Photos: Come Out and Play festival
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Contestants face off in Come Out and Play, three-day celebration of live-action role-playing games in New York.
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Dido, Pink, Jamelia and Keane thrilled the crowds at the V festival in Chelmsford and Staffordshire on Saturday.
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Kiss will headline this year's Download rock festival at Donington Park, it is announced.
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Wired magazine's NextFest comes to Los Angeles this weekend. Attendees will hear inventors and researchers from around the globe and see displays of what's coming down the tech pike. Here's a glimpse of what's on the menu.
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A LONG-awaited refurbishment to a play area in
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Gamer's expo draws players from all over and a mix of vendor exhibitors.
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Check out reviews of the top acts at this weekend's rainy British festival, from The Killers and Babyshambles to Arctic Monkeys and Arcade Fire
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Britain's biggest literary festival - a fortnight's worth of readings, signings, debates and discussions - brings huge numbers of visitors to the small, but perfectly formed for the bookish, town of Hay-on-Wye each year.  This year was the festival's 20th, offering some 400 opportunities to put a face and a voice to names on spines. Guardian photographer Martin Godwin has been busy around the site, and for those who missed the festival here are some of his portraits of the visiting luminaries meeting their public over the past fortnight.  For a sample of these authors' voices, visit our audio archive of readings and interviews from the daily Haycasts.
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Two shows at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., offer a playground for games with genres.
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It's almost impossible, but here's a look at two of the Festival favorites
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'Tis the season for multi-act, radio-sponsored concert extravaganzas.
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This San Francisco mixer is fast becoming an institution. We've got the party write-up plus photos by Lane Hartwell from Thursday's event.
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From IPod accessories to waterproof gagdets, here's what caught our eye at this year's show.
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Acts including Snow Patrol and Badly Drawn Boy bring the two V Festival sites to a successful close.
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By STACI MATLOCK, PHOTOS COURTESY OF BRENDA DOLAN-HOBGOOD  On Sept.
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This week is the 40th anniversary of  the Monterey International Pop Festival. It was the mother of  all festivals (the Human Be-In in nearby San Francisco six  months earlier would be the grandmother) and would punctuate  the Summer of Love and the amazing year of 1967.
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What fun to have had our city take centrestage last week, as it hosted the Grey Cup game yesterday and related activities throughout much of the week.