Ahead on Ozarks, what the long-anticipated Flyover means for motorists in Northwest Arkansas, how ska music can help reduce the population of homeless pets in the region, and why a summer reading assignment inspired students at Haas Hall Academy.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on Ozarks, what the long-anticipated Flyover means for motorists in Northwest Arkansas, how ska music can help reduce the population of homeless pets in the region, and why a summer reading assignment inspired students at Haas Hall Academy.
The senior class at Haas Hall Academy had a summer reading assignment. That book has inspired a movement at the school.
Ground will be broken early this new year on a much-anticipated northwest Arkansas highway project, known as the “Fayetteville Flyover” which will create easy access from North College Avenue to both the mall district and Interstate 540.Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: analyzing the motivation of Arkansas voters this fall. Roby Brock and Jay Barth, co-creators of a poll asking Arkansans about why they voted the way they did this month, discuss those findings. Plus Maser, an artist with public works in Dublin, Prague and Fort Smith, explains what’s behind the art he’ll exhibit tomorrow night in Fayetteville.Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large: the debate over the resources directed toward charter schools, and we'll preview December's local theater offerings including the latest edition of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" at the Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale.The 21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville is a combination boutique hotel, art museum and restaurant, all modeled after the flagship 21c in Louisville, Kentucky. Each hotel has its own flock of unique sculptures.
The purpose of public charter schools is to expand school choice, test innovation, and help raise grade-level proficiency--especially in low-performing minority districts. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, critics say charters distress districts and segregate the best students. Ahead on Ozarks: how food and explosive population growth in Fayetteville might be related. We’ll find out how research at the University of Arkansas is creating a plan to make a larger city self-sustainable when it comes to food. Plus the Ozarks Chorale spends most Tuesdays inside a middle school cafeteria, working toward public concerts.Hope 2012, a one-day health and service event, was held this fall. One of the chief organizers, Kevin Fitzpatrick, tells us what this fourth edition of the event tells us about northwest Arkansas.
Leading up to Black Friday, organizers for a union-backed Walmart employee strike boasted a mass demonstration across 46 states in protest of unfair labor conditions. By late Friday no such strike materialized. Still, as Jacqueline Froelich reports, dozens of protests did occur—as Walmart corporate kept its guard up.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, February 28, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: it has been 60 years since the largest-ever nuclear weapons test by the United States took place on the Marshall Islands' Bikini Atoll. Today, many Marshallese, including several northwest Arkansas residents, are marking the anniversary of the Castle Bravo Blast. Plus, Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gets us ready for the weekend, Michael Tilley from The City Wire helps us analyze the week's news, and more.
Dr. Rosilee Walker Russell of the UA-Fort Smith Academy of the Arts has the details on about what’s in store for the academy.
“Butterfly’s Day Out” by Mark O’Connor
Eureka Springs is one of five cities in Arkansas that has signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection agreement and the first in the state to conduct a comprehensive community greenhouse gas emissions inventory.
Ozarks at Large’s Antoinette Grajeda finds out why some Dickson Street businesses are moving to other locations in Fayetteville.
“Silence is for Suckers” by Chris Bathgate
Comic Kathleen Madigan, Maroon 5, The Foo Fighters, and Alison Krauss & Union Station are some of the many reasons why you should make a trip to Kansas City this September.
“Rain Please Go Away” by Alison Krauss and Union Station
Wayne Bell of www.fayettevilleflyer.com talks about this year’s Emmy nominees and who’s most likely to win.
