The News Review:
- National Black Arts Festival highlights: July 29
- Garlic cookies take the prize at the Gilroy Garlic Festival
- Latino-focused festival planned for Chicago
- Venice Film Festival unveils main jury
- Arts Briefly More Staff Changes at Salzburg Festival
National Black Arts Festival highlights: July 29
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Paul Thomason 55 works structure for the National Black Arts Festival. It begins today as a much different festival than before. Fewer huge names on the schedule.
Garlic cookies take the prize at the Gilroy Garlic Festival
San Jose Mercury News
Set against the backdrop of Christmas Hill Park this year’s garlic gala drew more than 108000 spectators for such attractions as Sunday’s Garlic Showdown an Iron Chef-style contest emceed by Fabio Viviani of “Top Chef” fame. The secret ingredient? Tomatoes — and garlic of course. Several “Top Chef” contestants went head-to-head with other local chefs in the celebrity cooking challenge with San Francisco private chef Ryan Scott besting Absinthe Brasserie & Bar executive chef Jamie Lauren. When the dust had cleared Ryan’s four-course combination of homemade hand-torn pasta with baby tomatoes and tomato broth and black garlic-encrusted beef tenderloin tomato succotash and a watermelon tomato salad reigned supreme.
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Latino-focused festival planned for Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Fiesta del Sol 2009 begins Thursday and ends Sunday. It’s hosted by the. There will be dozens of live bands a family reading event anddetails on a new recycling campaign.
Venice Film Festival unveils main jury
Hollywood Reporter
LymanJuly 29 2009 11:56 AM ETRME — The Venice Film Festival on Wednesday announced the makeupof its main competition jury four film directors and an actressfrom four different countries to the jury to be headed by two-timeGolden Lion-winning director Ang Lee. rganizers said that French actress Sandrine Bonnaire would bejoined by U. director Joe Dante Italian counterpart LilianaCavani Indian director and screenwriter Anurag Kashyap andLuciano Ligabue the Italian writer and director. Together the jury will decide on eight main prizes including theGolden Lion for best gilm the Coppa Volpi for best actor andactress the Silver Lion for best director and he Special JuryPrize.
Arts Briefly More Staff Changes at Salzburg Festival
New York Times
css); Arts Briefly – More Staff Changes at Salzburg Festival – NYTimes. Hinterh?er will be covering the season in between the departure of J?n Flimm who is leaving ahead of schedule to run the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and before the arrival of Alexander Pereira who is coming from the Zurich pera House. But don’t get too attached to Mr. Hinterh?er: he is departing the festival altogether when Mr.