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Music-loving teens can be forgiven for thinking they're being swindled out of their rightful inheritance of fun. Michael Eavis, the legendary organizer of the UK's Glastonbury Festival was heard griping after last month's mudfest that the grungy edge of the event has become dulled in recent years by the influx of "middle-aged" and "respectable" festival-goers. It's a common complaint this summer, with England's festival fields thick with well-heeled campers - the ones with fast broadband and an unblocked credit card to slap on a party-booking for family and friends the moment...
...across the UK and beyond who want to know how it's done, Killcoyne is a reluctant impresario who's says he plans to duck out of Underage before he's 18. "What you don't realize when you organize these things is that it can suck all the fun out of it. I'd rather be a punter," he says. "I'd like to take Underage as far as it can go and then give it to someone who really appreciates it. Someone who's 13 or 14 and can take it to a different place." But where...
...want to say is thank you, Paris, for throwing such fun parties...
...grew up in Paris, but this summer I discovered many new ways of having fun of which the Bal des Pompiers is just one example. One of the skills the French have mastered, in part as a result of the country’s socialist tendencies, is the organization of public entertainment, free from red ropes and costly tabs and instead open to all. In the capital, City Hall and the current (socialist) mayor have also done their fair share to improve Parisian life like Vélib, a new initiative which offers very cheap rental bikes around the city...
...People are quick to criticize all the problems with the socialist values which persist throughout Europe, but when one is part of the masses enjoying some good old fashion fun on a Friday night without breaking the bank, socialism suddenly doesn’t seem half bad. In fact, some of it is very good and we, across the pond, could probably learn a lot from it. It is clear that the officials in France are making significant efforts to make life as enjoyable as it can be for their citizens. And, as I relearned this summer, in Paris, life...