Best Place To Skate

Playland Skate Center

Despite the Seventies-nostalgic Roll Bounce and the not-shot-in-Austin-after-all Whip It, this generation is sorely lacking a roller-skating epic like, say, 1979's Roller Boogie or Xanadu. Playland is an Austin tradition in family fun that keeps getting better. It still has that skate-shaped disco ball, and it now has a two-story playscape for the tiny ones, as well as summer camp, lessons, birthday and private parties, and a light show. And if Rick Linklater can't envision the epic potential in Playland's perfect setting to capture those sweaty-palmed couples' laps around the rink or dance solos under the lights, well, then, you are just going to have to live it out yourself.

Playland Skate Center
8822 McCann, 512/452-1901
www.playlandskatecenter.net