Ozarks at Large

For the fifth consecutive December, Kevin Kinder from the Fayetteville Flyer and Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams compare their favorite music of the year and offer up plenty of samples of the artists. Kevin's list: The Jayhawks, Calling Mr. Proust A Tribe Called Quest, We Got it From Here Thank You 4 Your Service The Cactus Blossoms, You're Dreaming Angel Olson, My Woman Drive-By Truckers, American Band Car Seat Headrest, Teens of Denial Margo Price, Midwest Farmer's Daughter Michael Kiwanuka,

We continue our week-long examination of the music of 2016 with another list. This one is provided by Marty Scarbrough, a host and producer of the show Arkansas Roots on our partner station KASU in Jonesboro. Six days a week at noon, the show features Arkansas-centric music of all kinds, and each Monday Marty exclusively plays new Arkansas music. Today on our show, he offers up some of his favorite Arkansas-based music of the past 12 months.

Today, we continue our year-end list of favorites. We hear Antoinette Grajeda's favorite story of the year, which involved the creation, and destruction, of a mandala in Fayetteville, and KUAF's Katy Henriksen gives us a list of some of her favorite music of 2016. And, we hear about the continued troubles some same-sex couples in Arkansas are experiencing in getting both parents' names listed on their children's birth certificates.

Ahead today, we travel back to early 2016 when OAL’s TD spent part of an afternoon in the kitchen with Maudie Schmidt at Cafe Rue Orleans, making gumbo. It was his favorite story he produced this year and we’ll hear why he liked it so much. And Robert Ginsburg will be in the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to give us his list of favorite jazz from the previous 12 months.

This year's special holiday edition of Ozarks at Large includes performances by Chase Missy; Adams Collins and Dana Louise; and Brother Moses. We also hear a reading of The Polar Express by KNWA's Channing Barker, Becca Martin Brown gives us a list of the top arts and entertainment stories of northwest Arkansas from 2016, and David Johnson of Fayetteville Public Library gives us a preview of what to expect from the library in 2017.

On today's program, we speak with local solar entrepreneur Flint Richter about his efforts to install solar panels at an orphanage in Haiti and at a camp by the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Plus we learn about a project by a University of Arkansas art student that has seen installation of moss art at a number of downtown Fayetteville businesses.

On today's program, we learn about a major renovation taking place at Magdalene Serenity House in Fayetteville to allow it to accommodate more women. Also, we’ll learn how more than one scientific discipline at the University of Arkansas will be responsible for helping learn more about the migratory paths of the monarch butterfly.

On today's program, we learn more about the Ozark American folk art of Wilson and Wilson in Eureka Springs, and we hear from Amanda Cothren of Edible Ozarkansas and Adrienne Shaunfield of The Farmer's Table Cafe about locally sourcing foodstuffs throughout the year.

On today's program, we hear about a new coalition of a half-dozen criminal justice and prison reform groups in Arkansas are collaborating under a new campaign initiative called decARcerate. We also learn from Arkansas Public Media about what's ahead for instituting the state's voter-approved medical marijuana amendment.

On today’s program, families with children needing long-term medical attention have a new place to stay. Plus, plans to decommission a place once used for nuclear energy work.