Corner Story
Waiting for work in a changing St. Pete neighborhood.
Grab A Seat: Review of The Chairs and The Complete History of America (abridged)
Inspired absurdity in two must-see productions.
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tue., Jan. 18: Jason Anderson, Wreath (K) Baseball Furies, Let It Be (Big Neck) Blow, Everyday Examples of Humans Facing Straight Into the Blow (K) Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus/Despised Icon, Split (Relapse) Cabaret Noir, Cabaret Noir (Schema) Chicago and New Haven Woman's Liberation Rock Band,…
To Have and To Hold
Strategies for wine storage.
FREEBIE
Doc Holiday
Upcoming Concerts
January 20 Party People/Discover America/Mi Capitan/The Same/Ellason Grace Orpheum 21 An Albatross/The Cinema Eye/Aqui/Yip Yip/The Windshield Death Threat Procedure Orpheum 21 Suffocation/Cattle Decapitation/Bodies in the Gear of the Apparatus/Against All/The Absence Boomerz Boiler Room 21 Tommy Castro Skipper's Smokehouse 22 Against Me!/Soviettes/Jericho/Grabass Charlestons Masquerade 22 Mad Agnes Octagon Arts Center 22 Atlanta Rhythm Section Largo…
Fore Play
Golf brings out the inner idiot in people you’d least expect it to
Music Menu
THURSDAY, JAN. 13 A BENEFIT FOR THE REFUGE Long-running St. Pete ministry The Refuge is primarily known for its work with at-risk and "street" youth and the homeless, and for putting on great, all-ages, Christian-punk shows at places like Clearwater's 688 Skatepark. Bruce Wright and his group of volunteers deserve credit for just keeping their…
Ask The Advice Goddess
BLAZING SADDLEBAGS My wife has a great figure, but she sometimes wears clothes that would only look good on an underfed model. She has a red knit dress that's supposed to be sexy, but instead makes her look like she has saddlebags and a potbelly (which she doesn't). Ditto with a pair of brown stretch…
Culinary Events
Got an upcoming or ongoing food event? E-mail time, date, location, cost and details to foodstuff@ weeklyplanet.com. LOW-CARB COOKING CLASS Start the new year with a class on cooking for the low-carb lifestyle. $25. 6:30-8 p.m. Wed., Jan. 12. La Maison Gourmet, 471 Main St., Dunedin (727-736-3070 or www.lamaisongourmet.com). TAMPA BAY CULINARY CLUB Join the…
The Big Box Debate
Is Wal-Mart bad for Tarpon Springs?
A Treasured Find
Singer Bonnie Bramlett on hangin’ with Clapton, Harrison, The Allmans … and Roseanne.
Spins
Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne ShorterWAYNE SHORTERColumbia LegacyWho among veteran jazzmen has exhibited more stylistic breadth than saxophonist Wayne Shorter? Only Herbie Hancock comes to mind, and it's probably no coincidence that the two have maintained a musical kinship ever since they were members of Miles Davis' fabled '60s quintet. Hancock plays piano…
The Pretty Revolution
Director Zhang Yimou battles out of the art house.
Music Venues
420 Park Place, 420 Park Place Blvd., Clearwater, 727-796-7867 42nd Street Bistro, 516 S. Howard Ave., Tampa, 813-253-0042 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar, 2900 Fourth St. N., Suite A101, St. Petersburg, 727-898-1884 688 Skatepark, 6140 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater, 727-523-0785 Adam's Mark, 430 S. Gulfview Blvd., Clearwater, 727-443-5714 The Aging Still, 11561 Walsingham Road, Largo,…
Send In The Clowns
Sad circus food and other disappointments.
An All-Win Situation
Catch Twenty-Three features trendy eats for young professionals on a budget.
Soundboard
Music Events
Don’tPanic!
Your war questions answered
Feliz Ano Novo!
A growing Brazilian community bonds around church, a newspaper and an ambitious New Year’s Eve party.
Enter Galactic
The N’awlins road-dogs embrace the jam-band label and go instrumental.
Letters
Another Soul Saved Your article was expertly written but the subject was disgusting. It was one of the more depressing things I've read lately. It's inspired me to eBay the Gamecube and get out more. Justin Cozart Tampa Get Some GutsI found your article interesting when you mentioned talking to St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker.…
Erasing King
The liberal media myth: MLK wasn’t a revolutionary.
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
Planet Picks
THURSDAY 1.13 Schimmel me Timbers! Robert Schimmel — former In Living Color writer, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor and the man voted "Best Male Stand-Up Comic" at 1999's American Comedy Awards — performs live at the Tampa Improv all this weekend. Born in the Bronx, Schimmel got his big break in 1986 when Rodney Dangerfield invited him…
