- Foodie festival’s fare is cheap and healthy
- Festival crash victims identified
- Broader scope gives Viva Chicago Latin Music Festival a livelier beat

Foodie festival’s fare is cheap and healthy
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> The Eat Real Festival featured farmers brewers and street vendors with trucks selling Mexican food falafel and barbecue. Between bites of soul food gelato pies and fried chickpeas the crowd listened to live music watched presentations on farming and other green topics and soaked in the sun. In one of the more popular demonstrations Saturday onlookers witnessed a contest in which teams competed to break down a hind-quarter steer. Several festival organizers were involved in last year’s Slow Food Nation in San Francisco which included a victory garden farmers’ market and a food hall that cost $65 to enter. They decided they wanted to make healthy environmentally conscious food available to a large audience that could not or did not want to spend that kind of money.

Festival crash victims identified
BBC News
Nicola Edgar 21 from Darlington and Dominique Williams 20 from Maghull Merseyside were passengers in a Clio which crashed into a lamppost. The car flipped on to its roof in the accident on Higher Road in Halewood just before lunchtime on Saturday. Two other women both aged 19 and from rmskirk and Maghull are still being treated at Whiston Hospital. Both were cut from the wreckage and suffered serious injuries.

Broader scope gives Viva Chicago Latin Music Festival a livelier beat
Chicago Tribune
As the group played on the Los Barrios stage they called for “one strength” among Mexicans Puerto Ricans Cubans and other Spanish-speaking Americans. The appeal was echoed often during the event and this year it was particularly fitting. Viva has a different coordinator this year Barry Dolins who also runs the city’s blues festival.
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- LA trial in Thai film festival bribery case begins
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LA trial in Thai film festival bribery case begins
The Associated Press
Juthamas has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged in Thailand. The Greens are the first entertainment industry figures who have been charged under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act a federal statute prohibiting corrupt payments to foreign officials for business purposes. Prosecutors contend the Greens paid Juthamas about $1. 8 million to help secure the Bangkok film festival and tourism-related deals between 2002 and 2007. The payments some of which were paid in cash to Juthamas directly were often disguised as sales commissions ranging between 10 percent and 20 percent Lopez said. The Greens inflated their budgets so Juthamas could be paid off prosecutors said. “The simple question for you as jurors is whether all these payments to overseas accounts were bribes so they (Greens) can get the inside track for those contracts” Lopez said.

Fall arts: Welcome to the season of festivals
San Jose Mercury News
No what I mean is if you peruse today’s A&E fall arts preview section it’s hard not to notice there are simply a lot of festivals coming our way. Treasure Island’s got one (ct. 17-18) featuring hot indie rock acts like the Decemberists whose last album was about a love affair between a woman and an ill-tempered half-human forest-dwelling something-or-other. You can’t get much more festive than that. Monterey and San Francisco are once again hosting their prestigious jazz festivals.

utside Lands festival in SF this weekend
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> San Francisco park officials and promoters of this weekend’s utside Lands Music & Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park have made many changes from last year’s inaugural festival to appease neighbors. More than 100000 people are expected to converge on the park to see headliners Pearl Jam the Dave Matthews Band and actor Jack Black’s rock band Tenacious D. Last year’s 65-band concert headlined by Radiohead drew 130000 people and generated $815000 for the Recreation and Park Department but drew several hundred complaints from neighbors about noise blocked driveways and traffic. “We are refining what we did last year to make sure neighbors aren’t caught off guard” said Allen Scott vice president of Another Planet Entertainment which has signed a three-year permit with the city to produce the festival. The first change was to mail flyers to residents within a four-block radius of the park alerting them to the concert and dates of park road closures and giving them hot line numbers to report complaints or summon tow trucks.
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Arts Festival this weekend rain or shine
Stratford Star
A saddle-span tent bearing some resemblance to another landmark the Sydney pera house in Australia stands yards from the once thriving theater building ready to host a weekend that offers something for everyone in the words of Mayor James R. The festival will run Friday though Sunday rain or shine. The tent is rated to handle 120-mile-per-hour winds those setting up the stage on Tuesday said.

- Review: Ang Lee takes ‘Woodstock’ lightly
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- Fringe Festival fills its boots

Review: Ang Lee takes ‘Woodstock’ lightly
San Jose Mercury News
” Too bad they are scattered throughout a film that lacks focus structure and any sense of just how transformative the weekend music festival was for a generation. Lee’s movie is clearly meant to be a celebration of the Woodstock nation ethos. There isn’t an ounce of cynicism in it and the dark side of this gathering of the tribes is largely glossed over. James Schamus’ screenplay is based — rather loosely — on a book by Elliott Tiber a failed interior designer who in the summer of 1969 retreated to upstate New York to help his Jewish immigrant family save its rundown motel the El Monaco. ne of his ideas: a music and arts festival at the motel (he thinks a string quartet would be nice).

Festival fans receive a flag ban
BBC News
Tall flags have become common in front of stages at many UK festivals. Reading and Leeds boss and Glastonbury operations director Melvin Benn said they were "a nightmare" because they blocked the view for many fans. He said: "The people behind them – not immediately behind them but 20 or 30 rows behind them – can’t see.

Royal pera Bayreuth to release Wagner DVSs
The Associated Press
Bayreuth Festival co-director Katharina Wagner said Tuesday the first recording would be Christoph Marthaler’s production of “Tristan and Isolde” conducted by Peter Schneider at this summer’s festival. It is scheduled for release in November 2009. The production company pus Arte will also release an audio recording of the complete Ring Cycle conducted by Christian Thielemann in 2008. Thielemann’s Die Walkuere will be released in 2010.
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Fringe Festival fills its boots
Edmonton Sun
com%2Fnews%2Fedmonton%2F2009%2F08%2F25%2F10596516-sun. Attendance was sky-high and there were more volunteers than ever for the 28th edition of the 11-day event says a festival official who points to the slumping economy as at least part of the reason. “The (Capital) EX numbers were down. But the Fringe festivals with cheap tickets and free sites are way up” said Julian Mayne executive director of Fringe Theatre Adventures the operator of the Edmonton Fringe. “(The Fringe) is just a pretty reasonable day out. It’s pretty cheap entertainment.

- Brandywine Arts Festival leaving Wilmington
- Four charged after BNP festival
- Film critic screenwriter Tullio Kezich dead at 80
- Jackson’s old Ferris wheel at festival

Brandywine Arts Festival leaving Wilmington
Philadelphia Inquirer
place_ad_here(”half”); Posted on Mon Aug. 17 2009 Brandywine Arts Festival leaving Wilmington The Associated Press WILMINGTN Del. – Brandywine Arts Festival organizers say the decades-old event will not be held on the banks of Wilmington’s Brandywine River this year. The festival’s Web site says the annual arts and crafts show will be held next month at St. Anthony in the Hills in Avondale Pa. However officials say no contract has been signed. The festival is in its 49th year and is has drawn up to 20000 people at times but attendance has fallen in recent years.
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Four charged after BNP festival
BBC News
Three were charged with public order offences and a fourth with unlawfully obstructing the highway. Derbyshire Police said most of those taking part in Saturday’s protest had been co-operative. fficers made a total of 19 arrests for "sporadic behaviour" – fewer than at last year’s event. Court dates for those charged have yet to be fixed.

Film critic screenwriter Tullio Kezich dead at 80
The Associated Press
Corriere della Sera which made the death announcement said Kezich had been sick for a long time but offered no details. Kezich died in his adopted home of Rome where he hung out during the Dolce Vita days with his close friend Fellini about whom he later wrote the biography “Federico Fellini: His Life and Work. “Kezich covered more than 60 editions of the Venice Film Festival first with Radio Trieste in 1946 during a career that included stints as an actor playwright and screenwriter for film and television. Among his credits was the screenplay for “The Legend of the Holy Drinker” starring Rutger Hauer and directed by another close friend lmi who in 1988 won the Venice festival’s coveted Golden Lion prize for the film. In an interview accompanying the 2008 DVD release of the film Kezich said “a series of small miracles” allowed the film — itself about miracles — to be made. Kezich said lmi who normally resisted making films that were not his own creation agreed to make the movie after Kezich slipped him the book at a dinner party. “The Legend of the Holy Drinker” based on a 1930s novella by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth revolves around Hauer’s character a Polish drunk who must struggle to redeem his honor and repay his debts.

Jackson’s old Ferris wheel at festival
Chicago Tribune
Well it’s not so little. And it’s not something the lateKing of Pop owned recently. But a 65-foot high Ferris wheel at this weekend’s. Archway Amusements of Imperial purchased it at auction last yearwhen Jackson had to sell his. There are no clear markings linking it to Jackson.

- Arrests as protesters target UK far-right festival
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- Pusan festival to honor Johnnie To

Arrests as protesters target UK far-right festival
The Associated Press
Police said they made 19 arrests after scuffles broke out during the rally of about 750 to 900 protesters in the village of Codnor central England. About 100 people of the several hundred attending the festival were delayed by protesters a party leader said. Derbyshire Constabulary said the protest was largely peaceful but some people threw plastic bottles eggs and fruit at officers as a small group of demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon. The BNP opposes immigration and does not accept nonwhite members.

AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival
Baltimore Sun
23What: The AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival formally known as Folkfest is a three-day celebration of music boasting a variety of genres from folk to blues to Celtic rock. Performers include the Derek Trucks Band Ruthie Foster Todd Wolfe Scrapomatic Seven Nations and more. Food is a big part of the festival including a Community Kitchen as well as vendors offering gyros quesadillas curry cheesesteaks barbecue pierogi and more. How much: Suggested donations for Friday are $5 per person and $10 per person for Saturday and Sunday. Children under 16 or with an adult are free.

J-Pop festival delivers in SF
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>Harajuku girls and Japanese movie stars showed up Saturday to San Francisco’s Japantown to celebrate the opening of the New People J-Pop complex and to get a peek at its offerings of art design film and quirky fashions. tmpl –> Images.

Melissa Etheridge wows festival crowd
The Coloradoan
“She said the sponsors of Bohemian Nights sent her a basket of locally-grown fruit and a model wind-mill to her hotel room and she thanked the people of Fort Collins for knowing what positive changes need to be made in the world. Bohemian Nights at NewWestFest on Saturday proved to be an opportunity for other bands to take some time in the local spotlight giving each a chance to win new fans and inspire them to attend future performances. “So far it’s been a killer festival” said Boulder Acoustic Society singer and accordion player Scott McCormick. But trying to figure out if the exposure at this kind of festival will win the rock folk jazz and punk fu-sion band new fans is “always kind of a trick” he said. You never know what to expect he said. “You don’t know if they’re going to come see you again” he said but he had a great feeling about their audience Saturday. “We’re all really happy to be here.

A stand against underage drinking at Country Music Festival
NECN
) – Gillette Stadium in Foxborough was packed with country music fans on Saturday for the New England Country Music Festival. ne family whose daughter was killed in a crash after last year's concert was delivering an important message to concert-goers on Saturday hoping to keep them safe. The Davises want people to enjoy themselves at Country Fest and clearly people are.
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Pusan festival to honor Johnnie To
Hollywood Reporter
The festival depicts To as one of the last bastions of a Hong Kong cinema that began to dissipate after the territory’s hand-over from Britain to China. It will also look at his influence on the careers of major Hong Kong stars including Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau. In addition to the screening series festival organizers and the Pusan National University will host a To master class. This year’s Pusan festival is set for ct.

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Three Days in August
New York Times
Sometimes the argument seems to be that it was important because nothing terrible happened. Skip to next paragraph BACK T THE GARDENThe Story of WoodstockBy Pete FornataleIllustrated.

Cabrillo Festival’s Marin Alsop ‘” not your usual symphony…
San Jose Mercury News
Classical music Conductor Alsop is in her 18th year at the Cabrillo Music Festival which began this week in Santa Cruz. 3 2009 she was in rehearsal with the full orchestra and also leading a morning workshop for young conductors from all over the world.

Against all the odds Edinburgh festival bounces back ‘” and fringe …
guardian.co.uk
uk Friday 7 August 2009 19. 44 BST In some ways it is an unpropitious start to the. The city’s banking industry has taken a hammering; swine flu has cut a swath through.
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- Malibu Film Festival opens tonight with ‘Jesse’s Story’
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- Miss. festival pays tribute to Sam Cooke
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- 3 more Chinese films pulled at Melbourne festival
- New Jersey wines featured at annual festival
- Music festival leaves NJ state park mired in muck

Malibu Film Festival opens tonight with ‘Jesse’s Story’
Los Angeles Times
" It involves a small group of thrill-seekers for whom surfing was a "way of life?one that sometimes was seen through the lens of psychedelics" according to the film's description. "Sea of Darkness" is said to recapture "the life and attitude of this wild '70s surfing culture. "The Malibu Film Festival which runs through Saturday night features many other independent films from around the world. Check the blue link for a lineup and more information. –Pete ThomasVideo trailer is for  "Sea of Darkness".

Arts Briefly Catherine Deneuve Booed in Tuscany
New York Times
Deneuve was booed during a performance in Italy when she and the Italian actor and director Michele Placido performed at the cultural festival in Marina di Pietrasanta Tuscany The Associated Press reported. The pair did a staged reading of Georges Perec’s book.

Miss. festival pays tribute to Sam Cooke
The Associated Press
Cooke will remind fans about when he attends a Mississippi music festival this weekend dedicated to the 1950s and ’60s singer. “If they look at it Sam was first in everything” L. Cooke said in a telephone interview from his home in Chicago. “All his masters belong to Sam and that was unheard of.
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A Moment of Muddy Grace
New York Times
Why should we? It’s one of the few defining events of the late 1960s that had a clear happy ending. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia.

3 more Chinese films pulled at Melbourne festival
San Jose Mercury News
Rebiya Kadeer’s scheduled visit to the Melbourne International Film Festival on Aug. 8 has already prompted Venice Film Festival winner Jia Zhangke and Hong Kong director Emily Tang to withdraw their movies. The makers of the short Chinese documentary “YB Box” the Hong Kong-Taiwan romance “Miao Miao” and the Hong Kong black comedy “The Moss” have also withdrawn their films festival spokeswoman Louise Heseltine told The Associated Press in a phone interview. The boycotting filmmakers are upset by Kadeer’s visit and the screening of a documentary about her Heseltine said.

New Jersey wines featured at annual festival
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Gene Ventimilgia owner of Ventimiglia Vineyards in Sussex and one of this weekend’s attending winemakers says the Wine Country Passports have been essential to putting his business on the map. “There’s an enthusiasm around the passport program that’s really impressed me” he says noting that his tasting room has been open only since last summer. “It takes a couple years to get your operation going but right from the start as we started selling wines we started to see visitors from places like Point Pleasant and Hamilton — a lot of younger enthusiastic wine drinkers who drive quite a ways to check us out. The Fresh Wine & Food Festival much like the passport program places an emphasis on the breadth and diversity of the Garden State wine scene.

Music festival leaves NJ state park mired in muck
Philadelphia Inquirer
state park mired in muck JERSEY CITY N. – A three-day music festival has left parts of the park near the Statue of Liberty a muddy mess. rganizers of the second annual All Points West festival which featured Jay-Z among other headliners say they are surveying the damage and plan to reseed areas of Liberty State Park that were damaged. Downpours over the weekend combined with heavy equipment and 70000 concertgoers destroyed the grass in sections of the Jersey City park. The muddy mess reminded many of the 1969 Woodstock festival. Liberty Events Management producer Ken Tesler said that the group prided itself on leaving a venue in better condition than it was before an event.

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John Lennon biopic to close London Film Festival
The Associated Press
“Nowhere Boy” depicts Lennon at age 15 and follows his relationship with his estranged mother Julia and with his Aunt Mimi who raised him. It is the first feature from visual artist Sam Taylor-Wood and stars newcomer Aaron Johnson as Lennon Kristin Scott Thomas as Mimi and Anne-Marie Duff as Julia. The 53rd London Film Festival opens ct. 14 with Wes Anderson’s animated feature “Fantastic Mr.

Arts Briefly Stand-Up in Michigan
New York Times
where he lives The Associated Press reported. The Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival a weekend-long event is to feature film stand-up and sketch comedy and will be organized by Mr. Moore and Jeff Garlin a star and executive producer of the.

Newport Folk Festival Turns 50 With Sets From Seeger Baez …
Rolling Stone
” It’s hard to argue the point. Fifty years ago Seeger co-founded the legendary event with Wein while headlining a bill featuring artists like detta Memphis Slim and the Stanley Brothers. Saturday the 90-year-old Seeger was back onstage leading a 50th anniversary sing-along that included the Decemberists Gillian Welch Fleet Foxes and his grandson Tao. He even played a few solos.

Livery cab slams into Queens street festival injuring dozen
New York Daily News
An out-of-control livery cab skidded into a Queens street festival Sunday slamming into food tents and injuring a dozen people while sending scores more scurrying for safety police and witnesses said. Revelers who braved the rain to enjoy the annual Queens Ecuadorian Day Parade in. “It just came out of nowhere” said.

Crowds jam Watsonville’s berry festivals
San Jose Mercury News
Crowds of people stuffed their faces with everything strawberry at the City Plaza for the 15th annual Strawberry Festival at Monterey Bay. And throngs traveled out to the fairgrounds to listen to music and have a good time at the Monterey Bay Berry Festival. Downtown dishes ranged from strawberry tamales to strawberry parfaits. Giant strawberries painted in store front windows animated Main Street businesses while live music filled downtown with the feeling of celebration.

Tilda Swinton takes mobile film fest on the road
The Associated Press
Swinton and fellow film fans are transporting the movie truck through towns and villages for a traveling film festival. Most of the time they drive but volunteers are pulling the 37-tonne (40 ton) truck for part of the journey on foot. Swinton said the foot slog — a tribute to movies and the Scottish landscape — was a “mad idea” that seemed appropriate. Swinton told Monday’s edition of The Guardian newspaper that audiences in remote communities were hungry to for non-mainstream films and for an “experience of cinema” unavailable on DVD. The festival’s schedule includes international road movies from Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels” to Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s “Cold Fever.
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dds and Ends Michael Moore plans comedy festival in adopted hometown
Seattle Times
Peoplescar winner Michael Moore has more big plans for his adopted northern Michigan hometown of Traverse City where he’s already established a film festival. Moore said Saturday that he and comedian Jeff Garlin a star and executive producer of the HB series “Curb Your Enthusiasm” will organize the Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival. A date has not been chosen for next year’s kickoff event. Moore won an scar for his 2002 documentary “Bowling for Columbine. Federline family show?Britney Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline is shooting a new reality show.

Canada festival stage collapses
BBC News
getEmpEmbeddedParams(”emp_8180172″);Advertisementne person was killed and 15 injured when the stage collapsedThe stage at an open-air country music festival in Canada has collapsed in sudden high winds killing one person and injuring 15 others. The Associated Press news agency says one of the performers a member of the Billy Currington band was removed from the wreckage with a badly injured arm. The Big Valley Jamboree held annually near Edmonton in central Alberta attracts thousands of music fans. It is not clear whether the last day of the festival on Sunday will be held. Spectators fled in panic as a severe thunderstorm with high winds and rain swept through the festival site early on Saturday evening.

Landmark rock festival became symbol of a generation
Columbus Dispatch
18 1969 on MaxYasgur’s farm in the upstate New York town of Bethel. Some recall the disorganization the fields of muck the heavy rainstorms and the seeminglyrandom schedule of music that stretched the three-day festival into an unexpected fourth morning –on which Jimi Hendrix played his famed rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner. thers remember the communal spirit of a generation of youth showing the world that it couldjoin hands enjoy its music protest a war and yes take some drugs all with genuinely positiveresults. For guitarist Carlos Santana who played on Saturday Woodstock was “an ocean of collars hairteeth eyes and hands. “If you closed your eyes you could forget the impact of seeing a moving ocean of flesh. Thenyou could just feel the sound which had a different kind of reverberation when it bounced off thepeople and came back at you.

ne marriage and 75000 fans at German heavy metal festival
Monsters and Critics.com
epa00000401813640 epa00000401813222 Wacken Germany (dpa) – Deafened ears littered fields and a newlywed couple: this was the upshot on Sunday of the world\’s largest heavy metal festival in the northern German town of Wacken. Around 75000 people of whom a third arrived from abroad descended on the small town in the state of Schleswig Holstein for three days of headbanging to screeching guitar riffs. More than 80 bands performed from around the world. Acts including Motörhead Doro and Saxon thrashed it out on multiple stages as the volume reached 120 decibels at Saturday night\’s finale. Two Wacken diehards chose to marry onstage during the festival surrounded by live music and long-haired fans.
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Taos Mountain Music Festival Heats Up Northern New Mexico Ski …
First Tracks
Headlining the show will be three international touring acts: zomatli The Wailers and Joan sborne. Their sound will be complemented by regional performers Nosotros Rico Blues Project and the Brent Berry Band. The festival gates open at 10 a.

Focus on Arts: National Black Theatre Festival celebrating its …
Winston-Salem Journal
Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope an inspirational revue about the African-American experience opened the first festival which the late Larry Leon Hamlin founded in 1989. It will return for a four-show run beginning Monday at the Stevens Center energizing audiences there with continuous dancing and the singing of such songs as “I Gotta Keep Movin’” and “Time Brings About a Change. Much about the latest production will remind patrons of the first one from its director Mabel Robinson to the performers engaged by the N.

Plenty of family fun at Tuscarawas County Italian-American Festival
Zanesville Times Recorder
The wine must be homemade to qualify and can be red grape white grape or other fruit but not grape. Visitors will find sports are an important part of the Italian Heritage too. Bocce tournaments for women men and children are held during the festival. The lawn bowling game dates back to the Roman Empire as does the sum guessing game of Morra which will also be featured during the festival. “We have a Kids’ Korner which has games for little ones such as duck pond ring toss bean bag toss etcetera. Everyone wins a prize and the tickets are only a quarter.

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Fighting the Ghost of Festivals Past
New York Times
Forty years ago with Woodstock New York gave the world what many call the archetype of the outdoor rock festival. In the last decade though as musical lollapaloozas have sprouted around the country the region has largely missed out. ne event after another has either been scrapped early or flamed out; for promoters the list is like a litany of war dead:.

American-Dutch gay couples to wed in Amsterdam
The Associated Press
Mayor Job Cohen also performed the first Dutch ceremonies after the Netherlands legalized same-sex marriage in 2001. The festival attracts hundreds of thousands of gay rights supporters to dance on packed streets in the city center and watch colorful boat-floats parade down canals. The marriage ceremonies Saturday are part of celebrations of the 400th anniversary of New York-Netherlands ties.

Salinas’ Steinbeck Festival focuses on fantasy
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> For 29 years the Steinbeck Festival honoring Salinas’ favorite son has been one of Monterey County’s biggest events. This year the focus on magic swords medieval craftsmanship and the Holy Grail might lead attendees to think they’ve wandered by mistake into a fantasy convention. tmpl –> Images.

Vampire Weekend on the scene at All Points West Festival
USA Today
By summer they were playing to massive crowds at festivals such as Glastonbury and Coachella. “We opened for Blur (in London) at Hyde Park last year in front of 55000 people” Baio remembers. “Performing is the best part of playing. I’m looking forward to sharing our new music at All Points West.

All Points West Festival Begins
WNYC
rganizers expect more than thirty thousand people to attend the three-day event. This year?s All Points West is a mix of hyped-newcomers and bankable veterans. But two New York acts on the bill don’t really fit into either category. WNYC?s tis Hart checks out the music of Bronx rapper Kool Keith and the long-defunct duo rganized Konfusion.

Pre-dawn art festival wakes up Paris
The Associated Press
French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand one of several hundred spectators Friday hailed the event as “extremely beautiful and poetic. “”It’s clearly the fruit of years of love and rigor between a man and this extraordinary horse” he told reporters. The event dubbed “Lever de Soleil” or “Sunrise” is part of an annual festival aimed at shaking up Paris during the summer months when many inhabitants leave for the beach and the French capital becomes something of a ghost town. The festival includes a musical theater performance Spanish flamenco dance and a circus. With “Sunrise” Bartabas — who heads the Theatre Zingaro a Paris-based equestrian troop that has regaled audiences from New York to Japan — shows off Le Caravage in gardens throughout Paris. Besides the Jardin des Tuileries a neatly manicured park next to the Louvre Museum which once belonged to the royal palace the duo will do their dawn dance on the grounds of a sprawling university complex at a suburban Seine-side park and in the Marais district of central Paris. No photographs are allowed.

Lake Tahoe: Late summer wine festival pet-friendly events …
Los Angeles Times
The package includes eight beer tickets (other beer tickets can be bought the day of the event for $4 each). 6 – 21st Annual Alpen Wine Festival: Where wine connoisseurs toast each other with vintages from more than 40 California vineyards served in a Spiegalau crystal souvenir wine glass or peruse the incredible Silent Auction room for great deals on wine and art. With this package you receive entry ($40) and two commemorative glasses with sampling from 2-5 p.
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