Ozarks at Large

Two more installations on the Famous Hardware façade in downtown Springdale will be celebrated tonight from 5:00-8:00. We met one of the artists, Jay Walker from Philadelphia, to ask him about his work Receiving. It brings light and warmth to the street.

The 2022 elections are a year away...except party primaries are closer. Roby Brock, with our partner Talk Business and Politics, asks a pair of political observers about what might happen as part of this week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal report.

The week leading into Thanksgiving offers many musical opportunities, from jazz and blues to folk, gospel and soul, and even a few Friendsgiving celebrations

This week, University of Arkansas music professor Lia Uribe has trains on the brain. We hear compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Jennifer Jolley and Heitor Villa Lobos.

On today's show, recent findings show that deer can carry COVID-19, so what does that mean for hunters this fall? Plus, reflecting on ten years of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and much more.

At the top of our midweek show: Olivia Walton will be stepping up as the new chairperson at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a new report shows Arkansas ranks as one of the worst states in the nation for new cases of lung cancer, and the highest one-day total of new cases of COVID-19 since early October.

USDA scientists have detected SARS-CoV-2 — the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — in white-tail deer in a half dozen states. New published research indicates deer are biologically vulnerable to the virus, which apparently is spreading deer-to-deer. This summer, Congress provided USDA Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) $300 million through the American Rescue Plan Act to expand monitoring and surveillance of susceptible animals for SARS-CoV-2, to measure the incidence as well as implications.

On the latest episode of Undisciplined, host Dr. Caree Banton turns the tables on former co-host Warrington Sebree as he shares what led him to choose going to the University of Arkansas and what he gained from his time in African and African American Studies classes.

It has been ten years (and a few days) since Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened to the public. Yesterday we met with Jill Wagar, the deputy director of Crystal Bridges, to reflect on the first decade. She was one of our guests on our live broadcast from Bentonville the day the museum opened.

On today's show, Grammy nominee Mary Lambert and Arkansas alum Dr. Wyatt Paige Hermansen were on the University of Arkansas campus last night for their first-ever live conversation event. Plus, seeking Arkansas’ living treasures, and much more.