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Thursday 14
BEAN S SCENE. At the ripe old age of 29, Eleanor (nicknamed
Bean) is finally escaping Boston, her beer-chugging paramour,
and a terribly boring job, all for a chance at self-discovery
as she travels across America. Moving from city to city, she relies
on friends to help her get on down the road in Sleeping With
Random Beasts, by Tucsonan and first-time novelist Karin Goodwin.
See this week s Books section for details. Goodwin signs and discusses her book from 7 to 8 p.m. in Barnes
& Noble Bookstore, 5130 E. Broadway. For details, call 745-9822.
SWINGERS. The Tucson Swing and Dance Club is a non-profit
Becoming A Connoisseur Is As Simple As Showing Up At The Table.
By Rebecca Cook
OVER THE LAST decade, wine sales have skyrocketed, making
the sacred juice of the grape a hot commodity. Acreage devoted to the hallowed fruit has not only increased
in foreign markets such as Australia and Chile, but also in Northern
California, Washington, Oregon and even New York state. Wine is
big business, and more and more of us leap into the burgeoning
consumer frenzy each passing year. And why not? According to several
studies, the stuff (especially red wine) not only induces a general
glow of well being, it s actually good for the body, by staving
A Retrospective Of Works By The Late Maynard Dixon.
By Margaret Regan
THE FAMOUS WESTERN painter Maynard Dixon lived the last
six years of his life in Tucson, on land he bought from the Ronstadts
along Prince Road. He painted the golden light of autumn, the
blue-beige Catalinas, and, this being the early 1940s, the still-empty
desert stretching out before the mountains. Chollas and Shadow, one of the last oils he finished
before his death in 1946, is a classic Tucson scene. The yellow-gilded
chollas are thrust up against the blue mountain, which in turn
lies against the turquoise-blue sky. But it s also classic Dixon: