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Travel florida’s garden path with A guide to our botanical bounty.
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Cover Story
Florida in full bloom
The Epcot Flower and Garden Festival is but one rite of spring.
Film
Slavish devotion to a legendary dad
Michael Douglas tries far too hard in a sappy, contrived It Runs in the Family. Rent Spartacus instead.
No joy luck club
The Asian-American teens in Better Luck Tomorrow descend into drugs, violence and more with nary a stereotype in sight.
Con heir
Helped by a strong cast that includes a creepy Dustin Hoffman, Confidence is a worthy successor to the jewel of the con-man genre: The Sting.
A real stinker
Something's rotten in this contrived copy of an Agatha Christie whodunit, and it's more than the bodies piling up.
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 five movies and upcoming releases
Top five movies
Indie Flicks: Nolte steals the spotlight
The Good Thief (R) (108 min.) -- All you need to erase Nick Nolte's notorious DUI police mugshot from your mind is a peek at his performance in The Good Thief, a remake of the 1955 French caper Bob le Flambeur. Nolte plays Bob Montagnet, a down-and-almost-out American expatriate (and criminal) in France. He's a shabby-chic throwback to days when crooks didn't talk in Tarantino pop-speak or use technology requiring a physics degree to understand.
Also Opening: Unsafe in any locale
Further evidence of the decline of Western civilization is displayed by The Real Cancun (R), another big-screen version of a popular MTV reality series.
Video / DVD
New Releases: The padre's passion
The Crime of Padre Amaro (R)
Rewind: Prepare for another year of Nolte
Nick Nolte, gaining rave reviews for his performance in The Good Thief (opening today) as an alcoholic, heroin-addicted gambler and former thief preparing for the heist of his life, hasn't been slowed by his arrest last year for driving under the influence of drugs.
Upcoming releases and current rankings
Tuesday: Darkness Falls, Treasure Planet, Two Weeks Notice
Pop
Live, loud and crowded
Livestock, two days of raucous hard-rock revelry brought to you by WXTB-FM 97.9 (98 Rock), gets its 13th incarnation this weekend at Zephyrhills Festival Park.
A message with a beat
The Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra delivers hypnotic, sensual music to keep people smiling -- and dancing -- even as they soak up the group's pacifist politics.
Team Pop Trivia
This week's winner: Tony Roberts of Tampa knew the song that rockabilly legend Eddie Cochran had released to radio at the time of his death in a car crash in 1960 was called Three Steps to Heaven, which became a hit.
Hot Ticket
Perseverance pays off in a big way
Ticket Window
Matchbox Twenty with Sugar Ray and American Hi Fi, 7 p.m. July 3, St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa. Tickets ($35-$45) on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Forum box office or Ticketmaster.
Stage
Hot Ticket
A little Sondheim music
Down the road
Girls -- The Girls Choir of Harlem sings May 2 at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Ferguson Hall. $6.50-$10.50.
Dine
First Bite: Small plates, a grand idea
The poetry continues, and still in short form, as nibbles make up the menu at Appeteasers, formerly the site of Haiku, in downtown St. Petersburg.
I'll have another . . .
Sorbet in the shell.
Food and drink events
Bern's Wine Fest -- Today-Mon. SideBern's, 2208 W Morrison Ave., Tampa. Sixth annual wine and food event includes seminars, luncheon, grand tasting, gala wine dinner, with winemakers and winery owners representing 150 wines from around the world; cuisine by executive chef Jeannie Pierola; event prices $65-$250. (813) 250-9463 or www.bernswinefest.com.
Art
The last picture show?
A St. Petersburg gallery whose sophisticated presence is threatened by tough economic times features an exhibit in which simple lives and everyday actions are the focus.
Hot Ticket
A pop art birthday
At the museums
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota -- Through Sunday, "Of Hands and Fire: Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics," works from the Koger Collection.
Get Away
Hot Ticket
Triathlon by the bay
Down the road
Events to watch for; details in future editions of Weekend.
