Ozarks At Large
In this morning's Week in Review, we look at the stories we've covered concerning the partial shutdown of the federal government that started as the calendar flipped over to October.
Block Street Hot Club, who you can often find performing at the Fayetteville Farmers Market, stops by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. 
It's not too early to get your holiday portraits made. And if you have them made at an upcoming event at Mt. Sequoyah, your sitting fee will benefit the Northwest Arkansas Family Network.
Years after, and miles south, of the well-known battles of Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, the Civil War continued to be fought in central and southern Arkansas. David E. Casto writes about the fighting in his new book, Arkansas Late in the Civil War.
Ahead on Weekend Ozarks, a tour of historic Cane Hill, and a conversation with the author of Camp Nine, Vivian Schiffer. The book has been selected as the 2013 If All Arkansas Read The Same Book book.
The Arkansas Center For The Book this week made its selection for the 2013 If All Arkansas Read The Same Book Program. Kyle Kellams spoke with Vivienne Schiffer, the author of the novel Camp Nine, this year's selection.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, new efforts to revitalize historic Cane Hill, and we take a boat ride with the University of Arkansas Water Ski Club. Plus, a look at the 2013 State of Northwest Arkansas Report.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, what has been termed by some as mommy-blogging has become big business in the area. We learn about the legality of earning money for blogs and reviews. Plus, we go behind the scenes at the National Weather Service in Tulsa.
Downtown Rogers plays host to a regional conference about downtown development, a new animal shelter will soon open in Washington County and Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport receives federal grant money for ongoing rehabilitation projects.
"Dash and Dot" by The Beau Hunks
Today we begin a six-part, five-day series about poverty in Arkansas. Iti Agnihotri Mudholkar, the producer of the series, explains what we’ll hear and why she was drawn to the subject.
"Tenderly" by Oscar Peterson
According to a U.S. Census Bureau report released last week, in 2010 and 2011, close to 15 percent of Americans were living under the federal poverty line, but in Arkansas, that number was as high as 17 percent. The state has consistently ranked among the states with the highest rates of poverty. On Ozarks at Large this week, we will examine Arkansas' poverty problem.
Today, Ozarks at Large's Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar examines the various definitions of poverty and the adequacy of the country's poverty measurement system. We also find out what poverty looks like at the human level.
"Dark Was The Night" by Ry Cooder
Becca Martin Brown, features editor at Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says a busy week begins today with many options.
The past week Governor Mike Beebe announced the Medicaid expansion plans for Arkansas. That’s one of the stories Roby Brock from TalkBusiness.net reviews in his weekly checklist of the state’s biggest political and business stories of the past seven days
