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Getaway: hot ticket
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published April 25, 2002
Taste adds flavor to kids' lives
Food is the headliner at the Best of Tampa Bay event Saturday at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. On the menu: tastes from 50 restaurants, including Roy's, Six Tables, Armani's, Ashley Street Grill, Bamboo Club, Big City Tavern, the Columbia, the Grill at Feather Sound, Oystercatchers, Samba Room and Shula's.
The event raises money for the performing arts center's outreach and educational programs. Each year, the center reaches more than 100,000 children in the bay area. Field trips bring kids to the center to learn about theater and music productions.
Music will accompany the munching. Five stages inside the center and along the Riverwalk will feature high-energy bands playing everything from calypso to blues. The Sheiks of Morocco kick it off at 6 p.m., followed by Jim Beck with MOD (7-9 p.m.); Antilles Steel Bank (7-9 p.m.); Urban Gypsies (7-10 p.m.); Magda Hiller (7-10 p.m.); and Blue Dice (9-11 p.m.).
Taste of Tampa Bay begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $50 in advance, $60 at the door and $750 for a table for 10. Call (813) 229-7827.
A history lesson in art
Norman Rockwell's work is both widely beloved and frequently derided. But even those who aren't fans of his art can find a look at history in the new exhibit at the Florida International Museum.
The museum is showing all 322 of Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post covers, from the first in 1916 to his final one in 1963.
"It's kind of exciting when you look at five decades of covers," said Kathy Oathout, the museum's vice president.
The museum last year showed 78 black-and-white Rockwell prints, originally commissioned as advertisements for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. That exhibit, Oathout said, "showed there was very much an interest in Rockwell."
A lot of people who came to that exhibit wanted to see the covers, Oathout said. The exhibit, part of a national tour of Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People, continues at the museum through June 16.
On Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m., as part of the Rockwell celebration, there will be an old-fashioned ice cream social with entertainment by the barbershop quartet Happenstance.
The Florida International Museum is at 100 Second St. N, St. Petersburg; (727) 822-3693 or www.floridamuseum.org. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. Last tour at 4 p.m. daily. $12, $11 seniors, $6 ages 6-18, annual pass, $20. Group, senior and child discounts available.
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