Saturday, May 08, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
• Can it: Jack Rouse Associates won the “jurors' favorite” award in last week's CANstruction competition, a benefit for FreeStore/FoodBank. Rouse's “Breakfast in Bed” bested works by seven other architectural and engineering firms. Entries (structures made of canned goods) will be at the Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts through May 16.
• Words and pictures: Open-caption screenings of October Sky for deaf and hearing-impaired audiences will be shown 4:20 and 7:05 p.m. today at Showcase Cinemas Springdale. Repeats Sunday. 671-6884.
›Last chance: Today's the finale of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden's plant sale — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. in the zoo's Dury Avenue parking lot. Experts available for advice.
• Healthy fun: Artist booths, music and a healthy dose of information will be part of Lifefest: A Celebration of Life and HIV Awareness, noon-3 p.m. today at Burnett Woods gazebo off Clifton Avenue.
Staying in
• Critic's picks: Talk about bad vibes: MTV airs the 25 worst music videos today, stinkers like Debbie Gibson's “Electric Youth” and Don Johnson's “Heartbeat,” along with comments by Jon Stewart, Denis Leary and Janeane Garofalo on Millennium Countdown: 25 Lame today (1-3 p.m. and 9-11 p.m., MTV). TV Critic John Kiesewetter also recommends Avalanche: The White Death, a National Geographic special (8 p.m., Channels 5, 22).
• Half-price bargains: Designer and brand-name sunglasses, accessories and beauty products (think Calvin Klein, Joe Boxer, Liz Claiborne, Nine West) will be sold for half price when QVC, the Entertainment Industry Foundation and the Lily Tartikoff Foundation reunite for the second annual Cure By the Shore, a fund-raiser to be broadcast live on QVC from the Cannes Film Festival noon-3 p.m. next Saturday. . Proceeds to the National Women's Cancer Research Alliance. Shop by phone or on-line at www.iqvc.com
Brand spanking new
• Check the shelves: This week, Pepsi stocked stores with the first of 24 limited-edition cans depicting Star Wars Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace. New designs will pop up every two weeks on cans of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi ONE and Mountain Dew.
Hot tix
• Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. today for the All That Music & More Festival at Riverbend Aug. 14 with 98` , Monica, Tatyana Ali, 3rd Storee, No Authority and B*Witched. $17.50-$37.50. 562-4949. Sales also open for Harry Connick Jr.'s June 18 show at the Aronoff Center. $25-$45. 241-7469, 562-4949.
Planning ahead
• A day away: Go antiquing Sunday. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Business Club of Montgomery, 791-9956, as well as 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in Covington's MainStrasse Village, 491-0458. Free admission for both.
• 48 hours out: It's Halloween Monday when Gwar, a hard-rock band known for bizarre costumes, plays Bogart's, 8 p.m. With Meshuggah and Godhead. $12.50-$14. 562-4949.
• 72 hours 'til Tuesday: Take a hike! Grandparents and grandchildren can search for wildlife during the Big and Little Hike, 10 a.m., Sharon Woods, Sharonville. Meet at Gorge Trail parking lot. 521-7275.
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