The Short List — Tues., Aug. 21
A bad day for Mexico — Both of them. Hurricane Dean takes a Mexican vacation. Ron Mexico to plead guilty to "dogfighting-related charges." Is Bush preparing to double down? An attack on Iran could come in the next six months. Paramount and Dreamworks go exclusively HD-DVD, delaying by about six months the inevitable victory of…
Vivia Rises From The Grave
"I'm not dead," she said, in a not-so-ghostly voice left in a message. A few weeks ago, we pointed out that Vivia's Kitchen had closed, which was true. What we didn't know was what she was going to do next. "I'm closing soon on a place on MacDill," she explained to me later. It seems…
… With a little slice of love.
In honor of the first day of school, here's a quick glimpse into the stomachs of the Bay area's future: Hillsborough menus, Pinellas menus, Jesuit offerings, Tampa Prep. I think it is damn sweet of the county to cut the crusts off the PB&Js for the elementary kids, but do the high school kids need…
It’s Not Delivery…
Homemade pizza is not nearly as difficult or time consuming as you might think. I use a dough recipe from Peter Reinhart's Bread Baker's Apprentice (the best bread book around). Simple process – yeast, water, flour, oil; knead; refrigerate overnight to allow for fermentation and flavor development; proof, sort of; top and bake. In all,…
Bored? Some Weekend Warrior Ideas …
If you’re wondering what to do this weekend, this week’s CL should give you some ideas: Learn a new instrument. Go hitchhiking across Florida, meet all sorts of interesting characters and peruse the Confederate flag-draped tables of the Waldo Flea Market. Maybe stop to rob a few Wal-Marts on your way back. Get some sun…
Beautifying The Bay
Last week, I profiled the environmental efforts of Kurt Zuelsdorf, owner and operator of Kayak Nature Adventures. Zuelsdorf has found a unique way to convince people to help him clean-up area waterways: offer them a chance to paddle local creeks and bayous in exchange for filling one or two bags with garbage. (His next outing…
Regulating on The Tampa Tribune
The Tampa Tribune has never been known for going out of its way to cover hip-hop. And I’m not going to pretend to be a connoisseur. But having grown up during the '90s golden era of gangsta rap, I find it troubling that music critic Curtis Ross, who I often agree with, would discredit the…
The Short List — Fri., Aug. 17
Monkey see, monkey who? After injecting billions into the banking system in the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve Bank cut the discount rate by half a point, driving the stock market up. What does that mean, "injecting billions"? The good folks at Slate explain. Wal-Mart and Home Depot (The economy's "mine canaries" if you…
Hillsborough Mourns A Fallen Deputy
Wednesday marked a sad day for the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, the county as a whole and those who knew Sgt. Ron Harrison. A 27-year vet of the HCSO, Harrison was gunned down yesterday morning by a Brandon criminal who had an extensive rap sheet. And, according to today’s Tribune, the killer may have been…
Sucking a Mango
Name of Kama Sutra Position: “Amrachushita†(Sucking a Mango) and “Sangara†(Swallowed Whole) Position: Amrachushita- a technique performed by the woman, where she tales the mans penis in her mouth as deep as possible, pulling and sucking as vigorously as if she was attempting to clean the rind off of a mango fruit Sangara- This…
The Short List — Thurs., Aug. 16
Dodging another bullet. Hurricane Dean forms in the Atlantic and is said to be hungry for Mexican food and the nightlife of Cancun. The Feds turn the orbiting looking glass on the homeland. The suicide rate of Army personnel hits a 26 year high. Brooksville's city hall cleared on orders of the fire chief after…
You Down With MSG? Yeah, You Know Me.
Considering today's MSG In A Bottle, some people asked me about other ingredients — other than hydrolized protein — that may (or do) contain monosodium glutamate (or at least commercially produced glutamic acid). Here's a short list — but beware that this is from a strict anti-MSG website. For more info on umami, here's a…
Help save all-ages shows! (cont’d)
Here are excerpts from what Joran Slane read yesterday in front of Seminole City Council. For more info on the issue go to Southeast Music Alliance. "The venues at which we play can be bars, nightclubs, outdoor concert venues, city parks (as well as other non-traditional performance spaces), but the businesses that seem to be…
The Short List — Wed., Aug. 15
Take the red pill. The stock market continues its epileptic seizure. Violence erupts in Iraq, as 200 people are killed yesterday in "coordinated" suicide bombings in the largely Kurdish northern region of America's latest colony. A bridge too far? Maybe not. A rail line linking Tampa and St. Pete has taken a few baby steps…
Local music
BLIND BUDDY MOODY
Mmm … Beer
CulinaryTuesday, August 21
Midweek Features
This Wednesday night, St. Petersburg is the setting for three separate screenings of stirring, thought-provoking films. Beach Theatre's "Reel Truth" Film Festival to benefit WMNF continues with a showing of The U.S. vs. John Lennon. This documentary about Lennon focuses on his life in the 1970s, when he moved to New York City, took an…
Call of the Wild
The heartfelt raunch of Superbad; heart-warming polar bears in Arctic Tale
Backspin
Keith Jarrett
Coming to America
Golden Door
Josh Brady
Environmental activist who thinks outside the ba
Ethan’s Rules of the Road
Our well-traveled hitchhiking guide shares his secrets
Weekly Planner
CL's must-do list for the week of Thurs., Aug. 16-Wed., Aug. 22 16Earlier this year, Grammy-winning R&B songstress Macy Gray released Big, her first album of new material since 2003. Gray's U.S. tour in support of Big stops in Tampa tonight; UK funk 'n' groovers Brand New Heavies open. 8 p.m., Carol Morsani Hall-TBPAC, Tampa.…
The Gospel of King
MusicSunday, August 19
Music Week Briefs
Macy Gray, Chris Isaak, others
What is the significance of the recently revealed increase in U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia?
Don’t Panic … Your war questions answered
Up Against the Wall
NASCAR, beer and macho B.S. at Barefoot Billy’s
Hot Watts
Film/Music Friday, August 17
Mixing It Up with Les Fauves
ArtSaturday, August 18
Mm..Food Drive Tour Bonus DVD
MF Doom
Letters to the Editor
Painfully lame: The article ("The War on Terror (So Far)," by Andisheh Nouraee, Aug. 8) reminded me of washed-up rock stars who rant about saving Darfur before going home to smoke weed in their gated mansions. It was little more than a regurgitation of the mindless "Bush did it" mantra we've been hearing for years…
Tough-actin’ Tinactin
Karl Rove to step down "The economy wrecked. The war in Iraq lost. The entire Middle East ready to blow up. The U.S. more hated than ever. And our own Constitution in tatters at home," said The Architect. "My work here is done." Madden 2008 Christmas comes early as millions of cubicle slaves ditch work…
The Donkey Corporate
The latest evidence of a Democratic resurgence is more Brooks Brothers than tie-dye
Rays-ing the Roof
SportsMonday, August 20
Upcoming concerts
AUGUST 24 Def Leppard w/Foreigner/Styx Ford Amphitheatre 24 Taylor Hicks Ruth Eckerd Hall 24 Adrian Belew State Theatre 25 WMNF Listener's Choice w/The Ditchflowers/Roppongi's Ace/Giddy-Up, Helicopter!/The Vodkanauts/Poetry N Lotion Skipper's Smokehouse 25 Junior Brown State Theatre 25 5th Annual Heatstroke Hotrod Hoedown P Man's Classic Cycle Paint (Bradenton) 26 Joe Walsh Mahaffey Theater 30 Incubus…
Hitchhiking 101
Five tips to keep you on the road.
Wine List
Wine tastings and dinners
A suitcase in the freeway
Causing chaos without going anywhere
MSG in a Bottle
You fear it. But do you really know what MSG is?
“Flying Your Sign”
Ten signs guaranteed to get you a ride.
Wares to Wear
Fashion, fetish and the industrial collide in Dunedin’s Wearable Art 3
Cold hard truths
Hurlyburly is everything serious theater should be, even with an imperfect cast
Spins
THE BRUNETTES, FLORATONE, SPOON, JUSTICE,
Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry?
Tampa City Councilman Charlie Miranda, speaking at the council's Aug. 9 afternoon session. Mayor Iorio had talked to council members about FY '08 budget cuts earlier in the day, and the week's newspapers were full of stories about the Tampa Bay Lightning purchase. I'm for sports. I like sports. But, you know, they are a…
The hitchhiker’s guide to Florida
Pirates, savages, Capri-Sun – how to hitchhike Florida and survive
Outtakes
The week in movies
Sipping sangria
Winning recipes from readers
Gray Matters
Music Thursday, August 16
Midweek Features
Film Wednesday, August 22
Road movies
From It Happened One Night to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Destruction Starts Here
Hillsborough wants to relax wetlands protections; the rest of Florida won’t be far behind
Lone Trucker
Jason Isbell takes the wheel to launch his solo career
Music Week
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 CRASH MITCHELL QUARTET w/SKULL AND BONES BAND/REBEKAH PULLEY One of the local scene's true characters, Crash Mitchell is a cow-punker who simply demands attention when he gets on stage. Regardless of whether the highly impassioned (albeit vocally challenged) troubadour is complaining about Clear Channel ("Radio Station Abomination") or sexual frustration ("Dry Hump…
Squeeze Me
How to sell the world’s most maligned instrument.
Lone Trucker
Jason Isbell takes the wheel to launch his solo career
Leftovers
With what may be the worst name of any restaurant ever (at least for Web searches) Tommy Ortiz has extended his SoHo restaurant dominance with Cheap (309 S. Howard Ave., 813-258-5878), a tapas joint in the former Cappy's location on South Howard. Cheap's opening came the same week as the grand reopening of another of…
