Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.
The Arkansas Teacher Corps received a $5.1 million Walton Family Foundation grant to fund 114 new fellowships, targeting teacher shortages in rural and high-poverty school districts.
Jazz vocalist Michael Mayo, nominated for two Grammys for his album Fly, speaks with KUAF's Shades of Jazz host Robert Ginsberg ahead of his Feb. 21 show at Walton Arts Center.
Cindy Quayle's fourth Claire O'Keefe mystery, Lies Are Better at the Lake, brings her scuba-diving sleuth home to a fictionalized Northwest Arkansas for an event at Pearl's Books on April 12.