Going out

The Donnas: The modern rock favorites with the big sound hit town with opening act Rooney. 8:30 p.m. today, Bogart's, 2621 Vine St., Corryville, $23.50-$25. 562-4949.

Home & Garden: The Cincinnati Home & Garden show - chock full of more than 350 exhibitors showing landscaping ideas, bathroom goodies, furniture and more - continues 5-9 p.m. today, Albert B. Sabin Cincinnati Convention Center, Fifth and Elm streets, downtown,

$3-$10. 281-0022.

On TV

Top pick: Hey, it's Cagney & Lacey! Sharon Gless guests stars on Judging Amy as a long-time friend and former co-worker of Maxine (Tyne Daly). All we can say is that the reunion doesn't go well when Sally (Gless) critiques Maxine's unconventional work ethics

(10 p.m., Channels 12, 7).

Critic John Kiesewetter also says the girls drive Nick (Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys) back to his college dorm on 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter

(8 p.m., Channel 9, 2).

The goods

DVDs: To whip up the troops for the upcoming X-Men 2 (opening May 2), stores will be stocked with a juiced-up DVD edition of the original

X-Men 1.5, says Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk.

Indie-film fans are zeroed in on Robert Forster's wonderful performance in Diamond Men, and the highly regarded Inuit feature Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.

The Homegrown Bad Movie Film Festival reveals how terrible Madonna really was in husband Guy Ritchie's remake of Swept Away.

CDs: Rapper 50 Cent jumped the gun and released his album last week, so today's biggie is singer/songwriter John Mayer's Any Given Thursday (Sony/Aware; $19.98) a two-CD live set including new songs.

Other hotties include:

George Strait - For the Last Time Live (MCA; $18.98).

Massive Attack - 100th Window ($18.98; Virgin).

Vince Gill - Next Big Thing (MCA; $18.98).

Kenny Lattimore and Chante Moore - Things that Lovers Do (Arista; $18.98)

The Essential Ozzy Osbourne (Sony; $24.98).

Planning ahead

24 hours out: Just in time for Valentine's Day, Stagecrafters of the Jewish Community Center open Bernard Slade's sometimes mushy romance Same Time, Next Year. 8 p.m. Wednesday, Brookwood Retirement Community, 12100 Reed Hartman Highway, Sycamore Township, $9. 351-1234.

48 hours out: Mainstage Opera at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music sails onto the high Cs with Mozart's monumental Marriage of Figaro. Opening 8 p.m. Thursday, Patricia Corbett Theater, UC, $13-$22. 556-4183.

72 hours 'til Friday: Tony Danza brings his cabaret song-and-dance show to the Belterra Casino Resort for two nights,

8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Switzerland County, Ind., $30-$35. (888) 235-8377.

E-mail jknippenberg@enquirer.com