1. Hawaii pop reggae trio Pepper (pictured below) plays a show at Jannus Landing; The Supervillains and Passafire provide support.
2. Tampa Theatre hosts a limited run of When Did You Last See Your Father?, a drama based on Blake Morrison's autobiographical novel about his troubled relationship with his father.
3. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund senior staff attorney Gregory Nevins offers a talk on "Same-Sex Marriage in America: The Inevitable Revolution" at University of Tampa.
4. Architecture and design greats share innovative ideas on sustainability as part of a free USF lecture series dubbed Sustain it(!) – Design Discourse on Strategies + Tactics in Sustainability in Architecture and Urbanism. Tonight's topic, "Materiality: Material Ethics," is presented by Alvaro Malo, director of the emerging material technologies graduate program at University of Arizona’s School of Architecture. He's also on a team that will compete in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition to design, build and operate an energy efficient, fully solar-powered home.
5. Country legend Dolly Parton brings her tour to Ruth Eckerd Hall.
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2008.