Here's something you can't do everyday.

Volunteers will gather at 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5, at Santa Cruz Apartments, 3601 S. 16th Ave. to help build a 2,166-sqaure foot playground. It's not just any kind of playground, though. This one will also have senior- and adult-friendly areas. The estimated time for the ribbon-cutting is 2:30 to 3 p.m. Here's more information from a press release:

Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (CPLC), Humana Inc., KaBOOM! (a national non-profit organization that has built more than 2,000 playgrounds) and volunteers will join forces on Saturday, Nov. 5 to build a one-of-a-kind, multi-generational playground in Tucson at Santa Cruz Apartments, a property owned and managed by Tiempo Inc. (a for-profit subsidiary of CPLC).

The customized playground, funded primarily by Humana (a leading health care company), was created with personal drawings and input from local community members — from children to seniors — and will be built in six hours!

Humana is proud to help create a lasting neighborhood legacy that promotes healthy play and well-being. The unique space will have senior-focused and adult elements, such as fitness stations and walking paths, to promote good posture, balance and flexibility — as well as more traditional, kid-friendly equipment to build a truly multi-generational space. The project will create a family reunion gathering area to inspire family picnics and get-togethers at the park for years to come.

The current outdoor space at Tiempo’s Santa Cruz Apartments does not provide adequate options to physically challenge the families and seniors who live in the complex. The addition of a new playground will reinvigorate the atmosphere of the outdoor space. Humana is excited to partner with KaBOOM! to build a new space for local residents of all ages/abilities; encourage physical activity and overall health and well-being; and provide a diverse community gathering area.

Full disclosure: I'm largely posting this news because it will cause my nearly-ten-year-old son's head explode later.

Jonathan (and anyone else who is interested)....the Mythbusters are coming to Centennial Hall.

The all-new, live stage show “MythBusters Behind the Myths,” starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series "MythBusters,” promises to be an unexpected evening of on-stage experiments, audience participation, rocking video and behind-the-scenes stories. For the first time ever, fans will join Jamie and Adam on stage and assist in their mind-twisting and not always orthodox approach to science.

"MythBusters Behind the Myths" brings you face-to-face with the curious world of Jamie and Adam as the duo matches wits on stage with each other and members of the audience.

Adam and Jamie will perform (I guess that's the best word for it) at Centennial Hall on January 14, 2012. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 11 at 10 am.

• While this picture wasn't able to make it in this week's cover story on Judy Burns, it is a photo that some would say is quintessential Judy. Jessica Pacheco took this during the Tuesday, April 26 governing board meeting when students from UNIDOS took over the meeting in an effort to protect Mexican American Studies.

Our cover story this week is on the passing of long-time TUSD education advocate and governing member Judy Burns, but the family wants to get the word out that a memorial service for Judy is scheduled on Thursday, Nov. 3, 5:30 p.m. at the Tucson High Magnet School auditorium, 400 N. Second Ave.

The Burns family has started the Judy Burns Scholarship Fund. The family suggests remembrances to Judy be sent as donations to the fund. Checks should be made out to TUSD with the fund's account code and name in the memo of the check: 5305001102. Send those checks to the Governing Board Office, Tucson Unified School District, 1010 East Tenth Street, Tucson, Arizona 85719, and marked Judy Burns Scholarship Fund.

While this weekend is going to be a crazy one for most people with all the Halloween stuff going on, make room on your calendar tonight for one of the most unique events happening in Tucson in a long time as Powhaus' Productions debuts Dragvision.

HAY GURRL HAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Hey all you cover girls, glamazons, drag babies, fierce queens, debonair kings, sickening divas, clASSy debutantes, and supermodels of the world, it's time for COMING OUT! - La Cocina's monthly QUEER dance party hosted by your two favorite Mexigayz, RAW-J (Raw-B + Jaime J.)!!!

This month CUM celebrate HOLLAWANG with a DRAG PARTY EXTRAVAGANZA as we toast to the WORLD PREMIERE of Powhaus Productions' new UnReality show, DRAGVISION!

10:30pm is the first showing, and we will loop it the rest of the night.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/DragVision/151509274917428?sk=info

http://powhausproductions.com/

Featuring the fieeeeerce Regine Ray, Adam Snapple, Jade Envy, Anya Foxx, Gianna Godiva & Man Yum!

DRAG PARTY: come in your most sickening drag, sexiest costumes, sparkliest bustier, dapper duds, whatever you want - just EXXXPRESS YOURSELF. It's HOLLAWANG, GIRL! WERRRRRRRK. (And don't be coming in lookin' all busted.)

QUEER JAMZ + ANAL BEATZ + CHEAP DRINKS + SEXY TIMES

PERFORMANCES + DRAGVISION PLAYING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!!!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH / 10PM - 2AM / NEVER A COVER / 21+

DRINK SPECIALS + LATE NIGHT TACO BAR!

LA COCINA / 201 N. COURT AVE. / DOWNTOWN TUCSON

• Photo Ryn Gargulinski
• Roadkill makes for an easy, last-minute costume.

Devils and witches and ghosts — ho-hum. Halloween costumes can be about as creative as the latest reality show. We can only watch spoiled housewives scream at each other so many times before we start to snooze. The same holds true for the bland and overdone Halloween costumes. You know the type: the standard stable of serial killers, zoned-out zombies and female pirates with too much cleavage.

But don’t fret. There is still time to break free from the band of bland with a stunningly creative costume that packs plenty of pizzazz.

Like a virus. Credit for this doozy of a getup goes to a New York City poet who happened upon the idea while perusing “The Big Picture Book of Viruses.” Before you pooh-pooh the costume as disgusting, do check out the gorgeously brilliant hues of the Picornaviridae line of infections. They are incredibly intense as well as loads sexier than any pirate cleavage could be.

The virus costume design is open, depending on the virus you choose, but it will surely include amazing textures and patterns.

Union Public House, the new restaurant going in at St. Philip's Plaza, is throwing its first event on Halloween. There's a costume contest as well, with a $500 prize for the winner. More on all that over here.

I'm not certain that this is the place's grand opening, but it will be a great chance to check out what Grant Krueger and Jason Anderson have done with the former Acacia at St. Philip's location. Having seen the menu and spoken with the team behind this restaurant I can say that it is going to be a welcome addition to the Tucson dining scene. Frankly, it's one of the most exciting new things to hit town, dining-wise, in some time.

There's a bit more on the restaurant here.

Tucson can get one if its first peeks at part of the new Playground nightclub on Congress Street at a Halloween event this weekend.

Playground, a multi-bar nightclub being opened by the owner of HUB Restaurant and Ice Creamery, is opening up its rooftop deck over the weekend and calling it the Treehouse of Horror. Halloween festivities included DJs, dancing and a candy buffet. Wow.

I've toured the space where this nightclub is going in and spoken at length with owner Kade Mislinski, and it just blows me away the more I think about it. Four different theme bars under one roof; elevated snack foods including multiple flavors of popcorn; and Mislinski's creative touches tying it all together. He's also adding a patio that runs along Congress Street.

Anyway, there's more information on the Nightmare on Congress event and the Treehouse of Horror over here.

WPA Live! at Hotel Congress from Andrew Brown on Vimeo.

Aside from this being a super-cool video, I thought it would be a nice preview/opportunity to get amped for the Wildcat Print Association's live printing at Hotel Congress this weekend.

On Saturday, Oct. 29, WPA will be posted up in the back patio at Hotel Congress making sweet shirts for $10 a pop. Club members are managing three printing stations from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Immortalize the night with an exclusive WPA design made especially for the 2011 Nightmare on Congress event.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for trendy-DSLR produced videos, but I think it looks pretty cool. Plus who can say no to hip-kids with facial hair and PBR?

Giant Sand "Recovery Mission (Radio Edit)" by FortLowellRecords

When I was reporting this week's feature story on the Luz de Vida benefit album, I got a chance to talk with Howe Gelb about how he wrote "Recovery Mission," one of the 37 tracks on the benefit album for the victims of Tucson's Jan. 8 shooting rampage.

Howe told me it was "very, very, very difficult" to write about the shooting:

A few days after the shooting, Gelb says he was deep in despair and plunking away at the piano in his old adobe house in downtown Tucson when a song began to form.

"I was trying to deal with how loud it was in my head," he says.

Not long afterward, he took a shot at fleshing out the song while in the studio with Giant Sand. The band got it right off the bat.

"It was one of those times when the music just came," Gelb says.

But it still fell a bit short, until a final burst of inspiration struck: Gelb recorded the voices of kids at his daughter's school singing "step by step" and "recovering, recovering."

He knew he'd found the missing ingredient.

"The sweetness and natural hope in a child's singing is just a relief," Gelb says. "So with the sadness of the event and the lyric, you have this wonderful, medicinal, sonic release. ... 'Step by step.' That's exactly it. That's the only way back from this."

The result is "Recovery Mission," a song that soars to both acknowledge the grief and celebrate the hope found in healing.

"The song was very cathartic, but it wasn't adding to the lament," Gelb says. "It's saying that it's going to be OK, no matter what. ... The thing that still works is that primal, simple utterance of your mother when you were younger and something bad happened to you, when she said: 'It's going to be OK.' It's going to be OK."

Gelb is out of the country, so he can't be at the Rialto Theatre on Saturday night for a big benefit concert for the Tucson Together fund. But a lot of the other artists on the album will be there, including Joey Burns and John Convertino from Calexico, Kiss and the Tells, Salvador Duran, Reno Del Mar, Mariachi Luz de Luna, HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS, Tracy Shedd, La Cerca, Golden Boots, Silverbell, Rich Hopkins and Tom Walbank. You should be there, too. It's gonna be a great show, it costs next to nothing, and it's for a good cause. Details here.

• NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Among the many fun diversions downtown this weekend (including the Luz de Vida benefit concert at the Rialto Theatre and the opening of Who Shot Rock & Roll at the Tucson Museum of Art): The UA College of Science is opening Mars and Beyond, featuring a whole bunch of artifacts and exhibits from the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab's adventures in outer space, including shots from the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Details here.