The News Review:
- At the Coachella festival Prince renews his indie cred
- Meirelles’ `Blindness’ to open Cannes Film Festival
- … authorities looking into misplaced fliers floating pig…
At the Coachella festival Prince renews his indie cred
International Herald Tribune – Apr 29, 2008
He was the final main-stage show Saturday night at the end of a day including important sets by Portishead and M. The addition seemed like a last-minute attempt to increase ticket sales but it also raised the question: What does Prince signify these days to alternative-rock America? We know what he means in the physical world even in the California desert here.
Meirelles’ `Blindness’ to open Cannes Film Festival
ABC News – Apr 29, 2008
27 2004 file photo director Fernando Meirelles is shown in London. Based on a novel by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago it’s about a city where inhabitants inexplicably go blind one by one. Moore stars as the sole person to keep her sight during the ordeal. Mark Ruffalo Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal co-star.
… authorities looking into misplaced fliers floating pig…
Press-Enterprise – Apr 29, 2008
Meanwhile there have been no official sightings of a white two-story inflatable pig Waters released over Indio. Coachella organizers and Waters’ management are offering a $10000 reward and four festival tickets for life in exchange for its whereabouts and return. Waters released his trademark Pink Floyd pig during the song "Pigs" with a picture of a sinister Uncle Sam holding bloody meat cleavers and graffiti reading "Don’t be led to slaughter. " ne La Quinta woman believes part of the inflatable pig might have landed in her driveway. Susan Stoltz said she awoke Monday morning to find a heap of multicolored plastic or vinyl at the foot of her house. She said she was baffled by what the material could be until she saw a picture of the two-story white pig floating away from the Coachella music festival.