Going out

Linton series: The chamber music series features renowned violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in a program of Haydn, Beethoven and Dohnanyi, 4 p.m. today, First Unitarian Church, Linton and Reading roads, Avondale. $10-$30. 381-6868.

Sharon Draper: The award-winning author is at the Blue Manatee Children's Bookstore to sign and discuss her new young adult novel Double Dutch, 1:30 p.m. today, 3054 Madison Road, Oakley. 731-2665.

Roots rock: Magus Productions presents the highly regarded Americana artists Robbie Fulks and Bill Kirchen on a double bill at the Southgate House, 8 p.m. today, 24 E. Third St., Newport. $12-$15. 779-9462.

Staying in

TV pick: It's a Hall of Fame night, for sure, with the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of The Locket (9 p.m., Channels 12, 7) competing with The Sopranos season finale (9-10:20 p.m., HBO), and Mary Tyler Moore and Burt Reynolds in Miss Lettie and Me (8 p.m., TNT).

Critic John Kiesewetter says Frank Sinatra fans will love Sinatra: The Classic Duets with Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Dinah Shore, Dean Martin and Elvis Presley (8 p.m., Channel 48).

The goods

OzzyBobble: Didn't it just have to happen, what with the Osbourne clan so hot right now? Osbourne bobbleheads, we mean. What you have here are caricatures of Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack as 3-inch mini-bobblers ($4.99) and 7-inch talking ($12.99) and non-talking ($9.99) bobblers. Oh, and Ozzy bobble pens, too ($5.99). Get the pens at 7-11 stores; the bobbleheads at Spencer's Gifts and other retailers.

Planning ahead

24 hours out: The Theater of the Mind Play Reading Series features a professional reading of Cuttings, a new work by Tom Atkinson, 7 p.m. Monday, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. $5. 421-3555.

48 hours out: The Pat Boone Christmas Show is at the Taft Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Fifth and Sycamore streets, downtown. $25-$40. 562-4949.

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