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By Compiled by KATHLEEN LANG

© St. Petersburg Times, published May 19, 2000

Get extreme when the ESPN X Trials begin at 10 a.m. to about 6 p.m. today at Spa Beach Park and The Pier, downtown St. Petersburg. The daylong sport event trials include inline skating, stunt bicycling and vertical and street skateboarding. Continues at 10 a.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Free admission. Call (727) 893-7777.

See what the critters are up to at 8 tonight during a Night Walk at Chinsegut Nature Center, Indigo Lane and U.S. 19, Brooksville. Bring flashlights. Free. RSVP at (352) 754-6722.

The verdict comes in tonight when juror Adrienne Golub selects works from local and national artists during Hyde Park Fine Arts gallery's second annual juried contemporary art exhibition. A free reception, which opens the exhibition, is from 7 to 10 p.m. today at the gallery, 937 S Howard Ave., Tampa. The exhibition runs through June 10. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Call (813) 258-8883.

In case you missed American Stage Shakespeare in the Park when it was in St. Petersburg, check out the disco adaptation of Twelfth Night when it boogies into Curtis Hixon Park in the downtown waterfront area off the Hillsborough River in Tampa beginning tonight. Bring a picnic dinner or check out the fare at the concession stands. The park opens at 6 p.m.; performances are at 8. General admission blanket seating is $7 (Tuesdays-Thursdays and Sundays), $10 Fridays and Saturdays. Free for children 12 and younger in blanket section only. Reserved chairs, all nights, are $22. Call (813) 229-7827 or (800) 955-1045.

Things to view...

Talk-show diva Oprah Winfrey presents high-profile interviewer Barbara Walters with a Lifetime Achievement Award in tonight's live telecast of the The 27th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on ABC. Among Walters' interviews are Fidel Castro, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Moammar Gadhafi, Boris Yeltsin, King Hussein, Margaret Thatcher, Jiang Zemin and every American president since Richard Nixon. 9 p.m.

Amid a rash of season finales on other networks tonight, the boys from Georgia return on CBS in the movie The Dukes of Hazzard -- Hazzard in Hollywood. John Schneider and Tom Wopat reprise their roles as adventure-loving cousins who head for Hollywood to raise quick cash for a needy hospital back home. 8 p.m.

Compiled by Times staff writer Kathleen Lang. She can be reached at lang@sptimes.com.