Tuesday, November 09, 1999
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Music for lunch: Wyoming Fine Arts Trio performs a lunchtime concert, 12:10 p.m. today, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 25 E. Walnut St., Oxford. Free. 523-6969.
• Battle of the bands: At the Mad Frog in Corryville, five bands McCormick Reaper, Crimson Harbour, Swim, Trainwreck, Absent Minded and Indica Blue perform begining 8:30 p.m.today, Corryville. 929-4444.
• Tragic tale: Titanic — A New Musical opens 8 p.m. today at the Aronoff Center, downtown. Runs through Nov. 21. $35-$55. 241-7469.
• Titanic dinners: Six of downtown's Backstage restaurants are offering special Titanic dinners (either lifted from the ship's menu or inspired by same) during the run of Titanic. They are La Normandie, Nicholson's, Palomino, Pizzeria Uno, Plaza 600 and Rock Bottom Brewery. Call your favorite for reservations.
• Musical revue: Blackbirds of Broadway, a musical revue, opens 8 p.m today at the Victoria Theatre in Dayton. Runs through Nov. 21. $25-$49. (937) 228-3630.
• British pop: Robyn Hitchcock and Bandperform at Top Cats in Corryville. Doors open 8 p.m. $10-$12. 562-4949.
• Poetry: Presentation by Dana Wildsmith, 7 p.m. today, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, 101 S. Monument Ave., Hamilton. 863-8873.
• Burr lecture: What's this? Somebody sticking up for Aaron Burr? Sort of. Roger G. Kennedy, author of Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character,delivers a free lecture titled “Doing Justice to Aaron Burr” 5 p.m.today in Room 4400 of the Aronoff Building (College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning) at UC.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Cincinnati native John Diehl (Miami Vice) plays a renegade security officer who hijacks a nuclear submarine on JAG (8 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says Jack Challis of Erlanger competes in the second round of the Jeopardy! teen challenge taped last month at Madison Square Garden (7:30 p.m., Channel 9).
WHAT'S IN STORES TODAY
• Video picks: The long-awaited video of the Oscar-winning Life Is Beautiful finally arrives, after a delay to create a version dubbed in English. Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk also notes today's release of one of Julia Roberts' romantic comedies of 1999: Notting Hill.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 Hours Out: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band plays 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. On Nov. 17 he'll be at the Schottenstein Center at Ohio State University in Columbus. $37.50-$67.50. (317) 239-5151.
• 48 Hours Out: College of Mount Saint Joseph Music Department's Scrooge opens 8 p.m. Thursday. Runs through Sunday at the College Theatre. $2-$6 244-4863.
• 72 Hours 'til Friday: The annual Toys for Adults Show begins 4-10 p.m. Friday at Albert B. Sabin Convention Center, downtown. Runs through Sunday. $7; free for ages under 12. 621-2142.
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