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        Enquirer music critic Larry Nager hosts an online chat with Dallas Moore talking with readers about his career, recordings, current projects and anything else anyone asks. Log on to Cincinnati.Com today from 12:30 to 1 p.m. and join in.

Going out

        CSO: A little touch of New York here in Cincinnati when the May Festival Chorus and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra preview the show they're taking to Carnegie Hall: Benjamin Britten's massive War Requiem under the baton of James Conlon. 8 p.m. today-Saturday, Music Hall, $12-$51. 381-3300.

        FearFest: Paramount's Kings Island begins four weekends of over-the-top haunted happenings and late-night coaster riding (they're also haunted) throughout the park. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Fridays-Saturdays through Oct. 27, $16.99-$24.99. 754-5700.

        Theater: The Miami University Theater Department opens Rolf Fjeldes' adaptation of Ibsen's classic, A Doll House. 8 p.m. today, Gates-Abegglen Theatre, Oxford. Performances continue through Oct. 13. $5-$8. (513) 529-3200.

        Dallas Moore: The often honored and ever so popular “outlaw country” artist does an unplugged set for the CAMMYs at the Cincinnati Art Museum series, showcasing winners of the Enquirer's local music awards. 5:30-9 p.m., $6-$8. 721-2787.

Staying in

        TV picks: After a three-week delay, WB premieres its Friday comedy lineup with the charming Maybe It's Me (8:30 p.m., Channel 64) about 15-year-old Molly Stage (Reagan Dale Neis), who wants to disown her wacky parents (Fred Willard, Julia Sweeney), obnoxious older brothers, bratty twin sisters and a senile grandmother.

        • TV Critic John Kiesewetter also says WB debuts Reba McEntire's Reba, which plays teen pregnancy for laughs(9 p.m.), and Bob Saget as a widower on Raising Dad (9:30).

Hot tickets

        Britney here: Tickets for Britney Spears' Nov. 10 concert at Firstar Center are $77, $51.50 and $41.50, on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Firstar box office, Ticketmaster outlets, by phone (562-4949) and online (www.ticketmaster.com). Tickets purchased at the box office do not carry a service charge. O-Town, featuring former Cincinnatian Dan Miller, is scheduled to open the 7:30 p.m. show.

Planning Ahead

        24 hours out: It's clean-cut, it's high-energy, it's pop at its best when Oval Opus is back in town after a stint on the road. Domestic Problems and Georgia Ave. open the show. 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Bogart's, 2621 Vine St., Corryville, $9-$11. 562-4949.

        48 hours out: Erie Avenue and Edwards Road are taken over by 190 booths full of artists, artisans and craftsmen for the juried Hyde Park Square Art Show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. 321-7278.

        Also 48 hours out: The final installment of the Taft Museum of Art's Fall Jazz in the Garden series unleashes trumpeter Al Noriand his quintet, 2:30 p.m. Sunday,316 Pike St., downtown, free. 241-0343.

       Contact Jim Knippenberg by phone: 768-8513; fax: 768-8330; e-mail: knipenquirer@yahoo.com.

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