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Spins
Reviews of a Verve classics remix CD, Mudhoney, Hank Williams Sr. and onelinedrawing Various Artists Verve: Remixed Listen closely and you'll hear a few jazz purists wretching at the mere sight of this album's title. Fuck 'em. Verve, the vaunted jazz label, threw open its vaults to hotshot DJs and mixologists, giving them license to…
Going Strong
I don't think The Weakerthans' John K. Samson is opposed to being called a poet — any more than someone is opposed, in that general way, to being labeled any one thing, of course. Innumerable (and generally glowing) reviews have branded him as such, and a telephone interrogation of the man hints at a certain…
A Chance in Hell
If you're searching for good news about area theater, Sarasota yields something to get excited about. The Banyan Theater Company, founded by Jerry Finn and made up of current and former Asolo Theatre Company actors David Breitbarth, V Craig Heidenreich, Tessie Hogan and Bradford Wallace, has started its first summer season with two successful productions:…
Books
My Life in Heavy Metal By Steve Almond Grove Press/$23 Don't you just want to puke every time you hear trite crapitudes like "John Hiatt is a songwriter's songwriter"? That statement sorta says this: Only other songwriters can stand John Prine — I mean, Hiatt. Ah, same thing. Poets & Writers magazine is full of…
Hyde Parking
There was a time, decades ago during the Dark Ages, when Howard Avenue was mostly residential and had only two restaurants of note: Tampa's most famous eatery, Bern's Steak House; and the Old Meeting House, which specialized in home-cooked Southern fare in a 1950s setting. If you were hungry for something other than steak or…
Freebie: The Divine Secrets of Ya-Ya Manateehood
The title to Rebel Lowrey Covan's first collection of comic essays I Know Why the Manatee Swims Naked… I've Shopped for Bathing Suits, Too plays on the title of Maya Angelou's classic novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but the sharp, autobiographic pieces resemble the work syndicated South Florida humorist Dave Barry. The…
More Mail Bonding
Readers ask questions on sulfites and bottle-opening, plus a slap on the wrist for potty mouthing. Sulfites, Schmulfites Jerry writes: When I enjoy wines in foreign countries (i.e., no sulfites added) I don't get a headache. But the wines available here in the U.S. appear to all have sulfites added, which give me a headache.…
Orbitals
New Place for Hub 'Caps Each year, the proprietors and staff of venerable hip-ass Tampa liquor-grotto The Hub shut business down for a couple of weeks to go fishing, or see Later live for once, or hang out at other bars, or something. And each year, dozens of regulars invariably forget that The Hub is…
Printing Pressed
The Shanachie, a left-leaning independent newspaper at USF, challenges The Oracle
Review: The Good Girl
There are moments listening to the music in The Good Girl when you would swear you're hearing a bluegrass take on the score from American Beauty. Weird as that mix might sound, it's not entirely inappropriate for a movie that's set in the dusty wilds of Texas and that circles some of the same ground…
Rearranging the Deck Chairs
The signatures have been collected, lost, found, counted and confirmed. It's official: A plan to restructure Florida's higher education system will be put before state voters Nov. 5. Amendment 11 on the ballot, the proposal started as a gleam in U.S. Sen. Bob Graham's eye. If passed, it will create a statewide governing board to…
College Guide ’02
We at Weekly Planet remember parts of our college years fondly. Other parts we remember not at all, and still others we'd like to forget entirely. First, college will enlarge your world and expand your mind. You'll learn stuff you never even thought about before and may never think about again. In fact, it may…
Strong Signal
In the basement of the Marshall Center on the Tampa campus, WBUL-1620 AM tries to reach an audience.
Letters
Re: "The Creative Revolution" by Trevor Aaronson and Natasha Del Toro (Aug.7-13) Viva la Revolution A well spoken and much needed article indeed; however, what about the arts in Tampa? What about the more than 400 artists who live in Tampa Bay and the many galleries that have gone out of business? For over two…
