Thursday, February 10, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Reggae: Culture,featuring Joseph Hill, plays at 9 p.m. today at Annie's. 4343 Kellogg Ave., Columbia Tusculum. 321-2572.
• Irish Quintet: Lunasa performs Irish acoustic music with some jazz influences at 8 p.m. today, Reakirt Auditorium at Cincinnati Museum Center. $12-$15. 533-4822.
• Kurt Weill: Royal Palace and The Czar Has His Photograph Taken, two one-act operas performed consecutively, begin a four-day run, 8 p.m. today, Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati. $13-$22. 556-4183.
• Children's theater: The Toy Shop, a musical tale of the adventures of two toys who wish to see the world beyond the toy shop, presented by Cincinnati Opera Outreach Ensemble, at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. today, Calico Theatre, Clermont College, Batavia. $1.50-$3. 732-5281.
• Civil Rights 2000: Panel discussion featuring Marian Spencer, Karla Irvine, Betty Richard and Harold Johnson, presented by the NAACP at 7 p.m. today, Main Public Library, 800 Vine St., downtown. 369-6970.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: When Martin (John Mahoney) convinces an elderly opera patron that he's gay, Fraiser (Kelsey Grammer) forces him to continue the charade so he can woo the woman's daughter (Marg Helgenberger) on Frasier (9 p.m., Channels 5, 22).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says Steve Harris (The Practice) narrates Civil Rights Martyrs: Free at Last, a two-hour documentary profiling a dozen civil rights activists in the 1950s and '60s (9 p.m., The Learning Channel).
• Web site of the day: It costs $25, but www.bestdoctors.com promises to deliver the names of two nearby top doctors for the disorder you are seeking information about. Unfortunately, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, the more desperate you are, the more you have to pay. The site charges $975 for help in making detailed treatment arrangements.
BRAND SPANKIN' NEW
• Pansy pretty: This five-finger pansy vase, inspired by a 17th-century design, is crafted of brightly glazed ceramic. It's $15 in the catalog of Winterthur Museum and Garden. Located near Wilmington, Del., Winterthur once was the home of visionary collector and horticulturist Henry Francis duPont. (800) 767-0500.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 hours out: For Valentine's weekend: “Neurosis to Nirvana: The Many Faces of Love,” a program of love songs sung by Barbara Brady with Jim Hart at the piano, 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday at the Cabaret, 13th and Sycamore streets, Over-the-Rhine. No cover. 665-9100.
• 48 hours out: Mountain rockers Jupiter Coyote return to Rhythm and Blues Cafe (1142 Main St., Over-the-Rhine) at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. $8. 684-0080.
• 72 hours 'til Sunday: Pianist Michael Chertok performs at 2 p.m. in the Presbyterian Church of Wyoming, 255 Wyoming Ave. 821-8983.
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