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.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
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 Fayetteville Farmer’s Market was voted the country’s favorite. Tomorrow the award is handed over.
Arkansan Tav Falco helped invent a sound that later became known as "psychobilly" in 1979 when he formed Tav Falco and the Panther Burns in Memphis. Although Falco currently resides in Vienna, Austria, he's bringing his blend of blues, punk and rockabilly to the Rogue on Dickson in Fayetteville tomorrow as he tours with his Unapproachable Panther Burns. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen has this preview.
Union supporters and striking workers protested outside of Walmart's annual investors' conference in Bentonville, the drought slowly but surely improves in parts of Arkansas, and the creative economy adds jobs and revenue to the Northwest Arkansas economy.
"In Walked Bud" by Art Blakey
An Alabama law firm has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all Arkansas rice farmers against a chemical company that produces arsenic compounds and poultry integrators that mix the arsenic into their feed. The suit alleges the poultry litter, used as fertilizer, has poisoned Arkansas rice farms.
An outdoor education class that got its start as a college thesis more than ten years ago has a strong presence in a few Northwest Arkansas schools and is gaining attention nationally. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas hikes through the state park with students learning about the outdoors.
"Montreal" by Kaki King
