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wandering the streets

museums and other cultural meccas

"I met Andy Warhol at a really chic party..."

There are plenty of artsy things to do in Cincinnati; you have no excuse, especially if you're under 30 years old. Start the Arts and Enjoy the Arts are 2 ways to hang out with ar-tists and still be able to pay rent. If your birth certificate states that you're a bit older, you can still enjoy what Cincinnati has to offer. Several places have "specials," like the Playhouse with half-price tickets on the day of the show or the CAC's free admission on Sundays and Mondays and discount tickets to the Cincinnati Ballet if you're on their mailing list.

Contemporary Art Center

Mercantile Center (downtown (CBD) above Walgreen's on 4th & Walnut across from where all the buses stop). Contemporary is the word. Your art teacher probably wouldn't approve, but it is expressive. Has featured Robert Maplethorpe, Yoko Ono and a freak show. A few years ago, CAC had a Mardi Gras fundraiser. Their Krewe: Lestat. Free Sundays & Mondays.

Cincinnati Art Museum

Eden Park (Mt Adams). Egyptian sarcophagus. Fashion. Musical instruments...and the stuff you expect to see in a classy/classic museum. There's a theatre in the basement and also a restaurant. You can take pictures (but you can't use your flash). Free Saturdays. Take a sweater; it's a little chilly. caveat: backpacks are verboten. There are lockers for storing them, but right now the main entrance is being renovated, so there's no access to them.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

962 Mt Adams Dr. 421-3888. Eden Park (Mt Adams). Plays of all kinds. Plays for all budgets. Go to their site for the upcoming season. Their newsletter, Prologue, appears monthly in Everybody's News. The best package is the House Party package, especially if you're a member of Start the Arts or Enjoy the Arts -- cheap good seats with pre-show munchies and a band. If you go, go early, parking in Mt Adams sucks and you have to climb many steps. (If you want to know why it's so high up, take the Playhouse tour.) Has a Baba Boudans.

Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati

1127 Vine Street (Over-the-Rine about 2 blocks south of the Warehouse) 421-3555. They do love Mr. Albee here. ETC has many contemporary plays or contemporary versions of old stuff, like a very modernized Hamlet -- his "friends" were fraternity boys. This is where Poor Superman came into the awareness of Cincinnatians (and thaks to CCV-ers had a longer run). The stage is close to the audience, and you enter at the bottom; if your seats are in the back, don't wear shoes you can't climb in.

Music Hall

1229 Elm St (Over-the-Rine). All kinds of performances. Opera, Symphony, May Fest.

Memorial Hall

Elm St next door to Music Hall (Over-the-Rine).
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Arnoff Center (Ohio Arts Center)

Walnut & 7th (downtown CBD). Plays, concerts, ballet Broadyway series. Often has lunchtime events where you can watch a rehearsal, chat with the performers and still make it back to work on time. Home to the CAA, the Cincinnati Arts Association.

SCPA

School for Creative and Performing Arts. Sycamore St (Over-the-Rhine). Actually, the plays are often performed elsewhere, like at the Taft (4th & Sycamore). The most talented performers you'll ever see (even though Carmen Electra is an alumna).

Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County

Vine St & 8th (downtown CBD). Many locations, but this is the main one. Recently remodeled. Has several booksales during the year (like the one on Fountain Square in June). Lends books, records, audio & video cassettes, CDs. Has computers for searching InfoTrak, Newspaper Abstracts, the internet and more. Has a lunch lecture series, concerts and loads of family activies at the branches. Has it's own BBS.

Final Fridays

This is an event which takes place at the Pendleton Gallery and at several galleries on Main Street (Over-the-Rhine). It's free (except for parking) and more than likely you'll get complementary munchies while you wander about the galleries. The view of downtown from the top floor of the Pendleton is not to be missed. Start at the Pendleton Galleries, then go over to Main Street.

Union Terminal

Dalton St (downtown - west). That big bowl-looking thing you pass going down I-75. An actual train station in the 50s, Union Terminal is now home to the Natural History Museum and an OmniMax theatre.

Esquire Cinema

Ludlow in Clifton (Gaslight). "Art House" movie theatre. Shows small and artsy movies daily. Discount on Tuesday.

Cincinnati Gardens

Seymour & Carthage (Golf Manor/Norwood/Bond Hill). Yes this is the home of Xavier basketball and Mighty Duck hockey, but it is also the land of Computer shows and Gun & Knife shows. About every 3 months, the computer expo people hold a show there. It's $6 to get in, but the software and hardware are priced low. The Garden's has been known to have concerts, too.

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tv or not tv

in the winter, when I'm broke, Saturday mornings....

this is network tv. some of us have to chose between cable and eyeliner

kill your tv?

* we all know days are 6am to 6am. if somethings listed as 1am it's technically the next calendar day.

filing the hours

not necessarily horror or SF oriented

Travels in Europe

48 (PBS) weekdays 7:30pm. Some wacky guy from so far north he sounds Canadian travels Europe and gets paid for it. He loves musems and architecture. Lovely scenery and mouth-watering native dishes.

Martha's Sewing Room

48 (PBS) Saturday 12:30pm. Martha Pullen (not to be confused with Martha Stewart) loves lace and makes all kinds of stuff from it. She ends every show with a visit to her "grandmother's trunk" and tells about old lacy clothes and heirloom sewing.

Jerry Springer

5 (NBC) weekdays 3pm. Our former mayor plays host to freakier people than you'll see at any club. I watch for clothing ideas; those TVs are always fashionable.

Jenny Jones, Ricky Lake, Sally

all weekdays

They all have a "let's-make-over-the-freaky-people" fetish. Same as for Jerry: good for getting fashion ideas -- the "befores" that is.

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