Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Thursday 9 BORDER DANCES. Portraying desert life is most often a task left to writers and painters, but now two exceptional dance troupes are attempting to set forth themes from life in the Southwest. Tenth St. Danceworks employs the music of Dvorak, Vivaldi, and Mozart, played by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, as accompaniment for a wide spectrum of dances. Included will be the lush lyrical work "Desert Sextet," set to Vivaldi's "Concerto Grosso in D-Minor." Also appearing will be the San Diego-based company Issacs/McCaleb & Dancers. Two new pieces they'll be performing are "Serpent's Tongue," a darkly humorous piece about the absurd contradictions found on the San Diego/Tijuana border, and "Zona Rio," which describes the mixture of ancient and modern cultures. Show time is 8 tonight and Friday, May 10, at the PCC Proscenium Theatre, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and seniors and are available at Dillard's and Tenth St. Danceworks. For more information call 795-6980. HEY BATTER! There are few better places to enjoy a cold beer than right in front of a Baseball game. That's why you should head out to Hi Corbett Field tonight for both the ballgame and the spectacular promotion of Dollar Beer Night. The Tucson Toros are thick in an early neck-to-neck race for the top of Southern Division of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League, so you don't want to miss an inning of this great baseball--unless you're standing in line for another frosty refill. Tonight through Saturday, the Toros take on the Salt Lake City Buzz. They begin a four-game series on Sunday against the Tacoma Tigers. Games start at 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 6 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $3 to $6. For more information call 325-2621. A LIVING LEGEND. An old friend of Muddy Waters will be coming to town tonight. Long considered one of the most prominent figures in blues music, and particularly esteemed for co-founding and developing the Chicago blues sound with Waters, Jimmy Rogers has captivated audiences for more than 50 years. Musicians Van Morrison, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have been inspired by the depth of Rogers' talent and, most likely, great musicians of the future will continue to be stimulated by his distinguished work. Jimmy Rogers will be in concert at 8 p.m. at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door, and are available at Hears Music, Zips Records and Loco Records. For more information call 740-1986; or check out this week's Soundbites for column. DINING AND DASHING. Fear not, a vigilante waitress won't come after you with a potato gun. This dining and dashing is actually the 11th Annual Downtown Restaurant Tour, which will guide you from one fine restaurant to the next as you sample various specialties. Restaurants participating include Samaniego House, Gallery of Food, Mongelli's, and many more. While you digest and stroll from one restaurant to the next, a guide from the Arizona Historical Society will fill you in on history and trivia of Downtown Tucson. The tour begins at 6 p.m. at the downtown Holiday Inn and will go until 9 p.m. Tickets for the Family Tour, for those with children, are $5 per person, and the Friends and Lovers Tour is $12 per person. Call 624-2447 to make reservations. Friday 10 CORNED BEEF AND COUSCOUS. Keep your appetites at home. Here's a feast for the ears and eyes alone. The band Corned Beef and Couscous, featuring Terry Friedman on guitar, David Firestine on mandolin and tenor banjo, Sharon Wilson on percussion, and Chuck Williamson on whistles, harmonica and snake charmer, will be doing what the name suggests--mixing cultures. The evening's entertainment will include Irish airs, jigs and reels, plus Arabic dance rhythms featuring dancer Evon Stemm and her belly. At times the music will be a unique synthesis of Celtic and Arabic musical tradition, and at other times the musical spheres will part. Show time is 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Chivalry Sports, 7718 E. Wrightstown Road. Cost is $5, free for children under 12. Call 722-1255 for more information. Saturday 11 NEW AGEISM FAREWELL. Weekend émigrés from Sedona and massage therapists needn't be the only audience members at Improvisational Journey, a show exhibiting the New Age musical talents of pianist and composer Peter Kater, Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai, and avant-garde saxophonist Mark Miller. The musicians come from a variety of musical backgrounds, and along with showcasing the sounds of New Age music, the trio will treat audiences to works that, with the aid of modern technology, blend traditional and modern features of folk, rock and pop music. The show begins at 8 p.m. at the PCC Center for the Arts, 2202 W.Anklam Road. Tickets are $10 for students, $12 for seniors and $15 general admission. For more information call 884-6988. HOHOKAM RUINS. Long before A Mountain, there was an "H" Mountain, representing a large Hohokam Indian village that existed in the Sabino Canyon area. The "H" has long since disappeared, but the Hohokam left an archeological ruin containing pottery, stone, bone and seashell artifacts, dating back to A. D. 1100-1300. A tour of the site, organized by the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, affords a look at the artifacts, the ancient Hohokam adobe-and-rock-walled housing compounds, and the prehistoric irrigation canals. Tour is scheduled for 9 a.m. Advance reservations must be made by 5 p.m. Friday, May 10, at which time directions will also be provided. Only the sturdy need apply. Suggested donation is $2. Call 798-1201 for more information. ROOTS REVIVALISTS. What is American music? Styles come and go, making that question hard to answer. Western swing, hillbilly, boogie woogie and jump swing could have come and gone overnight. Luckily, a band named Asleep At The Wheel was deeply enamored with this American roots music, and for 25 years they've been keeping this stuff alive. Asleep At The Wheel performs along with special guest Chris Gaffney, who, with his refined synthesis of rock and roll, norteño and soul music, has become a permanent part of the West Coast roots-rock/ alternative country scene. The concert starts at 9 p.m. at The Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Call 740-1986 for more information. Sunday 12 A MOTHER'S DELIGHT. Seeing a boys chorus can be alarming if you're not used to associating lovely sounds with the puppy dog-tail set, particularly if you're a mother. But, as it's Mother's Day, maybe the angelic transformation won't be totally unexpected. For their annual Mother's Day Concert, the Tucson Boys Chorus, under the direction of Julian Ackerley, has three choirs that will be performing, in addition to a guest performance by the Alumni Chorus. Contemporary music, western songs and works by Andrew Lloyd Weber will be featured. Performances are at 2:30 and 7 p.m. in the TCC Music Hall. Tickets are $8 and $10, available at the TCC box office and the Boys Chorus office, 5770 E. Pima St. For more information call 296-6277. Monday 13 HERB CULTS. Herbs are not the most difficult plants to grow, but if you want them to reach their potent, savory potential, perhaps there is something you can learn from herb cultivation expert Jeff Kreamer. The Tucson Herbal Coalition, an organization that works to disseminate information about the healing benefits of herbs, will present this lecture by Kreamer at 7:30 p.m. Kreamer will be focusing mainly on culinary herbs, but desert herbs will also be discussed. Herb Cultivation in Tucson meets at the Zenith Center, 330 E. Seventh St. For more information call 883-0377. Tuesday 14 NOUVELLE RIFFS. You should have a hard time naming that tune at Pima Community College's Student Composers Recital. In a two-hour show, students will be performing their own varied and original compositions. Classical works, modern music and even a rap piece are all part of the evening's offerings. Other highlights include a performance art piece combining poetry and music and a mini-opera. As you enter and leave the theatre, you'll be serenaded by musicians playing distorted electric guitars. This premiere event, under the guidance of musician-composer Larry Solomon, promises to be full of creative musical wit. Performance is at 7:30 p.m. in the PCC Center for the Arts Recital Hall, 2202 W. Anklam Road. For more information call 624-5714. Wednesday 15 REJUVENATING OLD STORIES. Any kid worth her weight knows how to tell a story, but how many kids know how to weave an intricate tale of colorful characters, a suspenseful plot and even sub-plots with a well-crafted closing? Students at Ford Elementary School, in an attempt to rekindle interest in the fine art of storytelling, have worked throughout the year with professional storytellers, turning plain old stories into story-theatre scripts. In the pursuit of diversity, such well-known tales as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella will be excluded from the event, leaving space for stories like the Austrian The Queen Who Believed Everything, and The Listening Cap from Japan. Members of Tucson's Teller of Tales storytelling club will also be challenging the audience's imagination with their performances. The Storytelling Festival will take place from 8:45 to 11 a.m. at Ford Elementary School, 8001 E. Stella Road. Call 733-8400 for more information. YESTERYEAR'S LUNACY. Americans as a whole have a great deal of respect for the expressive sufferer--generally not the subtle brooding genius of French lore, but more the adolescent egomaniac who is angrier and louder than anyone else. Times have changed with the emergence of Freud and the mental health industry, but not so much that messages from the past don't still carry wisdom. The Tucson Art Theatre, an ensemble group, will be performing two plays from the 1920s by playwright Horton Foote. Directed by AnnaMarie Greenwood, A Nightingale tells the tale of a woman trying to find solace through friends and religion after she realizes her mind is falling apart. The second play, The One-Armed Man, follows a Southern man injured in a cotton gin accident as he tries to regain his lost arm and sense of self. Both plays portray small town ignorance with rare genius, while showing how the mentally stable are often as weak as the fruitcakes. Show times are at 8 p.m., continuing through May 19, at The Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theatre, 330 S. Scott Ave. For more information call 884-4875. 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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