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Friday, June 8, 2007
Salvage Vanguard blast-off
Out: A perfect party: fabulous disco-fied East Side space, casually circulating guests and a crowd made up of artists, patrons, activists, architects, filmmakers and media.
Salvage Vanguard Theater launched its new pad — main stage, lobby/gallery, scene shop, rehearsal space, with offices and artist studios to come — on Manor Road Thursday. We intended to stay an hour, but lingered for almost two. Congrats to artistic director Jason Neulander, pictured further below, and his incredibly hard-working crew.
Mike Agresta and Erica Saleh, both Michener Fellows at UT, writers of fiction and plays
Designer Chris Cobb and one of his clients, Steven Dobberfuhl, who owns that chic, environmentally chaste, metal-clad home on Eva Street. They told me about the Japanese visual party game, Pecha Kucha, which is catching on in Austin (described as “a poetry slam for designers”).
The ever-luminous Heidi Kallenberg, whose husband Gregory is promoting his movie, “Eating Levi,” based on the Austin competitive eater profiled in the AAS, and comic/playwright/actor Pat Hazell, who recently relocated to Austin from New Orleans
Dork-pop musician Chad Raines, grinning wide with AD Neulander just after the curtain of “Mud,” which opened last night
Graphic artist Ryan Goeller and theater artist/journalist Elizabeth Cobbe
Architect and bon vivant Andrew Clements.
Lacy Behrens, Amy Cone and Shannon McCormick
Vortex director Bonnie Cullum and longtime assistant Edna Parra, who’s off for a long European jaunt
We also spent some time with Cyndi Williams, who fell from the Fortunate 500 list in 2007, after a busy public 2006, jetting off to Cannes and Sundance to promote her starring role in “Room.” This year, she’s been indoors, writing her double feature “Hula” and “Hay Ride,” and working on a script about the Holocaust’s effects on later generations for Polish director Mariusz Kotowski. Just in the last few weeks, though, I’ve seen Cyndi way, way “Out & About.” Welcome back.
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