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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Your A-List: Best Addition to Local Media Scene
Media shifts quickly. Local newsrooms are shedding staff. Yet newcomers are still welcome.
KVUE’s Terri Gruca gave Stolp a run for her money, rating 20 percent of the tally. News McNabb blog and KUT’s Matt Reilly occupied the mid-range with 12 and 11 percent, respectively.
Reporting 4 percent or less were Austin Post, KXAN’s Natalie Stoll, New 8 Austin’s Adam Krueger, Mix 94.7’s Nikki Nite, Cedar Park Citizen, Launch 787 and Leander Ledger.
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Your A-List: Best Art Gallery
When you’re popular, you’re popular. Art on Fifth has dominated the A-List vote for Best Gallery for the second year running. The veteran seller of fine-art prints, celebrity creations and more took a full 33 percent of the vote.
Another longtime commercial space — Gallery Shoal Creek — attracted 7 percent, while Austin Museum of Art-Laguna Gloria and Austin Museum of Art-Downtown split the difference with 6 and 5 percent.
Two more institutions, the Ransom Center and Arthouse at Jones Center, along with near-campus D Berman Gallery, virtually tied at 4 percent.
Garnering less than 4 percent were Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Okay Mountain, Austin Galleries, Flatbed press, Art Palace, Women & Their Work, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Artworks, Slugfest Printmaking, Russell Collection of Fine Art, Davis Gallery, Haven Gallery and 4 Walls Fine Art.
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Charlie Faye at Saxon Pub
In Austin, I fall in love every night …
Last night, it was with Charlie Faye …
Luke Fontenot, Mary Flynn
She’s an accomplished Austin singer-songwriter associated with the upgraded Americana line …
Mike Wacker, Lisa King
Faye introduced her CD “Wilson St.” at Saxon Pub — and the multivarious crowd could not be more pleased …
Ruby James, Ruby James (daughter, mother
This city is supremely blessed with talent. And this one was backed by a six-member band including over-arcing Will Sexton on guitar. Abra Moore contributed back-up vocals.
Deanna Kuykendall, David Holmes
This was my first Faye gig. It won’t be my last. Imagine adding one Austin act every week to one’s favorites list. How soon the musical wealth would pile up.
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Austin Fashion Week Kickoff at DeanFredrick
What’s a trend-spotter to do?
Claudia Blanchette, Erin Morrill
Like style reporter Marques Harper, I’m finding the first wondrous Austin Fashion Week difficult to digest.
Michael Palombo, Dean Fredrick
Hundreds of events, often at the same time. No matter. We face this every spring and fall during music and film festival time.
Brooke Truan, Isadora Truan, Laura Grable
My first visitation was to drop by DeanFredrick, the chic jeweler improbably ensconced on East Fifth Street between Studio 501 and Progress coffeehouse.
Jennie Chen, John Knox
I found a snappy crowd there, some leafing through catalogs for the company’s serial sparklers, others posing for fashion photographs.
Annie Ray, Cassie Little
Michael Palombo of Mulberry supplied the edibles. Graham Wilkison sang and strummed softly in a corner. Claudia Blanchette invited me to the Austin Hand-Made re-opening on Thursday. (Now that will be a busy night!) And I met Dean Fredrick, whom I promised to revisit, when the crowds from Fashion Week dissipate.
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Michele Golden Party at Eddie V’s
Certain Austinites can rope together strikingly dissimilar folks …
Michele Golden, Phyllis Rose
Take Michele Golden, for instance …
Monica Davis, Martha Steinly
Her network of friends includes broadcasters, horsewomen, lobbyists, marketers, natural soap entrepreneurs, nonprofiteers and rural landowners …
Kimberlie Dykeman, Joe Phillips
Those were among the professions I sampled in conversation at her (29th) birthday party at Eddie V’s.
David Nguyen, Melinda Biggs
Note on the venue: Amazing how long owners Larry Foles and Guy Villavaso have nurtured the Eddie V’s franchise, as they have their Z Tejas series. Hard to maintain that level of food, drink, atmosphere and service.
Rose Carter, Melinda Biggs
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Happy Mid-Hot
Funny how the body adjusts. After all these days topping 100 degrees, a long, morning walk in the 80s or 90s feels like fall.
Hang in there. We’re half way home.
