Wednesday, May 10, 2000
Get to it
A guide to help make your day
Going out
Reds: Second in three-game series against San Diego, 7:05 p.m. today at Cinergy Field. $5-$21. 421-7337.
Book signing: Donna Eden signs and discusses Energy Medicine about the subtle ways a body's energy relates to spiritualand physical well-being,7 p.m. today at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Norwood. 396-8960.
Theater: Showboat Majestic's On the Town, a musical comedy about sailors on shore leave in Manhattan, goes into its final week, 8 p.m. today, Public Landing. $12-$14. 241-6550.
Art exhibit: The New York Society of Illustrators traveling exhibit featuring 40 of America's finest illustrators including local illustrators C.F. Payne and Loren Long is on display at the Art Institute of Cincinnati through May 31, 2528 Kemper Lane, Walnut Hills. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Free. 751-1206.
Staying in
TV picks: A tough choice at 9 p.m.: Drew and Kate (Drew Carey, Christa Miller) consummate their relationship with a musical Drew Carey Show episode (Channels 9, 2), while The West Wing staff puts out foreign and domestic political fires (Channels 5, 22).
• TV critic John Kiesewetter says Whoopi Goldberg hosts Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years!, a retrospective planned months before Charles Schulz's death (8 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
For mom: Mitchell's Salons & Day Spas, Kenwood, Norwood and Tri-County, has packages ideal for Mother's Day that can be purchased on line at www.mitchellssalon.com/store/index.html. $18-$253. Special sessions include Special Occasion, $78; Tune up, $99, and Anti-Stress, $55.
The Goods: (What's in stores today)
Disc picks: They're baaack! Hanson, the boy band that started the tsunami of adolescent pop stars, returns this week with This Time Around (Island; $17.98 CD, $11.98 cassette).
• Music critic Larry Nager says progressive blues lovers can get an advance taste of Pepsi Jammin' On Main with the fine new CD by the North Mississippi Allstars, Shake Hands With Shorty (Tone Cool; $17.98 CD only). The band plays Friday.
• Mission Impossible 2 (Hollywood; $18.98 CD; $12.98 cassette) is the first big soundtrack of the summer, featuring Metallica's new “I Disappear” and tracks by Limp Bizkit, Tori Amos and Foo Fighters, featuring Queen's Brian May on guitar.
• The late singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley is remembered on Mystery White Boy (Columbia; $17.98 CD, $11.98 cassette).
Planning ahead
24 hours out: Grace in Gravity, this year's winner for best new band at the Cammys, plays 10 p.m. Thursday at Barrelhouse Brewing Co., 22 E. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine. No cover. 421-2337.
48 hours out: Cincinnati Ballet's Cinderella opens 8 p.m. Friday at Aronoff Center for the Arts. $9-$49. 241-7469.
72 hours 'til Saturday: Cincinnati Gem, Mineral, Fossil, Jewelry Sale and Show kicks off 10 a.m.-7 p.m. at Albert B. Sabin Convention Center continuing Sunday. $1-$5. 575-1990.
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