Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 9, 1997

What to do and where to do it

Arizona Daily Wildcat

Thursday, Oct. 9

Hey, you're in college. You're expected to own the trappings of education, like books. For a cheap shortcut to an impressive bibliographic collection, check out the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Book Sale, benefiting the Arizona State Museum Library. There will be books galore, all deeply cheap (like under two bucks) displayed for your perusal and purchase from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Even if you don't need 'em for yourself, call this a head start on your holiday shopping.

A lil' ol' band called Bargain Town plays tonight at the Airport Lounge (located in the basement of the Plaza Pub, 20 E. Pennington St.). Very little is known about Bargain Town except that frontman Chris Morrison draws amusing little caricatures of himself on his press releases and may have taken a poetry class with the Wildcat's own Calendar Girl.

Friday, Oct. 10

If Womb rocked your world at Doublewide Showroom last night, catch them again as they rev up the Bancock Cab Company, 411 N. Fifth Ave., as part of the Diva de Tucson celebration of women in music. Also featured are Milkseed, Annie Hawkins Band and Jensing. Show starts at 8:30 p.m.; call 795-5476 for details.

Snazzy suits, shiny horns and faboo glittery bandstands: it must be Hipster Daddy-O and the Hand Grenades. Come shimmy and swing with these hep cats at the Third Stone, 500 N. Fourth Ave. Cover will generally fall into the $3 to $5 range, leaving you with enough spare change for that scene-completing martini.

Saturday, Oct. 11

Tango: it's not just for Gomez and Morticia anymore. Tango x 2 swirls into Centennial Hall for two performances, tonight at 8 and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Eight pairs of dancers will perform what the Boston Globe called "the most erotically charged dance performance you'll ever see." The first event in the UA Presents Arte Latino Americano series, tickets for Tango x 2 run from $21 to $33.

OK, anime heads: The Tucson Animation Screening Society is presenting a whole day of Japanese animation; that means all the blue, swoopy hairdos and buxom, chirpy girls one could ask for. The screening happens from 1 until 9:00 p.m. at the Harvill auditorium (yeah the big one at the bottom of the pit) and admission is free.

Sunday, Oct. 12

When all else fails, there's always the Gallagher. "Swingers" plays tonight at 7:30 and 9:30 at the Gallagher Theatre. Two-fifty as always, and afterwards you can gather together to drink highly caffeinated beverages and talk about big things. Here's a topic: Has the idea of American art degenerated into a tool of our commercialized capitalistic culture or does it still have the ability to discover and defend truth and beauty in the human soul? Explain your answer; give examples.