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Los Amigos Invisibles | Eat to the Beat | Epcot International Food and Wine Festival 2023

Los Amigos Invisibles at Epcot Eat to the Beat 2023, part of the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival. The performance is also part of Hispanic & Latin American Heritage Month at Walt Disney World. Los Amigos Invisibles | Eat to the Beat | Epcot International Food and Wine Festival 2023 Los Amigos Invisibles | Eat to the Beat | Epcot International Food and Wine Festival 2023 Los Amigos…

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[darthbecky726]

you. mutual. tell me something you like about yourself right now and no cop-outs!!! idc how big or small but do it 🔫

I sing choral music pretty well

[mikeysbride]

Before last week, it had been 2 (long!) years since I last saw Richard Marx, way longer than I like to go without seeing him. Thank you to Richard and to Epcot for bringing that dry spell to a screeching halt with SIX amazing performances over 2 days. Here’s hoping it won’t be another 2 years before I get to see Richard again. He’s always such a joy to watch and listen to, which is what keeps me running back to see him any chance I get. Here are some of my favorite shots from last week.

[confessinbouthanson]

“Hanson didn't even dress up for Halloween at Epcot. I mean, the ONE thing Hanson could have done that was a bit interesting!”

[johnychen]

Starship feat. Mickey Thomas Garden Rocks Concert Series EPCOT Flower & ...

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Daughtry American Gardens Theater, EPCOT June 27th, 2022

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Frozen Through the Years

Yearly Spotlight: 2016

Written by @secretsofthestorymakers

2016 was a BIG YEAR for the Frozen fandom. There were not many big events, but the real-world reach of the franchise itself expanded greatly.

In Disney World, the newly-rethemed Norway in Epcot opened, including the ride Frozen Ever After, the Royal Sommerhus (where guests could meet Elsa and Anna), and a Frozen-themed shop selling everything from plush dolls to drinkware. At Disney’s California Adventure, fans celebrated the opening of Frozen: Live at the Hyperion, a 55-minute show that ran multiple times per day until the park closed for the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Sales of Frozen merch were going strong all over the world, to the point where discount shops stocked Frozen items along with the food they sold. Of course, most of the merch was aimed at children, but the Disney Enesco figurines proved to be popular among older fans! In March, Disney in Concert brought songs from Disney classics - including Frozen - to stages in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, allowing the magic of Frozen to be experienced by whole new audiences. The brand extension Frozen Northern Lights also began in 2016, expanding the lore of our favorite story in the form of 5 books published (4 of them in 2016) and 4 LEGO shorts (though some of this lore was decidedly not canon).

Within the fandom, 2016 was also the beginning of shipping wars; intense arguments over which characters should be together ensued, proving to be somewhat divisive for a previously unified fandom. As the official franchise and the fandom continued to grow, Frozen remained in the hearts of superfans and casual viewers alike.

Stay Tune for More

👆🏻 Click above if you want to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Frozen. The due date is April 12, 2024.

We look forward to seeing your memories ❄️

[mariacallous]

A decade ago, when foreign fighters were flowing into Syria, the Islamic State’s capital, Raqqa, became a sort of Epcot of global jihad: New arrivals from different nations clustered together in their national groups. If you were a recent arrival from France or just wanted to know where to get a croissant, you could visit a café full of French people and ask. Tens of thousands of foreign fighters came from places as distant as Chile and Japan. Russia alone contributed as many as 4,000, according to President Vladimir Putin, and by all accounts, their cluster focused not on pastry but on warfare. The only countries that put up numbers to rival Russia’s were Tunisia and Turkey.

Yesterday, terrorists murdered at least 133 concertgoers in suburban Moscow. The Islamic State’s news agency, Amaq, posted the group’s claim of responsibility, as usual in language balanced between wire-service precision and rabid derangement. The claim described an attack “against a large gathering of Christians”—an odd way to describe a nonreligious prog-rock concert. Videos from the scene show gunmen firing into piles of huddled civilians and stalking others. The style resembles the Bataclan massacre, which ISIS perpetrated in Paris in 2015, and the October 7 attack, the handiwork of ISIS’s enemy Hamas. The Amaq report says the killers “withdrew to their bases,” which suggested that they remained at large and capable of attacking again, and that they had more than one base. By Saturday, Russia claimed to have arrested all four perpetrators and several accomplices. Putin suggested the killers had been on a run for the Ukrainian border.

In Russia, as in many authoritarian states, rumors proliferate fast after shocking events like this. Many repeated the crazy theory that ISIS was deliberately invented by America. The exiled chess master and dissident Garry Kasparov suggested that Russia had attacked itself to drum up ethnonationalist sentiment. Putin’s intimation of Ukrainian involvement makes little sense to me. It beggars belief that the most hunted men in Russia would immediately drive in a white Renault toward the most heavily militarized and monitored zone in the entire region when they could drive in any other direction and be alone in a birch forest somewhere. But Putin’s version is consistent with the theory that he will use the attack to demonize Ukraine.

Everything we know about Russia and its history with ISIS supports the theory that ISIS perpetrated the attack. ISIS has been reviving its capacity, particularly in its Khorasan affiliate, the one identified by U.S. intelligence as responsible for the attack. Islamic State Khorasan Province “has taken on a more central role in planning attacks abroad,” Tore Hamming, a jihadism researcher at the risk-management consultancy Refslund Analytics, told me by text. He said a number of recent events, such as the arrests of suspected members in Turkey, suggest that the group is planning attacks outside its usual area of operations.

ISIS had a huge Russian and Central Asian contingent in its heyday. And the fault lines in Russian politics and society have foretold this kind of atrocity for literally centuries. It would be a surprise if four guys piled into a car and sped toward Ukraine after committing mass murder. Nothing could be less surprising than an ISIS attack in a region susceptible to just such an attack.

About one out of every five Russian citizens is Muslim, but that population is not evenly distributed either geographically or socioeconomically. In cities, a lot of taxi drivers and hard-luck laborers have names like Magomedov and Ismailov, indicative of Muslim ancestry. Many have roots in majority-Muslim Central Asian countries and have come to Russia in search of jobs. A very large proportion of the ISIS fighters from those countries came through Russia and developed violent tendencies there, away from the moderating influence of friends and family. The four alleged perpetrators arrested by Russia are reportedly from Tajikistan, a Central Asian republic bordering Afghanistan.

The center of geographic gravity of Islam in Russia is the Northern Caucasus, the site of domestic strife and bloodshed in a series of episodes going back centuries. In lieu of perfecting croissants, some groups around Dagestan and Chechnya have become proficient guerrilla warriors, and Putin perfected his own harsh methods on them during the Chechen Wars of the 1990s and 2000s. Those wars ended with a decisive Russian victory and the installation of micro-Putins, such as Ramzan Kadyrov, so that Moscow could rule Chechnya indirectly. These figures’ loyalty is such that two years ago, in the early days after the invasion of Ukraine, Kadyrov’s Chechen fighters were among the first deployed to fight on Putin’s side.

The problem is that decisive victories are never as decisive as they seem. Most residents of formerly restive regions in the Caucasus enjoy peace as much as anyone. But discontent is easy to detect. On my last visit to Dagestan, a taxi driver sheepishly turned down his music player when a jihadist song came on. Some people remain eager to fight.

The rise of ISIS was useful for Russia, which could imagine no better destination for its domestic jihadists than a faraway conflict with a conveniently high mortality rate. Anyone so inclined could go to Iraq or Syria with Moscow’s tacit blessing. That is one reason the number of ISIS members coming from Russia was so high: They were more or less permitted to go, so that they would self-detonate or run into machine-gun fire there, rather than make trouble within Russia’s borders. Many of those who went are now dead, as hoped. Some are not, and many of those have not lost their fervor. They just need a new object for it.

The connection between Russia and ISIS is, in other words, overdetermined. The cruelty of the killing and even the choice of venue—a concert hall—are all awfully familiar to anyone acquainted with jihadism in Russia. What comes next will be familiar too. The horrific videos and claims of responsibility have already arrived. Next will be a brutal reply from the Russian state. Whether that reply will be addressed to the attack’s actual authors is an open question.

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Disney’s Eat to the Beat Concert Series | EPCOT | October 28, 2023

[beardedmrbean]

The opening for The Monkees’ movie Head is so so cool.  The whole movie is zany and unexpected (perfect for anyone who likes the ending to The Holy Grail), but the opening stuck to my bones more than any other part of the movie.

Submitted by @eggs-n-ham-sam

This one is easy for me, this was my gateway song that opened the door and led to my love of Prog rock which took me down several different musical paths.

100% not a tune you would have expected from The Monkees’ at all.

Tangentally related, they were the first big concert I went to with their 87 tour, Nesmith wasn’t with them for that one, but it was a good and memorable show, utterly theatrical and all the shenanigans you could want.

Added bonus that was my first Weird Al concert, seen him 3 times now.

Got to see Davy Jones at the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival’s “Flower Power” concert series thing the year before he died, that whole thing is a joy with the concerts managed to catch Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits bunches of times at them, David Cassidy, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Starship, Rickey Nelson’s kids played a set of their dad’s music and some of their own as well, bunch of others I can’t recall off the top of my head too.

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Great Music is in Bloom with Garden Rocks at the 2023 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival

Get ready to rock with the Garden Rocks Concert Series – returning to the EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival this March!  Garden Rocks features internationally recognized artists performing Friday-Monday and showcases local Orlando talent on Tuesday-Thursday at the America Gardens Theater! The series is jam-packed with talent from returning favorites like The Pointer Sisters, Simple…

[mikeysbride]

Living Colour has been my favorite band for 35 years. In that time, I've lost count of how many times I've seen them, and I am OK with that. I will always catch them anytime I can as many times as I can. Here are a few of the photos I took during the band’s sets at Epcot Friday.

[xena-wolfgang]

a year ago today i was in Epcot and found the most adorable Mickey Mouse doll. he has since been everywhere with me!! concerts, museums, movies, and even just chilling on my desk at work.

thanks Mickey for being my buddy! 💜💕