The Wine List
corkscrew@creativeloafing.com or write to Corkscrew: 1310 E. Ninth Ave., Tampa, FL 33605. Reds, Whites and No Blues Purple Pelican Cafe, 14705 Gulf Blvd., Madeira Beach, hosts tastings 6-8 p.m. the last Saturday of every month. The Aug. 25 tasting features a large selection of domestic reds and whites, including Merlot from Fabiano, Gewartztraminer from Alexander…
Scott Harrell
Tommy Malone New Orleans-bred songwriter and former Subdudes frontman Tommy Malone has been an eclectic roots-rock hero for more than 20 years. 2001 and the new disc Soul Heavy mark his debut as a solo artist. Expect an energetic, Radiators-reminiscent blend of everything from country to blues to Cajun soul. Fun Fact: Malone shares a…
Public Life
Women's Health Day Saturday, Aug. 25 noon to 4 p.m. The African People's Education and Defense Fund hosts this day of free seminars on topics including breast and cervical cancer, obesity and diabetes, breastfeeding and natural childbirth, menopause and food additives. All People's TyRon Lewis Community Gym and Healthy Groceries, Etc., 1327 Ninth St. S.,…
Big Brother Goes Postal
The U.S. Postal Service's official logo proudly features a sharp-eyed American eagle. Most Americans would be shocked and amazed, however, to learn that we are the ones getting the eagle eye from the post office. This is another sorry case of police power running amuck, now intruding so deeply into our personal liberties and privacy…
Culinary Events
Send your Culinary Events to, On the Table, 1310 E. Ninth Ave., Tampa, 33605, e-mail julie@weeklyplanet.com or fax to 813-248-9999. Deadline for submissions is two weeks prior to publication date. This Old Kitchen La Maison Gourmet is tearing out its old kitchen to make way for a fabulous new design. Join them for a say…
Outtakes
A.I. (PG-13) A film directed by Steven Spielberg based on a long-gestating idea by Stanley Kubrick, A.I. tells us of a little robot boy (Haley Joel Osment) who has troubles adjusting to the human world (and vice versa.) Individual moments in the movie are striking, but A.I. doesn't really hold together, and it never comes…
Are You Gonna Eat That?
We put some microvaveable and junk food stand-bys to a rigorous, scientific taste test.
Books
Rock Til You Drop By John Strausbaugh Verso, $25 This is a brave and sometimes foolish book. The 50-ish Strausbaugh — editor of New York Press, a Manhattan alternative weekly — posits some very bold assertions in Rock Til You Drop. His central point in a few words: Rock is a young person's game and…
Planet Picks
Thursday 8.23 Surrealist Shenanigans The Salvador Dali Museum's Curator of Education, Peter Tush, concludes the museum's summer lecture series, The Curators Speak, by exploring the role of comedy and humor in Dali's work. Tush argues that the worlds of shtick and Freudian analysis merge in Dali's artistry. He examines Dali's 1937 meeting with Harpo Marx…
Pretty in Pink
It¹s OK to dig rosé
The Weekly Planet College Survival Guide
Your syllabus to easy money, cheap eats and slacker fun.
Letters to the Editor
Hand Over the Remote, Ronda Re: "Public Excess" by Mitch E. Perry (Aug. 9-15) I have been a periodic viewer of Insanity Defense on public access for the decade or so that it has aired, and find County Commissioner Ronda Storms' hissy fit over a single episode of the program to be totally ludicrous. I…
Casualties of the War on Drugs
You can murder, maim and molest and still get federal financial aid for college. But get caught smoking a joint, and you have to pay your own way; if you can afford it, that is. The Bush administration has stepped up efforts to enforce a relatively new law that suspends financial aid to anyone convicted…
Alphabet Coup
The A-Z College Guide to Making Easy Dough
Depth Perception
Dive into ‘The Deep End.’
Spins
Miles DavisLive at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time It was, after all, a rock venue. And in 1970 Miles wanted nothing more than to be a rock star in the vein of Hendrix and Sly Stone, even if he wasn't interested in fronting a conventional rock band. Fillmore (March 7,…
Have Act, Will Travel
So you're a senior at the University of South Florida, a theater major, and it's just about time to make that segue to a real career. But how do you start? Most of your acting's been done on campus, and not many directors in local professional theater even know your name. Sure, you could audition…
Soundboard
<font Thursday, Aug. 23 Events Club More Tommy Malone Jannus Landing WASP/Impotent Sea Snakes/Mushroomhead Orpheum RANA/Ghetto Loves Sugar State Theatre Rude Squad/Fang Shooey/The Busdrivers Bars/Small Stages Adam's Mark Jamtasticks/Hammerhead AJ's Ale House Diamond Gray Bahama Mama's Bobby Sibayan Beach Place (Whitey's) Partners N Crime Big J.R.'s The Sevilles Bourbon Street 97X Night w/Mind Machine/Olive Carpet/Hangtown…
Web Site of the Week
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster — Terran Versionhttp://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/docs/pggb.html Since its inception, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy has garnered an almost rabid cult-like fan base, which has naturally established a rather strong toehold on the Web. Of course, it could be stuck, awaiting an electrically charged death by the Electric Spider of Doom or…
Monikers R Us
So Hillsborough Judge Elvin Martinez has signed an order declaring the lap dance ordinance unconstitutional and impractical! Great — if you land in his courtroom. Other judges, as well as the cops, are still holding true to the law, which says that you have to be more than 6 feet away from a nude dancer.…
Wash, Rinse, Repeat
The basics of doing laundry while at school.
From the Momentarily Tidy Desk of Bonnie Boots
You know how Wily E. Coyote looks after the Acme bomb explodes in his face? That's the way I look right now as I come to the end of a marathon session of file cabinet cleaning and office reorganization. I am, by nature, a pack rat, driven to squirrel away every piece of information that…
Byrne Baby Byrne
"The need to innovate is almost like some weird disease, an unhealthy obsession," muses David Byrne. "A tree doesn't feel like it needs to do something new — it just needs to be what it is, and if it does that well, it's beautiful. But people feel, no, you can't just be what you are,…
Eating Out on the Cheap
The places near Bay area colleges where you’ll consume more and spend less.
Freebie
The Ybor City Fresh Market and the quarterly Main Street Arts & Crafts Show have collaborated to put on a joint festival, taking place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days, in Centennial Park. The open-air shelters of the market are erected every Saturday morning in the…
The List
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