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Volume 20, Number 37
features
ROLLER BOOGIE
Summer Fun on Wheels
BY KATE X MESSER
Rollergirl
A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star! You are a muse on eight wheels! You are roller skating!
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Skate Listings
BY SHADROCK ROBERTS
Skate the Rainbow
Gay Night at the Roller Rink Brings the Eighties Home
BY VERUSHKA GRAY
Monster Duck
The Big Lumbering Tour Boat / Truck Known as Longhorn Lilly Offers a Bird's Eye View of Austin
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
2001 Austin Parks & Recreation Pool Schedule
ROLLER BOOGIE
Head Out on the Highway
Reinvent the Wheel on One of These Cool Texas Road Trips
news
Trench Warfare
Federal judge rules for LCRA on the Dripping Springs pipeline project, but the SOS lawsuit proceeds
BY ROB CURRAN
Naked City
Local news this week in Austin.
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
Capitol Chronicle
Living on the Dole
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
The Fundraiser-in-Chief, Harvard busts its workers, and Dick Cheney oils his own nest
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Reliable Execution
Why it's easy to like Eddie V's Edgewater Grill
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Where to pick berries, events to attend, and people to congratulate in this week's Food-o-File.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Chinese
Food Reviews
Marakesh Café and Grill
For those favoring the flavors of the Middle East in a relaxed yet elegant atmosphere, Marakesh is the ticket.
music
Sara Smile
Those teeth, those lips, those songs -- the one and only Sara Hickman
BY MARGARET MOSER
All There in the Music
Mandy Mercier puts down her fiddle to talk about her eventful life.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Dancing About Architecture
The rains came, sweeping away parking at Noahfest, Boozoo Chavis, and DJ Muppetfucker's name. Clifford Antone, meanwhile, remains in the pokey, while Schatzi prepares to go the same route and sign a record deal.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
screens
Outdoor Summer Film Series
When the sun goes down and a breeze kicks in, you might try getting your movie fix outdoors: Austin's Bike-in theatre and aGLIFF's drive-in spectacular are just two of the local outdoor summer film series.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
St. Stephen's kids make movie, Northcross 6 set to close.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Television's reality show sweethearts from the Outback remind Belinda Acosta of … prisoners?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Deathsport
Like most children's stories, Transformers: The Movie offers subtle lessons about the development of technology, but it might be best viewed as a piece of nostalgia.
The Birds
The best way to enjoy this campy futuristic adventure is to get a case of cheapo beer, invite some friends over, and have your own personal MST 3000 session with it.
Transformers: The Movie
Hitchcock's classic has acquired a certain campiness over the years, but it still has the power to disturb.
Film Reviews
Gabriela
A Knight's Tale
This warped medieval yarn about a peasant who passes himself off as a knight glides by on a funny, friendly, goofy sort of goodness.
arts & culture
Won't You Come In?
For four years, playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl have forged an uncommon bond with audiences through the welcoming, intimate quality of their theatre work. They've also forged an uncommon bond with each other, a mutually fulfilling creative partnership that will continue for the rest of their lives.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Arts Center Stage got a new lease on life -- or at least a new lease on Palmer Auditorium; the Bad Dog Comedy Theatre offers last call, and the Rude Mechanicals gets their second plug of the year in The New York Times.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Oliver!
Despite some fine performances, consistently lush and well-executed chorus numbers, and stunning sets and costumes, the Austin Musical Theatre production of Oliver! leaves one wanting more.
The Latino Comedy Project Sells Out
In their newest sketch anthology, The LCP Sells Out, the Latino Comedy Project subjects the motivations of Latino artists and celebrities, as well as those of their media exploiters, to a jesterly scrutinizing in a fast-paced, enthusiastic, muy silly parade of skits, videos, and songs.
Royal Pair: Games We Play
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's latest offering, Royal Pair: Games We Play, offered abstracted versions of popular children's games with subtle humor and playfulness, yet the production's lighting and electronica-style accompaniment conflicted with the choreography in what seemed a friendly battle, for center stage.
columns
Page Two
To what citywide scandal has our monopoly daily directed its powerful attention? It's a local scourge, a plague, a deep-rooted city problem: the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals. (Okay, well, we don't get it either.)
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Public Notice
"Public Notice" gets its motor running and hits the streets with Meals on Wheels.
BY KATE X MESSER
An Activity of Alchemies
The alchemy of baseball makes possible the elongation and compression of time.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
This'll put your belfry up to bat, slugger.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The historic Army forts around Central Texas and beyond.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Austin style is rocking into spring as local fashion steps out -- again -- at the Club DeVille Spring Fashion Extravaganza.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Price-gouging tactics revealed
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
My daily headaches have cleared up since I began taking six tablets of acetaminophen (Tylenol) every day. Should I keep looking for a nutritional solution?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Coach's Corner
To those who think the NBA is just a pale, slow-motion shadow of its former self, Coach says: Take another look; the running game is back, and you need only look at the eight surviving playoff teams to see it.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
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