Visit the Glazer Children's Museum with your child today to read Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day as part of Read for the Record, a nationwide event to set a new world record for the greatest number of people reading the same book on the same day.
Local celebrity readers include Mayor Pam Iorio, Stacie Schaible and Leigh Spann of News Channel 8, Aminta Parnell and Alex Jordann from WTMP Radio.
Books will be read 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Glazer Children's Museum is at 110 Gasparilla Plaza, at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, in downtown Tampa. Admission is $9.50 for children, $15 for adults and $12 for military and senior citizens.
Tonight, revisit old-timey paranoia with The War of the Worlds, Stageworks' adaptation of the Orson Welles radio play.
Welles presented the first two-thirds of 1938 radio broadcast as a series of fake news bulletins, which listeners believed and in turn incited mass hysteria.
People really thought that an alien invasion by Martians was really in progress.
If only The Event were that believable?
The play runs through Oct. 16 at the Friday Morning Musicale, 809 W Horatio St., Tampa. Tickets start at $24.50; $10 rush for students and seniors. Call 813-251-8984.
This article appears in Oct 7-13, 2010.