Sapporo, Japan, also wins for its snow fest, and frigid midwestern metropolis Minneapolis is a surprising winner - users love the arts scene and skyways keeping them toasty.
Comic-Con leaders said the expansion is vital to keep the pop-culture extravaganza from having to leave San Diego in search of a larger venue for its summer fest.
Promoting a new child reading campaign, the paper acknowledges that it is normal (as opposed to feminist) not to want its tit-fest anywhere near children.
In 2003, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles chose to open with Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, while New Zealand's first Asian film festival in 2004 chose to close its 10-day fest with it.
Macau has a few notches to go yet, even to rival its marginally less materialistic neighbour, but it does have its own arts fest in May, and around 200 different exhibitions a year.
In celebrating its 11th edition, the fest further cemented its reputation as the world's dance festival.
Loreley Restaurant and Biergarten, 7 Rivington Street (between Bowery and Chrystie Street), on the Lower East Side, throws its annual sausage fest ahead of May Day.
Where Art and Politics Meet The Cinema Arts Center in Huntington calls its latest film fest the Camp Festival, which stands for "Cinema, Arts, Music, Politics".
The N.H.L. will start its annual bruise fest Tuesday in the quixotic situation of having two regular-season superteams (Chicago and Pittsburgh) dominating each conference, when everyone knows the playoffs are when the league throws its playoff qualifiers into a blender and says, "whee!" — as Nicholas Cotsonika writes on Yahoo.com.
Were it not for CNN's squeamishness about watching the host of its afternoon fiscal fest, "The Money Gang," portray a vaguely ominous quiz-show host, Mr. Kiernan would be racking up face-time in three disparate genres on three separate channels.
