Calendar
October 8 - October 14

Thursday, Oct. 8

Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., has a special '80s treat to go along with your weekly-dose of the greed decade. Don your favorite pair of acid washed jeans and party! Admission is $6. Phone 622-8848 for info.

Singer/songwriter Gabrielle Pietrangelo will perform selections from her forthcoming album, Wake From This Dream, tonight at the Casbah Tea House, 628 N. Fourth Ave. Pietrangelo's original music will add a pleasant new element to the always relaxing ambiance of Casbah. The free performance begins at 8:30 p.m. Phone 740-0393.

"Arguing the World," a documentary which explores the inner lives of four leading 20th Century intellectuals - Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol - begins a short run at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St. The film explores the foursomes political ideologies, alliances and controversies, which began around the cafeteria table of New York's City College in the 1930s. Admission is $4/$3 for matinees. Tonight's screening is at 8. "Arguing the World" runs through Sunday; call 622-2262 for show times.

Friday, Oct. 9

Everyone's favorite local Al Perry will perform at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., with special guests Flathead from Phoenix and Mark Smythe, formerly of The Pills. Come indulge. Admission $4. Phone 622-8848 for show times and info.

The UA Dance Division presents the annual Family Ties concert, in conjunction with Family Weekend. This year, the performance will feature Dance: Our Windows to the World, a special program including Spanish Flamenco, the Irish Reel, the Chinese Long Ribbon Dance, Brazilian Salsa and Middle Eastern dance as performed in the nightclubs of Cairo. The concert will include works by faculty members Amy Ernst, Nina Janik, Melissa Lowe, Susan Quinn and Michael Williams. Show time is 5:30 p.m. in the Ina Gittings Dance Theater on the UA campus. Tickets are $8. For more info, phone 621-4698.

Saturday, Oct. 10

If you never thought you'd actually use all those semesters of Italian, think again. Sibling rivalry in a dark Scottish castle climaxes in a bloody ending in the opera Lucia Di Lammermoor. Come share the joy at the Tucson Convention Center Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. Tickets $61/$46/$30/$15. Phone 882-8585

[picture]
Dave Davies of The Kinks performs Saturday at The Rialto
Dave Davies and Kink Chronicles will be at the Rialto Theatre, 318 W. Congress St. Davies, co-founder of the electric guitar distortion pioneers The Kinks, has been busy creating three solo-albums, an autobiography entitled KINK and the soundtrack for the movie "Village of the Damned" 9 p.m. Tickets $10 advance/$12 door; available at Hear's Music, Yikes Toy Stores, Guitars, Etc. and Zips University. Phone 740-0126.

Nanci Kincaid, wife of UA head football coach Dick Tomey, will read selections from her new book, Balls. Recently selected as "Book of the Week," by People magazine, Balls is the story of the life of a university football coach - from the point of view of the women in his life. Kincaid swears the work is a fiction, despite obvious parallels to her own life. Kincaid will read today at the ASUA Bookstore at noon.

Sunday, Oct. 11

Celebrate the first of three Alumni Artist Series concerts at Crowder Hall. Today, UA piano professors Paula Fan and Rex Woods perform movements by Mozart, Bennett and Rachmaninoff (for those who are classical music duds - yes, those are renown, big-deal names!) Fan is part of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, has recorded 15 albums and has performed on five continents. Woods, UA piano area coordinator is touted as "extremely talented" and a "warm and communicative" performer and received a law degree from our very own UA. 3 p.m. Tickets $10/$8 staff and faculty/$5 students and seniors. Phone 621-1162.

You can be one of the first to see the stunning photographic representation of the post-WWI German arts modernist movement (which is actually called New Objectivity) in the opening of "Comparative Concepts: August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt, Albert Renger-Patzsch and Bernd and Hilla Becher." Now say that very fast. Center for Creative Photography. Through Dec. 6. Phone 621-7968 for gallery times.

Monday, Oct. 12

Go all out for Columbus Day - check out the three Upstairs Film shorts this week: "Luna: The Stafford Giant Tree Sit" is a documentary about a group of tree cutting protesters and the longest tree-sit in U.S. history. A man's struggle for psychological serenity will take you to "The Quiet Place," an experimental short. Finally, an auto-biographical docudrama will leave you "Stripped Bare." Musical guests include Dash Rip Rock, possibly one of the most fun and entertaining touring bands in America, and Carolyn Wunderland and The Imperial Monkeys. Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St. 8:15 p.m. Admission $5. Phone 622-8848.

[picture]
The Amazing Johnathan does scary things with his eyes. What more could one want from a comic?
Pledge allegiance to our fine professors and instructors by attending the Faculty Follies tonight at the Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. The show will feature the variety of talents exhibited by various UA instructors and faculty. Tickets $15. Phone 886-9428.

Ongoing

Make sure to stop by the Centennial Hall Box Office and pick up tickets for The Amazing Jonathan, who will be performing Wednesday, Oct. 28, at Centennial Hall. Rolling Stone says he's one of the top road comics in the country - find out what they're talking about. It's all brought to you by the letters UAB and Rising Star Entertainment. Tickets are $10 for students, $12 for non-students.