Wednesday, February 02, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Wind Symphony: The CCM Group performs Vive La France program featuring works by Saint Saens, Poulenc and Messaien, 8 p.m. today, Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati. Free. 556-4183.
• Ensemble Theatre: The Winning Streak, a play by Lee Blessingabout a retired baseball player whose adult illegitimate son returns, continues through Feb. 16. Performances at 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $20-$25. 421-3555.
• For Kids: To commemorate Groundhog Day, there is a program on natural weather predicting: “Rainy? Snowy? Sunny? Day . . . Who Knows About This Anyway” for ages 5-13, 3:30-5 p.m. today at LaBoiteaux Woods, College Hill. $3. 542-2909.
• At Mad Frog: Zionites plays every Wednesday night at the Corryville club, Vine and McMillan streets. No cover. 784-9119.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Former Star Trek: The Next Generation star Jonathan Frakes appears at a Roswell UFO convention at which Max (Jason Behr) sees the couple who witnessed his alien healing powers (9 p.m., Channel 64).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter says PBS' Culture Shock concludes with look at efforts to censor movies and shut down jazz clubs (9-11 p.m., Channels 48, 54, 16), following American Masters' excellent Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (8 p.m.).
• Black History month: Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, a former slave who rescued 300 slaves, is profiled on Intimate Portrait (7 p.m., Lifetime), while ABC repeats a segment from The Century about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s involvement with the Memphis sanitation workers' strike on Searching for the Promised Land (10 p.m., Channels 9, 2).
• Web site of the day: The most famous dieter of recent weeks has to be Monica Lewinsky, whose 31-pound loss is being credited for cash to the Jenny Craig diet centers. She may be in all the news, but she doesn't seem to be in evidence at the Jenny Craig Web site (www.jennycraig.com/), reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. Still, her handbags, as seen in the Barbara Walters interview, remain for sale at therealmonicainc.com/.
BRAND SPANKIN' NEW
• Creating heirlooms: A favorite snapshot can become a treasured heirloom when it's turned into a professional charcoal portrait available from the Frontgate Gift Collection. Individual subjects, presented in a 16-by-20-inch image, are $325. Two-subject portraits or those featuring architectural subjects are 20 by 24 inches and $450. (800) 626-6488; www.frontgate.com.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 hours out: Footlighters presents Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opening at 8 p.m. Thursday and continuing through Feb. 19 at Stained Glass Theatre, 802 York St., Newport. $12. 891-1965.
• 48 hours out: Opening reception for exhibit Abstractions - Four Viewpoints at Miller Gallery, featuring work by Peter Bramhall, Lamar Briggs, Betty Fulmer and Ron Romano , 6-8 p.m. Friday, 2715 Erie Ave., Hyde Park. 871-4420.
• 72 hours 'til Saturday: Bluegrass group, III Tyme Out performs at 8 p.m., Parrish Auditorium, Miami University Hamilton. $13-$15. (513) 785-3264.
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