Friday, July 16, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
• Pops at Riverbend: The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra does The Phantom of the Opera, 8:30 p.m. today (repeats Saturday) at Riverbend Music Center. $15-$33. Friends of the Pops Sixth Annual Boat Ride is Saturday ($49, plus concert ticket). 381-3300.
• Cincinnati Reds: Today, the Reds take on the Colorado Rockies. Join the Ohio Lottery Party on the Plaza at 5 p.m. before the 7:05 p.m. game. Tickets: 421-7337.
• Tricks and illusions: At the Aronoff Center today. It's a magic show presented by the Society of American Magicians Convention. 8 p.m., Procter & Gamble Hall. $14-$20, 562-4949.
• Edensong concert: Today with Bob Danzilo, Clete Francis, High Wired, Fred Steffen and Changeling, 8-10 p.m., Seasongood Pavilion, Eden Park. 321-8375.
• Jazz in the Park: With the Kenny Poole Trio, 7 p.m. today, Burnet Woods, Clifton. 531-1300.
• Summer Concert: The Modulators play Groovin' at the Grove, 7:30-10:30 p.m. today, Springfield Township Community Center. 522-1410.
• Free Friday flicks: Catch Babe: Pig in the City at dark today, Parky's Farm in Winton Woods, Springfield Township. 641-4400.
Staying in
• Critic's picks: See how it all began for 12-year-old Kevin Arnold, as the 1988 Wonder Years pilot kicks off Nick at Nite's Friday Wonder Years marathon (9 p.m.-midnight, Nickelodeon).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter warns you that today's Dateline NBC (9 p.m., Channels 5, 22) story about Young and Modern magazine ruining a teen-age model's career is based on photos published four years ago. The story is so old her suit against YM was settled last year.
Harried with children
• Bring on Max: Madcap Productions Puppet Theatre, that purveyor of giant puppets, strikes again with the Cincinnati premiere of The Adventures of Max, Chapter IV: The Magic Time Closet, 1 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Cincinnati Art Museum. $7, $5 children. Museum admission free with ticket purchase. 721-2787.
Planning ahead
• A day away: The International Ventriloquist ConVENTion brings its Saturday Night All-Star Show to Northern Kentucky University's Greaves Concert Hall 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets go on sale 5 p.m. Saturday at Greaves Hall. $7-$10. 341-0461.
• 48 hours out: Collective Soul and Oleander play 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Palace Theatre in Louisville. $22.50. 562-4949.
• One week away: The Coors Light Festival at Cinergy Field kicks off 8 p.m. next Friday. Also 8 p.m. July 24 and 5:30 p.m. July 25, Music by R. Kelly, Faith Evans, Quiet as Kept, Gerald LeVert, Grover Washington Jr. and more. $25-$50 (plus parking). 562-4949.
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