Soundboard
<font Thursday, Aug. 30 Bars/Small Stages AJ's Ale House Deep Elum Alley Cat's Cafe Diane Bahama Mama's Bobby Sibayan Beach Place (Whitey's) Saturn 5 Big J.R.'s The Sevilles Bourbon Street 97X Night w/Calm Ember/Iron Motive/Burn Theory Brass Mug Gnaw/Vent Cadillac Jack's Stormbringer Carlie's The Undecided Band Club Hedo Gemini/Passthamic/Ryan McGary/Cory K Copper Top Pub Nathan…
Return to Gender
A review of ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’
The Goodbye Girl
I'm sitting at my keyboard, nibbling on pate de foie gras and sipping champagne as I mull over how I'll say farewell to the Weekly Planet Food column. Goodbyes are a time to speak honestly, from the heart, so let me begin with a confession — it's not actually foie gras I'm snacking on, but…
Visual Body Surfing
It's that time again. underCURRENT/ overVIEW — Tampa Museum of Art's summer survey of local artists, an event that's anticipated and critiqued by the arts community and probably underviewed by the general public. In this fifth year, Elaine Gustafson, curator of contemporary exhibitions, chose 15 artists from the widest geographic area ever, including Hillsborough, Pasco,…
Music Menu
—All entries by Scott Harrell
Let Go of the Joystick
What is it about the media powerhouses that make them such suckers for Pentagon fairy tales? One would think that multibillion-dollar media giants (from CBS to CNN, the New York Times to the Washington Post) would bring at least a smidgen of journalistic skepticism to the Pentagon's incredible claims about its technological prowess. Yet, you…
The List
Labor Day Clearwater's Labor Day Celebration, a Key West-style party, features a tribute to Jimmy Buffett and the reggae of Spy vs. Spy. The event takes place 5-9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, on Cleveland Street between East and Fort Harrison avenues. Call 727-562-4022. Gulfport's End of Summer Gecko Fest, which includes a walking parade and…
Ghost Bust
Seeking out spirits in the material world
Freebie
You don't have to be a quarter horse aficionado to appreciate all the pretty horses at the Florida Quarter Horse Association's Futurity Show. The FQHA doesn't mind, and we're pretty sure the horses don't either. So for all you horse lovers, some of the world's best quarter horses are coming from as far away as…
Culinary Events
Tofu Treats Vegetarian chef Debby DeGraaff demonstrates ways to turn tofu into a tasty treat in this free class, 10-11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at Nature's Harvest Market, 1021 N. MacDill Ave., Tampa. 813-873-7428. The Kitchen Is Open La Maison Gourmet unmasks its brand new kitchen in this hands-on cooking class featuring party foods and…
Outtakes
Short reviews of films now showing throughout the Tampa Bay area.
Inconstant ‘Fear’
The Nature of Fear and Its Effects, Jobsite Theater's evening of original short plays on the subjects of horror and suspense, is an unbalanced conglomeration of silly and provocative scripts, juvenile and mature acting, and precise and sloppy directing. It's presided over by a "professor" who lectures, with ever-increasing irrelevancy, on the subject of fear,…
Se Habla Politics Aqui
Even if some Democrats are hard-pressed to admit it, their party is on the run and the GOP is coming on fast — at least as far as Latino voters are concerned. In this era of perennial campaigning, Democrats and Republicans are already looking toward the 2004 presidential election and beyond. Given the closeness of…
Sky High Delinquencies
A botched privatization initiative has cost millions of dollars that Hillsborough County commissioners could have devoted to a museum project they have turned their backs on. Most of the commissioners say the county can no longer afford the $17-million that was promised in 1998 for a new Tampa Bay History Center in a planned cultural…
Letters to the Editor
Show me the Money Re: "Refuse Your Refund" by Alicia Rebensdorf (Aug. 9-15) Perhaps we should go all the way on this theme and send our entire paycheck to Washington, D.C., since they are so wise up there and concerned about our welfare. What irks critics of the tax rebate is that it wasn't given…
Website
Cadaver Inc.http://www.cadaverinc.com My latest dilemma: Where do you go when you need to get rid of your latest victim? I mean, in Pulp Fiction, they called Wolf, a "Cleaner." But lacking any good mob connections, I instead opted for the "Fast & Affordable Murder Scene Clean Up and Corpse Removal" of Cadaverinc.com. At first I…
Taking It Black
It's already getting tough to remember how bands operated before the advent of the Internet. And, really, who cares? It's a moot point, aimless nostalgia at best, and irritating old-man gripeage at worst. "When I was your age, we had to flier all of Seventh Avenue every Friday and Saturday, trudging barefoot through the broken…
Spins
The Word The Word While not quite the transcendent effort that this dream project promised on paper, The Word is nevertheless a worthy addition to the pantheon of roots/instrumental music. Budding friends John Medeski (keyboardist for Medeski Martin and Wood) and Luther Dickinson (guitarist for the North Mississippi All-Stars) discovered a shared passion for an…
Dining Guide
HILLSBOROUGH Brandon La Septima Cafe, 140 N. Parsons Ave., Brandon (813-684-1948). You'll find a taste of the original Latin flavors of old Ybor in this quaint little Brandon cafe. Look for large portions and excellent Cuban sandwiches, succulent roast pork and saffron-kissed chicken and rice. $ Tampa Carrollwood/ Northwest Tampa Kaisen Sushi, 12785 N. Dale…
Public Life
Blood Sugar Wellness Program Thursday, Aug. 30 10-11 a.m. Life Enrichment Senior Center holds a health and wellness program on "Diabetes and High Blood Sugar." Free blood level screenings by Clinical Studies of Florida will be available. Donations are requested. The meeting is at the senior center, 9704 N. Boulevard, Tampa. Call 813-932-0241. Beach Skin…
Books
Miracle Fair: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska W.W. Norton & Company/$24.95 Astrologically speaking, Cancers are known to take a great pleasure in home and shelled solitudes. These traits play out well for poet Wislawa Szymborska, who was born in Kornik in Western Poland in July 1923. Imagine in this loud age a poet who says…
Planet Picks
Thursday 8.30 One-Man Embryo The Silver Meteor Gallery hosts the premiere of a comedic one-man show, embryogenesis, created and performed by Kurt Smith. The show explores the absurdities of modern conceptual art through performance art pieces, presented by a fictitious collective of performance artists. Smith's portrayal of these characters is both improvisational and clownish, attacking…
Swish & swirl
The method to the madness
