The Traveler

Thousands of motorcyclists, blues fans and barbecue lovers will 
flock to Fayetteville this weekend for the annual festival, "Bikes 
Blues and BBQ." The projected attendance for this weekend is 200 to 300 
thousand people, said Nelson Driver, event director and UA economics instructor.…

A Little Rock journalist told Sierra Club members that the staff of a congressman harassed her after she covered a congressional hearing on the National Environmental Policy Act. She also voiced her concerns for the future of the environment at the meeting Wednesday night.…

The OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology and the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union joined together this week to participate in September Banned Books Week. Local residents celebrated their freedom by reading an excerpt of a banned book this Wednesday at the OMNI Center.…

Tragedy has plagued students at the UA this semester. Student deaths along with the two hurricanes have students riding a precarious emotional rollercoaster. "We have data that indicates that about 25 percent of our students at the university experience depression sometime during the year, at such a level it interferes with their study," said Jonathan Perry, the director of the Counseling and Psychological Services.…

The more I study Italian traffic laws, the more I believe that there are none. Just because there is a line dividing a two-way street does not mean that you cannot drive on the other side. It just means that someone might be driving in the opposite direction at some point in time.…

I've been in Europe for just over three weeks now. After years of planning and dreaming there were a lot of things I was ready for and expected, but in just three weeks I could already fill a guidebook with the surprises, both good and bad. * I didn't know that washing machines could be as tiny as the one in my apartment unless marketed as a toy for 6 year olds.…