Seize the day

Compiled by KATHLEEN LANG

© St. Petersburg Times, published May 14, 2000

Things to do...

Moms are admitted free today at Lowry Park Zoo and the Florida Aquarium with a paid child's admission. The zoo, which houses two Komodo dragons, manatees, primates and more, is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 7530 N Boulevard, Tampa. Adult admission is $8.50, seniors $7.50, children ages 3-11 $4.95, children 2 and younger free. Parking is free. Call (813) 935-8552. The aquarium is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 701 Channelside Drive, Tampa. Adults are $12.95, seniors $11.95, children ages 3-12 $7.95, children younger than 3 free. Parking is $4. Call (813) 273-4000.

Husbands, sons and grandsons, take your mom or grandma for a spin around the dance floor during the Suncoast Dixieland Jazz Society's Mother's Day concert from 2 to 5:30 p.m. today at Banquet Masters, 8100 Park Blvd., Pinellas Park. Cost is $10 for members, $15 for non-members. Cash bar and refreshments available. Call (727) 584-0585 or (727) 541-1582.

Spend A Date with Mother when the Florida Lyric Opera Company performs at 3 p.m. today at the Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. Adult tickets are $8, $5 for seniors, students. Includes instrumentalists, singers, dancers. Call (727) 822-3590.

Listen to solo and chamber works by student performers at the Eckerd College annual Honors Recital at 3 p.m. today at the college (Roberts Music Center), 4200 54th Ave. S, St. Petersburg. Free. Call (727) 864-8297.

Things to view...

Tonight A&E's Biography presents a world premiere of one of Hollywood's most enduring and successful personalities in Shirley MacLaine: This Time Around. The journey includes the Oscar-winning actor's move at age 18 to New York when she decided to take on Broadway as well as her involvement with ancient religions, politics and writing. 8 p.m. Bravo goes backstage tonight with Patrick Stewart and Arthur Miller during its premiere of The Green Room. Viewers will experience the pressure of last-minute rewrites and down-to-the-wire technical difficulties. 11:30 p.m.

-- Compiled by Times staff writer Kathleen Lang. She can be reached at lang@sptimes.com. For more events: http://www.tampabay.com.