Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Thursday 3 BOWL OF BLUES. Bodily functions team with bland breakfasts and other touchstones of human angst tonight, at the University Film and Video Association Student Film and Video Festival, the biggest show of its kind in America's vast on-screen range. Mischievous cuisine is the theme for Lesley Pinder's Belch, about a young girl awash in the spray of her family's burping success, and for Lawrence Guise's Bowl of Oatmeal, wherein a diner gets high-fiber advice from a helping of world-wise chow. Ram Nehari also gets down to basics in I'm Miserable Now, when a soon-to-be Israeli soldier greets his long-gone sister on the eve of his departure. The screenings are free, and begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Modern Languages Building auditorium on the UA campus. For information, call 621-1239. Friday 4 BEVELED EDGE. Performance artist Mat Bevel has come a long way since his days on Access TV and his small studio on South Fremont Avenue. Now he's switched to the kinetic Jet Set Jettison, a character favoring wardrobes of mechanical sportswear, sort of Ocean Pacific meets Briggs and Stratton with an environmental bent. Sound like mysterious combustion? Well, dig these enigmatic Bevel lines: "A bellowing smokestack thank you...for abandoning your grounds. Look up soon, but don't look now, Jet Set Jettison's coming down." Hmmm. Guess the only way to explore such four-stroke riddles is to come down yourself to Bevel's new performance sanctum at 530 N. Stone Ave. The show opens tonight and runs through Sunday, and again from October 11 through 13. Show times are 8 p.m., tickets are $6, and Café Magritte will cater with food and drink. Call 571-8202 for details. WE CARD. Old-time boys of summer--or at least their grinning photographic mugs--will face off with recent rookies at Baseball Card Etc.'s sports card extravaganza at Park Mall. The big-league collectibles come from professional dealers scattered across the land, says Daryle Grigsby of Cards Etc. "You can expect to see cards from the '50s to the present." And his store claims the fame for this home-run huddle: "The whole thing is our own deal here, and we usually do pretty good with lots of folks turning out," he says. Count yourself among the memorabilia-mongers during regular mall hours today through Sunday. For information, call 748-2747. Saturday 5 GRAND CANYON. Native American music pioneer Canyon Records celebrates 45 years of indigenous dedication with a performance of Voices Across the Canyon, featuring Canyon star R. Carlos Nakai. The flutist will be joined by Tucsonans Amo Chip, Will Clipman and J. David Muniz. This should be a remarkable event, and Canyon is a company worth noting: Some consider them single-handedly responsible for bringing tribal rhythm to the masses, and the studio recently rounded out their inventory with nouveau flamenco and New Age guitar music. The concert begins at 8 p.m. in UA Centennial Hall, with $15 reserved seating, $11 for students. Tickets are available at the Centennial box office or Dillard's. Call 621-3341 for information. VERY OLD PUEBLO. Local trowelsmith Allen Dart hosts a two-hour family visit to suburbs of yore with a tour of Hohokam ruins in Sabino Canyon. Funds will benefit the non-profit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. These villages cranked from 1100 to 1350 A.D., and center burrowers have unearthed pit houses, dog burials, pottery, and vast apartment compounds. Archaeologist Dart will expose the naked truth behind these and other local discoveries pre-dating even Pat's Drive-In, beginning at 10 a.m. Donations of $10 for adults and $2 for kids ages six through 12. Minors must be accompanied by their living elders. For details call 798-1201. TECHNO-RAVE. Females march toward the millennium with the Women Creating Sustainability Through Individual Action, Policy and New Technology workshop, starting today at 7:30 a.m. Straw construction crusaders and Out On Bale founders Judy Knox and Matts Myhrman kick off Friday night with a 7:30 p.m. slide presentation. Then the visionary rug rolls back for Sustainaball, replete with melody by KXCI and that Queen Mother of the skins, Mama Ritmo. The volume lowers on Saturday, with a keynoter by Knox. This three-day gathering features three seminars on such things as new energy-saving technologies, and building homes and communities that offer more than just a sprawling nod to our increasingly small planet. The cost is $40, and includes lunch and the workshops, all to be held at downtown's Holiday Inn City Center. Tickets for Friday night only are $3 for Women for Sustainable Technology members and $5 for the general public. Call 690-6356 for information. Sunday 6 SYMPHONIC YOUTH. If music soothes the savage breast, just imagine what it could do for rowdy youngsters. The Civic Orchestra of Tucson will thus reign over the rugrats with their Kids Classical Afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway. Revealing its operatic underpinnings, this performance will feature 15-year-old L.A. soprano Jessica Tivens, who's been onstage from the tender age of eight, and of late belted out the national anthem at Dodger Field. Orchestra members will also take part in an "instrumental petting zoo," where tykes of all ages can pull a few strings, and the first 50 of them in the door will get a musical instrument coloring book. For details on this free event, call 791-9246. BOWLING FOR BUCKS. Those defenders of the disenfranchised known as the Primavera Foundation are setting vessels asunder with their Sixth Annual Bowl-Me-Over auction. More than 40 local handcrafters have donated weavings, wood carvings and ceramic bowls for silent bidding, and the hushed competition will be accompanied by a raffle, live music and chow. Primavera will also spotlight its new cookbook, Bowl of Noodles, chock-full of recipes from Tucson's finest grub-hustlers. Tickets for the auction are $15, and include a hand-tossed bowl or mug to heap all your future noodles into. All proceeds will help the foundation help the homeless through its countless programs. The festivities are planned for 3 to 6 p.m. at the Old Town Grill, nestled in the Old Town Artisan's Plaza, 186 N. Meyer Ave. Call 623-5111 for information. Monday 7 MANY HANDS. Special artwork by kids vaulting neuromuscular hurdles are displayed through October 30 inside the Tucson International Airport terminal. "Each of the pieces was created by children afflicted by one of 40 diseases covered by the Muscular Dystrophy Association," says MDA spokesman Michael Blishak. The concept started as an attempt to enhance the association's Tucson headquarters, he said, "and the word spread. Now it's been all over the U.S." These creative outpourings are displayed at the terminal's central baggage-level entrance. They include four lovely vases inspired under the tutelage of prime Tucson sculptor Curt Brill and adorned with palm prints from 62 budding Arizona Rodins. Call 529-5349 for information. LITERARY ECLIPSE. That galactic outpost called the Stellar Cellar offers a free soapbox to all desert bards tonight and every Monday at 7:30 p.m. And Video Nite hits the basement, located at 3335 E. Grant Road, every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., when the Stellar keeps in theme with UFO, New Age and other cinematic wonders. This Saturday sees a continuation of the high-falutin with a video and discussion concerning UFOs and Mayan Prophecy at 2 p.m. Snacks and beverages will be on hand. For information, call 881-7559. Tuesday 8 PORKERS. Wanna hush your lip-flapping congressman? Just ask why corporate snouts remain wedged in the rich federal trough, even as a malnourished army of American kids get nothing but governmental chicken-feed. Then step back and watch as he nervously fingers his money clip. Authors Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman pull on their reform-minded boots and plop into this hypocritical slop when they discuss their new book, Take the Rich Off Welfare, tonight at 8 p.m. in the UA Student Union, and at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 10, at The Book Mark, 5001 E. Speedway. "We just want to talk about the huge subsidies for private industry, and how the policy-making process is sold to the highest bidder," says Zepezauer, who also publishes a cartoonist's trove of public discourse, the Tucson Comic News. "Campaign reform is really the crux of the problem." Call 296-0936 for information. Wednesday 9 TURF WARS. Caring for the big Western lawn is paramount at The Future of Arid Grasslands, Identifying Issues, Seeking Solutions conference, running today through Sunday. Grass luminaries in attendance include Wes Jackson of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, author Carl Hess, and Tucson's own enthnobotanist Gary Nabhan and Native American poet Scott Momaday. Today, conferees will visit rangeland in New Mexico. They'll stay closer to home Wednesday with pilgrimages to the Empire Cienega and historic Empire Ranch, San Rafael Valley east of Patagonia, and three Elgin-area ranches. The travels continue through the weekend, spiked with lectures far more vibrant than much of the Southwest's decimated outback. Full conference registration fees are set at $150, with smaller price tags for individual events, and the gathering is headquartered at the Quality Hotel, on St. Mary's Road east of Interstate 10. For information, call 621-6279. HIGH-TEMP. Luis Alberto Urrea, author of several books, including The Fever of Being and most recently By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border, will read from his work at 8 p.m. tonight as part of the UA Poetry Center's ongoing series. These free readings gather in the Modern Language Building auditorium on the UA campus. Call 321-7760 for information. PAINFUL REMINDER. "Home is the place" Robert Frost said, "where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." Perhaps the American behemoth of letters was right. But he probably didn't mean families would have to keep the door open when you habitually return the favor by wailing the beejesus out of them, or ripping them apart with cruel words. The Brewster Center drives that timeless truth home with tonight's Speak Out, where battered women and their advocates peacefully take the offensive through statements, poetry and song. This event commemorates October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and echoes the YWCA's refreshing call for a week without abuse in this increasingly brutalized land. Speak Out is free, and starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Economics Building auditorium on the UA campus. For information, call 623-3246. 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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