Tuesday, August 10, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Summertime music: Essential Funk gives a free concert 7 p.m. today at Tower Park Amphitheater, Fort Thomas. 781-1700.
• Acoustic lunch: Downtown at Piatt Park. The Janet Pressley Trio plays 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. today. 352-4080.
• Practically free: Bogart's (Corryville) has The Verve Pipe, 8 p.m. today for $1.27. 562-4949.
• Country-western: White Lightning Express performs today at 7:30 p.m. at the Blue Ash Nature Park Amphitheatre. 745-8550.
• Bengals camp: Skills, 11 a.m.-noon, and practice, 3-5 p.m. today, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky. $5 to park, $25 buses.
• Summertime kids: Find out how thousands of Tristate children spent their summers, thanks to mini-grants awarded to youth groups by The Greater Cincinnati Foundation. Demonstration booths will ring Fountain Square at noon today. .
STAYING IN
• Critic's picks: Tonight's must-see is Just Shoot Me (8 p.m., Channel 5). Occasionally, this show really is as good as NBC claims it is. This is one of those times. Maya is dating a puppeteer, played by French Stewart of 3rd Rock From the Sun. He seems terribly normal on the surface ... then vents their relationship on the air, via his puppets.
• Other choices tonight include two Disney Channel offerings: The Little Mermaid (7 p.m.) and The Thirteenth Year (8:25 p.m.).
• Online: The well-known Dr. Dean Ornish discusses proper diets and other health topics 10 p.m. today on AOL Live.
THE GOODS (What's in stores today)
• Video picks: Shakespeare in Love, the Oscar-winning megahit starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes is finally available today on both video and DVD.
• Also out today: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a wild and wooly British farce about a gang of dimwits trying to rip off a crime lord.
BRAND SPANKING NEW
• For kids: Just in time for back to school, Redman Haircare is releasing Aussie Land, a line of hair products especially for kids. Six products ($2.99 each), including conditioners, gels and detanglers, have scents such as Blueberry Muffin, Grape Bubblegum and Candy Apple.
PLANNING AHEAD
• A day away: Wednesday, Jennifer Knapp gives a Lilith Fair sneak preview concert, noon-1 p.m. at Florence Mall Lazarus. An autograph session follows. Then catch Lilith Fair at Riverbend, 3:30 p.m. ($31-$59.50; 562-4949).
• 48 hours out: Cincinnati FunRaisers is having its monthly singles party, 6-9 p.m. Thursday at Tickets in Covington. $10, $7 members. 636-8900.
• 72 hours 'til Friday: Rides, food tastings and live music at Taste of Colerain, 5-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 3-9 p.m. Sunday, Colerain Township Senior and Community Center. 923-3497.
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