Seize the day

By WILMA NORTON

© St. Petersburg Times, published January 23, 2001

Things to do

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Local artist Roger Bansemer will talk about his trip to the wreckage of the Titanic and will show photographs he took from the submersible Mir I. 2 p.m., Clearwater East Library, 2251 Drew St. Free. (727) 669-1280.

The Manatee County Fair offers free country concerts with fair admission of $5 adults, $3 ages 6-12. Today: Janie Fricke, 2 and 8 p.m. and T.G. Sheppard, 3 and 9 p.m. 1303 17th St. W, Palmetto. (941) 722-1639.

Sergei Khrushchev, son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and Francis Gary Powers Jr., son of the U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, will talk about the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis at 6 p.m. in the Vinoy Grand Ballroom, 501 Fifth Ave. NE. Tickets, including dinner, are $35. (727) 821-4069.

Peter Keane plays acoustic music. 8 p.m. Skipper's Smokehouse, 910 Skipper Road, Tampa. $6. (813) 977-6474.

Baltimore's Nothingface plays heavy rock that Metal Edge calls "brutally beautiful." With Systematic and Endo. 8 p.m. State Theatre, 687 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. $6.98. (727) 895-3045.

The Great Arts Society presents Great Divas of Tampa Bay with messo-soprano Danielle Desiderio and pianist Margareth Douglas performing arias and Broadway and jazz standards. 7:30 p.m., Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. $10 general admission. (727) 822-3590.

Things to view

The Early Show broadcasts from Tampa. 7-9 a.m., WTSP-Ch. 10.

Scientific American Frontiers, with host Alan Alda, looks at high-tech ways to fix heart problems. 8 p.m., WEDU-Ch. 3.

Garcelle Beauvais, formerly of The Jamie Foxx Show, joins the cast of NYPD Blue as an assistant district attorney. 10 p.m., WFTS-Ch. 28.

Food Fantasy, hosted by Largo High School graduate Robin Dorian, features a visit to Bern's in Tampa with the winners of a tailgate party contest. 10:30 p.m., the Food Network.

- Compiled by Times calendar editor Wilma Norton. Information for this feature can be sent to weekend@sptimes.com. E-mail should not include attachments.

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