My interview with Ira Kaplan of the defining indie-rock trio Yo La Tengo begins with me stammering about the momentous cultural significance — the astute and poetic American symbolism — of the band's name. The Hoboken-based group named itself after what New York Mets outfielder Richie Ashburn would yell to Spanish-speaking teammate (and former Red) Elio Chacon to call him away from fly balls. It means "I've got it" and was meant to avoid collisions between the two. YLT play the Southgate House with Wussy Saturday.   

Because one thinks of downtown's Taft Museum of Art as a traditional place, a historic home containing art collected by the last family to live there -- Charles and Anna Taft, who bequeathed the home and its art to the city in 1927 -- one forgets how relevant to today's art trends its changing exhibitions can be. The current one, which regrettably ends too soon on Aug. 8, is a case-in-point. 'TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945,' culled from the collection of Rochester's George Eastman House, uses work by some of photography's biggest names of its first century.  

Although Cincinnati Form Follows Function (an organization for enthusiasts of Modern design and architecture called CF3 for short) has only been in existence since 2004, it's already come up with a potentially famous photograph of the city, a panorama taken from Bellevue Hill Park in Clifton Heights. CF3 celebrates Saturday with a cookout, Modernism-related swap meet and rare screening of historic footage from the construction of a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Modernist home in Amberley.   

Peter Case got his start with the mid-1970s Punk/New Wave band The Nerves (originators of the Blondie classic "Hangin' on the Telephone") and the Power Pop group The Plimsouls, and he's just released his 11th album of original material, 'Wig!'. The new songs conjure mid-1960s Dylan possessed by the spirit of those bluesy 1950s recordings by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Howlin' Wolf.  

Time is running out tosee the most important art exhibit in town, in terms of the names represented. Carl Solway Gallery'sWorks from the Gallery Collection features 65 Modern and Contemporary Artists whose prints, paintings and sculpture belongtothevenerable West End gallery and are for sale. Itendssoon --someundetermined dateinAugust.It includes more famous names than one To Do item can hold -- justa few are John Cage, Jean Dubuffet, Sol LeWitt, JoanMiro, ClaesOldenburg, Pat SteirandAndy Warhol.  

The documentary Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight, which screens 7:30 p.m. Monday at downtown’s Contemporary Arts Center, meanders like a good after-dinner conversation. Which is appropriate, because, in Glaser, it has not just a brilliant designer as a subject but a witty, kindly, philosophical, erudite interview subject whose every utterance is so insightful you want to jot it down.  

Symphonic Pops concerts long ago discovered Rock. The legendary Arthur Fiedler and his Boston Pops Orchestra, for instance, scored a hit single with their timely version of The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in 1964. But now Rock and Pop musicians and orchestras are trying some interesting new experiments to try to keep fresh, and maybe reinvent, an approach that too often has become formulaic. One upcoming local example occurs Tuesday when Sting brings his own symphonic roadshow to Riverbend.  

Based on Daniel Woodrell's novel, 'Winter's Bone' tells of 17-year-old backwoods Ozarks girl named Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) who needs to get her missing meth-cooking father to a court date or her family will lose their log-cabin-style home because he jumped bail. The film incorporates an insightfully sociological sense of place yet doesn't get bogged down by it. Grade: B-plus.  

Country Club Gallery in Oakley is sponsoring a Saturday night screening party for SONIC ORPHANS, film archivist Bill Daniel's collection of "lost music films" from 1965-1987 that contains abandoned, forgotten, found and now-presented-raw-without-editing footage containing the Beatles, Sonic Youth, Avengers, Johnny Cash, Butthole Surfers and others. Most are silent. Admission is $5 for the event, which starts at 7 p.m. and will include a discussion of "orphan films."  

The Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati is still accepting reservations for its July 17th luxury-motor-coach guided tour of Columbus, Ind. -- considered one of the most architecturally progressive, Modernist cities in America and a tourist destination for architecture fans from all over. Reservations are required for the day-long trip, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., so save your spot early.