What’s Changed?
Why is the reaction to the latest law-enforcement killing of an unarmed man so different than it was in 1996?
DVDs for the Dead Zone
Before the summer movie onslaught, check out these quality new releases at home
Wine List
Got an upcoming or ongoing wine event? Send information to: The Wine List, 810 N. Howard Ave., Tampa, FL 33606, fax 813-739-4801 or e-mail winestuff@weeklyplanet.com. TASTE OF 25 Taste 25 different champagnes, beer and wine from around the world. $15 in advance, $20 at door. 7:30 p.m. Fri., April 29. Charlie's Wine Cellar, 533 S.…
Music Concerts
Thursday, Apr. 28 Adobe Gila's Bacardi Boys Alley Cat's Cafe Lionheart Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon The Bank Nightclub and Concert Venue Left Lane Brass Mug Houston Calls/Adelphi/Self Against City/Select Start Captain Jack's Rus Anderson Carlie's Zero to Sixty The Chic-A-Boom Room Stephanie Anderson CK's Revolving Rooftop Restaurant Derrick Williams Clancy's of New Orleans Steve…
The Blotter
ONE-TWO PUNCH: After being followed home, a man was assaulted in the alley behind his house by an angry mother-son team. The woman, who got out of her car yelling, claimed that her husband was sleeping with the man's wife. As if mom screaming weren't enough, the man also had to fight off her son,…
Music To The Mouth?
A restaurant in a record shop, The Music Spot still searches for an identity
Short List
BACKASSWARDS RYAN SEACREST GETTING A STAR ON HOLLYWOOD'S WALK OF FAMESomewhere, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse get up off their couches and begin their pre-performance warm-up stretches. THE NEW CVS PHARMACY JINGLE"Red, red, red-red-reddy-red." Possibly even stupider than UPS' "What can brown do for you?" THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR SUES SOMETHINGAWFUL.COM FOR LIBELJust like Bill…
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tues., May 3: Ryan Adams, Cold Roses (Superego) The Apes, Baba's Mountain (Birdman) Black Twigs, Midnight Has Come and Gone (VHF) Bowling for Soup, Rock On Honorable Ones!!! (Jive) The Bump-N-Uglies, So Powerful?So Beautiful (Steel Cage) The Catch, Get Cool (Made In Mexico) Mike Doughty, Haughty Melodic (Ato)…
Looks Like Home
A former Floridian Googles his way back to Brandon
For The Splurge Of It
Wines so good you may even forget the price
Culinary Events
HEALTH FOOD CLASS Lee and Marvin Silverstein teach a class on preparing falafel patties and fruit soup. Free. 11 a.m. Sat. April 30. Nature's Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater (727-443-6703 or www.naturesfoodpatch.com). CULINARY CLASSES Learn to prepare pastries and icings. Pastries class: $125. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. May 1. Icing class: $60. 6-10 p.m.,…
Spins
HotelMOBYV2Poptronica's most polarizing figure continues the process of combining his two musical faces – band-style lead singer and ambient/electronic music creator – that was finally, semi-successfully begun in earnest on 2002's 18. Hotel is a collection of pop tunes and bouncy gay-club/techno tracks that takes less pains to connect its disparate vibes than it does…
Freebie
Grand Day Outdoors
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
Ask the Advice Goddess
Born To Be MildI waited a month to tell my family my boyfriend and I had gotten engaged because they're always hyper-critical of anyone I date. My dad refuses to go to the wedding because my fiancé didn't ask his permission before proposing. My mother doesn't want him around because he declined to participate in…
Rhymeslayers
Over the course of five installments, Battle Basics – put on by promoter Recordpushers Entertainment and Red Tide's label Peripheral Records – has become one of the state's biggest freestyle rap competitions, and regularly draws contestants from all over the Southeast to vie for cash (this time it's $300 for first place), gift certificates and…
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
Back
Ten years after disbanding, The Headlights reunite to help out an old friend
Shower Power
Sometimes it’s best to leave tradition unchanged
Upcoming Concerts
May 5 Kreator w/Vader Masquerade 5 Slightly Stoopid/Fishbone Jannus Landing 5-8 Emergenza Festival Semi-Finals Boomerz Boiler Room 6 Kenny Chesney w/Gretchen Wilson/Uncle Kracker St. Pete Times Forum 6 The Black Keys w/The Hentchmen/The Legendary JCs Skipper's Smokehouse 6 Meneguar/Gospel/Shed for You Skatepark of Tampa 6 Pale Horse/Dreams You Die In/Roman Empire/Coldside/Anchors Away/A Horror Story 688…
Girl Gone Wild
Shakespeare in the Park’s witty, high-energy Shrew
The Worm Turns
How not to deal with customers and unwelcome ingredients
Planet Picks
APRIL 28 THURSDAY AND THE VERDICT IS As the summer months draw near, college kids across the country begin to sweat. Some determinedly prepare for exams while others struggle to complete final projects. Students in Hillsborough Community College's fine arts program add to the usual end-of-year angst by also creating some sort of masterwork to…
Google’s Eye View
Move your mouse. See the world (or at least North America)
Music Venues
VENUES For a comprehensive list of addresses and contact information for the nightspots listed in SOUNDBOARD, log on to www.weeklyplanet.com. 688 SKATEPARK, 6140 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater, 727-523-0785 THE BANK NIGHTCLUB AND CONCERT VENUE, 1950 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg, 727-898-4488 BOOMERZ BOILER ROOM/BOOMERZ CAFÉ, 6990 Seminole Blvd., Seminole, 727-391-7066 BOURBON STREET, 4331 U.S. 19 N.,…
I’m Watching You
Satellite maps and the privacy question
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
Stop The Car
Using my own two feet on the Pinellas Trail.
Music Menu
THURSDAY, APRIL 28 BILLY IDOL The Sneer is back, but don't expect the spiky-haired icon's brand new, metallicious Devil's Playground to get the kind of MTV ubiquity that made Billy such an '80s icon. While he still maintains something of a pop-culture presence, 1993's disastrous Cyberpunk pretty much obliterated any chance for enduring musical credibility.…
Suggs Blog
'BAMA JUDGE WARSThe good folks at a "Restore America Rally" – code for crushing an independent judiciary – in suburban Atlanta last week may have been suckered into attending by politicians wearing Jesus masks. But that doesn't diminish the faith of, say, the woman in a pink jacket who stood and stretched out her arms…
