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ELECTRIC SLIDE. Get a good sports jolt at the new Tucson Electric Park, when the Tucson Sidewinders face the New Orleans Zephyrs for three days of Pacific Coast League play.
Admission is $4, $3 for seniors, military personnel and children ages 6 through 16, and free for children under age 6. Tucson Electric Park is at 2500 E. Ajo Way. Call 434-1000 for information. BACKWARDS GLANCE. As Tucson faces the invading hordes, revisiting the Old Pueblo as it was even 10 years ago is a true sentimental journey. Stretch that backwards glance to some 150 years or so, and you have a real picture of change. Tucson Museum of Art docent Sandy Cord turns back the dial with a smile when she presents A Humorous Look Back at Tucson During the Years 1854-1912. Free lecture is 2 p.m. in the Woods Memorial Branch Library, 3455 N. First Ave. For details, call 791-4548
Friday 1
MOTION CENTRAL. Ned Schaper, a.k.a. Mat Bevel, unveils his latest eccentric take on our weird world with Club Kinetic, a weekly dance club-performance extravaganza cryptically billed as "the exotic vaudevillian disco circus." Living up to its name, the club embraces all things kinetic, from ambient DJ music, short performance pieces and live tunes, to Mat Bevel himself buzzing about in his peculiar way.
Club Kinetic runs from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. each Friday in the Mat Bevel Institute, 530 N. Stone Ave. Admission is $5. Call 622-0192 for information. ON THE TAKE. A sleazy gangster arrives in the nation's capitol circa 1940, toting a stash of cash and his not-so-bright girlfriend. His intent is to purchase a little legislative goodwill. Her intent remains unknown, until she's introduced to a curious newspaperman. A tricky love triangle ensues in Live Theatre Workshop's production of Garson Kanin's 1942 comedy, Born Yesterday.
Tonight's performance is at 7:30 p.m. in the Live Theatre Workshop,
5317 E. Speedway. Performances continue at
Saturday 2
CRACKLING POPS. Maestro Herschel Kreloff and his symphony orchestra warm up the charts with a another installment of their Civic Orchestra Pops Concert series. Selections on the program range from light classics to musicals and other popular tunes from the Wizard of Oz, Victory at Sea, and The Fledermaus Overture by Strauss. Guest soloists are winners of the orchestra's Young Artist Competition, and include pianist Linda Cheng, who will play the first movement of the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1. Cellist Devin Kim, the first-place division winner, will perform Saint-Saens' Concerto No. 1. Show time is 7 p.m. in the Sun City Social Hall, 1495 E. Rancho Vistoso Blvd. Performance repeats at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are $6, and available at the door. For details, call 791-9246. PASTORAL PASSION. Writer Stephen J. Bodio explores his love affair with the Big Yonder in On the Edge of the Wild, Passions and Pleasures of the Naturalist. These powerful essays are collected into six categories, ranging from "The Country Raptors" and "Sport" to "One Review, Three Books I Love and Why." Today, Bodio visits The Book Mark, 5001 E. Speedway, to sign copies of his new collection from 1 to 3 p.m. Call 881-6350 for details.
Morey is known for her haunting, beautiful roadscapes incorporating the endless blacktop as a metaphoric springboard into the realm of spaciousness, possibility and the duality of existence. Circus imagery, dramatic lighting and fantastic color combinations give life to Yopp's emotionally charged woodcuts and etchings. Her pieces confront the viewer, narrating powerful stories of family dynamics, power struggles and personal chaos. Exhibit runs through May 30, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 tonight, in the Central Arts Collective, 188 E. Broadway. Regular gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and during Thursday night Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night. Call 623-5883 for information.
Sunday 3
SPRING WARBLERS. The PCC Chorale and College Singers warm up their chords for the annual Spring Choral Concert, directed by Ben Sorenson. This year's musical roster includes Gershwin highlights from Porgy and Bess, John Rutter's It Was a Lover and His Lass, and three Scandinavian nocturnes by Hildor Lundvik, among other choral classics. Show time is 3 p.m. in the PCC Center for the Arts, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets are $4, $3 for seniors and students, available at the CFA box office, PCC West Campus cashier, or at the door. For details, call 206-6988. TAKING STOCK. For 50 years, the United Nation's UNICEF program has helped feed, educate, and protect unfortunate kids in poor countries across the globe. And for each of those many years, the organization has managed to cut in half the number of children who die annually. Now the Tucson UNICEF Committee celebrates that anniversary and helps keep the spirit alive with a free screening of the new animated family feature, Camelot.
Screening is 1:30 p.m. in Century Park Tucson, 1055 W. Grant Road. Admission is free, but tickets must be obtained in advance at the United Nations Center, 2911 E. Grant Road. Call 881-7060 for information. SANTA RITA SOJOURN. You can enjoy the lovely Santa Rita Mountains and help protect them at the same time. Today Sky-Island Alliance is seeking volunteers to assist in its ongoing "Mapping A Wilderness" project. Their goal is to survey U.S. Forest Service roads that dissect the range, and calculate just how much stress those roads put on the wilderness. For directions and other information, call 628-7609.
Monday 4
UPSTAIRS MOBILITY. Al Perry and the Cattle, Creosote, the "band formerly known as StarCrunch," and the Osgoods heat up the Club Congress tonight at Upstairs Aid, a fundraising gig for the Upstairs Theatre Company.
Along with music, there will also be screenings by the Upstairs Film project: Open 'Til Three, a comedy written and directed by Ari Lieberman; and Stephanie Lucas' The Displaced, a video focusing on immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Event is 8 p.m. in the Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St. Admission is $5. For details, call 622-1751. SONORAN SOUND. Since its 1975 inception, the Arizona Wind Quintet has been on the move, with continuous appearances throughout the western U.S. that have garnered them a dedicated following. They've also made it on the air, with several radio and TV appearances. Now they'll once more unveil their distinctive, well-honed sound for Tucson audiences. The Arizona Wind Quintet features Jean-Louis Kashy on flute, Warren Sutherland on oboe, Jerry Kirkbride on clarinet, William Dietz on bassoon and Keith Johnson on horn. Performance is 8 p.m. in Crowder Hall, located in the UA Music Building at the south end of the pedestrian underpass at Speedway and Park Avenue. Tickets are $10, $8 for UA employees, $5 for seniors and students, and available by calling 621-1162.
Tuesday 5
SOCK HOP. All bobby-soxers and other timeless swinger-types are invited to bounce off the big floor when the PCC Jazz Band unleashes another full-tilt boogie. This little outing features the added treat of some hot jams with guest trombonist Rob Boone. Performance is 7:30 tonight in the PCC Proscenium Theatre, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets are $4, $3 for students and seniors, and available at the CFA box office, the PCC West Campus cashier, and at the door. For details, call 206-6988. EARLY BIRDS. It's spring, and besides the best wildflower action in years, that also means that the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is unveiling another lively roster of morning action. At 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday, museum docents guide leisurely walks to birding hotspots around the grounds, and they provide each visitor with their very own copy of the Checklist of Birds of the Sonoran Desert Museum. Also at 7:30 a.m. daily, they take that notion one step higher with animal demonstrations featuring falcons and screech owls. At 8 and 9 a.m. daily, docents host early morning animal observations. At 10 a.m. daily through June, guides will provide tours of the blooming saguaro grounds, explaining how pollination of the towering plants leads to eventual saguaro fruit harvesting. Hands-on examples of flowers, fruit and saguaro syrup will be provided. Live animal demonstrations will also continue at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., and at 1:30 and 2 p.m. All tours and demonstrations are included with the regular admission price. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is at 2021 N. Kinney Road. Hours are 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $8.95, $1.75 for children ages six to 12, free for children under age six. Call 883-2702 for information.
Wednesday 6
RIDE ON. Get this: Engine exhaust is deadly second-hand smoke. In Pima County alone, motorists daily belch 300 tons of pollutants into our air. Cars enable sprawl, spark urban decay, and cause the untimely demise of more than one million of our non-human co-inhabitants every single day.
So what's one reasonable alternative? Bikes, bikes, bikes. That's the message bandied about by the folks of the Community Bike Ride, who each month take to the oil-stained asphalt to spread the word that there's a better way. "We're really trying to wake people up to the incredible benefits of bikes," says two-wheeler advocate/agitator Leo Mellon. "At the moment, bikes are barely on the transportation map compared to the damned 'autocracy.' " According to Mellon, goals of the ride include making Tucson friendlier to two-wheelers; creating a frequent, visible display of community support for biking as a transportation alternative; getting the notice of policy-makers; pushing for auto-free zones; and enacting a moratorium on the paving of any more land. "Bicycling is so much more than recreation or competitive racing," adds Ride co-organizer Bill Moeller. "It's an utterly viable method of transporting people and goods."
Ride free at 4:30 p.m. at the Time Market parking lot, 444 E.
University Blvd. Helmets are encouraged. Call 624-2107 for information.
City Week includes events selected by Calendar Editor Tim Vanderpool. 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. To have material considered, please send complete information at least 11 days prior to the Thursday issue date to: Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 2429, Tucson, Arizona 85702, or fax information to 792-2096, or email us at listings@tucsonweekly.com.
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