By Jim Knippenberg
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Going out

ZZ Top: The Texas rock favorites headline the "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers Tour" with such fun-loving hell raisers as Ted Nugent, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Double Trouble. 7 p.m. today, Riverbend Music Center, $26.25-$57.75. 562-4949.

Russian art: The Miami University Art Museum opens an intriguing new exhibit, The Brotherhood of Free Culture: Recent Art from St. Petersburg, Russia, with more than 40 paintings from the Baltic city's thriving underground art scene. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. today, U.S. 27, Oxford, free. (513) 529-2232.

Rat Pack: Blue Ash kicks off its popular summer concert series with some of the country's top impersonators of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. shaking the stage. 7-10 p.m. today, Towne Square, Hunt and Cooper Roads, free. 745-8500.

On TV

Top pick: Think of this as Keanu Reeves Reloaded: A&E's Biography profiles the star of The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded, from his childhood in Beirut, Lebanon, to Hollywood success in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Speed. Laurence Fishburne and Gary Busey comment on his career, while Alice Cooper talks about the actor's band, Dogstar (8 p.m., A&E).

• Critic John Kiesewetter also says Shannon Stewart, 18, of Franklin, Ohio, gets twice the exposure when UPN repeats last week's premiere of the America's Next Top Model (8 p.m., Channel 25) competition, followed by the second episode at (9 p.m.).

New on CD

Critic's pick: It's a slow week in the record biz, but releases include classic Led Zeppelin on How the West Was Won (Atlantic, $26.98), three CDs of live recordings from 1972.

• There's also a new, two-DVD Led Zeppelin collection, (Atlantic; $29.98).

• The born-in-Columbus folk-rock-reggae jam band O.A.R. makes its major-label debut with In Between Now & Then (Atlantic; $18.98), which includes a bonus DVD.

• 2 Fast 2 Furious (Def Jam; $18.98), has new tracks by R. Kelly, Fat Joe and other hip-hop and R&B heavyweights.

New on Video/DVD

Critic's pick: Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk says today's top release is Oscar-winner The Pianist, starring Adrien Brody as a Jew eluding capture during World War II.

• Love, Liza, is the directing debut of Cincinnati native Todd Louiso, featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman as a husband tortured by his wife's suicide. The script, by Hoffman's brother Gordy, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Planning ahead

24 hours out: The Brooklyn-based Alex Skolnick Trio brings its cool avant-jazz to BarrelHouse Brewing Company. 9 p.m. Wednesday, 22 E. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine, $10. 421-2337.

48 hours out: Wild, edgy and sassy comedian Vic Henley begins four days at Go Bananas Comedy Club. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, 8410 Marketplace Lane, Montgomery, $2-$5. 984-9288.

72 hours till Friday: More than 300 fine artists and craftspeople invade Coney Island for the 36th Annual Summerfair. 2-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, I-275 and Kellogg Ave., Anderson Township, $7. 531-0050.

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