Category: Entertainment

Coachella Style: Festival Season Is Officially Underway for 2011 and With It, Fresh Trends in Summer Styles

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Coachella Arts and Music Festival is always a prime location for discovering the latest in street styles from fashionistas and music-loving hipsters.

Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards for 2011, Including Happy Happy, Like Crazy, and to.get.her for Best NEXT Audience Award

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For indie filmmakers, just making it into Sundance is an enormous success. As the festival came to a close last weekend and awards were announced, it also means cool movies are about to get distributed. Here’s the scoop.

Sundance Film Festival Launches 3-Year Plan with Kickstarter, Plus Top Films Connecting with Youth Culture, and Latest from X Dance

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Park City, UT is all abuzz with celebs and snow, but this year’s festival has a decidedly different vibe -greater emphasis on documentaries, funding for indie filmmakers, and outreach to connect non-attendees.

Action Sports Size of Market–Surf, Skate, Snowboarding, BMX, Wakeboarding, FreeSkiing, Motocross–Plus Preferred Sports Programming Show Shifts in Youth Preferences, Participation, Opportunities, and Decline

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To accurately quantify size of market requires data of youth that participate vs. those that don’t vs. those interested. Label Networks’ Fall Youth Culture Study includes fresh results for all action sports, plus shifts in programming preferences, viewing patterns, and crossover potential.

Top 10 Bands of Summer -Bands About to Break Big, Best Innovative Marketers, Most Creative Merch, Fan Favorites

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These underground bands all have something leading-edge about them making them the bands to watch when it comes to influencing youth culture. Street report from Label Networks’ summer road warriors.

Venues: X/Y Tribes in the House

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How Architecture, Entertainment Venues, Runway Shows, Retail Spaces Need to Address the Importance of Attracting a New Youth Culture