1. CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON: Different shapes fly best in different wind speeds. Diamonds are ideal in moderate winds, while big box kites are good when it’s blowing strong and steady. For beach kiting, go ...

Kite flying is an important pastime in Asia — everyone does it — but in the USA the old saying, “Go fly a kite!” really means, “Get away from me, nitwit!” Perhaps we rate seriousness, like work, too ...

Our weekend top picks include high flying kites, art and lots of family fun. Hermann Park Conservancy and Sugar Land Parks and Recreation will be hosting their annual kite festivals, the 22nd annual ...

This spring, birds and planes won’t be the only objects occupying space in the sky. In Baltimore, as well as almost every major city in the world, kite flying has become a central pastime and popular ...

A single kite cuts across the sky above Los Angeles State Historic Park, its hexagonal body flipping in the wind. The park sits on the edge of Chinatown, just northeast of downtown L.A. The city ...

The Artcraft Alley’s stars have been replaced with kites for a fresh, new look. The kites, which cost $23,000 for fabrication and installation, were installed in mid-April. The bicentennial stars ...

Cade Bradshaw has a name for that look on your face when you tease the heavens with a tethered piece of flying art. “They call it the kite flier’s smile,” said Bradshaw, an artist and kite maker who ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The annual Kite Flight returned to Ontario Beach Park on Sunday. The family-friendly event brought hundreds of people to the shores of Lake Ontario to celebrate the art of kite ...

Hopes for the Year of the Snake are flying as high as the kites will be in Montgomery on Saturday, Jan. 25, for the annual Lunar New Year’s Kite Festival, 1-4 p.m. at Blount Cultural Park. “People ...