Keeping Secrets at the Tribune
The Tampa Tribune's newsroom apparently doesn't want its readers to know exactly how much money Volkswagen dealer Jason Kuhn directed into the campaign coffers of Tampa City Council candidate Julie Brown. Today's Metro section (finally) featured a story about how Kuhn, his employees, his family and their friends gave Brown a big wad of cash…
Making the Patient Comfortable
Some patients, when the writing is on the wall, demand to know the hard, ugly truth. "Don't beat around the bush, Doc. I can handle it." Others slip into resignation and hope, neither needing nor wanting the hard, ugly truth. Yr Editor sees that now in N'awlins, where the hard, ugly truth is that Americans…
Candidates Debate Tonight in Ybor City
Everyone says they are concerned about the environment, but voter interest and election patterns never seem to correspond to that interest. So here is your chance to get out and pay our environment more than lip service: All of the candidates for Tampa City Council and mayor in the upcoming March 6 elections have been…
Morning Roundup
Monday: Alligators haunt his dreams. Florida gets a "D" More scary political news. Paper-trail goes national. A liberal agrees with the right-wing, on five things, at least. The 2007 Left Coast Writing Contest winners.
You’re Probably Too Sophisticated to Pay Attention . . .
to the John Couey murder trial in Miami and the Anna Nicole Smith hearing in Hollywood, so let me summarize. The Couey trial is bogged down with jury selection, and will be for a couple of weeks, but Couey pays rapt attention to the proceedings and scribbles notes to his lawy-, no, no, just kidding.…
Morning Roundup
The pilgrimage has gained momentum/Take a turn, take a turn: The Guv's got a sweetie. UPDATE: Picture here. It ain't a good time to be approaching 50 in this business. Taking down Guetzloe. Like looking in a mirror.
Rough Wednesday at the Tribune & Other Media News
Will Tampa Tribune reporters and editors be meeting with The Bobs any time soon? Tribune staffers who attended a brown-bag lunch on Wednesday with Editor Janet Weaver didn't have much to celebrate, as sources who requested anonymity tell Blurbex that tough times may call for tough measures at 200 S. Parker Street. They said Weaver…
Morning Roundup
Picture yourself in a boat on a river: High school teachers are revolting. And the Tribune editorial board responds, "That's right, they stink on ice." (my continued apologies to Mel Brooks) Dying to read every-8-minutes updates on the Tribune's Couey trial blog? Didn't think so. More money for newsrooms, beancounters, not less!! Anything that has…
WKMG-TV Begins Its Slow Takedown of Political Operative Doug Guetzloe
After a judge on Monday lifted the restraining order on the non-medical records that were in Guetzloe's storage locker (among the 80-some cartons now owned by Orlando's Channel 6 after Guetzloe forgot to pay the rent), reporter Tony Pipitone began the first of what will surely be a delicious series of revelations of Guetzloe's politics-related…
The Tongs
Name of Kama Sutra position: The Tongs Getting into the position: The woman grips the penis with her ÒyoniÓ as a vice; squeezing him and stroking and milking the nectar from him. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate position (1 as horrible, 10 as sexual nirvana)?8 Did you have difficulty…
Roger Waters will play Tampa
The rumor we reported earlier has become official. It was announced today that Roger Waters will play the Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa on May 18. And, yes, he will be performing Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. No word yet if The Wizard of Oz will be broadcast on the jumbo screens with…
Morning Roundup
I don't care for any casanova thing / All I can say is / Love stinks: The Annotated Prostitupalooza. Great Poems About Sex (Slate) A tree with breasts. V Day, MoJo-style. Arching Prose. (Oh God, Ohhhh God …) Who hearts the Surge? The Guv doesn't quite heart gay marriage, but he won't stop it. So…
Taking Exception With Iorio
At the Forest Hills Recreation Center in Tampa last night, 10 candidates for city council and mayor were quite civil, not an attack from the bunch of them. But thanks to some probing audience questions and a helluva moderating job by ABC Action News' Don Germaise, several interesting differences emerged between almost all the candidates…
Love by Santos
LiteratureMonday, Feb. 19
Red Isis
Poetry winner
Phi Grappa Crappa
Grappa isn’t for wussies
The head Clintonista
LITERATURE
Olympic Stars on Ice
Special eventsSunday, Feb. 18
Lightning strikes
SportsTuesday, Feb. 20
Homeward bound
Two Bay area theaters are planning for new homes — and new challenges
War dance
DiscussionThursday, Feb. 15
Renaissance men
You’ve met the blue-haired snowbirds. Now meet the ‘rennies.’
Download
Fillmore West, 1/29/1971 by the Allman Brothers Band
The terminally unhip
Viagra and the Grammys
The Weekend in Review
Wade Tatangelo on Less Than Jake; Eric Snider on Stevie Nicks
…Only Truth Tonight
The Urbane Cowboys
Ambiguity in three acts
TheaterSaturday, Feb. 17
No shelter
When it comes to the homelessness problem, Rick Butler sees both sides
Letters to the Editor
‘Trash & treasure’
Inspiration by Howey
Art/ArchitectureFriday, Feb. 16
Rouge noir
Judge’s notes: fiction
Deep-fried Oreos!
Florida State Fair foods might not be good for you, but they’re darn tasty
Capsule reviews of recently released movies
Bridge to Terabithia, Factory Girl, Ghost Rider
CL previews upcoming shows
Silm Jim Phantom, Roy Book Binder, JJ Grey & Mofro
Deerhoof in the spotlight
Tricky sounds find mass appeal
Full-time musician
What’s it like to be Lorna Bracewell?
Avalon
Roxy Music
Events around the city
Wine tastings and dinners
What a ruckus
Rockabilly Ruckus, Scott H. Biram, Against Me!
Announcing…The Winners
The prize entries by our writing contest champs: Monica Wrobel (Fiction) and Kurt Van Wilt (Poetry)
Hugh and Drew
Music and Lyrics is stuck in date-movie déjà vu
Spins
The Woggles, Gill Landry, The Safes, Ramsay Midwood
A compromise at Haven of Rest
Bagged lunches being served
Red redder reddest
Judge’s notes: poetry
Spy vs. Spy
Breach
What does the latest National Intelligence Estimate say?
Your War Questions Answered
Just fabulous
The conviction of a 6-year-old artist
Max exposure
Peter Max’s Pop to Patriotism
Going for Baroque
An exhibit at the Dalí musuem connects the surrealist’s art to the Baroque tradition
Getting to the roots of a Davis Islands tree dispute
Couple spends thousands fighting city, builder
May
Fiction winner
Death and, well, you know
The only thing certain in life (this year) is property tax reform
Concerts
Reynosa, Slayer, Blue Man Group
The Weekend in Review
Wade Tatangelo on the Rockabilly Ruckus at Skipper’s
Lord of the strings
Classical musicWednesday, Feb. 21
Have a heart
FUNDRAISER
The Blotter
Bizarre crimes from Tampa police files
