Going out

        Festival of Lights: It's a zillion and one lights, wired to everything except rhino horns when the zoo hits the switch. Larger than life displays, walk-around nutcrackers, hot chocolate and all that glitters. (Warning: Don't stand still, they'll wire you, too.) Opens 5-9:30 p.m. today, Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale. $5.50-$11. 281-4700.

        Peter Max: The oh so vivid artist whose psychedelic art defined '60s pop — like they say, if you remember you weren't there — does an in-person at Laura Paul Gallery to show off his Millennium Series exhibit of more than 100 etchings, hearts, florals and, drum roll please, his neo series for 2000. 6-9 p.m. today at the gallery in Dixie Terminal Arcade, Fourth and Walnut streets, downtown. 651-5885.

        Cincinnati "Moments:' The newly revised edition of the lush and lavish book full of photos from the Enquirer's archives (which is also where we keep old reporters) has landed in book stores, complete with a new chapter on the Big Red Machine. Authors Cliff Radel and Sue Lancaster sign copies 2-5 p.m. today at Barnes and Noble Kenwood, 7800 Montgomery Road. 794-9440.

        Tillman concert: Concert pianist Bryan Wallick has come a long way: From the Hamilton High School band to Juilliard to hot shot of the international competition circuit. Now he's home: Free concert, Miami University Hamilton's Parrish Auditorium, 8 p.m. today. (513) 863-1389.

Staying In

        TV picks: Andy Garcia stars as Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval in HBO's For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (9 p.m., HBO). If you don't get HBO, set the VCR for Woody Allen's hilarious Play It Again, Sam (1 p.m., Channel 45) to savor tonight.

        • Critic John Kiesewetter says you know its fund-drive time when WCET-TV blows three hours for the Lawrence Welk Holiday Special: Great Moments and Memories. (6:30 p.m., Channel 48). Pass the Geritol.

The Goods (What's in stores today)

        Bark "cheese:' Pictures of your pup aren't cute enough? Take them with CraZy Pet's relentlessly precious disposable cameras — for about $15, you get 20 exposures and automatic printed captions, like “Queen Kitty” and “Crazy Dog Days.” Brightly designed cameras in red, blue, yellow, hot pink and purple show a dog wearing sunglasses and a cat wearing pearls. Because it has a Barbara Bush fetish, that's why. To find out more, set your sites on www.crazypet.com or call (800) 433-7387.

Planning Ahead

        24 hours out: Cream of the clarinet crop, none other than Eddie Daniels, swings into a two-day Linton Music Series run with a program spiked with jazz and classical works. 4 p.m. Sunday, First Unitarian Church, 536 Linton St., Avondale. $27.50. 381-6868.

        48 hours out: Ensemble Theatre goes digging around the cortex with its Theatre of the Mind series. This time it's a reading of Wole Soyinka's edgy Death and the King's Horseman. 8 p.m. Monday, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. $5. 421-3555.

        A week away: Don't forget: Bon Jovi squeezes into his way too tight jeans and performs at Firstar Center, 8 p.m. next Saturday. $29.50-$60. 562-4949.

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