Paramount Theatre
Volume 21, Number 36
features
SUMMER FUN
Summer Fun Introduction
BY KATE X MESSER
Never Grow Up
Austin is a town that brings out the "lost boy" in everyone.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Putt-Putting to NeverNeverland
'Capt. Day Trips' shares his favorite Texas mini-golf hot spots.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Texas Amusements
BY ELIZABETH MORGAN
Amusing Ways of Life
Three Central Texas traditions continue to make fun a destination.
BY ANNE HARRIS, KEN LIECK AND GERALD E. MCLEOD
2002 Summer Camps
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Greener Pastures
Youth, Joy, and Jean Arthur
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Stories from the Midway
So many of our formative years are forever branded by amusement park memories …
BY KATE X MESSER
news
May 4 Election Wrap-up
Forgione Says Follow the Blueprint
Forgione takes his Blueprint on the road, but is everyone buying?
BY MICHAEL MAY
Not Saving the Salamander
BY AMY SMITH
When Is a Threat Not a Threat?
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Was this election the end of an era?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
In the battle of the budget, the weakest go to the wall.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
The Smithsonian gets sold to the highest bidder; a tiny university builds a first-rate baseball stadium; and a common weed killer plays havoc with Mother Nature.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
All the Fish in the Sea
Part one of our guide to Austin's proliferating sushi spots.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Spring and summer crops mean farmstands and farmer's markets are opening; Food Editor Virginia B. Wood gives the lowdown.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Indian Restaurants, Part One
We survey some of Austin's Indian restaurants in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Borderline Vaudeville
Bill Crawford and Gene Fowler go off-off-off Broadway with Border Radio.
BY CLAY SMITH
This Business Called Show
Talking with Tom
BY MARGARET MOSER
Dancing About Architecture
Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Belle & Sebastian
Live Shot
Stanley Turrentine, George Benson, Idris Muhammad, Hubert Laws, Milt Jackson, Johnny Hammond, Joe Farrell
Sugar, Body Talk, Power of Soul, The Rite of Spring, Breakout, Moon Germs
Bertrand Burgalat, Rinoçérose, VHS or Beta, M.C. Solaar, Dimitri From Paris, My House in Montmatre, Champs-Élysées-CafeThe Finest Electro-tunes from Paris, Paris Lounge 2, CQ, I Love Serge -- Electronic Gainsbourg, St. Germain, Erik Truffaz
The Sssound of Mmmusic, Music Kills Me, Le Funk, Cinquieme As, Fifth Ace, After the Playboy Mansion, My House in Montmatre, Champs-Élysées-Cafe, The Finest Electro-tunes from Paris, Paris Lounge 2, CQ soundtrack, I Love Serge -- Electronic Gainsbourg, Bou
screens
This Old Mouse
Facing accusations of market saturation, cultural homogenization, and unethical labor practices, Disney keeps manufacturing the magic … but for how long?
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Treasure Chest
The Vault Disney collection dusts off kid classics from its golden era of live-action films. They still fit -- and beautifully.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Babes in Toyland
Put the kids' summer to good use by taking them to camp, where they learn how to make television, not watch it.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
The third coast heads over to the West Coast for the Sixth Annual University of Texas at Austin Student Film Showcase, and in case you can't afford to fly out for the big shindig, they'll be screening the student works free at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown. Crafty.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Summer fun, air-conditioned and remote-controlled: The Discovery Channel airs a triptych of roller coaster specials, and Buffy fans can get their jollies in book form.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Black Cauldron
The Tolkein / D&D brand of sword & sorcery common in Lloyd Alexander's classic Chronicles of Prydain was a bit dark for the Disney set, but the Mouse factory went ahead and made The Black Cauldron anyway. Too bad they Disneyfied it to death.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Childhood's End
A certain boy whose permanent address is Neverland has been buzzing Austin quite a bit this spring, and here are some thoughts on why Peter Pan is so much in the air these days.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
A grand operatic production of Turnadot by the Chinese National Opera has been canceled, playwright C. Denby Swanson receives a McKnight Advancement Grant, Davy Crockett gets caught in the Web, and Peter Pan receives his own Amy's Ice Cream flavor.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Kindermann Depiction
In The Kindermann Depiction, Physical Plant Theater's Steve Moore and director Carlos Trevino have created two worlds, one flooded with leaves, one made of cloth, that are full of strange wonders. We wouldn't want to live there; but our lives are much enriched by having paid a visit.
Really Rosie
In the Second Youth Family Theatre production of the Maurice Sendak-Carole King musical Really Rosie, a cast of young performers brings a gang of rowdy Brooklyn kids to life with a spark and sass that suits their streetwise scrappiness and executes the show's musical numbers with the polish of much more experienced stage performers.
columns
Page Two
Saturday's election results show that election reform isn't necessary when you have a thoughtful electorate.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Wait a polyester minute! What is our Style Avatar doing in Sugar's, the Showpalace, and Exposé??? You'll just have to read to find out. Thank goodness Lucinda's also in there to soften the blow!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
After my last Pap test, which came out mildly abnormal, I "spotted" for several days. My doctor's nurse told me not to worry and I finally did have a normal menstrual period. Why would that happen, and is it worrisome?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Coach is a proud papa; his son Adam graduated from college last week.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
