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.
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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.
Our local food expert Teresa Maurer talks about the goodies that will be available at the farmers’ markets in the region over the next several days.
For today’s recipes, click here.
Kyle Kellams asked our local food expert Teresa Maurer three more questions about okra, summer foods and more.
“Heat” by Brian Eno
Joe Neal takes us to a sun-drenched bayou on the Arkansas River Valley, which serves as a sort of pitstop for many thousands of migrating shorebirds. Coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press, his latest book “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir,” is published by Half-Acre Press.
Artist Craig Colorusso explains his sound installation called sun boxes.
For more information: www.sun-boxes.com.
Today could be the hottest June day on record in northwest Arkansas history; a new report praises changes made to Arkansas’ public education system over the last decade; and more – on today’s Segment A.
“New Orleans Organ Interlude” by Charlie Hunter