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UPSTAIRS DOWNTOWN. Sam Shepard targets the corrupting crassness of Hollywood with Angel City, opening tonight as the latest production of the Upstairs Theatre Company. Lanx (Evan Andrews) and Wheeler (Dean Maul) are a pair of producers trying to rescue their big-budget monster from ruin by enlisting stunt guy Rabbit Brown (Eric Chapdelaine) to turn it into a true disaster. "What's missing at the heart of the material is a meaningful character," Lanx tells Rabbit, and urges him to "drive people right off the deep end." That nefarious advice likewise prods their stunt man right into the arms of the Great American Dream Machine, sure to chew him up and spit out plenty of signature Shepard angst. Tonight's preview of Angel City hits the Tucson Center for the Performing Arts stage, 408 S. Sixth Ave., at 8 p.m., with tickets selling for $3. Production continues through September 15, with tickets priced at $8, $5 for students. Call 791-2263 for reservations and show times. ABSTRACT LENS. Bero Gallery, 41 S. Sixth Ave., unveils its 1996-97 season with the photographs of Brion McCarthy and Ruth Marblestone. McCarthy renders men and women in black and white, illuminating them only with a penlight, while Marblestone uses Cibachrome to capture the gamut of moods and private, internal vignettes of her subjects. Stop in during Art Walk tonight, or mark your calendar now for next week's opening reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, September 12. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., and during Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Nights. Call 792-0313 for information.
Friday 6
GET SQUARE. It's a reg'lar old hootenanny as the Tucson Twirlers host a Get Acquainted Square Dance night from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Old Pueblo Square Dance Center, 613 E. Delano. Rick Gittelman will call the shots for this event, open to singles, couples and teens. Head Twirler Bernice Taylor says the traditional past-time is enjoying a resurgence following some Achey Breaky days sparked by one-shot hunk Billy Ray Cyrus. "For awhile there, all the young guys got caught-up in line dancing," she says. "But now there really seems to be a turn-around." First timers at these mixers-in-motion get in for free, with a $3 charge for repeat attenders. Subsequent dances are in the works for Fridays, September 13 and 20, all at the Old Pueblo Square Dance Center. Call 795-8288 for details.
Saturday 7
Cost for the hands-on class is $12, $10 for Seeds/SEARCH members, and will meet at the group's headquarters, 2130 N. Alvernon Way. For information, call 327-9123. A REAL GUY. The Southwest Center For Music, 2175 N. Sixth Ave., hosts acoustic bluesman Guy Davis at 8 p.m. Tucson's own treasure Stefan George will perform the opening set. Advance tickets are $10, $9 for TBS, TFTM, TKMA and KXCI members, and are available at Loco Music, Hear's Music, Antigone Books and Rainbow Moods. Charged by phone at 881-3947; or call 884-1220 for more information. See Soundbites for more information on the show. MASS APPEAL. Philabaum Contemporary Art Glass studio presents its Massiccio, or "In the Mass" show, a tribute to Italian Loredano Rosin, considered a master in his native land before his tragic 1992 death by Jet Ski in a Venice canal. Besides running his famous studio in Murano, Rosin taught and exhibited extensively in this country, and became a major influence upon American glass artists. That impact will be obvious in works by 18 of his former students included in this show. "He specialized in very large pieces, using solid, hot-worked Venitian glass, in a technique he developed in his Murano studio," says assistant gallery director Kristin Beeler. "And many of his students are simply drop-dead good." Tonight's opening reception runs from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Philabaum gallery, 711 S. Sixth Ave. Show continues through November 9. For details, call 884-7404.
Sunday 8
Written, produced and directed by Susan Claassen, the play crosses sexual boundaries to celebrate the joys of individuality through "monologue, music, mirth and melancholy." The critically acclaimed Moulton, an award winner for both his acting and choreography, and a veteran of the recently demised Southern Arizona Light Opera Company, appeared in the SALOC productions of Oklahoma, Paint Your Wagon and 42nd Street. On a national level, he also choreographed Hair and La Cage Aux Folles. Tickets for today's performance are $10, available by calling the Tucson AIDS Project, 322-6226. Previews continue tomorrow and Tuesday at 8 p.m. The production opens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 11, and continues through Saturday, September 21, at the Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Ave. Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Tickets range from $8 to $10. For further show times and ticket prices, call 882-9721. TEENY-WEENY. The folks at Tohono Chul Park present It's a Small World, featuring miniature Kachina dolls, itsy-bitsy Tohono O'odham and Yaqui folk art, little New Mexico furniture, tiny fetishes, and a host of other undersized renderings in this exhibit running through November 8. The wee craft tradition stretches back to prehistoric objects considered to be kiva offerings, and continued into this century when diminutive Indian craftworks were hawked as tourist curios. Today, they're considered fine art objects in their own minute niche. Tohono Chul Park Gallery, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with admission a suggested $2 donation. Call 742-6455 for information.
Monday 9
It isn't the same big rock harboring tiny supposed fossils that's making all the news, but Flaundrau's sample, discovered in Nigeria, is still a confirmed Mars immigrant. That determination comes from its unique fusion crust, formed when meteorites hurtle unabashedly through Earth's atmosphere and singe their ornery selves. And analysis conducted by NASA's Viking spacecraft on the planet surface gives scientists enough info to know a real Mars McCoy when they see one. You too can glimpse the genuine article at the science center on the UA campus between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m., and Friday and Saturday nights from 7 p.m. to midnight. Admission to the exhibit is $2, or take a gander for free with paid admission to any laser light show. Call Flandrau at 621-STAR for information.
Tuesday 10
This traveling exhibit comes to Tucson via Japan and Europe, and continues through November 9. It's accompanied by Fragments of A Former Life, Mayme Kratz's mixed-media exhibit. The reception is still a few weeks away at 6 p.m. Saturday, September 21; but you can stop in during regular gallery hours from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and 7 to 10 p.m. during Downtown Saturday Nights. Call 624-7370 for information. LATIN INVITE. Representatives from the giant Guadalajara International Book Fair will speak at 3 p.m. in the UA Modern Languages Building, Room 203. Cecilia Gonzalez discusses the literary exposition, which runs November 30 through December 8, and will feature more than 75,000 Spanish titles, along with 875 publishers from 26 countries and visitors in the mega-thousands. The University is also offering a three-unit course in conjunction with the fair. Those interested in the class must register by November 1 for credit. For information, call Mary Shelor in the College of Education at 621-7256, or 621-1198. CLEAN STRINGERS. The Folk Shop offers hoe-downs open to all-comers from 8 to 11 p.m. Tonight's session will be a bluegrass jam, with a return to old-time and Celtic music on order for the evening of Tuesday, September 24. So shower up and drag out your own instrument, be it a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer or whatever, to join what's billed as the "cleanest fun in town." The shop is at 2525 N. Campbell Ave. Call 881-7147 for details.
Wednesday 11
ETHEREAL AMORÉ. Ana Castillo reads and signs copies of Loverboys, her new collection of short stories, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Coyote's Voice Books. Co-Coyote's owner John Messina describes Loverboys as "an ethereal book about Latino women coming to terms with love in all its various forms, from heterosexual to bi-sexual to homosexual." The title story is about a bookseller who, in Messina's favorite quote--for obvious reasons--"runs the only bookstore in town that deals with the question of the soul." Get your own spiritual self down to Coyote's Voice, located in the Broadway Village Center at Broadway and Country Club Road. Call 327-6560 for information. CHILL OUT. Escape the furnaces of fall inside the Arizona Historical Society, and explore a feast of cool exhibits. Arizona-Sonora: Documents of a Shared History showcases nearly 50 passports, photos and other paperwork toted by travelers to old Mexico. See Exploring 1870s Tucson, capturing the lives of three fictional frontier families, Emergence: The South Park Story, 1940-1950, detailing the neighborhood's experience during the de-segregation years, and A Momento for My Descendants: The Buehman Studio Perspective, containing more than 250,000 photos collected between the 1870s and 1950s. And these displays only crack the cover of the museum, an air-conditioned--and free--trove of local antiquity located at 949 E. Second St., just west of the UA. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Call 628-5774 for information. 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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HOLLOW ALIBI. Agatha Christie's classic, The Hollow: Excuse
for Murder, opens at 
ETERNAL SEARCH. Native Seeds/SEARCH offers a fall gardening
workshop with Henry Soto from 8 to 10 a.m. Soto will provide
information on preparing garden beds in the right place and time,
plant care, harvesting, and storing seeds. He'll also turn participants
on to other local gardening resources besides the venerable NSS,
which is devoted to preserving native seed strains and planting
them in environmentally peaceful ways.
GINGER SNAPS. The Invisible Theatre opens its 26th season
with a 2 p.m. performance of Kitt Starr in Whatever Happened
to Tina Louise, featuring the invincible Stuart Moulton as
Ms. Starr. Proceeds from this matinee benefit the Tucson 
ROCK ON. Mars may not be the kind of place to raise a kid.
But Planet X can turn out a great little stone, evidenced by the
Walk-Through Asteroid, on exhibit at the Flandrau Science
Center.
SPOONERS. Kissing, a photographic exhibit documenting
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