Picnic

You may have heard the joke by now: "How do you organize a solar eclipse party? You planet."But you could also let someone plan it for you.And throughout the Hamilton-Niagara region — home to some of the best areas in Canada to see the total solar eclipse on April 8 — there are plenty of options.That day, people across the continent will see the moon pass between the sun and the Earth. In some places, it will partially block out the sun. But in others — including Hamilton, Burlington, Ont., Six Nations, Ont., and the…

The June weekend lineup also includes Victoria Monét, Jill Scott, Nas, Gunna, and a celebration of New Orleans with Trombone Shorty The Roots have announced the lineup for their 2024 Roots Picnic. Philly fans will have their chance to see André 3000 bring his flute project New Blue Sun to the stage for a live performance. But it’s Lil Wayne who is tapped to headline the June festival. He’ll be backed by the Roots for a set of his hits and also pay tribute to the music of his hometown of New…

Rain may be inundating Southern California, but it’s all sunshine at the Hollywood Bowl as the Los Angeles Philharmonic announces the venue’s 2024 summer lineup featuring the world premiere of the Marvel Studios Infinity Saga Concert Experience, plenty of Gustavo Dudamel and the West Coast’s first-ever Roots Picnic, featuring Queen Latifah, Common, Digable Planets and more.“The Hollywood Bowl is L.A.’s venue. It’s L.A.’s backyard,” says Meghan Umber , L.A. Phil’s chief content officer. “And we want it to feel like when…

On 19 August 1989, some 20,000 people gathered in a field near the Hungarian city of Sopron, close to the border with Austria, for an outdoor party. “A brass band boomed across the field. Goulash cooked in giant pots over open flames; beer and wine were there for the taking. People danced around a bonfire.” The festival, jointly organised by several Hungarian opposition parties, was billed as a pan-European picnic, a celebration of brotherhood between nations. The revellers included a large contingent of refugees from the…

Dutch online supermarket Picnic has bagged a cool €355mn in funding after a year of international expansion, the company announced today. The grocery delivery service launched in the Netherlands back in 2015, before later entering France and Germany. Picnic said that the expansion across Europe helped the business grow by 40% in 2023. Turnover for the year reached an estimated €1.25bn. A particularly thriving new market is Hamburg, which hit a turnover of €40mn just six months after launching…

At a time when we have become bleakly accustomed to political capital being made of militarising borders and building walls, it is a timely corrective to read a book devoted to the romance of the alternative. The Picnic re-examines events in Hungary in 1989 that precipitated the collapse of Soviet power in central Europe. In particular, it recreates, through intimate personal histories and eyewitness recollection, the ways in which one idealistic, grassroots protest – the staging of a summer party in a field near the…

The Roots and Live Nation Urban announced Monday the Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life festival, which will take place June 29 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The Roots will headline with additional performances by Queen Latifah, Common, and others. It’s the Philly festival’s inaugural Los Angeles event. The Roots’ Questlove and Black Thought landed on Hollywood Bowl, a live music venue since 1922, due to their shared love for the event space. “The first time we played Hollywood Bowl was way…

“Cool as a cucumber” might be better phrased as “cool as a mushroom.” A research team has found that mushrooms and other fungi, including yeast and molds, stay cooler than their surroundings—and has also explained how they stay so chill. The contain a lot of water—just think how mushrooms shrink when cooked—and gradually release it in a fungal form of sweating that lowers their temperature, the microbiologists report this week in the Proceedings of the National…

has pulled back the curtain on its first slate of antennas. The terminals, which will transmit data to and from Amazon’s Low Earth Orbit internet satellites, resemble furniture. The largest of the bunch is even the size of a full-blown patio table — it measures 19 inches by 30 inches. That model is intended for enterprise, government and telecommunications operations. Amazon said it will deliver internet speeds of up to 1 Gbps. The standard terminal for consumers has a smaller footprint, measuring 11 inches square with…

The Roots unveiled a star-studded lineup Monday for this year’s Roots Picnic music festival, headlined by Ms. Lauryn Hill, Diddy and the Roots, Dave Chappelle and Lil Uzi Vert.A comedy show starring Chappelle will take place June 2 at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center and serve as a precursor to the main event, which will be held at the Mann at Fairmount Park on June 3 and 4 in Philadelphia — the Roots’ hometown.Other musical acts set to perform during the festival include Ari Lennox, City Girls, Maverick City Music,…