This month's gallery show at the Fayetteville Underground includes photography, painting, mixed media works, and sculpture, including these hot glue sculptures by artist Robert Lemming.Ozarks At Large
This month's gallery show at the Fayetteville Underground includes photography, painting, mixed media works, and sculpture, including these hot glue sculptures by artist Robert Lemming.
A nuisance algae, Didymosphenia Geminata, nicknamed “didymo” has been documented in the tailwaters of several dam sites on the White River Watershed. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, conservationists have launched a public campaign to make sure it doesn’t spread further. (Photo: Mark Hoddle, UC Riverside)
Ahead on Ozarks: Michael Tilley from The City Wire gets us up to date on a wild news week…from new home sales numbers to a gubernatorial candidate's comments yesterday about Arkansas' private option. Plus, Rosco Bandana joins us in the studio, and we travel to Dardanelle to see the home of Tusk, the live mascot of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Becca Martin Brown says some folks like to get out of town during homecoming at the University of Arkansas...and there are plenty of things to do away from the game.
On game days, Tusk IV, the live mascot for the University of Arkansas, travels from his home near Dardanelle to Fayetteville to help cheer on the Razorbacks.The President of the Federal Reserve is coming to NWA, a camp concerning nighttime critters and other sports this weekend are all outlined in today's notes.
It was a particularly busy week for news and Michael Tilley from The City Wire says some thoughts about health care were among the stories.State stopgap money for some furloughed federal funding in Arkansas runs out today. Winter wheat planting is getting a late start in the state, after later than usual maturity of summer crops. And cyclists in Fayetteville will eventually have a connection between the trails system and destinations in midtown Fayetteville.
Ahead on Ozarks, Whats in a name, and who was Jenny Lind? She is the namesake of a tiny unincorporated town near Greenwood and of a major road in Fort Smith. Plus, a farm tour takes mothers to the source of their families' food. And a school project teaches students the importance of homegrown produce.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: In 1980, thousands left Castro's Cuba on a boatlift to the United States. Many of them were given housing at Fort Chaffee. Jacqueline Froelich examines what happened then, what's happened since…and why historians are spending time getting the facts correct. Plus, a new adult education library for Northwest Arkansas Community College.
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says there's many, many events happening in the area to keep us busy and happy.
"Anyone Else But You" by The Moldy Peaches
Jodi Beznoska from Walton Arts Center has a preview of the center's upcoming Broadway season.
The Los Angeles-based instrumental band El Ten Eleven performs tonight at JR's in Fayetteville. They talked with Kyle Kellams and Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar about their music and their "fight club" origins.
Austin, Texas-based Heartless Bastards performed "Skin and Bone" inside KUAF's Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
To watch a video of this performance, click here and here.
"Destinations" by Rahul Sharma
Fort Smith witnesses a decrease in homeless numbers. We take a look at the reasons behind the reported decrease.
For more of this conversation, click here.
“20 Years” by The Civil Wars
