A great June 24th weekend lineup.

Recap.

Somewhere, Qu Yuan is smiling.

It’s music festival season: this weekend South by Southwest is in Indie-rocking in Austin, and next week Miami Beach will descend into a disco inferno as the Winter Music Conference (WMC) rolls into town from the 20th to the 25th.

South by Southwest is underway in Austin, with the much vaunted music portion of the festival kicking off tomorrow.

Once a year the city of Valencia does its best to blow itself up to celebrate the arrival of spring. The festival is called Las Fallas and includes a week of fireworks barrages, parades, and parties all leading up up to St. Joseph’s day on March 19th.

This weekend, the tiny town of Hokitika, New Zealand, population 4,500, will be flooded by 17,000 foodies, who are flying, driving and bussing in from all over sample the oddest delicacies they can get their mitts on.

Chinese New Year started with a bang (literally) on Sunday, with firecracker ceremonies to ward off evil, and runs through the beginning of March.

Brangelina and the Zagat guides are doing their best to help New Orleans back on its way to hedonistic health, but a party like Mardi Gras really speaks for itself.

Whether the locals call it Mardi Gras, Carnevale, or Fastnacht, Carnival is happening this weekend, and it’s the world’s biggest party.