Seize The Day

By Compiled by SHARON KENNEDY WYNNE

© St. Petersburg Times, published June 1, 2000

THINGS TO DO . . .

Summer vacation season is upon us, and the weight will be upon us too if we aren't careful. Chef Debby DeGraaff offers a free class on how to choose meals wisely while traveling. Healthy travelers can find her at 10-11 a.m. today at Nature's Harvest Market, 1021 N. MacDill Ave., Tampa. Call (813) 873-7428.

The finger-snapping turtleneck crowd get a treat tonight as folk/pop guitarist Vince Martin performs with Ben Prestage and David Hawkins at 8 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa, 11400 Morris Bridge Road. Tickets are $10. Martin's early career began as part of the Greenwich Village scene of the late '50s and early '60s. Though he hasn't released an album since 1973, he still performs frequently. Prestage and Hawkins are a guitar/harmonica blues duo. The 21-year-old Prestage has been called a guitar prodigy. Call (813) 625-2688.

Comedians Tanyalee Davis and Warren Burso take the stage tonight at Giggles Comedy Club at the Poseidon Restaurant, 2035 U.S. 19, Crystal River. Show times are 8 to 9:30 p.m. Advance tickets are $6, $7 at the door. Call (352) 563-1184.

Italian playwright and actor Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist is now playing in a Jobsite Theater production at the Off Center Theater of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Paul Potenza stars in the "grotesque farce about a tragic farce" based on the story of an anarchist railway worker who died during police interrogation. Performances are 8 p.m. today and Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday through June 11. Tickets are $10-$21.50. Call (813) 229-7827.

THINGS TO VIEW . . .

Larry King will host CNN's celebration of the all-news network's 20th anniversary, revisiting major news events through the eyes of journalists who covered them in Twenty Years of Stories: This is CNN. A second special will be shown at the same time Friday. 9 p.m.

June will be an "all-premiere" month on A&E's Biography, starting tonight with Candice Bergen, who turned out pretty well for someone who had to contend with having an older "brother" who was a wooden dummy -- the one that brought dad Edgar Bergen fame as a ventriloquist. 8 p.m.

Compiled by Times staff writer Sharon Kennedy Wynne.