On the list today – a concert on the lawn at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, a reading and book-signing with author Cary Groner at Nightbird Books, and a performance by Trout Fishing in America at the Alma Performing Arts Center.
Ozarks At Large
On today's edition of Ozarks, a look at Bikes, Blues and BBQ's effect on the small hamlet of Oark. And, we talk with Dr. Brett Shadle about his research into African history.Author Leslie Daniels will host a reading and book signing at 7 tonight in Giffels Auditorium on the University of Arkansas campus.
On today's edition of Ozarks, a look at how a Fayetteville church is working to build awareness about Congo. And, John Jeter gives us a preview of the Fort Smith Symphony's next concert.On today's edition of Ozarks, we have a preview of the Emerson String Quartet as well as Step Afrika, two groups who will be performing at Walton Arts Center this month. Also, a small museum will now look at the legendary performers who appeared at Little Rock's Barton Coliseum.A small museum that is opening soon will look at the legendary performers who have played at Little Rock's Barton Coliseum.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, political bloggers Jason Tolbert and Michael Cook discuss the state of politics in Arkansas, and Janet Eilber, the artistic director for the Martha Graham Dance Company, talks about the company’s upcoming performance at Walton Arts Center. Also on today’s show, the band Fork and Knife visit KUAF.Jason Tolbert leans right and Michael Cook leans left. These two political bloggers sat down for a conversation about various state politics hot topics in the studio of our content partner www.talkbusiness.net.
Friday afternoon, University of Arkansas Chancellor Dr. G. David Gearhart and Governor Mike Beebe dedicated the Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering building on Dickson Street on campus. Ozarks at Large’s Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar took a tour of the facility following the ceremony.Kyle Kellams talks to author Jonell Portillo whose book covers the incredible journey her grandmother Nellie Mae Strickland made in a covered wagon.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the man who has been intimately connected with the Nobel Peace Prize for the past quarter-century talks about the process for selecting a recipient and some of the controversies associated with the honor.
The Ozarks Genealogical Society's annual conference is scheduled for Sept. 13-14 in Springfield, Missouri, and the featured speaker is D. Joshua Taylor (http://www.djoshuataylor.com).
The first event outside of Eureka Springs for the Creative Energy Project will bring yarn, and plenty of it, to Bentonville.
Link: For more about Yarnology or the Creative Energy Project, www.creativeenergyproject.com
Officials with hunger relief organizations in Arkansas express concern over recent efforts to remove SNAP funding from the federal Farm Bill. Central Arkansas leaders request information from ExxonMobil regarding a stretch of pipeline in the Lake Maumelle Watershed. The Arkansas House and Senate Education Committees discuss the new Common Core curriculum, set to take effect when schools start in about a month. And the Fayetteville Public Library board of directors moves forward with an offer to purchase the former City Hospital property.
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In the first of our series on the deployment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Arkansas, Cynthia Crone, the state’s insurance department deputy commissioner, explains the fundamentals, including getting an early look at Arkansas’s insurance exchange, now referred to as marketplace.
Early next month the organization called the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the U.S.A. Inc. will hold its annual convention in Rogers. We talked to John Bircher, National Spokesman for the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
Link: To learn more about the Military Order of the Purple Heart, visit www.purpleheart.org
