Today’s entertainment picks:


Today’s entertainment picks:

v Yellow Brick Place benefit concert, 7:30 p.m.: Several youth troupes team up to present an evening of music, dance and theater to raise money for the creation of a cancer wellness center; Youngstown Playhouse; 330-398-3768.

v Kids Shine for a Cure, noon to 6 p.m.: The Autistic Learning Foundation and the A Way With Words Foundation, which both help children, will have this free festival at Austintown Township Park. It includes a concert at 3 p.m. featuring Tommy Cole, Maureen Collins and other local singers.

v Gladys Knight, 8 p.m.: Soul legend in concert at The Harv auditorium, at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort, near Chester, W.Va.; 800-804-0468.

v “Conversations,” 8 p.m.: Comedy on stage at Rust Belt Theater Company’s black box room inside Calvin Center, 755 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown; 330-507-2358.

v Back to the ’50s concert and car show, 3 p.m.: A concert featuring Elvis impersonator Mark Pringle and others begins at 7 p.m. at Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren; 330-841-2931.

“Bet On Your Baby” (8 p.m., ABC): The amazing new game show, “Bet On Your Baby,” continues as parents challenge their little rugrats to do things like catch a beach ball and make animal sounds. Yes, people. That’s actually a show.

“World Championship Boxing” (8:30 p.m., HBO): Martin Murray dukes it out with middleweight champ Sergio Martinez in Buenos Aires.

“The Bletchly Circle” (10 p.m., PBS): This new Brit mystery series follows a group of female former code-breakers sensing a pattern in post-World War II murders.

For complete listings, see TV Week magazine, included with today’s paper.

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“Community Connection” (7 a.m., 21 WFMJ-TV; and 7 p.m. Tuesday on time warner cable community access channel): Roland Barksdale Hall, historian with the Afro-American Historical Genealogical Society, will join host Madonna Chism Pinkard to discuss new and innovative ways to trace your family tree.

Next, Geri Kosar and Bethann Zoldan will discuss the 36th annual Angels of Easter Seals Spring Fashion Show. The theme this year is “Spring in Paris” and involves local media celebrities as models.