Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala tonight at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville. Earlier this week, they stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance and played their song "It's You and It's Me."
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Tom Vilsack, the country's Secretary of Agriculture, was the esteemed speaker of yesterday's Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture at the University of Arkansas. He took the opportunity to speak candidly with the standing room only crowd about short-, medium-, and long-term ag public policy goals, and about opening lines of communication.
Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala Sunday night at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville.
Michael Tilley of The City Wire says that the latest tax revenue report for the city of Fort Smith has some good news, and the latest hospitality numbers in Northwest Arkansas look promising.
We continue our series previewing this weekend's poetry festival at Nightbird Books. Katie Nichol grew up in St. Cloud, Minnesota and says she started writing poetry when she was about 12 years old:
For the past few months there have been meetings, open to the public, to discuss making Fayetteville a city of compassion. We met with two of the organizers of the meetings to find out what it might take for a more compassionate place.
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Tom Vilsack, the country's Secretary of Agriculture, was the esteemed speaker of yesterday's Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture at the University of Arkansas. He took the opportunity to speak candidly with the standing room only crowd about short-, medium-, and long-term ag public policy goals, and about opening lines of communication.
This weekend more than 20 poets, both local and from out of town, will read their work during the Burning Chair Readings at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
Katy Hneriksen gives us a preview of this week's KUAF Sunday Symphony, as well as a look at this month's Community Cinema event at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Republican Attorney General runoff candidates discuss medical marijuana and the death penalty. Also, we take a look back at the desegregation of public swimming pools.
Donny and Marie Osmond, and Cheech and Chong are among the performers Becca says you can see if you take a road trip soon.
"We Three Kings" by Mannheim Steamroller
Arkansas State University will break ground on a campus in Queretaro, Mexico in February.
The deadline to apply for the Arkansas Festival Grant Program, which has been organized by the Arkansas Agriculture Department, is January 24, 2014.
The King Opera House in Van Buren has seen many changes since it first opened in 1901. We pay a visit to learn about the many roles it has played over the course of more than a century.
A survey of more than 100 Arkansas business executives shows some confidence for the coming year. A non-profit legal services agency receives several thousand dollars in grantt money to help provide legal information to residents across the state. Bella Vista seeks several hundred thousand dollars in federal grants for redesign of some traffic-clodded streets. And the state board of education yesterday released four school districts from fiscal distress.
"Wright Brothers Rag" by Wynton Marsalis