Thursday, October 21, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Rock at Bogart's: Today, Delirious? plays the Corryville night spot. Music at 8 p.m. $17. 562-4949.
• Barrows Conservation Lecture Series: The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden presents Mark Moffett, author and photographer for National Geographic, 7:30 p.m. today, Rockdale Temple, Amberley Village. $5-$8. 559-7767.
• Magazine writing: The Cincinnati Writers' Project welcomes Kitty Morgan, editor of Cincinnati Magazine, to discuss writing for magazines, 7:30 p.m. today at the Carnegie in Covington. 697-9195.
• Pizza and flicks: There's a free party to celebrate Teen Read Week at the Milford-Miami Township Library, 4 p.m. today. 248-0700.
• Author signings: James Patterson signs and discusses Pop Goes the Weasel, 7 p.m. today, Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Norwood. 396-8960.
Children's author R.L. Stine introduces his latest Nightmare House, 3:30-4:30 p.m. today, Books & Co., Kettering. Line numbers will be handed out at 2:30 p.m. (800) 777-4881.
• Local spotlight: The Kindred Sanction Show plays the original blues-folk music of The Carolina Kid, 8 p.m. today on WIAF-FM (88.3).
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Walter Cronkite narrates Tobacco Wars, a two-night documentary revealing what cigarette manufacturers knew about the link between smoking and disease (9-11 p.m. today, and 9-10 p.m. Friday, The Learning Channel).
TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says Rachel and Ross (Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer) head to court for an annulment on Friends (8 p.m., Channels 5, 22).
WHAT'S IN STORES TODAY
• If you're just itching to get your mitts on a copy of The Blair Witch Project video, you need wait only until one minute after midnight (OK, so technically it's Friday), the official release day. Blockbuster video stores will start selling and renting the surprise box-office hit at 12:01 a.m., along with Curse of the Blair Witch, a fake making-of TV show about the fake documentary movie.
• Tiny tomes for teen TV fans: Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar, Angel's David Boreanaz,and Dawson Creek's Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson andJames Van Der Beek have something new in common: each stars in a celebrity Little Book from Andrews McMeel. The tiny books (3-by-4 inches; $4.95 each) are full of color photos and fit nicely into pockets. And is it ever too soon to think “stocking stuffer”?
PLANNING AHEAD
• A day away: Friday, Gordon Lightfoot sings at Music Hall, 8 p.m. $20, $27. 562-4949.
• 48 hours out: Teens can design their own creative shirt during the Design a T-Shirt Contest, 2 p.m. Saturday at Williamsburg Library. Prizes awarded. Please sign up. 724-1070.
• Also 48 hours out: Pick a pumpkin (or carve one), hear stories and see magic at the Cincinnati Zoo's Halloween Happening. Gates open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, $4.75-$10. 281-4700.
• 72 hours 'til Sunday: The Greater Cincinnati Jazz Society brings Dave Stryker and Steve Slagle Quartet to downtown's Contemporary Arts Center. Music starts at 7:30 p.m.. $15 advance, $18 at the door. 729-2100.
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GET TO IT
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