The News Review:
- Whitecross Street Food Festival
- Glastonbury: Fire burns bright as husband and wife team light up…
- n television in film clubs and festivals’” find out why world cinema…
- Ruby Braff Tribute – JVC Jazz Festival – Music – Review – New York…
Whitecross Street Food Festival
guardian.co.uk – Jun 23, 2007
It’s Friday June 1 and after days of rain the sun breaks through as 70 stalls crowd into Whitecross Street for the first Whitecross Street Food Festival: there’s Barn Bacon and Melton Mowbray Pies I’s Pies Mrs Smedley’s Chunteys and Flour Power. They make a jolly sight. When I wrote about Borough Market a few months back I touched on some of that now mighty institution’s growing pains – popularity size and what some had seen as a dilution of quality as well as the reversal of a policy that began by putting the customers’ interests first and ended with putting those of the stallholders first. I hinted too that there was now an opportunity for someone to set up a new market that went back to the philosophy of Borough’s early glory days.
Glastonbury: Fire burns bright as husband and wife team light up…
Independent – Jun 23, 2007
“If you’ve got wellies put them on now. ” Those who ignored him did so at their peril such as one male fashion victim in flip-flops who quickly found himself shin deep in a thick brown soup. The festival organisers had said they were looking forward to the rain in order to test out their newly fitted drainage system which clearly failed to live up to expectations. But hell the mud is what Glastonbury is all about isn’t it? And the weather forecasters had given plenty of warning. But soon the mud was nearly a fluid dance floor to splash around in. The Coral took to the ther Stage just as the early evening sun was shining through the whispy clouds the perfect Glastonbury time of day. The prevailing mood at the festival this year is even more relaxed than usual probably because record numbers arrived early with the site filled to 50 per cent capacity by Wednesday… But soon the mud was nearly a fluid dance floor to splash around in. The Coral took to the ther Stage just as the early evening sun was shining through the whispy clouds the perfect Glastonbury time of day. The prevailing mood at the festival this year is even more relaxed than usual probably because record numbers arrived early with the site filled to 50 per cent capacity by Wednesday. Crime figures dutifully posted outside the Glastonbury press tent bore this out. By yesterday only 13 thefts had been reported from tents and a mere 12 people attempted to break through the perimeter fence a far cry from the days when festival-goers were terrorised by rampaging gangs. The atmosphere was summed up on the Jazz World Stage when Suggs of Madness stepped forward to sing “Love Is In the Air”. His efforts were rewarded with the first sunshine of the day.
n television in film clubs and festivals’” find out why world cinema…
Livemint – Jun 23, 2007
The wave is palpable not only in the film festival circuit but also in theatres and now a TV channel of world cinema is in the offing. The channel to be launched by UTV Films by the end of 2007 will be dedicated entirely to films by directors as diverse as Akira Kurosawa François Truffaut Michael Haneke Wim Wenders Claude Chabrol and Abbas Kiarostami. UTV says it is likely to be a paid channel on the lines of the Independent Film Channel in the US. ?It?s premature to think of the economic prospects in such a short span of time? says Siddharth Roy Kapoor executive vice-president marketing and distribution UTV Films ?but we have entered the category after a lot of research analysing its growth potential.
Ruby Braff Tribute – JVC Jazz Festival – Music – Review – New York…
New York Times – Jun 23, 2007
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