Exclusive | Smorgasburg is back with its biggest lineup yet featuring pork belly lollipops and a wild twist on traditional sliders

Exclusive | Smorgasburg is back with its biggest lineup yet featuring pork belly lollipops and a wild twist on traditional sliders

It’s snack time. Smorgasburg, the Big Apple’s longtime bacchanal of bites, is back this weekend for another year of unique, hunger-inducing treats, ranging from lollipops made with pork belly to painstakingly authentic Acai bowls from a wide array of vendors across NYC, making it the food market’s biggest lineup yet. “I’m excited to get out … Read more

Sweat, spend money, repeat: What worries women most when partying at music festivals

Sweat, spend money, repeat: What worries women most when partying at music festivals

Women have revealed the things they worry about navigating most at a festival — with bathroom, sweat, and period-related needs featuring in the top 10. In the lead-up to the first weekend of Coachella and as festival season officially gets underway, a poll of 2,000 U.S. women who have attended a music festival found excess … Read more

Secret Santa! Where to find holiday fun off that’s off the beaten path

Secret Santa! Where to find holiday fun off that’s off the beaten path

This holiday season, think beyond the staples and enter the tri-state’s slate of under-the-radar programming. Here are some holiday hits you haven’t thought of — yet. Get in the swim It’s off to Camden, NJ, we go! Bring your pint-size revelers to the Adventure Aquarium, all dressed up in holiday fin-ery, some 90 miles southwest … Read more

Taco toys day: How to join the fiesta for a Feliz Navidad south of the border

Taco toys day: How to join the fiesta for a Feliz Navidad south of the border

Parka-clad carolers singing that they won’t leave your stoop until you bring them some figgy pudding are nice. But have you ever been serenaded by a sombrero-sporting mariachi band performing a Latin-rooted remix of “Silent Night?” Guests staying over the holidays at Fairmont Mayakoba have. The property in Playa del Carmen is just one sought-after destination south … Read more

Exclusive | I saw MGMT at We Belong Here. Now I’m all for softer music festivals

Exclusive | I saw MGMT at We Belong Here. Now I’m all for softer music festivals

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Dance for five hours straight. In bed by 10:30. A dream come true. When I found out that the We Belong Here … Read more

Exclusive | James Dean fans are still absolutely obsessed with the Hollywood heartthrob 70 years after his tragic death: ‘Image of cool’

Exclusive | James Dean fans are still absolutely obsessed with the Hollywood heartthrob 70 years after his tragic death: ‘Image of cool’

Few towns go as all-out for their most famous son as Fairmount, Indiana. For nearly 50 years, James Dean fans have flocked about an hour north of Indianapolis every September for an annual festival celebrating the late hometown hero and Hollywood heartthrob. The sexy, mysterious star is best known for three films he made — … Read more

Exclusive | A zero-proof festival, a members-only booze-free club and a hot new bar from a reality star are fueling NYC’s sexy alcohol-free movement

Exclusive | A zero-proof festival, a members-only booze-free club and a hot new bar from a reality star are fueling NYC’s sexy alcohol-free movement

Booze no more. Squeezing “alcohol free” and “festival” into the same sentence could be a head-scratcher, but the Big Apple is set to host its first-ever booze-free bonanza in Chelsea this Saturday. Living life without alcohol or simply practicing moderation is more than just a lifestyle; it’s a movement that has exploded across the city. … Read more

Exclusive | Actor Kel Mitchell celebrates ‘Good Burger’ legacy — with his own festival devoted to primo patties: ‘They’re more perfect than a sandwich’

Exclusive | Actor Kel Mitchell celebrates ‘Good Burger’ legacy — with his own festival devoted to primo patties: ‘They’re more perfect than a sandwich’

Order up! Even though Kel Mitchell is an actor, his résumé is slathered in ketchup and mustard. “When people hear my name, they automatically always think of burgers,” Mitchell admitted to The Post. The “Good Burger” star’s fame — as a teenage actor on Nickelodeon’s “All That” spinoff sitcom “Kenan and Kel” and two subsequent … Read more

Save the Squonk: Pennsylvania’s ugliest, saddest creature to be celebrated at weekend festival

Save the Squonk: Pennsylvania’s ugliest, saddest creature to be celebrated at weekend festival

Pennsylvania’s ugliest creature — a depressed fictional pig named the Squonk — will take center stage Saturday at Squonkapalooza, a festival drawing in people across the country to celebrate the mythical being and make it smile. Squonkapalooza organizers Lisa Russell and Joe Fogle described the Squonk as “saddest of folklore creatures,” who “cries constantly because … Read more

Swingathon boss lifts the lid on England’s notorious ‘sex festival’

Swingathon boss lifts the lid on England’s notorious ‘sex festival’

If you think festival season is all about flower crowns and muddy fields, think again. Deep in England’s Lincolnshire countryside, there’s a gathering in the sleepy town of Allington that only those “in the know” dare to visit. Dubbed by The Sun’s sex writer as “Glastonbury with orgies and Love Island-style beauties,” Swingathon, now in its fifth … Read more

Sex fest worker reveals raunchy secrets from behind the tent flaps at controversial swingers weekend: ‘More condoms than coffees’

Sex fest worker reveals raunchy secrets from behind the tent flaps at controversial swingers weekend: ‘More condoms than coffees’

Here’s to a swingin’ summer. For most of the year, Allington is a quintessential, charming British town in Lincolnshire, boasting nearby natural sites perfect for the average outdoorsman or the traveller in need of some peace and quiet. But once a summer, “Swingathon” and its band of kinky festivalgoers descend on the town for a … Read more

‘Seedy’ sex festival sparks noise complaints as 1000 swingers descend on sleepy town for 3-day event: ‘Loud moaning sounds’

‘Seedy’ sex festival sparks noise complaints as 1000 swingers descend on sleepy town for 3-day event: ‘Loud moaning sounds’

Come one, come all. Kinky revellers have descended on a sleepy English village for the country’s biggest annual swingers festival, sparking noise complaints from conservative locals outraged by ear-splitting orgasms. Swingathon is taking place this weekend in the town of Allington, two hours north of London, and has attracted around 1000 amorous attendees. That’s more … Read more

Exclusive | Meet the heaving, huffing ‘lifters’ who hoist the 4-ton Giglio at Brooklyn’s wild Italian bacchanal: ‘By the time the day is over, you’re just dead’

Exclusive | Meet the heaving, huffing ‘lifters’ who hoist the 4-ton Giglio at Brooklyn’s wild Italian bacchanal: ‘By the time the day is over, you’re just dead’

Everybody loves a par-ayyy-de. An Italian Brooklyn tradition for over a century, Williamsburg’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast draws hundreds of thousands to an annual bacchanal of sausage, peppers and spectacle, courtesy of the festival’s main character — the gigantic Giglio, a four-ton, 72-foot statue “danced” through sweltering streets by a team of 120 … Read more

Americans reveal their secrets to hosting the best cookout as summer approaches

Americans reveal their secrets to hosting the best cookout as summer approaches

Summer isn’t complete without four cookouts, three getaways, two concerts, and two festivals, according to a recent poll. The survey of 2,000 Americans uncovered the must-haves for a perfect summer, barbecue trends, and the most popular barbecue foods and flavors on Americans’ grills. Two-thirds of Americans (66%) said summer grilling season is their favorite time … Read more

Bikini-clad Coachella bombshells vow to ‘bring back the boobs’ — but haters are blasting the ‘icky’ trend

Bikini-clad Coachella bombshells vow to ‘bring back the boobs’ — but haters are blasting the ‘icky’ trend

For rocking barely-there tops, haters want to bust their chops.  Bikini-clad breasts were on parade during the opening ceremonies of Coachella 2025. “I told you guys we were bringing back the boobs this year,” declared Alix Earle, 24, while suiting up for Charli XCX’s performance Day 2 of the annual music festival Saturday.  Earle led he bikini … Read more

Biggest music festivals 2025: Get tickets for Coachella, Lollapalooza, more

Biggest music festivals 2025: Get tickets for Coachella, Lollapalooza, more

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Spring is in the air. The sun is shining (sort of), the birds are chirping and, after a dreary winter, festival season … Read more

A dumb American’s guide to celebrating St. Paddy’s Day in Ireland

A dumb American’s guide to celebrating St. Paddy’s Day in Ireland

They say everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day — and there’s no better place to embrace the Celtic spirit than on the Emerald Isle itself. While the tradition of the St. Paddy’s parade actually began in North America when immigrants gathered to honor their homeland, Ireland now boasts its own extravagant celebrations, including Dublin’s epic three-day festival, … Read more

Philadelphians channel their inner Italian Stallion at Rocky and Adrian look-alike contest

Philadelphians channel their inner Italian Stallion at Rocky and Adrian look-alike contest

Couples who look awkward on skates — and on dates — had a chance to celebrate their cute clumsiness in a Rocky and Adrian look-alike contest at Philadelphia’s RockyFest on Friday. The evening event at the University of Pennsylvania’s 1923 Ice Rink was meant to echo the pair’s first date in “Rocky.” In the classic … Read more

Exclusive | NY Comedy Festival founder talks Joan Rivers tribute — and Bruce Springsteen’s appearance with wife Patti Scialfa

Exclusive | NY Comedy Festival founder talks Joan Rivers tribute — and Bruce Springsteen’s appearance with wife Patti Scialfa

With the help of some red-hot comics, the late great Joan Rivers is still asking “Can we talk?” a decade after she died.  A Nov. 7 tribute show at the Apollo Theater, brutally titled “Dead Funny,” is the opening-night event of the upcoming New York Comedy Festival, and will feature the barbs of Nikki Glaser, … Read more

How food festivals took a bite out of America

How food festivals took a bite out of America

Seems like every town in America hosts some sort of food festival these days. There’s the quirky ones, like the Gilroy Garlic Festival, first launched in 1979, and the Waikiki Spam Jam, formerly held in Austin, Minn., home of Hormel Foods. Then there are the mac daddies, like Taste of Chicago, the country’s biggest, which … Read more