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Austin American-Statesman from Austin, Texas • 59

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Is wj "j-m ft mm mii ran mnt: On tho rcdio KUT's 'Live Set' showcases performers in odd setting 7F6 Coming end going Ever-changing club scene brings one casualty, more surprises F7 A taste off tho exotic From dolmas to baklava, Armen's is Mediterranean F10 i Section Austin American-Statesman Saturday, October 8, 1988 lJJu mm U(o) niCol WEEKENDERS Let's interact Project InterAct is an energet- ic, creative group dedicated to making live theater fun for children. Its newest project, Dreamers All, will be performed at 2:15 p.m. each Saturday this month at Zachary Scott Theatre. Dreamers All is written by InterAct director Alice Wilson and uses giant puppets, masks and original music to explore the dream worlds of children. Tickets are "BP 4 if 0 W' ril A 1 Texas instruments Two symphonies perform this weekend.

Joining the Austin Symphony Orchestra tonight is violinist Emmanuel Borok, a Russian emigre who was once co-concertmaster of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Maestro Sung Kwak and the Symphony will swing into action at 8 tonight at Bass Concert Hall on the University of Texas campus. The program includes works by Sibelius, Haydn, Shostakovich, and Bruch. Tickets are $8 to $18. For information call 476-6064.

Sunday, the UT Symphony Orchestra presents works by Mascagni, Beethoven, Mozart and Kodaly at 7 p.m. in Bates Recital Hall. Admission to that performance is free. 4 --s i 11,1111 Staff photo by David Kennedy The Academy at 400 Academy Drive, formerly Austin Military Academy, is a stop on the Travis Heights Homes Tour on Sunday. Festival celebrates curbing wilt By Jerry Young Special to the American-Statesman Bast year when Dale Stanka and his neighbors organized the first Live Oak Festival, it was to raise money for the grim task of trying to control oak wilt, an incurable disease that killed more than 200 trees in Travis Heights.

But the organizers are calling this year's festival a celebration. Not because a cure has been found, but because the community has stopped the spread of the devastating disease. They spent the $5,000 they raised last year to have trenches dug and sick trees removed and to help educate the city that oak wilt is not just one homeowner's problem, or even one neighborhood's problem. City forester John Giedraitis is impressed. "They proved that it can be done," he said "But it takes a lot of effort and a real commitment." And as a result of their effort, Stanka says that the old trees have been replaced by something that is just as old and perhaps more valuable the barn-raising spirit that comes when neighbors join to fight a common problem.

"I've met hundreds of people since we started this," Stanka said. "Other neighborhoods have gone out arid collected money, but we wanted to make it fun and do something that would make the rest of the city aware of the problem." Stanka became aware of oak wilt the hard way when the disease killed the giant oak that shaded his yard. "It had shaded the house and the whole back yard. We had built a deck underneath it," Stanka said. "It was gone in three weeks." But compared with some of his neighbors, Stanka got off easy.

"It came down our street pretty heavily. My neighbor lost four trees." Out of the 10,000 trees that the forestry service estimates have been lost in Austin, 207 have been in the eight-block area around Stacy Park. Stanka says that they acted quickly, and he was pleased that when he would knock on a neighbor's door, he almost always found someone eager to get involved. The prescription Giedraitis and fellow urban forester Bill Edelbrock gave Stanka and his neighbors included isolating diseased areas by digging trenches and removing dead trees. It can be traumatic to lose a century-old tree, and apart from the drastic loss in property values, the cost of uprooting and removing a few tons of infected wood can run as much as $1,000.

But the neighborhood's non-profit organization, Save the Oaks Fund, ii mtummulim i i Hibiscus show More than 100 varieties of the tropical hibiscus flower will be displayed at the third annual hibiscus show and sale, sponsored by the Texas Star Chapter of the American Hibiscus Society. The free show will be from 1-5 p.m. today at the Austin Area Garden Center in Zilker Park. For more information call 441-2168 or 837-2996. V'df-p LIVE OAK FESTIVAL AND TRAVIS HEIGHTS HOMES TOUR When: Festival is 9 a.m.

to 6 p.m., today; homes tour is 2-6 p.m. Sunday Where: Festival is at Stacy Park, two blocks northeast of South Congress Avenue and Oltorf Street. Tour begins at the Austin Opera House, 200 Academy Drive. Admission: Festival is free; tour is $5. Information: 441-3260 uses the money raised at the festival to make group bids, which greatly lowers the cost of removing trees.

Stanka and his neighbors have an annual, old-fashioned block party, and the homes tour gives the community a chance to show off some of its historic homes. The festival includes live music, games, food, a free-speech corner and pony rides today and a tour of historic homes in Travis Heights on Sunday. Today's activities begin at 9 a.m. with a poker stroll, which the event's publicity director Tony Tucci, says you don't have to be fast to win. The stroll follows a 2-mile course and at each of five points along the way participants pick up a card.

The best hand wins. There will be drawings for 10-speed bicycles, a 35mm camera, two oak trees and fare from several area restaurants that includes some distinctively South Austin cuisine jalapeno wine and cajun eggrolls. And there are many children's activities, such as pony rides, game booths and a space walk. Entertainers 1 I E35SS33 Photo by Jack Spear The Live Oak Festival will again feature live music, as did last year's event. Controlling oak wilt Back page New works Dance Umbrella will present its ninth annual showcase for new choreography in "Work-Outs '88," at 8 tonight at Synergy Studio, 1501 W.

Fifth St. Eight choreographers from Austin, Dallas, Denton and Houston will present their lat-' est work. Tickets are $5, $4 for Dance Umbrella members. Call 322-0227. The homes tour, co-sponsored by the Austin Heritage Society, is from 2-6 p.m.

on Sunday. Included are the Red-Purcell House, The Dumble-Boatright House, the Mather House, the Brunson House, and the Academy, formerly the Austin Military Academy built with the same red granite as the Capitol. Tickets can be purchased at the See Live oaks, Back page include Esther's Follies, Bechtol and McBride, Rosie Flares and Austin on Tap. A highlight is the Free Speech Corner, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., which will pit Mark Weaver against John Bustin and former Sen.

Ralph Yarborough with Winston Bode. Festivalgoers are invited to express themselves. Fans of science fiction, music fare well this weekend New mural Six teen-agers of the Metz Recreation Center area have painted a mural at the center, Discover the Eastside. Come see their work at a special unveiling at 7 tonight at the center, 2407 Canterbury St. By Michael Point Special to the American-Statesman On Isis booksellers for a multimedia, wrap-around experience that is as close to otherworldly as you can get.

ArmadilloCon has achieved an international repuation as one of the most innovative and enjoyable regional science-fiction conventions and this year's edition seems destined to uphold that renown. Although there has never been a shortage of fun and games, previous ArmadilloCons have stressed the literary aspect of the gathering, at least until the all-night parties start raging. Numerous science-fiction authors, including Austin stalwarts Howard Waldrop and Chad Oliver, will be at the convention. George Alec Effinger, Pat Murphy, Walter Jon Williams, Pat Cadigan, Tim Powers, Roger Beaumont and Carole Nelson Douglas, among others, will participate in a panel discussions that will touch on aspects of science fiction, all the way from the ridiculous to the sublime. K.W.

Jeter, best known for Infernal Devices, will be author guest of honor. There also will be authors reading from their work and even an author's panel (at midnight) that will spin "bedtime stories you may or may not want I to tell your kids." When the literary content gets too deep, fans can take in a science-fiction art show, a video room, a gaming room, a Doctor Who presentation and a dealers room where collectible science-fiction artifacts will be available for purchase. The convention's movie line-up includes movies The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Lodger and A Study in Terror, as well as the infamous Robinson Crusoe on Mars, which stars Batman's Adam West. And, if that's not enough there's a gala Masque Ball and Dance to top things off. ArmadilloCon is $10 Saturday and $8 Sunday.

Call 443-3491 for information. The focus at the Austin Record Convention at Palmer Auditorium is a bit more down-to-earth but it does offer the opportunity for time travel, at least the musical variety, as fans can recapture musical mo- ments of the past. The convention, one of the largest in the nation, is presented twice a year and displays more music-related material than most people know exist. Fans can browse through hundreds of thousands of pieces of musical memorabilia including out-of-print and hard-to-find albums, 45s, 78s and compact discs as well as videotapes, posters and miscellaneous promotional items. More than 200 dealers from 25 states will offer their wares.

There also will be dealers from Japan, Canada, Belgium, Sweden and England offering rare and exotic vinyl attractions of their own. The record convention is from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Admission is $2 each day. Call 444-5035 for information.

Blasts from the past and glimpses of the future will be on display this weekend as flying saucers and spinning platters compete for attention. Science-fiction followers and music fans, both curious and hard-core, will have all they can handle, courtesy of a pair of conventions that concentrate on their chosen interests. The 10th annual ArmadilloCon, Austin's home-grown science-fiction gathering, officially began Friday, but there's still a full weekend worth of high-flying activities at the Wyndham Southpark, Ben White Boulevard at Interstate 35. ArmadilloCon brings together science-fiction fans and professionals involved in the field, including authors, editors, artists, publishers and Isis is an Austin-based trio consisting of pianist Vinson Hammond, bassoonist Dan Welcher, and clarinetist Ann McCutchan. These three are dedicated to bringing contem-; porary chamber music to local audiences.

Isis' latest program is at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Capitol City Playhouse and includes etudes for solo clarinet written by University of Texas faculty composer Karl Korte. Admission is free. Call 467-0470. Clayton Stromberger Hi.

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