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Shopping for the clothes that will make you too cool for school.
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Cover Story
Before you hit the mall, study up
Here's a primer on back-to-school shopping: style advice, budget tips and survival secrets for parents and kids.
Back to school by the numbers
For the second year, Capital One Financial Corp. has surveyed families on their school supply plans. Here's what it found.
Film
All the rig
ht 'Signs'
M. Night Shyamalan practices good storytelling, where part of the fright is not seeing what you think is there.
A good acting workshop
That's all Steven Soderbergh's new movie, Full Frontal, is. An all-star cast performs well, but the idea they're working with was barely formed.
Florida's shifting sands
John Sayles' film Sunshine State depicts the serpent of development in an Eden named Florida, whose fatal beauty often attracts its own destruction.
Also opening
Spy family returns
Family movie guide
The Family Movie Guide should be used along with the Motion Picture Association of America rating system for selecting movies suitable for children.
Top 5 movies
1. Sunshine State -- Maverick filmmaker John Sayles casts his sharp eye on Florida's economic development and the bulldozing of the state's personality. A sparkling ensemble cast includes Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Timothy Hutton and Mary Steenburgen.
Film: hot ticket
Jim Fitzpatrick has been many things around the Tampa Bay area: a sports hero with the Tampa Bay Bandits of the defunct USFL, an actor who made good on the soap opera All My Children and even Tarzan at Busch Gardens.
Video/DVD
New releases: Terminally Arnold
Collateral Damage (R)
Rewind: Chayefsky's writing a gift to share
Paddy Chayefsky was the finest writer to emerge from television's Golden Age and go to work in the movies.
DVD: 'Dinotopia' mostly a waste of space
Dinotopia
Art
An artful goody bag
With more than 200 artists represented, the members' show at the Arts Center is appealing on a variety of levels.
Art: at the museums
Studio Works 2002 -- Work by instructors and students through Aug. 11, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo.
Pop
10 pressing questions: Creating a vibe with a mighty Boston band
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have diverse influences, write socially conscious lyrics and are still trying to convince people they're not "drunken frat boys."
Pop: hot tickets
Roth and Hagar: All the Van Halen hits. And spandex.
One change in Vans Warped tour: fewer goatees
The annual Vans Warped Tour isn't exactly an exercise in diversity. Fans of the tour, in its eighth year, know to expect loud punk or hard rock acts featuring mostly twentysomething white guys smothered in tattoos and piercings. (Note: a lot fewer goatees this year, thank goodness.)
Pop: down the road
Cruxshadows -- 9 p.m. Aug. 8, Orpheum, Ybor City. $9.99.
Team pop trivia
This week's winner: Dan Khoury of St. Petersburg, an actor and director who most recently appeared in subUrbia at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, knew that the "man in the coon skin cap in the big pen" is the guy in Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues who wanted 11 dollar bills when "you only got 10."
Get Away
Getaway: hot ticket
A fun look at pirates
Getaway: down the road
Events to watch for; details in future editions of Weekend.
Dine
Don't pass up Perch
A new chef mixes farmhouse flavor with refined technique, less glitter and lower prices.
Food events
Chefs' competition -- 6:30 p.m. today, Apron's Cooking School at Publix Supermarket Shoppes of Citrus Park, 7835 Gunn Highway, Tampa. Chef Thomas McKinney-Steh of Oystercatchers and chef Parker Stafford of Splash! Ocean Grill square off to create the best menu with shrimp, monkfish, beets, plantains, tomatillos and peaches; chef Jay Minzer provides play-by-play. $50, (813) 926-4465.
Stage
Stage: down the road
Party -- Central Stage Theatre puts on its first show, David Dillon's Party, Aug. 9-Sept. 2 in St. Petersburg. $18.
Stage: hot ticket
Sounds from the sweet life
