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The Life is Beautiful festival has a long and glorious history, which we won’t be sharing here because that would take “effort” and you don’t really care all that much about history. If you did, you’d bore everyone at the bar with long dissertations about how ancient Mesopotamia forever changed date palm cultivation. We owe so much to the Sumerians, but you don’t care. Technically, they invented blogging, and written language, the foundation of blogging. Sumerians also invented the first typos. We have never made one of those, but we hear a lot of people do. It’s the same people who use “your” when they mean “you’re.” How dare you ignore such a culturally significant part of history? You’re impudence is duly noted. (Fun fact: Ten percent of people just failed that test, yet they are somehow allowed to vote, procreate and hold high level positions in the F1 organization.)<\/p>\n
Please exploit the Sumerians further by continuing your journey toward something of actual value to you.<\/p>\n
Here’s the line-up for Life is Beautiful’s 2024 block party. Gird your eyes, as this is one of those rare promotional graphics designed to make you look in another direction.<\/p>\n We are not a graphics designer, but we have eyes.<\/p>\n Here, we fixed the colors so they’re slightly more bearable.<\/p>\n Some things of interest.<\/p>\n Despite our undeniable youth, we have literally never heard of any of the people on this poster. Therefore, we can’t exactly vouch for the fact they are, indeed, people.<\/p>\n The line-up features: Justice, Peggy Gou, LCD Soundsystem, Jamie xx, Jungle, James Blake, Thundercat, Toro y Moi, Badbadnotgood, Neil Frances, LP Giobbi, Empress Of, John Talabot and Fifi.<\/p>\n We sincerely hope the site we cut-and-paste that from had a copy editor look it over for spelling errors because we certainly aren’t doing it.<\/p>\n It’s worth noting this “block party” isn’t intended to “replace” Life is Beautiful, so there’s no sense comparing it to the previous incarnation.<\/p>\n Rolling Stone owns the event now, and honestly, it feels a little slapped together. Winging it. Fumbling around in a cactus indoor cultivation facility with a blindfold on.<\/p>\n The event touts “No overlapping sets.” Most music festivals have multiple stages, so you have to pick one during any given time slot (while missing some acts due to the overlap). “No overlapping sets” translates into, “We don’t have all that many acts.” Or possibly, “Decisions are overrated.”<\/p>\n The poster says the event is happening in downtown’s Arts District, which is simply false. Plaza is more than a mile away from the Arts District as the crow flies. Crows fly rather than walking between Plaza and the Arts District because it’s a little sketchy. Somebody has to say it.<\/p>\n Still, Life is Beautiful is downtown (it nearly went to the Las Vegas Festival Grounds), which is a big deal. This year’s event direction gives organizers some time to get their feet wet and figure out what Life is Beautiful is going to be moving forward.<\/p>\n Life is Beautiful previously had a culinary component, an art component and even a comedy component. You know, things that didn’t generate revenue.<\/p>\n Life is Beautiful had a “manifesto,” but under new ownership, it feels oddly unrelated.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/big_beautiful_block_party_lineup2024-845x1122.jpg\")
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