The News Review:
- Festival Highlights
- German festival goes on hiatus
- Branford Marsalis among stars to play Bellevue Jazz Festival
- Festival ready for heaping helping
- Surf film wins Dublin Film Festival award
- Festival of street plays
- Indiana Jones for Cannes Festival?
Festival Highlights
New York Times – Feb 29, 2008
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German festival goes on hiatus
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Feb 29, 2008
LUIS — Prepare for a summer with a little less oom-pah-pah. Strassenfest is taking the year off. Thinning crowds and a tight budget have forced the annual German heritage celebration — a St. Louis tradition for the better part of 35 years — to take a "hiatus" organizers said Thursday. "Strassenfest was a money-loser last year and the year before" said Pete Littlefield who sits on the festival’s board.
Branford Marsalis among stars to play Bellevue Jazz Festival
Seattle Times – Feb 29, 2008
The festival will stretch for nearly two months in April and May as on the six Wednesday nights leading up to Memorial Day Weekend local artists will perform in a variety of Bellevue locales: Jovino Santos Neto (Bellevue Arts Museum April 9); Gail Pettis (Bellevue Arts Museum April 16); Pearl Django (Bellevue Arts Museum April 23); Thomas Marriott (Bellevue City Hall April 30); Ben Thomas (Key Center May 7); and Greta Matassa (Civica ffice Commons May 14). Bellevue hosted a jazz festival featuring Northwest performers exclusively from 1978 to 1993. The new festival is being booked by Bill Royston the force behind the highly successful Portland Jazz Festival. Tickets are not yet available but information can be found at.
Festival ready for heaping helping
Charleston Post Courier – Feb 29, 2008
The third course served up by the BB&T Charleston Food + Wine Festival is expected to be a hearty one for local restaurants hotels shops and attractions. There were few tickets left for the fete’s 50 or so events when gourmands started streaming into town Thursday. The nonprofit that produces the four-day party had sold or given away 13500 tickets with only a few hours to go before the opening soiree.
Surf film wins Dublin Film Festival award
RTE.ie – Feb 29, 2008
The documentary fought off competition from early frontrunner ‘Damb? The Mali Project’ which finished second. Closely following in third place was ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ with ‘The rphanage’ in fourth and ‘In Bruges’ and ‘There Will Be Blood’ in joint fifth. Advertisement The 6th Dublin International Film Festival closed on Sunday 24 February with the premiere of the Irish film ‘Eden’ attended by writer Eugene ‘Brien director Declan Recks and cast members Aidan Kelly and Eileen Walsh. The event marked the end of the festival with guests over the 10 days including Colin Farrell Brendan Gleeson Stuart Townsend Charlize Theron Daniel Day Lewis Marianne Faithfull U2 Liam ?Maonla?Jonas Mekas Mike Leigh and John Sayles amongst others.
Festival of street plays
Hindu – Feb 29, 2008
But how does a voter choose given that no party is above board?This was the theme of “Yaru Hitavaru” a play presented by the Avishkara Yakshagana troupe as part of a three-day street play festival that concluded recently. The political satire had a horse as a metaphor for political power. “Yaru Hitavaru” was one of the eight plays staged in the festival held at Malleswaram Grounds. With lucid dialogues and Yakshagana-style of presentation the plays received the appreciation of the audience for the humorous presentation of socially relevant issues.
Indiana Jones for Cannes Festival?
RTE.ie – Feb 29, 2008
Variety says that the film will premiere at the festival on Sunday 18 May and its stars have been notified. Reunited director Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford are joined by Cate Blanchett Karen Allen Ray Winstone John Hurt Jim Broadbent and Shia LaBeouf in the new blockbuster. Advertisement Set 19 years after ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ the story finds Indiana Jones (Ford) battling Soviet Agents led by Spalko (Blanchett) for the Crystal Skull. ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ opens worldwide on Thursday 22 May.