Blog: Spinner.com

Filed under: Around the World Rural northeastern Vermont and a 'Seinfeld' gag may be pretty foreign concepts to a bunch of kids at a school in Conakry, Guinea -- a mix of locals and refugees from both strife-torn Sierra Leone and Liberia. But they're going to be connected at a core level this coming weekend. The Festivus music and culture festival -- named, of course, for the 'Seinfeld' creation, "a holiday for the rest of us," that has become a surprisingly persistent pop culture phenom replete with its [...]