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This week: Pinellas

By Times Staff Writer
Published October 22, 2004

SPOOKTACULAR: Halloween candyland with activities, costume parade, teen dance tent and trick-or-treating, tonight from 6:30-10. at Largo Central Park. Admission is $3 in advance with a Largo rec card, $4 without, $5 the day of the event. For more information, call 587-6720.

GOOD DEEDS: Largo's Day of Good Deeds, in conjunction with the City of Dunedin, will be 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, starting at Largo Cultural Center in Largo Central Park. Volunteers will come together to do good works for the homebound and needy. For more information, to volunteer or to request a good deed, call 518-3133.

BASEBALL: Kids & Kubs baseball exhibition games will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the ballfields behind Sabel Palms. An exhibition game with players over 75 years old will be played. For more information, call 437-1600.

FESTIVAL: The third annual Freedom Fun Festival will be held at Craig Park in Tarpon Springs Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The rain date is Sunday. The event includes outrigger sprint races starting at noon for a $10 entry fee, a chili cookoff at 10 a.m. with a $25 entry fee per team, a motorcycle show, live music, a rock climbing wall and other activities. Admission and parking are free. The festival is presented by the Tarpon Springs Business Alliance, Florida Competition Paddlers Association, Bright House Networks and Full Throttle magazine. For more information, call 938-7685 or e-mail lizardranch@mail.com

MUSIC: Queensryche, Saturday at 8 p.m., Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 McMullen Booth Road, Clearwater. Tickets: $36 and $50. Call (727) 791-7400.

ON STAGE: The Uninvited Guest, through Oct. 24, Royalty Theater, 405 Cleveland St., Clearwater. Call 727 441-8868 or visit www.royaltytheatre.org

EXHIBIT: "Gavin Perry: From This Point On, It Only Gets Rougher," through Dec. 26, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, 12211 Walsingham Road, Largo. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sundays noon-4 p.m. Call (727) 518-6833.

REMEMBRANCE: Civil War Remembrance Day in Tarpon Springs, Blue and Gray Tour, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Cycadia Cemetery, 1005 East Tarpon Ave., Tarpon Springs, and Rose Cemetery, Jasmine Avenue east of Cycadia Cemetery, sponsored by the Tarpon Springs Historical Society. A 9 a.m. dedication ceremony, hosted by the Tarpon Springs Historical Society, United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans as new headstones are unveiled on graves of two Confederate veterans buried in Cycadia Cemetery. Music and complimentary refreshments. Call (727) 937-1130.

SPECIAL MUSIC: "Thinking of America - Songs of the Civil War," featuring tenor Robert Trentham and pianist Richard Pearson Thomas, 8 p.m. on Saturday, Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, 324 Pine St., Tarpon Springs. Call (727) 942-5605.

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ART: Montage Gallery presents "Tranquility in Vertigo," by Christine A. Galas. The exhibit runs through Nov. 30. The gallery is located at 2194 Main St., Dunedin. For more information, call (727) 738-0023.

ART HISTORY: Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art and St. Petersburg College offer a Modern Art Survey Class, 10 a.m.-noon, Fridays through Nov. 19, Leepa-Rattner Museum, St. Petersburg College Tarpon Springs campus, U.S. 19 and 600 Klosterman Road, Tarpon Springs. Cost for museum members is $40, nonmembers $60. Call (727) 712-5210.

ART EXHIBIT: Studio 1212 presents "Black and White" through Nov. 19. There is a reception with the artists tonight from 5-7. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 3 p.m. For more information, call 446-4566 or visit the Web site at www.studio1212.org

LIVE THEATER: My Favorite Year, Oct. 29-31, Nov. 4-7, and Nov. 11-14. Eight O'Clock Theatre, Largo Cultural Center, 105 Central Park Drive, Largo. Call (727) 587-6793.

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