'Road Trip' video

'Road Trip' video
WARREN -- "Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip," a Ken Burns film for public television, is available on video in the National Packard Museum gift shop, 1899 Mahoning Ave. N.W. "Horatio's Drive" made its broadcast TV debut Monday night on PBS stations. It's about the first transcontinental trip by automobile in the United States, which occurred a century ago. The museum showed a sneak preview of the film last July during its 2003 Annual Packard Car Show. The videos sell for $19.98. DVDs also are available for $24.98. Call (330) 394-1899 for details.
Richman at Nyabinghi
YOUNGSTOWN -- Jonathan Richman, founder of the 1970s punk band The Modern Lovers, has a gentler side that he'll show Tuesday night at Nyabinghi, 1229 Salt Springs Road. Doors will open at 9. Local performer Nancy Bizzarri will precede Richman onstage at 10. She will sing as well as show her "Barbie and Ken" movies.
Richman, who plays flamenco guitar, is described as musically eccentric, but Salon.com published the following comments in defense of his songs: "Those recorded in the last 20 years have a wryness that seems exceedingly contemporary, but they're set to '50s and '60s rhythm guitar. The sentiment, also, feels too unironic to be modern, but not insipid enough to be regular old doo-wop."
'Geographic' photo exhibit
LYNDHURST -- Stills from the new book "Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs" will be on display at Contessa Gallery, Legacy Village, 24667 Cedar Road. The gallery also will sell prints and copies of the book. Chris Johns, senior illustrations editor of National Geographic and a photographer who took many cover page photos, will sign photos and books from 5 to 9 p.m. Oct. 23 and from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 24. Call the gallery at (216) 382-7800 for details.
Film fest seeks entries
CLEVELAND -- Deadline is Dec. 31 for entries in the 28th Cleveland International Film Festival, which will be March 18 to 28 in theaters around the city. Eligible films are those made after Jan. 1, 2003, and available in 35mm, Beta SP or DVD formats. Preview copies are required, either on video transfers or DVDs. Call (216) 623-3456 for information or see the Web site www.clevelandfilm.org.
Clarinetist to perform
YOUNGSTOWN -- Daniel Gilbert, second clarinetist with Cleveland Orchestra, will perform at 11 a.m. Friday in Bliss Recital Hall at Youngstown State University. Gilbert also will talk during a seminar from noon to 1 p.m. and lead a master class from 3 to 5 p.m., also in Bliss Recital Hall, which is on the first floor of Bliss Hall.
Admission is free to all sessions. Gilbert, a native New Yorker, studied at The Juilliard School and teaches at State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Club sets arts series
EAST LIVERPOOL -- Tri-State Idol II, a talent contest for local vocalists, will be the first event in Westgate Culture Club's 2003-04 arts series. The contest, which was inspired by the TV show "American Idol," will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 23.
Other events are as follows: a stage adaptation of the holiday-season story "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Anderson, 8 p.m. Nov. 12-13; vocal group The Vogues, 7 p.m. Nov. 21; "No, No, A Million Times No" by The Culture Players, March 25-26; music by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians, 7 p.m. April 1; and a poetry forum featuring works by Mary Oliver, 8 p.m. May 13. All will be in the auditorium at Westgate School, 810 W. Eighth St., East Liverpool. Call (330) 386-8765 for tickets.
Painting nets prize
CUYAHOGA FALLS -- Elaine Green of Girard took third place in the 2003 Northeast Ohio Regional Juried Painting Exhibition that's on display through Oct. 30 at Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, 2131 Front St. Green's mixed media work is titled "Long Ago and Far Away."
Notable quote
"I've done my fair share of (expletive) in my nine-year acting career and I've never read anything like what Oliver wrote." -- Colin Farrell, who's playing Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's biopic, full of praise (we think) for Stone's screenplay during an Associated Press Television News interview.