Seize The Day

By Compiled by KATHLEEN LANG

© St. Petersburg Times, published June 30, 2000

THINGS TO DO

• Watch another beautiful gulf coast sunset while listening to a free blues concert at Coachman Park in Clearwater today. Local bluesman Molten Mike and his band perform from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Food and drinks will be sold at the park or you can bring a cooler. Call (727) 562-4800.

• Say yes to one of America's most celebrated playwrights when Neil Simon's comedy Proposals opens today at American Stage, 211 Third St. S, St. Petersburg. Curtain rises at 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays and July 8 and 15; 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays. Runs through July 23. Tickets are $20-$28. Call (727) 823-7529.

• The Tampa Bay Gay Men's Chorus performs its 1999-2000 season finale, featuring numbers from Touching Hearts, Changing Lives, at 8 tonight at the Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. Tickets are $15. Call (727) 865-9004.

• Sweep onto the dance floor tonight in Gulfport for a Ballroom Dance with the 12-piece big band Dancelovers from 8 to 11:30 p.m. at Gulfport Casino, 5500 Shore Blvd. Tickets are $10 advance, $12 door. Call (727) 582-9499.

• Hear the din when 35 local kids "turn pots and pans into art" during a Stomp-style showcase at 7 p.m. today at Largo Cultural Center, 105 Central Park Drive, Largo. The fine arts camp members spent three weeks learning rhythm on all sorts of percussion instruments. Tickets are $7. Call (727) 587-6793.

• Barnes & Noble helps kick off the holiday weekend with three special visitors at the Brandon store, 122 Brandon Town Center Drive. Sun City resident Joseph Cassidy, the real-life main character in Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas, and Tampa resident Jack O'Flaherty, a former FBI agent who handled the anti-Soviet Union espionage mission Operation Shocker, who is also featured in the book, arrive at 5 p.m., followed at 7 p.m. by Joseph Oleski, author of The Poppy Field. Call (813) 661-9883.

THINGS TO VIEW

• Find out more about the celebrity and preacher who is said to have been friends with every president since Eisenhower on Billy Graham: A Personal Crusade, tonight on A&E's Biography. 8 p.m.

• Yee-haw! The boys from Georgia are back again when the The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! is repeated tonight on CBS. The 1997 reunion movie stars Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach and Denver Pyle, who died later that year. 9 p.m.

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