Tartufi is a trio from San Francisco coming to Nightbird Books in Fayetteville tomorrow night. Their latest CD is “These Factory Days.” As OAL’s Katy Henriksen reports, the trio… made up of Lynne Angel, Brian Gorman and Ben Thorne… doesn’t always do things conventionally.Ozarks At Large
Tartufi is a trio from San Francisco coming to Nightbird Books in Fayetteville tomorrow night. Their latest CD is “These Factory Days.” As OAL’s Katy Henriksen reports, the trio… made up of Lynne Angel, Brian Gorman and Ben Thorne… doesn’t always do things conventionally.Gloria Goodwin Raheja is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota and spoke on the University of Arkansas campus this spring. Her upcoming book is titled Logan County Blues: Frank Hutchison in the Sonic Landscape of the Appalachian Coalfields, which explores the injustices committed by the coal mining companies against coal miners, and how the miners fought against the companies through music.
Here are our ten clips from our montage dedicated to April Showers. Well, dedicated to rain at least…
- B.J. Thomas sings "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- Hugh Grant and Andie Macdowell admit their mutual love at the end of Four Weddings and a Funeral.
- Prince sings "Purple Rain."
- Bill Cosby with an early TV rendition of his famous Noah routine.
- Mahalia Jackson with the gospel great "Didn’t It Rain".
- Gene Kelly about to launch into the best three minutes ever recorded in a movie musical.
- Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst exchange a rainy kiss as Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson.
- Tom Hanks (as Forrest Gump) describes the many kinds of rain.
- Sam Neil tries to save kids from a hungry T. Rex in Jurassic Park.
- Audrey Hepburn finds the cat…and George Peppard…at the end of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The Mancini notes should have given this away.
Apologies to: The Weather Girls, Andy’s escape in Shawshank Redemption, the bubbling skeletons in Poltergeist, the Eurythmics, John Wayne in the Quiet Man and all those movies with Notebook in the title. Maybe next time.
Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Media tells us about the play, scheduled this weekend and next at Arts Center of the Ozarks.k Plus, it's African Night tomorrow night at UAFS.
3 Penny Acre is set to release it's third full-length album in the coming days. The band stopped by the KUAF studios for a conversation about the new album. You can hear the album in its entirety on our homepage until its release April 14.
For most of last week media were barred from the Pegasus oil spill site in Faulkner County. However, a member of the National Wildlife Federation Board managed to push his way past authorities to assess the damage on the Lake Conway watershed. Jacqueline Froelich spoke with him by phone over the weekend.On Sunday, officials with ExxonMobil and local leaders allowed the press to get its first look at an area where an oil pipeline ruptured a week and a half ago, spilling an estimated 5,000 barrels of tar sands.
In a rare opportunity, both of Arkansas' U.S. Senators were in Fayetteville at the same time, so we took the opportunity to ask them about the similarities of fundraising, whether for programming or a reelection campaign.
Here are the pieces used in today's pop culture montage dealing with asking questions.
- The Moonglows with their hit "Who Wrote The Book of Love"
- The ultimate question, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop
- Bob Dylan with his breakout 1963 hit "Blowin in the Wind"
- Laurence Olivier asks Dustin Hoffman "Is it safe?" in the chilling thriller Marathon Man
- The Big Bopper wonders "Who Put the Bop in the Bop-Shoo-Bob"
- The question that many Verizon customers continually ask: "Can you hear me now?"
- Dionne Warwick asks "Do You Know The Way To San Jose"
- The famous scene from Dallas that left many asking who shot J.R.?
- Robert De Niro nearly loses his wits when he asks his taxi-driving reflection "Are you talking to me?"
- Rockapella asks "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"
We take a look back at the accident at Arkansas Nuclear One and the oil spill in Faulkner County, Arkansas GOP efforts to raise awareness about the new voter ID law and an effort by the city of Fayetteville to keep air traffic control operations running at Drake Field.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, workforce officials try to improve job training to meet industry demands. And, we look at the University of Arkansas' autism intervention program.
Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers tells us about a talk about the West Memphis Three with Mara Leveritt this week in Fort Smith, as well as everything else that's up this week in the area.
"Winter" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Katy Henriksen gives us a preview of tonight's Sunday Symphony, in addition to giving us another song performed by Damn Arkansan in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Web Esclusive: Another Performance by Damn Arkansan
Today is Chinese New Year, beginning the Year of the Snake. In honor of the holiday, Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas visits the Reptile Museum in Fayetteville to take a look at some snakes, alligators and other scaly beasts.
Web Esxlusive: Images From the Reptile Museum
This is our list of items for this morning’s montage of snakes:
Kaa, the snake from The Jungle Book, sings a hypnotic tune. The voice is provided by the legendary Sterling Holloway.
Harrison Ford, as Indiana Jones, ponders his next adventure.
Jim Stafford, now of Branson, sings one of his biggest hits, "Spiders and Snakes."
The character Snake, from The Simpsons, watches his car get stolen.
A highlight of Kenny “The Snake” Stabler running for a touchdown for the Oakland Raiders.
A big (talking?) snake gets zapped in the Harry Potter movie Chamber of Secrets.
Electric Light Orchestra performing "Don’t Let Me Down."
The famous Spam skit from Monty Python. (python, get it…)
The only part of *the* quote from the movie Snakes on a Plane we could put on the air.
Duran Duran with the song "Union of the Snake."
A bill that would ban abortions early in a pregnancy moves forward in the Arkansas legislature, as does a bill on how the state handles executions of prisoners on death row. And, Senator John Boozman speaks out about potential gun control legislation in the U.S. Congress.
"Mary Jane's Last Dance" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
