http://www.wacotrib.com The latest headlines from wacotrib en-us Copyright 2009, Cox Newspapers Inc., wacotrib Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:36:25 EST Newspapers COXnet RSS Generator v1.0 http://img.coxnewsweb.com/C/05/98/58/image_1358985.jpg http://www.wacotrib.com 5 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009waccirqueshanghai.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009waccirqueshanghai.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The “Bai Xi” tagged to the touring acrobatic troupe Cirque Shanghai may not be a literal truth, but it captures a sense of the company’s eye-arresting style. “It means ‘100 Wonders,’ ” explained Cirque Shanghai’s assistant choreographer and translator Miao Miao Chen. Cirque Shanghai: Bai Xi may not have 100 acts onstage when it performs tonight and Friday at the Waco Hippodrome Theatre — the number’s 22, in fact — but the audience likely won’t be counting. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009wacFooteFest.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009wacFooteFest.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Los Angeles playwright Craig Wright has written for the television series “Lost,” “Six Feet Under” and last year’s short-lived “Dirty Sexy Money,” but television can’t match theater’s “irreproducible moment.” “My first loyalty is to the theater,” he said in a phone interview conducted while driving back from an early morning production meeting. “I like having such a large audience to talk to with television. It’s been a fun, lucky experience, but theater is my primary forum . . . The fact is theater is living in front of you, not an electronic reproduction. That’s always going to matter more. That’s always going to have more emotion.” Wright’s ability to find emotional moments and ask deeper questions about life led to his selection as this year’s honored playwright at the Horton Foote American Playwright Festival held today through Saturday at Baylor University’s Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009wacFromTheTop.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009wacFromTheTop.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Public radio’s “From the Top,” a weekly program that showcases outstanding young classical musicians, marks its 10th anniversary season by coming back to a place the show visited seven years ago: Jones Concert Hall in Baylor University’s McCrary Music Building. In that 2002 concert audience was a 9-year-old Lorena violin student named Mia Orosco. On Wednesday night, Orosco returns, too, but as one of the program’s six featured performers and the only one from the Waco area. The Waco concert/taping, presented by Waco public radio station KWBU, will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Jones Concert Hall. Classical pianist Christopher O’Riley will host the show and accompany young musicians where needed, as he’s done throughout “From the Top’s” 10-year run. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009wacartshowWEB.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009wacartshowWEB.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Drawings by Emily Arthur Douglass (left) hang amid more than 560 10-inch-by-10-inch drawings from 66 Texas artists in “Secret Drawing Society,” a Croft Art Gallery show organized by Austin’s Amazing Hancock Brothers. The exhibit opens this weekend and runs through Nov. 28. The Horton Duo will provide music until 9 p.m. Friday at the gallery, 712 Austin Ave., while Los Pollos Paletas will play at the First Saturday Opening Reception from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009wacGimbleCD.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/11052009wacGimbleCD.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Waco musician Dick Gimble has logged plenty of time playing as a sideman on other people’s albums. Now it’s time for him to take the spotlight. Gimble, a longtime music instructor in McLennan Community College’s commercial music department and a talented bassist and guitarist, shows off his new CD, All Over the Map, in concerts Friday and Saturday at his Runnin’ Bird Studios near Bosqueville. The musician said the CD started some 14 years ago when he and Waco drummer Jerry Echols of the Morticians went down to an Austin studio to record seven songs. Gimble’s father, Johnny Gimble, contributed some fiddle overdubs, but the cost of studio time quickly exhausted his recording budget. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/nibbles1105.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/11/05/nibbles1105.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Gerik’s Ole Czech Bakery 601 Franklin Ave. in the Praetorian Building Phone: (254) 755-2700 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wactimewarner.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wactimewarner.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Time Warner Cable will close its call center in Waco, eliminating 45 local jobs. Spokeswoman Stacy Schmitt confirmed that the company is merging all call-center operations in Central Texas into one Austin facility, eliminating centers in Waco and San Marcos. Local employees will be given the option of relocating to Austin or accepting a severance package. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wachalloweenmain.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wachalloweenmain.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Trick-or-treating, costume parties, scary movies — these Halloween activities all go better when they fall on a Friday or Saturday night with no school or work the next day. Throw in an extra hour of sleep Sunday due to the change back to standard time and there’s even more reason for nighttime fun to celebrate this Halloween. It looks like local planners are well aware of this as there’s a busy weekend of Halloween events from now till Sunday. Here’s a sample of what’s happening. * * * Some evil real estate http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wacchanticleer.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wacchanticleer.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT The 12-man vocal ensemble Chanticleer sings everything from medieval polyphonic works to 21st century compositions, all with impeccable intonation, pitch-perfect harmonies and soaring range. The reward for the group’s command of diverse material, said Matthew Oltman, music director and singer, comes after a concert. “Someone will come up to you and say ‘This was my favorite piece.’ Then someone else will come and say a favorite piece, and it’s something very different,” he said. What the 31-year-old ensemble strives for is a program where “every piece means something.” The singers return to Baylor University for a Distinguished Artists Series concert at 7:30 tonight at Roxy Grove Hall. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wacbartcrow.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wacbartcrow.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Country singer Bart Crow, who recently performed at the Heart O’ Texas Fair & Rodeo, returns to release his new CD, Heartworn Tragedy, at 10 p.m. Friday at Wild West Waco, 115 Mary St. Crow wrote the album from his experience with a family member battling alcoholism and depression. Admission costs $8, $10 for ages 18 to 20. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wacbeatles.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/10292009wacbeatles.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT California musician Jim Owen thinks time has proved the enduring quality of the Beatles’ music. He would know: He portrays Beatle John Lennon in the orchestral pop show Classical Mystery Tour and still likes the legendary British pop band’s tunes even after playing more than 20 Beatles songs per show for more than 50 shows per year. The other telltale sign? The number of young people attending their shows who were born decades after the Beatles’ heyday but who still grew up listening to their songs and found themselves attracted to their music. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/nibbles1029.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/29/nibbles1029.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Filly’s N Phish 306 N. Main St., West. Phone: (254) 826-3370 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/27/10272009wacpaulbaker.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/27/10272009wacpaulbaker.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Friends and students of pioneering Texas dramatist Paul Baker remembered him Monday as an intensely creative and demanding, yet caring, teacher and director whose lessons extended far beyond the stage. Baker, who brought national renown to the Baylor University theater department in the 1950s and created the Dallas Theater Center among a resume full of achievements, died Sunday in Dallas at 98 from complications following pneumonia. The Texas-born Baker came to national prominence in the 1950s as head of Baylor’s theater program. His innovations in direction, production, theater design and teaching, plus personal contacts made during his World War II service, brought the likes of actor Burgess Meredith, actor/director Charles Laughton and architect Frank Lloyd Wright to Baylor. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/26/1026200wacburgers.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/26/1026200wacburgers.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Baylor University English professor Kevin Gardner has a gripe with Texas Monthly’s recent best burgers issue. Food critics “covered more than 12,000 miles and ate at more than 250 restaurants” for the August article, but in a letter featured in this month’s issue, an exasperated Gardner took the magazine to task for leaving Waco’s patties off its top 50 list. Though Health Camp on Waco’s traffic circle was mentioned as an aside — it’s one of Miss Texas 2008 Rebecca Robinson’s favorites — no local burger was recognized as one of the 50 best, which Gardner said partly comes down to a definitional problem. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacBUparade.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacBUparade.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT The fortunes of Baylor University’s football team have ebbed and flowed — mostly ebbed — during 100 years of university homecomings, but there’s been one constant thread running through homecoming history for generations of green-and-gold: the homecoming parade. A century has passed since the first Baylor homecoming and in most of those celebrations, students and alumni have been in motion on Waco streets: walking, marching, riding, driving, waving, cheering. Thousands more have watched them from city sidewalks, campus buildings and lawns along the parade route. There’s another constant, too, for float builders and parade organizers: an all-nighter before the parade to finish floats, set up the route and marshal participants into position. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacmulmediabands.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacmulmediabands.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Two concerts at McLennan Community College’s Ball Performing Arts Center will target more than their audiences’ sense of hearing in their programming. On Sunday afternoon, the Waco Area Youth Wind Ensemble will play selections from feature movies with music coordinated to film clips and slideshows projected on a screen behind the musicians. Tuesday night, the McLennan Community College Wind Ensemble and the Waco Community Band will continue the sensory theme with a program of eerie, spooky music, complete with one wind ensemble piece performed in the dark. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacBUwriter.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacBUwriter.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT While working in a medium that often casts stories in black and white, screenwriter and novelist Derek Haas finds himself gravitating to the gray. Haas, a Baylor University graduate, is best known for his script collaborations with fellow grad Michael Brandt on movies such as 3:10 To Yuma, Wanted and 2 Fast 2 Furious. He’s winning a name as a writer of action novels as well with his series The Silver Bear and its follow-up Columbus, published this year and the subject of a Baylor Bookstore signing this Friday. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacderekwebb.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacderekwebb.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Christian singer-songwriter Derek Webb returns to Waco for an 8 p.m. Friday concert with Jillian Edwards and Matt Scibilia at Common Grounds, 1123 S. Eighth St. Admission at the door costs $12. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/Nibbles1022.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/Nibbles1022.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT Pizza House 206 N. Frontage Road, Lorena. Phone: (254) 857-9251 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacwctwomaninblack.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/accesswaco/2009/10/22/10222009wacwctwomaninblack.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=24 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT British solicitor Arthur Kipps (Bill Mears, left) employs an actor (Clifton Grasham-Reeves) to rid himself of a nightmare in “The Woman in Black,” whose Waco Civic Theatre run begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday. James Johnson III directs the mystery, which explores whether there’s a reality behind Kipps’ haunted visions. Tickets cost $15, $10 for senior adults and students. Call 752-4371 for ticket information.