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.”
Katy Henriksen gives us a preview of this evening's Sunday Symphony and Community Cinema event at the Fayetteville Public Library.
"The Red Violin" by Joshua Bell
Pluto was discovered 83 years ago on Monday, but it has since been downgraded to a dwarf planet. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas speaks with Robert Beauford, a doctoral student in space and planetary sciences at the University of Arkansas about how and why Pluto was downgraded.
Here is our out-of-this-world list of material that made up our space montage this morning. If you correctly identified them all, buy yourself a cold glass of Tang.
"Major Tom," as performed by David Bowie
Neil Armstrong lands on the moon.
Charlton Heston just before his space ship crashes into future earth. Spoiler alert: there are APES. This is the opening scene from the original Planet of the Apes
A commercial for Tang
HAL takes over in 2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shocking Blue with their biggest hit, "Venus"
A piece of the trailer for the disaster movie Armageddon. That's nativa Arkansan Billy Bob Thornton explaining "It's a meteor shower."
Pluto, the dog, barking in his 1952 cartoon, "Pluto's Party."
The worst bit of dialogue ever in a movie ("Future events such as these will affect you in the future.") from Plan 9 From Outer Space"
Holst's Mars from "The Planets"
"Pluto" by Clare and the Reasons
The Arkansas Legislature moves forward with a voter ID bill, the city of Fort Smith gets ready for some new fire equipment, and Bill Halter speaks out against changes to the lottery scholarship.
"Meteor" by The Bird and the Bee
Michael Tilley from The City Wire talks about strong homes sales in northwest Arkansas so far in 2013...and the murky future of an aquatic park in Sebastian County.
