Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Thursday 18 YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY. The Arizona Legislature is back in session, which means none of us is safe. But of particular concern are those young women whose lives will, in this state of soaring teen pregnancy, be bureaucratically determined by the revised abortion bill (HB 2019), the reference title of which curiously refers to "parents' rights" only in the context of the parents of the pregnant minor. Parents-to-be don't count. The bill would require a note from Mom (or Pop) to have a safe, legal abortion. The other option is to petition a superior court judge for a day in court so the state can determine whether the minor is mature enough to make a decision about her own future. But wait, guys, there's something for you, too: In a misguided attempt to assuage pro-choice opposition, those statehouse sticklers have thrown in a bizarre consortium of mandatory revisions to sex education (HB 2202) instructing educators to "promote abstinence from sex until marriage" while prohibiting any district from a course of study that "portrays homosexuality as a positive alternative life-style (or) suggests that some methods of sex are safe methods of homosexual sex." Availability or distribution of contraceptives, is of course, expressly prohibited. Discuss these and other issues with Planned Parenthood Community Affairs Administrator Kathy Hannan in a free lecture, Legislative Update on Reproductive Health Issues, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House, 931 N. Fifth Ave. Program is sponsored by the Tucson chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Call 622-5743 for information. KLEZMER CONSERVATORY. In Europe, klezmorim were originally wandering musicians who provided entertainment at Jewish festivals. In the 20th century, Klezmer music has evolved into a well-developed style of its own, assimilating traditional non-Russian, Gypsy, Rumanian and Turkish influences with American ragtime, Dixieland and swing to create foot-stomping, hand-clapping "Yiddish soul music." The Klezmer Conservatory Band, which has toured the world for more than a decade playing their super-charged Eastern European folk music, performs at 7:30 p.m. at UA Centennial Hall, inside the campus' main gate on University Boulevard east of Park Avenue. Tickets range from $13 to $23, with discounts for children, students and UA faculty. Student rush tickets will be available for $5 starting 45 minutes before curtain. Call 621-3341 for tickets and information. UA School of Music faculty member, Janet Sturman, will give a pre-performance talk on Klezmer music at 6:45 p.m. in the UA Douglass Building, Room 101, right across from Centennial Hall. Friday 19 STEADY-ROLLIN' MARGOLIN. If the closest you've been to old-style Chicago blues in the Old Pueblo is the occasional Muddy Waters selection on the jukebox, the only place you want to be tonight is the Rialto Theater, 318 E. Congress St., where guitar legend Bob Margolin is the latest in the recent lineup of excellent shows at this historic venue. The guitarist/vocalist/ songwriter cut his teeth with the Muddy Waters Band back in 1973, sticking around through 1980. Margolin's singularly expressive blend of Chicago blues, jump blues and swing has earned him a world-wide following and recording credits with everyone from B.B. King to Bob Dylan. This is slide guitar and string bending at its finest. The Bob Margolin Trio takes the stage at 9 p.m. All tickets are $5, available at Hear's Music and all Zia Records locations. Call 795-1420 for information. Saturday 20 THE REEL THING. The annual Jewish Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of Partisans of Vilna, an outstanding documentary chronicling the development of the underground Jewish resistance during WWII via interviews and rare archival footage. It focuses primarily on the moral dilemma facing the Jewish youth who forged their resistance in the Vilna ghetto. Joshua Waletsky, renowned musician and the film's director, will give a special presentation following the screening. The festival continues through Thursday, January 25, with a thought-provoking array of documentary, theatre, musical comedy and original films. Tickets are $4 for single screenings, $7 for a day pass and $25 for the whole series. All screenings are at the JCC, 3800 E. River Road, complete with "state-of-the-art 35 mm projection equipment," free popcorn and free parking. Call 299-3000 for information. Downtown Saturday Night. Ballet Folklorico opens this bi-weekly nighttime celebration in the Arts District with inspired song and dance. Kick up your own heels to salsa, merengue and banda dance favorites with live music by Mario Bedoya and Karizma Musicals, starting at 7 p.m. in the Ronstadt Transit Center, Congress Street and Sixth Avenue. Fourth Avenue Live! presents lyrical folk rock by Phoenix-based Aventine Hill, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Winsett Park, Fourth Avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets. Head over to The Temple Of Music And Art Cabaret Theatre, 330 S. Scott Ave., and find out what Cabaret Magritte has in its music/dance/spoken-word bag of tricks. Ten to 12 artists present short works to bewilder, beguile and beware, starting at 8 p.m. Ride in a horse-drawn wagon, visit your favorite downtown gallery, or imbibe at one of the cozy cafés along Congress Street. Downtown Saturday Night has something for everyone. For information call 624-9977. Sunday 21 GOOD-BYE, HARRY. When a young Pamela Ross returned home from her piano lessons having learned that "Rachmaninoff was for men only," her father was indignant. He assured her she could do anything she wanted to do, and that she could certainly play any music a man could. And that she did. Pamela Ross left her Louisiana home to study music at Julliard, graduating to studies at Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a masters in music. She dazzled Tucson audiences last season with Carreno, the off-Broadway hit that earned her a nomination for the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding achievement. She returns to open the Invisible Theatre season with Good-Bye, Harry, a warm, witty, musical tribute to the artist's father. In telling about their relationship, Ross plays favorite pieces which range from Gershwin to Sondheim, Chopin to Zez Confrey, to Boogie Woogie and the forbidden Rachmaninoff. Today's preview begins at 2 p.m., with proceeds from the $13 ticket benefiting Orts Theatre of Dance. Previews continue at 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, for $10. Regular performances continue through February 11, with all performances at Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Ave. Call 882-9721 for reservations and information. Monday 22 PERCUSSION PLUS. Find a seat at the Southwest Center for Music Acoustic Café, 2175 N. Sixth Ave., as the fourth evening of the Percussion Plus Concert Series gets underway with "audience-friendly improvisation" by featured performers Rene Camacio (on electric bass) and Todd Hammes (God of Percussion), with help from some special guest performers. Program combines "contemporary classical music techniques with elements of all the world's music," for a sampling of styles sure to intrigue all musical palates. And for $3 at the door, how can you go wrong? Get addicted to the rhythm at 8 p.m. Call 884-1220 for information. Tuesday 23 WRITING WORKS READING. UA Writing Works Center celebrates the coming of Spring a little bit early with a free reception and faculty reading to inaugurate the Spring semester from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Arizona Extended University's new offices in the Main Gate Center, Third Floor, 888 N. Euclid Ave. Tucson authors Demetria Martinez (Mother Tongue) and Luis Alberto Urrea (In Search of Snow, The Fever of Being), both award-winning authors of fiction and poetry, will read from their recent works. Call 626-4444 for information. Wednesday 24 Tlingit STORYTELLING. Richard and Nora Marks Dauenhauer have traveled across the frozen tundra, in spirit if not in fact, to present an evening of "traditional Tlingit oratory, storytelling and cultural explication." The world-renowned linguists and scholars of the Native Alaskan Tlingit language and culture have spent years compiling fieldwork, transcription and translation of this vanishing oral literature, and tonight's program promises a unique journey into one of America's lesser-known native cultures. As if that isn't enough, both Dauenhauers are poets in their own right, and will read from published works: Nora from her first volume of poetry, The Droning Shaman; and Richard from his fifth and most recent, Phenologies. Reading is free, begins at 8 p.m. and will be followed by an informal reception at the Modern Languages Building auditorium on the UA campus. For information call 321-7760. The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Those of you in search of a rockin' hump day need look no further as The T-birds land in Tucson on their Roll of the Dice tour, the album release that founding band-member Kim Wilson says he's spent his whole life preparing for. Roll of the Dice marks the beginning of a new era for the band, with Wilson on vocals/harp, Kid Ramos on guitar, Gene Taylor on keyboards, Willie J. Campbell on bass and Fran Christina beatin' the skins. New twists not to be missed: Thrown in with a slew of crafty originals are covers ranging from Van Morrison's "Here Comes the Night" to Disney's "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah," and a spotlight of Wilson's red-hot blues harmonica. Bugs Henderson opens the show at 8 p.m. at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Tickets are $10 in advance from Hear's Music and all Zia Records locations, $12 at the door. Call 795-1420 for information. City Week includes events selected by Calendar Editor Mari Wadsworth. Event information is accurate as of press time. The Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc.

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