Jay Jennings has collected the short fiction, reporting and essays of Charles Portis in a new book, Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany. He’ll discuss the book at Nightbird Books tomorrow night.
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The senior class at Haas Hall Academy had a summer reading assignment. That book has inspired a movement at the school.
Ground will be broken early this new year on a much-anticipated northwest Arkansas highway project, known as the “Fayetteville Flyover” which will create easy access from North College Avenue to both the mall district and Interstate 540.The University of Arkansas Community Design Center has received a grant as part of the Decade of Design Program of the American Institue of Architects. The project addresses what Fayetteville will look like in the year 2030 if 80% of new development united the urban and agricultural landscapes. OAL’s CT tells us more.
Nic Pizzolatto and Tony Tost are both graduates of the University of Arkansas's creative writing and translation graduate program, but their ties to Arkansas are not the only thing they have in common. Both have broken into the world of screenwriting, specifically for television. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen spoke with both Pizzolatto and Tost on how they ended up writing for the screen, how having an MFA in creative writing is beneficial to the writing process and more.
Nic Pizzolatto and Tony Tost are both graduates of the University of Arkansas's creative writing and translation graduate program, but their ties to Arkansas are not the only thing they have in common. Both have broken into the world of screenwriting, specifically for television. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen spoke with both Pizzolatto and Tost on how they ended up writing for the screen, how having an MFA in creative writing is beneficial to the writing process and more.
Y City is a small town not far from the intersection of highways 71 and 270, it is also the title of a book by Wade Rivers, who came up with the story idea while driving, appropriately, down an Arkansas highway. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas spoke with the author about Y City , as well as his most recent book Text’d, also set in Arkansas.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: excerpts from a conversation recorded at the Fayetteville Public Library last month when Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler discussed his book “The Working Poor” in front of members of several of the regions book clubs. He was in Fayetteville as part of the annual One Book-One Community project.
The Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality annual gala last weekend honored “Pride at Walmart,” the retailer’s LGBT corporate resource group. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, leaders took the opportunity to speak on the record for the first time about gay culture at the Home Office.(Photo: Walmart 2011 Diversity and Inclusion Report)
The Arkansas Board of Education rolls out a new progress assessment system for school across the state, waypoints in Northwest Arkansas may soon be easier to locate, and Rogers school district officials are looking at changing the way early-achieving students receive credit for courses.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, taking steps to improve juvenile justice in Arkansas, and the brand new Hope Supply Center in Bentonville helps those diagnosed with breast cancer in many ways.
Paul Haas, conductor of the Symphony of NWA, talks about the John Williams program for the season finale.
Carter Sampson along with Caleb Rose, makes her first visit to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Arkansas' U.S. Senators speak out about the recent Justice Department probe into the IRS audits of conservative groups. The only candidate for next year's Arkansas Attorney General race says that if elected, he would defend controversial legislation passed this year by the Republican-controlled 89th General Assembly. Arkansas State University tells Bill Halter to "cease and desist" his campaign use of the phrase "Arkansas Promise." The director of the state's education department says that fewer dollars will be available next year for state scholarships. And the city of Fayetteville gets federal grant money for continuing paved trails around Lake Fayetteville.
"Wagon Train Ska" by The Rhyth-O-Matics
OnlineDermClinic can help. A group of local dermatologists recently launched a first-of-its-kind website and app to diagnose skin problems quickly and easily, no matter where you are.
Congress is considering reinstating Medicaid coverage for so-called Compact of Free Association Migrants living in the United States. The entitlement was cut back in 1996. Affected would be residents of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and The Republic of the Marshall Islands--including thousands of Marshallese in Northwest Arkansas.
