Four injured on first bull run of Spanish festival: organisers
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- Four injured on first bull run of Spanish festival: organisers
- Great South Bay Music Festival promises to be great
- Beyond gay & lesbian Annual Philly film festival evolves into QFest
- Air Force Denies Request for Flyover at Christian Festival
- Circus Parade Festival opens Wed. in Milwaukee
Four injured on first bull run of Spanish festival: organisers
AFP
None of the injured were gored by a bull but fell while running through the narrow twisting cobbled streets of the old town of the city pursued by the bulls a spokeswoman for the festival said. The two Spanish nationals were aged 21 and 31 she added. The ages of the Scot and the American were not given. About 2000 people took part in the bull run which lasted two and a half minutes and was described by organisers as “fast and clean”.
Great South Bay Music Festival promises to be great
Newsday
Three days and four stages packed with music family fun and a new comedy night begins at 4 p. Fridayat Shorefront Park in Patchogue.
Beyond gay & lesbian Annual Philly film festival evolves into QFest
Philadelphia Inquirer
FRIEDMANPhiladelphia Daily News. com 215-854-5991 WHEN THE Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival premiered 15 years ago "Will and Grace" wasn’t on TV "Brokeback Mountain" hadn’t won an scar and gay marriage was legal in exactly zero states. Pretty soon though the community that had at first embraced the festival had a problem. "People complained that it was the ‘gay and lesbian’ film festival instead of the GLBT film festival" said Raymond Murray citing the acronym that includes gay lesbian bisexual and transgender people. Murray who founded the festival back in 1995 and remains its artistic director today is vigilant about selecting a range of films that represent the diversity of the community but he was reluctant to begin adding letters onto what was already a somewhat unwieldy name. "I was resistant to being that PC" said Murray.
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Air Force Denies Request for Flyover at Christian Festival
FXNews
appendChild(script); An Idaho community had secured an Air Force flyover for its local festival every year for more than 40 years organizers say but this year the Air Force turned the request down over the festival’s religious focus. The God and Country Family Festival in Nampa Idaho applied to the Pentagon for the flyover but was denied in an e-mail board member Patti Syme told KTBV. Syme said the e-mail from a defense official informed her the Pentagon prohibited support of special interest groups. “I called him immediately and just said you know hey we’ve been doing this for 42 years we’ve had flyovers what is the problem?” Syme told KTBV. “And he said well we have looked up your Web site and everything on your Web site seemed to focus on Christianity ministry booths.
Circus Parade Festival opens Wed. in Milwaukee
Chicago Tribune
in MilwaukeeAssociated Press5:48 AM CDT July 8 2009 MILWAUKEE – The Great Circus Parade is returning to thestreets of Milwaukee after a six-year hiatus. But before the big event the Great Circus Parade Festival willbe at the lakefront’s Veterans Park starting Wednesday throughSaturday. It includes wagons displays a petting zoo souvenirsand animal carousel and Ferris wheel rides. The Kelly Miller Circus will also perform. Several hundred thousand people typically turn out for theparades which include antique circus wagons horses musicalbands exotic animals clowns and hundreds of performers.
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