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Stephen Colbert, J.J. Abrams to Hold a Nerd-Off at Montclair Film Festival
The Montclair Film Festival has lined up noted nerds Stephen Colbert and J.J. Abrams for a fundraiser event this fall that will see the duo hold a public discussion on their influences and work. Set for late November, “Stephen Colbert and J.J. Abrams: Celebrity Nerd-Off!” will take place just as the hype for Abrams’ upcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” reaches it peak ahead of the film’s Dec. 18 release. Colbert, meanwhile...
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Fall Country Music Preview 2015: 25 Essential Albums and Events
No matter if you listen to country music at dive bars, tailgate parties or spin class, there's a little something for everyone among the new albums being released this fall.
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Bacon & Beer Festival bringing craft brews, bacon-filled treats to Saginaw
Lovers of bacon and beer will converge on downtown Saginaw this weekend.
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Germany's Oktoberfest kicks off in Munich
Golden days have come again in Germany for keen beer-drinkers and sausage-eaters: the 182nd Oktoberfest has begun in Munich after the tapping of the first keg. The festival is expected to draw 6 million visitors. Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter on Saturday opened the 16-day festival in the Bavarian capital, tapping the first keg with just two blows of his large mallet in comparison with the four he needed at his first-ever attempt last year.
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242 Breweries Take Home Medals at 2015 Great American Beer Festival
The 2015 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition awarded 275 medals to some of the best commercial breweries in the United States, plus three GABF Pro-Am medals to teams of amateur brewers paired with professional brewers.
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Don't Miss These Top 10 Dishes at the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival
The 20th annual Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is off to a bang. I went opening weekend and it was packed. I waited more than 30 minutes in the Brazil line alone. (Fastpasses, please?) Hopefully, the lines have simmered down, but trying to visit all 30 food booths is still a daunting task. So here’s my list of the top 10 dishes you MUST try while at the festival.
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Italy’s fascinating Festival of the Snake-Catchers
“Obviously the people here aren’t sophisticated, otherwise they wouldn’t be hanging snakes on a statue, but they’re the real salt of the earth, and the food is fantastic.” By Richard Grant.
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Robert De Niro pulls anti-vaccination film from Tribeca film festival
Actor and co-founder of festival says he ‘did not believe film contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.’ By Alan Yuhas.
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SG8 memories; "スチームガーデン" Japan Steampunk festival
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20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men
For five days in Palm Springs, Arwa Mahdawi entered an alternate reality where gay women celebrate each other with pool parties, dancing and debauchery
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The first black arts festival was shaped by Cold War politics
The 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts was the first state-sponsored showcase of the work of black artists, musicians and poets. By David Murphy.
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Five Die From Mystery Drug At Rave Festival
At least five people have died and five are critically ill after apparently taking an unknown drug at an electronic music festival in Argentina. Two people in their 20s died during the Time Warp festival in Buenos Aires on Friday and three others died in an ambulance or at a hospital. Officials say most of those still in hospital are in comas. Dr Alberto Crescenti said medics are trying to determine what sort of drug caused the deaths.
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Munich Oktoberfest to get first-ever entrance checks
Revellers hoping to join in the carousing at Munich Oktoberfest will have to pass through a security check before entering the festival grounds this year, Munich authorities have said. People hoping to enter the Theresienwiese – the large open space where Oktoberfest is held each year – will have to pass through security checks, including bag checks, at all the entrances, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reported on Thursday.
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Onbashira Matsuri, Japan
Log riding!
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China's Dog Meat Festival Will Go On Despite Growing Protests
Held every year, the Yulin Dog Meat Festival results in the slaughter of thousands of dogs, which are then served in some of the restaurants in this city in south China. An international campaign to halt the killing keeps growing each year. Millions in Canada, the U.K. and the United States have signed petitions calling for China to end the festival, which is scheduled to start this year on June 21. Yet it not just foreign activists who are working to stop China's dog meat trade. There are now millions of pet owners in the world's most populous country.
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Dead & Company Welcomes Donna Jean Godchaux At Bonnaroo
Four former Grateful Dead members shared the stage last night during Dead & Company's headlining performance at Bonnaroo in Tennessee. [Pro-shot video of both sets in link]
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‘Burning Man for the 1%’
The desert party for the tech elite, with Eric Schmidt in a top hat, Further Future is the tech-centric, unapologetically luxurious alternative to Burning Man, complete with personal assistants, spa treatments and fine dining. By Nellie Bowles. (May 2, 2016)
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Japan's First VR Porn Festival Canceled Prematurely Because of Overcrowding
While it seems like the porn industry takes over many industries, virtual reality may take the cake. While we are still in the early stages of the VR industry, the adult side of things has already begun to infiltrate the space. In fact, VR porn searches have increased a staggering 10,000% over the last 20 months alone, and the trend does not seem to be letting up any time soon.
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Burning Man disputes $2.8M bill for federal land use permit
Burning Man organizers are disputing their $2.8 million bill from the federal government — the cost last year of hosting its popular outdoor festival in the Black Rock Desert, a national conservation area in Nevada. The festival takes issue with the Bureau of Land Management's discretion over the weeklong counterculture celebration, claiming that the authority has been overstaffing and overcharging without fully explaining the tab, as first reported by the Reno Gazette-Journal. "If they can't explain all of it, than we're asking for all of it back," said Ray Allen, the San Francisco-based Burning Man organization's lawyer.
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Inside the World’s Chicest Cult
Everyone has a threshold for New Age spirituality. At Spirit Weavers, a highly Instagrammable, sold-out women’s retreat, I hit mine. By Marisa Meltzer. (July 12, 2016)
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