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Hot tickets: Fiesta, parade spice up Saturday
By Times Staff
Published February 10, 2005
Tampa continues to party this weekend with the Family Fiesta and Sant'Yago Illuminated Knight Parade.
The fiesta, from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, will have all the usual rides and games, plus visits by Spider-Man and other television and movie characters, street performers and entertainers. Above, Matt Berman turns a flip with a snowboard while performing with Max-Air, a trampoline stunt show, at the 2004 fiesta. It's all on the corner of Kennedy Boulevard and Florida Avenue downtown.
The Sant'Yago Knight Parade steps off at 6:30 p.m. at Florida Avenue and Whiting Street downtown and moves along Florida to Kennedy, then Kennedy to Nebraska Avenue, Nebraska to Nick Nuccio Parkway, and to Seventh Avenue through Ybor City. Reserved bleacher seats are $18 downtown and $20 in Ybor. (813) 353-8108.
"It's all about adrenaline'
They race motorcycles on an ice rink with studded tires and no brakes. Oh yeah, and to get maximum acceleration, they power the bikes with something similar to rocket fuel.
"It's definitely dangerous," top-ranked Anthony "The British Bulldog" Barlow of Liverpool, England, said in 2002 in Tampa. "It's all about adrenaline."
Barlow and other competitors in Xtreme International Ice Racing return at 3 p.m. Sunday to the St. Pete Times Forum, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa. $13.75-$21.75 adults, $9.25 children. 813 301-2500 or www.stpetetimesforum.com
[Last modified February 9, 2005, 13:23:08]
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