Friday, October 29, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Dylan and Lesh: Today, Bob Dylan and Phil Lesh take the stage at 7:30 p.m., Millet Hall, Miami University, Oxford. $30. 562-4949.
• Thanksgiving with the Pops: Erich Kunzel conducts the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, 8 p.m. today (through Sunday), Music Hall, Over-the-Rhine. $15-$42. 381-3300.
• Party before the party: See art, taste food and hear music at a preparty, 6 p.m. today, Verdin Bell and Clock Museum, Over-the-Rhine. Then head down the street for Final Friday at the Pendleton Art Center. 241-4010.
• Philharmonia Orchestra: In concert 8 p.m. today, Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. 556-4183.
• Big band dance: With the Seven Sharps, 8 p.m. today, Meadowbrook Banquet Center in Ross. $10 includes snacks, beer, soft drinks. 738-2448.
• Musical magic: Pure Imagination, a musical variety show, 7:30 p.m. today (2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday ) at Aronoff Center for the Arts, downtown, $17; $12 students and seniors. Benefits Parent Project for Muscular Dystrophy Research.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Poor Sally! She's going to be stuck in the stupid pumpkin patch with Linus again, as CBS repeats the 1966 cartoon classic, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (8 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says the Freaks and Geeks come out early for Halloween, with NBC repeating the pilot today (9 p.m., Channels 5, 22) to promote a Halloween episode the next day (8 p.m. Saturday).
• Radio treat: Although he died in 1995, Wolfman Jack will haunt the WGRR-FM (103.5) airwaves, taking requests from 6-10 p.m. today. It's an annual Halloween trick by DJ Ron Schumacher, using old tapes the Wolfman made for the oldies station.
HARRIED WITH CHILDREN
• Travel time: Grab a passport to rich storytelling traditions of America and its neighbors as The Shoestring Players “Discover the Americas.” The program, 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 and 2 p.m. Saturday, is part of the Rosenthal Next Generation Theatre Series at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Eden Park. Ages 5 and up. Cost: $4.50 adults; $3 ages 4-18. 421-3888.
HOT TIX
• Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. today for the Indigo Girls, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9, Indiana University Auditorium, Bloomington ($30, $25), and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13, Dayton Memorial Auditorium ($35.50, $27.50). 562-4949.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 48 hours out: Avon Running presents several walks and runs Sunday at Fountain Square. A 10K run at 9 a.m., 5K walk and fun run at 9:20 a.m. and a Goblin Dash Kids Run, 10:30 a.m. $20, $25; Goblin Dash is free. 345-3057.
• 72 hours 'til Monday: Child advocate SuEllen Fried lectures on “Bullies and Victims,” 7 p.m., Mayerson Academy, Corryville. Free, but please register. 632-0834.
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