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Thursday 6
The action begins today, when the NBC stars butt heads with KRQ-FM talent in a tour de force on the basketball court. The game runs from 6:30 to 9:45 p.m. in the TCC Arena, 260 S. Church Ave. Admission is $5 or a toy, with proceeds benefiting Toys for Tucson. Call 791-4266 for information. Tomorrow and Saturday, the Daydreamers make appearances at various UA homecoming activities on campus. For details, call 621-7576. NBC will also hold open casting calls and autograph parties from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, in the Tucson Mall. For details, call 293-7330.
Friday 7
BAUBLES AND BEHEMOTHS. The Old Pueblo Lapidary Club hosts the Rock, Gem and Jewelry Show at the Pima County Fairgrounds, held in conjunction with a recreational vehicle show provided by Beaudry RV. On hand will be silversmiths, gem cutters, rough rocks, stones, supplies--and more motorhomes than you can shake a senior citizen at.
SCI-FI SOIREE. Both the horrified and high-falutin' gather for three days of panels, art shows, videos, and Vampire live action role-playing, when the TusCon 24 Science Fiction Convention gets underway. Top-flight writers Melanie Rawn and John Vornholt, and artist Alan Gutierrez, will be this year's guests of honor. Critic and horror writer Ed Bryant will be toastmaster. Event begins at 2 o'clock today, 9 a.m. tomorrow and 10 a.m. Sunday in the Executive Inn, 333 W. Drachman St. Admission is $10 today, $20 tomorrow, $15 Sunday, or $30 for the entire weekend. Admission is half-price for kids ages 3 to 12. For information, call 293-1455. SWITCH HITTERS. In Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, things are, well, a bit different. The first act of the play takes place in Victorian Africa, circa 1880, when a British functionary attempts to rule his family under time-honored ideals. Only his wife Betty is played by a man. Likewise, their black servant is played by a white man. Act Two moves to 1983 London, where shifting social landscapes rock the modernized characters in this surrealistic look at role conditioning presented by the PCC Theater Department. Cloud 9 stars Glen Stockellberg, Clint Bryson and Tony Gallo. Performances are 8 tonight and tomorrow, with a 2 o'clock matinee Sunday, November 9, in the PCC Black Box Theater, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Performances continue Thursday through Sunday through November 16. Tickets are $7, $4 for students, and available at the PCC Center for Fine Arts box office one hour prior to performances. Call 206-6988 for details.
Saturday 8
Performances are 8 tonight, Friday and Saturday, November 14 and 15, with 2 o'clock matinees tomorrow and Sunday, November 16, in the Tucson Center for the Performing Arts, 408 S. Sixth Ave. Tickets are $8, $7 for students, seniors and military, and are available at the door. Call 579-3206 for reservations. AURAL FIX. Unlikely as it may sound, the Eagles Lodge No. 180 knows its way around a backbeat--or at least around throwing a top-notch record extravaganza. See for yourself at today's third-annual Tucson Record Show. Up for grabs will be tons of vinyl, tapes, CDs, videos, posters and memorabilia. As proof that this is a serious gig, last year's show was attended by more than 100 collectors and over 30 dealers. Proceeds will go to the Tucson Community Food Bank and KXCI-FM community radio. Event runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Eagles Lodge, 1530 N. Stone Ave. Early-bird admission is $4 from 8 to 9 a.m. Regular admission is $2, or $1 with two cans of food for the Food Bank. For details, call 798-1688. FITTING TRIBUTE. Tucsonans pay fitting tribute to wartime sacrifice--and have a little fun to boot--when American Legion Post 109 hosts a Veterans Day Parade. The day begins with breakfast, served from 7 to 9 a.m. Next comes the parade, boasting a 34-foot World War II lifeboat and the Copper Queen locomotive, which leaves the Post on Houghton Road at 10:45 a.m., and travels for more than a mile. Plenty of entertainment follows, ranging from dance performances by the Sunshine Dancers and students of the Fred Acosta Job Corp, to blues-belter Patty Cestare-Scorbot. The Chiliheads of Arizona will dish up their spicy stew, and Grand Marshall Vernon Williamson (who was in the Air Force before it was the Air Force, and later helped develop in-flight refueling techniques) will also be on hand. The action culminates in a dinner at 5 p.m., and a dance beginning at 7 p.m. Cost for the dinner is $5. Head on down to American Legion Post 109, 15921 S. Houghton Road, and give 'em a salute. Admission is free. For information, call 762-5852.
Sunday 9
Event runs from 1 to 3 p.m. in The Westin La Paloma Arizona Ballroom, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. Tickets are $10, free for children age 12 and under, and available by calling 327-3405. MOONSCAPE MELODIES. The eccentric little Valley of the Moon brings together an otherworldly cadre of talent when it hosts the Western and World Folk Festival. Green grass and the gentle fall sun set the tone, as performers including The Titan Valley Warheads, The Desert Sons, John J. Coinman, Ice-9, and Stefan George and his mom, Emilie, heat up the afternoon with a grab bag of delightful desert sounds. Event runs from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Valley of the Moon, 2544 E. Allen Road, north of Prince Road and east of Tucson Boulevard. Admission is $6, $5 for TKMA members, $1 for children ages 6 to 12, free for kids under age 6. For details, call 770-1298. HOUSE OF SOUND. Casas Adobes Concerts opens its ninth season with a performance by the Tucson Symphony Wind Quintet. Featuring Jean-Louis Kashy on flute, William Balantine on oboe, Andrew Braden on clarinet, Letitia Bryant on bassoon and Jacquelyn Sellars on French horn, the show promises an afternoon of fine hometown talent. Performance is 3 p.m. in the Casas Adobes Congregational Church, 6801 N. Oracle Road. Admission is $5. Call 297-1181 for details.
Monday 10
Free lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the UMC DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave. For information, call 629-0510. SLEIGHT-HANDERS. Continuing Tucson's reputation as a sleight-of-hand hotbed, five practitioners of the illusory arts gather for An Evening of Magic. Tonight's contingent of tricksters includes "Mister Showmanship of Magic" Joe DuPerry, the illusions of Bruce and Jan Spell, classical magician Gene Collins, "Doctor of Style" Tom Potter, and Cecil and Smiley, a.k.a. "The Unhumans." Opening the evening in grand style is Norm Marini, doing his reality-twisting routines tableside. Suspend your disbelief starting at 7 p.m. in The Gaslight Theater, 7010 E. Broadway. Tickets are $7.50, available at William's Magic. Call 790-4060 for details.
Tuesday 11
And for nearly three centuries, "The People" fought off occupation and assimilation, culminating in Geronimo's brilliant, last-ditch struggle to preserve their freedom. Unfortunately, popular folklore eventually romanticized the leader and his tribe, reducing them almost to comic book caricatures. Today, the Arizona Historical Society helps set the record straight with the unveiling of its new exhibit, Geronimo and the Chiricahua Apache Experience. The display focuses on the life and times of Geronimo and the Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apaches, from 1821 through 1986. The Arizona Historical Society, 949 E. Second St., is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. For information, call 628-5774.
Wednesday 12
Show opens at 7:30 tonight in The Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Ave., with performances continuing through November 30. Tickets range from $14 to $16, and are available at the Invisible Theatre box office. Call 882-9721 for reservations and information. GUITARS AND CADILLACS. Cowboys, trail dust and great six-stringed hokum converge on Tucson this week with the ninth-annual Western Music Festival. This grandaddy of three-quarter-time gatherings kicks off today with a free children's concert at 10 a.m. in the Reid Park DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. A western dinner and dance gets underway at 6 p.m. at Old Tucson Studios, 201 S. Kinney Road. Cost for the dinner is $10 with a festival packet.
The action continues through Sunday with nightly jam sessions,
raffles, and a Grande Finale Concert. All activities will be centered
at the Inn Suites Hotel Tucson, 475 N. Granada Ave. Admission
prices vary. For details on concert activities, call 743-9484.
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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BRAINSTEM BALLYHOO. In the spirit of sublime sharing, 
Meet your favorite small-screen scamps as they compete in a celebrity
basketball game, attend a high-school band competition, and lend
their pouting demeanors to the UA homecoming weekend. Among them
will be Jensen Ackles, Tanya Boyd and Bryan Dattilo of Days
of Our Lives; Amy Carlson, Laura Moss and Dahlia Salem of
Another World; and Timothy Adams and Sherri Saum of Sunset
Beach.
Event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow, and 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, in Pima County Fairgrounds Thurber Hall,
located on Houghton Road south of I-10. Admission is $2, free
for kids under age 12. For details, call 323-9154.
HUMP DAY. Once each year George and Doris secretly meet
in a quaint seaside resort, rekindling what has become a 25-year
fling. The catch is these two are more or less happily married--to
other people. But so it goes in Bernard Slade's bittersweet testament
to undying infidelity, Same Time Next Year, presented by
the Desert Players and starring Pat Young and Jon Thuerbach.
RONALD'S REVUE. The Desert Terrace Dance Club hits the
boards to benefit the Tucson Ronald McDonald House with That's
Entertainment II. Featuring numbers from the Broadway musical
Chicago, club members will be put through their paces by
choreographer and world-class high-stepper Linda Dean.
FLUTTERING FETE. Jim Brock has studied butterflies for
more than two decades. He's studied them throughout Arizona, Mexico,
Brazil, and at the UA. Meanwhile, he's also co-authored Butterflies
of Southeastern Arizona. Tonight he discusses those colorful
Copper State dwellers and their high-flying lifestyles in a lecture
sponsored by the Tucson Audubon Society.
TOUGHNUTS. The Spanish called them by the Zuni word Apachu,
meaning "enemy." Americans called them Apaches. They
simply called themselves Nde, "The People."
LOST AND FOUND. Theda Blau's just another failed actress
and health nut looking for success and love in the Big Apple.
But things take a frosty twist one snowy Christmas Eve, when she
stumbles into Vito Pignoli, a hugely successful commercial director.
Together, the unlikely pair prove that miracles can happen, in
The Invisible Theatre's production of Joseph Bologna and Renee
Taylor's It Had to Be You.
