The sixth annual For the Love of Chocolate festival takes place at the Holiday Inn Metroplex,

The sixth annual For the Love of Chocolate festival takes place at the Holiday Inn Metroplex, Belmont Avenue, Liberty, from 5-8 p.m. Guests can sample goods from vendors and purchase treats and cooking demonstrations and drawings will be part of the fun. Tickets are $10 for adults, and $7 for children 12 and under. Call the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross at (330) 726-6063 or go to www.mahoning.redcross.org.
Motorcycle and quad riders take to the ice at Chevrolet Centre at 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday for Xtreme International Ice Racing. This should be Xciting, as the vehicles go from 0-60 mph in three seconds and have NO brakes. Call 1-866-443-8849 for ticket information or go www.gettix.net.
The play "Greater Tuna," a hilarious send-up of small-town life, opens tonight at 8 at the Oakland Center for the Arts, 220 W. Boardman St., Youngstown. Call (330) 746-0404.
From this day forward, Rudy and the Professionals shall be forever known as the first live band to play at Mojo's Pub and Grill, 5423 Mahoning Ave., Austintown. Show starts at 9. Call (330) 779-0995.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. for UB40, right, who will be at Cleveland's House of Blues at 7 p.m. April 8. They are $27.50 and are available through Ticketmaster. Tickets are also now on sale for Bo Bice, also at HOB: 7 p.m., Feb. 12, $20, Ticketmaster.
The Cellar, the Struthers rock club, has put together a nice show for tonight. Aura headlines a show that also includes Since 86, Rivers Edge and the Kellys. Doors open at 8 p.m., with music starting at 9 p.m. for the 9 p.m. Tickets are $6. All ages are welcome, but there is an additional $3 charge for those under 21. Call (330) 750-0199.
Catch the critically acclaimed production of "Steel Magnolias" tonight at 8 at Youngstown Playhouse. Call (330) 788-8739.
Youngstown State University's Blackbox Productions stages the play "Polish Joke" at 3 p.m. in the intimate Spotlight Arena. The theater is located inside Bliss Hall, off Wick Avenue, on the YSU campus. The play, set in an ethnic neighborhood near a steel mill, should strike a chord for many in Youngstown. Call (330) 941-3105 for tickets.
The Harlem Globetrotters bring their never-ending road show of basketball wizardry and comedy to Chevrolet Centre Feb. 2. Tip-off is 7:30 p.m. Call (866) 443-8849 for ticket information or go www.gettix.net.
"Oklahoma!," the famed musical, is coming to Powers Auditorium Feb. 6 and 7 as part of the Broadway Series. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Call (330) 744-0264 for ticket information.