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PILLOW TALK. The feminist-minded folks of Bloodhut Productions are firing up another piquant production with Between the Sheets.
Hillman adds, "It's all presented in a very tasteful manner." Show times are 8 p.m. through April 13 in the PCC Black Box Theatre, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets are $10, $8 for students, and are available at Antigone Books, Fit to Be Tried, and at the door. For information, call 795-0010
LIBERATED IMAGES. Proving that all art is ultimately vulnerable, the photograph's protective shield is being shattered in the UA Museum of Art's Penetrating Image glass and photography exhibit. Featuring two-and-three-dimensional constructs, the display is aimed at exposing how 11 artists. Steven Berardelli, Bob Campbell and Debra Goldman to Peter Houk, Valerie McEvyoy and Oona Nelson blur, crack and melt the boundaries between glass and photography. Freed from their repressive frames, the photos float and fuse as they are captured and released by glass. Exhibit runs through May 12 at the UA Museum of Art, located in the fine arts complex at Speedway and Park Avenue. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. For details, call 621-7567.
Friday 4
NAVEL CONTEMPLATION. Moves of an exotic nature make their way to Tucson today, when arid Middle Eastern tradition gyrates its way into Sonoran hearts with a belly dance performance in the Girlfriends Coffeehouse.
Free performance is 8 p.m. in the Girlfriends Coffeehouse, 3450 N. Oracle Road. Call 888-4475 for details. HOMELAND HOWDY-DO. The great southwest gets its just desserts when Ballet Folklorico Arizona pays tribute in fine form with Viva Arizona. Folklorico Director Julie Gallego says the idea came to her after watching a performance celebrating another desert town. "They did a production of their city and folkloric traditions, so I thought, 'Why can't we do one for this region?' " The result promises to be a visually stunning pageant. Costumes will travel the regional time warp, from the days of Padre Kino through the Spanish incursion and the Anglos' arrival, right on up to the present, with more than 50 dancers telling the choreographed tale. "It's important to know our combined history, since we're right on the border with Mexico, and we all live day-by-day with both cultures," Gallego says. "Instead of reading about it, why not tell it through dance?" Performances are 7 tonight and 3 p.m. tomorrow in the TCC Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. Tickets are $15, $10 for students and seniors, and available at Dillard's and the TCC box office. TWINKLE TOES. Those high-stepping Tucson Friends of Traditional Music again host traditional dance action, with Seattle's Suzanne Giradot calling the shots, and the Tippers providing a musical backdrop. The public--from upstarts to old pros--is welcome to join this latest Friends social event. Dance runs from 8 to 11 p.m. with a beginners intro class at 7:30 p.m., in the Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater, 330 S. Scott Ave. Admission is $5, $4 for TFTM members. Call 624-0602 for information.
Saturday 5
PRE-TRACTED HISTORY. Hard to believe, but Oro Valley was actually just a nice little town prior to becoming a sprawling, master-planned community. And that means it also had authentic city fathers other than New World Homes and their ilk. In celebration of that rapidly vaporizing legacy, residents are hosting the third-annual Oro Valley Founders' Day Art and Music Festival.
Event begins at 10 today and noon tomorrow in Dennis Weaver Park, 25 W. Calle Concordia. Admission is free. For details, call 297-2591 SPUDS REDUX. Tucson's favorite tubers return, as Small Potatoes bring its eclectic brand of music to the Tucson foothills. Known for a very cool menu of blues, jazz, country and Celtic styles, the Chicago-based Potatoes delivered a hot performance at last years' folk festival and more recent St. Paddy's Day romp at Gentle Ben's. And, according to Wisconsin Public Radio's Warren Nelson, "They lay out a blanket and every song is a picnic." Performance is 7 p.m. in the Community Church of the Foothills, 480 E. Ina Road. Advance tickets are $7, $6 for TKMA members, and available at Hear's Music, Loco Music and Video, and Antigone Books. Tickets are $1 more at the door. For information, call 887-5413. TWO-WHEELED ROMP. Maybe you hadn't noticed while jetting about in your sport/utility vehicle, but this is official Bike Week. In celebration, the Greater Arizona Bicycle Association is hosting a Bicycle Festival and Swap Meet at Pima Community College. "There will be bikes for sale, and the Pima College police force will be holding a bike rodeo for the kids," says GABA spokesman Greg Yares. "A couple of shops will also be out there with those new, full-suspension mountain bikes, and people will have a chance to give them demo rides." The whole purpose is to emphasize that there's more to two-wheelers than just getting to work, Yares says. "Biking is a huge deal in Tucson. And we're trying to build on it, to show that it's not just about commuting." And his point rolls into sharp focus this week, with a series of events ranging from the Tour of the Tucson Mountains ride tomorrow and the Bike to Books Day on Monday, to the Speedway Bikes/Tucson Bicycle Classic on Friday, April 11. Today's free festival runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the PCC West Campus parking lot, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Call 323-9020 for information.
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MELODIC TOMES. The charming little Singing Wind Bookshop, hunkered down a country lane on a 640-acre ranch outside Benson, has gained a national name for itself with more than 100,000 books on the west, Native Americans, and darned near everything else relevant to these arid parts. To drive that point home, today the bookshop presents Old Pueblo author Brian Laird reading from his new mystery novel, To Bury the Dead.
Even if you're not familiar with Laird's work, his appearance offers an excuse to cruise beyond the noisy city environs to Singing Winds, where rustic days still begin with slopping the critters. And that's just what staffer Jeanie Mangold was doing when we called. "This is a working cattle ranch, and that's part of my job description," she says. "We also offer a birder's paradise here, and for 20 years we've been a mecca for book buyers from around the world. I have to admit it's a fascinating place." Reading begins at 1 p.m. in the Singing Wind Bookshop, located 45 minutes southeast of Tucson off I-10. Drive 2 1/4 miles north of Exit 304 at Benson, and 1/2 mile east of the Singing Wind mailbox at Ocotillo and Singing Wind Roads. For information, call (520) 586-2425. HOW SUITE IT IS. The upscale foothills outpost called St. Philip's Plaza gives a fashionable thumbs-up to the spring thaw with another series of Plaza Suite jazz concerts. Warming up this season's roster is Big Band Extravaganza, featuring five large ensembles swinging through the early eve with classics by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Tucson's own Neal Finn. Performance runs from 5 to 8 p.m. in St. Philip's Plaza, located on the corner of Campbell Avenue and River Road. Tickets are $8, $4 for Tucson Jazz Society members, and available at the door. Call 743-3399 for information.
Monday 7
SUBLIME SCOT. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player," says world-weary Macbeth, "that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
The setting is Scotland circa 1040 A.D., the backdrop a crumbling castle. It's a place that embraces evil like an ambitious politician, where nothing is as it seems, and lines between the real and surreal become little more than scrawls on a horrific sketch pad. But only when a ray of light attempts to pierce this darkness does the real, eerie action unroll. Show time is 7:30 p.m. in the UA Peter Marroney Theatre, located at the south end of the pedestrian underpass near Speedway and Park Avenue. Additional performances are at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday through April 19 with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. April 13, 19 and 20. Tickets range from $7 to $15, available at the UA Fine Arts box office. For details, call 621-1162.
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Raphael de Peyer was born in England, where he started his creative pilgrimage through photography. But in high school his passion had turned to painting, and his work regularly appeared in annual exhibitions. Traveling full circle by 1984, his photographs again took center stage, and today de Peyer's mastery of the modern medium is described as "visionary" by critics. Now both men alter our own way of glimpsing the world with their joint exhibit, Visionary Landscapes: Paintings and Photographs by Cyrus Mejia and Raphael de Peyer, Two Angel Canyon Artists, on display through May 11 in the Barksdale Gallery, 500 N. Fourth Ave. Stop by the opening reception between 7 and 10 tonight. Regular gallery hours are 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For details, call 884-7541.
Wednesday 9
BARDS OF MATRICULATION. If being a student is rather thankless business, then being a student of poetry is downright martyrdom. But still the high-minded bards of the UA scribble on. And now the best of them receive a dose of much-deserved recognition as the winners of the university's annual Student Poetry Contest strut their literary stuff at tonight's free reading. Topping the list is David Dominguez, who landed a certificate from the Academy of American Poets and a cool C-note. The four other winners, awarded $50 apiece, are Maggie Golston, Hannah Haas, Michael Spurgeon and Dan Featherston. Hear them recite their victorious verses at 8 p.m. in the UA Modern Languages Building auditorium. Call 321-7760 for details. 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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"It will be a series of stories, sketches and dances that
should make it a fun and poignant evening," says Bloodhut
thespian Annette Hillman. "They'll focus, for example, on
betrayed love, puberty, married intimacy, sexual awakening, animal
husbandry, even some sketches involving blow-up dolls."
The Girls promise "many elegant dancers in stunning costumes."
In other words, this ain't just some seedy Curves Cabaret revival,
but an ancient art form borne of the nomadic cultures, and surviving
primarily due to the dedication of a precious, abdominally gifted
few.
In appropriate tribute, music from both the past and present
will be on hand for the festivities, including Ballet Folklorico
San Juan, Mariachi Tierra del Sol, the 
The story is set in Tucson and on the Tohono O'odham Reservation,
and follows in the gumshoe footsteps of his first mystery, Bowman's
Line.
Okay, hangovers can be hell. But Shakespeare's angst-ridden
Scotsman could really get down to the bitter day-after biscuit.
And now he sidesteps Kenneth Branagh to make his epic, depressive
return to the Old Pueblo, with the Arizona Repertory Theatre's
production of Macbeth.
MELTING POT MUSES. Born in New Orleans to an American mother
and a South American father, Cyrus Mejia was bequeathed with an
interesting outlook from the get-go. He inherited a love of color
and shapes from his father's Andean ancestors, and a touch of
wanderlust from his mother. The latter took him to the dramatically
arid land of Utah, and a rich career painting hushed landscapes
suffused with soft, dream-like shapes. "Sometimes I glimpse
the fabric that connects all things and boundaries cease to be
separations," Mejia says. "All life is connected, all
things work together in harmony to create the whole."