Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Gila Bend Shrimp Fest
Venue: Community Softball Field | Location: Gila Bend Food & Drug | Time: 10:00am

City: Gila Bend, AZ -- 5th Annual DESERT SHRIMP FEST. Live Bands, Shrimp & other food booths, Arts and crafts booths, Children’s Carnival rides, Gourmet shrimp cooking contest, Shrimp eating contests, Shrimp coloring contest, Kids’ Sand Castle building contest, Door Prizes, Bobbing for Shrimp Contest. $3 entry fee per person (ages 12 and over) provides ticket for door prizes. Under 12 free. Desert Sweet Shrimp are born in hatcheries and raised in the desert of Gila Bend. more info: 928 683 2002.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Monster Truck Thunder Slam and Extreme Freestyle
Venue: Tucson Convention Center| Location: 260 S. Church Ave | Time: 7:30pm

TUCSON (AZR) -- This is your chance to get up close and personal with the top Monster Trucks in the nation. This year’s show will feature some of the Top Monster Trucks in the nation. Some of the trucks scheduled to appear this year include: Bigfoot, Predator, Prowler, Twisted Dragon, and Pounder – for the Western Championship. Joining the Monster Trucks at Thunder Slam this year will be Extreme Freestyle Motocross riders from the X- Games and Gravity Games. more info: 520.791.4101.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Arizona Concert: Steve Miller Band
Venue: State Fair Fairgrounds | Location: 19th Ave and McDowell Rd | Time: 7:00pm

PHOENIX, (AZR) -- If you remember anything about music in the 1970s, you probably don't mind remembering the Steve Miller Band. Part entertaining pop, part solid bluesy rock, the music that Steve Miller created provided the decade with comfortable guitar hooks and entertaining lyrics. After all, Miller is the man who gave us a reference to 'the pompitous of love.' Along the way, Steve Miller sold an awful lot of records and tickets to his ever-growing fan base. more info: 602.252.6771





Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Tucson Money Faire
Venue: Holmes Tuttle Boys & Girls Club | Location: 2585 E. 36th St. | Time: 10:00am

TUCSON (AZR) -- Low- and moderate-income consumers can learn about financial services and programs offered in the community at this one-stop event. Services include free tax preparation, credit report information, home repair assistance and information on how to protect oneself from identity theft. Financial literacy and homebuyer education and counseling, homebuyer and home repair programs. Develop a network for positive change. $8-$22.50. more info: 520.792.3087.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Dia de los Muertos Celebration
Venue: Mesa Arts Center | Location: 1 E. Main St | Time: 10:00am

MESA (AZR) -- Mesa Arts Center and the Consulate General of Mexico in Phoenix, along with leaders of Valleywide Hispanic organizations and communities and City of Mesa arts organizations, invite you to the Dia de los Muertos Celebration at Mesa Arts Center in Downtown Mesa, Nov. 3 & 4. This festival features a two-day Mercado, community altar, a series of artist workshops leading up to the event, altar contest, as well as a procession on the Mesa Arts Center campus. more info: 480.644.6500.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Bookmans Party in the Park
Venue: DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center | Location: Reid Park | Time: 11:00am

TUCSON (AZR) -- Music with Calexico, Chuck Wagon and the Wheels, the Insomniacs. A full day of music, food, and events for the whole family. Entry to Party in the Park costs nothing, and you're all invited. However, space is limited in the bandshell so come early to guarantee a spot. Settle in, listen to music, and have fun. This is our way of thanking you for three incredible decades. Tucson's favorite sons Calexico will be headlining a roster of incredible music. more info: 520.881.1744

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Childsplay Presents A Thousand Cranes
Venue:Tempe Center for the Arts | Location: 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy | Time: 1:00pm

City: Tempe, AZ -- Childsplay, Arizona’s professional theatre company for young audiences and families, presents A Thousand Cranes, this relevant drama, tells the true story of twelve-year-old Sadako Sasaki, for the first time in the Tempe Center for the Arts Studio. Performances of A Thousand Cranes are October 27 through November 11 at the Tempe Center for the Arts Studio. Tickets: $25 for adults and $20 for students, seniors, and children. more info: 480.350.8101

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Charles Ross Presents One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Venue: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | Location: 7380 E 2nd St | Time: 2:00pm

City: Scottsdale, AZ -- Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the Off-Broadway hit One-Man Star Wars Trilogy starring Charles Ross from November 1 - 11, 2007, at Theater 4301 in downtown Scottsdale. The show will be performed in place of Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking, which has been rescheduled for April 29 - May 11, 2008. Tickets are available for $38 through the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts box office more info: 480.994.2787.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Childsplay Presents A Thousand Cranes
Venue:Tempe Center for the Arts | Location: 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy | Time: 4:00pm

City: Tempe, AZ -- Childsplay, Arizona’s professional theatre company for young audiences and families, presents A Thousand Cranes, this relevant drama, tells the true story of twelve-year-old Sadako Sasaki, for the first time in the Tempe Center for the Arts Studio. Performances of A Thousand Cranes are October 27 through November 11 at the Tempe Center for the Arts Studio. Tickets: $25 for adults and $20 for students, seniors, and children. more info: 480.350.8101

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- “A Little Night Music”
Venue: Ardrey Auditorium | Location: NAU Campus | Time: 7:30pm

FLAGSTAFF (AZR) -- Sophisticated, literate and stylish, “A Little Night Music” is also disarmingly warm, funny, charming and very human. Its well-constructed book featuring a strong ensemble cast of vivid, memorable characters that span all age groups. The lilting Ravel-inspired score in three-quarter time accommodates both strong and less accomplished singers and contains Sondheim’s most popular song to date, the haunting “Send in the Clowns.” more info: 928.523.2211.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Gallagher
Venue: Celebrity Theatre | Location: 440 N 32nd St | Time: 8:00pm

PHOENIX (AZR) -- Gallagher is most noted for wielding his trademark Sledge-O-Matic. He showers his audiences with the pulverized remains of apples, orange, lettuce, cottage cheese,poundcakes, Big Macs and of course, no show can end without the Watermelon Finale. Show-goers are warned to be "Gallagherized," You are advised tp wear plastic raincoats, goggles, sunglasses, umbrellas and windshield wipers if you plan to sit in the front of the theater. more info: 602.267.1600.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Giselle
Venue: Symphony Hall | Location: 225 E Adams St | Time: 8:00pm

City: Phoenix, AZ -- It’s been called “the perfect romantic ballet.” It’s the most coveted role in dance. It’s a ghost story, and a fairy tale, and a story about love — a love so selfless and powerful it overcomes even death. It is Giselle, and it raises the curtain on the 22nd season of Ballet Arizona. This production is much anticipated by Valley ballet lovers, as it will be Ib Andersen’s first Giselle in Phoenix. Prices range from $15–115, with discounts available. more info: 602.381.1096

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Charles Ross Presents One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Venue: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | Location: 7380 E 2nd St | Time: 8:00pm

City: Scottsdale, AZ -- Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the Off-Broadway hit One-Man Star Wars Trilogy starring Charles Ross from November 1 - 11, 2007, at Theater 4301 in downtown Scottsdale. The show will be performed in place of Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking, which has been rescheduled for April 29 - May 11, 2008. Tickets are available for $38 through the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts box office more info: 480.994.2787.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- W.O.M.B.
Venue: Club Congress | Location: 311 East Congress Street | Time: 9:00pm

City: Tucson, AZ -- W.O.M.B.'s music is a funky-folky-punky art-rock combination of electric squall, acoustic caress, hip-hop chants and polemical rants. These warriors use flamboyantly theatrical performances--incorporating costumes, props, psychodrama and film and slide projections--and art works (each member is also a visual artist) to draw deeply from the imagination. The Phoenix-based music trio name stands for Warriors of Make Believe. more info: 800.722.8848

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- The Mission Creeps
Venue: Club Congress | Location: 311 East Congress Street | Time: 9:00pm

City: Tucson, AZ -- They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky. They're all together ooky. No, I'm not talking about the Addams Family (nor those new dark-chocolate M&Ms they're shilling these days), but rather Tucson's The Mission Creeps. The five-piece band--James Arrr (vocals, guitar, theremin), Miss Frankie Stein (bass, accordion), Becca "The Beastmaster" Horton (vocals, harmonica), Goya "Ditchrider" Kenny and Bryn "Mr. Furious" Jones (drums). more info: 800.722.8848

Saturday, November 3, 2007 -- Tom Walbank
Venue: Club Congress | Location: 311 E Congress St | Time: 9:00pm

City: Tucson, AZ -- Everyone loves Tom Walbank. How could you not? Besides being one of the nicest people of all time, Walbank is one of this city's best musicians. With his trademark delta-blues style, every Tom Walbank show results in dancing, smiles, & overall cheer. Born in 1969 Englishman Tom Walbank discovered blues at fifteen, his raw blues is something to hear on Tucson stages. more info: 800.722.8848