GOING OUT

        Previews: Keith Glover, the guy who brought us the blues in the hit Thunder Knocking on the Door, turns from musicians and takes a look at another kind of night owl. Dark Paradise: The Legend of the Five Pointed Star mixes vampires and cowboys in the story of an old border town overrun by evil and punctured necks. Catch the final dress rehearsals on the cheap: 7 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Wednesdaybefore Thursday's opening. Robert S. Marx Theater, Playhouse in the Park. $26. 421-3888.

        Everlast: Eclectic rap hits town with Everlast, hot on the heels of a new album (Eat at Whitey's) and a Gramming-winning collaboration with Santana (“Put Your Lights On”). Meaning they're expecting great things from his show and the opening act, modern rockers Dexter Freebish. 8 p.m. today, Bogart's, 2621 Vine St., Corryville. $12.50-$14. 562-4949.

        New exhibit: More than 50 works on paper illustrating the evolution of two artists — New York printmakers Will Barnet and Bob Blackburn — who worked together for decades star in a collaborative exhibit. That would be Will Barnet and Bob Blackburn: An Artistic Friendship in Relief. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Miami University Art Museum, U.S. 27, Oxford. (513) 529-2232.

Staying In

        TV picks: Now this is quality reality TV: Scientific American Frontiers answers “little questions” like why we can't tickle ourselves (8 p.m., Channels 48, 54, 16), and Nova follows scientists examining a 1947 plane wreck discovered in the Andes mountains in 1998 (9 p.m., Channels 48, 54, 16).

        • TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says the epic four-hour Attila the Hun with Powers Boothe and Tim Curry debuts (9 p.m. today and Wednesday, USA).

What's in stores today)

        Video pick: If you are an aficionado of the strange-but-true, Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk directs your attention to the weirdly affecting documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a fave at last year's Sundance Film Festival. Also out this week is the Michelle Pfeiffer-Harrison Ford thriller What Lies Beneath, from director Robert (Cast Away) Zemeckis.

Planning Ahead

        24 hours out: Get this: National recording artist and country/jazz fusion guitarist extraordinaire Scotty Anderson has started a weekly gig. Catch it 8 p.m.-midnight Wednesdays at Beach's Groesbeck Tavern, 7560 Colerain Ave. No cover. 522-0400.

        48 hours out: Enjoy an outing with the troubled and way indecisive Prince of Denmark — that crazy Hamlet lad — with Stage First, Cincinnati's theater group devoted to world classics. 8 p.m. Thursday, Fifth Third Bank Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts. $12-$15. 241-7469.

        72 hours 'til Friday: The big name artists of tomorrow show off their stuff today at the Scholastics Art Show, a showcase of the best high school art from Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio. Opening reception 6-9 p.m., Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington. (859) 491-2030.

        Get To It appears daily. Send items to Nancy Berlier, Deputy Tempo Editor, at nberlier@enquirer.com.

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