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Coachillin’ 2017: A first-timer’s rundown of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival

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For the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably logged on to your Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat and have seen your friends posing with their arms stretched out in what seems like a very bright outdoor fair that happens to also have some very well-dressed people walking about in the background.

That very same Ferris wheel then appears on more and more pictures as you scroll down and you’re thinking to yourself: “Should I have gone this year?” This is the same question I’ve asked myself for the last five years and this year I did it and I attended the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival.

Regarded as one of the largest and fastest growing music festivals on the west coast, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival – better known as just “Coachella” or “’Chella” has brought together the top acts in music every year and also the who’s who of celebrities and social media gurus alike. At it’s heart, Coachella is an experience that celebrates music, art and creativity from all dimensions but now includes food and drink and especially fashion.

If you and your friends are attending Coachella, chances are you have been planning your outfit for months to put together your best festival threads that are worthy of your favorite Instagrammer’s pages. Music blares across 8 stages and other small sponsored stages so you’re guaranteed to have your hands full if you want to see the majority of the acts.

This year’s headliners included Radiohead, Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar plus a myriad of acts from the worlds of Hip-Hop, R&B, EDM and Indie rock. The schedule was jam packed with special guests and surprise DJs popping up at different stages, such as the surprise Skrillex set at the Do-Lab, a Coachella stage favorite for EDM fans. Week one’s guests included Drake and 2Chainz, French Montana and Migos, but this year was widely criticized amongst week two festival goers for having a lack of “bigger surprises”.

The standout artist of this year’s festival was famed film composer Hans Zimmer. Zimmer, most popular for his scores accompanying such blockbuster films as “The Lion King”, “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Gladiator” brought a full orchestra to the dessert and filled the festival with a more monumental and classical interpretation of what a music festival is capable of creating.

Coachella is also a platform for tech companies to showcase their new technology. This year HP had a dome filled with interactive VR booths, a 360-degree camera, and a design-your-own bandana printer which supplied festival goers with their own personalized bandana- an essential tool to protect against sandstorms in on the festival grounds. Intel provided a theatrical projection inside their “Antarctic” tent which included gigantic bean bags that positioned the viewer to look up at the screens’ images created by the projections. It created a 15-minute psychedelic visual experience with kaleidoscopicS Fibonacci sequences galore that also doubled as a place to cool down from the 105-degree heat.

For a first timer like me, it’s obvious that Coachella has come a long way since it’s humble beginnings in 1999. As I walked in through the main gates of the festival, Large posters donning the acts that have graced the Coachella stages are on display for everyone to admire. I realized that Coachella is much more than posing for the best Instagram post in front of the famous Ferris wheel that no one seems to ride, and for first timer like me, is a music desert oasis that everyone should experience at least once.

Written by: Stefanie Bautista

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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