Friday, July 09, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
• Christian rock: The Seventh Annual Spirit Song Festival runs 3-10 p.m. today (and Saturday) at TimberWolf Amphitheatre, Paramount's Kings Island. Performers include Jaci Velasquez, Jars of Clay, Michael W. Smith, Point of Grace and Petra. $22.99-$61.99. (800) 288-0808.
• Broadway: The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra performs Broadway hits 8:30 p.m. today (and Saturday), Riverbend Music Center. $15-$33, children 12 and under free on the lawn. 381-3300.
• Crafts festival: More than 100 artisans will be at the juried Berea Craft Festival, opening today at Indian Fort Theater, exits 76 and 77 off Interstate 75 at Berea, Ky., 40 miles south of Lexington. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (through Sunday). Admission: $4.50, $3.50 seniors, children 12 and under free. (800) 598-5263.
• Rock and swing: At Havana Martini Club today. Former Stray Cat Lee Rocker plays the downtown club, 10 p.m. Rich Uncle Skeleton opens the show. Doors open 6 p.m. $10. 651-2800.
• Antique autos: View cars dating to 1914 at the Zanes Trace Antique Car Club Antique Car Show at Eastgate Mall, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.. Same hours Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday. 752-2290.
Best of the Fest
• Queen City Blues Fest '99: Kick-off at noon today on Fountain Square. Music starts 5 p.m. at Sawyer Point's P&G Pavilion. Tonight's lineup includes showman Guitar Shorty and blues belter Alberta Adams. But the not-to-miss set belongs to show-closer Chris Cain, whose deep voice and deep-blues guitar mark him as one of the best young stars on today's scene. Free. 684-4227.
Staying in
• TV picks: Round 'em up! A couple more canceled shows return with new episodes for summer, CBS' Magnificent Seven (9 p.m., Channels 12, 7) and UPN's Civil War-era Legacy set in Lexington, Ky. (8 p.m., Channel 25).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter will be taping the final night of the WKRP in Cincinnati marathon (9 p.m.-1 a.m., Nick at Nite).
Harried with children
• Learn like an Egyptian: Stop in at the Animal Spot in Cinergy Children's Museum to learn about farm and wild animals found in ancient Egypt, and make your own Egyptian animal. Noon-2 p.m. Saturday at Cincinnati Museum Center, Union Terminal. Admission: $5.50; $3.50 children, ages 3-12. 287-7000.
Hot tix
• Tickets on sale: 10 a.m. today for Kottonmouth Kings, Too Rude and Bolt Upright, 8 p.m. Aug. 2 at Bogart's. $7-$8. Bogart's box office and Ticketmaster outlets. 562-4949.
PLANNING AHEAD
• A day away: Broadway Series will have a one-day sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati office, 3458 Reading Road, Avondale. Tickets for Sept. 8 and 9 Ragtime evening performances will be discounted 40 percent. Tickets for the Sept. 9 matinee will be $10 and $25. 241-2345. Ragtime plays Sept. 8-26 at the Aronoff Center.
• 48 hours out: Get live jazz with the Erwin Stuckey Trio at the Cincinnati Art Museum's Summer Concert Series, 2-5 p.m. Sundaythe museum in Eden Park. Free with CAM admission. 721-0300.
• 72 hours 'til Monday: Selected pianists, ages 5-30, will compete in the 1999 World Piano Competition. Performances will be 2 and 7 p.m. daily, through July 16, with additional performances 10 a.m. July 16 and 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. July 17. Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center. $5-$25 (free Monday and Tuesday). 421-5342.
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