JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN: Saturday, October 30, 10 p.m. at the Loft Theater, 3233 E. Speedway.
General admission $6.00, Loft members $5.00. Go in costume (of course) with your props.

Tim Curry as Frank-N- Furter

Look out, all you creatures of the night … ROCKY HORROR is coming to get you this Halloween! It’s our 32nd annual ROCKY HORROR HALLOWEEN BASH, so help us celebrate by tricking out with Frank-N-Furter, Brad, Janet, Eddie and the whole Rocky Horror gang (not to mention the Heavy Petting shadow cast), and treating yourself to some fabulous pre-show games, a terrifying Virgin Sacrifice and some monstrous prize giveaways! A $100 Grand Prize for Best Costume will also make you “shiver with an…tici….pation.” Other costume contest categories include Best Zombie, Best Horror, Sexiest and best Rocky Horror, so there’s literally something for everyone to lose their head over!
So get ready to do the Time Warp at the stroke of midnight and celebrate the coming of Halloween, Rocky Horror style!

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is back from the grave and ready to party when The Loft Cinema and Heavy Petting present our annual ROCKY HORROR HALLOWEEN BASH, a sexy, scary and scandalous night of tricks, treats and ghoulish surprises guaranteed to “rose tint your world” in a whole new way!
SEE the Heavy Petting shadow cast tighten their feather boas and pull up their fishnets (and perhaps slap on their pumpkin heads???), and unleash their sequined bag of Halloween treats, live and in your face!
HEAR the audience (zombies, ghouls and gender-bending creatures of the night are always welcome) sing along to the blood-curdling ROCKY HORROR songbook as though their very lives depended upon it!
FEEL the excitement as mild-mannered citizens are transformed into frighteningly trashy sweet transvestites for the night … a night of “absolute pleasure!”
Dammit Janet, don’t be a chicken this All Hallow’s Eve, and don’t miss The ROCKY HORROR HALLOWEEN BASH – it just might scare the pants off you!

movie poster

“Let’s do the Time Warp again”….back to 1975 when this movie was first released!

(And if you miss this Halloween bash, The Rocky Horror Picture Show screens at Midnight at the Loft every 3rd Saturday of the month.)

2nd Annual Re-Discover Tucson Expo

Saturday Aug 7, 2010

Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Admission: no charge

Location: Windmill Suites at St. Philip’s Plaza
Address: 4250 North Campbell Avenue in Tucson (SE corner of River Road)

Wingmill Inn & Suites

“Re-Discover Tucson Expo . . . Where the weather isn’t the only HOT attraction.
Come and enjoy fun, food, discounts and prizes. Find out what is new in Tucson, and at your favorite attractions, entertainment, businesses, and restaurants. There is something for everyone to enjoy. Remember what Tucson is famous for: arts, entertainment, outdoor activities and history.”

If you just moved to Tucson, this may be your chance to discover the wonders of this place, or if you’re lived here (like me) for over 20 years, then it may be “re-discovery” time. There’s always something new happening in Tucson.

Phone: 520-577-0007 or 1-800-547-4747 ext 5
Contact Name: Janelle Holyoak
Email: j.holyoak@windmillinns.com

Open to the public – everyone is welcome! And it’s all FREE.

For more info about fun Tucson Birthday celebrations for the month of August, log onto: www.tucsonsbirthday.org.

I was truly amazed yesterday at how fluent the PCC and U of A students were who competed in the 8th Annual Japanese speech contest, put on by the Southern Arizona Association for Japanese Education (SAAJE). This event was held at the lovely PCC Northwest Campus, 7600 N. Shannon Road. Besides the speech contest, there were numerous Japanese cultural exhibits and demonstrations as well (ikebana, go, koi, anime, origami, taiko, aikido, calligraphy, furoshiki wrapping, swords, etc.)

For more info about this annual contest, click here for my previous blog article announcing this event last week.

The 2010 winners were:

Category A (1st semester)
1st Place: Amanda Hansen, University of Arizona
2nd Place: Claire Tatman, University of Arizona
3rd Place: Gabriel Williams, PCC West Campus
Special: Emmanuel Aceves, PCC West Campus

Category B (2nd semester)
1st Place: Zhuyan Li, University of Arizona
2nd Place: Kiyono Bernier, PCC Northwest Campus
3rd Place: Michael Cavalier, PCC Northwest Campus

Category C (3rd and 4th semesters)
1st Place: Patrick Murphy, PCC Northwest Campus
2nd Place: Samantha Sharp, University of Arizona
3rd Place: Clinton Wester, PCC Northewest Campus
Special: Alexis Bruce, PCC Northwest Campus
Special: Jared Pettitt, PCC Northwest Campus

The Special awards were given for particularly creative or difficult pieces. All winners received a trophy and a package of prizes. Many contestants spoke of having visited or lived in Japan, with life goals to do so again.

Congratulations to all these winners (and to all who dared to enter), their instructors, and to Chair Yosei Sugawara, for such a well organized, cultural and language art event.

All I can say is that these students put Sansei (3rd generation Japanese Americans) like me, who have studied a little Japanese, to shame. These students had to stand up in front of a large audience and speak memorized Japanese (and many did it fluently). I doubt I could have done that in Spanish while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Sayonara– till the 9th annual speech contest.