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Zona Maco: Zélika García Built a Fair and Rewired a Continent’s Art Calendar

In 2002, Zélika García ran a small art gathering called La Muestra in Monterrey. It was modest enough that the international art market did not notice. That was the point. García was not making an announcement. She was making a wager —

June 9, 2026

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Rock in Rio: From a Field in Barra da Tijuca to the Biggest Stage on Earth

On December 9, 2025, tickets for Rock in Rio 2026 went on sale through Ticketmaster Brasil. The Rock in Rio Card — a pre-purchase pass guaranteeing entry for one day, with the specific date to be chosen once the full lineup dropped

May 1, 2026

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Madonna, Billie Eilish and a Stone Cave: Coachella Saved Its Best For Last

Karol G went on nearly half an hour late and nobody moved. Her production team was still touching up a three-story stone cave on the main stage, and 125,000 people were watching them do it. The chant that filled the wait —

April 23, 2026

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MoDem Festival: Deliberately Small, Deliberately Yours

The photographs circulating of Mo:Dem Festival are honest about the fog. The: stages rising out of Croatian forest, lasers splitting the dark above ten thousand bodies moving in unison, river catching the light at 4am while something unidentifiable and enormous pours out

April 20, 2026

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Coachella Saturday: $10 Million, a MacBook & the Night Nobody Talked About

Justin Bieber walked onto the Coachella Stage at 11:25pm on Saturday with a MacBook, put his setlist to a YouTube comment vote, and spent what the internet quickly calculated to be $10 million doing it. By morning, that was every headline —

April 13, 2026

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Ye, Good Friday, and the Song That Took 22 Years to Sound Right

The internet doesn’t agree on much anymore. It agreed on this. “Greatest concert of all time” — not greatest comeback, not greatest hip-hop show, not greatest performance in five years. Greatest. Concert. Of all time. Two sold-out nights at SoFi Stadium, a

April 6, 2026

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Semana Santa: Seville Doesn’t Host Holy Week. It Becomes It.

Seventy-one brotherhoods. Fifty thousand hooded penitents. Floats weighing five tonnes that appear to move by themselves through streets barely wide enough to hold them, at two in the morning, to the sound of a single voice falling from a balcony like an

April 4, 2026

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Songkran: The World’s Biggest Water Fight Is Actually a Prayer

Every April, the streets of Chiang Mai fill with millions of people armed with Super Soakers, buckets, water cannons mounted on trucks, and absolutely no idea that the water they’re throwing is supposed to be a prayer. Songkran is the most photographed

March 26, 2026

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Pohela Boishakh: Akbar Wanted a Ledger, Bengal Built a Soul

Emperor Akbar needed his harvest taxes synchronized. So he commissioned a new calendar and that calendar became Pohela Boishakh — the Bengali New Year. 200 million people have been celebrating it every April 14 for four and a half centuries with fermented

March 17, 2026

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Kanamara Matsuri: The Penis Festival Funding HIV Research

Every first Sunday of April, the streets of Kawasaki fill with tens of thousands of people parading giant phalluses through ordinary traffic, eating phallic-shaped candy, and raising money for HIV research — all inside a Shinto religious tradition running since the Edo

March 14, 2026

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Seven Februaries in Salvador, One Night Guinness Finally Noticed

For the seventh consecutive year, Alok took over Salvador Carnival and commanded 2 million people in one street — officially breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest street event on the planet. The Guinness people showed up with their clipboards and

March 5, 2026