Spanning the weekends before and after Feb. 29, the celebration will include an ice hockey game, wine tasting, craft show, concert and carnival, and a parade, party and reception on leap day.

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There's nothing like a bleak outlook and stunning losses from a variety of finance firms to put a damper on leap-day festivities.

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Airlines have posted an average 6.3% increase in the number of February passengers during leap year because of the extra day, based on the past eight years' data from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

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In 1962, the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose first films were latter-day variants on neo-realism, took a flying leap into hectic modernity with this short, apocalyptic screed against the habits of professional filmmaking and the un-Christian coldness of contemporary Christendom.

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