Seize the day

By Compiled by KATHLEEN LANG

© St. Petersburg Times, published May 24, 2000

Take a nostalgic tour through '70s pop music when the Little River Band with Even Steven performs at 8 tonight at Jannus Landing, 200 First Ave. N, downtown St. Petersburg. Tickets are $16, available at the door and through Ticketmaster. Call Jannus at (727) 896-1244 or Ticketmaster at (727) 898-2100. Or if listening to thousands of shrieking girls is more your style, check out 'N Sync in concert with Pink and Sisqo at 7:30 tonight at the Ice Palace, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa. Tickets are $39.75, $49.75. Call Ticketmaster at (813) 287-8844.

Learn how to artfully combine different cheeses, wine, beer and more from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Grand Cru Wine Cellar, 11724 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa. Make an ordinary cheese plate special at this event, which focuses on cheese styles, textures, milk types and rind characteristics. Cheeses are paired with wines and beers, plus fruit and breads. Recipes will be provided. The cost is $10. RSVP required at (813) 269-8463.

You won't have to walk the plank when author, diver and maritime historian Dave Horner visits Barnes & Noble to sign his latest book, Shipwreck. Horner, author of The Treasure Galleons and The Blockade Runners, will be at the store at 7 tonight at 2501 Tyrone Blvd. N, St. Petersburg. Shipwreck is a non-fiction account of a real-life adventure on the high seas, including a portrait of the riches that drove men across uncharted oceans to a new world. Call (727) 384-5200.

Find out the different ways to fix miso when vegetarian Chef Debby DeGraaff shows how to use the soy-based product in healthful soups and dishes during a cooking class from 7 to 8 p.m. today and 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday at Nature's Harvest Market, 1021 N MacDill Ave., Tampa. Free. Call (813) 873-7428.

Things to view...

The Wednesday Woman writes a novel about a self-destructive affair, then unwittingly lives out the same unhappy story on CBS tonight. The new made-for-TV suspense movie is based on a true story and stars Meredith Baxter, John Heard and Peter Coyote. 9 p.m.

Experience life in the world's largest desert tonight on the two-hour special Sahara on WEDU. The first hour, "The Dance of the Jinni," pictures sun and sand, extreme heat and windstorms. "Sahara: The Nectar of Life" reveals the wet, cold side of the desert. 9 p.m.

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