Oktoberfest Oktoberfest Oktoberfest () is the world's largest Volksfest (beer festival and travelling funfair). Held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, it is a 16- to 18-day folk festival running from mid or late September to the first weekend in October, with more than six million people from around the world attending the event every year. Locally, it is often called the Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the fairgrounds, Theresa's meadows ("Theresienwiese"). The Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture, having been held since the year 1810. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that are modeled after
S-Town S-Town S-Town is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Brian Reed and created by the producers of "Serial" and "This American Life". All seven chapters were released on March 28, 2017. The podcast was downloaded a record-breaking 10 million times in four days, and it had been downloaded over 40 million times by May of 2017. In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show "This American Life" asking them to investigate an alleged murder in his hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a place McLemore claimed to despise. After a year of exchanging emails,