Friday, April 07, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
GOING OUT
• Reds: First in a three-game series with the Chicago Cubs, 7:05 p.m. today at Cinergy Field. $5-$21. 421-7337.
• Kids in the Hall: “Same Guys — New Dresses” tour featuring ensemble members Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson, David Foley, Mark McKinney and Bruce McCulloch, 8 p.m. today at Taft Theatre, downtown. $28-$39. 562-4949.
• Free show: Ensemble Theatre showcases its acting interns in A Piece of My Heart, aplay about six women's experiences in Vietnam, 8 p.m. today-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at ETC's theatre, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. 421-3555.
• Young King Arthur: Professional children's theatre production about the many legends of Arthur and Melvin, 7:30 p.m. today, Procter & Gamble Hall, Aronoff Center for the Arts. $10-$15. 241-7469.
• Percussion Group Cincinnati: Free concert featuring works by John Cage, John Luther Adams, Qu Xiao-Song plus new discoveries, 8 p.m. today, Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati. 556-4183.
• Christian comedienne: Sister Cantaloupe brings her wisecracking “church lady” act to James Temple, 7:30 p.m. today, 1116 Lincoln Ave., Walnut Hills. Donations accepted. 852-9883.
STAYING IN
• TV picks: Move over, Barbara Walters: Channe l9 pre-empts ABC's 20/20 for The Twister of '99: Then and Now (10 p.m.), a look back at the tornado which killed three people in northeastern Hamilton County last April.
• And TV Critic John Kiesewetter says UPN's Teen Files: The Truth About Drugs (9 p.m., Channel 25) takes teens on a tour of the coroner's office, a county prison and a nearby skid row to expose the dangerous and often deadly results of drug use.
HARRIED WITH CHILDREN
• Tall tales: What do you get when you combine The Three Little Pigs, Three Billy Goats Gruff and Goldilocks and the Three Bears? One heck of a story. The colorful puppets of Madcap Productions present Three Tales with Tails 11 a.m. Saturday at the Erlanger Branch of the Kenton County Public Library, 3130 Dixie Highway. The free performance kicks off the library's celebration of National Library Week, 491-7610.
PLANNING AHEAD
• 24 hours out: Cincinnati Film Society screens Italian director Vittorio De Sica's great 1947 film The Bicycle Thief at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Scripps Howard Newsreel Theater in the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave. $5, $4 seniors and students, $3 for film society members. 251-6060: www.cincinnatlas.com/filmsociety.
• 48 hours out: “Splash of Spring Walking Tour” at Spring Grove Cemetery hosted by Spring Grove horticulturists, 1 p.m. Sunday, 4521 Spring Grove Ave., Winton Place. Meets in front of cemetery's Norman Chapel. Free. 681-7526.
• 72 hours 'til Monday: Ian Moore Band at Top Cat's with opening act D.C. Project, 8:30 p.m., 2820 Vine St., Corryville. $8-$10. 562-4949.
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