Wednesday, August 02, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
Riverbend: Red Hot Chili Peppers with the Stone Temple Pilots and Fishbone take the stage 7 p.m. today at Riverbend. $41 and $31 at Ticketmaster outlets or 562-4949.
Nazareth: The group plays 8 p.m. today at Bogart's, 2621 Vine St., Corryville. $12.50-$14. 562-4949.
In the park: Tracy Walker and Band, 7-9 p.m. today, Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington's Devou Park. Fees vary (part of series). 491-4003.
Book signing: Judith Lansdowne will discuss and sign her book, Lord Nightingale's Debut, 7 p.m. today at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Norwood. Free. 396-8960.
Staying In
TV picks: It will be hard to miss George W. Bush's address to the nation on the final night of the Republican National Convention at 9 p.m. (ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, PBS).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter says On The Inside gives viewers a look at black boxes — jet flight data recorders — at 8 p.m. (Discovery Channel).
Web site of the day: A working numeric calculator is the first thing you see at calculator.com, but the site is really a full directory of online calculators of all sorts, including one for figuring how to save for college tuition, a currency converter and something for ranchers called the Cow Culling Calculator. Try www.calculator.com.
The Goods
Quick fix: Anyone who's had a cold sore knows the quicker the remedy, the better. Mentholatum presents Softlips Secret Healer ($3.99) a lip balm that doesn't look, smell or taste like medicine. It's at drug and discount stores.
Planning Ahead
24 hours out: Sister Hazel performs Friday at Bogart's with the Pat McGee Band and local group Oval Opus. Music starts 8 p.m. $12.50, $14 day of show, at Bogart's box office, Ticketmaster outlets or call 562-4949.
48 hours out: On Saturday, the Union Institute, 440 E. McMillan St., continues its free “Home Grown Films” series with a presentation by local video maker Jane Goetzman on “Producing, Funding and Marketing Documentary Films” The 11 a.m.-1 p.m. session will be preceded at 9 a.m. by screenings of Search for the Hopewell Road, Mountain Shadow and Keeping Community, made by Ms. Goetzman and Dorothy Weil. 861-6400.
72 hours 'til Sunday: Jazz pianist William Menefield performs 2-6 p.m. Sunday at the Cincinnati Art Museum's Big Pig Jazz Gig. The 20-year-old SCPA grad's concert is free, as are admission to the Cincinnati Art Museum, hors d'oeuvres and a tour of the museum's special Big Pig Gig pigs. 721-2787.
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