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Thursday 10
STRING BEINGS. Violinist Willie Royal and guitarist Wolfgang Lobo Fink team up to make music that soothes
and invigorates. In other words, they rev up their loyal
following with incredible virtuosity, blending a vast array of
styles from across the planet. Their latest release,
Wild Heart,
is a hypnotic brew of gypsy, flamenco, jazz, Mexicali blues, Cuban
swing, Cajun zydeco.you get the point. The dynamic duo is a perennial Tucson favorite, with one raucous
performance at 8 p.m. in the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200
W. Speedway. Advance tickets are $16, available at Antigone Books,
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Tucson is on its way to becoming the world s center for straw-bale construction.
By Kay Sather
JUDY KNOX AND her husband Matts Myhrman say Tucson is on
its way to becoming known world-wide as the center if not quite the
birthplace of straw bale construction. This weekend Out on Bale,
the straw bale education organization they founded here in 1991,
will host a home tour and gathering of the movement s practitioners
from all over the world. The first straw bale structures were built in Nebraska in the
late 1800s by pioneers who considered them a temporary answer
to their need for shelter in areas where wood, and sometimes even
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Thursday 17
BORDER LINES. Divisions of geography, politics, identity
and gender continue their rapid reshuffling as we barrel towards
the millennium. Today, novelist and poet Demetria Martinez hosts
Women, Identity and Borders, a showcase of satirical and
humorous short films by women offering a poignant look at where
we re headed. Included are The Orientation Express, a funny animated
piece by Frances Leeming, which uses cut-out images from
Life
magazine to explore conservative morality and pompous patriarchy
from the 50s to the 80s ; and Lourdes Portillo s courtroom
comedy Columbus on Trial, in which the explorer
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