Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, talked to House Speaker Davy Carter this weekend about the continuing negotiations over funding the private option.Ozarks At Large
Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, talked to House Speaker Davy Carter this weekend about the continuing negotiations over funding the private option.The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department continues to deal with iced-over highways across the state, while an annual tree-planting event gears up for this year's event set for this weekend.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, several Arkansas towns have been identified by the University of Arkansas to participate in a sustainability report card program. We speak with Michelle Halsel, managing director of the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas to find out about the program. Plus, the idea of Southern Art History; how we talk about it depends on how we define it.Rachael DeLue was recently in northwest Arkansas and while here talked to us about the concept of southern art...and if that can even be defined.
In its second year, the Sustainable Cities Program of the UA's Applied Sustainability Center expanded to include seven more diverse Arkansas cities.
The combination of ice and snow was responsible for changes to schedules all over the state, including a delay in the trial of former Arkansas treasurer Martha Shoffner.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we meet a cartographer on the Ozark Highlands Trail, just in time for Spring hiking season. Plus, we take a Sunday drive to the roadside cafe, The Valley Inn, for a slice of their famous pie.
We make a stop at the roadside café, the Valley Inn, in Hindsville to learn the history of the restaurant in the small town.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
On today's Ozarks, Walmart hosts a sustainability product expo, Mission of Mercy seeks dentists to volunteer their time, a reality show looks to cast Eureka Springs residents, and more.
In just more than a decade, Mark Landon Smith, director of Arts Live Theatre, has taken the program to new heights. Becca Martin Brown has more on their upcoming season.
Here are our ten clips inspired by monster trucks...well, all monster---no trucks.
1. Bobby Pickett sings Monster Mash.
2. Boris Karloff and O.P. Heggie in an iconic (if often misquoted) scene from The Bride of Frankenstein.
3. Warren Zevon's song Werewolves of London.
4. Maria Ouspenskaya and Lon Chaney, Jr. in The Wolf Man.
5. Godzilla, the song by Blue Oyster Cult.
6. Godzilla, the fire-breathing monster.
7. Edgar Winter and the classic rock instrumental, Frankenstein.
8. King Kong's roar. You get credit if you guessed a lion's roar played backwards...because that's what it is.
9. Imagine Dragons' song Monster.
10. Bela Lugosi's Dracula doesn't lie...he just doesn't tell the whole truth.
Apologies to: Lon Chaney, Sr. (silent films are not good Sunday Montage fodder), the Creature From the Black Lagoon and Of Monsters and Men. Maybe next time.
The Arkansas gross domestic product grew in 2013, particularly in some unexpected sectors. With one of the architects of the Arkansas Private Option defeated in a primary runoff this week, the future of the Medicaid expansion is in doubt, but Governor Mike Beebe is undeterred. Plus, this weekend marks the 149th anniversary of the end of slavery in the U.S., and the 17th annual NWA Juneteenth Celebration will mark the occasion in Springdale.
"Ten Million Slaves" Otis Taylor
Michael Tilley, from The City Wire, talks about the latest details regarding an acquisition of Hillshire.
