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Great Explorations unveils its new museum where kids can look -- and touch.
[Times photo: Cherie Diez]
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New, improved explorations
Great Explorations The Hands On Museum welcomes junior scientists -- and their parents -- to its new home at Sunken Gardens.
Great Explorations exhibits are hands-on fun
As Great Explorations, the Hands On Museum prepares to reopen on March 30, the St. PetersburgTimes sent Xpress Team reporters Lindsey Brooks and Jacob Ludin in to check out some of the new exhibits. Lindsey, 14, is in eighth grade at Bay Point Middle School in St. Petersburg. Jacob, 11, is in fifth grade at Pinellas County Jewish Day School in Clearwater. Xpress runs every Monday in Floridian.
Film
'The Core' is rotten
Viewers beware: Below the surface of this sci-fi adventure about the Earth's core lurks a bad B movie.
A vote for mediocrity
Chris Rock gives us just 15 minutes of funny in the clumsy Head of State. That's enough for a comedy routine, but not for a movie.
Top 5 Movies and Upcoming releases
Top five movies
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. Only films rated G, PG or PG-13 are included in this weekly listing, along with occasional R-rated films that may have entertainment or educational value for older children with parental guidance. Compiled by St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall.
Video / DVD
Rewind: Worthy of a King
If Stephen King fans feel underwhelmed by Dreamcatcher's formulaic gore, another look at earlier flicks inspired by his tales may be just the ticket.
New Releases: A Cinderella story without much fire
The story is standard and the chemistry lacking, but romantics will still watch.
Upcoming releases and current rankings
Tuesday: Far from Heaven, Red Dragon, Secretary, The Truth about Charlie, The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Nite Out
She's not just a Patsy
C.J. Harding has made a living playing country legend Patsy Cline. Now she's stepping out to sing her own songs as herself.
Also
The State Theatre departs from its usual music Saturday, featuring Stephen Lynch, a comic with a guitar. He sings twisted, dark ballads about subjects that include dead girlfriends, gynecology and gerbils.
Pop
Team Pop Trivia
This week's winner: Frank Pfleegor of New Port Richey knew that Smell The Glove was the name of the ill-fated album that fictitious heavy metal band Spinal Tap was promoting in the 1984 comedy "mocumentary" This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner.
Ticket Window
DOWN THE ROAD
Hot Ticket
A rare evening with Annie Lennox
Stage: She doesn't just fiddle around
Show tunes? Tango music? A Beethoven sonata? Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, no musical snob, takes it all seriously.
Down the road
Choir -- On April 6, the Tampa Bay Concert Choir sings Bach's Magnificat and Vivaldi's Gloria at Octagon Arts Center/Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater. $10, $12.
Hot Ticket
Three plays get local productions
Dine
Food and drink events
Sea Grapes -- 7-10 p.m. Sat., Florida Aquarium, 701 Channelside Drive, Tampa. Sample fine food and wines at fundraiser to benefit the aquarium's education and veterinary programs. $55. (813) 273-4568.
I'll have another ...
Hand-held Thanksgiving.
Art: The auction's the thing
Fun and fine art remain hallmarks of "Much Ado About Art" after more than a decade.
At the museums
Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg -- Through April 30, "Art for the People: Soviet Realism" and "Women of Our Time, photographic portraits from the National Portrait Gallery."
Hot Ticket
Folk art covers a lot of ground these days, having traveled a great distance from the naive landscapes of Grandma Moses to the sometimes darker terrain inhabited by mental patients and convicts.
Get Away
Down the road
Events to watch for; details in future editions of Weekend.
Hot Ticket
The $200,000 Budweiser American Invitational -- the jewel of American grand prix show jumping competitions -- will feature an international group of riders Saturday at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.
