Wednesday, April 12, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
Preview: Shakespeare's romantic comedy As You Like It presented by University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Drama Department opens Thursday, but you can catch a specially priced preview 8 p.m. today, UC's Patricia Corbett Theatre. $10. 556-4183.
British Art: Patrick McCaughey, director of Yale Center for British art and Timothy Rub, Cincinnati Art Museum director, discuss “Why British Art Matters” 7 p.m. today, Cincinnati Art Museum. Free. 721-2787.
Classical music: Free concert at the Classical Music Center, 4 W. Fourth St., downtown, 12:15 p.m. today, featuring Pavel Tovpitch, a 16-year old pianist from St. Petersburg, Russia. 961-2320.
Blues: Greg Schaber and High Street tonight at Neon's, Twelfth and Main streets, Over-the-Rhine. 721-2919.
Staying In
TV picks: Call it Harrison Ford's greatest hits: The American Film Institute Salute to Harrison Ford airs film clips and testimonials about his career in a CBS special (8-9 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
• And TV Critic John Kiesewetter the Action Auction continues on Channel 48 (3 p.m.-midnight), while Channels 16 and 54 air the American Masters' special, Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso (8-9 p.m.).
The Goods
(What's in stores today)
Disk picks: Local heroes the Ass Ponys deliver their long-awaited Some Stupid With a Flare Gun (Checkered Past; $14.98 CD; no cassette). Enquirer pop-music critic Larry Nager's four-star review called it the band's “tightest, most rocking set to date.”
ăThe week's big pop news is the return of No Doubt with The Return of Saturn (Interscope; $18.98 CD, $12.98 cassette), Gwen Stefani and company's followup to their 10-million selling Tragic Kingdom.
The hip-hop heavy soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's new film Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai — The Album (Sony Music Soundtrax; $17.98 CD, $11.98 cassette) arrives this week, with music picked by RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
ăImagine a remixed and remastered version of John Lennon's best solo album. Imagine (Capitol; $17.98 CD, $10.98 cassette) features a new 16-page booklet and the original cover art.
Planning Ahead
24 hours out: The Civic Garden Center presents "Adventures in the Seed Trade” featuring Stephen Ogden, founder and president of the Cook's Garden, a mail-order seed company, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the center, 2715 Reading Road, Avondale. $25-$30. 221-0981.
72 hours 'til Saturday: Snuits Hard Music Fest at Annies beginning at noon with headliners Think About Mutation, and Evereve. 4343 Kellogg Ave., Columbia-Tusculum. $15-$17. 321-0220.
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