Greetings!
Wishing you the holiday season's joys and wonders. Enjoy the holidays.
MSN DECEMBER EVENTS
December is the peak of the holiday season, full of twinkling lights, choral music, and mobbed malls. It doesn't matter what your beliefs-December is a month of celebration, and MSN offers you plenty of chances to join friends old and new and make happy holiday memories!
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Monthly Pot Luck
Start this month of joy with our holiday pot luck. We will have a guest speaker, writer Marc Adams, and lots of goodies. Bring a dish to share and join us on Saturday, December 4th at 7P at the Casas Adobes Congregational Church.
(Some of the "Old Timers" may recall Marc from a Pot Luck visit back in 1998 or 1999. For Marc's biography visit:
Marc Adams' Bio )
If you need information or directions, please contact Lee and Merlin at 207-5336 or leave a message for Davis at 325-4754 or by email at wilcoxgay@gmail.com.
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Tuesday Night Movies
We have three movies in December. The first movie of the month is
Ken Burns' PBS special "Lewis and Clark" (1997) on December 7. This is a prelude to our museum tour the following Saturday, December 11 (see below for museum tour info), to be detailed further on.
Joseph and Larry will host this film in their home at 7P. Please call 505-6560 to attend.
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The first theater movie of the month is "The Ice Storm" (1997)
on December 14.
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad...
The adults include Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Among the kids are Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, and Elijah Wood. Nostalgic, depressing, enchanting, and visually stunning, this is a film you will not soon forget.
Joseph and Larry will host this film in their home at 7P. Please call 505-6560 to attend.
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The final movie of the year is on December 28, a Christmas movie originally released in June of 1984. I loved this film so much I paid to see it twice and bought it twice.
Miniature green monsters tear through the small town of Kingston Falls. Mild mannered (and cute) young bank teller Billy Peltzer releases these hideous loonies after gaining a new pet and violating two of three simple rules. The result is hilarious mayhem and destruction in a town straight out of Norman Rockwell. Chris Columbus wrote and Joe Dante directed this, the best Disney movie Disney never made. As deliberately artificial as it is real, this charming piece of Americana is not to be missed.
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Joseph and Larry will host this film in their home at 7P. Please call 505-6560 to attend.
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Tucson Museum of Art Tour:
The Lewis and Clark Exhibition
Join MSN for the limited showing of the Lewis and Clark exhibit at the Tucson Museum of Art on Saturday, December 11.
Because the museum café is not open Saturdays, we will meet for lunch at El Charro at 1:30P for lunch and drive from there to TMA to view the exhibit. (Remember, Ken Burns' "Lewis and Clark shows December 7.)
Joseph and Larry will also host this event. For information and directions, please call 505-6560.
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Tuesday Late Lunches
On Tuesday, December 7, we return to the Brushfire BBQ Company at 2745 N Campbell. We had a lunch there this past summer and were so pleased we happily return.
Our second December lunch, December 21, is also a repeat, Guisseppe's Ristorante at 6060 N Oracle. We also ate there last summer and everyone was pleased, so we return.
To attend either lunch, please contact Davis to attend. Leave a message at 325-4754 or by email at wilcoxgay@gmail.com.
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MSN Christmas Dinner and Gathering
We return to the site of our Halloween party and Thanksgiving Dinner, the clubhouse at Far Horizons East at 7570 E Speedway, for our second annual Christmas Day gathering.
The party runs from 5-9:30PM. MSN will furnish turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes so bring your favorite sides. Don't be alone on Christmas. Join your friends at MSN for chat, games, and a great dinner.
Please contact Alan at 603-5276 to attend.
You may also contact Davis at wilcoxgay@gmail.com or leave a message at 325-4754.
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Other MSN Events
We have four Sunday Dinners Out in December, all old favorites. Please check you calendar or contact Davis at wilcoxgay@gmail.com or leave a message at 325-4754.
In addition to all this, MSN offers Charades, Hand and Foot, Bowling, Pinochle, and a gay reading group. Keep busy this month and every month with your MSN!
