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Air Fare

Concourse food takes off as passengers spend more time at airports

By Elan Head
Dec 27, 2001

Among the things that have changed since September 11 -- television programming, color schemes -- the phenomenon most widely suffered has been seen in our nation's airports: namely, an increased reliance on airport food.Not long ago, you could get by on a bag of peanuts. Barring peanuts, you would get...
Reel Strange

Prefer quirky movie houses? You'll take a shine to the Monkey Show.

By Elan Head
Dec 6, 2001

The idea behind The Monkey Show Movie Theater -- a place "to watch a really strange movie with a small and intimate audience" -- is not a new one. But unless one considers X-rated theaters (where "intimate" is understood much differently), it is one that has been largely sidelined in...
A Jug of Wine and Thou

Component tasting breaks the sum of a wine into its parts

By Elan Head
Nov 15, 2001

Jim Fiolek is a genial man with longish hair in a braid who does a very amusing pidgin English impression. He is the vice president of Zaca Mesa Winery in California, and he is also something of a guru. He is a guru not so much among wine snobs --...
Baron Wasteland

Local indie 'mockumentary' debuts

By Elan Head
Nov 8, 2001

The Disappearance of Baron Dixon, which is a local indie film -- or, more evocatively, a "mockumentary" -- has some fine moments. There's the scene in which a stripped-down Barbie and Ken, a distinctly lascivious cast to their fixed plastic smiles, are blasted with the pop-pop-pop of an urban redneck's...
Sex Defender

Gender differences viewed through a prehistoric lens

By Elan Head
Nov 1, 2001

Rob Becker does one thing, mostly, and he does it very well: Defending the Caveman, the longest-running solo play in Broadway history. Becker has taken shtick -- a standup act about the sexes, with men cast as hunters and women as gatherers -- and made it a phenomenon; 10 years...

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