Ozarks at Large
Weekdays at noon and 7 p.m. and Sundays at 9 a.m. on 91.3 FM and Weekdays at 7 p.m. on Little Rock Public Radio
A daily news magazine highlighting the people, places and events of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas River Valley.
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Updates and renovations are happening all across northwest Arkansas and Fayetteville, from street improvements to updates to local parks. We hear an update about improvements happening at Wilson Park.
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Keri Blakinger's path to journalism contains several twists. In her memoir, “Corrections in Ink," Blakinger writes about the day in Ithaca when she was arrested. Throughout the rest of the book, she gives details about her incarceration in jail, then prison, and her life before and after incarceration. Blakinger will talk about the memoir at the Fayetteville Public Library on April 22. She spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the book and event.
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"‘Home Sweet Home", City Session’s inaugural house show music festival will be taking place later this month. This unique event brings national artists to play alongside local musicians in several homes around the Bentonville area.
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The Arkansas Legislative Audit released a report on Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ purchase of a $19,029 lectern yesterday afternoon. The audit lists 7 different “areas of potential noncompliance with state law” by the Governor’s Office.
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Chef Michael Robertshaw of Pizzeria Ruby grew up in Boston. He recently met with Randy Wilburn to talk with him for “I Am Northwest Arkansas.” The conversation is part of Randy’s series focusing on recent transplants to the area. In this edited excerpt from the episode, Chef Michael discusses what brought him to the region, the difficult nature of the restaurant business and why he opened a restaurant in Johnson.
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On today's show, a team effort brings us the updates to Wilson Park in Fayetteville. Also, Keri Blakinger discusses her memoir about prison. Plus, life after prison. Plus, how a restaurateur decided to make pizza in Johnson.
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More than 40,000 dogs and cats have been saved in the state of Arkansas, in part because nearly half of the state’s 85 shelters have become no-kill. Two of those shelters are based in Northwest Arkansas.
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The UARK Jazz Festival continues this week on the University of Arkansas campus. Papo Vazquez, a Grammy-nominated Trombonist and composer, will be in residency for part of the week. Last week, Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams spoke with Papo over Zoom, joined by Lia Uribe, host of Sound Perimeter, and Ferndano Valencia, the director of the University of Arkansas Latin American Ensemble and percussion instructor.
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The Arkansas Department of Transportation is providing nearly $15 million to help facilitate 19 different electric vehicle charging stations across the state.
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A new HBO documentary about the Oklahoma City bombing uses archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. Randy Dixon from the Pyror Center returns to discuss extremism in Arkansas and how it could be connected to the bombing in 1995.