Saturday Night at the Movies

Fountain Square has announced their movie line-up for Saturday Night at the Movies!

Here it is:
(First movie starts at 7:30 PM and the second movie starts at 9:30 PM)
May 31: The Rocketeer; Top Gun
June 7: The Sound of Music
June 14: Cars; Days of Thunder
June 21: Hercules; My Big, Fat, Greek, Wedding
June 28: Spy Kids; Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery
July 5: A Bug's Life; Independence Day
July 12: Robots; I, Robot
July 19: Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius; Batman Begins
July 26: The Goonies; Pirates of the Carribean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
August 2: Aladdin; The Mummy
August 9: Mulan; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
August 16: Mary Poppins; Mrs. Doubtfire
August 23: James and the Giant Peach; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
August 30: The Little Mermaid; Splash
September 6: Rudy; The Waterboy

I am totally excited about the line-up. Some really good choices. No doubt I will be there on June 7 for The Sound of Music! (And July 26, August 30, September 8 . . .)

May Festival

So I enjoyed my May Festival experience on Saturday. Meridian 13113 has been blogging about here experience as a member of the chorus and see gave an insider's review of Saturday's performance here. She described it as a "snoozer" but I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

To get an idea of what it was like, check out this YouTube video of a performance of Beethovan's 9th Symphony from Brazil. Close your eyes and just picture it in Music Hall. (Cameras and video recording devices are not allowed at May Festival.)

Avril-Bleh

Dave has some photos too but I was in the store on Saturday and was told that occupancy inspections were set for today. If they passed they'd be opening possibly as early as Tuesday.

Weekend Warm-Up: May 16 – 18

My recommendations for something to do this weekend

There are a lot of cool things going on in Cincinnati this weekend from the Reds Hot Weekend with the Reds vs. the Indians at Great American Ball Park to Beer Barons Weekend up in the northern suburbs. But for me it is all about commencement of May Festival. From their website:

"The May Festival is the oldest continuous choral festival in the Western Hemisphere and one of the only true festivals that remain in our country today. Featuring the May Festival Chorus and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Festival presents marvelously concentrated choral repertoire rarely found in the usual concert season."

"Established in 1873, the May Festival is directly responsible for the development of Cincinnati’s modern musical life. Music Hall, the city’s primary concert venue, was built specifically to house the Festival's performances in 1878, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the fifth oldest orchestra in the United States, can trace its lineage back to this great tradition."

The Festival opens on Friday with performances over two weekends. This Saturday they are presenting Beethovan's 9th Symphony, sung in German. I'm giddy with excitement. I've got my tickets. How about you?

For a detailed list of performances and ticket information, check out their website linked above.

For more on Reds Hot Weekend, check out UrbanCincy's post. And click here for another article in the Enquirer on Beer Barons Weekend.

"The cheese coney looks good . . ."

Second Sundays on Main . . . in the Rain

This past weekend's Second Sunday on Main was a little wet and by the time I got there, there wasn't much going on. I ended up just taking some pictures of some cool buildings.


5chw4r7z, you didn't miss much.

Friday Night in the ‘Nati

I am sometimes struck by how odd (in a good way) an evening in this city can be. Take Saturday night.

I went to dinner at Martino’s on Vine. It was packed full of mostly (and I’m guessing heterosexual) males watching and cheering on the Pittsburgh Penguins as they played the Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL postseason. That was followed by a walk across the street to Bogarts to see mostly women watch a sold out Tegan & Sara concert. (PS: The concert was very good!) That then was followed by drinks at Shooters where mostly males dressed as females performed to a largely male (and I’m guessing homosexual) crowd. It was a fun night but I was just struck by dichotomous nature of the groups.

Here is a Tegan and Sara video: