The timeless street has been the heartbeat of popular music, and source of countless classics. If you think your HMO blows, and all those pharmaceutical companies are little more than a greedy cabal dedicated to force-feeding society needless pills, you may be right. Still, a glimpse into the medical industry as it existed 100 years back just might temper your view. The new display focuses primarily on the role of patent medicines from 1870 to 1906. Included are advertising and packaging samples dating before and after passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, along with details of the social con-sequences arising from addiction and toxicity.
Admission is free.
For details, call 628-5774. Instructors from the UA School of Music and Dance kick up their heels and let down their hair with the Faculty Follies . Surprises are expected to range from serious performances to comedy and magic, all the brainchild of volunteer supporters from the Music Advisory Board. That gritty, great little journal called Border Beat marches further into the literary landscape with its new Border Beat Reading Series . Tonight's premiere gathering will feature Demetria Martinez, a gifted Tucson writer whose novel Mother Tongue landed the 1994 Western States Book Award for Fiction.