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Danielle Waldman and her boyfriend of six years, Noam Shai, were murdered by the terrorists while they and three friends were attempting to drive away from the music festival bloodbath. A brief video showed Shai driving away in a Jeep as his girlfriend sits in the back next to a man who says, Waldmanher in the back seat of a Jeep with a friend who tried to reassure them: “We will be alright. Everything is okay, right?” Her dad – who founded the chip maker Mellanox Technologies and sold the company to Nvidia for $6.8 billion in 2019 – had...

Israeli experts on rape and sexual abuse have documented Hamas's sex crimes during its Oct. 7 attack and denounce the world's silence.. Experts in the fight against rape and sexual abuse demanded to know why international women's organizations have remained silent about the horrific sex crimes Hamas committed in Israel on Oct. 7... And there's no doubt that they did: the experts, all women, who spoke on Nov. 12 in an online seminar organized by Jewish professional students at Harvard University, have been systematically gathering evidence since the attack. The one who headed up that effort spoke about the unspeakable....

Hamas violence in Israel has been described as "worse than ISIS" as images shared online show a purported beheading of an Israeli Defense Force soldiers.This comes as the death toll is estimated to be over 700 following Hamas' brutal assault in southern Israel. Hamas terrorists have been seen piling up the bodies of 260 young ravers at a horrific massacre at a music festival, after which disturbing footage of a murdered woman's body being paraded semi-naked through the street on the back of a truck emerged. Users on X have been left shocked as the horrifying images of Hamas terrorist...

Graphic new images include a photo of scores of dead lying in a tent at the rave, which turned into bloody mayhem after heavily armed Palestinian terrorists paraglided across the Gaza Strip border in Saturday’s early-morning sneak attack on Israel. Video showed the unsuspecting crowd earlier dancing to music as the terrorist motorized paragliders could be seen coming down in the distance. The disturbing photos posted online by the Israeli MInistry of Foreign Affairs also show people who were gunned down in the street while fleeing the Tribe of Nova music festival near Gaza, while one snapshot captures a bloodied...

A central Ohio sheriff’s office is working with an agency hundreds of miles away involving phones stolen during a music festival in Licking County. The Licking County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) said the in-depth investigation involved federal agencies in a recent post on Facebook. The office had gotten several calls about phones being stolen from the Lost Lands Music Festival, according to the post. The LCSO also wrote the office is working with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) after stolen phones were found during a traffic stop there. The stop happened Sept. 25 and 152 cell phones were found...

At least eight people are dead after a crowd surge during the sold-out Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday, the city's fire chief said. Seventeen people were transported to the hospital after the crush, and 11 who were taken by ambulance were in cardiac arrest, Houston officials said. In all, more than 300 people were treated throughout the event Friday at an on-site field hospital. Around 9:15 p.m. local time (10:15 p.m. ET) "the crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage," Fire Chief Samuel Peña said at a news conference early Saturday. "That caused some panic,...

The Bråvalla festival is Sweden’s largest music festival. Organisers have just announced that the event will come to an end after being cancelled this year due to sex attacks, local newspaper Norrköpings Tidningar reports. Last year’s festival saw at least 11 sex attacks, three which led to arrests and the year before nearly 40 young girls complained of being sexually harassed and abused by men most often described as “foreign”.

According to the National Post, performer Lido Pimienta, who won the 2017 Polaris Prize, frequently asks all white members of her audience to move to the back and give up their seats to non-white audience members. They must do so regardless of whether they pay more for their seating.The Halifax Pop Explosion music festival is apologizing for the actions of a (white) photographer who refused to acquiesce to Pimienta’s request during her October 19 show. Her refusal to do so was considered an “interruption” and deemed an act of “overt racism,” according to the festival’s board of directors, who are...

Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock booked two hotel rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago this summer, according to a report Thursday. Paddock specifically requested both rooms to have a sweeping view of Grant Park — about 500 yards away — but never showed up, sources told TMZ. Among the 400,000 people who packed the venue in the Windy City was Malia Obama, 19, the former president’s older daughter.

The free open air music and performance festival Spotlight returns for its 4th year in the fashionable Seven Dials, London on Saturday 19th August. From 12 - 6 pm the area will be transformed into a traffic free, entertainment hotspot where visitors can enjoy a series of live performances and music acts including Disney’s West End smash hits from The Lion King and Aladdin. As well as exclusive activities and promotions throughout the village there will be a Pop-up bar hosted by Monmouth Kitchen (with a free cocktail) and many discounts in local stores including Laura Lee, Monmouth Kitchen, Neal’s...

Sweden's biggest music festival will be replaced next year by a women-only alternative after reports of a series of rapes and sexual assaults at this year's event.

Attendees of Fyre Festival thought they were paying for a one-of-a-kind experience when they purchased tickets to what promised to be a lavish affair. Technically, they weren’t wrong – but the unique experience which awaited ticket-holders on the Bahamian festival grounds was a bit different than the luxurious, supermodel-filled affair which they’d been promised. The new festival – run by Ja Rule and Billy McFarland’s Fyre Media company – made headlines upon its announcement through a sponsored content campaign promoted on Instagram by the likes of Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, and Bella Hadid. However, what seemed to be a glamorous...

Mass Shooting Reported During BPM Festival in Mexico A mass shooting has rocked the Mexican resort town of Playa Del Carmen where the BPM Festival was wrapping up, according to reports. Unverified witness accounts suggest four or five people were killed when shots were fired at Blue Parrot during Elrow's closing party late Sunday night or early Monday morning. A security guard was said to be among those fatally injured. A separate shooting reportedly took place during a BPM closing party at The Jungle, where the likes of John Acquaviva, Stacey Pullen and David Berrie were booked to play. Clips...

AC Entertainment has officially announce the dates for MoogFest in Asheville, NC. The festival will take place Oct. 29-31, 2010. Confirmed headlining artists include Massive Attack, MGMT, and Thievery Corporation. These will be joined by more than 25 additional artists performing in multiple venues throughout downtown Asheville, including the Asheville Civic Center Arena, the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, and Asheville¹s renowned world-class club, the Orange Peel. ...attendees will be able to participate in workshops, engage with artists in panel discussions, enjoy visual art exhibitions, installations and film screenings, and play with a variety of Moog instruments...

Things for FloydFest 8 were about as perfect as event organizers could have dreamed -- until about 8:10 p.m. Friday. That was when most of the grounds went dark. The next hour and a half answered the question: What happens when a large, electricity-driven music festival way out in the sticks loses power? The answers came quickly: Bands at stages small enough for intimacy went acoustic. As folks wandered away from the main stage, groups of musicians seized on the chance to strap on their instruments and perform along the main trail. Listeners gathered in circles around them, some in...

(LEAD) N. Korea to hold rock festival in March: report SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea, under international censure for trying to arm itself with nuclear weapons, plans to host an international rock music festival next year, the country's main radio station said Friday. The Voice of Korea said in a report that the "Rock for Peace" festival will be held in Pyongyang, the capital, on March 1, a major national holiday marking an anti-Japanese public uprising in 1919. The North's radio station carried the same report in its English Web site, with an announcement that Western musicians, including...