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Weekend best bets
Cool ideas for your time off
By WILMA NORTON
Published September 23, 2005
Neither mild nor mannered
Bob Saget, the milquetoast dad from TV's Full House, is a foul-mouthed guy when he takes to the standup stage. (Just ask anyone who saw him in the movie The Aristocrats.) He brings his off-color act to Tampa at 8 and 10:30 tonight; 7, 9:30 and 11:30 p.m. Saturday; and 7 p.m. Sunday at the Improv Comedy Theater, 1600 E Eighth Ave., Tampa. $20. (813) 864-4000.
How about a movie?
A couple of entertaining releases hit movie theaters today: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and the thriller Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster. St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall described Corpse Bride as "a dependably dark, mirthfully macabre fairy tale." He gave it a B+
. Times reviewer Philip Booth gave Flightplan a B.
Now hear this
On the musical menu: New Orleans native Dr. John at 8 tonight at Tampa Theatre. $35. (813) 274-8981; Jon Oliva's Pain with Chris Caffery's Faces and Beyond Fear. 7 p.m. today, State Theatre, St. Petersburg. $30. (727) 896-2276. Keller Williams, 8 p.m. Saturday, Tampa Theatre. $20. (813) 274-8981. Pennywise with H2O, Death by Stereo and A Wilhelm Scream. 8 p.m. Saturday, Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg. $14.99-$17. (727) 896-2276. Digital Underground, 9 p.m. Sunday, State Theatre, St. Petersburg. $15 advance, $18 day of show. (727) 895-3045.
Happy birthday, Skipper's
Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa, a venerable outdoor concert joint, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a series of shows this weekend, beginning with Jimmy Thackery and the Rev. Billy C. Wirtz at 8 p.m. today, $18; a free daylong anniversary show, noon to midnight Saturday, with bands including the Damon Fowler Group, Sawgrass Flats and many more; and Steve Forbert with Ray Bonneville, 5 p.m. Sunday, $10 advance, $13 at the door. (813) 977-6474.
Only the film is silent
Rosa Rio, Summer Classic Movie Series.Silent film special event with The Freshman 1925, starring Harold Lloyd. With accompaniment by Rosa Rio on the Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ. 3 p.m. Tampa Theatre, 711 Franklin St. $10, $8 seniors, students and military. (813) 274-8981; www.tampatheatre.org
Weekend dance-a-thon
The Moving Current Dance Collective opens its ninth season, called "Gravity Abandoned," with a series of contemporary and aerial pieces featuring trapezes, harnesses and bamboo stalks. Performances are at 8 tonight and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, in Theater 2 on the University of South Florida's Tampa campus. $15 general admission, $10 students and seniors. (813) 237-0216 or (813) 974-2323. In St. Petersburg, Christopher Fleming has choreographed a pair of works, Alice in Wonderland and Songs From My Childhood, for the Palladium Theater's Dance Project 2005-06, featuring guest artist Daniel Ulbricht of the New York City Ballet. Performances are at 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Palladium Theater, Fifth Avenue N and Third Street N, St. Petersburg. $12-$18. (727) 822-3590; palladiumtheater.com.
Bolts take the ice
Hockey is back. The Tampa Bay Lightning play two preseason home games this weekend, against the Florida Panthers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and against the Buffalo Sabres at 5 p.m. Sunday. Both games are at the St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa. $19-$59. (813) 301-6600.
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