Background of Halloween at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween.

My husband and I attended the 6th Annual Zombie Walk on October 22, for our first time. We took a number of photos and here’s 13 to get you into the spooky feeling of Halloween tonight. The event was held at Jacome Plaza, outside of the Joel D. Valdez Main library downtown, 101 N. Stone Avenue. The zombie make-up was amazingly realistic, and there was a booth there offering face make-up for $5. Note that the theme this year was “Zombies in Space” so there were “regular” earthly zombies present, as well as undead space alien zombies. Warning: Some of these photos are not for the faint of heart.

And then after dark, it got really really scary, with gruesome undead zombies roaming around the plaza (see photos below). Note the dead (undead?) zombie fetus in the very pregnant woman, who won one of the costume categories “Most Original”. The last photo is a ghastly guy who was actually pretending to eat the brain in his hand, right next to us.

After we left (fled) Zombie Walk, we encountered lots of zombies as we drove north through the spooky 6th Avenue underpass, and they frightened us by realistically lurching over the rails, trying to get at us. It was too much like “Night of the Living Dead”.

Be safe tonight as you go trick or treating. Watch out for those zombies.

"The Scholar" by Nick Georgiou (mixed-media)

Newsprint artist Nick Georgiou had an opening reception on October 28 of his new one-artist show “Paper Elegies” at the Temple of Music & Art, showing through November 22. Here’s the gallery description of Nick & his art:

As the debate over the death of the printed word continues, mixed-media artist Nick Georgiou moves the discussion in a new direction by transforming discarded books and newspapers found on the street into sculpture, reclaiming and revisiting how we absorb language and information today.

Using old books, newsprint and a variety of colored papers, Georgiou selects, cuts, arranges, folds, and stacks the printed remains, creating mesmerizing 3-dimensional wall pieces, that speak both to the mounds of discarded print all around us and the constant barrage of information we have available at our fingertips today. In the rapidly exploding world of digital images and words, pulp star Georgiou is a storyteller harvesting the past and examining the future at the same time. Is there an app for that?

Transplanted New Yorker Georgiou received his BFA in Film and Television from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and worked in film prior to pursuing a full-time career as a sculptor. The recipient of commissions from Oxford University Press and the Washington Post Corporation, Georgiou’s work has been exhibited at Black Rat Press and Andipa Modern galleries in London, and in several shows in the New York area.

Last December I visited Nick’s studio here in Tucson and wrote about his unique art (click here). His present show has lots of unusual portraits, whimsical flowers,
a large saguaro cactus, a female nude, all of which he meticulously created.

Temple of Music & Art, www.ethertongallery.com
330 S. Scott Avenue, north of Cushing St.
M to F, 10 to 5 p.m., and prior to Az Theatre Company productions
520-624-7370

Nick Georgiou’s website: www.myhumancomputer.com.

The famous German rock/pop band Madsen (http://www.madsenmusik.de/; or: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madsen_%28band%29#History) will come to Tucson on Friday, November 4, 2011 as part of their US tour, to give a free concert at 5 p.m. at Empire High School in Vail: 10701 E. Mary Ann Cleveland Way, Tucson, AZ 85747. Tel.: Office: 520.879.3000. Fax: 520.879.3001.

The Madsen rock band is wildly popular in Germany for their rock-pop music (about 109,000 ‘likes’ on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Madsenmusik). Their tour is being sponsored by the German Embassy and the Goethe-Institute, the cultural representative of the Federal Republic of Germany, in order to promote German culture, language, and music.

Mad about German – Mad about Madsen
This is the motto of the 2011 concert tour of the German Indie rock band Madsen. From October 14th to November 18th Madsen will tour the United States. As part of the “do Deutsch” campaign, the Goethe-Institut organizes a four-week music tour with the German Indie rock band Madsen. As “ambassadors of the German language” the four-member band MADSEN will perform at 13 different venues between New York and San Francisco.

And Tucson is one of their 13 venues. This concert will be free and open to all. At 4:30 p.m. a steel band will perform as a warm-up. No reservations necessary (though you are most welcome and encouraged to practice your German beforehand).

For further information, contact German teacher Jessica Duran, 520-879-3030 (duranj@vail.k12.az.us); or Professor Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Dept. of German Studies, tel: 520 621-1395; aclassen@email.arizona.edu.