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Melissa Block talks with John Reeves, self-described freeform industrial ice artist. Reeves is the artistic genius behind a 160-foot tall ice sculpture outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. Using strategically placed sprinklers, Reeves estimates that he flows about 6,000 gallons of water onto the sculpture every hour.

Oxford American magazine has released its 6th music issue, which includes a 23-track CD. The effort of collecting and compiling that many songs may seem like a strange choice for "the southern magazine of good writing," but editor Marc Smirnoff says it's actually quite natural. American music comes from the South, Smirnoff tells Steve as they highlight some of the tracks.

President Bush is in Dallas to address the Knights of Columbus in Dallas, a conservative Catholic group with 1.6 million members. The visit is part of an aggressive Bush campaign effort to win Catholic voters, who make up one-quarter of the electorate. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Tom Roberts of the National Catholic Reporter.

Ken Foster's memoir The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind is about to come out in paperback. He also contributed to and edited the collection Dog Culture: Writers on the Character of Canines. (This interview was first broadcast April 6, 2006.)

This year, Dolena Fox joined the 6% of professional American women pilots.

Pete Hartman speaks with Melissa Taylor, Manager for the Center for Innovation, about the Fayetteville Public Library Innovation Speakers Series continuing with ‘An Evening with Boots Riley’ on Monday, March 13th beginning at 6pm. This award winning director, writer, and musician will speak about his upcoming new series I’m a Virgo.

Western New York routinely gets buried with lake effect snow. This year the area saw one of the most extreme snowfalls on record, with 6.5 feet.

Gypsy Camp, constructed on the banks of the Illinois River south of Siloam Springs in rural Benton County almost a century ago, is being preserved. The…

The University of Arkansas' annual survey of 800 randomly selected residents was released last week, and shows the economy remains at the top of Arkansans…

The show begins with Governor Asa Hutchinson's support of road work, the lowest-single day total of new cases of COVID-19 since June, and Lance Harter…