Sunday, August 26, 2001
Get to it
A guide to help make your day
Going out
Blue Ash fest: Taste of Blue Ash wraps up — take a doggie bag — with food from more than 20 restaurants, a kids' entertainment area (like they don't eat or something?) and vintage tunes from B.J. Thomas and Petula Clark(7 p.m.). Taste is noon-9 p.m. today, Hunt and Cooper Roads. 745-8686.
Marilyn Harris: The chef and cookbook author discusses and signs her new Marilyn Harris Cooking School Cookbook even as she prepares and shares a mighty big batch of corn salad. 2 p.m. today, Barnes & Noble Tri-County, 895 E. Kemper Road, Springdale. 671-3822.
Wild West Days: Heritage Village Museum jumps back in time a tad with a village full of costumed cowboys and Indians doing trick shooting demonstrations, horseback high jinks and more. Noon-5 p.m. today, Sharon Woods, Sharonville, $3-$5. 563-9484.
Open air concert: It's folk, rock and maybe a little bit more when Chris Collier, Greg Mahan's Indestructible Band and Venus Mission let fly a ton of tunes. 5-8 p.m. today, Burnet Woods band shell, Clifton, free. 861-5946.
Staying In
TV picks: About face! John Cleese hosts a two-day series on how The Human Face shapes our lives. Topics range from “Beauty” and “Fame” (9-11 p.m., Learning Channel) to “In Your Face” and “When You're Smiling” (9-11 p.m. Monday).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says director Sir Richard Eyre looks at American and British theater in the 20th century in Changing Stages, a three-week PBS series(9-11 p.m., Channels 48, 54, 16).
• Madonna concludes her Drowned World Tour with a live telecast from Detroit (9-11 p.m., HBO).
The Goods (What's in stores today)
Pet indulgences: Animal lovers at Farnam Pet Products, Phoenix, have a new Web site full of info and a million ways to spend money. Learn about animal adoptions, behavior problems and diets. Download coupons and order vitamins, nutritional supplements, feeding equipment and training aids. And, because your creature is so cute, enter him/her in one of several contests. www.farnampet.com. or (800) 234-2269 to get stuff on paper.
Planning Ahead
24 hours out: Indiana's favorite son John Mellencamprocks the river banks with a little help from The Wallflowers. 8 p.m. Monday, Riverbend, $25-$65. 562-4949.
48 hours out: Teens can read their original poems or drag along a book by a favorite poet for Teen Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Tuesday,Main Public Library, 800 Vine St., downtown. 369-6918.
72 hours 'til Wednesday: The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra's annual freebie Concert in the Parks series opens at 8 p.m. on the playing fields at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights. Sit and sway to a bit of music from from Gladiator, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Gone with the Wind. 381-3300.
— Jim Knippenberg
Contact Jim Knippenberg by phone: 768-8513; fax: 768-8330; e-mail: knipenquirer@yahoo.com.
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