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If you're a meat eater, chances are you love bacon. Apart from vegetarians and those disinclined to eat pork, who can resist a crispy slice of the good stuff? At the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival, the obvious answer is, no one. The event drew 4,000 bacon lovers to Des Moines this year. In fact, it's [...

Belgium's 2012 Ghent Light Festival has transformed the Luminarie De Cagna into a stunning, lit-up building. The structure is home to an Italian family business founded in 1930, and the company lit up the square and its buildings with oil and carbide lamps on festive occasions. Eventually, the lamp...

When making family plans for the summer, many of us get locked in to just thinking about the festivals near us, and don't always consider the wide variety of celebrations that would make a great destination on a summer road trip. People are passionate about everything from food to music to film to ...

So how does one go about drumming up interest for the local fair in a hometown of the founding father of a major car company? Simple, have a parade. That is what the folks in Barton, Vermont did for their Orleans County Fair in honor of Henry M. Leland who founded Cadillac in 1902. What [...]

Trading trivia and debating facts over drinks is a longstanding tradition in bars and pubs around the world. (In fact, that's how the Guinness Book of World Records got its start.) In keeping with that tradition, here are some St. Patrick's Day facts and trivia to share/debate/argue over with your ...