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UA homecoming this weekend is
all about Wilbur the Wildcat - the
beloved and furry mascot turns
50 on Saturday.

The UA used real animals as
mascots off and on between the
early 1900s and the late 1950s
(with at least one tragic mishap),
until two UA students (Richard
Heller and John Paquette)
pitched the idea of using a
costume-wearing human.

Wilbur made his first appearance
at the UA vs. Texas Tech football
game on Nov. 7, 1959, and was
an immediate hit, according to a
UA Web site.

Wilbur's look has evolved over the
years. It was during one of those
costume makeovers that Wilma
the Wildcat was created.

She made her first public
appearance on March 1, 1986,
during a "blind date" with Wilbur.
The pair later "married" before an
Arizona-Arizona State football
game.

For a chance to win a a set of
three audio books, tell us the
date of their wedding.

Click here to submit your
answer.

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Dan "Contradiction" Shapiro is a freelance scrivener and subscriber to feuilletonistic publishings. His musical experience is limited to singing in his high school choir and having the largest collection of instrumental post-rock music in the world. Go figure.

Free show: Shannon and the Clams at Red Room (interview with the Oakland band)

11/03/2009 01:30 PM
Dan Shapiro

Sticking to what they know, Shannon and the Clams from Oakland, Calif., is a three-piece who have been playing together in the Bay Area for just a couple years, but they could easily fool first-gen Shangri-Las’ fans and second-gen Runaways’ fans alike with their re-revival of garage-rock music.

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So good it's scary: El Ten Eleven, Le Loup and Nurses at Plush this Halloween

10/27/2009 11:05 AM
Dan Shapiro

Instead of dressing up and handing out candy this Halloween, go down to Plush and watch a band that is doing their part to keep Portland weird.

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Lagoon homecoming show at Plush, recap of last two years (and more) with David Ziegler-Voll

10/24/2009 01:40 PM
Dan Shapiro

Living on different floors of a single building in New England, ex-Tucson band Lagoon has been one big happy family in their new home in the city of Boston since 2008.

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Understanding WHY?, and an interview with AU

10/21/2009 12:03 PM
Dan Shapiro

The prosaic subjects WHY? deals with on its newest album, Eskimo Snow (Anticon, 2009), run like melting streams through the album, slowly revealing a piece-meal portrait of the ever evolving avant-emo hip-hop artist Yoni Wolf.

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Junior Boys, Circlesquare at Plush; interview with Jeremy Greenspan

10/16/2009 09:49 PM
Dan Shapiro

The cross-cultural pop duo Junior Boys, consisting of Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus from Hamilton, Canada and Berlin, Germany, respectively, creates disparate pop music that sounds like an updated version of ’80s synth-pop.

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