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The Silver Museum
1/3/2006 - 12/25/2006
The Silver Queen 1350 West Bay Dr Largo, FL 33770 Valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars, the collection at the Silver Museum includes more than 400 pieces of antique treasures and collectibles in china, silver and crystal. It includes rare and unusual pieces by historic designers, including Tiffany & Co., Georg Jensen and Christofle. The museum even boasts a spoon personally crafted by Paul Revere. For more information, call 727-581-6827.
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Terrific Tots Tuesdays
1/6/2006 - 12/26/2006
Great Explorations Museum 800 2nd Avenue N.E. St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3521 Great Explorations offers a special time for parents and children 1 to 3 years old every Tuesday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Playtime consists of exclusive sessions of interaction between child and parent/guardian through such activities as music, arts & crafts, literature and exercise. Cost for museum members is $35 per month. Cost for non-members is $40 per month. Sessions are limited to 15 registrants per week. Advanced registration is required. For more information, call 727-821-8992 ext. 214.
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Dali Family Fun Saturdays
7/8/2006 - 2/24/2007
Florida International Museum 244 Second Avenue N St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3312 Salvador dali Museum hosts tour suitable for families with children 6-12. Tour followed by "Dilly Dally with Dali", crafts and games. For more information, please call 727-823-3767.
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Dali by the Decades: Dali's Surreal Century
8/4/2006 - 1/31/2007
Salvador Dali Museum 1000 3rd Street S. St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4901 A chronological exhibition of oil paintings, drawings, watercolors and object from the Museum's permanent collection cast against interpretive material including photographs, text and graphics showing the changing context - personal life and cultural times - in which Dali lived and created. The dynamic and tumultuous time between the two World Wars acted as a catalyst for the development of Surrealism and reflects Dali's particular blend of integrating his personal symbolic interpretations within the context of universally recognized symbols. For more information, please call 727-823-3767.
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Leepa-Rattner Museum presents: Weird and Wonderful: Graphics by Leonard Baskin
9/3/2006 - 10/29/2006
Leepa-Ratner Museum of Art 600 Klosterman Road Palm Harbor, FL Prints by Leonard Baskin (1922 -2000) will be on exhibition. Highlighted works are from Gehenna Press, Baskin's private press, and include wood engravings, woodcuts and etchings. A Gallery Guide with an essay by Dr. Robert Bianchi will be available. For more information, please call 727-712-5210.
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The Arts Center presents: 14th All Florida Juried Exhibition
9/8/2006 - 10/29/2006
The Arts Center 719 Central Ave. St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3627 Curated by Donald Kuspit, Ph.D. (Stanley & Everett Galleries)Dr. Donald Kuspit is an art critic and professor of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook, and is a contributing editor at Artfo-rum, Sculpture, and New Art Examiner, and editor of Art Criticism. He has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the NEA, and Guggenheim Foundation, and has written more than twenty books including Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries, Chihuly, and Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde. For more information, please call 727-822-7872.
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The Arts Center presents: On Becoming and Remnants
9/8/2006 - 10/29/2006
The Arts Center 719 Central Ave. St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3627 Lakeland resident Virginia Beth Shields is descended from a long line of South Carolina sharecroppers, and her ghostly black-and-white photographs and installations capture people and places from an American South that is quickly fading into history. Shields holds an MFA from USF and a BFA from Converse College. "On Becoming" is a series of 20 photographs which use the Southern storytelling tradition to deliberate issues such as nesting, gender relationships, pregnancy, childbirth and child labor for working-class poor women in the 1930s and 40s Cherokee Foothills. Her new installation "Remnants" reflects life in the mill villages for the descendents of sharecroppers. This work gives voice to Southern women during the 1950s. For more information, please call 727-822-7872.
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The Museum of Fine Arts presents From the Fire: Contemporary Korean Ceramics
10/7/2006 - 12/31/2006
The Museum of Fine Arts 255 Beach Drive NE St. Petersburg, FL 33701 The 108 works by 54 artists date from the early 1990s through 2003 and comprise the largest survey of Korean ceramics to ever come to the United States. Many were created especially for this show by the finest and most innovative Korean ceramic artists, who are represented in major museums around the world. The objects, both sculptural and functional, are marked by diverse forms, colors and texture and bring new energy to the world of ceramics. For more information, please call 727-896-2667.
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Saturday Morning Market
10/7/2006 - 5/26/2007
Downtown St. Petersburg 800 2nd Avenue NE St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Beginning October 7th at 9:00am St. Petersburg Saturday Morning Market begins its new market season. Each week, shoppers along Central Avenue can browse for fruit and vegetables, loaves of rustic bread, gourmet-prepared foods, smoothies, fresh flowers, herbs, plants, hand crafted gifts and much more. The opening day will feature a Parade with Dixie Jazz Band. For more information, please call 727-455-4921.
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Weedon Island Cultural and Natural History Center presents Florida's Lost Tribes
10/14/2006 - 11/26/2006
Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center 1800 Weedon Island Dr. St. Petersburg, FL 33702 Join us for an all-day celebration of Native American culture culminating in the opening of a special exhibit by Theodore Morris. Florida's original inhabitants come alive through the original oil paintings by the artist, who bases his portraits on the latest archaeological and anthropological evidence. All ages are welcome for this and other celebrations of Native American culture.
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Clearwater Jazz Holiday
10/19/2006 - 10/22/2006
Coachman Park 101 Drew St. Clearwater, FL 33759 In its 27th year, the annual Jazz Holiday brings together all veins of jazz music together in 4 days of free entertainment at Coachman Park in downtown Clearwater. One of the longest-running and best-known FREE live jazz events in the country, the Clearwater Jazz Holiday has presented in concert virtually every jazz luminary of our generation. Scheduled to perform this year: Kenny Drew Jr. Quartet, Kenny G, Bossacucanova, Mindi Abair, Richard Elliot, Valerie Gillespie, Jose Valentino Ruiz, Jazz to the Maxx, John Pizzarelli, Manhattan Transfer, REH / CJH Jazz Youth Band, Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge, Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio with Edward Simon & Billy Hart, Reunion Band, Buckwheat Zydeco and Cherry Poppin? Daddies. For more information, please call 727-461-5200.
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Busch Gardens' Howl-O-Scream
10/19/2006 - 10/22/2006
Busch Gardens 3605 E. Bougainvillea Ave. Tampa, FL 33612-6498 Howl-O-Scream is back for a seventh season of suspense and suspicion. For 16 select nights, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay transforms into a macabre maze of mind-numbing fear that will have visitors watching their backs and wondering who - if anyone - can be trusted. The devious creatures that infest six haunted houses, five scare zones and two twisted shows have plenty of psychotic surprises in store, and bone-chilling coasters in the dark keep the screams coming all night long. Howl-O-Scream is too intense for young children. Parental discretion is advised. For more information, call 888-800-5447.
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IMAGINATION CELEBRATION on Tour presents ALICE
10/20/2006 - 10/20/2006
Ruth Eckerd Hall 1111 N. McMullen Booth Rd. Clearwater, FL 33759-3219 The Kennedy Center presents IMAGINATION CELEBRATION on tour presents ALICE Whoopi Goldberg. Alice and her unusual pals race to the Big City to collect a myterious prize. For more information, please call 727-791-7400.
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Picnic and Music in Largo Central Park
10/20/2006 - 10/20/2006
Largo Central Park 101 Central Park Dr. Largo, FL 33771-2112 Please join us every Friday at Largo Central Park from 6 ? 8 p.m. For music in the park. We play different music themes every week through our state of the art sound system. You may enjoy the music from almost anywhere in the park. There are eight shelters for our patrons to utilize or you can just pitch a blanket in center field. Please check www.largo.com for music theme for dates. For more information, please call 727-587-6704 ext. 5104.
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St. Pete Shuffle
10/20/2006 - 10/20/2006
St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Courts 559 Mirror Lake Drive N St. Petersburg, FL Check out the revival of the old game of Shuffleboard! A hip twist on an old game. The whole family is welcome to play shuffleboard, listen to music and enjoy local art. For more information, please call 727-867-7228.
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24th Annual Frenchy's Stone Crab Claw Festival
10/20/2006 - 10/22/2006
All Frenchy's locations on Clearwater Beach 7 Rockaway St Clearwater Beach, FL 33767 Frenchy's annual Stone Crab Weekend is a popular area and this year marks the 24th anniversary of Frenchy's Café! The event will also feature two tents complete with live music. Frenchy's also has KALIC beer, sent over from the Bahamas for the event. For more information, call 727-446-1522.
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Annual Autumn Harvest
10/21/2006 - 10/21/2006
Pinellas Pioneer Settlement at Boyd Hill 2900 31st Street S St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Enjoy an old fashioned harvest celebration for the whole family from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit an early 19th century home, authentic print shop, sawmill and blacksmith shop while shopping at an old-time Farmer's Market with farm fresh pumpkins, flowers, fruits, vegetables and more. Hayrides will be available for $1 and also bobbing for apples, sack races and more. Admission is free and games are 50 cents. For more information, call 727-893-7326.
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Annual Florida Coastal Cleanup
10/21/2006 - 10/21/2006
Spa Beach at the Pier 800 2nd Avenue NE St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Join The Pier Aquarium, The Ocean Conservancy, and Keep Pinellas Cities Beautiful in the Annual Florida Coastal Cleanup. Volunteers receive free gloves, bag, data, sheets, water and T-shirt giveaways. Located at Spa Beach and The Education Station from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. For more information, call 727-895-7437.
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Weedon Island Preserve presents Rainforest Animals
10/21/2006 - 10/21/2006
Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center 1800 Weedon Island Dr. St. Petersburg, FL 33702 See some of the incredible reptiles, amphibans, birds, and mammals that call a tropical rainforest home. Lowry Park Zoo educators invite you to have your own encounter with a kinkjou, macaw or South American porcupine. Learn about a variety of species that dwell in tropical climates. The fee for this session is $3. Children age 3 and under are free. Pre-Registration required. Recommended for all ages. For more information, please call 727-453-6500.
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Suncoast AirFest 2006
10/21/2006 - 10/22/2006
Albert Whitted Airport 107 8th Avenue S.E. St. Petersburg, FL 33701 This event will feature top name aerobatic performers, military fly-bys and static display aircraft as well as World War II and vintage aircraft performances. Spectators can expect an up close look at displays ranging from early military Warbirds and military vehicles to modern day experimental aircraft. There will be food, musical entertainment, antique cars and children's exhibits. Proceeds from this event benefit All Children's Hospital, Boy's & Girl's Clubs of the Suncoast, Family Resources and PARC. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call 727-204-6282.
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Chrysler Championship Golf Tournament
10/23/2006 - 10/29/2006
Westin Innisbrook Golf Resort 36750 U.S. Hwy. 19 N. Palm Harbor, FL 34684-1239 The PGA Chrysler Championship will be held on the Copperhead Course at the Westin Innisbrook Resort. The event will feature some of the top names in professional golf one week before the PGA tour championship. Proceeds from all ticket sales will go to area charities. For more information, call 727-942-5566.
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Creepy Critters and Boo-Time Stories
10/25/2006 - 10/25/2006
Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center 3940 Keystone Rd. Tarpon Springs, FL 34688-7820 Bring the whole family to learn about Halloween favorites like owls, spiders and bats. Then join us for a short evening hike along the boardwalk to look and listen for common creatures of the night. We will end the evning with a fun boo-time story. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Closed-toe comfort shoes, long pants and insect repellant are recommended. Admission: $3. Recommended for families children 5 and older. For more information, please call 727-453-6800.
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Wee-time at Weedon: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
10/26/2006 - 10/26/2006
Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center 1800 Weedon Island Dr. St. Petersburg, FL 33702 This program is designed to introduce pre-school children to the wonders of the natural world. Children are treated to a variety of stories and hands-on activities that connect them to their environment. This week children will enjoy The Very Hungry Catepilar by Eric Carle. This story follows a newly hatched catepillar as he eats his way through a variety of fruits and vegetables. This program includes a hands-on craft and outdoor exploration. Spaces are limited so register early. Recommended ages 3-5. For more information, please call 727-453-6500.
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Book Time at Brooker Creek: The Very Busy Spider
10/26/2006 - 10/26/2006
Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center 3940 Keystone Rd. Tarpon Springs, FL 34688-7820 This program is designed to introduce pre-school children to the wonders of the natural world. Every second and fourth Thursday of the month, children are treated to a variety of stories, puppets shows and hands-on activities that connect them to their environment. This week presents The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. Join us for this delightful tale of busy little spider as she weaves her web. After the story we will complete a spider web craft and meet some live spiders. Pre-registration is required for this program. Spaces are limited so register early! Admission: $1 Recommended ages 3-5. For more information, please call 727-453-6800.
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Busch Gardens' Howl-O-Scream
10/26/2006 - 10/29/2006
Busch Gardens 3605 E. Bougainvillea Ave. Tampa, FL 33612-6498 Howl-O-Scream is back for a seventh season of suspense and suspicion. For 16 select nights, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay transforms into a macabre maze of mind-numbing fear that will have visitors watching their backs and wondering who - if anyone - can be trusted. The devious creatures that infest six haunted houses, five scare zones and two twisted shows have plenty of psychotic surprises in store, and bone-chilling coasters in the dark keep the screams coming all night long. Howl-O-Scream is too intense for young children. Parental discretion is advised. For more information, call 888-800-5447.
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