The band Trashcan Bandits brought their instruments, their love of all kinds of music and their sense of fun to the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.Ozarks At Large
The band Trashcan Bandits brought their instruments, their love of all kinds of music and their sense of fun to the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gives us a preview of the craft fair weekend and more.
A world champion BBQ team will be crowned in Bentonville, mental health discussed in Fayetteville and sports all over the place this week.
Turnip of the Beet is just one several vendors who have traveled from around the country to sell their wares at this year's Harvest Music Festival.Efforts to keep a dramatic spike in insurance rates for Arkansas public school employees are on the top of a special session agenda.
Michael Tilley with The City Wire talks about record-setting fundraising for Arkansas politicians during the third quarter of the year.Legislators are dealing with insurance rates for public school employees and residents of Harrison are dealing with a controversial billboard.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, we visit an area high school to learn how one teacher is teaching entrepreneurship. Plus, sturdy and comfortable outdoor furniture made in Prairie Grove. And, a hidden treasure at the 80-year-old Devil's Den State Park.
Pat Hazell, creator of the one-person show The Wonder Bread Years, talks about the art of creating comedy as a group. The Wonder Bread Years will be on stage at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville next week.
In our locally made series, we learn why the woodworker with Rocky Hill Outdoor Furniture prefers working with western red cedar to eastern red cedar.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, January 6, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, an assistant professor of landscape architecture works to preserve a cemetery in Rowher, Arkansas. We also preview a free credit workshop.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says Toto (and Dorothy) will be here soon.
Louis Jordan is one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Still, many Arkansans might not know about their native son. Stephen Koch, the host of Arkansongs, has written a new book about him.
Here is the list of the ten clips we used as our salute to The Wizard of Oz (and the explanation for each):
1. Pinball WIZARD by the Who
2. Jed Clampett as played by Buddy Ebsen, the actor originally cast as the...
3. ...TIN MAN, also the inspiration for a song by America.
4. A 1961 documentary about Ham, sent into space by NASA...a real-life FLYING MONKEY.
5. John Cougar Mellencamp sings Rain on the SCARECROW.
6. Famous television doctor, Dr. OZ.
7. The song Africa by TOTO.
8. A 1966 commercial for the game TWISTER. (as in the phenomenon that sent Dorothy to Oz)
9. The Tokens sing the (cowardly?) LION sleeps tonight.
10. Elton John with the title song from his album Goodbye YELLOW BRICK ROAD.
Apologies to the band Kansas and the song Witchy Woman by the Eagles. Maybe next time.
Next year an LLM degree at the University of Arkansas will be obtainable in a face-to-face setting or from a distance.`
at end of show: "Amanda Jewell" by Ricky Skaggs
Michael Tilley, from The City Wire, helps us dissect an odd news week.
