Sentences with phrase «big festivals also»

Big festivals also occur in Boston and Chicago, the landing place of many Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine of the early 1900s.

Not exact matches

Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

Summer also brings many festivals to the Big Easy, including a Fourth of July celebration on the Mississippi River.

Ahead of the year's biggest festival season, the company will also be spending on other promotional activities.

Big Church Day Out is a weekend - long music festival that is expected to attract 25,000 people and will also feature music from Tim Hughes, TobyMac and Phil Wickham

Chicago's annual Lollapalooza festival is one of the biggest music events the summer, not only drawing some of the world's biggest artists as headliners — this year included J. Cole, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem and the Red Hot Chili Peppers among others — but also an eclectic, genre - hopping collection of artists who are making the music that matters (where else can you see Chris Stapleton, Leon Bridges, Mute Math, Grimes and a supergroup comprised of Big Boi and Phantogram in the same afternoon?)

The destination festival will also feature live, in - ring matches with WWE ®'s NXT ® Superstars, as well as interactive experiences and art installations such as Big Bully, artist autograph signings at the Monster Energy Hospitality Rig, theMonster Energy viewing area with beverage sampling, The Crazy Dave's Music Experience, Jack Daniel's Experience, Jäger World, It's Miller Time VIP Lounge, Zippo Music Experience and more.

I also find my outfit important when I attend a festival, so when Zalando asked me to choose my favorite outfit on their website it was a big yes!

Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure is also too long, but it's bigger fault is that it borrows the central premise of Julia Loktev's far superior The Loneliest Planet (2011) and then turns that film's greatest strength — subtext expressed through ambiguous gestures — into pages and pages of festival - friendly, on - the - nose text.

September is here which means that while I'm still kicking sand off of my shoes we're also officially into the overlong but irresistible Oscar season as the big festival juggernauts begin...

In addition to handing over control of the Westworld narrative via a new mobile game, the multimedia festival also had some big news about the long - germinating Twins...

TIFF doesn't go overboard with awards, but because it is a public festival in the middle of a big city, the Audience Award is one of the most important awards they give out because it not only indicates which film is truly spectacular, but it means it also plays very well with general audiences.

While TIFF is known for its prestige and glamour, it's also a really, really big festival (nearly 400 features and shorts are playing this year), and thankfully that means there's room for a lot of fun, insane films.

The festival also introduced me to some up and coming artists and storytellers that eventually would make it big in the industry like Mike Judge, John Lasseter, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Bill Plympton, and Andrew Stanton.

The Weinstein Company's big push, The Imitation Game wouldn't / couldn't premiere in competition here because the film's composer, Alexandre Desplat, is also the head the festival's jury.

The Udine Far East Film Festival, one of Europe's biggest showcases for contemporary Asian cinema and also one of TwitchFilm's favorite international festivals, has officially unveiled its lineup during a press conference which took place earlier today.Covering a wide variety...

Screening everything from high - profile, celeb - heavy red - carpet - gala premieres of big Hollywood movies to the very best in independent cinema from around the world, the hub of the LFF is in and around Leicester Square in the West End, but the festival also branches out to include local movie houses all over London.

It's also very funny (Haden Church and Gershon share a moment that got the biggest laugh we heard all festival long), and suspenseful when it has to be.

Contemporary World Cinema, one of the biggest programs in the festival, was also announced.

He wants to save his only child from her seriousness and, with his muddling efforts, he (and Ines) also provided the Cannes audiences with some of the biggest and most unexpected laughs in the festival.

The movie, which opened the festival, also stars «Magic in the Moonlight» actress Emma Stone as the daughter of Keaton's character, Riggan Thomson; «Diana» actress Naomi Watts as an actress who dreams of making it big; and Edward Norton of «The Grand Budapest Hotel» as Mike Shiner, an egotistical actor.

While a large portion of my time is still spent working year round on festival planning and management, I also manage our «TCM Presents» series with Fathom Events which brings classic movies to the big screen in cinemas nationwide, help manage TCM's presence at events like the Telluride Film Festival, coordinate the technical preparations for our annual TCM Classic Cruise and I am excited to be taking on a new role in managing our DVD partnerships.

Big - budget fare will also abound at the festival.

With gin, the rise in boutique and craft distillers has helped to make it the trendy tipple du jour, but its growing popularity also rests on the fact that the big brands have been busy sponsoring TV programmes, festivals and vintage club nights and increasing its visibility.

With over 26 artists featuring on the Groovin the Moo double outdoor stages and in the Moolin Rouge big top tent, the festival also features local food stalls abundant with fresh produce and markets filled with knick knacks, licensed bar facilities, slingshot rides and chill out areas which all collide together to complete a premium recipe.

Home to some of the most world's biggest surf competitions, there are also a number of art and cultural festivals held throughout the year.

I also grew up in a poor valley region in California where we have a lot agriculture and huge Hmong immigrant population so I went to school with a lot of Hmong people (little known by Americans - as there are mostly Chinese, Thai, Korean people in the bigger cities) and got to go to a few food / culture festivals and see their beautiful embroidery -

Yabuki: This is also my first GDC — the scale of the conference is very big, and it almost feels like a fun festival of sorts.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Although music festivals often feature big name artists and once - in - a-lifetime performances, these events also often feature obnoxious crowds, messy locations, and «rustic» bathroom conditions.

Designed by a group of students at nearby Portland State University (PSU), #BetterNaito is also an experiment to see how Portland can deal with some of the festivals and events at Waterfront Park that can create dangerous circumstances for people walking and biking as big crowds on the walkways push them further and further into the car - filled streets.