What would MLK do?
The Clean Zone, Mayor Buckhorn and a questionable analogy.
Green Community Calendar weekend events
Earth Day events and farmers markets!
This week in food and drink: Joel Salatin, Amaretto Day at Pelagia and more
Los Vinos de Dali, Farm to Fork at Roosevelt 2.0, a smoke-free Chelsea.
The power of theater as resistance in the Middle East
Abdelfattah Abusrou Christmas day was cold and rainy; and I was in Bethlehem, far from home and family when a phone call lifted my spirits. “I like to spend this day at Aida refugee camp,” said Mazin Qumsiyeh, “can you come?” I hesitated. I’d been to other refugee camps and thought, I don’t need another…
Concert review: Van Halen rocks the Tampa Bay Times Forum arena
Do they still got it? Yeah, son, they do.
Space Shuttle Discovery hitches a ride into history (photos)
www.starznbarz.com Shuttle Discovery atop a NASA 747 just before takeoff this morning at Kennedy Space Center The Space Shuttle Discovery's ride into history began just after sunrise this morning at the old shuttle landing facility at Kennedy Space Center. The celebrated workhorse of the space shuttle fleet made its last flight into the early morning…
New Music Tuesday (April 17): Neon Trees, Eric Hutchinson, Spiritualized, Jack Johnson + more
New releases out this week, with lots of audio & video.
Briella Jaden on becoming a traveling fetish model (NSFW)
Lee David, BriellaJaden.com “What is your gag preference?” Anthony Peters ask Briella Jaden in his thick Bronx accent. “She has ball-gags, bandanas, whatever you need,” Jaden's boyfriend, Dante, says. “Get a bandana and maybe a pair of panties to stuff in her mouth.” Jaden sits patiently in one of her kitchen chairs while Peters weaves…
Concert review: Portugal.The Man hits The Ritz Ybor minus a drummer, and with disappointing results
I'm sorry for you Portugal.The Man, I really am, but after your drummer walked off stage last Monday night in New Orleans, apparently ditching the current "Jagermeister™ Tour," the rest of you guys should have, too. [Text by Andrew, photos by Mike.] The spirit to keep on trudging is admirable; it's hard to contest that.…
National Amaretto Day is nuts
This Thursday, celebrate the “holiday” established in honor of the almond-flavored Italian liqueur, Amaretto. If you have never tasted Amaretto, National Amaretto Day, celebrated on April 19, would be the perfect day to do so. Amaretto is enjoyed either in cocktails, on the rocks or neat. Believe it or not, this almond-flavored liqueur derives from…
#MusicMonday, Vol. 66: Karen Elson, Ziggy Marley, Sam Cooke & more
What the CL Music Team is jamming to rocket launch the work week (audio & video included)
Sandpit Manor: Will rebuilding our house demolish our mistress-slave relationship?
Sandpit Manor's kitchen before, with creepy graffiti My life has taken a radical turn lately, away from domming and mom-ing into the realm of do-it-yourself (DIY) home repair. A combination of factors — mainly stemming from us being at the lower end of the 99% — have made it necessary for my sissy slave-boy, Tia,…
Green wine for Earth Day
If you enjoy wine and being green, why not combine the two in honor of Earth Day? First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day honors anything protecting and preserving the planet. So, consuming green wine will preserve the planet and provide a buzz simultaneously. A win-win situation. No, green wine isn’t a Kermit-like hue; the green…
Lockout leaves the door open
It’s got superficial satisfaction but fails to deliver on potential.
Happy birthday, Fenway
Rays pitchers make Redsox feel right at home in 12-2 road loss.
Let me holla at ya: the decline of flirting etiquette
When did taunting a woman as she walks by pass for flirting? What women swoon over men who yell backhanded compliments out their cars as they creep by? I'm under no delusion that men have ever exercised the best etiquette when it comes to flirting. Part of the problem is that few fathers ever take…
Photos: Fantasia at FunkFest 2012, Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg
Last Friday night's Funk Fest 2012 at Vinoy Park kicked off with a major hitch when headliner Erykah Badu arrived 2-and-a-half hours late due to a missed flight, and didn't hit the stage until at 11 p.m. to play a 25-minute set allowed only because Mayor Bill Foster happened to be in the crowd to…
The Three Stooges: Still providing nyuk-nyuks after all these years
It's a miracle I survived childhood. We didn't have seatbelts in cars, all of the walls were coated in lead-based paint, and once a week a truck used to drive through my neighborhood spraying DDT. And don't forget The Three Stooges. I grew up to be a father of seven and I've tried to be…
Neighborhood Dining Guide: Irish Pubs & Restaurants
These eateries have the competition turning green with envy.
The Raid: Redemption is bloody good
This gory Indonesian import makes all the right (grizzly) moves.
Stupidity reigns in The Three Stooges
But will modern audiences buy the Stooges brand of slapstick goofiness?
I Want My LGBTV: Former child actors mock Kirk Cameron’s anti-gay views (video)
Following controversial comments about homosexuality made by former teen idol and Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron last month, a group of fellow child actors from the '80s and '90s got together and made a video mocking Cameron and his conservative views for the website Funny or Die. Cameron made several anti-gay comments while on CNN's…
The subject is sex
Explicit Content at Mindy Solomon lives up to its title and then some.
When Barry came back
A chat with former Lightning head coach and current ESPN hockey pundit Barry Melrose.
R.U.R. is obsolete
A new TheatreUSF production is in serious need of an upgrade.
Brownie bites that taste great and are good for you
Raw ambition.
Riding the waves
The changes keep coming. Can we stay above water?
Lost in the Woods
Too much concept kills the campy horror fun of The Cabin In The Woods.
The Hard Rock’s pastry chef wins a reality TV crown
Chef Alon shows his Genius
Cigar City magazine’s lengthy piece on Al Fox sells out
The folks over at Cigar City magazine inform us that they've sold out their April/May issue, so they've put up their featured article on Al Fox up on their website. Fox is the leading Tampa advocate for liberalizing trade and relations with Cuba, and was someone we featured in our cover story last year about…
Fighting words in Bully
Lee Hirsch’s documentary will get under your skin.
What would David Sedaris do?
Glistening pearls of wisdom from the humorist visiting Tampa on April 19.
Dream team
Could the owners of the Bolts and the Rays be a sports marriage made in heaven?
Post haste
My fiancé put a naked pic of me online without my consent.
Pinellas County Division of Air Quality issues an Air Pollution advisory due to dense smoke
That irritating smoke that everybody in Tampa Bay is experiencing Thursday morning is coming from a 30,000-acre fire burning near the Osceola National Forest the past four days, according to a spokesman for the Florida Forest Service. The Pinellas County Division of Air Quality has issued an Air Pollution advisory due to elevated levels of…
Joel Fenelon’s triple transformation
How Brahms completely changed the career trajectory of the UT grad and Muzime founder.
Mitch Perry Report 4.12.12 – The end of the beginning in the Trayvon Martin Case
This will be our last Report until mid next week – read below for details on that. Leading off the news today of course is the arrest last night of George Zimmerman, putting an end to the first part of the drama that has ensued here in Florida and across the nation, and even the…
Hillsborough County activist and New Black Panther member under fire
CL interviewed Michelle Williams (on left) at the rally for Trayvon Martin in Tampa on March 24 It was almost exactly 20 years ago when a jury in Southern California acquitted three white and one Latino L.A. Police Department officers accused in the beating of Rodney King, and L.A. went up in fire for several…
Better beer, better food at Dale 1891
This Tampa eatery lives up to its gastro pub style.
Countdown to Tropical Heatwave 2012: The London Souls
CL spotlights our top 10 favorite Heatwave acts in the 10 weeks leading up to the WMNF fest (w/ audio & video).
A Q&A with legendary axeman Jorma Kaukonen, of Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane fame
Electric Hot Tuna performs at Wanee in Live Oak this weekend.
Emily Wells, Mama
Songstress/producer Emily Wells comes from a classical music background (her best-used instruments are violin and vocals), but she's also versed on guitar, banjo, glock, synths, piano, drums and electronics as she displays in her latest solo album, Mama. Wells employs modern techniques of looping and layering to get to her pocket symphonic mix of alterna-folk,…
Cigar City Brewing Criterium and Street Festival 2012: Photos from the streets
A little rain didn’t put a damper on the Cigar City Crit Saturday.
