Former teen idol Frankie Avalon kicks off the Monday Musical Club series tonight at 8 at Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave., Youngstown. Call (330) 743-2717 for ticket information. k

Former teen idol Frankie Avalon kicks off the Monday Musical Club series tonight at 8 at Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave., Youngstown. Call (330) 743-2717 for ticket information. k
Tickets went sale today for R & amp;B singer Kem, who will perform at Cleveland's State Theatre at 8 p.m. Nov. 9. Prices are $45, $40 and $25. Go to www.playhousesquare.com or call (216) 241-6000.
Looking for a place for the whole family to go to start a gorgeous fall weekend? Check out the Oakhill Ribfest, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Oakhill Renaissance Place (the old Southside Hospital). Local radio personality A.C. McCullough will be MC, and entertainment includes performances by the bands Soundoctrine and Jamstrate, as well as a talent show. Also on the schedule will be karaoke by R-T Audio, ribs by Charlie Staples, clowns, balloons, face painting, a bouncy castle for the kids and frozen custards. Members of the Youngstown Steelhounds will be on hand, giving autographs. Admission is free and there is plenty of parking.
Neil Labute's play, "Autobahn," starts at 8 at Kent State University Trumbull Campus Theater. Call (330) 847-8700 for ticket information. "Autobahn" features seven vignettes set in the front seat of a car. Each explores the ethos of perception and relationship, from a make-out session gone awry to a kidnapping thinly disguised as a road trip.
Rusted Root will perform at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Music Hall at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 25. Tickets go on sale at noon today through Ticketmaster.
Two vestiges of the early days of rock -- The Del-Vikings and Bill Haley's Comets -- will rock around the clock (or at least for a few hours) tonight at 7 at the Kent Stage, 175 E. Main St., Kent. The Del-Vikings had two hits in 1957, "Come Go With Me" and "Whispering Bells." Original lead singer Norman Wright is still in the band. Bill Haley and Comets have enough hit songs to make up the first chapter in the bible of Rock 'n' Roll. Tickets are $18 at the door and $15 in advance. Call (330) 677-5005. See ya later, alligator!
Band Together, a concert to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims, featuring the Frank Fordeley Band, Rick Magee & amp; The Road House Rockers, Donnie and the Hoots, Rock & amp; Roll Avenue, Four Lane Highway, Abbey Road Band, 7% Superstar, Night Moves, Dallas and Ohm, starts at 10 a.m. at Ponderosa Park, 9362 S. Salem-Warren Road, five miles north of Salem. Call (330) 332-0044 for information.
Trumbull Town Hall lecture series opens with family humorist Lori Borgman at 10:30 a.m. at W.D. Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. N.W., Warren. Call (330) 373-1010, Ext. 16, for ticket information.
jMarvin Hamlisch, the renowned composer and conductor, will share his life's story and music during a solo performance at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at Slippery Rock University's Miller Auditorium. Hamlisch, the principal Pops conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, received a Pulitzer Prizse for "A Chorus Line," for which he wrote the music. He has also won three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, one Tony and three Golden Globe awards. Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 for senior citizens and children, and are now on sale at www.sru.edu or by calling (724) 738-2091.
Tickets are now available through Ticketmaster for Ryan Cabrera's Oct. 29 concert at Lakewood Civic Auditorium. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $29.50 and $24.50.