Thursday, May 04, 2000
GET TO IT
A guide to help make your day
Going out
Flower Show: Exhibits and markets of the Cincinnati Flower Show will be open 9 a.m.-8 p.m. today at Ault Park. Through Sunday. $11. 872-5194.
Ensemble Theatre: Private Eyes, a mind-trap of a play in which audience “plays detective,” 8 p.m. today at ETC theater, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. Through May 21. $20-$25. 421-3555.
Jimmy Cliff: His starring role in the 1972 film The Harder They Come helped introduce reggae to U.S. audiences. He plays 10 p.m. today at Annie's, 4343 Kellogg Ave., Columbia Tusculum. Ark Band opens the show. $20. 562-4949.
Ansel Adams program: Mary Alinder, who was Ansel Adams' assistant from 1979 until his death in 1984, gives a free program about the photographer with slides and recordings, 7 p.m. today, Cincinnati Art Museum Auditorium. 639-2995.
Staying In
TV picks: In the season finale — and possibly the series finale — a hospital company plans to buy Chicago Hope, fire the staff and sell all the equipment (9 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says the 20th Century with Mike Wallace looks at “The Legacy of Kent State” on the 30th anniversary of the four student deaths (7 p.m., History Channel). The Discovery Channel airs a Kent State retrospective 10-11 p.m. Friday.
The Goods (What's in stores today)
Baseball at the Ritz: Those little perforations on special Ritz crackers make the little discs look like baseballs. A box (about $3.29) of the newly designed crackers sports a photo of Ken Griffey Jr. (in the wrong uniform). To go on top: matching Nabisco Easy Cheese ($3.49) But look before you munch. If you get a cracker with the words “Grand Slam” baked into it, you've just won a free trip for four to the 2000 World Series.
Brand Spankin' New
Jump from julep: Makers of Woodford Reserve Distiller's Select Bourbon, Labrot & Graham in Versailles, Ky., sponsored a national contest to come up with another drink to toast the Kentucky Derby. Bartender Travis Price of Dayton, Ohio, won the contest with his Woody's Teaser: Fill highball glass with ice. Add 11/2 ounces Woodford Reserve, 1 ounce Drambuie and 4 ounces ginger ale. Stir and drop grenadine down side of glass. Garnish with cherry and lemon wheel.
Planning Ahead
24 hours out: Roger Klug's new trio Clem Comstock opens for the Ass Ponys, who will celebrate the release of their new CD Some Stupid With a Flare Gun, 10 p.m. Friday at BarrelHouse Brewing Co., 22 E. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine. $4. 421-2337.
48 hours out: Previews begin for Playhouse in the Park's Spunk, three tales by Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston about African-American life in the early 20th century, 9 p.m. Saturday, Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre, Eden Park. $24.50. 421-3888.
72 hours 'til Sunday: The Madeira Art Fair features artists, a flower sale, more, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Miami Avenue. 831-4452.
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