2 h. ago Alarms raised over legitimacy of Fyre festival 2: ‘An event that does not exist’

After the announcement of a follow-up festival in Mexico, tourism and local officials have denied any knowledge of its existenceWhen tickets to the second Fyre festival went on sale this week, there was just one concrete detail: it would take place on Isla Mujeres, a tropical island off Cancún, Mexico.But the festival seems to be repeating its own history as an improvised disaster after the local government in Isla Mujeres denied knowing anything about it. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Reading and Leeds Festival 2025 announce 30 new names joining Travis Scott and Chappell Roan on star

Taking place across the August bank holiday weekend from the 21-24, the festival will once again be held at Richfield Avenue in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds.

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3 h. ago A look at Louisiana's Mardi Gras festivities through the years

The 2025 Carnival Season -- marked by a weekslong pre-Lenten bash and complete with colorful parades, shimmery beads tossed from floats and streets lined with costumed revelers -- is reaching its conclusion on the Gulf Coast

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5 h. ago Dram lovers mark their calendar ahead of ticket launch of Stirling Whisky Festival

Stirling Whisky Festival returns this May and will feature some of Scotland's top whisky producers, industry experts, and enthusiasts.

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6 h. ago The Spanish holiday resort rivalling the Cheltenham Festival for racing fans and punters

A growing number of horse racing fans are choosing to spend Cheltenham week watching and betting on the action from Benidorm instead of being at Prestbury Park

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6 h. ago Michael O'Sullivan to be honoured at Cheltenham 2025 as touching Festival tribute to late jockey revealed

O'Sullivan sadly passed away earlier this month a result of injuries sustained in a fall at Thurles

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6 h. ago Love Island's Chloe Burrows rescued by lifeguard on 'traumatic' Australia trip

Love Island favourite Chloe Burrows enjoyed a trip to Australia over the festive period, but it ended up being a bit 'traumatising' after she found herself in trouble

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6 h. ago Cheltenham 2025: First race at Festival to be run in Michael O’Sullivan’s memory

The Jockey Club and race sponsors Sky Bet have chosen to honour the jockey, who died from injuries sustained in a fall, in the race he captured in 2023

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7 h. ago Welcome back Billy McFarland and a new Fyre festival. Shows you can’t keep a good fantasist down

Fresh out of jail, does it matter that his 2017 festival was one of the biggest social-media-driven deceptions of our time? Not a bit“Since 2016, Fyre has been the most talked about festival in the world,” organiser Billy McFarland told a US broadcaster when tickets for Fyre 2 went on sale this week. McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison for wire fraud in 2018, related to his organisation of the first Fyre (he served only four). Whatever you think about the first Fyre – with its limp cheese sandwiches, its disaster-relief-tent accommodation, the absence of advertised headliners, the $26m of unpaid debt, the rats (were the rats influencer hyperbole? Perhaps, but on the other hand the festival happened on the parking lot of an abandoned resort development, and where else is a rat supposed to live?), you have to admit it lived up to one promise: it was legendary.Wire fraud is any swindling that happens electronically, whether by text, email, phone or social media. It’s so easy...

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10 h. ago Green Man 2025: Kneecap, Wet Leg, Underworld and more revealed for this year’s festival

Those who didn’t get tickets to this year’s Green Man festival, look away now 🎪🎶👀

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10 h. ago Outrage as two ‘Wolf Pack’ rapists use legal loophole to reduce sentences

Five men were convicted over the gang rape of a girl at the San Fermin bull-running festival in Pamplona in 2016

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12 h. ago Latitude 2025: Mika, Billy Bragg and and many more new names added to this year’s festival

Latitude Festival welcomes their latest range of performers set to take over Henham Park this summer 🎶🎪🎟

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16 h. ago ‘I’m still dancing’: Derbyshire woman has 105th birthday rave at care home

Hilda Jackson and fellow residents partied with strobe lights, glowsticks and drum’n’bass from festival-headlinerIt was a birthday party that would do even the most seasoned raver proud, with strobe lighting, glow sticks and a headline act who has played some of the biggest festivals in the UK.The birthday girl sipped on champagne, while guests helped themselves to free-flowing cocktails from a pop-up bar run by Jägermeister. This was not an Instagram influencer’s Ibiza pool party, however – it was Hilda Jackson’s 105th-birthday rave in her Derbyshire care home. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago As Mardi Gras approaches in New Orleans, maskers and parades take center stage

Carnival season 2025 is approaching its climax in New Orleans and all the Gulf Coast

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21 h. ago Glastonbury fans predict 'glorious' dance act could finally return for 2025 after hiatus as a result of festival rule

After missing out on the 2024 festival, fans believe the act will return to Worthy Farm this summer.

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21 h. ago Burning Man art plane gets a new life as a Las Vegas party venue

A decommissioned jumbo jet that Burning Man revelers partied in during the 2017 festival is getting a new life off the Las Vegas Strip

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24 h. ago Thriller filmed in Scotland ‘explores story of independent and strong woman’

The Glasgow Film Festival launched on Wednesday night with a red carpet event.

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25 h. ago Glastonbury fans certain major dance act is confirmed due to 'festival tradition'

As Glastonbury 2025 approaches, festival-goers are already speculating about which artists will grace the iconic stages of Worthy Farm - and one DJ's name has been thrown into the hat

Culture

26 h. ago Super Bowl reporter found dead in hotel room had sedative drug in his system, police say

A police detective has testified in court that the TV reporter who died while covering Super Bowl week in New Orleans had a sedative drug in his system

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27 h. ago Michael Owen goes full Michael Owen with 'miserable' experience at Cheltenham Festival

Michael Owen gave a very Michael Owen response as he admitted that jumps racing makes him ‘miserable’ when he was asked whether he would attend the Cheltenham Festival

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