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EDITOR: MICHAEL ROBERTS, 369-1011 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1989 SECTION i i "irLZ7 il )j Judy MarkeyD-3 TelevisionD-5 WeddingsD-15 Jim Knippenberg Tipoff 0 tm Ull IK 7-4 If 11 VOL What's new this summer BY SARA PEARCE The Cincinnati Enquirer Keeping up with what's new at riverfront restaurants is as dizzying as watching a three-ring water circus. In Ring No. 1: the Dee Felice Big Band performing at an outdoor nightclub called Froggy's while upstairs, at Froggy's River Grille, diners eat pasta, pizza and salads. In Ring No. 2: a catfish farm transformed into a Chinese restaurant and steakhouse.

In Ring No. 3: diners cooking steak and lobster on hot rocks and bellying up to a "claw bar" for stone and King crab claws. During the past decade, the Ohio River has spawned more restaurants than fish. It began in 1976 when the sternwheeler Mike Fink was converted into a floating restaurant. Since then, nine riverfront restaurants have opened and more are yet to come.

Although only one new restaurant opens this summer, that doesn't mean that river dining has reached a low tide. Each year, the river restaurateurs try to make a big splash by adding something new for the busy summer season. Last spring, two barges Las Brisas and Coconut Joe's were attached to The Waterfront for a cool $2 million. Mike Fink had a $1 million face lift. A barge with a nightclub dubbed C.

Dundee's Outback Club was added to Crockett'sRiver Cafe. The action wasn't confined to restaurants with a downtown view. Harbour Lights opened down river at the Anderson Ferry marina (it has since moved to Sayler A patio, pool and marina were added to the Fore Aft in Sayler Park. Up river, O'Fallon's Developers plan more restaurants "The more the merrier" ought to be the motto of riverfront developers. Here's a sampling of what's to come: Ocean Ferry A 22-year-old ocean liner will occupy the last spot on Newport's riverfront, east of the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge.

Site construction begins in late spring, says Laura Long, Newport's director of development. The seven-deck liner is larger than a football field. It will house a hotel, conferencebanquet facilities for up to 400 people, a restaurant seating 220, a bar and informal outdoor dining areas. The ship served as a ferry between England and the Isle of Man, carrying people and cars. It will be towed from Liverpool this summer.

Opens May, 1990. Overflow This project has been stalled for years, but the partners hope to begin site construction this spring just west of the Suspension Bridge on the Ohio side of the river. It will be a floating restaurantnightclub similar to The Waterfront. An opening date has not been set. RiverCenter This $100 million complex is just west of the Suspension Bridge in Covington.

It will house offices, a hotel, nightclubs and restaurants. The latter will make up The Landing at RiverCenter, along with a $6 million park. There will be a football-field-sized barge with restaurants, live entertainment and shops. A replica side-wheeler is being built from scratch. It will be twice the size of the neighboring Mike Fink and will hold two restaurants and two nightclubs.

Opens May, 1990. Tamsui The International Catfish Ranch in Bromley, is being converted into a Chinese restaurant and steak house. The main dining room will seat 130 people. There will be outdoor seating on a patio and deck, with appetizers being offered in a gazebo. Two of the catfish tanks have been covered, the other two are being converted into fish ponds.

Opens this June. SARA PEARCE -gy ypgaaiiBa ssBE'ne jACSr Spring flings As if flowers blooming and grass greening weren't enough signs of spring, there's also this: A weekend filled with more to do than anyone could possibly have time for. Such as Take a hike March into spring: With March of Dimes Walk America, right? Right. It's Sunday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., starting and ending at Bicentennial Commons. Stretching in a robust 30-kilometer loop (18.6 mile) to Clifton, into Walnut Hills, Eden Park, downtown, Kentucky and back to Sawyer Point, March expects 7,000 walkers who will bring in $400,000.

Call 821-WALK; late comers can sign up at 8 a.m. Sunday and pay a $15 fee instead of gathering pledges. Hikers leave at 9 a.m. and get back, well, later. Non-hikers are invited to see them off, then cheer their return, which is accompanied by bands, snacks and panting.

Note to hikers: For a festive touch at hike's end, pick a name from the phone book and mail them your socks; be sure to include a note explaining that an article in the Post said to do it. Wildlife Wonders Slither into spring: Only snakes and selected speakers of the house actually slither, but you can at least get the spirit at Sharon Woods' Reptile Weekend full of animals, games, hikes, info and even hands-on work with snakes, lizards and turtles. Centered mostly at the Visitor's Center, highlights include slide show and demonstration with a herd or whatever the heck you call a bunch of reptiles at 7:30 p.m. today; 10 a.m. games and 2 p.m.

creek hike Saturday; a 2 p.m. Sunday showing of exotic reptiles with the Herpetological Society's Dedden Family. Events are free, but a park sticker is required, though they waive the requirement if you let them put two green snakes and a toad in your underwear. A word from Will Enter, stage right, into spring: Suffering from Shakespeare-a-phobia induced by some demented teacher who tried to beat it into you rather than just let the wonder of it all work its magic? Best cure in the world is the current Much Ado About Nothing at the Playhouse through May 14. All it takes is 15 minutes of watching honest and phobia's cured.

It's that good. The comedy in the sense that there aren't dead people in tights all over the stage at the end as in tragedy plays nightly except Mondays; tickets, are available by calling 421-3888. All of which reminds us of a wonderful Much Ado About Nothing joke about wedding nights and tape measures which you'll have to remind us to tell the next time the management's out of town. A song in the west Sing into spring: Nothing like swinging in with a song in your heart, 'eh? Indeed, says Western Hills High School, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of its first graduating class with The West Hi Story: One More Time. The revue, sung, danced and played all by West Hi grads, is produced and directed by Pat Sanders Ruehlman, conducted by Andrew Brady, who has been at West Hi several thousand years, and Milt Sullivan, and emceed by grad Bill Nimmo; it includes soloists, small groups, and even a reunion of a 1934 quartet with Judge Mel Rueger, hardware superstar Milt Hader, the Rev.

Robert Scully and Nimmo. It's free at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at West Hi's auditorium. Getting booked Browse into spring: But do it on the cheap with a trip to Walnut Hills High School's Book Sale, which benefits student enrichment programs. Just about everything is available here: Mystery, romance, classy fiction, trashy fiction, how-to, self-help, non-fiction of all sorts, maybe even a few old textbooks for those who always wanted to abuse a statistics book or something.

Warning: Do not abuse a sociology book; they'll find out and send our old Intro to Sociology prof out to bore you to death in retaliation. It's in the school gym 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Landing was remodeled. A few projects fell through or were delayed.

The Islands II was sold the day it was to open and two months later re-emerged as Newport Beach. The August, 1988, opening of The Montgomery Inn at The Boathouse, the first riverfront restaurant on the Ohio side of the river, was postponed. The restaurant finally opened in February. Newport's Seafood Cafe was scrapped. Now, a ferry from England will be towed over in its place.

And the Overflow, another Cincinnati-side restaurant, still is treading water. But enough about the past. Here's a look at what's new this summer: Barleycorn's Yacht Club Next week, yet another barge will be added to the two already docked at Newport's Riverboat Row. The new barge is an open-air dining area for 150 people. The menu covers all the options from potato skins to mesquite-grilled chicken to New York strip steak.

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Reservations are not accepted. Crockett'sRiver Cafe Last year's addition, C. Dundee's Outback Club, reopens May 20. The open-air barge seats 180, has a full bar and features live entertainment.

The remodeling of Crockett's, the outdoor dining area above the River Cafe on the original barge, has been completed. There now are glass garage doors that can be lowered during stormy weather. Table cloths, uniforms and even the (Please see RIVER, Page D-10) Arenas eye Stones, Starr tours The Coliseum may be aced out by its neighbor, Riverfront Stadium. Sources in the local concert industry have noted that six dates in September Sept. 11-16 are being held on the stadium's calendar for the Stones' 1989 tour, which starts Labor Day.

Stadium manager Glenn Redmer said "no comment" when asked about those dates. Jules Belkin, whose Cleveland-based Belkin Productions has promoted Rolling Stones concerts over the years in Cleveland, said, "I am holding no Stones dates in Cincinnati. Nothing definitive has been booked for the Stones. Nothing. Zero.

Zip." A Stones concert in that six-date window would fit the stadium's calendar. The Cincinnati Reds complete a homestand Sept. 10 and are on the road until Sept. 19. Between Sept.

10 and Sept. 19, the only event on the stadium's schedule is a big one, the Cincinnati Bengals' Sept. 17 home opener with the Pittsburgh Steelers. A hold on a calendar does not mean that a concert will occur. In 1988, the stadium was holding dates for Van Halen's Monsters of Rock concert tour.

Those shows never material- BY CLIFF RADEL The Cincinnati Enquirer The British are coming again! Twenty-five years and countless gray hairs after the first British invasion of American pop music, the same Englishmen are returning to these shores. The Rolling Stones, the Who, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are planning to tour America in the summer or fall. Three of the four may make it to Cincinnati. Ringo Starr is assembling an all-star band for his tour. The former Beatle will have Bruce Springsteen's favorite saxman Clarence Clemons, guitarist Joe Walsh, bass guitarist Jack Bruce and Billy Preston on organ.

The all-Starrs hit the road this summer and, according to River-bend's general manager, Mike Smith, the amphitheater is "very interested in Ringo. We are definitely looking into the possibility of booking him." The Who's reunion tour is definitely skipping Cincinnati. The Who's lone Ohio date is July 19 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. Another former Beatle, Paul McCartney, is making tour plans. His last American tour played the Colise Cincinnati's video hits on the way BY JIM DeBROSSE The Cincinnati Enquirer If you didn't catch Cincinnati's starring role in two recent movies, now's your chance to see the old hometown and maybe a few of your friends on video.

Eight Men Out and Fresh Horses, both filmed in Greater Cincinnati in 1987, are being shipped to video stores this week and will arrive no later than Monday. "A lot of people have been asking about Fresh Horses for a long time," says Bob Zemsky, owner of the Premiere Video chain. University of Cincinnati students are particularly interested in scenes shot on the bridge outside Tangeman University Center and inside Sidall Cafeteria and the old Chemistry building, Zemsky Hundreds of UC students were used as extras in the movie. Fresh ses also opens with a flattering sh of downtown Cincinnati that fea -es the entire length of the riverfront at sunset. "That kind of (national) exposure is what we consider the second-tier plus" of luring filmmakers to the area, says Tom Kern of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce.

"The first (plus), of course, is the economic impact on the community." Jim Knippenberg's column appears Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Molfy Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy in Fresh Horses, shot here. Although about a third of Eight Men Out was shot in Cincinnati mostly in Over-the-Rhine and Queensgate the movie won't sell the city, since the locations doubled for 1919 Chicago. "I don't think many people will know it's Cincinnati, unless they read the credits," Kern says. Video store owners say they don't plan to buy extra copies of either movie despite their Cincinnati backdrop.

Zemsky says the two are competing against a host of new releases, including Crossing Delancey, Gorillas in the Mist, Cocktail and Running on Empty. Meanwhile, the movie that has done Cincinnati proudest Rain Man continues on a box-office roll ($155 million in 18 weeks) after winning four Oscars. Its video release is expected sometime in August or September. There's a chance that Ringo Starr, top, and Paul McCartney may stop here on their tours. ized.

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"And we would definitely put in a bid for him to return," says Coliseum President Bill Barnhill. "I've had word from promoters that he's going to do a late fallearly winter tour. So, I'm not holding any dates for him as yet." But Barnhill has made room on his calendar for the Rolling Stones. He has been contacted about doing "one, maybe two nights in the middle of December." If a Stones' concert takes place at the stadium, it will be only the second rock show in the facility's history and the first rock concert there in 11 years. The first took place Aug.

16, 1978, when the Eagles, Steve Miller and Eddie Money played to a packed house. A Stones concert at the stadium or the coliseum would mark the first time the band has played Cincinnati since 1965. Capsule reviews, Page D-2..

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