The beginning of the end starts at 9 p.m. at Café Luna
Loca (formerly the D.P.C. Café), 546 N. Stone Ave. Admission
is by donation at the door. Call 882-4488 for information.
Dukes Saturday through Tuesday. All games start at 7:30 p.m.
at Hi Corbett Field in Reid Park. Tickets range from $3 to $5.
For more information call 325-2621.
Additionally, new and returning audience members will continue to work on the community mural started last Wednesday, which incorporates holy drawings (as in, poked full of holes) and torn rags. "It's impossible to describe," Williams tells us sympathetically. So we implore you--go experience this for yourself. "That's what performance art is all about--telling each other stories."
The beginning of the end starts at 9 p.m. at Café Luna
Loca (formerly the D.P.C. Café), 546 N. Stone Ave. Admission
is by donation at the door. Call 882-4488 for information.
HORSEPLAY IN THE HOUSE. Steer yourself over to the Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Ave., tonight through Sunday for a taste of cowboy fun at this summer's Desert Thunder pro-rodeo championships. This first-time indoor Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association-sanctioned hoo-ha will feature five-time world champion calf roper Joe Beaver, three-time world champion bareback rider Marvin Garrett and top barrel racer Sherry Potter-Cervi, from Marana, among an estimated 350 top competitors on the pro-rodeo circuit. Kids ages 4 to 6 will compete in a "Mutton Bustin' Championship" at 7 o'clock tonight and Saturday, with the rodeo proper cranking up at 7:30 p.m. Rodeo hours on Sunday are 3:30 p.m. Mutton Bustin', 4 p.m. rodeo start.
Tickets range from $9.50 to $17.50, available at Dillard's and the TCC box office. To order by phone call (800) 638-4253. For information on rodeo events call 795-5277.
MONSOON MADNESS. The rains may not have come through for
us this summer, but there's a storm of activity over at Rillito
Park Race Track with the seventh-annual Monsoon Madness benefit
auction for the Tucson Centers for Women and Children. The event
features two live and three silent auctions, all in the comfort
of the second-floor clubhouse. Guest auctioneers Jimmy Stewart
(you got it, the weatherman from Channel 4 and Mix F.M.), political
cartoonist Dave Fitzsimmons and charismatic D.J. Alan Michaels
will warm up the crowd with silly celeb tricks before pro auctioneer
George Birger gets down to some serious fast-talking.
"People have been so generous," says event coordinator Norma MacKenzie. She's not kidding. Auction items include a spa, round-trip airfare for a weekend getaway, an evaporative cooler, cellular phones, an original print by Fitz, tickets to Phantom of the Opera, an ornamental steel security door, a handmade dollhouse (complete with furniture and swimming pool), and a slew of restaurant, theater and fitness certificates. "This concrete plant even told us we could have 'anything we could carry,' " says MacKenzie, who has yet to determine what that might be. The center has amassed more than 500 gifts, and the donations are still pouring in.
Auction opens at 6:30 p.m. and continues "until the madness ends." Tickets are $12.50, available in advance by calling 795-8001. Proceeds benefit TCWC's ongoing shelter and support services for women and children who are victims of domestic violence.
DOWNTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT. Don't let the summer heat beat
you into submission. Party with the Naked Pueblo at an Arts District
birthday bash to ring in Tucson's 220th year. The Viva Tucson
Caliente Festival leads off from 7 to 10 p.m. on Pennington
Street between Sixth and Scott avenues, with food booths from
area restaurants and hot salsa by Rafael Moreno & Descarga's
energized, eight-piece dance band. Performances at the Ronstadt
Transit Center, Sixth Avenue and Congress Street, include "multi-ethnic
folk music" by Chubasco from 7 to 10 p.m. and live music
and modern dance improvisation by Bob Steigert and John McNamara
at 8 p.m. Dance in the streets to blues rock by Jonquill from
7 to 10 p.m. on Scott Avenue between Congress and Pennington streets;
or ambush the Tragidiots between 8 and 10 p.m. in the Arizona
Alley, south of Congress Street.
For information on the Arts District and Downtown Saturday Night events, call 624-9977.
Admission is $4, $3 for KXCI, TFTM and TKMA members. Call 884-1220 for information.
RURAL ART EXHIBIT. If you're looking for the Rural Arts
Traveling Exhibit, you missed it. But as a consolation prize,
the Tucson Pima Arts Council, that diligent local arts organization
committed to inundating the pueblo with public art projects, hosts
its first Rural Arts Exhibit in-house at the Community Gallery,
240 N. Stone Ave. The show they've put together has 94 pieces
in all, more than twice as large as the traveling exhibit, with
a wide assortment of western and southwestern canvases. Although
the cowboys-and-Indians shtick is sure to please a large segment
of gallery browsers, the show also polishes a few gems for more
contemporary tastes: like "Sunset Pizza," a surreal
desert landscape by Mary Lou Ray-Greer framed in unfinished, weathered
wood; a series of thickly-painted toreros by Bruno Valdez;
and "Aztec Calendar," wood sculpture by Louis Colucci.
And who knows what else they've made room for since our last visit.
Regular gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 624-0595 for information.
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