Thursday, May 03, 2001
Get to it
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Going out
G. Love: You get a sort of musical buffet when this waaaay eclectic musician lets fly everything from blues to rap to acoustic folk with his ever-ready backup Special Sauce. 8 p.m. today, Bogart's, 2621 Vine St., Corryville. $17.50-$20. 562-4949.
John Renbourn: More eclectic music, this one maybe even more so, when the world-famous British guitarist mixes a cauldron full of British and Celtic folk music spiked with jazz, country, classical and pre-Renaissance styles. 8 p.m. today, Grammer's Concert Series, Liberty and Walnut Streets, Over-the-Rhine. $15. 221-3472.
Theater: Dip into a dense as in multilayered, not dumb as a coal bucket version of two of the Bard's famous plays when Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival uncorks Henry IV: The Heart of a Man, an adaptation of Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. 8 p.m. today, 719 Race St., downtown. $13-$18. 381-2273.
Arts fest: Avant-garde filmmaker Matthew Barney's Cremaster 2 sets the tone edgy as all get-out for Intermedia, the multimedia arts festival thrown by Cincinnati Arts Association. 7:30 p.m. today, Showcase Cinemas, Norwood Lateral at Reading Road. $10. 977-4165.
Staying In
TV picks: Monica and Chandler (Courteney Cox Arquette, Matthew Perry) write their wedding vows on Friends (8 p.m., Channels 5, 22),but will anyone be watching? The NBC comedy airs opposite the finale for CBS' top-rated Survivor: The Australian Outback (8-10 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
Critic John Kiesewetter also says Rodger Bingham and the 15 other Survivor contestants read the Top 10 List on David Letterman's Late Show (11:35 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
The Goods (What's in stores today)
Fine dining: Tiffany's celebrates spring not to mention wedding gift season with new items for those who want to go the extra mile. And extra dollar. Tiffany Steel is five new patterns of stainless steel flatware running $135 to $185 a place setting something any newlywed would be proud to own.The Studio Glass Collection is a batch of handblown vases, bowls and candlesticks, clear and colored, running $155 to $700.
Planning Ahead
24 hours out: It's the best of all worlds: After-hours art ogling (not to mention each other-ogling), cash bar and music from Lucky and the Zionites and Kathy Wade at Thank van Gogh It's Friday. 5:30-9 p.m. Friday, Cincinnati Art Museum, $8. 721-2787.
48 hours out: Here's one where you put the kids to work: They milk goats, meet newborn farm animals, ride ponies and do other farmy things at Spring on the Farm. Noon-6 p.m. Saturday, Winton Woods' Parky's Farm, Springfield Township. 521-7275.
72 hours 'til Sunday: Something old, something older, something older still, when Tri-State Antique Market opens its 2001 season. 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Lawrenceburg Fairgrounds, U.S. 50 and Argosy Parkway, Lawrenceburg. 738-7256.
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