RiverFest: Tampa shows off its freshly finished Riverwalk with activities (mostly free) at 11 locations, including the Mayor's Mac and Cheese Throwdown on Saturday and a Bloody Mary Festival on Sunday at Curtis Hixon Park. tampariverfest.com.
Ruby Bridges: On Tuesday, the civil rights icon's talk, part of the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the Tampa Museum of Art, will feature her story, which Rockwell depicted, of integrating an all-white New Orleans school. Sold out, but the exhibit runs through May 31.
The Planets: The Florida Orchestra gets spacey Friday-Sunday while playing Holst's The Planets as real images from space move across the big screen. $15-$45. floridaorchestra.org.
Date night
Jerry Seinfeld: The comedian performs Thursday and Friday at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg. That's not nothing. $59-$149.
Enchanted Earth: World-renowned explorers Sylvia Earle, an oceanographer, and Margaret Lowman, a climate scientist known for scaling forest canopies for research, will talk Thursday at Tampa Theatre. $33-$75.
Tropical Heatwave: The 34th annual WMNF music festival hits Ybor City on Friday and Saturday. $30-$50.
Music: You ought to know Alanis Morissette will perform an intimate, acoustic show Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg; $49.50-$99.50. Joan Armatrading stops in Clearwater's Capitol Theatre on Friday at 8 p.m.; $53.75-$78.75. Classic rock's Boston plays More Than a Feeling at Ruth Eckerd Hall on Saturday; $49.50-$125. Grammy nominee Paramore plays Ruth Eckerd Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday with friends Copeland; $43.25-$78.75. Sammy Hagar joins forces with Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Vic Johnson to rock Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall on Wednesday; $49.50-$115.
Kids and family
Free Comic Book Day Saturday is a hugely popular day in comic book shops around the area. Go to freecomicbookday.com to find a shop.
Music and Movies in the Park: The popular series returns to Straub Park at 7 p.m. Thursday with live music by the Dancing Chickens and a screening of Cocoon at Fifth Avenue NE and Bayshore Drive, St. Petersburg. Free.
More to explore
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