Performing arts center plans busy new season
Mark your calendar for March 2001, as Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center presents the world premiere of an opera written by famed conductor Anton Coppola.
On Screen

The visuals are stunning, but the talking dinosaurs don't say much that speaks to a 21st century audience. Story
'Small Time Crooks' is vintage Woody
Writer-director Woody Allen returns to the caper comedy in his latest movie, a tepid effort that's likely to please his fans but won't draw any new ones.
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Tracey Ullman and Woody Allen star in Small Time Crooks. |
Dishing with the directors
Thanks to Emery's interviews and subsequent books arising from then, fans can rest assured that most words from, say a Martin Scorsese, will not be lost to posterity.
Movies on the Edge
From the edge
Pop Beat
'N Sync: 'They are what music is about'
'N Sync has fans galore. Here's what two of them have to say.
Still a wild and crazy guy
Comic Bobcat Goldthwait has built his career on spontaneity. It seems to have worked.
Stereolab conducts an interesting experiment
Critically lauded British band Stereolab brings its gorgeous experimental electronic music to the State Theater, 687 Central Ave. in St. Petersburg, at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Pop shorts
The music fill flow
On Stage
She's having a ball playing the 'fool'
Ann Morrison and company take to the stage tonight in Twelfth Night Fever.
Mozart's 'Requiem,' true to form
Larry Kent is conducting Mozart's Requiem the way the work might have been heard when it was composed at the end of the 18th century.
Art Beat
Refreshing showers of modern art
For years I've been griping that we don't get enough good shows of contemporary art in the bay area.
TimeOut
'So Mote It Be'
As pop culture embraces more positive roles of witches, area Wiccans see their numbers growing. And each year, the coven from the Tampa Unitarian Universalist Church shares its ways with the public during the Full Moon Circle Mayfest.
Put on your armor and live history
Experience what it was like way, way back when at the Medieval Living History event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in Largo Central Park, at East Bay and Seminole Boulevard.
Web site we like
Surfin'
Audio Files
Classical audio file
Frankly A Cappella: The Persuasions Sing Zappa (Earthbeat) -- The Persuasions and Frank Zappa?

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