Five Things to Do Today
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
1. Clip Film Series — a program offered by the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – presents its July selections: the Chad Allen drama, Save Me, followed by two episodes of the new LOGO series Sordid Lives, which is based on the indie film by Del Shores. (Pictured at right: Allen and co-star Robert Gant.)
2. It’s another Wednesday evening fundraiser for the nonprofit Abilities Foundation, this one a six-course Spanish Wine Dinner hosted by La Fogata Churrascaria and featuring Montecillo and Osborne wine pairings by Osborne U.S. Associate Pablo Pelaez.
3. American Stage kicks off a four-night run of An Evening Wasted with the Songs of Tom Lehrer, which is produced by Julie Rowe and T. Scott Wooten, aka, Economic Stimulus Productions.
4. The Zappa Plays Zappa tour – featuring Dweezil Zappa, a lineup of talented musicians and special guest Ray White – plays in Orlando. Definitely worth the drive if you’re a Zappa fan.
5. Side Splitters Comedy Club welcomes Got Jokes?, a new local improv troupe that claims it has a “fresh, hip and innovative approach” to improv comedy.









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Tonight’s focus is “Summer Salads.” 6:30-9:30 p.m., 3805 S. West Shore Blvd., Tampa, $40 per person, 813-480-5466.
Locals enjoy free games of tournament-style Texas Hold ‘Em (7 and 9 p.m.), with the chance to win prizes and move on to a nation-wide poker tournament.
(right, reading the paper) was recently diagnosed with leukemia and while she was undergoing chemotherapy at All Children’s Hospital, her appendix ruptured and had to be removed; newborn Reece (left, with dad) came into the world shortly after and suffering from persistent pulmonary hypertension, a disorder that limits blood flow to the lungs. Parents Dennis and Teresa Russo are struggling – breadwinner Teresa was just laid off from her high-salary job and Dennis is a Gibbs High School teacher with a teacher’s diminutive income. All proceeds raised at the concert go directly to the family. Fri., July 11, 7-11 p.m., Nova 535 Art Lounge, 535 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N., St. Petersburg, $10 suggested donation. For more info, call 727-385-1529.
the idea is pretty funny in a Flirting with Disaster sort of way. Not so much to 18-year-old Texan Christian V. Phillips,