SPECIAL EVENTS Events This Week ALL YOU CAN EAT! Southwest Center For Music. 2175 N. Sixth Ave. The Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association combines good cookin' with tasty tunes from 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, August 25. This all-you-can-eat menu includes pancakes, sausages, orange juice and coffee. While you feast, musical entertainment will be provided by Ken Tucker, Eb Eberlein, Elise Grecco and Milkseed. Cost is only $4 for adults, $2 for pancake lovers 8 and under. Call Dennis at 887-6942 for advance tickets and information. FIESTA DE SAN AUGUSTÍN. Arizona Historical Society Museum, Second Street between Park and Tyndall avenues. Come celebrate one of Tucson's oldest traditions, the annual Fiesta De San Augistín, from 1 to 11 p.m. Saturday, August 25. Performers include: Ballet Folklórico Méxica, Ritmo Alegre, Mariachi Los Aces, The Cisco Band, Young Waila Musicians, Andean music with Bwiya Toli and others. The St. Augustine processional starts at 3 p.m., followed by a street dance with wailia and norteño music from 7 to 11 p.m. Other attractions include magic shows, face painting, and identification fingerprinting for kids by TPD volunteers. There will be lots of traditional Mexican and Southwestern edibles, beer, wine and soft beverages. Call 628-5774 for more information. HOTEL HAPPENING. Hotel Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. Betcha wonder what those rooms upstairs at Congress look like. Find out from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, August 24, at the Hotel Congress Open House '96. There will be various local non-profit groups, community organizers, friends of the Hotel Congress and others occupying those mysterious rooms. Swing down and visit with folks from the Primavera Foundation, Native Seeds/SEARCH, KXCI radio, Derechos Humanos, Tucson AIDS Project and more. Call 622-8848 for information. PARTY AT THE PLAZA. 2940 N. Swan Road. Experience the charm of a European style open-air market from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at Plaza Palomino. Enjoy gourmet food, fresh produce, herbs, coffee, arts and crafts, live music and more. Call 795-1177 for information. STAND BY YOUR BAND. Plaza Palomino. 2940 N. Swan Road. Get your pep in check and come out to support the "Pride of Arizona," the University of Arizona Marching band. Beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday, August 24, the band will parade up Swan Road from the corner of Grant along with Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat and the pom-pom and baton twirling teams. The band will perform all evening, plus there will be a special concert by Terry Peffer Jazz Combo. A silent auction begins at 6 p.m., with proceeds benefiting the UA band program. Call 795-1177 for information. WALKTOBERFEST ALERT. Get your friends, neighbors, kids and colleagues together for Walktoberfest '96, on Sunday, October 6. Teams will compete for prizes, with individual walkers also welcome. After the walk there will be an awards ceremony with live music from Pulse; Tuffy Toro and Wilber and Wilma Wildcat will be on hand to visit with the kids; munchies from Eegees and more. Registration deadline is October 1. Call the American Diabetes Association at 795-3711 for information.

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