On Friday night at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center here, Mr. Lacombe and the orchestra opened their second winter festival, Fire, with a program built around a relative rarity: "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire," by the Russian composer, poet and mystic Alexander Scriabin.
[New York Post] SoHo fire companies would not have the necessary manpower if a blaze were to break out on a block obstructed by a street festival, fire officials warned.
Inspired by the numerous, recurring, large-scale fire art installations at the desert festival, Fire Tetris looks to create a similar effect with an array of flame.
At this truly festive festival, two raging fires (Nance Williamson and Kurt Rhoads) do not meet, they ignite!
Set in the beautiful Cheshire countryside, this festival will fire up the imaginations of young and old alike.
Rather than staring at a lightbox, I'll be getting outdoors whenever it's bright and dry, and embracing festivals, roaring fires, and feasts.
Nothing has set the festival on fire – unlike last year, for example, when Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet were a sensation.
After the board of the New York Shakespeare Festival abruptly fired JoAnne Akalaitis last March and hired Wolfe to take Papp's title of producer, the organization idled like a car awaiting a new driver.
CALCUTTA: FILMS IN MOTHER TERESA FESTIVAL DRAW FIRE -- Members of Mother Teresa's order are complaining about two of the films in a festival in Calcutta celebrating her imminent beatification.
And I like the fact that a neighborhood event, be it a garage sale, harvest festival or fire department parade, is promoted not on a Web site or blog, but through a sign on a telephone pole or listing in The PennySaver.
