Sunday, June 06, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
• Shakespeare in the park: And you thought you had to go to Central Park. Cincinnati Shakespeare offers the Bard's most comic tragedy (or most tragic comedy) Romeo & Juliet 8 p.m. at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton-Cleves Road. (Ohio 128). $7-$10. 868-8336. Bring a picnic.
• Last chance: Today is the final day of Summerfair '99, juried show of fine arts and crafts at Coney Island. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $5, free for kids 12 and under. 531-0050.
• Such a heel: Like Dorothy said, “I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.” Nope, not with a couple of dozen guys in high heels and sequined ball gowns running down Court Street. It's the Drag Races, an annual fund-raiser where 15 relay teams of four, mostly male but some female, camp it up in drag and race for the coveted Golden Pump. It's part of a street festival, with food, drink and games. Noon-midnight today in the parking lot at Court and Plum Sts. Races begin 4 p.m. on Plum between Court and Race.
• Ribs on the grill: Backyard barbecuers and restaurant chefs draw their basting brushes 9 a.m.-4 p.m., today during a rib cook-off at the “Summerbration” in downtown Blue Ash. Winners announced 6 p.m.
Staying in
• Critic's picks: The best summer viewing continues to be on cable, with Gary Sinise, Tony Shalhoub and Paul Sorvino in That Championship Season, an adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a high school basketball team reunion (8 p.m., Showtime). And TV Critic John Kiesewetter notes new episodes resume for Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex and the City (9 p.m., HBO), Arli$$ (9:30 p.m., HBO) and La Femme Nikita (10 p.m., USA).
What's in stores today
• Graduation Furby: You knew it had to happen: a Furby sporting a mortar board, $29.99. If interested, think about buying a Furby for a good cause: Hasbro Children's Hospital, the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. Through Monday, bid on line with Yahoo Auctions at auctions.yahoo.com for the first Graduation Furby in the series, plus four others.
Enquiring minds
• Bagging it: The vast majority of commuters are still brown-baggers. A survey conducted for Tupperware found 66 percent of workers take a homemade lunch to work. Women are significantly more likely to bring lunch to work than male counterparts (74 percent vs. 60 percent.) When men were asked who makes their homemade lunch, 24 percent responded “my spouse” while only 3 percent of men said they prepared their spouse's lunch.
Planning ahead
• A day away: Monday catch Flotsam and Jetsam, Bloodline 4:20 and Rope Trick at Annie's (Columbia Tusculum). Doors open at 8 p.m. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 321-0220 or charge by phone 562-4949.
• 48 hours out: It's a free concert, with Wulfe Brothers, 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fort Thomas' Tower Park Amphitheater. Free. 781-1700.
• 72 hours 'til Wednesday: A quadruple bill of big hair bands hits Riverbend with Poison, Great White, Ratt and L.A. Guns. 6 p.m. $16-$27.50. 562-4949.
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