Today’s entertainment picks:


February 18, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

Today’s entertainment picks:

v“Of Mice and Men,” 7:30 p.m.: Opening night for the Steinbeck classic at Youngstown Playhouse, off Glenwood Avenue; 330-788-8739.

vMahoning Valley Home and Garden Show, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.: TV cook Mr. Food will give a demonstration at noon. Eastwood Expo Center, 5555 Youngstown-Warren Road, Niles.

vYoungstown Phantoms, 7:30 p.m.: Hockey team takes on the Chicago Steel at Covelli Centre; 330-747-7825.

v“Curtains,” 8 p.m.: Opening night for Carnation City Players’ production of the Kander & Ebb musical at Firehouse Theater, 450 E. Market St., Alliance; 330-821-8712.

vMike Conley and Chris Hegedus, 9:45 p.m.: Comedians team up at The Funny Farm, in the Radisson Hotel, 3377 New Castle Road West Middlesex, Pa.; 724-906-6164.

“Who Do You Think You Are?” (8 p.m., NBC): On “Who Do You Think You Are?” Rosie O’Donnell explores her ancestry by focusing on her mother, who died at a young age. Her quest takes her to New Jersey and then to Ireland.

TV Listings, B6

entertainment news

Game of Hope on TV

Youngstown

The Hope Foundation of the Mahoning Valley’s annual Game of Hope Charity Basketball Classic, held Jan. 29 at Youngstown State University, will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Sunday on Time Warner and Armstrong Cable community access channels. The event, which pitted two celebrity teams against each other, raised $10,000 for chronically and terminally ill children.

Weirich leaving

YOUNGSTOWN

Niki Weirich, anchor for WYTV-TV 33 News, has accepted a similar position at Fox-21 news in Colorado Springs, Colo., and will begin in mid-March, according to The Gazette (Colorado Springs). Weirich, a Kidron, Ohio, native, is a graduate of Kent State University. She began her TV career in 2005 at WKBN-TV 27 and moved over to WYTV in 2008.

Symphony contract

DETROIT

Striking Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians will vote on management’s final offer. Musician Karl Pituch said online voting will begin at 7 p.m. today and continue Saturday, when results are expected. The walkout began Oct. 4 and threatens to shut down the concert season scheduled to end June 5. Symphony management declared an impasse Sept. 1 and began implementing a 33 percent base pay cut for orchestra veterans in the first year.