Drums in last year's Kid Zone area of Riverfest

Though this weekend will be filled with baklava and gyros at the Greek Food Festival, next weekend is Riverfest, and if you haven’t seen the lineup of musical acts, it’s here.

But there’s more than one reason to head to the annual festival on the waterfront. Maybe it’s the food. Maybe you’re going for the family-friendly activities. Or maybe you’re just down for seeing some hairy dudes in cut-off jeans eating turkey legs. Whatever tickles your fancy, that’s the subject of this week’s poll.

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The “Hawg Wild” motorcycle that former University of Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino crashed on that fateful day in April is now for sale on a site called copart.com. See the listing here. The story has piqued the curiosity of many on the internet who’d like to take a gander at the bike, which is being sold as-is, and has some visible defects and front-end damage.

The bike is a 2007 Harley Davidson, and as of this posting, the bidding was up to $5,300. The odometer shows 1,032 miles.

For this week’s question, we’re wondering, if you purchased the Hawg Wild, what would you do with it?

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Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in Dark Knight Rises... not to sway your vote or anything.

It’s time for summer blockbuster movie season. What? So soon? That’s right. Memorial Day weekend was the starting gun for the summer movie sprint, but in the past few years that line has slowly been pushed to earlier in the year. In the early spring, but The Hunger Games was putting up blockbuster numbers. And The Avengers arrives this weekend so the idea of a blockbuster movie actually opening during the summer is becoming fuzzy. So, in light of that, this week, we ask you which 2012 summer blockbuster you’re anticipating the most. 

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The street food scene in central Arkansas seems to be growing by the week with trucks and carts dishing up everything from catfish to barbecue to Mexican and Indian food.
The Arkansas Department of Health lists roughly 130 licensed mobile food units in Pulaski County alone. Some of those are mobile versions of brick-and-mortar restaurants, while others are snow cone stands or other concession trucks only seen at festivals and fairs. Some of the rest are seen regularly throughout the year in parking lots and on street corners throughout the year.
The recent addition of Food Truck Fridays to downtown Little Rock has been a hit among the 9-to-5 crowd. The weather seemed to put a damper on the second food truck event because even the threat of rain or cold or wind can have the potential to scare away finicky outdoor diners.
But when the sun is out at the new University Market at 4Corners, those co-workers looking for a way to please everyone at lunch show up by the car-ful, plop down at the new picnic tables or on tailgates and chow down on some grub in the great cement-covered outdoors.
The lot at Asher and University avenues has become the latest gathering place for food trucks from Monday to Friday for lunch. The business on evenings and weekends is more sporadic, says the park’s manager Jennifer Harrison. The best way to stay up to date on which trucks will be featured is to check the site’s Facebook page.

In honor of this street food boom, we’re wondering what’s your favorite kind of food truck?

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Now that Bobby Petrino has been sent packing by the University of Arkansas, the state’s sports fans naturally wonder who will take his place. Opinions range all over the place, but we wonder if you think any of the state’s regular sports experts in the media would make a good replacement. They’re essentially already experts on all things Razorbacks, right?

This poll is just for fun, and we don’t really think they should run the team, but just like Jon Stewart fans like to imagine him running for president, it could be fun to pretend for awhile that one of these celebrities might take the helm for the Hogs.

What do you think?

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*Sync acknowledges the inherent risk of leaving out a favorite sports person in such an exercise as this (apologies to devotees of David Bazzel, Jim Harris and the two-headed sports-spewing radio monster that is Justin Acri/Pat Bradley). Let us know if you want to see someone else carrying the clipboard for the Arkansas Razorbacks next fall in the comments.

Credit for this poll’s idea goes to Sync’s Sports Seer Evin Demirel. Follow him on Twitter here.

We can’t help ourselves. Yes, we know what Jeff Long really needs at this point is for someone to take him out for a cold brewsky and take his mind off this mess for a few minutes.
Not gonna happen. So, we’re going to do next best thing by deluging him with yet more frothy feedback. What’s your take on this titanic kerfuffle of a situation now that the deal has been sealed and Bobby Petrino has been cut from the team. What do you think should have been his fate?

** NOTE: This poll was originally posted before Long made his decision. It has been slightly altered from its original form.

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Baseball steals the nightlife scene.

Baseball is back as the Arkansas Travelers first home game of the season begins at 7:10 p.m. on Thursday night. It’s time once again for the nights under the lights at Dickey-Stephens Park rooting for the home team while munching on cotton candy and hot dogs. All of that leads us to wonder in this week’s poll, what’s your favorite thing about a game at the ballpark?

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The Mega Millions jackpot reaches a new high.

The potential Mega Millions lottery payout has reached a new record high at $500 million. The next drawing will be held on Friday.

According to a story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, “Julie Baldridge, a spokesman for the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, said the figure represents the highest jackpot ever in any lottery. Mega Millions jackpots start at $12 million and grow when no one matches all six numbers. The current jackpot started with a draw on Jan. 25 and had swelled to $376 million in Tuesday’s drawing.”

We’re wondering this week if you’ll go out of your way to play the lottery based on this record-setting jackpot total?

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Earlier this week, the Little Rock Airport Commission voted to rename the airport after Bill and Hillary Clinton. According to an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette story, “Commission member Kay Arnold reignited the discussion of the name change at a commission meeting in December. She argued that with the airport terminal undergoing a $67 million renovation, now would be a good time to put the new name on the new signs rather than go through the trouble and expense to do it later.”

The renovation will give the airport a new look, and as the newspaper reported, four commission members supported the name change.

“Following a public comment section, the panel approved the change to Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport at Adams Field. Chairman Jim Dailey said he believed the new name would go into effect immediately,” according to a story in Tuesday’s paper.

So, this week’s poll… How do you feel about the decision to rename the airport?

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Man, what a week (or two) it has been. Plenty of comments about women and how they should care for their lady parts from both sides of the aisles. Rush Limbaugh throws out the word slut to much backlash from … everyone, it seems.

The two leading Republican candidates are trying to prove they’re conservative enough to a Republican base, but a story in Business Week says that most Americans view contraception as a health issue and not a religious one.

While it’s too early to tell if this debate is having a measurable effect on voters in the Republican primary, according to the New York Times blog, it’s not too early to speculate about it in our weekly poll.

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