Are you going to the Rally to Restore Sanity?
WELL, YOU SHOULD!
It takes place on Saturday October 30th in Washington D.C. at the National Mall. Check out the website for more information:
www.rallytorestoresanity.com
If you can’t make it, then be sure to check in with the Johnsonville Press because I’ll be there covering the event and providing live updates on our Twitter page. Sign up to follow us on Twitter so you don’t miss out! (www.twitter.com/jvpress)
Also look for an article during the week after the Rally for a detailed account of the event …

Understanding Qat is integral to any understanding of Yemen. Qat is a stimulant, however it is a stimulant unlike anything popularly consumed or documented in the United States. It gives the user an energetic rush typically associated with cocaine, but with a distinctively mellow feeling that prevents him from utilizing the energy in any real way.

I will be arguing in defense of the study of art history. My reasons for doing so are elaborated below. I have included in this piece a number of pictures of some of my favorite pieces of art. They are reproduced here under the fair use policy of the United States. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

After taking the train from New Brunswick all the way to Montreal, I am convinced that flying would have been the fastest and easiest option. Amtrak’s Adirondack line follows the Hudson River Valley and Adirondack mountains, starting from Penn Station in New York, and traveling through Albany, and Saratoga Springs to Montreal. The trip takes twelve hours on a good day and nearly fourteen when the Canadian Border Patrol takes a particular interest in a couple of passengers. Despite the length of the journey, and how much faster flying from …

Having spent a semester studying abroad in Paris, France, French Literature major Matia Guardabascio brings you to some of her favorite spots in the city of lights, including Montmartre and Sacre Coeur, Rodin’s “Thinker” and the Statue of Liberty (in Paris), and of course, the Eiffel Tower . Paris, Je t’aime, as they say…Enjoy.

Carnavales. A month-long debaucherous hell-of-a-good time. As I wrote in my last column, it takes a lot more than a few words to fully explain this experience. Therefore, I have decided to let pictures do most of the talking.  Below, you will find a few notes to supplement your curiosity. You can click through them at your own pace, pause the show to read some of my notes, or enlarge it to full screen for added effect. Enjoy!

While on a recent trip to Berlin, Germany, Ali Riaz took the time to catalog examples of the prolific graffiti and street art on display there. No photo’s have been doctored in any way. Enjoy.

My journey into Korea started with an application to teach English in rural Korea under the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology. Unlike other programs that offer people the chance to teach English abroad, this program is unique in that it offers both long and short term contracts to its scholars, and as much as they want their applicants to be able to provide exposure to Korean students who often do not have such a chance to experience the English language, they also want to provide their scholars with the ability to learn and love the Korean culture through planned trips, excursions…

Immersion. What else can describe the sensation of diving into new? New what? New everything. I submersed myself into a new lifestyle, while speaking a new language, surrounded by complete and utter strangers. Though they weren’t strangers for long.
My first clear memory of the Cajamarca I know is stepping onto the roof of my new home/workplace. Everywhere I looked there was unfiltered, natural beauty. Well almost everywhere. There was the ugly roof of our next door neighbors. I digress. To my left was a breathtaking view of evergreen mountains. To …

I read an interesting article[1] the other day by Tom Swick, a veteran travel writer.[2] In it, Tom made mention of the precarious state of travel writing today. Staff writers are becoming more and more scarce, even as their freelance counterparts are finding it harder and harder to sell their work, and all at a time when travel writing is just coming into its own. On the one hand magazines and newspapers, almost universally afflicted with substandard advertisement income and faltering readership bases, are less and less ready, willing or …