Monday, June 21, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Rock it: With the BoDeans. They play Electra (formerly Sycamore Gardens) in Over-the-Rhine tonight. Doors open 7 p.m. $16. 621-1100.
• Amateur night: Musicians and vocalists can compete tonightfor cash prizes at the Greenwich in Walnut Hills. Bring your instrument and music. Call after 5 p.m. to register. 221-1151.
• Price Hill then and now: The topic of a lecture by Walter Langsam, architectural historian, 7:30 p.m. tonight, Library Hall, Holy Family School in Price Hill. $8, $5. 721-4506.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Ray (Ray Romano) can't get away from his mother when his wife and kids go away for the weekend on an Everybody Loves Raymond rerun (9 p.m., Channels 12, 7). And TV Critic John Kiesewetter says Dilbert tries to tackle the Y2K computer problem on UPN (8 p.m., Channel 25).
THE GOODS
(What's in stores today)
• Veggie songs: Fans of the VeggieTales video series will be happy to hear that Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber have a new music video. Very Silly Songs has 12 songs from the series that combine fun andbiblical values. Also new from Big Idea Productions is a lesson on obedience, Josh and the Big Wall! The 30-minute videos are $12.99 each at Christian bookstores, Target, Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Walgreen's.
BRAND SPANKING NEW
• Bonbonerie downtown: Now you can have an espresso and a pastry when you visit the Main Library downtown. The Bonbonerie Cafe (well-known for its treats in O'Bryonville) has opened a store on the library's mezzanine near the Vine Street entrance. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday.
• For dogs: To improve a dog's life, there's Feng Shui For Dogs: By Dogs, For Dogs (Sterling/Godsfield; $7.95) by Gerry Maguire Thompson. It explains the five canine principles of life (stick, bowl, ball, bone and biscuit) and provides dog “directionology” — where to put the food and water and which places have particularly positive energy.
PLANNING AHEAD
• A day away: Rock with Elaine and the Biscaynes, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Tower Park amphitheater in Fort Thomas. 781-1700.
• 48 hours out: Discuss how the Civil War affected the people of Northern Kentucky at the Civil War Roundtable, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Kenton County Public Library, Covington. 491-7610.
• 72 hours 'til Thursday: WEBN presents Mojo Nixon and Big In Iowa, 8 p.m., Bogart's, Corryville. $10. 562-4949.
• Next week: Pulitzer-prize winning author Tony Horwitz blitzes the Tristate for the paperback edition of his hilarious best seller Confederates in the Attic (Vintage; $14). He signs 1 p.m. Sundayat Joesph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington (606-273-2911) then treks north to sign 7 p.m. Wednesday at Joseph-Beth in Norwood (396-8960) and 7 p.m. Thursday at Books & Co. in Kettering (800-777-4881).
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