Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, Dec. 7:
Edge of Emo
Crooked Edge transcends the emo label — and makes fun of it, too.
So You Want to Be a Star?
How to get on the air.
Thinking Outside The Bottle
Wine gifts that go beyond the usual gadgets.
Young Will
Asolo’s Two Gentlemen is grade-A B-side Shakespeare.
Music Venues
420 Park Place, 420 Park Place Blvd., Clearwater, 727-796-7867 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar, 2900 Fourth St. N., Suite A101, St. Petersburg, 727-898-1884 The Aging Still, 11561 Walsingham Road, Largo, 727-581-5466 Alley Cat's Cafe, 2475 McMullen-Booth Road, Clearwater, 727-797-5555 Babalouie's, 1913 E. Bearss Ave., Tampa, 813-971-1243 Bahama Breeze, 3045 Rocky Point Drive E., Tampa,…
Little Plates That Rate
Tinatapas lives up to tapas’ promise.
Ask the Advice Goddess
Full Meddle Jacket I've been dating my boyfriend for over two years. We're both in our early thirties. When the subject of marriage comes up, he says he absolutely wants it — in the future. He's just gone back to school, is in the middle of changing careers, and feels he has too much going…
Fat Kevin and the Hot Dog Sisters
Homemade comfort at Kenneth City’s Subslingers.
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
Letters
Post Post-Mortems One could only imagine the smile across my face as I was reading the articles by Max Linsky and David Bramer … along with the visual of the editorial staff at The Weekly Planet in a collective groan session. Although I love WP for the excellent restaurant and film reviews (and the killer…
Spins
In Love and DeathThe UsedWarner Bros./Reprise Two years and two releases later, I'm still a little confused. Tell me again: Why am I supposed to lend the sort of tired Pavlovian-pop hooks and insipid sentiments usually associated with the likes of the Simpson sisters more credibility when they're delivered by The Used? Because the guitars…
Music Menu
ISLAND HOLIDAY PARTY Now that Thanksgiving's gone, it's time for the holiday good-cause fundraisers to begin in earnest. And thank God, because I know we're all tired as hell of attending all those stupid bad-cause fundraisers. Tonight's soiree is the first of what will surely be a series of get-togethers benefiting Toys for Tots. Entertainment…
Music Events
Thursday, Dec. 2 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar Intentions Babalouie's Mark McGourley Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon Bahama Mama's Chris Murphy Big J.R.'s Restaurant and Lounge The Johnny Charro Band Blackstone Grill Expressions Brandy's True Colors Band * Cafe Dufrain Holiday Island Party Feat. The Sunsetters CK's Revolving Rooftop Restaurant Derrick Williams Clancy' s…
Upcoming Concerts
December 10 Christine Kane Catherine A. Hickman Theater 10 Isis/These Arms Are Snakes State Theatre 10 Strange Agents Covivant Gallery 11 Trout Fishing in America/Steve Forbert Skipper's Smokehouse 11 Scott Holt Bourbon Street 11 The Southwest Florida Bluegrass Association Presents The 2nd Annual Old Timers Reunion Concert Craig's RV Park (Arcadia) 11 Rita Coolidge Largo…
Calling Dr. C
The caller has reached full bellow. "I'm with you, Dr. Conley," he says. "We should kill all the white people. Just like you said. Kill 'em all." Luscious Conley, the WWII vet who hosts the show Dr. Conley Live at 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays on TBCN's Ch. 20, looks into the camera with a mildly amused…
I Want My GVT TV
Or do I? Is government-access TV worth the big price tag?
Digital Greetings
A glance at this year’s best cinematic stocking stuffers
Welcome To Your Government
Where’s that tax money going? Citizen’s Academy students are learning first hand.
View It Yourself
A public access sampler By Max Linsky
Air Waves
The rocky past and uncertain future of public access TV — the TV you make yourself
An Artful Open House
I began receiving press releases about the Pallavi Patel Performing Arts Conservatory as soon as I acquired my Planet e-mail address. The persistent correspondence outlined building progress, gave the lowdown on upcoming classes and programs, and generally lauded the absolute wonderfulness of the new school. Construction was completed earlier this fall and in celebration of…
Culinary Events
Classes and events that bolster your cuisine expertise and offer tasty experiences.
teenage wasteland?
Ybor’s “Youth Problem” smacks of scapegoating.
Planet Picks
THURSDAY 12.2 Corporate Ladder Shortcut Preparing for their usual morning conference, three sales associates discover their supervisor dead, his feet propped up neatly on his desk. Although this sounds like the beginning of a corporate employee's wet dream, it's really Richard Strand's The Death of Zukasky, a play exposing the comic side of business ethics…
Mongo Like Awards
Paul Douglas doesn't stop. Looking through his black duffel bag for a camera, he plays dumb as he pulls out trophy after trophy. One. Two. Three. Four." I don't know how these got in here," he deadpans, leaving them on a table in the Weekly Planet conference room, which has been turned into a theater…
She Changed Channels
In 1987, Frederica "Freddie" Russell was, to use her words, "a poor woman with four kids and no influence." She was also devastated that her beloved Sulphur Springs Pool, a long-standing institution in her neighborhood, was about to be closed. While picketing at the pool site, someone asked her to be on a television program…
