Tuesday, February 29, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• New exhibit: Art/Science — Line/Design, featuring 20 works influenced or connected to geometry such as Navajo weavings, Cubist art and '60s Op art, opens today at Miami University Art Museum in Oxford. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. (513) 529-2232.
• Percussion: The astounding Kodo Drummers of Japan take the stage at Music Hall 8 p.m. today with dance, mime, music and drums — all the way up to the 900-pound odaiko. $28-$32. 241-7469.
• Musicians from Marlboro: Cincinnati Chamber Music Society presents this group of 10 professional musicians playing Beethoven, Janacek, Kurtag and Mozart, 8 p.m. today, Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati. $7-$20. 533-0451.
• Cabaret: The revamped production of the classic Kander and Ebb musical goes into its second and final week 8 p.m. today, Aronoff Center for the Arts. $35-$55. 241-7469.
• Country: Boe Davis and the Broken Arrow Band play every Tuesday night at the Finish Line, 599 Donaldson Road, Erlanger. 342-7887.
Staying In
• TV picks: Who wants to have a million laughs? NBC repeats Celebrity Jeopardy!, Dysfunctional Family Feud, and other game-show spoofs on Saturday Night Live: Best of the Game Show Parodies (8 p.m., Channels 5, 22).
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter says Sports Night (9:30 p.m., Channels 9, 2) returns with a script from creator Aaron Sorkin about Jeremy (Joshua Malina) falling in love with an adult film star (Paula Marshall).
The Goods (What's in stores today)
• Video picks: Today's arrival of The Best Man on video gives fans of Taye Diggs a new chance to contemplate the up-and-coming movie star's comic skills, according to Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk.
• Whimsical touch: What's a garden without a fairy house? This solid wood house, 11 inches tall, has a gabled roof and arched windows with ledged sills. It's $14.95, from A Special Place catalog, a division of Tender Heart Treasures, (800) 443-0141.
Planning Ahead
• 24 hours out: Kentucky author Bobbie Ann Mason , best known for In Country and Clear Springs: A Memoir, speaks 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Mercantile Library Winter Author Series, 414 Walnut St., downtown. Reservations required. $10-$12. 621-0717.
• 48 hours out: Downtown Theatre Classics' production of Wait Until Dark opens 8 p.m. Thursday at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Continuing Thursday-Sunday through March 19. $22.50-$25. 241-7469.
• 72 hours 'til Friday: Irish tenor Frank Paterson performs 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine. $30-$40 (portion of proceeds benefiting Ulster Project, an initiative to bring peace to Northern Ireland). 562-4949.
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