Friday, January 28, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Redsfest: Annual fan festival begins 4-10 p.m. today at Albert B. Sabin Convention Center, downtown. Many members of 1990 World Series team will be there, and more than 20 current players, including Barry Larkin, Sean Casey and Pokey Reese. $5-$7. 421-4510. Redsfest schedule
• Contemporary classical: eighth blackbird kicks off the Mayor's 801 Plum concerts season with a happy hour beginning 5:30 p.m. today, followed by a 7 p.m. performance in Council Chambers at City Hall, 801 Plum St., downtown. $10-$15. 381-6868.
• Delbert McClinton: The blues-soaked country artist takes the stage 8 p.m. at Chameleon's, 400 Buttermilk Pike, Fort Mitchell. Wild Blue Yonder opens at 7 p.m. $10-$12. 341-5150.
• Pendleton Arts Center: Final Friday open house, 6-10 p.m. today. Take the elevator to the top and make your way down floor after floor of artists' spaces — painters, photographers, sculptors and more. 1310 Pendleton St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-4010, Ext. 707.
• German beer dinner: 7 p.m. today at Mecklenburg Gardens Bavarian Banquet Haus, University and Highland avenues, Corryville. Classic German cuisine and German beers. $15-$20.221-5353.
• Deepwater Junction: The local favorite plays at BarrelHouse Brewing Company tonight, 22 E. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine. With Ali Baba's Tahini. 421-2337.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Not every grade school student has the same access to the most modern computers and training, according to the troubling finding of PBS' Digital Divide: Technology and Our Future (10 p.m., Channel 54).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter likes Bill Cosby asking children about the Super Bowl on Kids Say The Darndest Things (8 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
BRAND SPANKIN' NEW
• Mitten tree: The wrought iron drying tree makes an inviting winter still life. The Shaker design holds eight pairs of boots or mittens (or a couple of hats). $49.95. Plow & Hearth's American Country Home catalog: (800) 247-6799; www.americancountryhome.com.
HARRIED WITH CHILDREN
• Juggle this: Join Steve Roenker of My Nose Turns Red Theatre Company for a Juggling Workshop at the Price Hill Branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County. 1 p.m. Saturday at 3215 Warsaw Ave. Ages 8 and up. 369-4490.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 hours out: Twentieth Century Cincinnati style and design retrospective with more than 60 dealers offering authentic vintage furnishings, apparel and decorative objects from 1900-1975, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdayat Cincinnati Museum Center. Continues Sunday. $5. 738-7256.
• 48 hours out: Beyer Musical Society President's Tea program, 3-5:30 p.m. Sunday at Grandin House Parlors, Grandin and Madison roads, O'Bryonville. 891-2054 or 771-1266.
• A week away: Voices at the Crossroads concert presented by Muse, Cincinnati's Women's Choir, directed by Catherine Roma, 8 p.m., Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, 103 William Howard Taft Road. $15. 221-1118.
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