Our local food ambassador Teresa Maurer returns to tell us about a program that will allow some customers of the Farmers' Market to double their money during the month of March.
Ozarks At Large
The Al-Islam Students Association will hold the seminar, "Muhammad-Messenger of Peace" this Thursday in Giffels Auditorium on the University of Arkansas campus. Organizers say that the event is one in a larger series of seminars. We speak with three of the event's organizers.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas speaks with Bo Ryall, president of the Arkansas Hospital Association, to discuss the possible economic impact of expanded Medicaid in the state. He also speaks with state representative John Burris about last week's news regarding the state's Medicaid system.
Ahead on Ozarks: how a proposed voter ID law could affect Arkansans, insects' place in poetry, plus a conversation with the local fantasy author of Small Things.Becca Martin Brown gives us the scoop on this evening's happennings, including music at the NWA Showcase Theater and the University of Arkansas, as well as an architecture lecture at the U of A.
Joe Allessi is guest trombonist at tonight's University of Arkansas Wind Symphony concert at the Walton Arts Center. On today's show, he discusses the piece he will be performing tonight, but we'll have more from the conversation on tomorrow's show.
Ozarks at Large's insect expert Dr. Donald Steinkrauss talks to Christina about how insects are used in poetry, both literally and metaphorically.
Katy Henriksen gives us a preview of tonight's Sunday Symphony, featuring Verdi's "Requiem."
Dan Craft, special projects editor at NWA Newspapers tells us about a recent report by the Walton Family Foundation that looked at the quality of life in northwest Arkansas. His story in today's newspaper, looks at the amenities in the area, who uses them and what other recreation options area residents have on their wish lists.
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers gives us a preview of the Walton Arts Center's 2013-2014 season.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the sacrifices some professors make when they sign on as an adjunct instructor. Plus, the personal papers of the prominent Arkansas politician Dale Bumpers are opened at the University of Arkansas.
Clint Schnekloth is the Lead Pastor at Good Shepard Lutheran Church in Fayetteville and the author of the new book, Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era.
at end of show: "Sunny of 75" by Joe Nichols
When the Arkansas Legislature convened this week, lawmakers proposed and pondered long-term solutions to the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid. The changes considered were meant to make the program more palatable to some politicians. We learn more in this morning's Week in Review.
"The Game of Love" by Daft Punk
In 1980, more than 125,000 Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro's communist regime were boatlifted to America and processed at military compounds including Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. Among the population were gay Cubans and prisoners that Castro had purged from his prisons. The Cubans were widely portrayed by the press as criminal—a stigma that's persisted. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, historians are working to clarify the record.
Photo: "Task Force Commander, Colonel Don E. Karr with Cuban refugee family"--Courtesy Fort Chaffee Museum
Charles Baum was both a philanthropist and a baseball lover. We learn more about the man behind the Arkansas Razorback's baseball stadium.
"Stubborn Love" by The Lumineers
Here are the ten sources for our Sunday Montage dedicated to bows, arrows and archers:
1) Sam Cooke sings tribute to Cupid.
2) Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) proves a point in the animated movie Brave.
3) Harry Nilsson sings Me and My Arrow.
4) Claude Rains and Errol Flynn meet in the 1939 version of Robin Hood.
5) Arya receives counter intuitive lessons on an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones.
6) Kacey Musgraves offers advice in her song Follow Your Arrow.
7) Legolas fails to impress in a scene from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
8) From the 80s: ABC's hit Poison Arrow.
9) Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) gets attention after her amazing shot in The Hunger Games.
10) The Halle Orchestra performs the greatest piece of music dedicated to an archer, Rossini's William Tell Overture.
Apologies to: Hawkeye, Green Arrow, The Golden Archer (and about 100 other comic book characters), Burt Reynolds in Deliverance, Edith Wharton, and Cock Robin. Maybe next time.
