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Ozarks At Large

Format: 2024-11-27
A Salute to the Tools of the (Love) Trade
Here are the ten sources for our Sunday Montage dedicated to bows, arrows and archers:

1) Sam Cooke sings tribute to Cupid.
2) Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) proves a point in the animated movie Brave.
3) Harry Nilsson sings Me and My Arrow.
4) Claude Rains and Errol Flynn meet in the 1939 version of Robin Hood.
5) Arya receives counter intuitive lessons on an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones.
6) Kacey Musgraves offers advice in her song Follow Your Arrow.
7) Legolas fails to impress in a scene from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
8) From the 80s: ABC's hit Poison Arrow.
9) Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) gets attention after her amazing shot in The Hunger Games.
10) The Halle Orchestra performs the greatest piece of music dedicated to an archer, Rossini's William Tell Overture.

Apologies to: Hawkeye, Green Arrow, The Golden Archer (and about 100 other comic book characters), Burt Reynolds in Deliverance, Edith Wharton, and Cock Robin. Maybe next time.
The State of Vegetation In 2100
One researcher at the University of Arkansas has been taking a look at what would happen to the planet's surface vegetation if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate through the end of the century.
Making New Airwaves
When the Federal Communications Commission opened up licensing opportunities for thousands of new independent low-power non-commercial FM radio stations in 2010, several dozen Arkansas groups applied. In northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville Community Radio appears to have made the cut. We meet Joe Newman, station manager, and volunteers Olivia Hines and Moshe Newmark.



Music Review: Grow with Beyonce
In this month's music review, Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas looks at Beyonce's newest album and how both she and the artist have grown over the years.






Businessmen Honored, Tax Plans Discussed
Roby Brock, from Talk Business Arkansas, looks back at a week that included new inductions to the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame and conversations about political tax plans.





A Salute to E and S
Here is our list saluting the letters ES. On some we ESchew the usual rules of capitalization to highlight our special letters.
1) Ed Sullivan introduces a famous band 50 years ago today.
2) Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) says goodbye.
3) Ed Sheeran sings Kiss Me.
4) Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a ghost. This ES is played by Albert Finney.
5) The theme to ESpn's Sports Center.
6) Emma Stone sees Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid Love.
7) Esperanza Spalding performs Precious.
8) Kreskin, famed "mentalist" during the height of the ESp craze on TV. (OK, we're stretching it...)
9) Elizabeth Shue meets the Karate Kid for a date.
10) Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (soon to be seen at Wakarusa) sing Home.

Apologies to Elliot Smith, Emmitt Smith and Eureka Springs (we thought of playing a clip from Pass the Ammo...too obscure?)Maybe next time.
Local Historian has Strong Ties to the Civil War
Becca Martin Brown has more on the first installment of a series in the Knox Street Book Club at the Clayton House in Fort Smith.
Writers Discuss Their Work Thursday
Rilla Askew and Timothy O'Grady are novelists and visiting associate professors at the University of Arkansas. They'll read from their work Thursday night at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
I Need to Get that Book
University of Arkansas Fort Smith's "Read This" 2014 book is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
Revisiting the 1927 Mississippi River Flood Through Fiction
"Tilted World" by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly, both University of Arkansas graduates, takes readers inside a different era,when Prohibition was big business and foot travel was as likely as horse or car travel in rural Mississippi. The two will read from their novel Friday evening at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Thursday, July 3, 2014
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Ahead on Ozarks, as many prepare for Fourth of July in backyards or fields of fireworks, the ticks are waiting: a new tick-borne illness has been discovered in the South. And The Cate Brothers release a new album, more than thirty years after it was originally recorded.
Students Move Back to Fayetteville
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As classes begin at the University of Arkansas, students are making apartments their home all over town. We talked with two representatives about the process of moving thousands of students into new places. The conversations with Chuck Hall and Kathy Lacey were part of our collaboration with ozarksunbound.com. You can click here to hear more of the discussions.
"Dirty Harry" by Gorillaz
Joe Neal
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When most of us go on summer vacation, we pack our swimsuits, sunscreen and favorite book. When wildlife essayist Joe Neal goes on vacation, he packs those things too, as well as his microphone and digital recorder--just so we listeners can tag along. Joe Neal is author of "Birds in Northwestern Arkansas: An Ecological Perspective" available at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville. He is also coauthor, with Douglas James, of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas press.
Do-Gooders Grants
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Yesterday, Ivye Allen, Foundation for the Mid South president, announced the launch of the organization's new online campaign. For more information, visit fndmidsouth.org.
Republicans Enjoy Big Numbers in Recent Polls
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Roby Brock of talkbusiness.net talks with GOP consultant Clint Reed about recent polls showing Republican candidates with large leads in certain races in Arkansas. For more information about the talkbuisness/Hendrix College poll, talkbusiness.net
August 24 in History
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Amelia Earhart, Hurricane Andrew and more in our history capsule for August 24.