That, and other performances, are happening in the area today.
Ozarks At Large
One of the country's most accomplished and most respected writers is coming to the Fayetteville Town Center Monday night.
Roby Brock talks with GOP gubernatorial hopeful Curtis Coleman as Talk Business Arkansas continues a series with 2014 candidates.The Arkansas Lottery Commission approves video games like keno to be used in the state. The ACLU of Arkansas files suit against the state for its new voter ID law. And recently passed ordinances concerning urban agriculture and food trucks take effect today in Fayetteville.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, I-540 undergoes a name change. And, we tinker around the Amazeum office in Bentonville.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience. The designation for a stretch of highway in Arkansas is changing to Interstate 49.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with Arkansas Living Treasure Robert Runyan. Also, the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands pays a visit to Springdale.
Rachael DeLue was recently in northwest Arkansas and while here talked to us about the concept of southern art...and if that can even be defined.
"Bloodstream by" Stateless
Friday the University of Arkansas hosted a science and engineering fair with participants from school districts in fifteen surrounding counties.
"Immigration" by Mark Orton
The state's Private Option saga continues, the state Supreme Court hears arguments in a case involving a major pharmaceutical company, and an Arkansas-based company announces the latest in a string of layoffs. Those stories and more in this morning's Week in Review.
The Red Cross has a new app for pet owners to help in emergencies.
During the University of Arkansas Libraries panel discussion on Daisy Bates and the Civil Rights Movement, Gerald Jordan and Janis Kearney, two graduates of the university, talked about attending the then-predominantly white campus.
"New York Morning" by Elbow
