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Do you want kids in your community to eat better and exercise more? Attend this training to become a CATCH Healthy Habits volunteer.

CATCH Healthy Habits is a summer and after-school program that connects adults age 50+ with kids in grades K-5 to learn about good eating habits and play active games.

Participating in CATCH Healthy Habits helps you and kids stay active, fight obesity, and have fun! As a volunteer, you will:

•Provide a health lesson. Help kids learn about healthy choices through hand-on activities.
•Prepare a healthy snack. Make and share a healthy, fun snack with kids to promote good nutrition.
•Play games! Lead kids through a variety of fun games to boost physical activity.

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The 16th Annual Southern Arizona Race for the Cure will be held March 30, 2014 at the University of Arizona Campus. Celebrate 16 years of coming together in the promise to save lives and end breast cancer forever.

There will be a 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk and a 5K Run/Walk. It is a family event and a time to honor those who have lost their battle with breast cancer and celebrate those who have survived.

Komen Southern Arizona uses donations from the Race and throughout the year to make grants to educate and raise awareness about breast cancer, and to health centers and clinics that treat the under-insured and uninsured women in our Community.

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‘70s funk legends KC and the Sunshine Band are coming to the Diamond Center on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, for a special all-ages concert sponsored by K-HIT 107.5. Tickets start at $25 and go on sale May 25 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and at the Rewards Center inside the casino. This is an all-ages show. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and the show starts at 8:00 p.m.

From humble beginnings in 1973, KC and the Sunshine Band have gone on to sell more than 100 million records worldwide and seen their music featured on more than 200 motion picture film soundtracks and at every major sporting event in the world. Things have changed since 1973, but the infectious, feel good happy music of KC and the Sunshine Band still gets people up and dancing.

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AXS TV and Darius Rucker will celebrate a milestone together with Rucker’s fans as the country music star’s first solo headlining tour is broadcast live from the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Darius Rucker Live from Red Rocks airs live exclusively on AXS TV on June 6 at 11:30pmET / 8:30pmPT.

Rucker and AXS TV have partnered numerous times over the last year to share the two-time GRAMMY® award winning artist’s milestones with the network’s television audience.

Hot Events at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore.

MONDAY JUNE 3 7:00 PM
Steph Cha signs Follow Her Home ($25)
A stunning, edgy debut introducing Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of L.A. with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart.

TUESDAY JUNE 4 7:00 PM A Pair of Crime
Ace Atkins signs a new Spenser Robert B Parkers Wonderland ($27)
And a new Quinn Colson, the Ranger, in Broken Places ($27)

WEDNESDAY JUNE 5 7:00 PM
Lauren Beukes signs The Shining Girls ($26)
The Time Traveler’s Wife meets The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in this story of a time-traveling serial killer who is impossible to trace–until one of his victims survives.

THURSDAY JUNE 6 7:00 PM
Taylor Stevens signs The Doll ($24)

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Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance and the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona present the 3rd annual Salsa & Tequila Challenge charity fundraiser

Once a year, top chefs and restaurants compete in an event that serves the region's cultural garden to modern day taste buds.

The Southern Arizona Salsa and Tequila Challenge has shaken up the summers in Tucson for three years, with 2013 mixing up to be more flavorful than ever at La Encantada.\

On Saturday, Aug. 24 at 5:30 p.m., the culinary competition will once again support Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance and the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, two much-needed charitable causes raising money for hunger relief and the arts in our community.

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The First Annual Greer Family Fishing Derby will offer plenty of fun for the whole family with a free breakfast, a BBQ picnic lunch in the meadow benefiting the local Boys and Girls Club, prizes in a variety of categories, and an awards ceremony at this historic Molly Butler Lodge following the event.

Prizes will be awarded for first fish, biggest fish, etc. There will also be 5 tagged fish in the ponds which will snag special prizes if caught! Fish cleaning stations with “expert cleaners” located near the ponds will enable families to leave with their filets ready to cook! Teams will receive a recipe and instructions on “How To Cook Your Trout”.

Where: The Lazy Trout, Main Street, Greer, Arizona. The Lazy Trout offers 3 private ponds; no fishing license required!

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This is Entertainment Magazine's Arizona events guide. For a complete list of events happening in Tucson, AZ, see the Arizona Calendar Guide.

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Horror Realm presents a special screening of the 1978 horror film “Martin”, written and directed by George Romero. The event takes place on Saturday, June 22, 2013 at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont.

Net proceeds will benefit Scares That Care, an all volunteer 501c3 charity that helps sick kids and women fighting breast cancer (www.scaresthatcare.org). Last year’s Day of the Dead charity event produced by Horror Realm and East Coast Horror Group brought in more than $2,200 for the charity and the organizers hope to top that with this rare public screening of the locally made Romero classic.

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Put on the pantaloons and throw three sheets to the wind for a Greater Fort Lauderdale summer celebration five centuries in the making. Mark the “Viva Florida” 500th anniversary of Florida’s discovery with a visit to a replica Spanish Galleon. This summer, explore free festivals, sea turtle hatchlings, and stars like Beyoncé and teen-pop boy band One Direction.

Visitors will also appreciate significant savings through the destination’s annual Summer Savings promotion, May 1 through Sept. 30 which offers 2-for-1 deals on sightseeing, water sports and shopping excursions.

For a summer vacation that goes beyond the ordinary, visit www.sunny.org/summer for event listings to print the 2-for-1 coupon or order a 2-for-1 Summer Savings card by mail.

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On Saturday, July 20, Global Change Multi-Media’s Cinema Under The Stars summer series presents the 2012 film, Chasing Ice, winner of awards in 12 different film festivals, including the “Excellence in Cinematography” award in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change and a cynic about the nature of academic research. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.

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Stephen Savage creates synthezied space, ambient and avant-garde music

Keyboardist Stephen Savage has taught classical music for more than three decades and has served on the faculties of both the prestigious Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, but when it came time to compose and record original compositions for his first album, Future Memory, he went in a different direction and created synthesizer-based space music.

“I love classical music, but I am energized by the possibilities of space music,” says Savage. “I especially enjoy how it allows me to subtly incorporate elements of ambient-new age, avant-garde jazz, modern-classical and electronica.”

RITC 166 on Saturday June 22, 2013 at Wild Horse Pass Casino in Chandler, AZ.

Doors Open: 7PM, Fight Time 8PM

Tickets: $25, $35, $75 and $100. $5 higher on fight day. $5 discounts available. Plenty of free parking. All guests must be 18+ to attend.

Tickets now on sale at http://wingilariver.ticketforce.com/ or call 1-877-840-0457.

Rage in the Cage is Arizona's premier mixed martial arts event. Fighters from around the state and some from outside the state will showcase their skills in RITC 166.

Initial Fight Card:

Daniel Madrid ( 185 ) vs Jacob Chagolla ( 185 ) vacant RITC MW Championship
Jeff Fletcher ( 155 ) vs David Nuzzo ( 155 ) RITC LW Championship
Raul Nava (235 ) vs Louis Harvey ( 225 )
Frankie Cruz ( 235 ) vs Samson Guerrero ( 230 )

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Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics returns once again to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) every Thursday from June 6 through August 29, 2013.

This year’s lineup includes 12 weeks of intriguing topics ranging from Zombies & Raw Milk Cheese to Tyrannosaurus Rex & Lucha Libre, with new speakers as far-flung as local filmmaker Alexandre Philippe paired with goat farmer Julie Schondel to chief curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Dr. Scott Sampson paired with Mexican wrestler Delta Jr.

This year, Mixed Taste returns to MCA Denver, where lectures will take place in the Whole Room with refreshing alcoholic (and nonalcoholic) beverages and tasty snacks.

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Indianapolis-based singer-songwriter Cory Williams debut solo record The Outcome is released on June 4, following a special record-release show May 31, 2013 at Radio Radio (1119 Prospect Street) in Fountain Square right outside of downtown Indianapolis. The record includes the new single “Tragically You,” written by Williams, in addition to 11 other tracks.

Static Fiction are going to be performing on June 22nd @ Pub Rock Live in Scottsdale AZ w/ the Implants (members of Strung Out, Pulley, Ten Foot Pole, Voodoo Glow Sculls) and Assuming We Survive.

Static Fiction is a Punk Rock band based out of Huntington Beach, California and has just recently finished their first EP, produced by Ryan Greene. Most of the stations are commenting back that they sound like Green Day.

Video "Good Times" released on May 3rd, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7R2FOldMA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

MEMBERS INCLUDE:

Paul Lapinsky-Guitar/vox
Tyler La Cagnina
Justin Herter- Guitar
Ryan Brown- Bass
Jason Garrison -Drums

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With a new episode launching today, the PBS Digital Studios series “Beat Making Lab” completes its second video and music travelogue, in which musicians and educators Stephen Levitin (a.k.a. producer Apple Juice Kid) and Pierce Freelon explore beatmaking and electronic dance music in Portobelo, Panama. The entire six-part “Beat Making Lab: Panama” series is available for viewing.

Future Bible Heroes, one of the musical projects from the Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt, will embark on a nationwide tour this summer in support of their upcoming album Partygoing, out June 4, 2013 on Merge Records.

Stephin Merrit’s longtime friend and collaborator Christopher Ewen composes the instrumental backing tracks, and the Magnetic Fields’ Claudia Gonson joins Merritt on lead vocals. For the band’s first live dates since 2002, the Future Bible Heroes ensemble for will consist of Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms, Christopher Ewen and Anthony Kaczynski. Unfortunately, due to ear issues, Stephin will not be able to perform on this tour. You can stream the new album track “Living, Loving, Partygoing” on Soundcloud.

Support the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Arizona's premier fundraiser: the 11th Annual Wine Event, held this year at St. Philip's Plaza on Friday, September 20, 2013 from 6PM-9PM.

Enjoy dozens of wine and food tastings from a selection of Tucson's premier establishments. The event will feature live music, live and silent auctions boasting unique items and experiences, and an exclusive VIP area.

VIP guests also receive free admission to the official After Party, special tastings, valet parking, and the event's wine glass, to new a few.

Tickets and sponsorships may be purchased on our website (rmhctucson.org) or by phone (520-326-0060).

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The 2014 winter 22nd Street Mineral, Fossil & Gem Show is held at the northeast corner of 22nd St. & I-10
Cross Streets: 22nd St. & I-10 (Starr Pass Blvd).

Shuttle Routes: COT 5

These are the same organizers who bring you the Denver Coliseum Show and the New York City Metro Show. With exhibitor success in mind, they feature aggressive advertising support, affordable booth fees, a huge venue to maximize customer traffic, a central convenient location, free on-site parking, free entrance, and friendly management.

Crystals, Finished Jewelry, Minerals, Fossils, Dinosaurs, Gemstones, Gold, Jewelry, Meteorites, Metaphysical, Mountings & Findings, Rocks, Silver, Specimens, Tools, Lapidary, Lapidary Equipment, Rough, Home Décor, and Supplies & Services.

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The 2014 Arizona Independent Warehouse Show is for businesses only and resale number required.

For more information: info@therockwarehouse.com

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The 2014 winter American Indian Exposition is held at the Flamingo Quality Hotel Ballroom, 1300 N. Stone Ave. Cross Streets: Stone Ave. & Drachman.

Hours: 10:00 to 5:00 pm, 10:00 to 4:00 pm on February 17th

Handicap accessible. Classes available: demonstrating artists, custom silversmithing, authentic American Indian crafts and art from over 50 tribal communities, forty featured artists changing throughout the fourteen days and weekend tribal dancers. Buy direct and see the artist at work.

Shuttle Routes: Call us for a taxi

info@usaindianinfo.org

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The 2014 winter Executive Inn Mineral and Fossil Show is held at the Executive Inn, 333 W. Drachman St.
Cross Streets: Corner of Drachman & Main. Shuttle Routes: COT 12.

Treasures, trinkets, gems, fossils, minerals and stones from all over the world.

executivefossilandmineralshow@yahoo.com
executivehoteltucson.com

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The 2014 winter Madagascar Minerals Gem Show is for wholesale dealers and is also open to the public.

Wholesale credentials requested are at vendor discretion. Mineral products from Madagascar, including Labradorite, Colorless/Rose Quartz, Orbicular/Regular Jaspers, Petrified Wood, Citrine, Blue Calcite, Celestite, Fossils, Ammonites, Carvings, Spheres, Gem Mosaic Slabs, Rough. Public viewing at second location at the Tucson Electric Park Gem & Mineral Show.

Display at 201 W. Lester St.
Cross Streets: Southwest Corner of Lester St. & Tenth Ave.
Shuttle Routes: COT 13

julia@madagascarminerals.com
www.madagascarminerals.com

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The 2014 A Bead Carnival is held January 15 - February 16 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm January 15-21, and 8:00 am to 6:00 pm on January 22-February 16, 2014.

A Bead Carnival (Formerly ABC East/A Bead Circus) gem show is held in the heart of Tucson's gem shows on the Palo Verde corridor at 3301 E. Pennsylvania St. Cross Streets: S. Palo Verde Rd. & Michigan. Our showroom is open to the public for retail sales and wholesale buyers with credentials. The show will feature some of the best vintage dealers in the business.

VENDOR SPACE AVAILABLE.

www.abeadcarnival.com

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The 2013 Best Bead Show is held September 5-8, 2013 at Kino Veterans Memorial Community Center on 2805 E Ajo Way. Cross Streets: Ajo Way & Forgeus Ave.

This show is open to the public--FREE ADMISSION!
Bestbeadshow@yahoo.com
www.bestbeadshow.com

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The 2013 Gem & Lapidary Wholesalers, Inc. (G&LW) is wholesale only. Register online and expedite matters. More than 90 national and international exhibitors. Shopping with everything from fossils to diamonds. Handicap accessible.

Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Sunday.

Holidome at Holiday Inn Palo Verde
Cross Streets: S. Palo Verde Rd & I-10

info@glwshows.com
www.glwshows.com

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A Bead Carnival (formerly ABC East/A Bead Circus) bead show is on September 3rd to 8th.

Spacious showroom at 3301 E. Pennsylvania (NWC Randolph and Pennsylvania) in the heart of Tucson's gem shows on the Palo Verde corridor. Our showroom is open to the public for retail sales and accommodates wholesale buyers with credentials.

Betsy Beader bead stringing materials and tools are available, semi-precious beads, vintage German beads and buttons, vintage Swarovski crystal, beads by the strand, and beads by the kilo. There are single beads, beads from China, India, Czech, and all over the world!

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The winter 2014 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show™ will be held in late January and February 2014.

The main feature of this two-week event is the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show™ held in downtown's Tucson Convention Center over the final weekend.

Thousands of people from around the world visit. The event is open to the public with displays from renowned museums and private collections along with over 250 mineral, gemstone, jewelry and fossil retail dealers.

Most of the gem and mineral shows around Tucson are free and hours vary.

Specific shows and displays will be posted when available. If you have a display at the upcoming Tucson Gem Shows, email the information to: events@emol.org.

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