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In her brand-new exhibition, Supplemental Ornament, at the Weston Art Gallery in downtown’s Aronoff Center for the Arts, Murphy-Price presents sculptures and prints that simultaneously focus and exaggerate the relationship between our internal identities and the selected accoutrements that extend our personalities into an array of surrounding decorative objects. All the work on display has been made since she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2005. She now resides in Bloomington, Ind. Simultaneous with her show the Weston also is displaying, through Jan. 10, sculpture by Dietrich Wagner of Erie, Pa., and Pixel paintings by Cincinnati’s Jimi Jones. Tuesday-Sunday.

Hey, let's all celebrate L. Ron Hubbard for the holidays! If that idea makes you do a double-take, well, Know Theater is ready to prove that it's possible. With a cast of nine kids, ages 11 to 16, they're offering this show, a 2004 Off Broadway hit, for the holidays. Songs include, "Hey, It's a Happy Day!," "Mr. Auditor" and "L. Ron Hubbard," a song that debates what the L. stands for. Along the journey, famous Scientologists make cameo appearances. Through Dec. 28.

You’ll have to forgive Rich Vos if he seems just a little tired. Though divorced, he remains a devoted father, spending as much time as he can with his two girls. It’s not easy, as he now has a baby with second wife, comedian Bonnie MacFarlane. His job keeps him on the road quite a bit but for Vos stand-up comedy was really the only vocation open to him. He took to the stage after, as he puts it, “failing at everything else. I went up the first time and I died like an animal.” Undaunted, he pressed on. “I got back up on stage whenever I got the chance. I just kept doing it, and eventually I got a little better and little better.” Today he’s a headlining comic and was a finalist on the first and third seasons of Last Comic Standing. Rich Vos performs at Go Bananas Thursday-Sunday. $10-$15.

Gary Gaffney's exhibit at Meyers Gallery uses collages that ocus on central figures, surrounded by little scraps of information that raise notions of science, philosophy, spirituality, and the truthful potential of art. In Gaffney’s diagrammatic collages, juxtapositions of cosmology, ornithology and human biology surprise and delight. Little galaxies jut out of toenails; the left hand knows not what the right hand is doing, and both seem to be cavorting with sparrows. But these glyphic arrangements are more like launching pads and instruction manuals to better access transcendence. The artwork is what potentially happens if you utilize the collages as poetic guides. The exhibition runs through Friday, with a closing reception on Thursday from 5-7 p.m.

Eight-six thousand pounds and counting: add a few of your unwanted pounds ... of old technology. The Hamilton County Solid Waste Management District has already recycled that much computer equipment this year. There’s still time to add your old monitors, CPUs, hard drives, mice, keyboards, laptops and other assorted modern technologies. Take any of the aforementioned items to Technology Recycling Group (5139 Kieley Place, St. Bernard) 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday–Friday until Dec. 30. Hamilton County residents need to show proof of address — driver’s license, utility bill, etc. — to recycle equipment.

With 300,000 new LED lights twinkling in the Festival of Lights display at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical gardens this year, the zoo will save $30,000 on their Duke Energy Bill. What that means in practical terms is enough power to supply 36 homes for an entire year. And the lights are cool, too. Open nightly 5-9 p.m. (closed Dec. 24-25). Guests can enjoy half-priced admission Dec. 1-3, 8-10 and 15-17.

If there’s any truth in the old adage that “the family that plays together stays together,” the Peytons of Indiana will be tight until the next ice age. The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band coalesced a mere three years ago, but in that time the Country/Blues trio -- Reverend Peyton on guitar, his wife Breezy on washboard, and brother Jayme on drums -- has averaged 250 shows a year in front of every conceivable kind of audience. And whether the marquee has promised an evening of Rockabilly or Punk or Country or Bluegrass or Roots Rock, the Big Damn Band has left the stage with another group of fervent members for their growing congregation. They play a show with The Tillers at The Southgate House. 8 p.m.

"China Design Now" is a comprehensive exhibition of hundreds of objects elaborates on the booming innovations presently taking place in the fields of design, fashion, and architecture throughout China. The exhibition is split into three sections, corresponding one of those design areas with an eastern coastal city: Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. The exhibition continues through Jan. 11, 2009. $8 for adults; $6 for seniors/college students; $4 for children ages 6-17; free for members and children under age 6.