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Milt; i nb iiP' The Cincinnati Enquirer HI' FE trtaayjuiyzi, iwb js Everything's Coming Up Raspberry Join Us For Our Fest Annual Raspberr July 20-23 Hold the veggies Folk artist says lack of greens leaves him just shy of normal Batesville, Indiana Succulent red raspberries will be on our menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Enjoy raspberry-enhanced entrees, croissants, pancakes, waffles, pies, cobblers, and cakes. There's even chilled raspberry soup, raspberry vinaigrette dressing for your salad, and raspberry margaritas! ArtsCraftsAmish BoothsAnd More! (Batesville is only 45 minutes from Cincinnati located off 1-74, Exit 149, follow signs to Main Street) Notify the nutritionists: Folk singer John Prine has come up with a medical breakthrough. After years of searching, Prine has pinpointed the source of the out-of-whack characters who crawl from his mind and into his songs. "If 'cause I never eat vegetables," Prine says.

"Not eating vegetables puts me a degree or two on either THOR side of what normal. CHRISTENSEN If that's true, fledgling songwriters fjerman Hottfe Pigmeat keeps on plugging Cincinnati blues pianist Pigmeat Jarrett is a source of constant amazement At age 95, he still tears up and down the keyboard with utter precision. And even though doctors diagnosed him with cancer last month, he vows to continue performing. "His energy level is still high anytime he's at the piano," says Carolyn Clark, his manager. "A lot of people said his show (at the Queen City Blues Festival) was the best they'd ever heard him." Clark has stepped up her efforts to get Jarretf music heard nationwide.

She recently wrote letters to Quincy Jones, Clint Eastwood and Ted Turner asking them to help spread the word of Pigmeat And she's trying to arrange for the pianist to record a live album. (Anyone interested in lending an ivory-keyboard piano for the recording can call Clark at 221-5527). "A lot of historians will be listening to his music 100 years from now," Clark says. "But I think Pigmeat should have the national spotlight while he's still alive." Jarrett plays Wednesday nights at AUyn's (3538 Columbia Parkway, Columbia Tusculum, 871-5779). Weezer Isn't wacky For information or reservations, please call toll-free 1-800-445-4939 would do well to remove all green things from their diet Prine's off-kilter lyrics make up the backbone of some of the wittiest songs in pop music.

Prine performs at 8 p.m. Sunday at Coney Island's Moonlite Gardens (6201 Kellogg 7494949) with a backing quintet that includes ex-John Mellencamp guitarist Larry Crane. The singer, whose parents hail from Muhlenberg County in western Kentucky, began his career with a bang in Chicago in the early 70s. The media dubbed him "the new Bob Dylan," a term that perplexed Prine. "I never quite figured why they were looking for a new Dylan there wasn't anything wrong with the old one," he says.

Bette Midler recorded Prine's eloquent song about the elderly, "Hello In There," and Bonnie Raitt covered his "Angel of Montgomery." But he faded into semi-obscurity until 1991, when The Missing Years sold 350,000 copies and won him his first Grammy, for best folk record. Prine fills his new album Lost Dogs Mixed Blessings with ornery geezers and caustic gents who speak in non sequiturslike: "Perfectly crafted popular hit songs never use the wrong rhymeYou'd think that waitress could get my iJBX'Cti 33 i 33 Weezer which plays Monday at Bogarfs (2621 Vine St, Corryville, 7494949) has officially banned writers from using "quirky," "goofy" or "wacky" to describe the band, according to its biography. Fair enough. Lef just say Weezer writes great pop songs (which happen to be kind of, urn, nutty) and leave it at that The quartet also makes wonderful videos. "Buddy Holly," its loopy homage order right the first time." Prine, 48, denies he's as cranky as the folks in his songs.

Weezer plays Bogart's Monday. to Happy Days (directed "People think Tm bitter, but they just don't get my sense of humor," he says. Tm just an opti 0 mistic pes- simist By ting everything is totally wrong and screwed up, I'm starting out on by Spike Jonz), was the funniest clip to hit MTV in ages. Teenage Fanclub, which performs before Weezer, has never lived up to the massive hoopla that came with its debut album, Bandwagonesque (Spin proclaimed it the best rock album of 1991, over Nirvana's Nevermind). But never mind the failed media expectations.

On its third disc, Grand Prix, the Scottish quartet still shows a knack for winsome melodies and soaring fuzz-tone guitars. That Dog opens the show at 8 p.m. Shorttakes Bad Brains plays Wednesday at Bogart's. The seminal reggaejazzpunk band from Washington, D.C. has re-formed with original singer H.R, and released a new album, God of Love.

Gov't Mule, led by Warren Haynes and Allen Woody of the Allman Brothers, performs Wednesday night at the Garage in Caddy's Complex (230 W. Pete Rose Way, downtown, 721-3636). While Haynes sticks mostly to playing guitar in the Allmans, he drives Gov't Mule with his gospel-drenched vocals. Big Sugar, a biracial band from Toronto, plays Cream-styled blues-rock tonight at the Garage. The group thunders through Al Green's "I'm a Ram" and Traffic's "Dear Mr.

Fantasy" on its first album, 500 Pounds. in OMNIMAX RECORDED IN 6 CHANNEL DIGITAL SOUND a positive note. IT'S THE ULTIMATE CONCERT FILM EXPERIENCE Prine plays Coney Sunday. 89 minutes of phenominal Rolling Stones concert footage, projected onto the 72-foot domed OMNIMAX screen with 15,200 watts of sonic impact. Rolling Stones "At The Max" now showing at the OMNIMAX Theater.

Showtimes: Thursdays, 9 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays: 10 p.m. Advance tickets may be purchased at Museum Center, or call 749-4949. For more information, call 287-7000 Presemedby: Send night life news to Thor Christensen, The Night Watchman, Tempo, The Cincinnati Enquirer, 312 Elm Cincinnati 45202; fax: r- Nr The Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater i.