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Lib JCj Austin American-Statesman statesman.com austin360.com TUESDAY.APRIL2,2009 SECTION A Pl I Four generations have kept the ovens going at Joe's I PAQl IIKI students come up with practical designs 1 I rU I IVJIN Bakery Wednesday in Food Life i rMOnlVJIN economy Thursday in Life Style i for today's Hooray for tents to keep the parties going through one damp weekend i Becky and Damon W. Holditch attended Stars Across Texas Friday at the Long Center. Michael BamM Hosts who plan outdoor parties during the spring just roll the dice. Throw a natural, and the night air bewitches. Roll snake eyes, arid everybody wails "Stormy Weather." The heavens gently baptized the Texas Hill Country Wine Food Festival's dressy event, Stars Across Texas, Friday night at the Long Center.

A long tent from Damon W. Holditch's Marquee Event Group kept nibblers and nippers on the center's plaza unharmed, while others filtered into the goodie-laden lobbies. A cool loungedisco, labeled the "Boom Boom Room," waited for VIPs in the Rollins Studio Theatre downstairs. The festival's larger Sunday fair faced used for paths between the tents, canvas-to-canvas with revelers. Yet another tent smaller this time helped out the "One Peace at a Time-Premiere Party at Austin Museum of Art earlier last week.

Event organizers, moviemakers and just good folks Turk and Christy Pipkin apparently can do no wrong. Founders of various charitable foundations, including Glimmer of Hope and Miracle, were present, as were big names on the social and philanthropy scene. Rain also was not an obstacle Thursday at the entirely indoors Modern Goddess Collection Reception for designer Linda Asaf, as her See BARNES, D3 MICHAEL BARNES OUT ABOUT more pressing danger. In fact, the impro-, vised roads to massive, pointy tents also from Holditch were cut only the day before. The Salt Lick's fields in Driftwood were so muddy that truckloads of mulch were TV NEWSCASTERS UPDATES And now, a follow-up story on what's become of familiar faces from local news stations ustin's a big town.

Each day, people come 1 oiiu gu. i iiuis utji uxuuy uu nuu it I 1 comes to the local TV news. Anchors and reporters tend to spend a year or two I 'ill I -vi. i cr 1 i I i It i I ILIJlLllllUmilMimiHirillM I IIMIWIWIWI I MmilllMMmiWlf HllllliiMIMMi It I Ml" jjMUMa 1 1 MIM liBMli'Ill li If ll nil! doing their thing here, then it's off to greener pastures. In their short time here, many of these folks manage to make an impression on you.

How do we know? You call and e-mail asking what ol' Whafs His Face is up to these days. So as a gift to you, dear reader, we've tracked down some but certainly not all of your former favorite local newscasters in cities near and far. Enjoy. Gary Dinges, gdingesstatesman.com Will Hart ISA network Shaun Robinson, a former KEYE anchor, now files reports for the syndicated program 'Access reporter, KXAN, Austin Erik Barajas LisaManzo Then: Noon news anchor Now: Health reporter, KMOV, St Louis DanPlante Then: Anchorreporter Now: Morning news anchor, KUSI, San Diego Rosenda Rios Then: Anchorreporter Now: Reporter, KSAT, San Antonio Dick Ellis Then: Evening news anchor Now: Spokesman, Leander school district Catherine Garcia Then: Morning news anchor Now: 4 p.m. news anchor, KNSD, San Diego Troy Kimmel Then: Chief meteorologist See NEWSCASTERS, D3 Robert Flores Then: Sports director Now: Anchor, ESPN, Bristol, Conn.

Steve LaNore Then: Weekend meteorologist Now: Chief meteorologist, KXII, Sherman Andy Liscano Then: Sports director Now: Reporter, KZTV, Corpus Christi Shaun Robinson Then: AnchorAeporter Now: AnchorAeporter, 'Access Hollywood CHe Spelce Then: Anchorreporter Now: Director of Chancellor's Council Program Communications, UT System, Austin Nanci Wilson Then: Investigative reporter Now: Soon-to-be investigative Keith Elkins Then: Political reporter Now: Executive director, Freedom of Information Foundation of TexasAustin Jason Feinberg Then: Morning news anchor Now: Morning news anchor, KVVU, Las Vegas Then: Weekend news anchor Now: 4 p.m. news anchor, KTRK, Houstsn ArezowDoost Then: Reporter Now: Reporter, KTVT, Dallas 'POSTCARDS FROM LENINGRAD' Venezuelan film puts children's faces on the chaos of guerrilla war By Chris Garcia M1KUICAN-STATESHVI FILM CRrnC In "Postcards from Leningrad (Postales de Leningrado)," parents are in high panic, running from the Venezuelan army whUe their children are dragged along for a wild and dangerous ride. One child is so in the thick of it Find more on 060 austin360.com Read updates at austin360.com movies sf': iiA --V If-'' vvvf -i -i Cine Las Americas International Film Festival When: Wednesday through April 30 Where: Metropolitan 14 (901 Little Texas Lane), Paramount Theatre (713 Congress Alamo Village (2700 W. Anderson Lane), Alamo South (1120 S. Lamar Mexican American Cultural Center (600 River Cost $6 and single; $10 for opening night and closing night screenings; $70 film pass, including all screenings and after-parties Information: www.cinelasamericas.org Festival highlights, D3 that she actually conceived by guerrilla fighters in the jungle during a blink-long lull in the fighting.

Hers is a rniraculous conception, if an inauspicious one. Mom and dad don't fare so well after she enters a turbulent, bullet-riddled world. "Postcards from Lenin-' grad" playing twice during Cine Las Americas Inter national Film Festival, which runs Wednesday through April 30 at various venues sounds grim, and it is, darkly and comically. It's a spunky riff on political absurdities and criminality and how they tear families to woebegone CKVIHO AI'K Ml. AlTt'lNOMA UK 'Postcards from Leningrad (Postales de Leningrado) a story of revolutionaries in Latin America, is told from the viewpoint of children.

Director Mariana Rond6n keeps the tone buoyant to a degree that veers on being cute. See POSTCARDS, D3.