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ETHNIC HAVEN. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater began as a refuge for black performers shunned by the world of classical dance. Ironically, this acclaimed troupe has just about outgrown them all in stature, and is now considered among the world's leading modern dance companies. Choreographer and artistic director Judith Jamison has strived to keep that spirit alive after Ailey's death in 1989, and according to most reports, has succeeded brilliantly. The troupe graces Tucson with a performance tonight, which will include Billy Wilson's The Winter in Lisbon against a backdrop of Dizzy Gillespie's music, and Vespers, choreographed by Ulysses Dove to the music of Mikel Rouse. Performance is 7:30 p.m. in UA Centennial Hall Main Gate on University Boulevard, east of Park Avenue. Tickets range from $24 to $45, available at the Centennial Hall box office, Dillard's, or by calling (800) 638-4253.
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"This event is the public's only opportunity to get inside many of the artist's studios," says Weekend co-founder Jenny Kilb, "and a great opportunity to get to know the artists, as well as enjoy special demonstrations and studio talks." Event begins at noon today, and 10 a.m. tomorrow and Sunday in Oracle, located 45 minutes north of Tucson. Take Oracle Road north to Highway 89. Brochures, maps and schedules will be available at various spots in Oracle marked by pink flags. Call (520) 896-2170 for details. STAGE LIFE. As part of its fourth annual Festival of Irish Plays, the Live Theatre Workshop presents John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Ranked as Synge's greatest contribution to the Irish Literary Renaissance, the drama aptly tackles the lives, hopes and dreams of common island dwellers at the turn of the century. Evening performances are 7:30 today, tomorrow, and March 13 through 15. Matinee performances are 2:30 p.m. March 9 and 16, in the Tucson Center for the Performing Arts, 408 S. Sixth Ave. Tickets are $7, available at the Arizona Theater Company box office and Dillard's. Call 327-4242 for information.
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Warming up tonight's show will be wrenching blues fiddler Heather Hardy, along with Mike Nordberg on bass. Show time is 9 p.m. in the Rialto Cabaret, 201 E. Broadway. Tickets are $6, with a $1 discount for TBS, TJS and Friends of the Rialto members, and are available at Zip's University, Loco Music and Video, and Hear's Music. And on Friday, March 12, East Coast roadhouse rockers The Nighthawks take to the Cabaret stage, followed by Cajun-country swamp rats Filé on Saturday, March 15. All these shows promise to be high-powered outings, and give you a chance to help the Rialto in its epic struggle to remain afloat. FRIZZ. The humble disc has run the recreational globe, from overgrown backyards to college campuses, where it sparked an hallucinogenic subculture complete with much hair, aromatic cigarettes and bandanna-decked canines. Now the Frisbee has grown up and sparked an official sport all its own, called disc golf. Tucson tastes a bit of the high-flying renaissance this week with the Tumbleweed Open. Strong-arms from across the land will compete beginning at 8:30 a.m. today and tomorrow on an 18-tee course at the Santa Cruz River Park, just north of Speedway and west of I-10. Proceeds will benefit the Tucson Food Bank and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Call 791-3845 for information. FEATHERED FRIENDS. The Tohono O'odham Nation springs to life this week as the 15th-annual Wa:k Powwow gets underway. This is the granddaddy of local powwows, and attracts top dancers and performers from across the hemisphere. Hosting the northern drum this year is "Bear Heel T.O." from Sells, with Glendale's LaNeal Pewewardy hosting the southern drum. All the action takes place against the backdrop of arts and crafts vendors, and food booths featuring that delicacy known as fry bread. Event begins at 2 p.m. today, and noon tomorrow, at the San Xavier District. Take I-19 10 miles south to Exit 92. Admission is $4 for adults, $2.50 for children ages 7 and up, and free for children under age 7. No cameras or video equipment are allowed. For details, call 294-5727.
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Show previews at 2 o'clock today and 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Laboratory Theatre, located in the UA Drama West Building on the southeast corner of Speedway and Park Avenue. Performances are 8 p.m. March 12 through 15, and March 25 through 29, and 2 p.m. March 16, 29 and 30. Tickets are $7 for previews, $13 to $15 for other performances, with $2 discounts for UA employees and seniors. They're available at the UA Fine Arts box office. Call 621-1162 for information.
Hailing from County Down, Sands will be highlighting his warm and witty recent release, The Heart's A Wonder. Reeltime follows with a turbo-charged style blending the best of Ireland's traditional and contemporary sounds. Show is 7 p.m. in the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway. Advance tickets are $14, with a $2 discount for TFTM and KXCI members, available at Hear's Music, Loco Music and Video, Antigone Books, Piney Hollow, or by calling 881-3947.
Monday 10
SPROUTING TRANSLUCENT. Site-specific visions are key in the PCC West Campus Art Gallery's new exhibit, From A Glass Seed. Featuring Aurore Chabot, Darla Masterson, Michael Joplin, Roy Pearson and Alfredo Rivera, the show is held in conjunction with the Glass Art Society's April conference in Tucson. Works on display range from Chabot's complex, multi-layered clay wall arrangements to Joplin's glass vessels etched with comic book illustrations, and what he describes as other "arty kinda things." Exhibit runs through April 14, with a special reception from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow in the PCC Art Gallery, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Call 884-6942 details.
That's just what the American Friends Service have in mind when they present An Evening with Terry Stewart, Director of Arizona Department of Corrections. While Stewart isn't exactly known as a free spirit, he is expected to let loose with some candid answers about Arizona's booming prison business, the rebirth of chain gangs, and the stark state of affairs for those cooling their heels in the Big House. Free lecture is 6:30 p.m. in the Pima Friends Meetinghouse, 931 N. Fifth Ave. For information, call 623-9141. POSTAL TROPHIES. Stuffed critters share space with Uncle Sam, as the International Wildlife Museum displays the top 20 entries in the annual Federal Duck Stamp Contest, sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The contest itself has a long, distinguished history, and these entries--along with leading contenders among Arizona's younger set--represent the cream of the competitive crop. Income from selling the stamps helps restore the nation's threatened wetlands (more than 90 percent of them have been lost in this state alone). That restoration ensures the future for ducks, the hunters of ducks, and subsequently the International Wildlife Museum. Display runs through March 16 at the museum, 4800 W. Gates Pass Road. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $5, $3.75 for students and seniors, $2 for children ages 6 to 12, and free for children under age 6 with an adult. Call 617-1439 for details.
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Lodge lads include Arizona Daily Star cartoonist Dave Fitzsimmons, musical amphibian Fish Karma, Danny "Ever Fragrant" Boskowitz, and director Nick Seivert. Arthur "The Kid" Migliazza is also slated for a special appearance. Performance is 8 p.m. at Laffs Comedy Caffé, 2900 E. Broadway. Tickets are $6, and donations to the Community Food Bank will get you a $1 discount. For information, call 323-8669. FLESH AND BLOOD. Norma Jean Darden was the first black woman to pierce high fashion's inner circle as a Wilhemina model. She made her Broadway debut in Gore Vidal's Weekend, and was a member of Joseph Papp's legendary Cornbread Players. Now she brings that experience to Tucson, as the Invisible Theatre hosts the American Place Theatre's production of Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine. Darden owns New York's Spoonbread Catering Company, and the play comes from her award-winning cookbook, Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine: Recipes and Reminiscences of A Black Family. The solo performance piece is set in her family's kitchen, and includes memories, photographs and the recipes that wove them all together. Performances are 8 p.m. through March 15, with a 2 o'clock matinee Sunday, March 16, at the Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Ave. Tickets are $20, available at the theatre box office or by calling 882-9721.
Wednesday 12
MUSICAL MONASTERY. To heck with the Grammys--the local Blue Monks Quartet was nominated for best jazz band in the 1995 Tucson Area Music Awards competition, and that's what you call real prestige. Named after legendary Thelonious Monk--who by the way spent a few of his toddler years in Nogales, Sonora--the Blue Monks are hot, and today they strut their musical stuff in a free lunch-time concert sponsored by the Tucson Jazz Society. Performance runs from noon to 1 p.m. in front of the Tucson Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave. For information, call 743-3399. NATIVE SETTINGS. Cultural anthropologist Richard K. Nelson has made a 30-year career out of studying relationships between indigenous folks and their environments, particularly those of Alaskan Eskimo and Athabaskan Indians. During that time, Nelson has also found time to pen 11 books, including Shadow of the Hunter, Stories of Eskimo Life, Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest (later made into an award-winning PBS documentary), and The Island Within, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding natural history writing in 1991. His latest work, Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America, is slated for publication in the fall. And tonight, Nelson will bring those decades of expertise to bear in a reading sponsored by the UA Poetry Center. Free event is 8 p.m. in the UA Modern Languages Building auditorium. For details, call 321-7760. 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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DESERT DELPHI. You may know it as an eccentric home to raw-boned
miners, bumbling Biospherians and one fine little hilltop saloon.
But there's also a tough vein of creativity running through the
eccentric town of Oracle, and that quality is laid bare today
as the fifth-annual Oracle Fine Art Weekend gets underway. Self-guided
tours will take you through a smorgasbord of galleries from mainstream
to sublime, with sculpture gardens and a monument tossed in for
good measure.
PRIMO PERFORMANCE. The LA Weekly calls her a cross between
Bette Midler and Bonnie Raitt who displays a cabaret style replete
"with the most side-splitting stage patter imaginable...."
Now the Tucson Blues Society brings Teresa Tudury all the way
from the City of Angels' Genghis Cohen Club to the Old Pueblo's
Rialto Cabaret, as part of the Primavera Festival.
REPTILE REDUX. Tennesee Williams' drama of decadent lust and boozy
decay returns, with the Arizona Repertory Theatre's production
of Night of the Iguana. And yes, we know that pretty much
describes most of Williams' work. But in this powerful version,
a defrocked man of the cloth takes his troupe of church ladies
on the bus ride from Hell, eventually landing them on the Mexican
coast. There they cross paths with a sensuous, wizened hotel proprietess,
a genteel New England spinster and her aging poet grandfather.
The result is a smoldering tale blending end-of-the-road madness
with earthy compassion and the triumphant human spirit.
REEL LIFE. The Celts arrive in force this weekend, when the Tucson
Friends of Traditional Music bring powerful Irish musicians Tommy
Sands and Reeltime to town.
POLITICALLY INCORRECT. You may have fantasized a night on the
town with 
STEAMERS. Those zany fellas of the Sweatlodge make a triumphant
return with a sketch comedy extravaganza complete with "irreverent
barbs."