabilities Act, visit ada.gov.
Quakers
Sunday mornings are tend to be peaceful across America as people of faith congregate in temples, churches and mosques to chant, pray, sing and reflect. But one religious community stands apart--because they worship mostly in silence. Jacqueline Froelich attends a local Quaker meeting and brings us their story. To learn more Quakers or to attend a meeting visit fayettevillefriends.org on the web and facebook.
Gordon Lightfoot Coming to Eureka Springs
Gordon Lightfoot brings his collection of songs like “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” to Eureka Springs this month. He spoke with Ozarks at Large from his home. For more information visit theaud.org
CNN Rogers
It's great to have hometown pride, but it's even better when someone from outside your town recognizes its value. A local community has landed itself a top spot in a national ranking of the best places to live. To see complete list of the 100 Best Places to Live, visit CNNMoney.com.
Computers
The computer center at the Jones Center had it's official unveiling Aug. 5, after a grant helped pay for renovations. Ozarks at Large's Antoinette Grajeda was on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Full Show for Tuesday, August 3, 2010

On this edition of Ozarks at Large: How the University of Arkansas plans to enforce the statewide smoking ban on campuses, teens from Rogers learn at pottery camp, the University of Arkansas Fort Smith adds new programs, what we can learn from classical studies and more.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Thursday, March 13, 2014
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, though the next presidential election is more than two years away, some are already ready for HIlary. And as the Bentonville School District grows, so too does its course offerings. We visit a junior high school as students prepare for mountain biking. Plus, we learn about a Bentonville before Sam Walton.
Music Legend Visits U of A, KUAF
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Al Bell, the former chairman of Stax Records and former president of Motown Records, visited KUAF last week to talk about his love of music and the inner workings of the music industry. To listen to more of this conversation, click here.
Harrison Hosts a Nonviolence Summit
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Students will learn about the use of nonviolence, peace and leadership at a summit in Harrison.
“The Stopper” by Sonny Rollins
Cash Mob-Fayetteville Plans to Boost Economy, Morale
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Cash Mob-Fayetteville organizers Sally Baker Williams and Caitlin Covey visited KUAF to talk about the event, and how it helps local businesses and participants. To find out more about the event, visit https://www.facebook.com/CMFayAR.
Fun will be Had This Weekend
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Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has many, many suggestions.
“Django” by Modern Jazz Quartet
Swapping Seeds
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Ozarks at Large’s Meredith Martin-Moats attended a seed-swap event hosted by the organization Conserving Arkansas’ Agricultural Heritage earlier this month.