Events of 2014, From Food to Art to Music Last year's Electric Daisy Carnival music festival in Las Vegas. Erik Kabik/Retna As 2014 gets underway, here's a look at some of the most interesting events in the year ahead. Where the Dishes (Lots of Them) Come to You Each of these food festivals has its share of star wattage. But their real appeal is that they supply homegrown takes on local cuisine and manage to give back to the community by supporting emerging food producers and hunger-focused organizations. To accommodate growing numbers, the sixth annual San Francisco Street Food Festival (sfstreetfoodfest.com; Aug. 15 to 17) moves from the Mission District this year to the up-and-coming Dogpatch neighborhood on the city's east side. Organized by La Cocina, a local nonprofit that supports aspiring entrepreneurs, the roving event is a three-day affair: a ticketed Friday night market and fund-raiser; an all-day Saturday street festival with 80 vendors, including big-name restaurants like State Bird Provisions and Central Kitchen, that has attracted upward of 50,000 people (entry is free, though dishes are not); and a Sunday food and entrepreneurship conference. This year, Saturday vendors will have a new offering: a to-be-determined menu item that's a unifying dish across all cuisines - a "Top Chef"-style challenge, with individual approaches by all participating chefs. Passing "Girls Mirrored" by Mary A. Waters at the annual Art Miami last month. Lynne Sladky/Associated Press New England rules at the fifth annual Boston Local Food Festival (bostonlocalfoodfestival.org; Sept. 14), the region's biggest one-day farmers" market and culinary showcase, held at the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Tens of thousands have turned out for food trucks, celebrity chef demos and D.I.Y. booths on pickling and butchery. Given the geography, it's no surprise that sustainable fish is a big focus, with a seafood cooking competition hosted by the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. The seventh annual New York City Wine and Food Festival (nycwff.org; Oct. 16 to 19) was inspired by a one-night benefit in 2007. Since then, the Food Network-sponsored event has raised more than $7 million for Food Bank for New York City and Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign. Draws include tastings, cooking demonstrations, seminars and late-night parties with the likes of Masaharu Morimoto, Martha Stewart, Marcus Samuelsson and Tom Colicchio, all against the glittering waterfront backdrop of Piers 92 and 94 and other locations around the city. - BONNIE TSUI Rock, Ska and Electronica Extravaganzas Music festivals seem to be growing bigger every year. If they're not adding interactive art, Ferris wheels or all-night dance parties, they're branching out on international tours or with offshoot events in the far corners. Even Muddy Roots, an independent down-home mash-up in Cookeville, Tenn. (muddyrootsrecords.com; Aug. 29 to 31), hosts a European edition in Waardame, Belgium (at the Cowboy Up Saloon, no less; June 20 to 22). And festivalgoers are ready and willing to go there. For fans of thumping beats, a sampling of coming festivals dynamic enough to warrant a trip might start with the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas (electricdaisycarnival.com; June 20 to 22). Just one among the recent proliferation of flat-out extravaganzas devoted to electronica, E.D.C. features a dusk-till-dawn schedule of D.J."s, as well as an actual carnival of rides, clowns, stilt walkers, light shows and pyrotechnics to help light the Vegas strip. Look for editions in Mexico, New Jersey, London, Puerto Rico and Orlando, beginning in the spring. A more diverse lineup can be found at Sziget in Budapest (szigetfestival.com; Aug. 11 to 18). Set on the island of Obuda, this live mix tape of musical genres draws artists as diverse as Calexico, an alt-country band from Arizona, and La Pegatina, a Catalonian ska and rumba group. Costumed entertainers roam the grounds here too, and many attendees camp on the island to make the most of the event's 24-hour schedule. Founded in a city that has become a darling of the travel world in its own right, Iceland Airwaves, an indie rock fest in Reykjavik (icelandairwaves.is; Nov. 5 to 9) is set apart by its noteworthy venues, which include the Blue Lagoon, a pool heated by a nearby geothermal power plant, and the Harpa concert hall, home to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, as well as local bars, clubs and museums. Performers have yet to be announced but in the past have included a mix of local mainstays like Bjork and Sigur Ros and non-Icelandic alt-rockers like Florence and the Machine and TV on the Radio. - RACHEL HARRIS Catching the Games or the Match Sports are an often overlooked window into local cultures, and in 2014, travelers have an opportunity to experience the world's two grandest international sporting events - the Olympic Games and the World Cup - in exotic locations where winter sports and soccer aren't mere pastimes. Even if you aren't a fan of the beautiful game, it's hard not to be enticed by the prospect of experiencing the World Cup in futebol-crazy Brazil, which is hosting the 32-nation tournament for the first time since 1950. Fans can apply for tickets until Jan. 30 on the FIFA website, or book a package tour that includes tickets. The Winter Games in Sochi (Feb. 7 to 23) have taken a beating in the court of public opinion on a variety of fronts. But Sochi is a lively Black Sea resort town with a temperate, subtropical climate in easy striking distance of world-class skiing, and Aeroflot is offering surprisingly competitive fares from New York to Sochi via Moscow for some dates during the Games. Russian authorities have promised expedited visa processing for Olympic travelers, and although you don't need a hotel reservation or an invitation letter to get a visa, you need to buy an event ticket (available from CoSport, the official American ticket vendor for the Olympics) and apply for a spectator pass. You don't need tickets to check out the Kontxako Bandera, a festive rowing regatta that's been held the first two Sundays in September in San Sebastián, Spain, almost every year since 1879. Teams from throughout the Basque Country compete for regional bragging rights, and the pageantry and street parties attract more than 100,000 revelers who line the steep hills surrounding the city's lively old town to get the best views of the action. Wales will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dylan Thomas's birth. Hulton-Deutsch/Corbis If you don't have the budget or time to head overseas, consider making the trip to balmy San Diego to watch the United States and Britain renew the oldest Davis Cup tennis rivalry at intimate Petco Park Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. The United States Tennis Association chose to host the matches (called a "tie" in Davis Cup parlance) on a red-clay court for the first time in more than 20 years. The court and about 6,500 temporary seats will be set up in the outfield of the stadium. Ticket packages for the three-session, best-of-five series start at just $90 for the weekend. - DAVE SEMINARA Calling All Collectors: Art Fairs From London to Santa Fe For globe-trotting collectors, the 2014 season begins in London with the annual London Art Fair (londonartfair.co.uk; Jan. 15 to 19), opening with an exhibition dedicated to the artist Barbara Hepworth and British Modernism. Cape Town, designated the World Design Capital of 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, will host Guild (guilddesignfair.com; Feb. 28 to March 9), the city's first international design fair, featuring art and functional objects from nine exhibitors headlined by the Dutch designer Nacho Carbonell. Breaking from its association with traditional art and craft, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, will host the third SMART, or San Miguel Art, festival (smartsanmiguel.com; May 31 to June 2) with a focus on contemporary art from Latin America. In Switzerland, Art Basel (artbasel.com; June 19 to 22) expects to attract over 300 international galleries. Collectors of folk art flock to the annual Santa Fe International Folk Art Market (folkartmarket.org; July 11 to 13), which claims to be the largest of its kind in the world; the market will fill the city's Museum Hill plaza with works from 150 selected artists from 54 countries. And in its 25th iteration Art Miami (art-miami.com; Dec. 2 to 7) will draw 125 galleries from around the world and tens of thousands of attendees. The concurrent Art Basel Miami Beach (artbasel.com/en/Miami-Beach; Dec. 4 to 7) recorded 75,000 visitors last year. - ELAINE GLUSAC Celebrations and Remembrances Military remembrances headline 2014 anniversaries, beginning with the 100th-year commemoration of World War I, featuring events across Europe and, in London, new World War I galleries at the Imperial War Museum coming in July. Across the English Channel, June 6 is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the decisive battle of the Second World War, memorialized on the beaches of Normandy in France. A much older conflict, the Battle of Bannockburn, which led to Scottish independence, marks its 700th year with a new visitor center in March. In the cultural world, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg celebrates its 250th anniversary with the opening of a new wing devoted to works of art from the 19th century to the present. Theater fans worldwide will celebrate the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare, including those in his English hometown Stratford-upon-Avon, holding a two-day party in April. Meanwhile, Wales will celebrate the centenary of its most famous writer, Dylan Thomas. On this side of the ocean, several cities and states salute landmark ages with events and travel deals, including Beverly Hills, which hits the century mark, South Dakota at 125, St. Louis turning 250, and New Jersey celebrating 350. On the recreational front, SeaWorld in San Diego turns 50, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., is 75, and in Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park reaches 100. In Latin America, the landmark Panama Canal will hit 100 - and keep on growing, with a new channel currently under construction. - ELAINE GLUSAC