Rock and Shock Festival Coming October 13th-15th
The Rock and Shock Horror Film and Music Festival comes this month!
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Tag: Festivals
Florida Renaissance Festival: Pirate Wieners and More!
Florida Ren Fest is the place to go if you want a taste of the renaissance but with fried Oreos.
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Florida Renaissance Festival – 25 Years of Fun
Celebrate the Renaissance at the Florida Renaissance Festival.
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LaureLive: Family Friendly Music Festival
I spent the weekend at a family-friendly music festival… without my kids.
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And That Was the LAST Time I Had Sex With an Embroidery Major: Rhinebeck 2015
If you’re a knitter or crocheter, then the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY is just the place for you.
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A Geek’s First Renaissance Faire
Head in to ye olden days with Dakster as she explores her first Renaissance festival.
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Father and Son Play Skylanders Swap Force
Father and son play through the first levels of Skylanders Swap Force, and quite like it.
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3rd Annual Robot Film Festival On Kickstarter
It’s hard to believe that Robot Film Festival has been around three years. In those years the festival has expanded to both coasts with events in New York City and San Francisco.
This year they are raising some cash for the San Francisco event on Kickstarter. There are plenty of reasonably priced pledge levels with rewards including decals, posters, and even entry to the festival if you’re in the Bay Area on July 20th and 21st.
Continue ReadingSouth by Southwest Panel Will have GeekMom & GeekDad!
Next March 9th through 18th hordes of tech, film and music geeks will target Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. This huge event lasts for nine day and is full of parties, screenings and panels by experts in their fields. A few months back we asked for your help getting a GeekMom/GeekDad panel voted onto the […]
Continue ReadingNourish Yourself with Strange Fruit
This past weekend my son and I spent time at the 18th annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, and we both agreed that the single most engaging piece was Strange Fruit. Lotus is better known for its music acts. I loved dancing with the Swedish hip-hop boys, Movits!, I was swept away by the […]
Continue ReadingLotus World Music & Arts Festival: You’re Invited!
Who: Everyone in the whole world is invited. This event typically attracts music geeks and those who love a fabulous street party. What: The name gives the basics: a world music & arts festival. You may think the artsy name Lotus refers to the flower. It’s true that the logo uses the flower image, but […]
Continue ReadingGreenbelt Festival Engages Families With High and Low Tech
Festivals often struggle to know how to accommodate families. It’s expensive and complicated to provide childcare and offering children’s entertainment can often mean running two festivals on the same site: one for adults and one for kids (perhaps with a …
Continue ReadingOrganize Your Summer With Google Calendar
We’re lucky to live right between the mountains and the ocean, and starting around March each year, hardly a weekend goes by without at least one festival in driving distance. Usually when I notice the coming weekend is free, I’ll start looking around for what to do. But if we need a hotel room, our […]
Continue Reading10 Things You Should Know About Nerdapalooza 2009
In case you’ve managed to avoid its constant mentions in our HipTrax podcasts over the previous months, Nerdapalooza is set to go down this very weekend. Yes, Nerdapalooza, the annual music and culture festival that attracts geeks of all stripes …
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