The 71st Berlin film festival awarded its Golden Bear top prize Friday to “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” by Romania’s Radu Jude, a satire skewering pandemic-era social hypocrisy with the story of a teacher whose sex tape winds up on the internet.
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The Second Circuit upheld the denial of a preliminary injunction in a trademark dispute between Woodstock Ventures LLC, the brand behind the 1969 music festival — which now sells Woodstock-branded cannabis — and Woodstock Roots, which has registered a trademark for “smokers’ articles.”
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Over 50 years after the seminal music festival, a federal appeals court considered competing claims to use the name for the sale of recreational marijuana.
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The organizers of an indoor music festival in Barcelona to test the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening said Wednesday that preliminary results indicate there was zero transmission inside the venue.
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The First Amendment rights of an Iowa street preacher were violated when police hustled him away from a Davenport street festival, his lawyer told an Eighth Circuit panel Tuesday.
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A federal judge denied class certification to a worldwide group of Fyre Festival attendees who didn’t get what they paid for when they arrived at the failed 2017 luxury music festival. Damages vary widely among the festivalgoers, and it cannot be shown that all attendees relied on the same allegedly fraudulent marketing statements when they purchased tickets or airfare.
Read moreIn a First Amendment dispute, a federal court in Tennessee ruled against three “preachers” moved by officers from the entrance of a park during an LGBTQ festival. The three, who confronted festival-goers and used an amplification system to spout slurs, were moved from the park to a sidewalk because of their actions, not the content of their message, the court ruled.
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India’s environmental court on Monday ordered a ban on firecrackers during the country’s biggest annual festival in cities battling hazardously poor air quality, citing a link between pollution and a coronavirus surge.
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She’s been a princess, a president, a Marine Corps sergeant, an astronaut and a Star Wars stormtrooper. In Mexico for the Day of the Dead festival, Barbie is even a skeleton.
Read moreA California appeals court revived negligence claims against entertainment company Live Nation brought by the family of a 19-year-old girl who died of a drug overdose at the 2015 Hard Summer Music Festival. Live Nation challenged the family’s contention that the girl would have survived had appropriate medical care been readily available, but the company did not offer any supporting evidence.
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Venice is reclaiming its place as a top cultural destination with the opening of the Venice Film Festival — the first major in-person cinema showcase of the coronavirus era after Cannes canceled and other international festivals opted to go mostly online this year.
Read moreA federal judge in South Carolina declined to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit accusing the city of Myrtle Beach of implementing discriminatory policies during a bikers’ festival primarily attended by African Americans that are not used during a bikers’ festival primarily attended by white bikers.
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The Seventh Circuit on Thursday unanimously sided with the Oneida Nation in its fight with a Wisconsin village over the village’s authority to force the tribe to get permits for the annual apple festival on its reservation.
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Organizers of the Tournament of Roses Parade canceled the annual New Year’s Day festivities on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of high-profile events claimed by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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If you ever find yourself holding your breath during a particularly thrilling Independence Day fireworks show, you might be better off: A study released Wednesday reveals common fireworks emit lead, copper and other toxins that can damage human cells and animal lungs.
Read moreBavaria on Tuesday canceled the iconic Oktoberfest for the first time since World War II, dealing a fresh blow to Germany’s beer industry already hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Burning Man organizers sued the Bureau of Land Management on Sunday to block the agency from turning over “confidential financial information” to a fervent critic who claims the annual festival cheats his rural Nevada county out of vital revenue each year.
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The Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments via telephone Monday in a dispute over whether a Wisconsin village can force the Oneida Nation to get a permit for an annual festival on the tribe’s reservation.
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The weather was lovely, the carnival celebration was lively and lasted for weeks, the floats hand-decorated and impressive. Excitement, cheer and a feeling of love for community, music and drink was in the air. But so was an invisible foe.
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