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Kwaku Summer Festival: Fifty Years of Football, Food, and Freedom Runs Out of Runway

In 1975, four friends in the Bijlmermeer high-rises decided the neighborhood’s kids deserved a summer even if their parents couldn’t afford a holiday. Chas Warning, Roy Groenberg, Guno Bakboord, and Emile Esajas organized a football tournament between the tower blocks,

August 8, 2026

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Edinburgh International Festival: All Rise Puts 250 Years of America on a 24-Day Clock

July 29, 2026

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Montreux Jazz Festival: Sixty Years, Two Cancellations, and No Single Night Lost

July 18, 2026

Pal Mundo Festival: Jonna Fraser’s Long Way From Rotterdam to His Own Stage

July 10, 2026

The Orphan Who Built Ray-Ban Left His Kids a €10 Billion War

July 6, 2026

Afro Nation Portugal: How Two Nigerians Built the Festival Europe Refused to Create

July 3, 2026

Fête de la Musique: The Pun That Became a Global Music Movement

June 29, 2026

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Phuket Vegetarian Festival: A Sick Troupe’s 1825 Improvisation Now Carries a 1.4 Billion Baht Forecast

October 13, 2026

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Kwaku Summer Festival: Fifty Years of Football, Food, and Freedom Runs Out of Runway

August 8, 2026

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Edinburgh International Festival: All Rise Puts 250 Years of America on a 24-Day Clock

July 29, 2026

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Phuket Vegetarian Festival: A Sick Troupe’s 1825 Improvisation Now Carries a 1.4 Billion Baht Forecast

In 1825, a Hokkien opera troupe arrived at the tin-mining town of Kathu to entertain Chinese labourers, then fell seriously ill. The troupe decided they had neglected the ancestor rites kept back home, and improvised with a nine-day fast and a prayer to the Nine Emperor Gods. Having recovered, Kathu’s residents repeated the fast every year afterwards. Two hundred and

October 13, 2026

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Kwaku Summer Festival: Fifty Years of Football, Food, and Freedom Runs Out of Runway

In 1975, four friends in the Bijlmermeer high-rises decided the neighborhood’s kids

August 8, 2026

by Zond

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Edinburgh International Festival: All Rise Puts 250 Years of America on a 24-Day Clock

In 1942, Rudolf Bing was walking down Princes Street after an opera,

July 29, 2026

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Stevia: The Four-Century Argument Between a Leaf and an Empire

Somewhere along the Paraguay-Brazil border, generations before anyone thought record it, Guaraní

July 23, 2026

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Montreux Jazz Festival: Sixty Years, Two Cancellations, and No Single Night Lost

Long before Montreux became synonymous with sold-out summers and lakeside stages, its

July 18, 2026

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Phuket Vegetarian Festival: A Sick Troupe’s 1825 Improvisation Now Carries a 1.4 Billion Baht Forecast

October 13, 2026

by Zond

Events·Life & Travel·Music

Kwaku Summer Festival: Fifty Years of Football, Food, and Freedom Runs Out of Runway

August 8, 2026

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Edinburgh International Festival: All Rise Puts 250 Years of America on a 24-Day Clock

In 1942, Rudolf Bing was walking down Princes Street after an opera, trying to solve a financial problem for Glyndebourne. Five years later, that walk had become something else entirely. Bing, an Austrian Jewish refugee who’d fled the Nazi regime, opened the

July 29, 2026

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Stevia: The Four-Century Argument Between a Leaf and an Empire

Somewhere along the Paraguay-Brazil border, generations before anyone thought record it, Guaraní families were tearing a small green leaf into their yerba mate. They called it ka’a he’ê, sweet herb, and used it the way people use things that simply work. No

July 23, 2026

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Montreux Jazz Festival: Sixty Years, Two Cancellations, and No Single Night Lost

Long before Montreux became synonymous with sold-out summers and lakeside stages, its its history became inseparable from one fire. On December 4, 1971, a Frank Zappa concert at the Montreux Casino ended in chaos after an audience member fired a flare gun

July 18, 2026

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Pal Mundo Festival: Jonna Fraser’s Long Way From Rotterdam to His Own Stage

In 2003, a boy in Rotterdam started rapping because gospel and soul felt closer to home than anything on Dutch radio. He was eleven. His name was Jonathan Grando. The world would come to know him as Jonna Fraser. The home he

July 10, 2026

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The Orphan Who Built Ray-Ban Left His Kids a €10 Billion War

Photo: Quest-France Leonardo Del Vecchio built a $24 billion empire from nothing. Actual nothing. At seven years old, his mother sent him to a Milan orphanage because she had four other children and no way to feed him too. Eighty years later,

July 6, 2026

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Afro Nation Portugal: How Two Nigerians Built the Festival Europe Refused to Create

In August 2019, Adesegun Adeosun — known everywhere as Smade — and his business partner Obi Asika opened the gates of their first festival on Praia da Rocha beach in Portimão, Portugal. They had projected 5,000 people but 20,000 showed up. Burna

July 3, 2026

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Fête de la Musique: The Pun That Became a Global Music Movement

In October 1981, Maurice Fleuret walked into a new job. Jack Lang had just appointed him Director of Music and Dance at the French Ministry of Culture, and Fleuret arrived with a specific philosophy already formed. Music, he believed, should be everywhere.

June 29, 2026

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TEFAF Maastricht 2026: €86.4 Million, 50,000 Visitors, and 39 Years of Setting the Standard

In 1954, a young Gwari woman named Ladi Kwali walked into the Pottery Training Centre in Abuja. She became its first female trainee. British potter Michael Cardew had spotted her work in the Emir’s palace. He recognised something in her coiled vessels

June 24, 2026

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