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Getaway: hot ticket
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published August 8, 2002
Animal attractions
If you like zoos -- the animal variety and the large-groups-of-people variety -- then WaZoo! is the event for you.
Lowry Park Zoo's annual fundraiser draws big, happy crowds to sample beers from scores of brewers and bottlers, and to nosh on food from restaurants such as Cafe Creole, Fred Fleming's Famous Bar-B-Que, Frenchy's Rockaway, Margarita Mama's, Papa John's Pizza, Roy's, Shell's and Winghouse.
The action starts at 6:30 p.m. Saturday with the Beastly Beer Club/VIP Pre-party at the new Wallaroo Station. If you can get a group of 20 pals together, you can get in for $700; individual Beastly Beer Club tickets are $40. We've been to WaZoo!, and if you want to sample many beers, go early.
If you're more into the party scene, general admission starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $25 in advance, $30 on Saturday. Designated Drivers tickets (i.e., no beer for you) are $10. WaZoo! ends at 10:30.
Velvet Jones performs on the main stage, and reggae group Rocksteady@8 plays in the Beastly Beer Club. For tickets, call (813) 935-8552 or go online at www.lowryparkzoo.com.
The new Vinoy is 10 years old
Beth Reynolds’ Front Porch
Has it really been a decade? The Renaissance Vinoy Resort reopened 10 years ago to great fanfare after a $93-million restoration. Saturday, the public is invited to a daylong, free celebration of the anniversary of the St. Petersburg hotel. Events include tours and a vintage film of the hotel at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., birthday cake and mayor's proclamation at noon, performance of American Stage Children's Theater at 3 p.m. and ongoing live entertainment. About two dozen works depicting the Vinoy by local artists and photographers, including Beth Reynolds' Front Porch, above, will be for sale, and a show of children's art from summer camps at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Salvador Dali Museum and the Arts Center will be displayed. The Vinoy, an icon of boom-era glamor, opened in 1925 and closed in 1975 after years of decline and neglect. Its reopening in 1992 heralded the beginning of the revitalization of the city's downtown. 501 Fifth Ave. NE. (727) 894-1000.
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