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Burt Bacharach's music can be a warm blanket, and it inspired the national tour of Mark Morris Dance Group’s “The Look of Love.” Original choreography will accompany more than a dozen Bacharach songs on stage at Walton Arts Center on Wednesday, November 20. Marcy Harriell will sing those songs, and she visited the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk about singing for performance.

On today's show, Arkansas’ first Latina state representative. Also, Gabby Nagle performs world-premiere music in our Firmin-Garner Studio. Plus, an exercise in spreading civics knowledge in Arkansas expands for 2024.

Becca Martin-Brown returns to discuss modern events with a deeper history with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams. This week, the two reach out to Dalton Fischer with Silver Dollar City to learn more about the origins of holiday traditions at the famed Ozark theme park.

The National Institute of Health awarded more than $660,000 to a scientist with Arkansas Children’s Research Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to combat the challenges of childhood asthma.

The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Arkansas are joining forces again this year to host Arkansas’s portion of the 2025 National Civics Bee. Trish Villines coordinates the competition for the State Chamber and says it’s expanded from last year. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis reached out to Villines to learn more about the Bee and what students can expect.

On today's show, an NIH grant has been awarded to Arkansas Children’s to better understand childhood asthma in the state. Also, a field trip to research understudied animals in the Ozarks. Plus, Roby Brock brings us a new edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal.

On this edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, host Roby Brock brings us headlines from around the region, like Walmart's third-quarter earnings, new leaders at the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce and the UofA System, and the state's unemployment rate.

This excerpt of Short Talks from the Hill highlights Lanier Nalley and his work on rice production, international agricultural policy, the economics of plant genetics and international development.

Montreal-based skating troupe Le Patin Libre brings Murmuration to the Jones Center Ice Arena for four shows Nov. 22-23. Murmurations are synchronized mass flights of starlings that resemble living clouds. Alex Hamel, the founder of and a skater in Le Patin Leeb, told Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams he’s been obsessed with murmurations since childhood.

Conservation research can take you away from the office and into remote places. Our reporter, Jack Travis, learned this firsthand earlier this month. He tagged along on a field trip with the Ozark Bird Conservancy, a new nonprofit that aims to collect data on understudied species in the region and found himself in the middle of the forest at the Ozark Natural Science Center.