Radio lures back Larsen full time
Mark Larsen gets a morning talk show to be simulcast on WWBA and WLVU.

American Stage lines up next season
ST. PETERSBURG -- American Stage has been without a permanent artistic director for seven months, but the show must go on. This week, the theater announced its lineup for the 2002-03 season, put together by managing director Lee Manwaring Lowry and interim artistic director Neil DeGroot.

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HIS PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO CALL THEIR PEOPLE SO THEY CAN AT LEAST DO LUNCH: The Hollywood people financing Lance Bass' attempt to become a cosmonaut have issued their latest progress report: The 'N Sync singer has been certified as physically qualified for a fall Russian rocket flight to the International Space Station.

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Hope turns 99

Play leaves no euphemism unmocked
TAMPA -- At its most profound, The Vagina Monologues is a play about language, slashing and burning and trampling underfoot every polite, vulgar and lamebrained euphemism ever used for that part of the female anatomy known as "down there."

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