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Click through the galley for a glimpse of what the annual Austin - based festival had in store this year.

The move is especially pertinent to Cannes as mega-producer Harvey Weinstein, the catalyst of the #MeToo movement, was accused of assaulting women at the festival in previous years.

The festival, also known as Chinese New Year, can be described as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even New Year's Eve rolled into one holiday, which marks the beginning of spring and the coming together of families.

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.

«This year, we're taking you on a nostalgia - fueled adventure,» Mashable stated in an article ahead of the festival.»

Goldenvoice's stance may be especially deflating for marijuana - friendly Coachella attendees due to the fact that the final week of this year's festival includes the date of April 20 (a Friday), which is the unofficial holiday for marijuana users worldwide.

It's a unique opportunity for Toronto - based Canada Goose, this year's official outerwear sponsor of the festival, to clad typically fashionable film folks in arctic apparel.

Even as photos of this year's festival have started trickling onto social media, many are still baffled by what exactly goes on at the week - long event.

For years, Markdale held an annual ice cream festival each summer, a sign of Chapman's pride of place within the community.

Established and newer arts festivals in Western Australia are enjoying growth and success this year, attracting an increasing number of artists and patrons.

But attitude alone isn't enough to explain the success of a festival that, with general admission tickets running between $ 100 and $ 135 per day, pulled in well north of $ 13 million this year before concessions.

The shooter, whom police have identified as 64 - year - old Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, using the elevated vantage point to fire into the crowds across the Las Vegas Strip at the Route 91 Harvest festival.

The South by Southwest festival, the annual gathering of the creative and technology elite in Austin, Texas, seemed divided into two camps this year: those who had business cards ready to exchange, and those who were puzzled to see those bits of paper still around.

The retail giant is showcasing two of its Prime Air drones to attendees of this year's annual South by Southwest festival in Texas.

Singles» Day is the world's largest online retail festival, amassing $ 17.6 billion in sales over the 24 - hour period — far more than America's Cyber Monday's reported sales of $ 3 billion last year.

For years he held private screenings of the movie (it's also been shown at a few film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.

A few years later, that success led to the formation of the Sled Island festival and then, in Vancouver, the Biltmore.

Known over the years as the Heart of Europe, the Pearl of the Danube and the Capital of Freedom (as well as the Capital of Spas and Thermal Baths and the Capital of Festivals), Budapest has long held a special place in the hearts of those who have known her.

So far, «Mr. Turner» is the clear hit of the three - day - old festival, with Leigh returning in triumph to the place where he won the Palme d'Or 18 years ago with «Secrets & Lies.»

According to Fremaux, the film festival had wanted to screen two Netflix films this year, in particular The Other Side Of The Wind, an unfinished project by Orson Welles.

For the cookout's tenth year, the Ritz Carlton — the presenter of this year's festival — has planned extravagant lunches, dinners, diving excursions, tastings, and demonstrations by chefs like Anthony Bourdain, Emeril Lagasse, and more.

Next year, Life Is Good expects to throw 23 pumpkin festivals on a single fall day, with the goal of raising more than $ 1 million.

And there's the Clio Cloud Conference, which attracted 1,000 attendees last year to a two - day event: «Sort of like the Burning Man festival of the legal industry,» is how one impressed attendee described it.

No matter what time of year you visit San Francisco, there are always plenty of things to do, from concerts to festivals to art exhibitions.

Last year, the company shocked festival goers when it zapped an intern with 80,000 volts of electricity using a taser - equipped drone.

The 2010 opening of the sleek TIFF Bell Lightbox marked the festival's transition from an 11 - day event to a year - round hub for cinephiles.

Unlike other festivals that screen films in the hopes of getting a bigger distribution deal, Ellison's crew plans to use social media and other tech to turn these films into year round events, it says.

Keep in mind last year at Sundance, we produced the film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition of the festival.

At this year's Cannes advertising festival, Snapchat, Daily Mail — where Jon Steinberg was CEO of MailOnline, Daily Mail's digital site in the US — and WPP, the biggest advertising agency holding group in the world, announced they would be banding together to launch a marketing agency called Truffle Pig.

Authorities said the suspected shooter, 64 - year - old Stephen Paddock of Nevada, appeared to have killed himself before police stormed his 32nd - floor Mandalay Bay hotel room, where they say he fired a high - capacity weapon on people below at a country music festival.

Some 180,000 stores in 330 cities across China, representing more than a thousand brands, will employ a variety of omnichannel strategies during the 11.11 festival this year to make shopping more convenient and rewarding, whether consumers are shopping online, in physical stores, or both, according to Alibaba.

Though the shopping festival was only launched a few years ago by Alibaba, the event has quickly surpassed the combines sales of the major U.S. shopping holidays, Cyber Monday and Black Friday.

Still, it was able to reach RMB 100 million ($ 14.4 million) in gross merchandise volume and finish with a higher GMV than all of the other merchants on Tmall Global during last year's 11.11 festival.

Braid's producers aim to wrap the film in time to screen it at next year's South by Southwest festival in Austin as part of the process of getting a distribution deal.

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

It's impossible highlight all of the amazing artists coming out to the festival this year, but Flyleaf, Leeland, Afterimage, Confide, Anberlin, The Fold and mewithoutyou should be enough to get you off your couch and into your car.

All Points West is boasting a stellar lineup for its first year of existence, including RELEVANT favorites like Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals and The Roots, newcomers like Duffy, and some unconventional festivals acts like Rodrigo y Gabriela and Trey Anastasio and the Classic Tab.

The Pagan festivals always coincided with the vernal Equinox on the 21st of March every year.

Everything this time of year is about Christmas — there are special greeting cards, special stamps, special lights, special decorations, special festivals, special music.

The festival, also called Pesach, falls in Jewish month of Nissan, and begins at sunset on April 6 this year.

CNN.com Religion Editor Dan Gilgoff explains the Jewish festival of Passover, which starts at sundown Monday and commemorates the Israelites» liberation from slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago.

Bible prophecy buffs point out that the eclipses happening this year are particularly significant because they all fall exactly on Jewish festivals: the ones in April 2014 and 2015 occur on the first day of Passover and the two in September are both on the first day of The Feast of Tabernacles.

A harvest festival commemorating the booths in which the Israelites resided during their 40 years in the wilderness, lasting for either 8 or 9 days and beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri.

So the Jews have this quaint custom of waving palm fronds during one of their religious festivals (they've been doing this for over 3000 years).

Now, randomness takes the shape of more pleasant surprises, like last year's performance at Atlanta music festival Music Midtown.

Unfortunately, church musicians often merely go through the motions of Sunday mornings and the festivals of the church year without sensing their order and relationship and without drawing on their tremendous potential.

The Guardian: Kumbh Mela festival is proof that crowds can be good for you Once a year, at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in northern India, something truly remarkable happens.

The stampede occurred about 7 p.m. after someone fell from a platform bridge in Allahabad, the scene of this year's Kumbh Mela festival, North - Central Railway spokesman Sandeep Mathur said.

It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.