Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala tonight at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville. Earlier this week, they stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance and played their song "It's You and It's Me."
Ozarks At Large
Tom Vilsack, the country's Secretary of Agriculture, was the esteemed speaker of yesterday's Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture at the University of Arkansas. He took the opportunity to speak candidly with the standing room only crowd about short-, medium-, and long-term ag public policy goals, and about opening lines of communication.
Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala Sunday night at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville.
Michael Tilley of The City Wire says that the latest tax revenue report for the city of Fort Smith has some good news, and the latest hospitality numbers in Northwest Arkansas look promising.
We continue our series previewing this weekend's poetry festival at Nightbird Books. Katie Nichol grew up in St. Cloud, Minnesota and says she started writing poetry when she was about 12 years old:
For the past few months there have been meetings, open to the public, to discuss making Fayetteville a city of compassion. We met with two of the organizers of the meetings to find out what it might take for a more compassionate place.
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Tom Vilsack, the country's Secretary of Agriculture, was the esteemed speaker of yesterday's Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture at the University of Arkansas. He took the opportunity to speak candidly with the standing room only crowd about short-, medium-, and long-term ag public policy goals, and about opening lines of communication.
This weekend more than 20 poets, both local and from out of town, will read their work during the Burning Chair Readings at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
Katy Hneriksen gives us a preview of this week's KUAF Sunday Symphony, as well as a look at this month's Community Cinema event at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Republican Attorney General runoff candidates discuss medical marijuana and the death penalty. Also, we take a look back at the desegregation of public swimming pools.
Jodi Beznoska from Walton Arts Center reminds us that single tickets are now on sale for the 2012-2013 season.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: from West Fork to the London Olympics. We’ll meet a competitor at the this edition of the Summer Games’ Modern Pentathlon. And the Titanic set to music. The Fort Smith Little Theater stages an epic story beginning tonight.
Sheffield Nelson suspends his effort to get the severance tax question on the November ballot, new numbers for how Arkansas is doing in child wellness, and more.
“10lb Moustache” by Man Man
Record heat and drought conditions in Arkansas are depleting feed stocks and beginning to distress cattle and horses out in in sun scorched pastures. We report on a coordinated effort to help a neglected horse herd and what we should do if we spot distressed animals in the field.