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Before we get to Christmas, we have to get to Thanksgiving.
Recently, CBSN New York's Nina Kapur got a sneak peek at the floats that we'll see in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Each of the brand new floats were designed with the audience in mind. For example, the New York Life float features a dollhouse, and in each room, a family milestone is celebrated — everything from having a baby to gathering around the table for a Thanksgiving meal is on display.
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Detroit Metro Times
The 93rd Thanksgiving Day parade in Detroit will feature a number of celebrity guests and new floats, and the theme for this year’s parade is "Detroit Shining Bright."
Local big names include 1984 Detroit Tigers World Champions Lance Parrish and Dave Rozema, Disney star Isaac Ryan Brown, and 2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic Champion Nate Lashley.
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The Scotsman
A city centre business chief has accused critics of Edinburgh, Scotland's, controversial Christmas market of "jumping on a bandwagon" to further their own agendas and threatening the future of the city's lucrative winter festivals.
Roddy Smith, chief executive of Essential Edinburgh — which represents 600 hotels, bars, restaurants and retailers — said the city could not afford to "dilute the impact" of one of its biggest and most successful events.
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Travel + Leisure
New York City is about to get a whole lot brighter. This December, New York's Citi Field will host the largest lantern festival in North America.
The event, known as the Hello Panda Festival, will take over some 700,000 square feet of space and entertain guests with a fully interactive and multisensory experience.
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Access All Areas
When it comes to event trends, Vegas doesn't keep its secrets for long. The entertainment Mecca has championed world-wide phenomena from Cirque Du Soleil to megastar residencies, but Access' recent trip to the tax-friendly State of Nevada unearthed some game changing projects. The destination that caters for every human desire is poised for one of the world's most exciting festival projects, but that's just the start.
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Builtin
Last fall, Greta Van Fleet took the stage at Las Vegas' Life is Beautiful festival for a show unlike any other.
With ASL music interpreter Amber Galloway and her team perched next to them ready to interpret their lyrics through sign, a crowd of nearly 200 people stood primed to rock out. Half the crowd was deaf, half was not, but for the next hour, you couldn't tell which was which as they jammed out together to the band's Led Zeppelin-inspired tunes.
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Pollstar
Ticket agent Gigantic conducted a survey among 3020 U.K. customers, asking them about their preferences, experiences and expectations when it comes to festivals.
61% of respondents said they still preferred a Greenfield festival over other types like city or seaside festivals.
Unsurprisingly, 35% chose camping as their preferred mode of accommodation during a festival. Just above 20% said they preferred to go home an sleep in their own bed, followed by just under who said their favorite means of spending the night was in a hotel offsite.
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BBC News
Music tourism in Northern Ireland generated £90m of spending in 2018, according to a new report.
It was compiled by U.K. Music, the industry body of the British music industry.
The figure includes money spent on things like tickets, merchandise and accommodation as well as spending by organizers running an event. The report said that in 2018 the total contribution of the music industry to the U.K. economy overall was £5.2 billion.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
On a cold, gray November day a little bit of summer came through at Maier Festival Park.
Milwaukee World Festival Inc., parent company of Summerfest, showed off the progress of its $53 million overhaul of the facility's largest venue, the American Family Insurance Amphitheater.
Local media was invited to tour the 23,000-capacity venue Monday, which is still a work in progress but right on schedule to be completed in time for the 2020 festival
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Taste of Country
The mass shooting that killed 58 people in Las Vegas in 2017 has claimed another victim. Fox 12 in Oregon reports that a woman who was shot and paralyzed in the shooting rampage has died as a result of her injuries.
Vancouver resident Dena Sarvela tells Fox 12 that her sister, Kim Gervais, was among those who were seriously injured on Oct. 1, 2017, when a lone gunman opened fire on the audience at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas from a hotel room contiguous to the concert site. Her injuries left her paralyzed.
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The Guardian
The rapper Ja Rule was officially dismissed on Monday from a $100M class-action lawsuit filed by Fyre festival attendees, clearing him of any legal wrongdoing. Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, co-founded the festival with Billy McFarland, and repeatedly advertised it to the millions of followers on his social pages.
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The Guardian
New South Wales police officers are being investigated over the strip-search of "several" minors at an underage music festival this year.
On Wednesday the state's police watchdog, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, will announce public hearings into the strip-search of "several young people" at the Lost City Music festival, an under-18s event held in Sydney in February.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A local company has become the first in the city to receive a federal waiver allowing its operators to fly drones over people — highlighting just how far the nascent industry has come in a short period of time.
While the company largely plans to use the drones on constructions sites, the waiver could eventually lead to the ability to fly over large crowds at festivals — or even to make deliveries.
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AdNews
Global insurance company Chubb has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with the Australian Open.
The brand joins as the official insurance partner for the event which takes place in January. Tennis Australia declined to comment on the size of the deal.
"We are delighted to announce our partnership with Chubb, a leading global insurance company with operations in 54 countries and territories," says Tennis Australia CRO Richard Heaselgrave.
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Livemint
Dating app Tinder has announced the launch of its new unique in-app user experience, Festival Mode, in India that will help connect festival attendees before they arrive onsite.
The new feature will allow users to add a badge to their profile highlighting their planned festival destination. Thereon, users will be able to match and chat with other users attending the same event before they arrive at the intended destination.
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Argus Leader
Putting on festivals, parades and block parties in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, could soon cost more.
But proposed changes coming from the Sioux Falls mayor's office could be "crippling" for some longstanding community events, event organizers said Monday.
An increasing amount of special events that require standby service by the Sioux Falls police and fire departments has Mayor Paul TenHaken pushing for a fee hike when the closure of streets and the use of public parks is needed.
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AFP UK via Yahoo News
Patrols and whistle distribution: A Tunisian women's rights association is conducting a groundbreaking prevention campaign on the risks of sexual harassment during a festival that drew some 5,000 people to the Sahara desert.
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The Guardian
Australia invests heavily in its major festivals: $5 million in state government funding for Sydney festival, $7 million for Perth, and $9m for Adelaide.
Funding has remained relatively constant over the past five years even as it has been slashed for other arts. Adelaide festival will even receive an additional $1.25m a year for the next three years while the rest of the local sector faces cuts. Sydney and Perth's festivals champion local work that reckons with Australia's past, but Adelaide’s could be happening anywhere in the world.
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Insurance Journal
Fire destroyed one building and damaged another last week on the grounds for an annual festival celebrating German culture in the Texas city of New Braunfels.
While fire officials work to determine the cause, Wurstfest organizers say they’ll rebuild in time for next year’s festival. The festival, which celebrates German culture with beer, sausages and music, marks its 60th anniversary next year.
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Bungalower
The Rotary Club of Orlando launched its inaugural Christmas Parade last year on Saturday, Dec. 8, seeking to bring back an annual tradition that had vanished from downtown Orlando for decades.
But apparently that was just a tease as the Rotary Club officially announced on Monday, November 18 that it was canceling its 2019 parade.
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CBC News
Harry Potter fans were left disappointed after paying more than $50 a ticket to a wizard-themed event for adults at the Rialto Theatre Friday.
Georgiana Elias was one of the first in line for the event that was supposed to begin at 6 p.m. As the line started moving about half an hour later, the excitement was building among the hundreds of costumed guests. Event description promised a night out of the Harry Potter universe, but some attendees called it a scam.
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