Last Minute

        Honky Tonkin' on Main: Tonight, SoCal's foremost swing-abilly combo, Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys, roll their big ol' bus up to Jefferson Hall (1150 Main St., Over-the-Rhine; 723-9008) for an evening of hot rhythms and whiskey-soaked woe. The music starts at 9:30, $10 cover.

        Cammy concerts: Friday, it's music, food and visual art, as the new Cammys at the CAM series begins at the Cincinnati Art Museum in Eden Park. The first-Friday concerts feature winners of the Enquirer's Cincinnati Area Pop Music Awards. Artful folk-rocker Katie Reider and her band open the series from 5:30-9 p.m. Admission is $8, $6 CAM members: 721-0300.

        Goal exceeded: Cincinnati Art Museum closed its fiscal year on Aug. 31 and reports attendance of 301,647. That's a 19 percent increase over last year, CAM marketing director Jackie Reau says, and only the second time the CAM has surpassed the 300,000 figure. The first was in 1971 (310,000).

        The museum also set a summer attendance record of 48,870 visitors, a 13 percent increase over last summer (the highest attended summer in the museum's history).

        Museum officials attribute the increase in attendance to the free summer admission in support of Downtown Cincinnati Inc.'s initiatives to encourage visitors to downtown.

        Not so, says producer Lore Noto, who announced Tuesday that the musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt would end its record-breaking run on Jan. 6. As of Sunday, the world's longest-running musical had played 17,005 performances. (By comparison, Cats, the longest-running show in Broadway history, finished last September with 7,485 performances.)

        The Fantasticks announced its closing once before — in 1986 — but a flurry of business kept it going. By the end of 2000, the show had grossed more than $23 million. The reason this time, Mr. Noto says, is a combination of dwindling grosses and escalating operating costs.

        American Pie 3?: When asked by about a third serving of the teen sex comedy franchise, American Pie 2 starlet Mena Suvari offers a terse reply: “Next!”

        Ms. Suvari, who co-stars in the swashbuckler The Musketeer, opening Friday, indicates that she's been inundated with that question since Pie 2.

        Although that film has enjoyed a steaming-hot box-office reception, she says about another sequel, “I haven't heard anything about it yet, and I really don't know.”

        “Would I do it? Well, I think that I would approach that issue if it came up,” Ms. Suvari says, “but I really believe in, you know, in not exhausting things. If you're going to quote me on this, I'm going to get in so much trouble.”

       • Two Can Play That Game
        • The Musketeer
        • Rock Star

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        This One-Day Drive 'n' Dine takes restaurant critic Polly Campbell to Lexington.

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