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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 1315387, member: 93"] Saw the Lyle Lovett/John Hiatt acoustic show last night at the recently renovated and reopened College Street Music Hall (nee The Palace, in New Haven). Pizza was a major theme/running joke throughout. They came out with a large Pepe's box and one other (could have been Sally's--it was generic) and Lyle introduced Hiatt, whom he announced was "playing for Team Pepe's." He then explained that they each shared the same manager at one point, who had turned them on to and schooled them in New Haven pizza. Hiatt praised the Pepe's white clam pie he had before the show, and Lyle in particular was very well-versed in the competition. He acknowledged Sally's and Modern but said they've never felt the need to stray from Pepe's. They kept the pizza boxes front and center as props and made frequent reference to New Haven pizza. Hiatt later referenced Pepe's as the favorite again, and the crowd overwhelmingly responded with cries of "Modern," much to his surprise. He looked at Lyle like WTF? and said "Are you hearing this?" Lyle explained that Modern is well-loved and it was no surprise to him, as New Haven takes its pizza very seriously and is the pizza epicenter of the world, with "Modern" simply being the most recent entry--at the turn of the 20th century... Good stuff. Great show btw. And the sound in the new theater is stellar (not a bad beer selection, either...). [/QUOTE]