Going out

        Pokemon Live: Ash is there. So is Pikachu and a ton of Pokemon favorites gussied up in eye-popping costumes for an all-new musical adventure studded with tons of special effects. Three-day run opens 7 p.m. today with matinee and evening performances through Sunday, Firstar Center, $12.50-$26. 562-4949.

        Car show: No doubt about it, it's a fantasy frenzy for car buffs: The 41st Annual Cavalcade of Customs with hundreds of spiffy cars souped up within an inch of their lives. Plus a visit from NASCAR drivers, a peek at “General Lee” from Dukes of Hazzard and a chance to meet series star John Schneider. 5-10:30 p.m. today, continuing through Sunday, Albert B. Sabin Convention Center, $3-$9.50. (859) 331-6573.

        After-hours art: Latin dance band Tropicoso lets fly with merengue, salsa and mambo at the Cincinnati Art Museum's ever-hoppin' Thank van Gogh It's Friday Party. You can dance up a storm, knock off a few hors d'oeuvres and hit the cash bar. For the price of admission, you get a voucher to attend European Masterpieces. 5:30-9 p.m. today,$8. 721-2787.

        Comedy: BET Comic View All Stars play it for laughs when they pop up at Annie's nightclub. 9 p.m. today, 4343 Kellogg Ave., Columbia-Tusculum. $20. 321-2572.

Staying in

        TV picks: Here is one of the shows ABC let get away during its failed Friday makeover. Luckily, someone picked it up. Tonight, Sabrina learns that her boyfriend's father does not like mortals. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, 8 p.m., Channel 64.

        Happy return: This show is back after a stint in limbo, Ethan Embry plays Derek who operates a Web site that probes weird things. Tonight, Amelinda Smith, Embry's wife in real life, plays someone who may have been dating Derek's late brother, Adam. Freakylinks, 9 p.m., Channel 19.

Web site of the day

        On the road: The Web isn't just a place to look for cheap travel tickets. It's also a great source of travel info through online guides, tourist sites run by locals, city guides and map services. Like MapQuest. No matter how you travel, you'll spend sometime in a car, and if you know where you're going, you get there faster. A date with MapQuest gives block-by-block directions. www.mapquest.com.

Planning Ahead

        24 hours out: Zany Brainy — that would be the educational kids store with attitude — hauls out the craft tools and throws a free Shrinky Dinks craft program. 2 p.m. Saturday, Rookwood Commons, Madison and Edwards Roads, Norwood. 396-6711.

        48 hours out: Nothin' like show tunes to warm a winter's night, 'eh? Hear a whole bunch by the most notable of today's new crop of composers in CCM's “New Voices of Broadway” concert. Faculty members and musical theater students run through works by modern masters Adam Guettel, John Bucchino and more, 4 p.m. Sunday, Robert J. Werner Recital Hall. 556-4183.

        72 hours 'til Monday: How about a little shopping on the cheap? Do it at Krohn Conservatory's end-of-show sale where you can pick up poinsettias or Christmas greenery for pocket change. 10 a.m., Eden Park. 421-4086.

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