Tuesday, March 28, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Dance show: The 31-member Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Aronoff Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. today(and Wednesday). $25-$38. Aronoff box office or call 241-7469.
• Treasure talk: The Gilbert Collection in London is a treasury of English and continental decorative arts worth hearing about. Rachel Layton, assistant curator of the collection, will speak at 7:30 p.m. today at the Taft Museum of Art. $5. 241-0343.
• Vogler Quartet: The four young members of the Vogler Quartet of Berlin will close the Cincinnati Chamber Music Society season at 8 p.m. today in UC's Corbett Auditorium. The program: Haydn, Berg and Schubert's famous “Death and the Maiden” Quartet. $20; $7 students. 533-0451.
Staying In
• TV picks: Comedy Central's Win Ben Stein's Money (10 p.m.) spoofs ABC's Who Wants to be a Millionaire with such categories as “Is Thatcher Final Answer?” and “The Confused Musician Asked If He Could Saxophone A Friend.” At the first commercial break, Ben Stein declares the contest leader, with $200, “is only $998,000 away from $1 million!”
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says Bill Moyers interviews two blue-collar Milwaukee families struggling through economic upheaval on Surviving the Good Times: A Moyers Report (9-11 p.m., Channels 48, 16).
• Web site of the day: When you are finished with your income tax return and hankering for revenge, why not turn in that neighbor with the Jaguar and no visible means of support? The Philadelphia Inquirer gives the site as www.ustreas.gov/irs/ci/tax—fraud—hotline.htm.
The Goods (What's in stores today)
• Video picks: Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk calls The Sixth Sense a rare combination of quality and popularity. Already a huge and unexpected box office smash, it is guaranteed to burn up the video charts, too, after it hits the shelves today.
• Film note: Area filmmakers are invited to submit short works (10 minutes or less) on 16mm, Super 8 or videotape to the Happy Catchy Flashy Named Motion Picture Festival, Part Deux. Entries will be screened May 27 at Southgate House in Newport. Send your entries — no later than April 30 — to the attention of Gorilla Suit Records, 3445 Vine St., Apt. 2, Cincinnati 45220. 861-7442.
• Glow sticks: Go for the glow with N.Y.C. body glitter sticks ($1.99) to be used on the face and body. The stick form allows for more control and convenience. Available in such shades as gold, white, lilac, rose, pink and beige. Available at drug stores and mass merchandisers.
Planning Ahead
• 24 hours out: Learn about antiques at auction from Dean Failey, vice president of decorative arts at Christie's, New York, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Cincinnati Art Museum. Free with $5 museum admission. 721-2787.
• Also 24 hours out: Alison Krauss & Union Station play the Taft Theatre at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The band features special guest Jerry Douglas, the world's leading dobro player. $22 at Ticketmaster outlets and the Taft box office.
• 48 hours out: Mary Black is one of the most soulful singers of traditional and contemporary Celtic music on the planet, a fact she proved on 1997's Lilith Fair tour. She'll prove it again at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Taft Theatre. $24-$30 at Ticketmaster outlets and the Taft box office.
• 72 hours out: Final Friday open the doors of all the Main St. art galleries in Over-the-Rhine, 6 to 9 p.m.
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