
Ozarks At Large


In addition to bugs, our insect expert, Dr. Donald Steinkraus, likes music. We look at instances of insects in rock and roll.

We celebrate National Novel Writing Month with a "book and writer" montage of songs and film clips.
- "Paperback Writer" The Beatles
- Nicholas Cage in Adaptation
- "Everyday I Write the Book" Elvis Costello
- The Shining
- Deconstructing Harry
- "Book I Read" Talking Heads
- Romancing the Stone
- "Lady Writer" Dire Straits
- Capote
- "who Wrote the Book of Love" the Montones

Several stories from the past week, as with most weeks, centered around money. We look at some of those stories in this morning's week in review.



Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the National Veterans Golden Age Games are set to take over Fayetteville and the region this weekend; we speak with one 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who hopes to win in his competitions, and we speak with an Arkansas elder who decided to obtain his GED many, many years after his high school years had passed. Plus, while many eyes are on the happenings at the World Cup, we attend a sports match of a different nature, polo, in Bentonville.
Summit Medical Center in Van Buren is hosting an advanced hospital volunteer chaplain seminar from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. August 4. Antoinette Grajeda has this story.
Presidents on the radio, Tony Bennett, Hot Springs and more in our history capsule for August 3, 2010.
What can Homer and Plato teach us, thousands of years later? We asked three members of the Classical Studies program at the University of Arkansas that question.There is more from our conversation about classical studies here, including what our guest think of certain pop culture versions of classic stories.
Each Thursday night volunteer nurses, doctors and others give their time at a clinic in Eureka Springs. We spent a recent Thursday there. Visit www.echoclinic.org for more information.
To hear more about the future of the ECHO Clinic click here.
"Sunspots" by Bob Mould