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Pepperoni pizza with a side of psychic
UA drama department presented student play about telekinesis and waiting tables
Jose Lopez, Staff Writer
Issue date: 10/19/05 Section: Lifestyles
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They don't phone in their orders. They don't even have to text message them in. Going online is also unnecessary. In fact, they don't mess with any gadget at all to make their orders.
What do they use, then? The mind.
Owner Carla Dyer did not know that by hiring Will James, a college graduate who can read people's minds and see into the future, that she'd be the owner of the world's first psychic pizza joint.
Actually, the whole time she had no idea her customers were getting their pizzas before even picking up the phone.
What she doesn't know is certainly not hurting her. Business picked up just as she was ready to sell her restaurant to people who would only demolish it and turn it into some chain coffee house.
"Psychic Pizza", presented by Not-A-Penny Productions and the UA Department of Drama, ran from Oct. 13 to 15 as a small production in room 404 of Kimpel Hall.
Play author A.E. Edwards, UA graduate student in drama, said "Psychic Pizza" came from a mix of two concepts, one being her friend's idea of ordering pizza with the mind and the other being the trend of gentrification.
According to Wikipedia.com, "Gentrification refers to the physical, social, economic, and cultural phenomenon whereby working-class and/or inner-city neighborhoods are converted into more affluent middle or even upper-class communities by remodeling buildings and landscaping, resulting in increased property values and the outflow of poorer residents, either through displacement or succession."
That's a long definition and perhaps an even longer subject for debate.
"Psychic Pizza" is filled with references to crime, poverty, unequal distribution of wealth and race issues, all making Pine Bluff a strong candidate for gentrification to occur.
