Fenster writes:

We Americans think we are pretty cool with our wild weekend events like the upcoming Urban Beach Weekend in Miami Beach.  The city seems to have battened down the hatches for that.  It is bound to be a serious fest.

But the Germans are no slouches in the Department of Weekend Celebrations.  The annual Goth Festival just wrapped up in Liepzig.  As Der Spiegel writes, no one does Goth quite like the Germans.