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This weekend, Ashtyn Barbaree will release her first full-length album with a show at Fayetteville Public Library. To prepare for the release of "Better Luck Next Time," Ashtyn and bassist Nick Caffrey, pedal steel player Ty Dunn, and guitarist and pianist Jacob Campbell, recently came to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to talk about the album and to give us a preview.

Oral historian Alex Primm has authored a new book titled “Ozark Voices: Oral Histories from the Heartland,” published by McFarland & Company. The book aims to inspire wider pursuit of oral history – by illustrating its method and value.

Between the late 1800s through the 1970s, thousands of towns deemed themselves sundown towns to drive out Black populations from living in them, including Springdale. Trey Carlisle and Todd Mack are the co-creators of the Black Legacy Project, and came to discuss the project’s goals and how the roundtable impacted community members.

University of Arkansas music professor Lia Uribe this week explores the depth of innocence. We hear music by Zinia Chan, Ensemble Francaix, and Javier Navarrete.

The Memorial Day weekend offers many opportunities for live music throughout the region.

New York Times best-selling author David Grann's book "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" will be the topic of his talk at Fayetteville Public Library on June 2nd.

Randy Dixon from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History takes us back to 1998 and the school shooting of Westside Junior High School in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

The only diaper-specific donation organization in Northwest Arkansas received 100,000 diapers from Sam's Club and Huggies. Audrey Zavaleta, Executive Director of Diaper Collective, said WIC and SNAP don't cover diapers, leaving many struggling families without a basic necessity for their children.

An abundance early summer wild flowers are blooming on the Ozarks after plentiful spring rains, including tall flowering poison hemlock. We visit a meadow south of Cane Hill where University of Arkansas Herbarium collections manager Jennifer Ogle explains just how toxic hemlock is to the touch.

Sponsored by the Arkansas Cinema Society and outdoor apparel company LIVSN Designs, the film THE 24 documents the 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell endurance rock climbing competition in Jasper, Arkansas, arrives at Thaden School screens. We hear from ACS's Kody Ford and LIVSN Design's Kelsey Ferguson, who say the film captures the emotion and community connection at the world competition.