The News Review:
- Desert Reign: Prince Makes the Coachella Festival His Castle – New…
- Coen brothers film to open this year’s Venice Film Festival
- Gianni Alemanno wins upset victory in Rome
- Festivals’ ouster from Piedmont Park raises questions
- Cry babies take center stage at Nakizumo festival
- Southwestern Iran to host women arts & cultural festival
Desert Reign: Prince Makes the Coachella Festival His Castle – New…
New York Times – Apr 28, 2008
— Less than three weeks before this year’s. He was Saturday night’s final main-stage show at the end of a day including important sets by Portishead and M.
Coen brothers film to open this year’s Venice Film Festival
FXNews – Apr 28, 2008
The movie which stars George Clooney John Malkovich Brad Pitt Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton will have its world premiere Aug. 27 festival organizers announced Monday. “Burn After Reading” is the story of an ousted CIA official whose memoir falls into the hands of two gym employees. The festival will run through Sept.
Gianni Alemanno wins upset victory in Rome
Hollywood Reporter – Apr 28, 2008
7% advantage over former Minister of Culture and Mayor Francesco Rutelli with 95% of the votes counted. The festival founded by Rutelli ally Walter Veltroni played a central role in Alemanno’s ads some of which contrasted the festival’s star-studded red carpet with immigrant shanty towns on the edge of town and city streets filled with potholes. In remarks during the campaign Alemanno said he would look to replace some of the festival’s main directors shrink the festival staff of 650 and reduce the festival’s 15 million euros ($23. 9 million) budget by at least 1 million euros ($1. Subscribe to the Hollywood Reporter and see the entertainment industry from its best angle: the inside looking out.
Festivals’ ouster from Piedmont Park raises questions
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Apr 28, 2008
Back in January the city passed a drought policy ordinance related to festivals and events that led to four major happenings being moved out of Piedmont Park with little advance notice. Events attracting 50000 attendees or more had to find alternate sites. There was the Atlanta Dogwood Festival the Peachtree Road Race the Atlanta Pride Festival and the Atlanta Jazz Festival. All used Piedmont Park as a central base. The reason given was that the wear and tear of major festivals on city parks during a drought would damage the turf and watering restrictions would make it difficult to replant or repair the grass. Those are valid concerns. But where the city’s motives come into question is that officials will not describe what factors will determine whether festivals can return to Piedmont.
Cry babies take center stage at Nakizumo festival
Taipei Times – Apr 28, 2008
Parents pray at the annual event at the Sensoji temple in the Tokyo district of Asakusa for their children to grow up in good health as young sumo wrestlers hold their babies high in pairs so that their cries are closer to heaven. The baby with the loudest howls is declared the winner by the sumo judge. The babies¡ cries during the 400-year-old festival which is celebrated across Japan are supposed to drive away evil spirits. The festival does not always pass off as expected with some babies refusing to cry on the open-air stage at the Asakusa temple.
Southwestern Iran to host women arts & cultural festival
Tehran Times – Apr 28, 2008
n the themes of ?Hijab and dignity culture? and ?Year of National Unity and Islamic Solidarity? the event is being cosponsored by the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance department of the province secretariat of popular culture council Women Affair?s Bureau the IRIB and the Cultural Heritage and Tourism rganization of the Province. The festival which will feature plastic arts music local handicrafts and artworks as well as photography is to be held with participation of the provinces of Fars Khouzestan Booshehr Hormozgan Charmahal o Bahkhtiyari and Kohgiluye o Boyer-Ahmad. Interested individuals can send their works to the secretariat for participation in the festival before April 29 2008.