Sunday, May 02, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
• Non-stop blues: It's five hours of continuous blues starting at 5 p.m. today at Sonny's All Blues Lounge in North Avondale. Catch Sweet Alice Hoskins, Blues Sensation and Sandra C., among others. $5. 281-0410.
• Walk the walk: Lace up the walking shoes and head to Devou Park in Covington at 9 a.m. today for the third annual “Walk the Walk,” a fund-raiser the for Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders. Choose a one-, three- or five-mile route. 636-5383.
• Last chance: Today's your last chance to see more than 50 of Chaim Soutine's finest landscapes, still-lifes and portraits. An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine closes at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Noon-6 p.m. 721-5204.
Staying in
• Festival buzz: Look for May Festival music director James Conlon today in a segment scheduled for CBS Sunday Morning, 9 a.m. on Channels 12, 7.
• Critic's picks: Stock up on video tape for a couple of sweeps month network movie premieres: John Travolta's Phenomenon (7 p.m., Channels 9, 2), instead of a Disney movie, and The First Wives Club with Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton (9 p.m., Channels 12, 7). TV Critic John Kiesewetter also notes that civil rights activist Rosa Parks appears on Touched By an Angel (8 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
• Mo' music: Stop! In the name of love! Before you turn that dial, tune in all the Motown hits of the 1960s, from the Miracles' “Shop Around” (1960) to the Supremes' “Someday We'll Be Together” (1969), on the Dusty Rhodes show 7 p.m.-midnight on WGRR-FM (103.5).
Hot tix
• Tickets go on sale at noon today for Barbra Streisand's New Year's Eve gig at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. Her manager, Martin Erlichman, is spreading the word that it might be Bab's final live performance. Tickets $500-$2,500. Information is on the following Web sites:
www.ticketmaster.com
www.barbrastreisand.com
www.mgmgrand.com
What's in stores today
• Finger saver: If it hurts when you carry half your wardrobe to the cleaners on wire hangers, now there's Hanger Handler. It holds up to 30 hangers and 50 pounds of clothes, all hooked on a miniature rod under a comfortable wide grip. Out of your hand, it hangs on handles or hooks in the car and on closet rods, coat hooks and door tops. It's $7.99 at Organized Living, Kenwood. (800) 713-1713; www.hangerhandler.com
Planning ahead
• A day away: Get in the tropical mind-set with Tropicoso, a newly formed reggae-calypso band with members from the Cammy-nominated Bailando Desnudo. 10 p.m.at Mad Frog, Mount Auburn. 784-9119.
• 48 hours out: Tuesday, teen-age blues guitarist Jonny Lang and Bernard Allison (son of the late blues great Luther Allison) play the Aronoff Center. 8 p.m. $24-$27.50, 241-7469.
• 72 hours 'til Wednesday: Reggae at Annie's with Toots and the Maytals and Morgan Heritage. Doors open 8 p.m. $15-$17. 321-0220 or charge by phone, 562-4949.
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