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This week: Pinellas

By Times Staff Writer
Published May 13, 2005

"WAIT UNTIL DARK:" Eight O'Clock Theater presents the thriller Wait Until Dark through Sunday. The story follows a con man and two exconvicts who trace a mysterious doll, which has heroin sewn inside, to the apartment of Sam and his blind wife, Suzy. Tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Largo Cultural Center. Call 587-6793.

HERITAGE WEEKEND: Safety Harbor will host the 2005 Heritage Weekend, today through Sunday, including the Concert Under the Stars tonight from 6 to 10 with the Vodkanauts; the Bay 5K run Saturday at 7:30 a.m. and the Main Street Mile at 8:30 a.m. Taste of Safety Harbor will be Saturday from 5 to 11 p.m. at Marina Park. Admission to Taste is $2. The 20th annual Kiwanis Heritage Arts and Crafts Festival begins Sunday with a pancake breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Rigsby Center, 605 Second St. N. The arts festival will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday along Main Street. Call 726-2890.

"LOVE LETTERS": The Francis Wilson Playhouse, 302 Seminole St., Clearwater, will present A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, today through Sunday. The two-person play tells the story, through letters to each other, of a man and a woman who could have been a couple but whose lives took divergent paths. Tonight and Saturday performance times are 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15. Call the box office at 446-1360.

FLAMENCO: Pinellas Opera League and Leapa-Rattner Museum of Art presents "Dance on a Saturday Afternoon," Saturday at 1:30 p.m. A DVD of the dance performance El Amour Brujo, a flamenco film staring Jose Greco, will be shown. The showing will be at the video center of the Leapa-Rattner Museum of Art, 600 Klosterman Road. The event is free. Call 784-9512.

LIGHT OPERA: Gilbert & Sullivan Players present an encore presentation of Patience, Saturday and Sunday, at Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, 324 Pine St. Patience is a satire that pokes fun at the obsession with beauty and emotion in the late 1880s. Directed by Jamie Bierchen. Saturday performance at 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. Admission is $18; center member or student, $16.

ART EXHIBIT: The Dunedin Fine Art Center's annual student, member and faculty exhibitions will run through today. These exhibitions offer the opportunity for current members or students to exhibit their best work. The work is displayed along with the work of the center's faculty members. Cash and place awards are included. The center is at 1143 Michigan Blvd., Dunedin. Call 298-3322.

ART EXHIBIT: "Images of My Imagination" by artist Karen Mason of Largo will be at the Packinghouse Gallery, 10900 Oakhurst Road, Largo, through June 30. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 596-7822.

ART EXHIBIT: Painted Fish Gallery, 350 Main St., Dunedin, will show landscapes and paintings of coastal life by gallery owner Bill Renc, and circular stained glass windows depicting butterfly and insect life by Diana Eagles, through May 29. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

MIXED MEDIA: "Lived Art," a mixed-media exhibit by John DiSanza, will run through June 29 at Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, 101 S Pinellas Ave. DiSanza, a Dunedin resident, is also an author and actor. Exhibit hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday noon to 4 p.m. Free admission.

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