CHATEAU REGALIA, a cluster of villas and apartments north-east of Beijing, calls itself an "extravaganza for the nobility".
This produced another key television memory, the Live Aid extravaganza in July 1985, which itself became a transforming moment in modern media history.
Just as the fizz had reached our brains, Shopcade's LFW extravaganza imploded in on itself: "Can everyone take a few steps to your right?" hollered a girl as three session musicians walked to the stage.
In New York, land of a thousand festivals, how can yet another multiweek arts extravaganza make a name for itself?
Bieber fills out the headline bill alongside Rihanna, Sia and David Guetta as V sheds its tendency to be the corporate awayday of festivals and reinvents itself as a global pop extravaganza.
Calling the Premiership the most exciting league in the world is like a low-budget 1970s sci-fi convention selling itself as a Page Three Extravaganza: it's a sham.
(212-529-0168) QUEBEC!NOW Describing itself as a "trans-border extravaganza," this French-Canadian arts festival will include dance by nine companies at three theaters, the World Financial Center Winter Garden and a museum, from Sept. 20 to Oct. 7.
With this year's four-minute commercial extravaganza, Target reportedly wanted to 'one-up itself.'.
The production itself is modelled on a similar extravaganza that has been packing them in for almost 40 years in the Vendée region of France.
The epic Bollywood extravaganza "Fanaa" goes so far over the top that it reinvents itself halfway and launches on a brand new trajectory of the absurd.
Under cover of a prime-time cartoon, its creator, Jeffrey Katzenberg, evidently intends to make an old-fashioned extravaganza, a cartoon cabaret as risqué, corny and mischievous as Las Vegas itself.
