DEATH OF REASON: Stretch your mind and bend your funny bone when the UA hosts Perish the Thought, a murder-mystery show by Bravvo! Productions. Fabricated mayhem takes place at a psychic convention rife with channelers, crystal ball readers, phrenologists, palmists--and at least one sociopathic soothsayer. Audience members are invited to help solve the crime, with plenty of prizes sweetening the pot. The mystery unfurls at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 18, in the UA Student Union Cellar, north of the main mall. Tickets are $5 at the door. Call 621-0768 for reservations and information. WITNESSING POSTERITY: Photographers Alex Webb, Danny Lyon, Dana Salvo and Donald Woodman capture time in Documentary Traditions, now on display at Etherton Gallery. Witness, protagonist and pioneer, Lyon's photography and filmmaking have encompassed everything from Texas prisons and Colombian street urchins to a Chicago biker gang--what he calls communities of "peasants and prostitutes, aliens and agnostics." For this show, his lens was focused on the southern civil rights movement at the height of its power in the early '60s. Alex Webb likewise creates vivid and compelling images uniting the familiar with the strange. Often ironic and impressionistic records of life in streets, markets and harbors, he questions our assumptions about the world's far-reaching, and often unseen regions. For more than a decade, Dana Salvo has traveled throughout the highlands of southern Mexico photographing the households of rural Indian and mestizo families. His intimate, large color photographs distill everything from altars to special holidays with revealing complicity. Rodeo is Donald Woodman's tableau, and he portrays the timeless ritual with an insider's gaze. Using black-and-white Polaroids, he immortalizes the gritty elegance of ropers, steer wrestlers, cowboys and rodeo clowns in their spontaneous, gritty dance. Documentary Traditions runs through March 27 in Etherton Gallery, 135 S. Sixth Ave. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and during Downtown Saturday Night. For information, call 624-7370. LYRICAL WOOD: The woodcarvings of Mexico's Yoreme (Mayo) Indians take center stage with a special presentation sponsored by Native Seeds/SEARCH. A slide presentation by ethnologist Dr. Barney Burns will accompany the exhibit. He'll highlight Yoreme history, carving traditions and ancient stories. Burns has been visiting and trading with the Yoreme for more than a quarter-century, and has authored The Other Southwest: Indian Arts and Crafts of Northwestern Mexico. The self-described "grizzled trail guide" has also been integral to a resurgence of Yoreme crafts, including the use of native dye plants for beautifully woven Mayo blankets. He's likewise been a powerful proponent of the Yoreme's use of tropical deciduous forest woods for carving, rather than for charcoal production. As a result, his indigenous benefactors now earn nearly half of their income from the crafts they produce. The presentation runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, February 20, in the Arizona Historical Society, 949 E. Second St. Admission is $8, $6 for NS/S members. Call 622-5561 for details.

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