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APRIL 2003
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 1 6 7 8 The punk trio Yao Ming (left) Sleater-Kinney and the Houston opens for old- Rockets battle the time grungies Portland Trail Pearl Jam (above) Blazers at the at the Cynthia Compaq Center Woods Mitchell in Houston. Pavilion in the Woodlands. 13 14 15 The George Bush Reason number You think you've got Presidential Library two to mix up some an identity crisis? and Museum in College mojitos: Ibrahim Burn the Floor, a Station closes Ferrer, the Cuban dance show that the exhibit "After jazz vocalist, plays runs the gamut 9/11:Messages Fort Worth's Bass from ballroom to From The World Performance Hall. every conceivable and Images of Latin style, opens Ground Zero." at Dallas' Music Hall at Fair Park. Joel Meyerowitz's September 25th: The Flag, Midnight, 2002 20 21 22 Pete Sampras, Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi, Tommy Haas, and Jan- Michael Gambill turn heads at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, which starts today at the Westside Tennis Club in Houston. 27 28 29 Today is your last day to party at the citywide Fiesta San Antonio celebration, which began April 19. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 2 3 4 Power play: Skilled sculptors The NHL's Dallas from all over the Stars face the world create Anaheim Mighty temporary master- Ducks at the pieces at the Texas American Airlines Sand Sculpture Center in Dallas. Festival in Port Aransas. 9 10 11 Reason number Those frisky free- one to mix up some booters in Corpus mojitos: The Afro Christi celebrate Cuban All-Stars, the city's pirate led by Juan de history during Marcos Gonzalez, Buccaneer Days, of Buena Vista which starts today. Social Club fame, play the Paramount Theatre in Austin. 16 17 18 Asleep at the Wheel wakes up the crowd at Billy Bob's Texas at the Stockyards in Fort Worth. 23 24 25 The Cramps, the The USA Film Senegalese Afro-pop eighties psychobilly Festival, which star Youssou N'Dour band that inspired showcases new (below left) joins a decade of independent, short, Mexico's Mono rigid roots-rock and feature films Blanco and others followers to let from around the at the Houston their pompadours world, starts today International Festival, down, play Numbers in Dallas. which begins today tonight in Houston. in downtown Houston. 30 Forces of Nature, a troupe that mixes martial arts and hip-hop dance, performs in San Antonio. Burn the Floor challenges the group to a West Side Story--style rumble. SATURDAY 5 San Antonio's McNay Art Museum opens "Charles Biederman: Abstract Modernist," a retrospective of the American artist's works. #24 Constable, 1977 12 The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opens " Splat Boom Pow! The influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, 1970-2000" today--a perfect Saturday morning show. Kara Maria's Boom, 1999 19 26 Extreme rush: Contestants at Red Bull Flugtag Texas launch themselves off a thirty-foot- high ramp into Austin's Town Lake in their own human- powered machines for cash and prizes.
Austin
MUSIC/DANCE
Austin Symphony UT campus, Bass Concert Hall, 23rd & Robert Dedman Dr (512-476-6064 or 888-462-3787). Apr 18 & 19 at 8: Borodin: Prince Igor (excerpts). Mussorgsky: Boris Godounov (excerpts). Nikita Storojev, bass. Peter Bay, conductor. $19-$35. Apr 26 at 2: Spring family concert with Trout Fishing in America. $8 & $12. (W+)
Apr 4-6: Ballet Austin UT campus, Bass Concert Hall, 23rd & Robert Dedman Dr (512-469-7469). Touch (choreography by Ben Stevenson, music by the Tosca String Quartet). Fri & Sat at 8, Sun at 2. $18-$62. (W+)
Apr 9: Afro Cuban All-Stars Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress Ave (512-469-7469). The Cuban band led by Juan de Marcos Gonzalez of Buena Vista Social Club fame. At 8. $25-$47. (W+)
Apr 10: Ibrahim Ferrer The Backyard, TX Hwy 71 at RR 620 (512-469-7469). The Buena Vista Social Club presents the Cuban jazz vocalist. Call for time & price. (W+)
Apr 13: Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba UT campus, Bass Concert Hall, 23rd & Robert Dedman Dr (512-477-6060 or 800-687-6010). The jazz duo won a Grammy last year for their album, Nocturne, a tribute to the great composers of Cuba and Mexico. At 7. $18-$42. (W+)
Apr 15: Richard Stoltznuln & Emanuel Ax UT campus, Bass Concert Hall, 23rd & Robert Dedman Dr (512-477-6060 or 800-687-6010). A recital including works by Schumann and Brahms. Stoltzman, clarinet. Ax, piano, At 8. $18-$42. (W+)
Apr 19 & 20: Bob Dylan The Backyard, TX Hwy 71 at RR 620 (512-469-7469). Call for time & price. (W+)
Apr 21: The Cramps Stubb's Bar-B-Q, 801 Red River (512-480-8341). The eighties psychobilly band tours with a new release, Fiends of Dope Island, that comes out this month on the band's own Vengeance Records label. Call for time & price.
Apr 25: Los Lobos Stubb's Bar-B-Q, 801 Red River (512-480-8341). Susan Tedeschi opens for the monarchs of Mex-rock. Call for time & price. (W+)
THEATER
State Theater 719 Congress Ave (512-472-5143). Mrs Warren's Profession--a young woman learns how her mother rose from poverty in Bernard Shaw's 1894 play. Thru Apr 13: Wed-Sat at 8, Sun at 2:30. Gen adm $22-$27 (discounts available for senior citizens & students). (W+)
Zachary Scott Theatre 1510 Toomey Rd (512-476-0541), Love! Valor! Compassion!--Terrance McNally's Broadway smash about a group of gay male friends. Thru Apr 27: Thur-Sat at 8, Sun at 2:30. $26-$31. (W+)
MUSEUMS/GALLERIES
Austin Museum of Art-Downtown 823 Congress Ave (512-495-9224). Thru May 4: Alex Katz: Small Paintings--the national premiere of approximately 75 of the artist's more intimate works dating from the mid-fifties to the present; also, Robert Frank Photographs: Selections From the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston--some 60 prints spanning the American photographer's career from his journeys to South America in the late forties and images from Europe in the ready fifties to his portraits of mid-fifties America and Polaroid prints of his family and homes in New York and Nova Scotia. Open Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 10-6; Thur 10-8; Sun noon-5. Gen adm $5 ($1 on Tue), senior citizens & students $4 ($1 on Thur), children 12 & under free. (W+)
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum 1800 N. Congress Ave (512-936-8746). This museum, which is named for the former Texas lieutenant governor, houses three floors of exhibits that trace the history of Texas, Thru May 4: How the West Was Worn--more than 150 items of clothing (that belonged to Gene Autry, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, John Travolta, et al) along with photography, period advertising, and design sketches, Also visit the IMAX theater (shows daily; call for times & prices). Open Mon-Sat 9-6, Sun noon-6. Gen adm $5, senior citizens $4.25, children 18 & under free. (W+)
Jack S Blanton Museum of Art UT campus, UT Art Bldg, 23rd & San Jacinto (512-471-7324). Masterpieces of European Painting, a permanent exhibit, displays more than 40 works from the museum's Suida-Manning Collection, one of the country's largest collections of Italian paintings from the Renaissance and baroque periods by such masters as Rubens, Veronese, and Parmigianino. Thru Apr 13: Painting Explosion: 1958-1963, Part I--works by Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Ellsworth Kelly, et al. Thru July 20: Prints From the Leo Steinberg Collection--selections from the recent acquisition of 3,200 prints by Marcantonio Raimondi, Albrecht Durer, Matisse, Picasso, et al. Also visit the museum's screening room for its new series, Projections: Thru July 20: Elementary--a selection of changing, multimedia projections by Brian Fridge, Samantha Krukowski, et al. Apr 10 at 6 (in the Art Auditorium, main floor): Leo Steinberg gives a lecture titled What I Like About Prints; free. Open Mon-Wed & Fri 9-5, Thur 9-9, Sat & Sun 1-5. Free. (W+)
SPORTS
Hill Country Ride for AIDS (512-965-7433). This two-day, 125-mile bike ride benefits local AIDS service organizations. Apr 26 & 27. Call for schedule & locations. Registration $50.
Minor Downs Rico Trick 10 miles east of Austin off Texas Hwy 290, Manor (512-272-5581). Pari-mutuel racing and year-round simulcasts. Thru May 11: Live Thorough-bred and quarter horse races every Sat & Sun (gates open at 12:30 p.m., post time 1:30); gen adm $2, senior citizens, students & military $1; grandstand box seats $5, grandstand open seating $3. Call for simulcast schedule. (W+)
Round Rock Express Dell Diamond, 3400 E. Palm Valley on U.S. Hwy 79, Round Rock (512-255-2255). Minor league baseball with the Astros' AA affiliate. Apr 3-8: Midland RockHounds. Apr 9-12: El Paso Diablos. Apr 22-25: Tulsa Drillers. Apr 26-29: Wichita Wranglers....
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