This year, the festival stepped it up, featuring 26 women out of 110 total acts.
Sacramento's TBD Festival is making a big push this year to become another great American music festival, stepping out of the shadows of other big California events like Coachella and Outside Lands.
The professional guests at this year's festival include Steps Ahead, featuring Michael Mainieri, Bob Berg, Scott Colley, Joey Calderazzo, and Jeff Tain Wattsts.
Launched primarily for Pyongyang citizens, the festival follows steps made by the brewery to improve access to its now famous product in other parts of the country.
Phineas T. Barnum, America's flamboyant circus impresario and former Mayor of Bridgeport, gets his annual salute today at 11 A.M. when the 50th Barnum Festival Parade steps off on North Avenue.
When the nearby town of Wallkill pulls the plug on the Woodstock festival, Elliot steps in, bringing peace, mud, flower children, the cream of late-'60s rock 'n' roll and a dose of enlightenment to his parents' backyard.
Unbeaten in seven starts over fences, including the Arkle at last year's Festival, he steps up this time to the Queen Mother Champion Chase on Wednesday and bookmakers will offer you no better than 1-4, meaning they rate his chance of success at 80%.
Burns first showed the movie in April at the Tribeca Film Festival, just steps from his apartment, where he lives with his wife, model Christy Turlington, and their two young children.
Q: It's one thing to support a festival several steps removed, but there's a real payback in seeing somebody's getting a chance to generate a film.
It is "clearly demonstrably untrue," that the festival has stepped back from supporting writers or free speech, he said in an interview.
