As you Like It will be performed by the University of Arkansas, and an Earth Day Celebration is just around the corner. Becca Martin Brown has What’s Up.
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Here are the ten clips used in our salute to jumping:
- “Jump Around” House of Pain
- White Men Can’t Jump
- “Jumpin Jive” Joe Jackson
- Dirty Harry
- “Jumpin Jack Flash” Rolling Stones
- 21 Jump Street
- “Jump in Line” from Beetlejuice
- Divergent
- “Jump” Van Halen
- Tony Danza on Sesame Street
On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience. One of the country's most accomplished and most respected writers is coming to the Fayetteville Town Center Monday night.
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.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we learn about traditional Native American ecological and cultural practices. Plus, we hear a roundtable discussion about recent political polling data for this year's statewide elections.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, gives us a preview of a weekend with just about everything.
USDA Forest Service officials gathered with tribal foresters and scientists for an annual three-day conference in Fayetteville last week. Jacqueline Froelich met with three indigenous participants to talk about traditional ecological and cultural practices.
Web Exclusive: An Extended Interview With Everett Walker
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.
Just in time for cooler weather our local food ambassador, Teresa Maurer, has a stew made almost entirely from local produce.
For more information about slow food in the region, visit ozarkslowfood.org
Web Exclusive: Teresa Mauer's Fall Market Stew Recipe
City officials in Rogers update the city's sign ordinance, unemployment numbers fall in the state and the city of Fort Smith plans improvements for the coming year.
"The Only One" by The Black Keys
A Eureka Springs organization offers medical assistance to anybody regardless of the patients' ability to pay. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas talks to one of the organization's co-founders about Echo's plans for the future.
A farm has sprouted in the middle of Fayetteville and the people behind the effort want to help change the way we think about food.
For more information, visit Tri Cycle Farms' Facebook page.
"Back in the Game" by The Greyboy Allstars
Nature recordist and Ozarks at Large essayist Joe Neal brings us the otherworldly sound the thrush. Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book is “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir.”
