Thursday, August 19, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
• T.J. Maxx opening: Special hours for today's grand opening of the new downtown store on Fourth Street are 8 a.m.-10 p.m. 621-0065.
• Banana Joe's: It's opening night for the Key West/Caribbean-themed club. Three floors of music, billiards, bowling, more. 8 p.m.-2:30 a.m. 1120 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 665-9200.
›Really big sale: Mainstrasse Village in Covington is the starting point for the annual 450-mile “World's Largest Outdoor Sale,” which stretches south along the U.S. 127 corridor to Gasden, Ala. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. today (continues through Sunday). 491-0458.
• Reds baseball: Last game of the Pittsburgh series, 7:05 p.m today at Cinergy Field. Tickets: 421-7337.
• Dance series: Local R&B rockers the Blue Birds provide music for this free event 5-9 p.m. today at Ault Park in Mount Lookout. 956-9876.
• Dokken at Annie's: Doors open 8 p.m. today for the heavy-metal double billing with Great White, Kellogg Avenue, East End. $15. 321-2572.
• Jazz on the Green: Fiesta del Soul plays the Village Green Park on Wyoming Avenue, 6-8 p.m today. 821-9200.
• Theater in French Park: Free performance of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged by Students for Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. today at the park, Section and Ridge roads, Amberley Village. 352-4080.
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Staying in
• TV picks: UPN devotes the evening to two Teen Files specials before kids head back to school: The Truth About Drinking (8 p.m., Channel 25) and Smoking — Truth or Dare? (9 p.m., Channel 25).
And TV Critic John Kiesewetter says American Movie Classics debuts a new four half-hour series, The Lot, about a fictitious movie studio in 1937 (8-9 p.m. today and Friday).
• Web site of the day: The federal Administration on Aging site at www.aoa.dhhs.gov/ is a guide to the rights of seniors. It also points to the network of public resources for the elderly and their caregivers.
What's in stores today
• Pack this: Here's a helpful guide to tuck in your college-bound daughter's suitcase. What Every College Age Woman Should Know About Relationships (Abbey House Press; $10.95) by Dr. Steve D. Bertholf. He looks at how other students found romance or resolved problems with possessive boyfriends, obsessive relationships, lost romance, controlling parents, messy roommates and more.
Planning ahead
• A day away: Two new exhibits will open at the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford Friday, Henry Chodkowski's Mavros Labyrinthos Series, continuing through Nov. 7, and A Sense of Risk: Art of the 90s, Selections from the Robert J. Schiffler Foundation, through Oct. 17. 10 a.m-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. (513) 529-2232.
• 48 hours out: Black Family Reunion fun noon-9 p.m. Saturday at Sawyer Point, downtown. Continues Sunday. 679-6000.
• 72 Hours 'til Sunday: Antique-hunting at the Historic Old Milford Antiques Show and Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Main Street in Milford. 831-5825.
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