Best Local Eccentric
TIE: Max Nofziger; Leslie Cochran
The fashion savant of Congress Avenue and community bull Max Nofzinger tie forfirst place. Not five blocks from the pink protuberance we call the Texas Capitol, a middle -aged man named Leslie tinkers with his elaborate shopping cart, a House of Style on wheels, while wearing a G-string bikini. (You know, he's actually quite fit.) Throw in a pair of black pumps, a pink tiara, a salt & pepper beard, and suddenly the day has gone pear-shaped. The man should be thanked. Ex-Councilmember Max Nofziger, despite having walked the halls of power as city councilmember for nine years, is still seen as a man outside the mainstream.