September 4, 2024

Luca Guadagnino Has a Film at the Venice Film Festival and Curates Homo Faber

The film director and designer did double duty in Venice, Italy, debuting a film at the Venice Film Festival along with his curation of Homo Faber, […]
September 4, 2024

Luca Guadagnino Has a Film at the Venice Film Festival and Curates Homo Faber

The film director and designer did double duty in Venice, Italy, debuting a film at the Venice Film Festival along with his curation of Homo Faber, […]
April 15, 2024

15 Looks That Did the Most at Coachella

There was no shortage of celebrities onstage last weekend at the first installment of this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Southern California, where […]
December 1, 2023

Behind the Scenes With Volunteer Crews at the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival

When humans first soared in the air, it was not aboard an airplane. It was in a hot air balloon, in 1783 — 120 years before […]
October 19, 2023

New York Fungus Festival: the Wild and Wonderful World of Mushrooms

On a temperate fall afternoon, Vito Vacirca sported a black Borsalino fedora lined with dried turkey-tail mushrooms and violet-tinted sunglasses, a second pair of shades dangling […]
September 3, 2023

Burning Man: What to Know About the Mud and Flooding

Thousands of people were stuck at the Burning Man festival in Nevada this weekend because of rain and mud. It was not clear when, or how, […]
July 31, 2023

Dancing Till Dawn at a Music Festival in Albania

More than a dozen sweaty people in various states of undress giggled as a capoeira instructor directed us to crawl around on the floor. Make eye […]
October 10, 2022

Music Festivals Try to Go Green and Carbon Neutral

A handful of festivals are striving to become carbon neutral by reducing waste, using high-tech dance floors and offsetting emissions. In Nashville this past August, about […]
July 28, 2022

Where Rihanna Got Her Style Groove

It was midafternoon in Barbados, and a tall gate swung open onto a wide yard. Lauren Austin led the way through her home-turned-costume-production factory, stepping around […]
January 29, 2022

Sundance Canceled? Don’t Tell These Partygoers.

The film festival went virtual again this year. But that didn’t stop some veteran attendees from having a good time in Park City anyway. When the […]