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The detour art show adds visual edge to Tampa’s pro-skate weekend.
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Cover Story
Taking art to the streets
Detour is an art show that veers toward the individualistic, the urban, the disaffected; viewers shouldn't expect well-traveled aesthetic routes here.
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Film
'Ice Age' leaves you cold
A crew of prehistoric animals goes on a quest to help save an infant. But nothing saves this movie from its punchless script.
Uninventive plot handcuffs cop caper
The big names are there, but the comic drama Showtime doesn't rise much above the police shows at which it pokes fun.
Family movie guide
Big Fat Liar
Top 5 movies
1. The Time Machine -- H.G. Wells' classic science fiction story gets reworked by his great-grandson, director Simon West. Imaginative special effects and a running time that gets the job done briskly.
Also opening
Zombie fans, look sharp
Indix flix
The depths of daring
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Art
Art: upcoming events
Artwork of Jerry Garcia and photographs by Baron Wolman -- March 23 through April 24, 531 Central Fine Arts, St. Petersburg.
Art: hot tickets
Behold the power of flowers
Video
New releases: tough guy as poet
Heist (R)
Dine
Side dish
I've had enough . . .
Food events
SPRING FOOD FESTIVAL: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat., Nature's Harvest Market, 1021 N MacDill Ave., Tampa. (813) 873-7428. ABILITIES WINE TASTING AND AUCTION: 7 p.m. Sat., Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg. $60 advance, $70 at door. (727) 538-7370, ext. 345.
Get Away
Get away: down the road
Seven Potato More (March 23) Children's show. 10 a.m. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater. (727) 791-7400. $8.
Get away: hot ticket
A festive day in Pinellas Park
Pop
A 'spiritual connection'
Charles Neville talks about his beloved hometown of New Orleans and the magic of performing with his brothers.
The music speaks for itself
Once a novelty group, the all-female big band Diva has become something else -- a band known for playing good music, from jazz classics to its own material.
Pop: ticket window
Santana -- March 21, Ice Palace, Tampa. $37.25-$64.75
Team pop trivia
This week's winner: Mary Ann Renfro of Tierra Verde knew that Natalie Merchant's old band 10,000 Maniacs recorded a song called Hey Jack Kerouac about the legendary Beat Generation writer.
Pop: hot ticket
A fast-rising jam band
Stage
Warming up to middle age
Menopause, according to Rhodessa Jones, brings women its own kind of beauty, plus wisdom, more chances to read -- and a private, internal heat source.
Stage: down the road
Cello -- Clarissa Jean Lacson gives a cello recital of works by Brahms, Francoeur and Schumann March 23 at the Bayanihan Arts Centre near Oldsmar. $10.
Stage: hot ticket: The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
A coup not to be sneezed at
