Thursday, March 16, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Film festival: Last day of the Israeli and Jewish Film Festival with showing of The Assistant about a gentile who robs a Jewish merchant and, feeling remorse, goes to work for the man, 7:30 p.m. today at Mariemont Theatre, 6906 Wooster Pike. $6. 985-1500.
• Grease: La Salle High School Theatre Department opens the classic show 8 p.m. today in La Salle's auditorium, 3091 North Bend Road, Monfort Heights. Arrive at 7:30 p.m. for pre-show dance contest with '50s tunes. Through Sunday. $7. 741-2369.
• Home and Garden Show: The annual Fifth Third Bank Cincinnati Home and Garden Show continues 5-9 p.m. today at Albert B. Sabin Convention Center. More than 350 landscapers, retailers, remodelers and artists. Closes Sunday. $2.50-$8. 281-0022.
• Aaron Copland concert: Students from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music give an all-Copland concert entitled “The Musical Imagination of Aaron Copland,” 8 p.m. today in Watson Recital Hall, University of Cincinnati. Free. 556-4183.
• Blues: Greg Clark plays tonight at Doc's Smoke Shoppe and Tavern, 12/14 W. Mulberry St., Lebanon. (513) 932-9939.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: With understated genius, Tom Hanks captured the flavor of the 1960s pop music world in That Thing You Do!. Tom Everett Scott, who looks like a young Hanks, stars as the drummer. Most impressive, however, is Liv Tyler as the lead singer's girlfriend. Then there's that title song, bouncing through the movie without wearing out its welcome. Mr. Hanks has a small role, but his real skill is in writing and directing the film, giving it wit and charm. (8 p.m., VH1).
• Web site of the day: So you thought classical composers all lived 200 years ago? Think again. A new Web site features music being composed by living Americans. Newmusicnow.org, a project of the American Symphony Orchestra League, features 16 pieces written since 1970, with sound clips (using RealAudio, music software you can download for free, using links from newmusicnow.org).
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 hours out: The gospel extravaganza “Shout 2000” with Fred Hammond, Yolanda Adams, Donnie McClurkin, Men of Standardand Dawkins and Dawkins comes to Aronoff Center's Procter & Gamble Hall, 8 p.m. Friday. $29.50. 241-7469.
• 48 hours out: Previews start for the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize winner The Dead Eye Boy, 9 p.m. Saturday in the Shelterhouse Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. $24.50. 421-3888.
• 72 hours 'til Sunday: Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection featuring more than 100 paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture by African-American artists opens at Cincinnati Art Museum, Eden Park. Museum open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday. Exhibition free with museum admission ($4-$5). 721-2787.
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