Chamber music: The venerable Linton Chamber Series repeats Sunday's concert at its popular Linton Encore Series. Catch 21-year-old wonder Helen Huang on Schubert's Trout Quintet. Other soloists include violinist Cho-liang Lin, cellist Eric Kim, violist Masao Kawasaki and double-bassist DaXun Zhang. 7:30 p.m. today, Congregation Ohav Shalom, 8100 Cornell Road, Blue Ash, $30. 489-3399.

Signing: Kathy Y. Wilson, CityBeat's sassy columnist who also shows up on Hot Seat (7:30 a.m. Sundays, Channel 9) and sometimes does guest shots on All Things Considered, chats it up on the Mercantile Library's Literary Lunch series. Her topic? Her new book, Your Negro Tour Guide. Noon today, Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut St., $5 for nonmembers, free for members, box lunch available for $8. 621-0717 for reservations.

Suicide Girls: The wonderfully raucous Suicide Girls - of Web site fame - hit town with their Suicide Girls Live Burlesque Tour. Six of the 250 women featured on the Web site will be here giving performances they scripted, some based upon traditional burlesque vignettes, all set to a soundtrack of punky type music from such bands as the Ramones, Modest Mouse and the Rapture. 9 p.m. today, Southgate House, 24 E. Third St., Newport, $10. (859) 431-2201.

Hot tickets

Zoo talk: Tickets for the Cincinnati Zoo's popular Barrows Conservation Lecture Series are on sale now. The lineup: Mike Phillips, March 11, talking on "Wolves, Falcons and Trout: A Private Effort to Save Nature"; Meg Lowman, rainforest ecologist, April 29, talking on rainforest canopy research; and Jack Horner, paleontologist, June 3, speaking on "Dinosaur Behavior: T-Rex Style." Tickets are $12, $10 for zoo members, $8 students from the Cintas Center ticket office or print out the form at www.cincinnatizoo.org and mail it in.

Apollo stars: Believe it or not, there are still tickets left for Showtime at the Apollo, featuring 12 local acts that won the right to compete at auditions last month. 8 p.m. Saturday at the Aronoff Center's Procter & Gamble Hall. They're $20-$35 at 241-7469, Cincinnati Arts Association ticket offices at the Aronoff Center and Music Hall, Ticketmaster outlets and www.cincinnatiarts.org.

Planning ahead

24 hours out: The hilarious international hit Late Night Catechism, all about a nun teaching adult catechism class to a room full of "students" - that would be the audience - opens its one-week run. 8 p.m. Tuesday, continues through Sunday, Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center, 650 Walnut St., downtown. $37-$45. (513) 621-2787.

48 hours out: Ensemble Theatre's popular Off-Center/On-Stage series, tackling plays with difficult and edgy themes, opens Breath, Boom, all about an African-American girl looking back on her life in a girl gang. It's a regional premiere by Kia Corthron. 8 p.m. Wednesday, continues through Feb. 28, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, $10. (513) 421-3555.

72 hours out: Northern Kentucky University goes retro with a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar, the vintage rock opera depicting Christ's last week on Earth. 8 p.m. Thursday, continues through Feb. 29, Northern Kentucky University, Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, $10, $9 NKU faculty/staff, $8 seniors, $6 students. (859) 572-5464.

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