Local fine folk artist Linda Sheets is currently working on a book about rescued dogs, a project that hopes to raise funds to help rescue organizations around the country.
More information is available at www.scratchingthrough.blogspot.com and www.blue-eyedponystudio.com.
For a video tour of Sheets’ studio, click here.
Ozarks At Large
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a psychology researcher explains the relationship between low-effort thought and the tendency to lean toward conservative ideology; and fine folk artist Linda Sheets works on a book about rescued dogs.Local fine folk artist Linda Sheets is currently working on a book about rescued dogs, a project that hopes to raise funds to help rescue organizations around the country.
More information is available at www.scratchingthrough.blogspot.com and www.blue-eyedponystudio.com.
For a video tour of Sheets’ studio, click here.
Ozarks at Large’s Katy Henriksen spoke with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy earlier this week. Wilco performs tomorrow night at the AMP in Fayetteville.
Columnist Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com discusses upcoming summer movies and TV shows. He also makes a book suggestion.
For those of us sequestered inside this spring time, bird expert, Joe Neal, brings us fresh recordings of spring-fevered Ozarks forests and fields. He is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir,” is published by Half-Acre Press.
For those of us sequestered inside this spring time, bird expert, Joe Neal, brings us fresh recordings of spring-fevered Ozarks forests and fields. He is coauthor of Arkansas Birds, published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir is published by Half-Acre Press.New revenue numbers show Arkansas took in $31 million more than expected for the month of April; Arkansas and Texas A&M will move their football series to campus sites for 2012 and 2013; and more – on today’s Segment A.
Walton Arts Center’s Artosphere Festival will present the Trail Mix Concert Tour this weekend. KUAF’s Robert Ginsburg will curate the concert tour. He spoke with Ozarks at Large’s Kyle Kellams about his plans for the event.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, Walmart launches several programs under its Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative; and author Geoffrey Oelsner discusses his book about his personal non-ordinary experiences. Dickson Street gets ready to host a “pup-crawl;” and a tribute to legendary musician Levon Helms on Arkasongs.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, April 25, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the band Elephant Revival stopped by the Frimin-Garner Performance Studio this month to talk about their instruments, their music and their social causes, and to play some music before their concert at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers reminds us that the Washtington Elementary PTO will host the 10th annual Tour of Homes Saturday.
Ozarks at Large's Meredith Martin Moats recently sat in on a conversation with Bud Rector, who will turn 99 later this year and has lived almost all his life in Yell County. We conclude her two-part report on his recollections of an Arkansas that has nearly vanished.
Daniel Hintz from Downtown Bentonville explains why dogs will rule an upcoming farmers' market and why art will be all over the city in June.
Arkansas Auditor of State Charlie Daniels announces he will not run for reelection and that he will retire from politics after nearly 30 years as a state constitutional officer. Benton County finishes an assessment regarding storm damage done to county roads last month. Early voting begins today to renew Sebastian County's 1 percent sales tax. And the state's largest non-government food aid charity gets a new chief executive.
"Dynomite" by March Fourth Marching Band
We tour Arkansas's first swine breeding CAFO (confined feeding animal operation) permitted to house 6,500 sows and piglets. Opponents claim it will impair the Buffalo National River Watershed and seek to shut it down.
Web Exclusive: Images From the C & H Hog Farm
