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to please everyone this summer in Get Festive This Summer: weather. It means evenings watch­ the Baltimore/Washington area. ing television or hanging out with If you are just staying home and . friends in the warm breeze and hanging out, try a summer recipe. Ladyfest, Vans and Ozzy setting sun. Feeling freshly cut The instructions for making frothy grass on bare feet is an unparal­ shakes and veggie pizza nachos If metal's more your thing, satisfy those leled experience when reminiscing are included, so you can cook and ALYSON SPURGAS Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff overpowering urges to headbang with about the summers of childhood. enjoy. They will be done before The some Ozzfest. This summer, Pantera, Some people will work during Simpsons even starts. And speak­ You can't wait until your last final is Godsmack, Incubus, Ministry, Kittie and the summer, others will continue ing of preparing food, read about over so you can really start to revel in that many others will grace amphitheaters taking classes. all the bad things summer can do joyous season we call summer. It will soon across the nation as part of this two-month Some of us will travel to near or to your health, then go cower in a be· the time when the drudgery of writing tour. After it made its debut in 1996, distant places, seeking excitement dark corner of your air-conditioned papers and cramming for exams will no Ozzy's dreamchild became the most­ or just a relaxing break. Focus room for three months. Don't really longer plague your life. For a glorious attended, longest-running package tour of offers you insights to cheap vaca­ do that; if you do, you won't be able three months, you can spend all that extra the year, and four years later, it was called tion options, saving you the dough to enjoy fully the benefits of this time you would have spent studying bask­ the most successful rock tour of 1999. The you will end up spending on text­ final Focus of the year. ing in the sun, skinny-dipping at three closest locations for this event are the books in the fall. Unfortun-ately, before the party o'clock in the morning and going to really Nissan Pavillion in DC on July 14 and at Whether you'll be at the beach starts, the exams are given out. awesome music festivals like the Vans the Entertainment Center in Philadelphia or lying by the pool, Focus offers See our final exam tips to wade Warped Tour '00, Ozzfest 2000 and on July 22. some good books for you to check through the tribulations that exams Olympia's Ladyfest. Like the Warped Tour, tickets for out while you're saving money on bring you. Enjoy this issue, and use The Warped Tour always provides a Ozzfest are distributed through your vacation. Books are even it wisely. Or don't. We don't really well-rounded melange of great bands - Ticketmaster, but the show in Detroit is cheaper than movies, and you can care; it's the last issue before sum­ not to mention already sold out, so enjoy them outdoors! If you don't mer. Mentally, we are already plenty of get them while you want to read, and you have some basking in the summer sun with renowned skate­ "Don't just sit around wasting can! Ozzy's put an money to spare, go to a musical cold drinks in our hands reading boarders, interest­ expensive little Web event. There's sure to be something away the long, hot days this ing people and site together for his sticker and pam­ summer; go to a music festival festival this year, phlet-laden tables and culture yourself in the and . you can visit it and booths. at www.oz:ifest.com. Books: Time Fillers and This year's ways of skateboarding, necro­ This is where you line-up consists of mancy and feminism." can watch the genres from mul­ Official Trailer Mind Improvements tiple realms of the music world, from hip­ Documentary and buy at-shirt, collector's hop to hardcore. The ticket boasts punk magazine or even an Ozzy action figure! LEANNE CURTIN magazine or Playboy (Read? Yeah, sure rock favorites Anti-Flag, Avail, Good If you make it out to the West Coast this Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff you get it for the articles), but if you r~ad a Riddance, NOFX, The Lunachicks and s~mmer, be sure to check out Ladyfest book, maybe you will learn a fabulous new many more. From the hardcore camp will 2000, the festival sponsored by under­ Summer implies that, one way or anoth­ word you can flaunt to all your friends and be 6 Feet Under, Vision of Disorder and ground punk label Kill Rock Stars. '{his er, you will have some time to kill. While family. Or, if you are like me, you have to Snapcase. Jurassic 5 and Dil~ted Peoples conglomeration of music, art, spoken-word sunbathing at the beach or in your back work all summer. Well, don't waste that will represent the hip-hop division. poetry and film is designed by and for yard, what will you do before you fall time in the carpool or on the metro. Read a Tickets for the Warped Tour are on sale women to showcase the artistic, organiza­ asleep? Sure, you could read some beauty newspaper, or better yet; pick up a good in most places now, and you can get them tional and political work of women. book. You will look well­ at any Ticketmaster outlet, online or over Featured bands include Sleater-Kinney, educated to all around you, the phone. The closest East Coast stops are Gene Defcon, Bangs, The Butchies, Cat and depending on the author in DC at the Nissan Pavillion on July 25 Power, The Gossip and The Need. and title chosen, you may and in Philly at the Blockbuster-Sony Legendary and now-defunct riot-grrl trio spark a worthwhile conversa­ Entertainment Center on July 14. The tick­ Bratmobile will be making an appearance, tion or two. ets for the DC show go on sale June 3 and as well as ex-Autoclave and present No matter what the sea­ are available at Nation Nightclub in the Helium member, Mary Timony. son, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. has southeast section of the city at no service Along with spreading the sweet sounds the novel. Breakfast of charge. You can get tickets for the Philly of great pro-female bands? Ladyfest will Champions (Goodbye Blue show sans service charge at the Electric boast a children's art show, a fabric and Monday) is a good choice for Factory in the City of Brotherly Love. For apparel show featuring the works oLStella summer; it's a light-hearted more information, check out the Web site at Marrs, Becca Albee and Nikki McClure, tale of a car salesman who www. warpedtour.com. There you will find, and two photography shows featuring the goes mad and an author' who or should soon be able to find, "up to the work of Tammy Rae Carland and DC's finally gets the recognition minute tour news," samples of the bands' Cynthia Connelly. Don't just sit around he deserves. Vonnegut's music, and videos ~md instructions on how wasting away the long, hot days this sum­ Nate West/Retriever Weekly Staff works tend to be autobio- to enter a contest and become the "Cotton mer; go to a music festival and culture Reading: So many titles to choose from, only three Candy Kid" (whatever the hell that is) for yourself in the ways of skateboarding, months of break. see BOOKS, page 20 your town. necromancy and feminism.