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SWEATLODGE FEVER. Learn the secrets of dynamic success, get the low-down on the Bullhead City Militia, sing along with Fife and the Syming-Tones, check out the infomercial for Magic String and receive "Drawing with Uncle Doodles" and the original "Men from the Sweatlodge" sketch at no extra charge in this final performance of No Assembly Required. Dave Fitzsimmons, Fish Karma, Nick Seivert, Danny Boskowitz and special guest Gary Hood exercise their demons with a wicked evening of sketch comedy at 8 p.m. at the Southwest Center for Music, 2175 S. Sixth Ave. Advance tickets are $7, available from the SWCM box office. Bring an item for the Community Food Bank and save a buck on admission. Tickets will be $8 at the door. Call 884-1220 for reservations and information. EVENING OF ORTS. Eleven consecutive seasons is no small achievement for a modern dance troupe in this dusty desert refuge. ORTS Theatre of Dance has risen to the challenge, providing consistently innovative works sailing from moody to whimsical, intensely powerful to lyrically sentimental. The scrappy little company returns for its second concert this season with a mix of old and new works called ORTS: Flying High and Low. Two new pieces--a quest for God set to aerial maneuvers and the athletic ensemble work, "Shift," by New York choreographer Joy Kellman--join the return of three previous ORTS favorites: "Household," a highly personal collaboration between Anne Bunker, instrumentalist William Eaton, and their respective children; "The Original ORTS," the demanding, dynamic story of planetary transition which gave the company its name back in 1985; and "Windows," one of artistic director Bunker's most popular creations, which is a "funny and fanciful tale of materialism and jealousy" originally created in 1990. Check out tonight's 7:30 preview for only $5 (if you purchase tickets in advance). Regular performances continue at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, at the PCC West Campus Proscenium Theatre, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets for weekend performances are $8 in advance, $10 day of show, available at Bentley's, Silverbell Trading Co. and Box Seats Grill. Get online at orts@rtd.com and reserve tickets at a $2 discount. People 15 and under are free when accompanied by an adult. Call 624-3799 for reservations and information.
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All seating is reserved, with tickets ranging from $6.50 to $12. Parking is an additional $3, or take a SunTran shuttle from El Con or Tucson malls for $1.50 round trip. Call 792-9222 for shuttle information. The Tucson Rodeo Grounds, 4823 S. Sixth Ave., are on the northeast corner of Irvington Road and Sixth Avenue. Pick up advance tickets at the Rodeo Office, Dillard's or the TCC box office. Call 741-2233 for tickets and information. STUDENT SALON. The Committee for the Advancement of Art Students celebrates art and the UA students who make it with a one-day exhibit called the "Open Student Salon," a grand open studio showing of graduate and undergraduate student works filling the hallways throughout the Art Building on the UA campus. View and discuss works by emerging artists from 6 to 9 p.m. in "the barn," the checkered building at the south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. Call 323-0979 for information. EPIC EVENT. Start off your weekend on the corner of Fourth Avenue and University Boulevard, where music, art and poetry shake hands and shoot the breeze over cappuccino. Say what? Epic Café hosts a closing reception for That's What Little Girls Are Made Of, a series of playful, large-scale paintings by George Huffman (local painter, printmaker and owner of the Raw Gallery downtown). Fellow artist Joe Forkan sets aside his brushes to give an acoustic guitar performance, and Jen Till, who co-organized last year's Poetry Gallery at Bero, will read from original works. Bask in this fountain of creativity from 7 to 10 p.m. at Epic Café, 745 N. Fourth Ave., source of inspiration and free refreshments. Call 624-6844 for information. FRED HERSCH TRIO. For the past 20 years, Fred Hersch has been widely respected within a narrow radius. As a "musician's musician," he's been somewhat condemned to remain one of the jazz scene's best kept secrets. But the still-young Hersch has catapulted into the limelight with critical acclaim from publications like Downbeat Magazine, The New Yorker and USA Today, which agree he's "one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation," "a poet of a pianist." On the heels of his Grammy nomination for best instrumental jazz performance for I Never Told You: Fred Hersch Plays the Music of Johnny Mandel, Hersch appears in Tucson with the CBS Sunday Morning crew in tow to tape his concert for an upcoming feature.
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INDIAN ART FAIR. The Arizona State Museum interjects some Native American influence into this cowboy weekend with an invitational show featuring three-dimensional animal and human life forms in a variety of media. Kachina dolls, clay figurines, storyteller dolls, carved fetishes, stone sculpture and folk art by more than 150 artists highlight this weekend-long event at the Arizona State Museum, UA campus east of the main gate on University Boulevard. A series of lectures on American Indian art and children's storytelling activities are offered both days, free of charge. Today's fair hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., continuing from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Call 621-6302 for information. PEACE FAIR. For the 14th year running, Tucson's largest gathering of environmental action groups, community advocates and peace-loving individuals sprawls out at the Reid Park DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center for this day-long fair hosted by the Tucson Peace Center. Along with local chapters of groups like Amnesty International and the Sierra Club, enjoy live music, dancing, refreshments, children's activities, poetry readings and performance artistry in a rainbow of colors. The Nuclear Information Resource Service will be accepting donations for a massive relief effort for survivors of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Call 323-8697 for information. Fair hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. RAINER BENEFIT. Musicians are coming out of the woodwork for this impromptu benefit to raise funds and moral support for Rainer Ptacek and his family. The local musician has been diagnosed as having treatable lymphoma, and proceeds from tonight's show will help offset costs incurred for those basic necessities of life (including, in this case, expensive chemotherapy). See this week's Music feature for details.
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TYRANNOUS REX. If Hollywood actors and Shakespeare just don't go together in your book, skip the movie and head over to the UA Arts Oasis for Arizona Repertory Theatre's production of Richard III, Shakespeare's formidable tale of tyranny, ruthless ambition and the consuming quest for power. Follow the intrigues of England's most despised member of the royal family, the wretched and hump-backed Richard, Duke of Gloucester, as he murders and plots his way to the crown. Tickets for 8 o'clock previews tonight and Monday are only $7, available at the Fine Arts box office. Production opens February 28 and continues through March 10, with tickets ranging from $8 to $14. Call 621-1162 for reservations and information.
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WILDFLOWER TOURS. Experts are predicting a lackluster year for wildflowers, but nature lovers can get their poppy, bluebell and penstemon fix with docent-led wildflower tours at Tohono-Chul Park, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. Due to the unseasonably warm weather, plus careful vigilance and protection from the over-abundant rabbit population, the park grounds are enjoying an early burst of color. Tours are offered at 10 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday through April 29; or wander the trails at your leisure during regular park hours from 7 a.m. to sunset daily. Call 742-6455 for information.
Tuesday 27
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN. Movies at The Loft are hit-and-miss, but the feature film currently in the spacious main floor theatre is an absolute must-see. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, the dynamic duo who dreamed up the award-winning Delicatessen four years ago, delve into a retro-future fantasy world that is such a visual and narrative feast, you won't even mind the subtitles. City of Lost Children is a surreal journey through a dark, dank harbor town populated by genetic mutants, a cult of Cyclops kidnappers and a scrappy band of street-wise orphans. It harkens back to traditional (un-Disneyfied) fairy tales: untamed flights of fancy that are equal parts funny and fearsome. Miette (a haunting nine-year-old femme fatale) and One (a simple-minded circus giant) band together to save One's adopted brother from the clutches of Krank, a horrible scientist who's slowly dying because he lacks one vital function: the ability to dream. From his laboratory on a remote, mist-shrouded rig, Krank invades the dreams of his stolen children in a desperate attempt to make them his own...until One and Miette penetrate Krank's sinister fortress and challenge him on a level playing field--within the world of a little boy's dream. This cinematic Cirque de Soliel may stay around only for the remainder of the week, so get over to The Loft cinema, 3233 E. Speedway, without delay. Call 795-7777 for information.
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THE ADDING MACHINE. The concept that technology exists not to make our lives better, but merely faster, is certainly not new to many of us. But the PCC Drama Department takes a look at the historical struggle to reconcile our fear of and enchantment with technology in this recreation of playwright Elmer Rice's 1920s American theatre classic, The Adding Machine, described as "an expressionistic portrayal of technology gone wrong." The student production previews at 8 tonight and continues with evening performances through March 9 at the PCC West Campus Black Box Theater, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets are $7, $5 for students, available at the West Campus Student Center and at the door one hour prior to performance. Call 884-6909 or 884-6353 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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RODEO WEEKEND. Because--and only because--the annual Fiesta
de los Vaqueros is more hallowed in Tucson than Holy Week in Rome
or cockfighting in rural Arizona here's the lowdown: Pre-rodeo
entertainment begins at 1:15 p.m., with pro bronc busting, bull
riding, calf roping, barrel racing and other abuses to man and
beast continuing from 2 to 4:30 p.m. through Sunday, February
25. Other events include a bullfight, children's "Mutton
Bustin'," trick-rider Jerry Olson on his buffalo, Chief,
and the Quadrille de Mujeres precision riding team.
Performance begins at 8 p.m. at the Berger Performing Arts Center,
1200 W. Speedway, and will be followed with a reception hosted
by the Tucson 
Included on the bill are Giant Sand, Sam Taylor, Maryanne, Naked
Prey, Paula Jean Brown, Ned Sutton, Black Moon Graffiti, Greyhound
Soul and Billy Sed, and rumor has it lots of other bands are throwing
their names in the hat. The house rocks from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
at the 