Saturday, February 26, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Back to Broadway: Las Vegas style revue with a cast of 65 performing selections from musical comedies such as Guys and Dolls and Annie Get Your Gun, 8:15 p.m. today at College of Mount St. Joseph Theater, Delhi Township. Broadway star Ron Bohmer will make a special appearance. $20 benefits Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. 793-3223.
• Cat show: Friskies and Cincinnati Cat Club Show, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. today at Albert B. Sabin Convention Center. Shows at noon, 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. will showcase “celebrity” cats, such as the Fancy Feast and Chef's Blend cats with their trainers. $4-$8. 244-1152.
• Bacon Brothers: Screen star Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael, a longtime songwriter, make up the acoustic duo playing 8:30 p.m. today at Bogart's. $15-$17. 562-4949.
• Book signing: Elizabeth Smith Brownstein discusses and signs If This House Could Talk: Historic Homes, Extraordinary Americans, 1 p.m. today, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Norwood. Two Underground Railroad houses in Ripley, Ohio, are featured in the book. 396-8960.
• History of jazz: School for Creative and Performing Arts presents a program of words, music and dance examining the development and importance of jazz, 8 p.m. today in the school's theater, 1310 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine. $5-$10. 632-5910.
• Bucket: The semi-acoustic power trio of Lee Rolfes, Bob Nyswonger and Bam Powell play tonight at R.P. McMurphy's, 2910 Wasson Road, Hyde Park. 531-3300.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Rock, roll and remember great record album covers for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Eagles, Jackson Browne, the Doors, Joni Mitchell and others on California Rock: Under the Covers, a Learning Channel documentary (10 p.m.). Or catch MTV's one millionth video when the channel replays its most popular videos (3-7 p.m., MTV).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter recommends taking a nostalgic trip back to WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-82) with weekend Entertainment Tonight (7-8 p.m., Channel 12).
• Radio highlight: Classics for Kids, the WGUC-FM (90.9) children's educational series with Naomi Lewin, profiles African-American composer William Grant Still today after the 9 a.m. news.
BRAND SPANKIN' NEW
• Famous faces: The Scratching Post in Silverton is looking for great pet pictures for its next series of botticino marble coasters. Entries are $5, with proceeds benefiting Cat SNIP, a low-cost spay/neuter incentive program. On the back of each photo, write your name, address, phone and the pet's name. Mail entries to the Scratching Post, Attn: Coaster Pets, 6958 Plainfield Road, Cincinnati 45236. Deadline: March 31. 721-6772. Coasters are at the Meow Mart in Silverton and Intuitive, downtown.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 hours out: Classical Bells, a whimsical handbell ensemble from Detroit performs 3 p.m. Sunday Westwood Presbyterian Church, 3011 Harrison Ave. 681-6846.
• 48 hours out: Lecture Series on the Visual Arts continues 7-8:30 p.m. Monday in room 204 of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Eden Park, with Ohio State University sculpture professor Todd Slaughter Free and open to public. 572-6501.
• A week away: Prized Possessions exhibit at Cincinnati Museum Center featuring most important artifacts from archives of Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History and Science and Cincinnati Historical Society Library opens next Saturday. (Continues through Sept. 4.) $4.50-$6.50. 287-7000.
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