Can the Audience Bring Their Own, Just for Backup?

Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, famous for having his dancers hurl themselves at each other and perform other risky moves, ordered 870 brown eggs (thought to have thicker shells) for them to toss around during the Los Angeles debut of his dance work “Always the Same Lies.� An Austrian newspaper has characterized “Always the Same Lies� as “a breathtaking game with symbols of fertility, life, fragility.�

The Pink Surrenders

Here’s the good news: Pink grapefruit has 40 times as much beta carotene as white grapefruit. Here’s the bad news: It still only has 1/25 as much as carrots.

Oil Beats Beans

Why does most of the world’s vanilla come from places like Bali, Tahiti and Madagascar, when the vanilla orchid is actually native to Mexico? Simple. The Mexican vanilla-growing area turned out to be the Mexican oil-producing area.

Maybe the Cheese Could Stand a Loan

Pizza may be duking it out with the hamburger as our national food, but times are tough. A sharp rise in cheese prices is currently cutting into pizza profits.

Star Log 2290: Mr. Spock Hits the Bottle

From 0.4% of all beer sales in 1989, nonalcoholic beers rose to 0.7% in 1990. At this rate all beer will be nonalcoholic by the year 2290.

New for the ‘90s: Non-Mineral Water

Glacier, a bottled Canadian water derived from melting glaciers, has a clear idea of its intended market--its sleek disposable bottles are shaped to fit a bicycle bracket or runner’s fanny pack. However, unlike Evian, which boasts 309 parts per million of dissolved minerals, or Perrier, which trumpets 505 ppm, Glacier counter-boasts how little mineral content it has: 1.5 ppm.

Pop This

Pop Secret is the first line of colored microwave popcorn made expressly for children; you don’t know what color (pink, green, etc.) the corn is until the popping bag is opened. Each bag also contains educational Qwizzes, though the questions all seem to be about popcorn.