Getting out this weekend? Expect company.

        If you're headed for Central Parkway and Taste of Cincinnati, prepare to compete with a couple hundred thousand other people for food and entertainment. The Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cincinnati predicts that 500,000 men, women and children will visit the three-day event, now in its 23rd year.

Skateboarders will show off their skills this weekend at Sawyer Point. (Associated Press file photo) | ZOOM |

        You can wander from there to the riverfront to find another crowd at the 2002 Mobile Skatepark Series, with professional skateboarders and BMX riders, Saturday through Monday at Sawyer Point.

        If you're not in the mood to eat, you can hop over to the Frogs exhibit opening Saturday at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Thirty species of colorful, exotic hoppers from around the world are spending the summer here.

        But maybe you want to be in a different kind of crowd. If you'd rather listen than yell, hear Harry Connick Jr., who opens a sound season at Riverbend Music Center.

        If you like to yell and splash, try Coney Island and the Beach, both opening for the season on Saturday. Kings Island also moves into its daily schedule.

        If you don't want to get wet, then keep your eyes on the clouds Saturday. Channel 9 weatherman Pete Delkus predicts rain.

        At least Sunday and Monday should be partly sunny. High temperatures: 76 Saturday, 72 Sunday, 80 Monday.

        Not in the mood for eating or skating or splashing?

        Try the final Cincinnati May Festival concert, Saturday at Music Hall, or Insomnia, a new Al Pacino-Robin Williams-Hilary Swank movie at AMC 20, Cinema 10, Danbarry Middletown, Great Escape 14, National Amusements.

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