The News Review:
- Cutting edge is still sharp at Pitchfork Music Festival
- SF Jewish Film Festival expands its reach
- zark Woodstock: Mo. rock fest vets reminisce
Cutting edge is still sharp at Pitchfork Music Festival
Chicago Sun-Times
initArticle(“1669944pitchfork-music-festival-chicago-derogatis-071709″ contenthead document. com>JIM DeRGATIS Pop Music Critic. With a comfortable if not particularly scenic setting manageable crowds bargain-priced tickets an encouraging community vibe and most of all imaginative and musically challenging bookings Pitchfork is everything the festival experience should be that is for those of us who value the music over “making the scene.
SF Jewish Film Festival expands its reach
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> Every year it seems the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival expands its reach of movies and this year is no exception. Beyond its screenings (71 films from 18 countries – see capsule reviews on the following pages) director interviews panel discussions and special events the festival which runs from Thursday through Aug. 10 has a more intricate online component with some movies available for free viewing and other offerings that make it easier for audiences to connect to movies with a Jewish theme. Here are highlights of a festival that’s in its 29th year: — pening night: “Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger” a comedy from Australian director Cathy Randall about a Jewish student who feels ostracized at her private school and leaves for a public school where she pretends to be Swedish and befriends a girl named Sunni (Keisha Castle-Hughes from “Whale Rider”).
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zark Woodstock: Mo. rock fest vets reminisce
The Associated Press
Altamont’s deadly violence signaled an end of innocence. Watkins Glen drew massive crowds to a New York speedway. But for 160000 heartland baby boomers memories of that bygone era start and end with the zark Music Festival. For three tumultuous days beginning July 18 1974 the Missouri State Fairgrounds hosted one of the biggest yet least-known rock spectacles of its time. Promoters assured the state Department of Agriculture that no more than 50000 spectators would attend its bluegrass and “soft rock” festival. Turned-on music fans knew better. Lured by a full-page ad in Rolling Stone magazine entreaties by disc jockey Wolfman Jack and promises of “no hassles guaranteed” a crowd more than three times that size overwhelmed Sedalia and its 20000 residents.