GOING OUT

        Grand Theft Audio: It's modern rock on the edge, maybe even over it, when this London quartet throws punk, metal, rock and electronica into the hopper and comes up with stuff as new as the moment. Even better, WOXY-FM 97.7 has them in a right cozy setting. 9 p.m. today, Top Cat's, 2820 Vine St., Corryville, $1.97 — hey, it's a low-dough show. 562-4949.

        World beat: Musical horizons broaden, maybe stretch to new limits, when saxophonist Ilhan Ersahin and vocalist Sultana mix traditional Turkish music with jazz, pop and hip-hop. Whew. 7:30 p.m. today, Hall Auditorium, Miami University, Oxford. $4-$8. (513) 529-3200.

        Black History: Yesterday's slave songs and spirituals are today's hot gospel music. Just took a bit of evolution to get them there. African American Art through the Ages, third in a series of six, traces it for you. With music, no less. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Main Public Library, 800 Vine St., downtown. 369-6970.

Staying In

        TV picks: Who really built the pyramids? PBS' three-week Secrets of the Pharaohs unwraps some of the mysteries (8 p.m., Channels 48 54, 16, through Feb. 27).

        • TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says Loveland native Greg Walsh, an Ohio State University freshman, appears on the two-week Hollywood Squares college tournament today (7:30 p.m., Channel 5).

What's in stores today

        Critic's Pick: Call it Guilty Pleasures Week and go ahead and rent the Kirsten Dunst cheerleader epic Bring It On, Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk says. No one will blame you.

Planning Ahead

        24 hours out: What better time than Valentine's Day to take in an opera, that most romantic of art forms? And not just any opera, the lush and lovely Mozart war horse The Marriage of Figaro. Cheap, too, because it's Sorg Opera Company's final dress rehearsal. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sorg Opera House, 65 S. Main St., Middletown. $5-$10. (513) 425-0180.

        48 hours out: Exotic, erotic, steamy musical numbers celebrating the slink "n' sleaze of pre-World War II Berlin heat up the stage in Cabaret. The Northern Kentucky University Theater Department takes it on, 8 p.m. Thursday, Patricia Corbett Theater, Highland Heights. $5-$9. (859) 572-5464.

        72 hours 'til Friday: The Legends of Motown concert dusts off a whole batch of '60s-style doo-wop groups, including the venerable Temptations. 8 p.m., Taft Theatre, Fifth and Sycamore Streets, downtown. $25-$33. 562-4949.

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

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