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Bar Tour: Burgess Byrd and Giles Davies are among the best young stage talent in town who will be showcased tonight on The Bar Tour, the final entry in the 2002-03 Cincinnati Enquirer Footlights series.

Start at Kaldi's at 7:30 p.m., stroll on to Hamburger Mary's (starting at 8 p.m.) and Arnold's Bar & Grill (starting at 8:30 p.m). Five live sets on the half-hour at each location with an after-tour party at Arnold's.

Admission $5 at the door, $10 for an all-tour and after-party pass. Proceeds benefit the League of Cincinnati Theatres.

Jackie Demaline

Countdown

Free Fridays: Cincinnati Museum Center kicks off its third season of free Fridays this week. That means free admission to all three museums from 4-8 p.m. Museums are: Cincinnati History Museum, Cinergy Children's Museum and the Museum of Natural History & Science. It does not include special exhibits and Omnimax films. Other free Fridays are June 20, July 18, Aug. 8, Sept. 19.

Concert series: Folk trio Raison D'Etre will again host Behringer-Crawford Museum's Coffee Cup Series, on consecutive Thursdays from July 10-Aug. 28. Here's the sked: July 10, singer/songwriter Bill Miller; July 17, Sweet Alice Hoskins (blues); July 24, the Juggernaut Jug Band; July 31, Steve Crews Trio (jazz); Aug. 7. Ceol Cridhe (Celtic); Aug. 14, guitar masters Eddie Pennington and Greg Schaber; Aug. 21, Mohenjo Daro (East Indian sounds); Aug. 28: Homer Ledford and the Cabin Creek Band (bluegrass/old time).

Series tickets are $40, $31 for museum members; $23/$15 for students. Call (859) 491-4003 to buy a subscription.

More information: Web site. The museum is at 1600 Montague Road in Devou Park, Covington.

Concerts on sale

Tickets for these concerts go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ticketmaster outlets, phone (513) 562-4949 and online at www.ticketmaster.com.

U.S. Bank Arena: American Idols Live, 7:30 p.m. July 13. Prices are $28, $38, $48.

Riverbend: Hootie & the Blowfish with Big Head Todd & the Monsters, 7:30 p.m. July 14. $27.75 and $17.75.

Fraze Pavilion: A second Sheryl Crow show has been added to the Kettering venue's calendar: 8 p.m. July 11. (Her July 10 show sold out.) Tickets: $45, $40, $25. Limit four per person.

Movies opening Friday

Cowboy Bebop

Down With Love

The Dancer Upstairs

Max

Russian Ark

Coming Friday in Weekend

Wing Ding: Cincinnati Art Museum's new Cincinnati Wing opens Saturday with a big Wing Ding. Plus a look at who's creating art for the Wing right now.