What's your favorite thing about the community at transformational fests?
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There's talk of additional shows and fests, but we shall see.
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Maybe. Can't wait for the ensuing Mourinho-Zlatan love fests, though.
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Nicholas Sparks churns out schmaltzy sob-fests like it's his job.
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No, but you did these big lady fests, which was women dinners.
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But they won't, belabored shit-talk-fests at shitty bars afterwards notwithstanding.
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When it comes to music fests, none is as star-studded as Coachella.
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The photos from those fright fests are as horrifying as you might imagine.
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I find the behind-the-scenes people who make fests happen are particularly interesting.
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Both fests celebrate 70 years this summer, and they have a lot in store.
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"I went to one of these hemp fests in San Bernardino," he told the crowd.
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Predictably, Lovesick stores up the biggest of its many weep-fests for the series finales.
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It's very, very difficult to argue that film fests are the way of the future.
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There are "Google Fests" where students and businesses can learn about coding and e-commerce.
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Like many Toronto citizens, I experienced the fests through cellphone footage, IG videos, and live streams.
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Watching the film play at fests with an audience has been incredible, with that scene particularly.
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HONG KONG — The Hong Kong protests at times seem like love fests with the United States.
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What is markedly different now is the medium through which the public experiences these snipe-fests.
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Large fests, take note: women make great music, and music fans will pay to see them perform.
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The group goes from shred fests to folk-lite and pulls the switch off without a sweat.
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Certainly, on the horror scale, Malevolent falls a few grades below gore-fests like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Aggressive hectoring, reducing many town hall meetings to shout-fests, has become the headline these past few months.
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How many EDM fests have YOU gone to that take place on an island formed by two volcanoes?
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We can see this look working for just about every summer occasion, beach days and music fests included.
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And we also did the first six or seven Fests, so it's good, we know what it is.
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The other half blames the blamers, creating one of those hate-fests that feed on their own furies.
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You may also see the group at a wide variety of music fests across the country this summer.
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More well-known OCRs -- Mee describes them as "suffer-fests" -- tend to be more testosterone-fueled than family-friendly.
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Desert mega-fests are good and well, but we at Noisey like to keep things a little more weird.
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Trump has already turned televised appearances with his sycophantic cabinet and his congressional cronies into Dear Leader praise-fests.
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Bands travel to Instagram fests like Bonnaroo, in the wilds of Tennessee, and old standbys like Glastonbury, in England.
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Calm, clean Tea Party rallies were presented as threats to democracy while Occupy violence-fests were given outright sympathy.
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Netflix has a pretty epic collection of terrifying TV shows — selections perfect for spooky sleepovers and pre-Halloween binge-fests.
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And from the paranormal fright-fests and the psychological thrillers to the classics, that's what a good horror movie does.
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When you strip away shock-value violence from the genre, an impressive trove of genuinely well-made fright-fests remain.
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Research teams and dive companies try to predict the exact time these love-fests happen, since they've become tourist attractions.
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"I went to one of those hemp fests in San Bernardino," Rohrabacher added, describing where he found the topical treatment.
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Meeting people at fests is one of the reasons I've been able to play live in the first place. Meilenwald:.
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It's one of the few Canadian fests to actually have DJs and rappers on its bill, but most importantly: LORDE.
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That is to say, the Venice Film Festival is a bit of an awards predictor, as these fests tend to be.
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Netflix has a whole host of movies perfect for the Halloween season, ranging from cheesy favorites to downright terrifying scream-fests.
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The reason audiences have responded so enthusiastically to these nostalgia-fests—"Terminator: Genisys" excepted—is that that they are so uncynical.
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The routers are the people behind the curtain, uncovering the tricks that turn 70-hour RPGs into 30-minute glitch-fests.
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" Because Saturdays meant the local creature double-feature and fright-fests like "Carnival of Souls" and "The Pit and the Pendulum.
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Comfort food, however, is actually not out of the question for astronauts — and that's where the self-motivated nosh fests arise.
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It should meet the requirements of those who like their high-class cheese fests wrapped in European accents and antique locations.
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It means that the pressure is on to book fests that accurately capture the folks making music, and those listening to it.
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Though details were light, Niantic also confirmed plans to hold events similar to its Pokémon GO Fests for this new Potter title.
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Nocturnal Animals First of all, can we agree that this is one of the most user-friendly film fests currently in operation?
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I also met plenty of people at both fests who didn't know much about the music—they were just there to party.
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Meanwhile, Siberfian amalgamated the practices that transformed him from Steven of Long Island to Sridhar of Topanga into Bhakti and Shakti fests.
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The problem with gripe-fests in the workplace is that they tend to happen in some secret or "safe" place, like the bathroom.
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"All are films that distinguished themselves at film fests or theatrically or had critical acclaim," Mr. Powers said of the more recent selections.
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Thousands of people have shown up for our past Crunch Fests, so come early and don't miss out on this iconic day party!
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"Head" and "Lady Cab Driver" boomed from stacked pyramids of Cerwin-Vega speakers at the fabled freak fests hosted by Uncle Jamm's Army.
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There were kids from California roughing it for a week; middle-aged hippies from the music fests; hikers from the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Out-of-towners — many grizzled and wearing Hawaiian-style souvenir shirts from previous Jazz Fests — return for an annual immersion in Louisiana lore.
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That approach also lends itself to bills far more diverse than you often see in mainstream fests, both in genre and in demographics.
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Lots of hardcore bands come and go but Bane has been a constant for the past 20 years, playing the biggest shows and fests.
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After it gets you addicted to frightful laugh-fests, check out Housebound, Drag Me to Hell, Evil Dead II or Shaun of the Dead.
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To prepare me for my first Sundance and provide some context for film fests, I invited Verge Entertainment Editor Emily Yoshida onto the show.
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Perez thinks these Trump-bashing fests will focus the nation's attention on his party's presidential contenders and keep Trump from dominating the nation's dialogue.
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Mr. Auberjonois turned up at various fan fests for the "Star Trek" franchise and enjoyed the adulation — but as himself, not as an alien.
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We circled the entire country playing warehouses, basements, empty bars and nightclubs, parking lots and punk fests, living rooms, garages, and make shift art galleries.
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But the criminal-class bro-fests of his Snatch and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels merge awkwardly with the fantasy tropes at work here.
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Fun fact: it's one of the few big outdoor fests where open fires aren't allowed, so the team took that idea and ran with it.
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The result was an event that felt less like the corporate schmooze-fests of yore and more like a glimpse of gaming's theme-park future.
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Washington has finally come to the point where it can no longer tolerate inconclusive talk fests while China laughs all the way to the bank.
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With summer and its accompanying picnics and outdoor food fests fast approaching, more outbreaks are likely to mar the fun of unsuspecting diners this year.
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Against a backdrop of New Orleans jazz bands and poolside schmooze-fests — some call it spring break for the E.T.F. crowd — one event stood out, though.
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Apostle, which premieres on Netflix on October 12, sits at the intersection of The Wicker Man and director Gareth Evans' past gore-fests, like The Raid.
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For this semi annual blowout event, locals create shorts, many of which have made their way to film fests worldwide and rocked Sundance more than once.
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Film fests may be inefficient, impractical affairs, but they're also where a lot of seeds are planted, and where the audience's reaction has a real impact.
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Conventions are usually candidate love fests, filled with speeches extolling the nominee and trying to convince the American people why they should vote for their candidate.
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The musician has held these "Rick Springfield & Friends" fests for close to a decade, which started as concert cruises before moving them to land and resorts.
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But if you find that today's nuclear tweet-fests leave you only mildly anxious, she suggests trying to calm your fears with common stress-reducing techniques.
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Developer events may be nerd-fests, but they say more about the technology world, and where a company hopes to be in two or three years.
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Haunted houses, ghost tours and horror film fests are not my thing, and why people love having the daylights scared out of them completely escapes me.
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My first fast live-in love was a guy I met at one of those after-hour drunk fests at the restaurant where we both worked.
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Burning Man has hosted lavish wedding ceremonies for years, and smaller fests like Bonnaroo, Hangout Music Festival also allow attendees to tie the knot on the grounds.
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Long-held media wisdom claims that modern political polarization has been aided and abetted by cable news – 22019-hour scream-fests that speak only to the converted.
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The biggest stars often skipped those parties altogether, and instead beelined to the exclusive talent agency fests, held at the Sunset Tower Hotel and the Chateau Marmont.
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Film buffs differ some on which fests count as "major," but in general, the seven biggies are: Sundance, a showcase for independent film held every January in Park City, Utah; the Berlin International Film Festival in February; the prestigious Cannes festival held in the French city in May; late August's Venice festival; September's Telluride, Colorado, and Toronto fests; and then the New York Film Festival in late September or early October.
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In all competitions, defences have become more frugal and tactics more conservative, making goal-fests like the one Barcelona needed much rarer than they were in the past.
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You know, the kind from group birthday parties, Saturday nights back in the day with sitters and soda, and those late-night college (and post college!) grub-fests.
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Asked about FIFA-endorsed Fan Fests, he said FIFA had told his union they could be held only if the sponsors of the fan events gave their approval.
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Local talk-fests, spearheaded by the president himself, aired citizen grievances, with the hope of stifling a principal Yellow Vest complaint, that the French were not being heard.
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From parties at the hottest clubs in Miami to beach fests hosted by famous athletes, there are plenty of events beyond the big game during Super Bowl week.
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During the show's run, the artist Nayland Blake will periodically don a full-length bear costume and, as a character called Fursona, will stage hug-fests for visitors.
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This Is Us delivered a heartwarming episode, titled "The Club," that had audiences grabbing tissues for happy tears rather than the sob fests many have repeatedly come to love.
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But a year and three months ago I decided to let NBC's heartbreakingly dramatic primetime show, This Is Us, into my life and these weekly sob fests are the repercussion.
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See, you can't rate Nicholas Sparks titles like any old film — you've got to appreciate and judge them for what they are: clichéd sap-fests starring really good-looking people.
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Sunshine and manatees can't camouflage Florida's rich history of sleaze in cinema; the humidity and the Everglades have made the state an ideal setting for neo-noirs and gore fests.
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It's a proudly global program—a lineup that blurs boundaries, both geographic and generic, in a way that you won't come across outside of fests like UNSOUND or Miami's III points.
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The band's enjoyed a sweet ascent since releasing its 2016 debut LP Better Strange, selling out tours, playing fests, remixing songs by Bishop Briggs, and otherwise spreading its strange, psychedelic gospel.
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By turning his weekend's focus to a succession of bilateral schmooze fests, he left the leadership of the rest of the world to the likes of Merkel, Xi , Macron, even Putin.
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While the recent installments in the franchise have been celebrated for their bombastic (and seriously awesome) crash fests, even the most glowing reviews reference paper-thin plot lines and wooden dialogue.
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In this age of censorship-free cable and streaming comedy, we've become used to shows that uncover and flaunt the sadism that always lurked beneath classic laugh fests of domestic dysfunction.
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But no matter their unique wrinkles, regional fests devote a large chunk of their programming to films that originally played at one (or more) of a small handful of major international festivals.
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Dysfunctional families don't need a mass observation to prompt awkward, down-and-dirty dinner squabbles—and those pedestrian pathos-fests are often more entertaining (or more cringe-inducing) than the holiday ones.
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There were familiar faces like Thou, Hell, and Mutilation Rites (who had played both Wisconsin Gilead Fests and the first Migration), and new additions such as Tomb Mold, Scorched, and Cloud Rat.
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That's as it should be — those countries dominate Asian film production, and ticket buyers want their Hong Kong cop flicks and Japanese gore fests, their Korean dramas and Chinese kung fu spectaculars.
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Film Series Sunshine and manatees can't camouflage Florida's rich history of sleaze in cinema; the humidity and the Everglades have made the state an ideal setting for neo-noirs and gore fests.
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Port may have the biggest challenge in winning a new audience, as it is intensely sweet, high in alcohol and perhaps best suited for the postprandial smoke fests of a departed era.
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In film and TV, the mainstream manifestations of the genre seems to have split into either the boring gore fests of the Saw films or the corny camp of American Horror Story.
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Strong cases could be made for including Austin's SXSW; New York's Tribeca; Locarno, Switzerland's festival; or Busan, South Korea's — not to mention venerable big-city fests in Melbourne, London, Seattle, or San Francisco.
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As private and public institutions make room for zines and the people who create and enjoy them — from libraries to zine fests, colleges to art museums — that space extends beyond the zines themselves.
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But in our own era, when 24-hour instantaneous news shout-fests have replaced both the public square and smoke-filled backroom, professional politicians and their associates are locked in a permanent campaign.
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It's a bit of a rarity—of the games that have taken on healthcare as their topic, almost all of them ( Theme Hospital, Two Point Hospital, Surgeon Simulator) have all been goof-fests.
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For many fests, Haim—whose profile is especially high while they're very aggressively on the album promo cycle—would be an extremely good, face-saving get after the last-minute departure of Frank Ocean.
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When the first production debuted in 2009 as A Midsummer Nightmare Haunted House, the scene was filled with jump-scare fests that simply lined audiences up and ran them through as quickly as possible.
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Sure, New York Fashion Week may seem like an unlikely showcase for what is essentially a wrist computer, a product category that is usually rolled out at nerd-fests like the Consumer Electronics Show.
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The sponsors include McDonald's Corp, Coca-Cola, Adidas and Budweiser, a brand of brewer Anheuser-Busch Inbev NV. Reuters sought comment from all 16 sponsors associated with the World Cup and the Fan Fests.
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I've been to a few Goner Fests but my favorite was 2011 when Royal Headache, Straight Arrows, Kitchens' Floor, Deaf Wish played alongside acts such as Ty Segall, Icky Boyfriends and James Arthurs Manhunt.
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A lot of us are really over the rape-culture endorsement, the casual racism and the fat jokes, and we will not take our clicks and our money to straight, white, "rapey" bro fests.
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In March, two freshman fests, the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival (March 4 to 6) in Florida and Paradise Lost (March 10 to 12), Jamaica's first electronic dance music festival, make their debuts with impressive lineups.
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Boy Meets World: "And Then There Was Shawn" So "And Then There Was Shawn" originally aired in February, but we just can't resist including it among our favorite comedy fright-fests to revisit around Halloween.
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As a whole, the experience is lighter in tone than the jump-scare fests that some may look for in Halloween haunted houses, and it stops short of the psychological theatrics of something like Blackout.
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With their annual Fright Fests, Six Flags locations across the country have stepped up their game this year (and we don't just mean by offering people $300 to lay in a coffin for 30 hours).
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Hundreds of thousands of fans flock to the host nation, turning it into a logistical nightmare, although more watch matches on huge open air screens at so-called "fan fests" than in the stadiums themselves.
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That alliance was disrupted in the 1920s with a consumer-driven youth revolt against the prudish Victorian matriarch and a celebration of a motherless girl culture of flapper dance-a-thons, petting parties and gin fests.
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Formerly as Ansølo, and now dropping all pretense to just go with his legal name, Elgort's worked with heavy hitters like Logic, NERVO, and the Chainsmokers and performed at prominent fests like Electric Zoo and Ultra.
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In later years, she uses these chops more publicly, leading to juicy gossip fests like the #KimExposedTaylorParty, when she released video evidence that seemed to show that Taylor Swift was lying about Kardashian's husband Kanye West.
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If you despise slasher films, hate any scene that'll make you toss your popcorn, and flee spooky previews let alone full-length fright fests, then here's something really terrifying: Hollywood's horror industry is coming for you.
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These "regional fests" often feature local work, or sometimes have a special focus — like, for instance, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, or the action/science fiction/horror-centered Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal.
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Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival The smaller regional festivals — and even some of the bigger city fests — can give quirky art films places to be seen, to help build their reputation and their audience.
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Where music weekenders struggle to make their gatherings stand out in the mélange of mega-fests, Beach Goth's selection is gloriously eclectic and in some cases, when you imagine the artists standing shoulder to shoulder, downright bizarre.
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While the former is one of Twitch's many retro binge watch fests – it's previously streamed old shows like Bob Ross, Julia Child, Mister Rogers, SNL, and most recently, Knight Rider – the interactive feature it's debuting is something new.
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With entire "chains" of festival (such as the successful Death Fests and the growing Terror Fest circuit) and legendary events of absurd proportions like Wacken, it's easy for fans to experience uncertainty at the many choices before them.
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Here are some ways to get in on the action: Speak like a scurvy pirate (on social media) Yes, you can "update your plunderin," or manage your "grog fests" on Facebook in the ultimate test of pirate literacy.
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Here are some ways to get in on the action: Speak like a scurvy pirate (on social media) Yes, you can "update your plunderin," or manage your "grog fests" on Facebook in the ultimate test of pirate literacy.
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Mexico's Festival Nrmal—along with a similar crop of small-batch festivals like Dekmantel, Montreal's Mutek, Arizona's nascent FORM:Arcosanti, and New York's Sustain-Release—are providing an option outside of the big tents and samey lineups offered by most mega-fests.
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Playing a socially conscious brand of straight ahead grind, the band has been featured regularly on the bills of the country's one-off shows and mini-fests, such as the aforementioned Brutal Lunchbox and Nepal Deathfest, since forming in 2012.
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The allegations against her husband, CBS head Les Moonves, were exactly the kind of news — bridging human interest, celebrity, and the personal as political — that provides daily fodder on daytime gab fests, so it wouldn't have made sense for Chen to remain.
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Go and trade your zine with your friends, send it to bookstores all over the country, and enter zine fests—or just keep it for yourself and feel proud that you made your own tiny book, out of your own big ideas.
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Presented by 1955 Dot Zine at MoCADA, the inaugural event highlights the printed makings of artists of color, celebrating these creative individuals in a city that's already home to queer and feminist zine fests in addition to more established art book fairs.
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Before pop culture started borrowing the neon-laced sentiments of raving and predating regular news of kids being hospitalized at big fests due to overdoses, there was a thriving underground rave subculture running through the veins of numerous major cities in North America.
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Bhasin would usually be joined by Steve Claridge, Mark Bright or Leroy Rosenior, who would proceed to spend an hour and a half breezing through a load of lower-league goal fests with the odd shin-splintering tackle thrown in for a laugh.
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There is the Woodist Festival, held on the sea-blown cliffs of Big Sur, California; the folksy Huichica Festival in the hills of Sonoma Valley; and a new wave of boutique, hybrid art/music fests popping up in towns all along the Hudson.
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While we wait to see what Kimmel has in store for Sunday's big show, we're holding ourselves over with a look back at some of his best hosting moments ever, from awards shows and black tie dinners to his own late-night laugh-fests. 1.
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But, I mean, look, I think one thing that&aposs important here is that these tweet fests aside and the fights, for the most part, most Senators and most House members on the Republican side now are, in fact, taking the Thom Tillis approach.
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Of course, they've played Roadburn (as well as a clutch of other European fests) but Herder has also made their bones on the road, touring with the likes of Doomriders and Beastmilk and infecting the European continent with their infectious, sludgy, rock'n'roll-tinged doom.
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VemodFrom a fan perspective, Prophecy Fest is up there with small-scale, passion-driven fests like Iceland's Eistnaflug, Norway's Beyond the Gates, the USA's Migration Fest (more on that soon) and, in spirit if not in size, the most hallowed of them all, Roadburn.
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There are definitely reasons to believe in the vision that Google (and Microsoft, which is previewing its own similar service, xCloud) is pitching, where all games — including multiplayer twitch-fests like Stadia launch title "Destiny 2" — will be playable from anywhere, in glorious 4K resolution.
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That's why the women of The Real Housewives Of The O.C. have been having the exact same arguments for well over a decade, or why Real Housewives Of New York opened season 10 with nearly an identical fight to last year's Bethenny Frankel-Ramona Singer snipe-fests.
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That's right, dip-dying your limbs with washes of swirly, skin-friendly paints may be the final nail in the flower crown's coffin: The trend has popped up at the biggest music fests of the summer, like Lollapalooza, AfroPunk, and this weekend's Made in America Festival.
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Shelbie Z., Gretchen Wilson's "Work Hard, Play Harder" This was so underwhelming at the top of the show, but once my standards had been squelched by the rest of the snooze-fests, and I gave her a re-watch, the girl with the sparkly mic tails sounded amazing!
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Over the past few years, Mr. Hvorostovsky had been public about his treatment for brain cancer, and his appearances in New York City since his diagnosis had been love fests, culminating in a tumultuously received surprise cameo in May at the gala concert celebrating the Met's 50th anniversary at Lincoln Center.
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While we don't have the current membership's average age, that number has almost certainly dropped at least a hair during the membership's growth of the past three years—but the voting body's average age could explain why it was so fond of nostalgia-fests like Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody.
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I've got to admit, on a personal level, that the experience was intensely gratifying, because as a project Filastine often feels a bit contextually homeless, uncomfortable in orthodox electronic music spaces (nightclubs, fests), and shunned by the folksy world music scene, while there in this camp of migrants our art felt totally appropriate.
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"Remember, these are public lands we're talking about, no matter what else you call them — owned by every one of us," he said at a forum last year in Nevada, not far from the public land site where the rogue rancher Cliven Bundy staged one of his threat-fests in cowboy costume.
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Just as Putin no longer fills prison camps with countless "enemies of the people," as Stalin did, but, rather, makes a chilling example of a famous few, like the businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky or the group Pussy Riot, his propagandists have taken their cue from foreign forms: magazine shows, shout-fests, game shows, and reality shows.
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Well, before this first disclaimer gets any more out of hand, I'll move on — because if I don't, I'll soon get on a 'useful' tangent about the joys of certain breakfast cereals, especially those high-octane sugar-fests that had the best graphics and most lovable 'mascots,' and that your parents would almost never let you get.
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People who are game for a tense, socially provocative horror-thriller like Get Out aren't necessarily on board for gross-out fests like The Human Centipede, and while part of the tension of any horror movie is not knowing just how violent the story is going to get, one viewer's quality extreme cinema is another's overwhelming nightmare fuel.
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From recording early material with LA producer Nick Waterhouse, to eventually playing SoCal fests like Coachella and Desert Daze, they've spent the better part of the last decade floating in the scene, surfing, recording three albums and a number of singles that would cement them as mainstays of a rich garage sound embraced well beyond the beach.
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Several excellent, forward-thinking electronic music fests with heavy emphasis on new media, like VIA Fest in Pittsburgh, Day for Night in Houston, and Sub Chroma in Chicago have recently started offering VR experiences, but often relegate the headsets to different rooms from the main music acts, treating the technology like the sideshow freak it currently is.
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" We agree that most fan fests are for guys, that "super fandom" around most popular properties can be an impenetrable boys' club, and then she tells me about a woman she met who bought tickets for five of her friends and booked a room in the (pricey) Mayflower Inn, justifying the cost by explaining this weekend as "her Super Bowl.
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The mood of "The Secret Theatre" works perfectly in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse — which has always billed itself as a Jacobean playhouse, that's to say capturing the style and setting of an underrepresented theatrical era — and recalls such gore-fests of the period as John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi," the very play with which the theater first opened its doors in January 2014.
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Big, wild, manic fests like Hellfest or Wacken or even Maryland Deathfest all have their own considerable charms, but at least from my perspective as someone who's attended countless shows and festivals in 20-odd countries, these more intimate gatherings hit far harder and end up being a much better time, at least if you're more interested in experiencing the music itself than getting wasted and partying with thousands of people.
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I guess when your performances are carnivals of lunacy—vomit-inducing, freak fests that would molest the senses and often send people screaming towards the exits, either from the screeching fury of the musical tornado on display or the sort of kidnap dungeon environment the band would create in the room—then you can't just keep touring that shit into your grey years like the unremitting tours of KISS or Iron Maiden.
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The past few years have seen a significant rise in small-scale (boutique, even) metal festivals both here in the States and across the globe; I've been to a fair few of them, and while events like the Netherlands' Roadburn and Iceland's Eistnaflug will always hold an especially dear place in my heart, I'm awfully glad to see my North American pals stepping up to the plate and delivering some truly magical live music experiences, whether it's via Migration or one of the other fests like Shadow Woods, Covenant, Northwest Terror Fest, or Fire in the Mountains that have popped up in recent years.
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