Alive: Seize the day

Seize the day

By Compiled by SHARON KENNEDY WYNNE

Friday's best bets

Things to do

The Clearwater Summer Concert Series continues today with The Barracudas, featuring '70s and '80s music, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Coachman Park, 301 Drew St., downtown Clearwater. It's free. Lawn chairs, blankets and coolers are permitted.
Gainesville's own The Causey Way plays its energetic dance punk that harkens back to Devo and the B-52s at 9 p.m. today at Club More, 703 Franklin St., Clearwater. Admission is $7 at the door. Call (727) 466-6673.
Take a culinary history lesson with a Cracker dinner, a four-course meal of Florida cuisine and entertainment at 5 p.m. today at the Rock Crusher Canyon Garden Pavilion, 275 S Rock Crusher Road, Crystal River. Don't be surprised to find a plate full of alligator tail, fried catfish, cheese grits, black-eyed peas and hush puppies that were the staples for Florida Crackers, or cattle ranchers, the first modern settlers. The cost is $22. Call (352) 795-1313.
Celebrate Bastille Day with a dose of joie de vivre and special dinners at Cafe de France from 5 to 10 p.m., 15225 Gulf Blvd. in Madeira Beach, (727) 392-8627; Chateau France Restaurant, limited seating, serving from 5 to 11 p.m., 136 Fourth Ave., N.E., St. Petersburg (727) 894-7163; and Kelly's For Just About Anything today and Saturday, 319 Main St., Dunedin, (727) 736-5284. There also will be a Bastille Day wine tasting from 7 to 9 p.m. at Vintage Wine Cellars, 3629 Henderson Blvd., Tampa. Commemorate France's Independence Day with tasting of 15 wines from France's major growing regions, plus French bread and cheese. Cost is $10. Call (813) 879-2931 to reserve.

Things to view

It's Submarine Weekend on TCM, a festival of underwater classics that continues through Sunday. It starts at 8 p.m. with the 1933 feature Hell Below. Also featured: Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) at 10 p.m., Torpedo Run (1958) at midnight, and Das Boot (1981) at 2 a.m.
It was almost a year ago -- July 16, 1999 -- when John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane was lost. On JFK Jr.: Final Flight, The Learning Channel includes a "forensic analysis" of what is known about the flight from New Jersey to Massachusetts. 10 p.m.

Compiled by Times staff writer Sharon Kennedy Wynne.