Thursday, July 08, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
• Cincinnati Opera: The Opera's Summer Festival continues with The Turn of the Screw, 8 p.m. today (also 8 p.m. Saturday) at Music Hall, Over-the-Rhine. $12-$80. 721-8222.
• Outlaw country: Waylon Jennings plays today-Saturday at Grand Victoria Casino and Resort's Grand Theatre, Rising Sun. All shows 7:30 p.m. $29-$35. (800) 472-6311.
• Spirit Song: The Seventh Annual Spirit Song Festival at Paramount's Kings Island starts today, 7-10 p.m. at TimberWolf Amphitheatre. Music by Jaci Valesquez, Jars of Clay, Michael W. Smith, Point of Grace and more. It continues 3-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, $34.99-$61.99 ($22.99-$39.99 for season pass holders.) Includes admission to the park. 562-4949.
• Jazz on the Green: Kathy Wade and Ed Moss perform at the park at 400 Wyoming Ave., 6-8 p.m. today. 821-9200.
• Bluegrass festival: The Northern Kentucky Bluegrass Festival opens 5 p.m. today at the Kenton County Fairgrounds in Independence. Music continues 2-11:30 p.m. Friday and 1-11:30 p.m. Saturday. (606) 689-7431.
Staying in
• TV picks: The envelope, please! Tristate cable TV homes can see samples of the nation's best public access programs when the Hometown Video Festival awards are presented during a 7 p.m. live telecast from the Omni Netherland downtown (Time Warner community access Channel 24 and Northern Kentucky's InterMedia access Channel 21).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter says ABC's Vanished summer series looks at the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping (10 p.m., Channels 9, 2).
• Web site of the day: Taken as a whole, the Merck Manual of Geriatrics is way more than any of us ought to know about our own aging bodies. But for specific and reliable medical information, it is not to be overlooked. Check out www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics/
What's in stores today
• Address this: From the why didn't we think of this first department comes the “Oh No! The People I Know” Tele-File, an address box that helps you keep track of your family's, friends' and colleagues' street and e-mail addresses and phone numbers. The special feature is you can draw their faces on the enclosed note cards. Be nice. It's $16.95 from Chronicle Books and available at book stores and and gift shops.
Planning ahead
• A day away: The Queen City Blues Fest brings a variety of local and regional blues acts to Sawyer Point 5-11 p.m. Friday (and 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday).. There's a kickoff noon Friday on Fountain Square. 684-4227.
• 48 hours out: Saturday, it's the Bossa Nova Beatniks and Kyf Brewer with guests Roger Yeardley and the Balance All Stars. Music starts 9 p.m. at Top Cat's in Corryville. $8-$10. 779-9462.
• 72 hours 'til Sunday: MainStrasse Village in Covington holds its Second Sunday Antiques Show, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., along Sixth Street. 357-6246.
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