Along with some of the most appetizing pasta presentations in town, Café Magritte, 254 E. Congress St., dishes up altered monoprints by Marc Moss, tantalizing large scale paintings by Charlotte Bender, and a paper and wood sculpture piece by Catherine Nash and tiny abstract paintings Linda Rosenfeld in the Bowler Room. Enter Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St., where a new show opens featuring historic photos of Tucson in the Roaring '20s alongside Arthur Keating's "Depot Gateway Vision," an innovative plan for a downtown "intermodal transportation center." Exhibit includes text and architectural renderings. Exit stage right to the Cup Café and try on The Velvet Glove (iced coffee with Bailey's and Kahlua).
Other stellar stops include the impressionistic paintings by
Monika Rossa and recycled metal works by Jill Ann Smith on display
at classy Café Sweetwater, 340 E. Sixth St.; and finely
textured cast paper impressions by Ron Nelson and computer graphic
imagery by Peter H. Korbel hanging around Delectables, 533 N.
Fourth Ave.
For a brochure with a map and complete list of participating galleries, call 624-9977.
HOT OFF THE PRESS. The UA Press promises hot times in the
Old Press Warehouse from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, with their "Hotter
Than Hell" Warehouse Sale, at 330 S. Toole Ave. follow the
detour road and look for signs (southwest of the railroad tracks,
near Park Avenue), featuring releases from authors like like Ophelia
Zepeda, Richard Shelton and Janice Emily Bowers. Selections start
as low as $1. True, it's a warehouse sans air conditioning, but
you'll get such hot deals on summer reading and gifts you can
pack away 'til the mercury drops, that you can lounge for the
rest of the summer and recover from the heat. Call 621-1441 for
information.
These days he combines his early interest in rock and roll (he once played keyboard in a band that would become the popular locals Chuck Wagon and the Wheels) with his studied training in the classics. With a 4,000 song repertoire, show organizers are at a loss to predict what Syme has in mind. But expect lots of popular classics and maybe some old favorites like The Beatles. Who knows, maybe he'll even take some requests.
Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Sabbar Shrine Temple, 450
S. Tucson Blvd. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Call
298-5213 or 722-4899 for information.
DIAMOND DIG. No, this isn't a misplaced headline from the Skinny, it's that long-awaited event Toros fans have been in training for, dropping contact lenses in swimming pools and searching for needles in haystacks...it's the sixth annual post-game Diamond Dig at Hi Corbett Field in Reid Park. Ambassador Diamond Jewelers will bury a genuine diamond, along with 49 one-carat CZs, somewhere on the field for women ages 18 and over to root out. Gates open at 6 p.m. for 7:30 p.m. game time, with the Toros taking on the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Tickets range from $3 to $5. Call 325-2621 for information.
A discussion will follow, based on the book With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination, by Joseph Gerson. Tonight's program is one of many free events scheduled throughout August to generate public discourse on the responsibilities and consequences nuclear power has bestowed upon us. Call the AFSC office at 623- 9141 for information about this and other scheduled events.
about a mother's advancing cancer, the reclamation of interests long forgotten (one number includes an ensemble of players picking up the instruments they played as children), and the common experiences shared by women young and old, all told through song, movement, slides, improvisation, narrative and ASL interpretation.
Meier is hesitant to describe the highly personal collage of real life stories in great detail, avoiding language that might sound too sentimental. But she does convey the sincerity of the company's appreciation for women's life journeys, saying, "The stories are all interrelated, and show life as a whole. Who we were as children is who we are now, and to some extent who we will be."
When asked how it feels to put her personal life on stage for the public to scrutinize, Meier responds with a laugh, "Our first production was terrifying. But we're really excited about this work. It feels really meaningful, powerful, important. And we remind ourselves that our stories are everyone's stories...(the specifics) may be mine and my mother's story, but it's really all of ours."
I Know An Old Woman continues at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday through August 13 at the Historic Y Theatre, 738 N. Fifth Ave. Tickets are $8 in advance from Antigone Books and Fit To Be Tried, $9 at the door. Call 326-7354 for information.
CLOWNING AROUND. National Clown Week is August 1 thorugh 6, in case you didn't know. The festivities open today at 10 a.m. in the Office of the Mayor at Main City Hall, 255 W. Alameda St., 10th floor, as Mayor George Miller signs and presents a proclamation (of what, exactly, is unclear) to representatives from Faithful Fools and Playful Prophets, two local clown groups.
At 11 a.m., the clowns will make a special appearance at the Tucson Children's Museum, 200 S. Sixth Ave., with face painting, balloon sculptures and a variety of other antics. The real question: Will they all be arriving in the same car?
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