It's been a bordello, a restaurant and now a visitors center...and it's one of our favorite spaces in the region. We spent an afternoon at Miss Laura's in downtown Fort Smith,
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on Ozarks, the effort to help residents with some college credit finish their degrees will get a big boost next week when six area institutions of higher learning will combine for a Come Back to College Fair at the Jones Center in Springdale. Plus, we explain the place where advanced math and crochet meet....and looking for the place where mindfulness and mental health intersect.
Today, Razorback sporting events can be heard on dozens of radio stations across the state and seen anywhere in the world through the Internet. But as Hoyt Purvis, one of the authors of "Voices of the Razorbacks" puts it, it took decades for the Razorback Sports Network to develop into hat it is today.
Here are our clips for our Homecoming pig montage:
1. Charles Mingus an Goodbye Mr. PORK Pie Hat.
2. Arnold Ziffel is insulted on Green Acres.
3. The Yonder Mountain String Band plays the bluegrass standard Pig in a Pen.
4. Pooh and Piglet: a wonderful friendship.
5. An old jingle for Piggly Wiggly grocery stores.
6. Miss Piggy takes offense...and takes action.
7. Homer develops an odd friendship in The Simpsons Movie.
8. Fleetwood Mac, Tusk. It works, it works.
9. James Cromwell ends the movie Babe.
10. Porky Pig ends everything the same way.
Apologies to: the three little pigs, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, the warthog in The Lion King, E. B. White, and the cast of that so-deadful-it's-good movie from Australia, Razorback. Maybe next time.
1. Charles Mingus an Goodbye Mr. PORK Pie Hat.
2. Arnold Ziffel is insulted on Green Acres.
3. The Yonder Mountain String Band plays the bluegrass standard Pig in a Pen.
4. Pooh and Piglet: a wonderful friendship.
5. An old jingle for Piggly Wiggly grocery stores.
6. Miss Piggy takes offense...and takes action.
7. Homer develops an odd friendship in The Simpsons Movie.
8. Fleetwood Mac, Tusk. It works, it works.
9. James Cromwell ends the movie Babe.
10. Porky Pig ends everything the same way.
Apologies to: the three little pigs, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, the warthog in The Lion King, E. B. White, and the cast of that so-deadful-it's-good movie from Australia, Razorback. Maybe next time.
On game days, Tusk IV, the live mascot for the University of Arkansas, travels from his home near Dardanelle to Fayetteville to help cheer on the Razorbacks.On game days, Tusk IV, the live mascot for the University of Arkansas, travels from his home near Dardanelle to Fayetteville to help cheer on the Razorbacks.
Holiday Island is an upscale retirement community on Table Rock Lake in northern Carroll County. Late last year, state inspectors discovered that nearly three quarters of the piped water supply had gone missing. Jacqueline Froelich goes up there to take a look.Ahead on Ozarks…an algae with a funny nickname…didymo…has been found in the White River watershed. The plan to keep it form spreading has been put in motion. And writing a book through facilitated communication: Holly Fields explains how her non-verbal daughter, Stephanie R. Marks, wrote the book "Paula’s Journal: Surviving Autism."
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, June 23, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, coverage from a groundbreaking ceremony for Bentonville's new high school. Plus, a conversation with the author of “The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness.”
Big Cat Week kicks off tonight on National Geographic Wild Channel with Snow Leopard of Afgahnastan. Christina Thomas speaks with Tony Gerber director and producer of the film about the important presence the animal maintains in that country, as well as what the experience of tracking such an elusive species was like.
"Snow Leopard" by Grada
Several productions of Thu Nutcracker are happening today and nexty weekend in the region. Becca Martin Brown gives us the scoop on one scheduled for next Saturday in Springdale.
"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"
Tonight's Sunday Symphony features works by Alfven, Brahms and Britten. Katy Henriksen gives us a preview.
Alfven
Christina Thomas takes us to some beehives to find what the pollinators do during a typical winter and how they are faring this year given the unseasonably warm weather.
Here's the list of our bee clips for Sunday morning, December 9th, 2012
Wynton Marsalis performs Rimsky-Korsalov's "Flight of the Bumblebee"
Members of the cast of Arrested Development discuss Gob's plan for a bee business
Dean Martin's version of "The Birds and the Bees"
Winnie the Pooh in a not-so-smart disguise to get honey
Huey Lewis sings "Buzz Buzz Buzz"
Jerry Seinfeld wants to leave the hive in Bee Movie
Erykah Badu sings about love in her song "Honey"
From the first season of Saturday Night Live, the first appearance of The Killer Bees featuring guest host Elliot Gould
Michael Caine warns the residents of Maysville that the bees are coming! From the movie The Swarm
Slim Harpo sings "I'm a King Bee"
