As a free, two-night poetry festival approaches, we hear from another participating poet.
LINK: For more about the festival, click here.
Ozarks At Large
Nathan Vandiver from our content partner KUAR in Little Rock provides a wrap-up of this year's Legislative Session.
The art department at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville has taken over the basement of the Bank of America Building on the square in downtown Fayetteville for the month of April with sUgAR's pop-up gallery featuring work from BFA honors students and MFA candidates. Katy Henriksen has this report.
Web Exclusive: Images From the sUgAR GalleryBecca Martin Brown says the rumours are true. Fleetwood Mac is coming close enough to see several times.
For the past few months there have been meetings, open to the public, to discuss making Fayetteville a city of compassion. We met with two of the organizers of the meetings to find out what it might take for a more compassionate place.
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The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and the Northwest Arkansas Council yesterday announced that the college is now the sixth member of the higher education consortium.
Tom Vilsack, the country's Secretary of Agriculture, was the esteemed speaker of yesterday's Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture at the University of Arkansas. He took the opportunity to speak candidly with the standing room only crowd about short-, medium-, and long-term ag public policy goals, and about opening lines of communication.Governor Mike Beebe and the state legislature tie up some loose ends at the conclusion of the legislative session, the Northwest Arkansas Council holds a summit for area leaders to figure out how to connect immigrants--either international or domestic--to resources in the area. A group of concerned area residents held a protest on the U of A campus yesterday in an attempt to draw U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's attention to the confined animal feeding operation set to operate in the Buffalo River Watershed, and a group of UAFS students plan a run to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks…the controversy over a large hog farm near the Buffalo River continues, and forces opposed to the farm are organizing in what may be a last-ditch effort to alter the plan. Plus, a hearing this week examines the future footprint of the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, and we listen to a critically-acclaimed band from Montreal arriving in Fayetteville tomorrow night.
Wayne Bell says the blockbuster schedule from Hollywood is some lengthy he can only offer a preview of the first half of summer.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, what implementation of the Affordable Care Act may mean for Arkansans; our final piece explores what long-term care patients can expect. And, Shakespeare returns to the park, Plus, the future of print media from the Washington Post to the Arkansas Times. How the print and digital worlds are changing and trying to survive. Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas talks with Blake Rutherford of McLarty Companies about how national and local media companies are adapting to changing times.
Roby Brock from talkbusiness.net recently talked with Shane Broadway, interim director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, about including more people in the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship program.
“Till Tom Special” by Charlie Christian
Becca Martin Brown, features editor for Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, assures us summer won’t last forever. She gives us a preview of the Benton County Fair.
First published 80 years ago, "I’ll Fly Away" by Albert Brumley, is one of the most recorded songs ever. A new foundation inspired by the song and its author will keep the song’s spirit alive for future generations:
For more information, visit the foundation's website here.
The University of Arkansas surpasses its 2012 fundraising goal, efforts to get Sunday liquor sales legalized move forward in Springdale, a group pushing for medical marijuana turns its additional signatures in to the state, and more.
"Vertigo" by Phillip Glass
The Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center officially opens today on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. More information is available at children.uark.edu.
