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A bus carrying people to an Easter festival in South Africa plunges off a bridge, killing 45, authorities say

Mar. 28, 2024 18:39 PM EDT
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying people to an Easter festival in South Africa plunges off a bridge, killing 45, authorities say.

One month out, New Orleans Jazz Fest begins preparations for 2024 event

Mar. 26, 2024 18:48 PM EDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Fair Grounds Race Course, which plays host to the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, begins its annual transformation in earnest Tuesday as organizers prepare to take over the field this spring for two weekends of music, food and fun. “Jazz Fest...

AP PHOTOS: India celebrates Holi, the Hindu festival of color that marks the reawakening of spring

Mar. 25, 2024 21:45 PM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians celebrated Monday the Hindu Holi festival, dancing to festive music, exchanging food and drink and smearing each other with red, green, blue and pink powder, turning the air into a joyful kaleidoscope of color. Widely known as the Hindu festival...

The scent of orange blossoms is bringing the world to a spring tradition in Morocco

Mar. 25, 2024 19:46 PM EDT

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Orange blossoms are among Morocco’s quintessential fragrances. Moroccan women are welcoming spring by collecting the waxy white blossoms in copper pots used to distill the scent that's folded into honey-laden pastries, sprinkled on mint tea and used in religious ceremonies...

Thunderstorms delay flights at Miami airport, suspend music festival and disrupt tennis tournament

Mar. 23, 2024 12:30 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) — Severe thunderstorms in South Florida delayed departures at the Miami International Airport during the busy spring break season, suspended a popular electronic music festival and disrupted matches at a high-profile tennis tournament. The thunderstorms that swept into...

Drought pinched Louisiana's crawfish harvest, but mudbug fans are weathering the shortage

Mar. 22, 2024 19:18 PM EDT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In Jeff Pohlmann's 39 years of selling crawfish in Louisiana he has never seen the industry face such an abysmal shortage of “mudbugs.” Driven by last summer's drought, extreme heat, saltwater intrusion on the Mississippi River and a hard winter freeze,...

What is Holi, the Hindu festival of colors and how is it celebrated?

Mar. 22, 2024 09:23 AM EDT

Holi, widely known as the Hindu festival of colors, is a joyful annual celebration at the advent of spring with cultural and religious significance. Typically observed in March in India, Nepal, other South Asian countries and across the diaspora, the festival celebrates love and...

Tired of inflated ticket prices, Yungblud is launching his own affordable music festival

Mar. 21, 2024 14:12 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Tired of inflated ticket prices, recording artist Yungblud is launching his own affordable music festival. Bludfest takes place on Aug. 11 in the iconic Milton Keynes Bowl, which in the past has hosted the likes of David Bowie and Green Day in Buckinghamshire,...

'Civil War,' an election-year provocation, premieres at SXSW film festival

Mar. 15, 2024 00:40 AM EDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s election-year provocation, debuted Thursday at the SXSW Film and TV Festival, unveiling a violent vision of a near-future America at war with itself. “Civil War,” reportedly A24’s biggest budget release yet, is a bold...

Dua Lipa, SZA and Shania Twain to lead this year's Glastonbury Festival in June

Mar. 14, 2024 08:58 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Whatever the weather, the 200,000 or so music fans heading down to this year's Glastonbury Festival are going to get something different. For the first time since the festival started in 1970, two female acts will be performing the headline spots on the main stage on...