Tonight’s concert at Rogers Little Theater includes Earl and Them. Earl Cate recently visited our studio to talk about his career with the Cates Brother Band and more.
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Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has a list of not one, not two, but several end-of-the-world activities.
For well over a century the Gibson family has been making baskets in northwest Arkansas. We recently spent an afternoon with Terry Gibson, a fourth-generation artisan, learning how the baskets are created.
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses what’s next for the 188th at Fort Chaffee and the race for the Governor’s Mansion in 2014.Congressman Mike Ross will be leaving Washington next month, and he shared with Roby Brock what he felt were some of his achievements during his time in elected office. Plus, the Razorback baseball team is ranked number one in the nation in a preseason poll by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
Ahead on Ozarks, a new program at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is designed to strengthen arts connections at the collegiate level…downtown Fayetteville gets the fireworks and arts ready for New Years Eve…and singer/songwriter Tony Presley comes to the Firmin Garner Performance Studio to play music before he leaves town for tour.Local musician/songwriter Tony Presley's musical project is called Real Live Tigers. For Presley, who self-releases and self-books tours, music a labor of love. He's got a show coming up at Nightbird Books on Dickson Street in Fayetteville Saturday night before embarking on a Southeast tour. He stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance studio recently to play us a few songs and discuss why he plays music with "Ozarks at Large's" Katy Henriksen.
Web exclusive: A Couple More Tunes From Tony Presley
The Last Night celebration will send the old year out with fireworks and a pig drop. Yes, a pig drop.
Although 2012 was a tough year for agriculture in Arkansas, farmers are getting better prepared for next year. Also, the city of Fayetteville is renovating a pair of tennis courts at Wilson Park in an attempt to attract more young athletes to the sport. And Senator John Boozman speaks out against the Defense Authorization Act and the uncertain future for the 188th Fighter Wing in Fort Smith.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, with less than a week until Christmas, we get into the holiday spirit as the a capella quartet 540 Express stops by for a performance. And, if you're still looking for a Christmas present, perhaps you would be interested in a new children's edition of Pinocchio.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks: from the archives, excerpts from an interview with the recently deceased Mariam McPartland, recorded in Fayetteville in 1990. Plus, the Cooperative Emergency Outreach moves into a new building after temporarily closing last fall. And, an update on White Nose Syndrome; the fungus that causes the disease has been found in Arkansas.
Along with the late John Lewis, Tim McFarland founded CEO Forums in 2006 and has encouraged numerous corporate, non-profit and small business leaders in the years since.
An effort is underway in Fayetteville to increase the amount of public art in the city.
"Autumn" by Max Richter
This All Hallow’s Eve we take you to Droke House, an abandoned Washington County country estate which facilitator Vickie Kelly is seeking to transform into a final resting place for souls craving to go “to ground”—under the state’s first sustainable cemetery.
For years Frank Tavares has been the voice of NPR's underwriting announcements. He's also a writer and professor.
Here is the list for our montage on the 100th anniversary of the income tax in the United States:
1. The Beatles, of course, with Taxman.
2. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, as the Blues Brothers, beat the tax deadline.
3. Johnny Cash sings After Taxes.
4. Robert De Niro's Al Capone thinks he can beat the tax rap in the (historically inaccurate) movie The Untouchables.
5. The Kinks' Sunny Afternoon.
6. Andy makes a reluctant partner in The Shawshank Redemption.
7. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings wonder What if We All Stopped Paying Taxes.
8. Errol Flynn challenges Claude Rains in Robin Hood.
9. A can't-miss plan is hatched by Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder in the original version of The Producers.
10. Danny Kaye uses Irving Berlin's lyrics to proclaim I Paid My Income Tax Today.
Apologies to: Willie Nelson, James Brown, Billy Bragg, Johnny Paycheck and the makers of The Joe Louis Story. Maybe next time.
