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Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 30, 1997

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Arizona Daily Wildcat

Something about this fall air is causing art openings to bloom like mad. Tonight the 3 Person Exhibit at the Central Arts Collective, 188 E. Broadway Blvd., hosts an Opening Reception from 6 to 8 p.m. This show features drawings and sculpture from Moira Marti Geoffrion, paintings and monoprints from Melinda Morey, and paintings and watercolor sketches from Charles J. Roselthal. Call 623-5883 for more information.
How 'bout a little more Halloween hijinks? Tucson Parks and Recreation Community Theatre presents "Bram Stoker's Dracula" at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and the play is presented at the Randolph Recreation Center Auditorium, 200 S. Alvernon Way. Funded by the Tucson Parks Foundation, the production will also run Nov. 6-8.
Enough with the Halloween junk already. Soothe your spirit with the Feast of All Souls Poetry Feast. Safehouse coffeehouse hosts this smorgasbord of spoken word, featuring Josh Winks, Jesse Arenstein, Oliver John, Joan De Marcos and The Dirty Old Men. An open-mic dessert follows the main course. Dig in at Safehouse, 4024 E. Speedway, at 10 p.m. Call 318-3090 for more information.

For a more traditional All Souls' Day celebration, check out the tours offered by Baja's Frontier Tours. They'll bus you down to Nogales and introduce you to the historic cemeteries, including the Panteón Nacional, and explain the cultural significance of El Día de Los Muertos, the day of the dead. Tours are $49 and you need to reserve a space ahead of time; call 887-2340 for details.

"The Kentucky Cycle" is the only play ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize before its New York opening. The UA Department of Theatre Arts presents this epic tale of three Appalachian families over two centuries of feuds, union battles and other backwoods dramas. The show begins Nov. 5, but you can catch the preview of Part I tonight at 7 p.m. (Part II begins its run Nov. 12). Tickets are $7 for students, $8 for UA employees. Call 621-1162 for more information.

Staying close to home, the UA Mall is the spot for a Craft Fair. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, crafts and crafty people abound on our fair lawns. Go buy something for your mom or pick up a new hobby to annoy your roommate.
And again with the art. Artist Barbara Cooper will give a slide show and lecture, "Forms From Nature: Sculpture and Drawing," at the Center for the Arts Recital Hall at Pima Community College's West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Cooper sculpts with unfinished wood veneer strips around a hollow center and her drawings follow the flow of her sculptures. Her work is currently showing in the Joanne Rapp Gallery in Scottsdale. This lecture is part of the Visual Arts Lecture Series and is free to all students and community members. Call 206-6942 for more information.

UAB is so good to us. They give us the Eat to the Beat series in the Cellar nearly every day at lunch. Wednesday the steaming creole stew that is Crawdaddy-O is offered for your lunchtime enjoyment. It's free, it's cool, it's free. Go. And maybe if we're lucky Crawdaddy-O will wander on campus again, serenading stressed students on their way to class. Every university should have a roving brass band.