Going out

        May Festival: The venerable — and ever so old — choral festival sails along with Roberto Porco conducting Bach's massive Mass in B Minor with soprano Pamela Coburn and mezzo-soprano Theodora Hanslowe. 8 p.m. today, Music Hall, $11-$56. 381-3300.

        Maifest: The Covington historic district celebrates its German roots with Bavarian food, polka bands, crafts, rides and cold beer, all set to the tune of a zillion oom-pahs. Noon-11 p.m. today, noon-9 p.m. Sunday. MainStrasse, Sixth and Main streets. 357-6246.

        Cave-Mania: Celebrating Omnimax's Journey Into Amazing Caves, Cincinnati Museum Center digs up a weekend full of demonstrations, slide lectures, interactive exhibits and programs for kids. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. today, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. 287-7000.

        Oldies: The oldie but goodie rock revue Hot Wax does the old time rock 'n' roll thing on Green Township's Concert in the Park Series. 7 p.m. today, Blue Rock Road and Colerain Avenue. 574-4848.

Staying In

        TV picks: HBO has tonight's best movie: Stanley Tucci and Kenneth Branagh in Conspiracy (9 p.m., HBO), a dramatization of a top-secret 1942 meeting in Nazi Germany to discuss exterminating Jews and other “undesirables.”

        • Critic John Kiesewetter also saysChuck Norris goes out kicking after eight years on Walker, Texas Ranger (8-10 p.m., Channels 12, 7).

Hot Tickets

        Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. today for two Riverbend shows — Journey and Peter Frampton, performing 6 p.m. July 15 ($22.25-$47.75), and Barenaked Ladies with Vertical Horizon, performing 7 p.m. July 17 ($21.50-$45.25).

        At noon today, tickets go on sale for John Mellencamp's Aug. 27 date ($27.75-$67.75) and Blink 182's July 9 show ($23.25). All Ticketmaster outlets or charge-by-phone, 562-4949.

Planning Ahead

        24 hours out: Jazz clarinetist Eddie Daniels whips up a musical frenzy with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Jazz Ensemble and faculty artists in an afternoon of new and classic jazz. 2 p.m. Sunday, UC's Corbett Auditorium, $35 benefits the William Lawless Jones Jazz Fund. 556-4183.

        48 hours out: Gail Anderson-Dargatz signs her acclaimed novel A Recipe for Bees — but doesn't cook any up —7 p.m. Monday, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Norwood. 396-8960.

        A week away: The over-the-top Taste of Cincinnati serves up three days for foodies and music lovers — 40 restaurants and four stages of non-stop bands. Begins next Saturday on Central Parkway, downtown. 579-3187.

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