Severe weather rolled through northwest Arkansas last night, though no injuries were reported in Benton or Carroll counties. State Treasurer Martha Shoffner appeared in court yesterday, and the city of Fayetteville plans to plant its first community orchard.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: we dig into archives from the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History once again with the center’s director, Randy Dixon. He brings us the sounds of sports in Arkansas for the past 45 years, including the voices of Brooks Robinson, Paul Eels and even Richard Nixon. Plus The eulogy for a piece of northwest infrastructure that marks a change in how we drive. And opera takes center stage on this week’s edition of Arkansongs.Sharp-eyed residents of Fayetteville have noted that recent construction in the city has meant a shift when it comes to traffic lights in the city. Ozarks at Large's Timothy Dennis has these thoughts about the change.
Becca Martin Brown says the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas has just ended its latest season and is already prepping for the next one.
Randy Dixon, the director of the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History, is back with more clips of Arkansas history. This time the topic is sports.
Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, has the recap on the past week’s news in Arkansas politics and business.Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, an app that could help a doctor save a life, plus new ways to shop make it easier for consumers, but could also make it easier for those who steal. And, Kyle and Christina talk about what they learned this week.
Here are the ten clips for our montage dedicated to streets, roads and avenues:
1. Nat King Cole gets us started with Route 66.
2. Gloria Swanson as the doomed Nora Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.
3. U2 sings Where the Streets Have No Name.
4. Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko in Wall Steet.
5. Bruce Springsteen sings 10th Avenue Freeze Out.
6. Michael Conrad offers his end-of-meeting statement on Hill Street Blues.
7. The opening theme, of course, from Sesame Street.
8. Part of the trailer from the original Nightmare on Elm Street.
9. Jack Kerouac reads from the last page of On the Road.
10. Willie is On the Road Again.
Apologies to Bob Dylan’s Highway 61, the cast of Mulholland Drive, any number of other songwriters and Kraftwerk’s Autobahn (but then again, the German group was included in last week’s montage). Maybe next time.
As part of Artosphere, artist Stacy Levy has created a floating piece of artwork on Lake Fayetteville that is comprised of native plants and is titled Spiral Wetland.
New in-store retail technologies, such as iPhone barcode scanning and self checkout lanes are transforming how we shop. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, these innovations may increase theft—what the industry refers to as “shrink.” (Photo courtesy StopLift Checkout Vision Systems)Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks…a spare budget, a stark story and a love of Arkansas locations are ingredients for a new movie called Come Morning. The northwest Arkansas premier is in a few weeks and we'll hear from the film’s creator. Plus a preview of GIS Day…how creating maps has changed in just the past thirty years…and how the earth changed 10-thousand years ago. Michael Jochim offers a preview of his talk tonight about the end of the last ice age and how the planet changed.
The 15th annual Komen Ozark Race for the Cure is later this month.
"Taxman" by Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
Gloria Goodwin Raheja is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota and spoke on the University of Arkansas campus this spring. Her upcoming book is titled Logan County Blues: Frank Hutchison in the Sonic Landscape of the Appalachian Coalfields, which explores the injustices committed by the coal mining companies against coal miners, and how the miners fought against the companies through music.
Tartufi is a trio from San Francisco coming to Nightbird Books in Fayetteville tomorrow night. Their latest CD is “These Factory Days.” As OAL’s Katy Henriksen reports, the trio… made up of Lynne Angel, Brian Gorman and Ben Thorne… doesn’t always do things conventionally.
This week the staff of the Fayetteville Public Library asked customers: what do you want next?
Web Exclusive: What The Library of the Future Might Include
"Architect" by Trey Anastasio
Christina Thomas visits Timothy Nutt, head of special collections for the University of Arkansas library. Nutt says that the library's collections are directly affected by the death of letter writing.
