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5 Days and $50 is a weekly look at events going on in Tampa Bay during the week that don’t break the bank. We highlight an event going on each day of the week and, if you did all the events, it would cost you less than $50! It’s things to do in Tampa Bay that won’t break the bank!

Monday 3/24
Yellowcard at State Theater starting at 6pm.
$20. Alt/rock band Yellowcard in a rare acoustic performance.

Tuesday 3/25
Dr. Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb) lecture at the Mahaffey Theater Ballroom. 7pm.
Free. Ehrlich’s book “The Population Bomb” created headlines when it came out in 1968 and predicted that overpopulation would lead to global famine. He continues to write and talk about issues of overpopulation, resource management, and environmental concerns.

Wednesday 3/26
Cosmic Quandaries with Dr. Neil drGrasse Tyson at St. Pete College. 7pm.
$15. Consider it Astrophysics 101 as the Tyson, host of Nova, talks about the universe and it’s mysteries. Colbert Report fans (isn’t that all of us) might recognize Tyson from his appearances on the show.

Thursday 3/27
Screening of Sand and Sorrow at the Golda Mier/Kent Jewish Center (2010 Greenbriar Blvd., Clearwater). 7pm.

Free. Screening of the George Clooney narrated documentary that examines the ongoing conflict in Darfur. Donations will be taken for the Stop Darfur campaign.

Friday 3/28

Stop Loss Opens in Theaters. Check your local movie theater for showtimes.

Apx $10. Yes, Stop Loss is another movie about Iraq, which has meant box office poison for most of the other films dealing with the topic (The Kingdom, In the Valley of Ellah, Grace is Gone). But here’s hoping that Stop/Loss can succeed where they failed with a hot cast and behind the scenes gossip (Ryan Phillippe’s affair with co-star Abbey Cornish broke up his marriage to Reese Witherspoon) because Stop/Loss is a great movie. A look at the military Stop Loss program that involuntarily extends the tours of duty of military personal. While the film may be anti-war it is unabashedly pro-military, looking at the men and women who chose to sign up after 9/11 and are now being taken advantage of by a government that didn’t have an exit strategy. Rolling Stone gave the film 3.5 stars and calls it “a powder keg with no agenda except the human one”.