The Riverfront Blues Festival takes the stage this weekend in Fort Smith. Becca Martin Brown has more.
Ozarks At Large
Jodi Beznoska has more on the Walton Arts Center’s Art of Wine festival, which begins this evening, as well as the second half of the Artosphere festival.
Becca's weekend entertainment suggestions include Lombardi at Rogers Little Theater, the Bentonville Art and Culinary Festival and Thunder on the Mountain.
The Walton Arts Center's biggest fundraiser, Art of Wine, is next week. Jodi Beznoska has more on the three evenings of wine tasting, plus the second half of Artosphere.
A festival organizer discusses the process that happened behind the scenes to prepare for Thunder on the Mountain.
Becca Martin Brown reminds us that the country music festival Thunder on the Mountain starts tomorrow.The 10th anniversary of Wakarusa was full of live performances and rain. Check out our photos of the festival here.
We hear sounds from yesterday’s Artosphere Festival Natural Movement Series event at the Botanical Gardens of the Ozarks.
Sun Boxes, an installation by Craig Colrousso, is an audio art piece that will be scattered through Artosphere and will greet festival-goers, provided the sun is shining, that is.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson. Also, Walmart hosts its first open call for hundreds of U.S. suppliers.
The musical Chicago opens tonight at Walton Arts Center and includes John O'Hurley in the cast.
In our monthly, music review segment, we listen to Greg Laswell's new album "I Was Going To Be An Astronaut."
The trial of former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner continued Friday with testimony via taped conversations from a bond broker who allegedly received much of the state's bond business after giving kickbacks to Shoffner. And a number of court-related entities in Arkansas are receiving less funding after a decline in court fee and fine collections.
"The Longer I Run" by Peter Bradley Adams
A Texas charter school management nonprofit, Responsive Education Solutions, had been gaining a financial stake in Arkansas—until a complaint filed to the Arkansas Department of Education revealed its science curriculum advances intelligent design. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, the controversy raises questions regarding charter authorization.
Roby Brock discusses the retirement of Baptist Health System's CEO, the passage of the private option and more in his weekly business and political news recap.
