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.
Ozarks At Large
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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Monday, May 19, 2014
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.
The references used in the montage are as follows:
The Andrews Sisters singing the classic "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree.
Matt Damon taunts a rival in Good Will Hunting.
"Pink Cadillac" by Bruce Springsteen.
Snow white gets bad advice in the classic Disney telling of the tale.
Roger Miller's version of "Little Green Apples."
Sean Penn in Into the Wild.
Peter Brady prepares his Humphrey Bogart impression in an episode of The Brady Bunch.
Charlie Parker Performs the jazz standard "Scrapple From the Apple."
Those mean trees scare Dorothy and the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. (free apples, though)
Eureka Springs illusionist Sean Paul will attempt multiple escapes from confinement this month in honor of Harry Houdini's birthday. Becca Martin Brown gives us all the details.
"Houdini" by Kaki King
Bentonville receives insight into why a proposed millage increase failed, Ozark tries to get a railroad crossing near its riverfront, and the Northwest Arkansas economy is trending in an upward direction.
"Eighteen Wheels" by Norton Buffalo
Housing numbers and other economic news analyzed by Michael Tilley from TheCityWire.com
Seedling Film Association prepares for the third year of its Offshoot Film Fest next week.
Web Exclusive: Offshoot Film Festival - Three More Questions
"Six Marimbas" by Steve Reich
