Going out

               Creed: There are still a few seats out there for multiplatinum power rockers' Weathered tour and opening acts Jerry Cantrell and 12 Stones. 7:15 p.m. today, Riverbend, $41.25-$52.75. 562-4949.

        World Cinema: Cincinnati World Cinema presents a screening of the award-winning Italian drama The Way We Laughed about two Sicilian brothers who move to the north of their country. Enquirer film critic Margaret McGurk is part of a panel discussion following the film. 7 p.m. today, Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, $8. 281-8750.

        New exhibit: Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery at the College of Mount St. Joseph opens its 2002-03 exhibition season with a retrospective showing Darrell W. Brothers' dramatic figurative works including clothed figures, skeletons and nudes. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, Delhi and Neeb roads, Delhi Township. 244-4314.

        Auditions: Mason Community Players auditions budding stars for the upcoming production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer-winning Talley's Folley. 7-10 p.m. today, St. Susanna School, 500 Reading Road (no monologues, just cold readings from script). 398-7301.

Staying in
               TV picks: Behind the Music celebrates its fifth anniversary with new half-hour theme shows this week, starting with rock's “most shocking moments” (10 p.m., VH1).

        • TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says Everybody Loves Raymond repeats a hilarious one-hour highlights program (9 p.m., Channels 12, 7).

What's in stores today
               Baby makes three: Whew, this is a far cry from the olden days when you went into a store, bought a doll and went home. Now, it's an adoption process. Lee Middleton has selected Dixie's Dollhouse as a site for one of his famous Newborn Nursery Adoption Centers. That's where doll buyers go through an actual adoption procedure before taking the doll home. It's at 4601 Eastgate Blvd. S. No. 424B. Call 947-8485 for info.

Planning Ahead
               24 hours out: The Florence Mall Kids Club presents a whole day of Rainbow Entertainment clowns, crafts and carrying-ons. 11 a.m., 1 and 6 p.m. Tuesday,, Center Court, free (register at customer service center). (859) 371-1231.

        48 hours out: Amber Lucero Criswell of the Cincinnati Art Museum shares ideas on the Manuel Alvarez Bravo photography exhibit. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, CAM, Eden Park, free with museum admission (museum open until 9 p.m. on Wednesdays). 721-2787.

        72 hours 'til Thursday: Triage with Eugene Goss and Billy Larkin do a ton of jazz favorites 8 p.m.-midnight at the Verdin Bell & Clock Museum, Reading and Pendleton roads, Over-the-Rhine, $10. 852-2787.

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