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It's time to toast the region's German heritage and culture at one of the many Oktoberfest celebrations taking place over the next month. Oktoberfest season has arrived, find a party near you Skip ...
The Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September and early October.It is attended by six million people each year and has inspired numerous similar events using the name Oktoberfest in Germany and around the world, many of which were founded by German immigrants or their descendants.
La Mesa in Spanish means "the table", or alternately "the plateau", relating to its geography. [9] La Mesa was part of a larger tract, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, and was used by Spanish missionaries. [10] Through the years, the Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers valued La Mesa for its natural springs.
Oktoberfest (German pronunciation: [ɔkˈtoːbɐˌfɛst] ⓘ; Bavarian: Wiesn, Oktobafest) is the world's largest Volksfest, featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival, and is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, from mid- or late-September to the first Sunday in October.
Prêt-à-Porter, released in the United States as Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter), is a 1994 American satirical comedy-drama film co-written, directed, and produced by Robert Altman [3] and shot on location during the Paris Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models, and designers. [4]
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is an annual German-heritage festival in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Based on the original Munich Oktoberfest, it is billed as the largest Oktoberfest celebration in the United States [1] and second largest in the world. [2] First held in 1976, as of 2024 it hosted over 800,000 attendees each year.
The National Beer Festival is Argentina's version of the German Oktoberfest. It has taken place every October since 1963, except 2020 due to Covid-19. This festival attracts thousands of tourists for two consecutive weekends. Today it is the largest in Latin America after Oktoberfest of Blumenau, Brazil.
La Mesa Barrio Chino is a Chinese enclave and home to 15,000 ethnic Chinese immigrants as of 2012, a number that has tripled from about 5,000 in 2009. [1] The enclave is the second largest in Tijuana after the American expatriate enclave.