Wednesday, August 18, 1999
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A guide to help make your day
Going out
• Reggae fest: On a new outdoor stage at Annie's on Kellogg Avenue, East End, will be the Teva Spirit of Unity Tour featuring Maxi Priest, Steel Pulse, Monifa, Ras Shiloh and others. Music starts 5:30 p.m. today. $25. 321-2572.
• Red's baseball: Game three against Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. today at Cinergy Field. 421-7337.
• Party in the park: Larosa's sponsors the after-work fest 5:30-9 p.m. today at Sawyer Point. Music by Ray's Music Exchange. 579-3191.
• Lilith Fair: Another round of women in music at Deer Creek Music Center in Indianapolis beginning 3:30 p.m. today. Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, Liz Phair, Deborah Cox. $29.50-$45.50. 562-4949.
• UC theater: Only two more performances of CCM's Pippin, 8 p.m today and Thursday, Patricia Corbett Theatre, University of Cincinnati. $20. 556-4183.
• Big band: French Park in Amberley Village is the setting for this free 7:30 p.m. concert. Section and Ridge roads. 352-4080.
• Bengals camp: Today's schedule: practice, 9:30-11 a.m. and 3-4:30 p.m. Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky. $5 to park. $25 buses.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Remember the Alamo? Sure you do! John Wayne directed himself as Davy Crockett in The Alamo, a 1960 film with Richard Widmark, Richard Boone and Frankie Avalon (8 p.m., American Movie Classics).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says that the sound of music fills the air with Jessye Norman and the Seattle Symphony (8 p.m., Channel 54; 9 p.m., Channel 48) and Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (10 p.m., Channel 54; or 10:30 p.m. Thursday on Channel 48)
What's in stores today
• On disc: Our Indiana neighbor John Mellencamp serves up tasty leftovers with Rough Harvest (Mercury; $17.99 CD; $10.99 cassette), a set of unusual covers (Bob Dylan's “Farewell Angelina”), rerecorded classics (“Rain On the Scarecrow”) and live tracks (“Wild Night”) from 1997. Enquirer music critic Larry Nager says to listen for the hot fiddling of former Cincinnatian Miriam Sturm.
• Hip-hop/R&B singer Mary J. Blige's Mary (MCA; $17.99 CD, $10.99 cassette) is notable for its guest list, which includes Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill and K-Ci and even venerable Brits Eric Clapton and Sir Elton John.
The third edition of the Surfrider Foundation's Music For Our Mother Ocean (Surfdog/Hollywood; $16.99 CD, $10.99 cassette) features high-profile beach bums Jimmy Buffett, Beck and two Brians — founding Beach Boy Wilson and swingabilly Setzer — pairing up for “Little Deuce Coupe.”
Planning ahead
• A day away: Summer Dance Series at Ault Park, 5-9 p.m. Thursday with music by the Blue Birds. Free. Observatory Avenue, Mount Lookout. 956-9876.
• 48 hours out: Folksingers Peter, Paul and Mary play the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, 8:30 p.m. Friday. $17.50-$32. (937) 297-3720.
• 72 hours 'til Saturday: Black Family Reunion celebration at Sawyer Point kicks off noon-9 p.m. Saturday. Continues Sunday. 679-6000.
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