Friday, May 07, 1999
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A guide to help make your day
Going out
• Sign language: Talking hands interpret today's 7:30 p.m. performance of The Miracle Worker by the Children's Theatre at Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theatre. The play about Helen Keller's struggles with blindness, deafness and speech is geared to families and children 12 and up. $10. 241-7469.
• Last chance: The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's season finale at Music Hall is 8 p.m. today (and Saturday). Featured will be 16-year-old pianist Helen Huang. Tickets: $11.50-$45. 381-3300.
• Heartfelt gift: “Little Sweathearts” jewelry designer Charles Krypell will be at James Free Jewelers in Montgomery 10 a.m.-7 p.m. today. The hearts (cheaper than a transplant and appropriate for Mother's Day gift), start at $560. 793-0133.
• First "Walk': Bask in bohemia at Mount Adams' galleries, shops and restaurants 7-10 p.m. today. It's the season's initial “Street Walk Mount Adams,” to repeat the first Friday of each month. 381-8414.
Staying in
• Critic's picks: She doesn't want to get married to the mob, so Sydney (Melina Kanakaredes) ignores gifts from a cute guy (David Lee Smith) with underworld crime connections on Providence (8 p.m., Channels 5, 22). And TV critic John Kiesewetter says it's hard to imagine that 2001 isn't that far away, as WCET-TV airs Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (9 p.m., Channel 48).
What's in stores today
• Wanna have fun: Guys aren't the only ones who get to party the night before the nuptials. The Bachelor-Et-A-Kit will help rev up the bride-to-be's last hurrah. Kits include a big blinking engagement ring and T-shirt for everyone and anyone to sign (Sorry: stripper not included.) $35-$45 at www.etakit.com
Harried with children
• Always greener: Skip cutting your own grass and march the kids downtown to the Contemporary Arts Center for the American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life exhibition. Ask for a free copy of The Grass is Always Greener, a kids' activity book. Lawn grows through June 6. $2-$3.50, free Monday.
Hot tix
• Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. todayfor the J. Geils Band, July 13 at Riverbend. $17.50-$27.50. 562-4949.
Planning ahead
• A day away: P.U. It's the Stinky Cheese Man! Kids can join him for stories, games and snacks, 11 a.m. Saturday, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Norwood. 396-8965.
• 48 hours out: The Taft Museum will offer chamber music in celebration of Mother's Day Sunday, with Mary Henderson, mezzo-soprano, and Rodney Stuckey, guitarist, 2:30 p.m. 241-0343.
• 72 hours 'til Monday: Child psychologist Sylvia Rimm signs her book See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on How 1000 Girls Became Successful Women, 7-8 p.m., Books & Co., Kettering, Ohio. (800) 777-4881.
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