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Apr 11-17, 2007

Apr 11-17, 2007 / Vol. 20 / No. 4

Don’t miss Belinda Womack

Here’s a correction for the Chick’ Rock cover story: In the Belinda Womack feature, we said that her Jazz & Java gig at Wellspring Methodist Church in Tampa on Sun., April 22 starts at 6 p.m. It actually runs from 4-6. The set will feature Womack’s band and guest saxophonist Eric Darius. Go here for…

by Wade Tatangelo

Correction

Here’s a correction for the "Chicks Rock" cover story: In the Belinda Womack feature, we said that her Jazz & Java gig at Wellspring Methodist Church in Tampa on Sun., April 22 starts at 6 p.m. It actually runs from 4-6. The set will feature Womack’s band and guest saxophonist Eric Darius.

by Eric Snider

Kendel Carson likes trucks (and boys that talk trash)

Kendel Carson's single "I Like Trucks" might just be the catchiest gal power, country tune to be issued since Gretchen Wilson's "Redneck Woman." But while Wilson's ubiquitous hit had a slick gloss to it that probably didn't sit well with alt-country fans, Carson's ditty has a down-home feel to it that should resonate with folks…

by Wade Tatangelo

Wiping out restaurant malfeasance?

I wish I had written the first line in this Miami Herald story – "For all you skeptics, here's proof the Legislature has got your back:" Now, if only they could legislate better quality supplies, I'd be on board.

by Brian Ries

With Friends Like These …

My fiancé Phil and I were shopping for housewares and discussing our inability to spend money on frivolous decorations. Right around the time I was loudly bemoaning the $199 price tag on a sunburst mirror, a dude who was looking at vases in the same aisle — and obviously listening to our exchange — chuckled.…

by Leilani Polk

Shock and awe

Here's Senior Editor Eric Snider's review of Saturday's Flaming Lips show: Flaming Lips deliver music, spectacle, message — and lots of confetti By Eric Snider Photo by Phil Bardi; click on the picture to see others. When a team of archaeological diggers in the year 3521 unearths Jannus Landing, you can be assured they’ll find…

by Wade Tatangelo

Top 10 songs we hate (by artists we love)

Granted, some folks drink the Kool-Aid and love every single stinking note their favorite band or singer has ever recorded. The rest of us reserve our unconditional love, for, you know, loved ones and have come to loathe some of the biggest hits by our favorite artists. Here's the first in what will be an…

by Wade Tatangelo

Imus, Obama and Harvey Fierstein

Two takes on the Imus debacle that raise questions no one else is asking (at least not very loudly): America is shocked, shocked. Harvey F. is amused: "…watching the rest of you act as if you had no idea that prejudice was alive and well in your hearts and minds…" And NPR's Scott Simon wonders,…

by David Warner

Get your Africa on

If you didn’t catch this week’s Urban Explorer about Mogtaba Maki, you can catch it here. Maki, who entered the United States in 2001 as a refugee, fled Sudan after the government conscripted him into the country’s bloody civil war. His father and three sisters joined him two years ago, but his mother and two…

by Alex Pickett

2007 Sunshine State Awards finalists

A big shout-out to CL's food critic, Brian Ries, who is a finalist in the Best Criticism category in the 2007 Sunshine State Awards, which are administered by the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The Tampa Tribune is a finalist for its work on investigating the Expressway Authority. Here's a full…

by Wayne Garcia

Imus Spoke Freely

I was a guest yesterday on Media Talk, a global webcast program produced by Tampa Digital Studios, 6-7 p.m. Thursdays at tampabaysmediatalk.com During the opening segment, co-host Rob Tiisler made a crack about Don Imus. Sidekick Frank Walters, Tampa Digital’s director of post-production who does a trivia segment on the show, chimed in, “Gotta be…

by Eric Snider

My music junk for yours

For some reason I didn't get word of this event (or the email evaporated in cyberspace) and by the time organizers phoned me, it was past deadline. Anyway, it sounds like a worthwhile shindig — especially if you're a music geek looking to rifle through the treasures of fellow music geeks. Here's the skinny: Rock 'n'…

by Wade Tatangelo

Brisket Basket Corrects My Review And Two Of Their Recipes

Just received a letter from Linda Bernard about this week's review of her Brisket Basket. Here's my mistakes: "The Brisket Chowder doesn't have any vanilla in it, the predominant spice is Sweet Basil." and "Neither the Chili nor the 5-Way Beans have any cardamom." Very sorry Linda, could have sworn about the cardamom, but I…

by Brian Ries

In response to Giddy-Up, Helicopter!

Band members and fans of the Tampa rock quintet Giddy-Up, Helicopter! have voiced disapproval — through email and online posts — about my recent profile of the group, which included them in a list of the top women musicians in Tampa Bay. Objections were raised about my references to the sexual orientations of certain band…

by Wade Tatangelo

The Flower in Bloom

Name of Kama Sutra Position: The Flower in Bloom Getting into the position: The woman cups and lifts her buttocks with her palms, spreads her thighs wide and digs her heels in beside her hips. The man is then instructed to do his business while caressing her breasts. On a scale of 1 to 10…

by Eric J. Leech

Only a few days left

Until we move Blurbex over to a new server. Full info here, including links for RSS. For now, just go ahead and check out the new Blurbex site and our new political, music and food blogs at: Blurbex Eat My Florida Tampa Calling Political Whore And Morning Roundup fans, don't forget I've moved that over…

by Wayne Garcia

Review Preview – Chateau France

Anyone who's paying attention will know that I reviewed St. Petersburg's Chateau France last year and loved it. But that was before chef/owner Antoine Louro (above, with some sort of tower) got the expansion bug and opened up a brand new Chateau location in, of all places, a strip mall in Carrolwood. You'll have to…

by Brian Ries

TIPS Go Both Ways

Servers and bartenders, it's time to start giving back. To make this blog truly outstanding, we need more than just my precocious wordsmithery, we need cold, hard facts and raw, undiluted rumormongering Let's face it, no one in the Bay area is more tuned in to the food and drink scene than you guys. You…

by Brian Ries

Giving the MTV Generation a good name after MTV gave them the shaft

A couple of years ago Darius Weems, 17, had never seen mountains or the Pacific Ocean. In the summer of 2005, the Athens, GA. native, who was born with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, crossed state lines for the first time in his life. Together with buddy Logan Smalley (his former camp counselor at Project REACH) and…

by Dawn Morgan

Deacon vs. Snider

Our marketing guru, Durium Jones, and Senior Editor Eric Snider are headed over to the Palm Avenue Y as I write this to settle a longstanding, trash-talking rivalry over who can really ball the best. First one to 15 wins. Ops Editor Joe Bardi set the over/under at 18. Ouch. Results when we get them.

by Wayne Garcia

Fall Out Boy fails to man up

Fall Out Boy postponed its upcoming tour due to "personal issues." The band bumped its April 19 date at the Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa to June 15. We're thinking bassist/lyricist/incessant camera mugger Pete Wentz (pictured) either flipped off the wrong audience member and got his ass beat — or accidentally stabbed himself with an eyeliner…

by Wade Tatangelo

We’re moving … and more!

Just another reminder: Sometime this week, we are going to flip the switch and move our blog, Blurbex, over to a new server inside our CL website. (This is not exactly the exciting part.) You can find the new Blurbex here, with RSS feeds here. As part of this move, we're creating three new blogs.…

by Wayne Garcia

Music week

Thursday, April 12 RESCUE 22 w/TEN SPOKE INDIES/MALAYNE/FARWELL TO FINLAY Tampa's Rescue 22 is a poppy alt-rock four-piece fronted by former American Idol finalist Heather Piccinini. The band's website streams two tracks, a decent rocker ("Let Go") and a mediocre power ballad ("Million Pieces.") But there is a bit of gruff sincerity in Piccinini's voice…

by CL Staff

Music Week Concerts

April 19 Dear + Glorious w/Physician/Summerbirds in the Cellar Crowbar 19 My Chemical Romance w/Muse St. Pete Times Forum 20 Radio Moscow w/Poetry n' Lotion New World Brewery 20 Fall Out Boy w/+44/Paul Wall/Cobra Starship Ford Amphitheatre 21 WMNF 88.5 Celebrates Ronny Elliott's 60th Birthday Skipper's Smokehouse 21 Captured by Robots w/Yip-Yip Crowbar 21 Ellis…

by CL Staff

Spins

Fountains of Wayne, Rich Boy and Chris Knight

by CL Staff

Leave the gun. Bring the olive oil.

FLORIDA LEADS NATION IN HOMELESS BEATINGSAnd that's just the St. Pete Police Department. PELOSI IN THE MIDDLE EASTHer scatalogical imitation of Dick Cheney bending over was apparently a huge hit with the leaders of terrorist nations she visited. IMUS INSULTS BLACKSA desperate bid to hang onto his white geriatric demographic. THE SOPRANOSSpoiler alert: Series abruptly…

by CL Staff

Music Week Briefs

Turn it Up Drink beer. Hoot. Holler. Scream "Hell yeah!" Slap high fives. Sing along to them old, familiar songs. Drink more beer. Observe the gal in the Daisy Dukes flash her new, store-bought titties. That's how the deal will go down when the wonderfully titled "Rowdy Frynds Tour" featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hank Williams…

by CL Staff

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