A Long List Of Media Fuck-Ups Worse Than Anything We Did This Year. Yet.
The awards for the best corrections of the year from around the world. I'm partial to 'Jew Jersey' and the one about the Pope, but there are tons of gems. (Via Romenesko) (Someone once told me that 'via' thing is proper blogging eitiquette. Plus, I wouldn't want anyone thinking I'd just spent the last hour…
Why I Like Florida
Phil B. took these photos last night shortly after we arrived home. The colors are so magnificent that I just had to share.
Leilani’s Weekend Wanderings
This weekend was chock full of fun parties and good music, with a laid-back Christmas party at its climax. The fun began Thursday night with Joe Bardi’s Unofficial 30th Birthday Party at Yeoman’s Road Pub on Davis Island. A crew of Planeteers and other random Bardi clan fans showed up to enjoy some jazzy funk…
Electronic Voting Back in Court
For those tracking the future of electronic voting (yes, that's you, Black Box Voting folks), there’s this from the Miami Herald on the status of a lawsuit against the digital machines.
I’ll Take Manhattan
In the hope that the temps will drop below 50 degrees F this weekend (as the weather readers on TV said it would), I offer up that it is finally time for the first Manhattan cocktail of the season. Drinking brown liquor in Florida is problematic; it is far too hot for the thick, sweat-inducing…
Summer of Sami – Sugg v. Fechter
Ex-USF professor Sami Al-Arian’s biggest critic in the press, Michael Fechter of the Tampa Tribune, squares off against the Planet’s own John Sugg, who has defended Al-Arian and criticized Fechter’s work, live on the radio this morning at 11. Tune in to community radio station WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa Bay or listen on the…
Notes on Narrative
Here's a great piece from Poynter relaying lessons learned from last week's Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference. Very simple tools on reporting, interviewing and writing that would help each of us.
Sami: The View from Israel
Thought you might find the view of the Israeli press interesting, in these excerpts from the Jerusalem Post's coverage (under the headline "No conviction in Al Arian trial") of the Al-Arian verdict, especially how it downplays the overwhelming number of not guilty verdicts: "The US prosecution suffered a blow Tuesday when its high profile terror…
An End to the Endless Summer of Sami
On the 13th day of deliberations, on the 13th floor of the federal courthouse in Tampa, and after six months of testimony, jurors have rejected federal prosecutors’ assertion that former USF professor Sami Al-Arian was a terrorist. Although they deadlocked on three of four major charges against Al-Arian and co-defendant Hatem Fariz, jurors on Friday…
Bugspray
Shortlist
Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Brothers Past mix wide-ranging influences into a cohesive whole.
The Nine Circles of The Googolplex
Going to Hell, going to the movies — same diff.
Once Upon a Time in Italy
Eckerd College’s International Cinema Series scores its Best coup yet.
March Of Wines
Fundraiser
Network Difficulties
Testing my interpersonal skills at Tampa’s Largest Office Party.
Going Postal
RADIO RANT Love him or hate him, Rush Limbaugh is entertaining and amusing. Al Franken (Cover Story, "Al Franken is a Big Fat Candidate…Maybe," by Sheelah Kolhatkar, Nov. 30-Dec. 6) is neither, which is probably why Limbaugh's show is carried on 600-plus radio stations, and Franken's on less than 80. One of my friends once…
Genuine Draft
For a decade, the rough-and-tumble Florida punk-rock quartet Hot Water Music swam against the rising tide of mainstream pop-punk, earning the respect of the worldwide underground-music community and nearly single-handedly fashioning the raw, cathartic style that's become known as "the Gainesville sound." It came as a shock to many earlier this year when the band…
Music Menu
THURSDAY, DEC. 08 ALLISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION With all the empty, videogenic pop-country stars out there, let us applaud Allison Krauss. She's a talented fiddler, yes, but it's her singing — with a crystalline, angelic quality that's virtually unparalleled — that's the true marvel. It's a sweet voice, but not saccharine, and it fits…
Spins
Comin' To Your Town BIG & RICH Warner Nashville While pundits and purists sounded the death knell for quality contemporary country more than a decade ago, it wasn't until last year that they found out how bad it could really get. Last year, it got Big & Rich bad. The brain(less)child of former Lonestar vocalist…
Chug A Jug
When it comes to wine bottles, bigger can be better.
The Master of His Domain
Comedy
Different but same
List Brief
Flight Night
Newbies will be thrilled by the latest from Cirque du Soleil.
Hot Chocolate
A Nutcracker that jumps, twists, shimmies — and brings a community together.
The Raw And The Cooked
A post-Thanksgiving tradition becomes a tale of two meals.
Dessert Storm
South Howard gets its just desserts, and other restaurant news.
Ya Got That Right
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Winelist
Got an upcoming or ongoing wine event? Send information to: The Wine List, 810 N. Howard Ave., Tampa, FL 33606, fax 813-739-4801 or e-mail winestuff@weeklyplanet.com. THE SPARKLE IN YOUR EYE Sample lots of sparkling wines, sure to bring joy to this holiday season. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fri., Dec. 9. Uncorked, 2706 Fourth St. N., St. Petersburg…
The Holidazed Happenings List
Annual Christmas Show and Sale Select from a variety of unique holiday gifts, including ceramics, prints, pottery, calligraphy, cards and more. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Free admission. On display through Dec. 9 at Elliott Gallery, Eckerd College, 4200 54th Ave. S., St. Petersburg, 727-864-8340. Holiday Art Sale A selection of…
Tainted Love
Katherine Harris’ second brush with questionable contributions.
Narnia’s Sibs Shine
Outtakes Brief
The Blotter
NOT SO SHOCKING AT FIRST: Two member's of Tampa P.D.'s QUAD (Quick Uniformed Attack on Drugs) squad were sitting in the parking lot of a city park at 26th and Nebraska avenues in Tampa, waiting for other QUAD squadders to arrive so they could commence an investigation in the Robles Park area. While waiting, the…
Oh, Brothers
Music
Winging It
Sure, it's a publicity stunt, but as stunts go, it's pretty good, and the issue of alternative fuels is a vital one. Tampa congressional candidate Scott Farrell left last Friday on a Tampa-to-Washington, D.C. political tour in a campaign RV that has been converted to run on waste vegetable oil, the kind left over after…
Me And My Drum
For Chocolate drummer Nico Warren, rhythm is heritage.
Main Venues
The Florida Orchestra, 800-662-7286 or www.floridaorchestra.com. Largo Cultural Center, 501 Central Park Drive, Largo, 727-587-6793. Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N., St. Petersburg, 727-822-3590, www.mypalladium.org. The Pier, 800 Second Ave. N.E., St. Petersburg, 727-821-6443. Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 N. McMullen-Booth Road, Clearwater, 727-791-7400, www.rutheckerdhall.com. Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. MacInnes Place, downtown Tampa,…
Outtakes
NEW RELEASES SYRIANA (R) A film that attempts to be the last word on that scariest of unholy trinities — oil, money and blood — Syriana sometimes seems less like a political art-film and more like a thinking man's horror movie (think Land of the Dead with less cannibalism and where the zombies are rewritten…
Book ‘Em
The Patriot Act, your library records and one disgruntled spook.
