The News Review:
- V Festival emerges from the mud
- Jewish Film Festival
- Road trip: 23rd annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
V Festival emerges from the mud
NEWS.com.au – Mar 31, 2008
The joke proved true again yesterday when 20000 punters descended on the Gold Coast for the first major music festival of the year – the V Festival. Skip to: Search Box Section Navigation Network Navigation Content View the Sitemap ndm.
Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco Chronicle – Mar 31, 2008
New Israeli films in the festival will focus on the lives of Ethiopian musicians Indian high-tech engineers Russian factory workers and Bedouin filmmakers along with members of other ethnic groups. As always the festival will feature Jewish films from many countries. In fact this year’s event includes a sidebar festival on Italian-Jewish cinema including Mimmo Calopresti’s documentary “I nly Wanted to Live” which follows nine Italian detainees of the Auschwitz death camp. Among other likely festival highlights are Paul Weiland’s “Sixty Six” starring Helena Bonham Carter a comedy-drama set in 1966 about a British bar mitzvah that’s in danger of being overshadowed by World Cup soccer fever and “Love Comes Lately” directed by Jan Schutte a German film based on stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer about the amorous pursuits of an elderly man.
Road trip: 23rd annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
Dallas Morning News – Mar 31, 2008
Indulge in four days of decompression and sensory stimulation with wine tastings luncheons cooking classes seminars and soirées hosted by top chefs and wineries from around the country. Bold-faced names include Top Chef competitor Tre Wilcox New York’s the Little wl chef-owner Joey Campanaro the Charleston Grill’s exec chef Bob Waggoner and PBS’ The Winemakers star Ross uton. Want a taste of the agenda? Try toasting Austin’s famed bats from a party barge cruising Town Lake Sunday snacking in the farmer’s market in Georgetown’s San Gabriel Park a techno-music cocktail bash dubbed "Zen Nation" at the hip new Action Figure Studios production center and the festival’s first ever "Hair of the Chihuahua" Tex-Mex breakfast smackdown. Sure beats weekend brunch with the in-laws.