On a neon-lit jetty overlooking the River Nile, a young Tanzanian DJ called Sisso is playing a bracing barrage of blips, bells and breakneck beats that could blast apart a heart-rate monitor. We are at Nyege Nyege, a pan-African festival in Uganda t...
Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in Brazil’s largest city for its 22nd annual celebration. Waving rainbow flags in a Carnival-like atmosphere, marchers paraded down the skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista on Sunday to music blasting from...
Every year since 1783, in the Sinakara valley at the foot of Mount Ausangate in Peru, the Qoyllur Rit’i, or Snow and Star, festival draws tens of thousands of pilgrims from across the Peruvian Andes and beyond to the biggest religious gathering of i...
The Cannes film festival is one of the glamorous highlights of the silver screen’s year – a time for sun, stars and self-satisfaction. But this year, the atmosphere is mutinous. On Sunday the Hollywood actor Salma Hayek became the latest to throw ye...
The promoter of the failed Fyre festival in the Bahamas – once billed as the “cultural experience of the decade” – pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges Tuesday, agreeing to serve up to a decade in prison for lying to investors and sending false docu...