Tuesday, August 08, 2000
Get to it
A guide to help make your day
Loud and long: “Ozzfest 2000” opens Riverbend's gates at 10 a.m. today with organizer Ozzy Osbourne and a host of modern metal bands, including Pantera, Godsmack, Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem, Crazy Town, Static-X, Queens of the Stone Age, Soulfly, P.O.D., Pitchshifter, Slaves on Dope and many more. $55.25 pavilion, $29.75 lawn, at Ticketmaster outlets and the Riverbend box office.
Chamber music: Oboist Mark Ostoich performs chamber music 8 p.m. today at Watson Hall, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. The CCM prof will be joined by bassoonist Kristin Wolfe Jensen and pianist Donna Loewy. Free. 556-4183.
Reds: Second game of the Atlanta series, 7:35 p.m. today at Cinergy Field. $5-$21. 421-7337.
Staying In
TV picks: Music fills the air tonight with new concert footage in More Doo Wop 50 (8 p.m., Channel 48) and repeats of 'N Sync Live from Madison Square Garden (7 p.m., HBO); Moody Blues at Royal Albert Hall (8 p.m., Channel 16); Roy Orbison & Friends (9 p.m., Channel 48); and Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story of Rock and Roll (9:45 p.m., Channel 16). Channel 48 airs the Moody Blues at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
• TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says Biography repeats its excellent two-hour profile of Cincinnati native Doris Day (8 p.m. and midnight, A&E).
The Goods
(What's in stores today)
Video picks: Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk notes that the video release of Map of the World gives film fans a chance to catch an acclaimed but little-seen performance by Sigourney Weaver.
Pig poster: A Cincinnati Swine poster featuring 35 of the Big Pig Gig porkers is at Fabulous Frames & Art stores, downtown, Montgomery and Northgate. The 20-by-30-inch poster was produced by photographer Rick Anderson. $15, framed $79. Information: 579-9998.
Planning Ahead
24 hours out: If you're ready for a brand-new beat, try the “punk-mambo” sounds of Babaloo Wednesday at BarrelHouse Brewing Co., 22 E. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine. 421-2337.
48 hours out: Nashville-based blues band Big Al & the Heavyweights returns Thursday to Lucille's Blues Club, 3715 Winston Ave., Covington. Cajun-style potluck 7 p.m. $10. 431-8086).
72 hours 'til Friday: Grammy-winning jazz singer/pianist Diana Krall brings her smoky cabaret tour at 8 p.m. to Procter & Gamble Hall at the Aronoff Center. There's no opening act, no intermission. $30-$40, Aronoff box office and Ticketmaster.
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