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Edmonton Examiner
Good news for festival organizers, a University of Alberta study suggests that mobile phone usage drops during big, important events.
Elizabeth Halpenny, associate professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, teamed up with co-researchers Christine van Winkle and Kelly MacKay at the University of Manitoba and Ryerson University, respectively, to study how festival-goers use their phones during these events.
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Independent
Edinburgh has much to thanks its unique geography for, not least the rippling panorama of hills and inactive volcanoes – one of which has a castle perched on top of it – which give its centre a multi-storey effect and conspire to make it one of the world's most beautiful cities. This geography, as much as anything, is the reason the Edinburgh Festival actually began in Edinburgh at all.
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KNTV-TV
In the wake of deadly vehicle attacks in Europe, city officials and those protecting the Fremont Festival of the Arts installed large barriers designed to prevent such an attack from causing a catastrophe at the popular Bay Area event.
One dozen barriers, which are devised to halt a vehicle weighing in at 15,000 pounds and traveling at 40 mph from plowing into crowds, are blocking roads leading into the street festival expected to attract approximately 200,000 to 300,000 people this weekend.
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BBC News
A popular street festival has been cancelled after organisers said they needed extra security amid heightened terror fears.
Kings Heath Street Festival was planned for 10 September, but directors of the area's Business Improvement District have called it off.
They claim they need a "hostile vehicle mitigation plan, extra security and stewards, and bag searches".
Board chairman Chris O'Neill could not be contacted by the BBC.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Because of an approaching storm and warnings from the National Weather Service, Lollapalooza organizers and the City of Chicago ended the first day of the festival early. Festivalgoers were evacuated from Grant Park and are being directed by staff and the Chicago Police Department to pre-established underground evacuation and shelter sites along Michigan Avenue, according the Office of Emergency Management.
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Daily Herald Tribune
The Bear Creek Folk Festival has received $100,000 in funding for this year's event from the City of Grande Prairie.
Event founder and producer Sarah Card made her presentation to the community living committee recently where she asked for the funds in lieu of the $14,000 the festival already received from the city. Later that night during the regular council meeting, councillors approved the request.
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USA Today
Call it coast-to-coast ka-ching!
Just 2-3 minutes of darkness during the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse is bringing in millions of tourist dollars from Oregon to South Carolina as hotels, campgrounds, restaurants and museums enjoy a phenomenal boon to business.
Nashville, the largest U.S. city entirely in the path of the total eclipse, estimates 50,000-75,000 visitors will stay overnight and spend a total of $15 to $20 million, said Heather Middleton of the city's tourism board, VisitMusicCity.com.
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The Exponent Telegram
Fairs and festivals have been popular for several decades in West Virginia, some now approaching their 100-year anniversary. These events are able to bring communities together, while promoting family-friendly entertainment and agriculture, the root of many festivals in the state.
"Events are great for tourism throughout West Virginia and help boost local economies," said Gavin Ward, vice president of the West Virginia Association of Fairs and Festivals, which helps fairs and festivals make connections and provide marketing tools, in addition to several other services.
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Financial Express
If you thought music festivals in India have hit their saturation point, you couldn't be more wrong. With over 25 big-ticket festivals happening every year, you would wonder why another one? But the people behind Mahindra Open Sky would want you to rethink that, as the festival promises to be "different." Mahindra Open Sky, which makes its debut in November at Reggie's Camel Camp Osian, a luxury camp resort near Jodhpur, will present a finely curated line-up of Indian and international artistes, along with adventure activities and wellness workshops.
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Barron's
Heading into Live Nation's earnings release recently afternoon, the company had beaten Wall Street's revenue expectations for eight straight quarters. When the results came out, investors got quite the encore.
Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, posted sales of $2.8 billion for its latest quarter, up 29 percent from a year ago. The sales figure was also more than $400 million higher than what analysts were expecting. The company saw positive contributions from concerts, sponsorship, and ticketing.
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MLive
When the lights go out on Ribfest on Saturday night, it will bring to a close the least eventful festival season in downtown Kalamazoo in decades.
Once home to several summer festivals, Arcadia Creek Festival Place has hosted few in 2017. The lineup of larger festivals to use the space this year has dwindled to just Kalamazoo Pride in June, Ribfest in August and Audiotree Music Festival in September.
Through the 1980s and 90s, a city parking lot along East Water Street hosted a variety of festivals that drew thousands for food, drink and live music. Then in 2004, the sparkling new Arcadia Creek Festival Place opened across the street.
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Orlando Weekly
A Melbourne City Council member wants the city to defund parades featuring the Confederate flag.
Florida Today reports Melbourne Councilwoman Teresa Lopez made a motion Monday to remove $6,500 of taxpayer dollars given to the Fourth of July parade, the Memorial Day parade and the Veterans Day parade. During those parades, Confederate flags are usually displayed by the Confederate Sons Association of Florida Indian River Camp 47 and Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp J.J. Dickison Camp 1387, according to Today.
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Tribune 242
Former Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Thompson, who celebrated his 90th birthday Saturday evening, has offered to investigate the first two Junkanoo Carnival festivals "free of charge" so long as the Minnis administration provides him with the necessary staff to conduct the probe.
Thompson, who joined the Royal Bahamas Police Force at the age of 23 from his native Trinidad, told his guests at the birthday party given in his honour at the Paul Farquharson Convention Centre, East Street, that being from Trinidad he was very familiar with carnivals and festivals, but he never knew any of them to cost as much as those in the Bahamas.
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