Mail Bonding
Stuff that came over the transom
Don’tPanic!
Your war questions answered
upcoming releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, May 4: The Beta Band, Heroes to Zeros (Astralwerks) Black Cat Music, October November (Lookout) Broken Spindles, Fulfilled: Complete (Saddle Creek) The Cuts, Cuts (Birdman) The Divine Comedy, Absent Friends (Nettwerk) Dodge, Starbass Invasion (Javaanse Jongens) Fats Domino, Very Best of Fats Domino: 1963-1965 (Varese) Drag the…
Speaking in Code
A COPS watcher’s guide to obscure police Ten Code
Culinary Events
Classes and events that bolster your cuisine expertise and offer tasty experiences.
Hello Cruel World!
Dogville and Mean Girls vie for darkest picture of human nature
Back to Bombastics
Regrouped Yes dancing on graves of punk detractors
HEY JUDE!
Some lost causes worthy of St. Jude’s patronage
Top Producers
Producers is what musical theater should be
The Redacted Memo
[Below is the full text of the redacted memo upon which Jason Vest's April 20 article prepared for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) is based. AAN's original intention was to withhold the release of the full memo, as it includes a section with new and useful leads on corruption in the United Nations Oil-For-Food…
Ask the Advice Goddess
Going Out With a Fang My girlfriend of five months and I had an active sex life — until this weekend. After a rough week at work, I wasn't in the mood (a rare occurrence), so I suggested we just cuddle. For 10 minutes she kept making advances, and became furious that I continued to…
outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area.
Artful Stories
Every painting tells a story.
Married to the Mob
Steven Bernstein and Sex Mob do it all for the peeps
Spins
LiarsTODD RUNDGRENSanctuaryLet's see — how to sum up Todd Rundgren's new album in one word? Arrogant. Yeah, that'll do. In the brief liner notes for Liars, Rundgren explains that "all these songs are about the paucity of truth," and then proceeds to deliver 14 selections that hold him aloft as the vessel of that truth.…
Letters
Black, white and blue I read your article about Walter Pitts in Club Ebony, and it sounds like you didn't like having the spotlight taken away from your white, cynical, obnoxious, prima donna self. I hope you got the head turning from your white Cadillac that you were hoping. Believe it or not, Cadillacs are…
Brought to You by the Letter E
E — A Tapas Lounge is eclectic, worldly
Fables of the Reconstruction
A Coalition memo reveals that even true believers see the seeds of civil war in the occupation of Iraq
