Wednesday, March 29, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Alvin Ailey: Today at 8 p.m. is the last chance to catch the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The 31-member company performs at the Aronoff Center. $25-$38. Aronoff box office or call 241-7469.
• Auctioneer: Learn about antiques at auction from Dean Failey, vice president of decorative arts at Christie's, New York. He'll discuss the American furniture market at 7:30 p.m. today at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Free lecture. Museum admission: $5. 721-2787.
• At the Taft: Alison Krauss & Union Station play the Taft Theatre at 8 p.m. today. The band features guest dobro player Jerry Douglas. $22, at Ticketmaster outlets and the Taft box office.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: By the time you read this, the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets probably have opened the baseball season in Tokyo. The game airs live at 5 a.m. today, and replays at tonight at 7 on Fox Sports Net. (AP coverage)
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says Delhi Township's Rick Alley gets national attention 16 years after starting the campaign for warning labels about explicit lyrics on music albums. He's on the debut of VH1's RockStory (10 p.m., VH1). See story, XX.
WHAT'S IN STORES TODAY
• Disc picks: Look out Shania! Enquirer music critic Larry Nager says Trisha Yearwood's Real Live Woman (MCA; $17.98 CD, $11.98 cassette) is the best female country rock album since the heyday of Linda Ronstadt. Guests include Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jackson Browne and Emmylou Harris.
• King of the DJs, Fatboy Slim, is back with a live set, On the Floor at the Boutique (Astralwerks/Capitol; $17.98 CD only).
• It's a big week for rappers, including the all-star soundtrack for Romeo Must Die (Capitol; $17.98 CD, $11.98 cassette) featuring DMX, Snoop Dogg and Aaliyah.
Common's Like Water for Chocolate (MCA; $17.98 CD, $11.98 cassette) includes requisite cameos from D'Angelo, Skee Lo and MC Lyte.
The whole Ruff Ryders crew raps on Drag On's Opposite of H20 (Interscope; $17.98 CD, $11.98 cassette), including Eve, the Lox, DMX and Scarface.
• The soundtrack for High Fidelity (UNI/Hollywood; $17.98 CD, $11.98 cassette), a movie about “record geeks,” features such '60s record geek favorites as 13th Floor Elevators, Love and Velvet Underground, as well as modern alt-rockers Royal Trux and Stereolab.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 hours out: Celtic singer Mary Black, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Taft Theatre, downtown. $24-$30. 562-4949.
• 48 hours out: Pianist Barry Douglas performs Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducting, 8 p.m. Friday (and Saturday) at Music Hall. $12-$46: 381-3300, or visit the CSO Web site, cincinnatisymphony.org.
• 72 hours out: Saturday is the last of the ARTrageous Saturdays at Raymond Walters College. “Cinderella and Other Stories” is a triple bill of storybook favorites presented by Illustrated Theater. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. RWC Theater, 9555 Plainfield Road, Blue Ash. $3. 745-5705.
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