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Weekend best bets
Cool ideas for your time off
By WILMA NORTON
Published December 9, 2005
CELEBRATING BY BOAT AND BY BIKE
Everybody loves a parade, by land or by sea. There are a dozen to choose from this weekend, from the waterways of South Pinellas to the streets of Inverness. The largest is the St. Petersburg Lighted Boat Parade along the waterfront downtown and along Snell Isle tonight. The two most unusual: the decorated canoes, kayaks and motorboats of the Hillsborough River Holiday Boat Parade Saturday night and the tricked-out bikes of the Mingle & Jingle motorcycle parade through Zephyrhills Saturday night.
"NUTCRACKER' WITH A TWIST
Classic Tchaikovsky gets a hip-hop and funk makeover in The Chocolate Nutcracker, a Ruth Eckerd Hall tradition starring dozens of local dancers. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Clearwater hall. $14.50-$19.50. (727) 791-7400.
A MASTER'S INFLUENCE
The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg opens a new exhibit today showing how the Spanish surrealist influenced the work of American artists. Pollock to Pop: America's Brush With Dali continues through April 23 and features works borrowed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and private collections. Artists include Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, James Rosenquist and Chuck Close. (727) 823-3767; salvadordalimuseum.org. Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. $14, $12 seniors, military and police, $9 students 10 to 18, $3.50 ages 5 to 10; $5 after 5 p.m.
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