Sunday, March 26, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Alexis Piano Trio: Performing 2 p.m. today at Scottish Rite Auditorium, the group consists of pianist Keiko Alexander, Sylvia Samis, first assistant concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Michael Samis of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, 317 E. Fifth St., downtown. $15. 961-0622.
• May Festival Chorus: Free concert, 4 p.m. today at St. Boniface Church, 1750 Chase Ave., Northside. 541-1563.
• Coin and Stamp Show: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today, Hugh Watson American Legion Hall, 11100 Winton Road, Greenhills. 521-2154.
• Madcap Theatre: Last chance to see the Tales Out of School show with stories written by students, 1 and 3 p.m. today, Cincinnati Art Museum, Eden Park. $8 adults, $6 children. 721-2787.
• Jazz: After headlining at the Blue Wisp Friday-Saturday, saxophonist Greg Abate plays 8 p.m. today at Sonny's Lounge, 1227 California, Bond Hill. $5. 242-4579.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Barbara Walters' 19th annual Oscar night special profiles singer Ricky Martin, actor Mike Myers and Oscar-winner Michael Douglas and his fiancee, Catherine Zeta-Jones (7-8 p.m., Channels 9, 2). Billy Crystal opens the 72nd Annual Academy Awards at 8:30 p.m., after a half-hour of red-carpet interviews. Want more? Tune in cable's E! channel eight-hour Countdown to the Academy Awards marathon starting at noon today.
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter says WBQC-TV repeats the pilot of The Beat (10 p.m., Channel 25), the new UPN police drama from Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.
WHAT'S IN STORES TODAY
• Lip lock: Check out Lipstick Lockers by Two Girls ($9.50 each), the coolest new way to store your favorite lipsticks. These aluminum cases have a shiney silver finish with such labels as Real Princess, Wild Girl, Beauty Queen and Gorgeous Girl stamped on them. Each has a little mirror inside the flip-top cover. Lipstick Lockers and the whole Two Girls line of accessories (compacts, mirrors and beauty bags) are available at Sally Huss Gallery in Hyde Park.
• Rock On: The Grateful Dead, or what's left of them, have formed Grateful Dead Books and issued Spirit Into Sound by drummer Mickey Hart, who also doubles as editor-in-chief. Grateful Dead books will be predominantly marketed through the band's Web site, www.dead.net, which receives a million hits a month. The imprint will issue a book called Art of the Dead next year, and Spirit Into Sound will be reissued with an accompanying CD next spring.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 hours out: Latin dance night with Tropicoso every Monday at the Mad Frog, Vine Street and McMillan Avenue, Mount Auburn, beginning at 10 p.m. 784-9119.
• 48 hours out: The world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre performs at the Aronoff Center for the Arts 8 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. $25-$38. 241-7469.
• 72 hours 'til Wednesday: Dean Failey, senior vice president and director of American decorative arts at Christie's in New York, speaks 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Cincinnati Art Museum. Title of program is “Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going: An Auctioneer Looks at the American Furniture Market.” Part of Kreines Lecture Series on Decorative Arts. Free with museum admission. 721-2787.
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