Planet hosts Political Party Monday, January 30, 2006
Across the Great Divide: Do politics and religion have to rip us in half? Guest include: Brendan McLaughlin ABC Action News Phyllis Hunt Pastor, Metropolitan Community Church Renee Dabbs Republican Consultant, The Victory Group Nadine Smith Executive Director, Equality Florida Joe Redner Adult Business Entrepreneur and Celebrated Homosexual Bill Keller President, Bill Keller Ministries; Host,…
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extreme close-up-out-of-focus picture day
it was yesterday. i hope that was as good for all of you as it was for me.
Doing Right by the Political Party
We’ve added another panelist for our upcoming Jan. 30 Political Party at the Shimberg Playhouse, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Bill Keller, who has his own ministry and appears on TV across the state on his late-night Live Prayer show, will bring the conservative Christian perspective to our panel, which already includes strip club king…
Higginbotham wants to succeed Storms
In an e-mail to friends and supporters today, Hillsborough GOP chairman Al Higginbotham made it official: He's running for the County Commission seat being vacated by Ronda Storms as she seeks a pulpit in the Florida Senate.Higginbotham wrote: "After great thought, prayer and consultation with Devon, Allen and Kaylon I have made the decision to…
Outtakes
Golden Performance
Throwing Out Darwin
The latest skirmish in the culture wars may be coming to a school near you.
Strangers in Paradise
Malick loses his story, but Woody makes a fine Point.
Spins
First Impressions of Earth THE STROKES RCA Compared to their massively hyped debut Is This It and its nearly identical follow-up Room on Fire, The Strokes' third time at bat sounds, at first listen, wildly divergent. It soon becomes apparent, however, that First Impressions of Earth is more an exercise in putting the group's trademark…
Reader’s Digest
Perhaps you like writing, perhaps you like listening to authors talk about writing or read passages from their works, or maybe you just enjoy the many ways that the written word can be manipulated. If you fall into any of these categories, the Evening Readers Series should be mighty tempting, even if you can't get…
Short List
We Love … Ronda Storms' Fla. Senate Candidacy Bottom line: She's off the County Commission and that's all that matters. Charlie Murphy You haven't lived until you've heard him cut on a retarded hippo that died in the tsunami. The year of magical thinking Read Joan Didion's memoir and you'll stop bitching about your own…
Beyond The F-Word
She May Be Listed Under “folk,” But Patty Larkin’s Music Can’t Be Easily Classified.
The Third Time
Elvira Penaloza’s journey takes her back to immigration court.
Put a record on
The moms get an overdue night out at a gay club.
Artful Pride
For the past two years, VSA Arts of Florida (VSAFL) and Arts for a Complete Education have coordinated the Florida Pride Call for Art, a statewide competition encouraging students with disabilities (elementary through high school) to create original artworks for Lt. Governor Toni Jennings' personal holiday greeting card. The theme of Florida Pride 2005 was…
Music Menu Brief
Best of Brooklyn
Ode to a Wine Bar
Rhymes plucked straight from the vine.
The Blotter
The Blotter
High in Fiber
With a little bit of yarn and two crochet hooks, my mom can make the cutest beanie you've ever seen, pompom and all. She's practiced the art of crochet for most of her life but since I've known her, she's worked in bursts, the last occurring when I was too young to really appreciate handmade…
Capturing Friedman
The New York Times op-ed page is like a high school lunchroom. There's Maureen Dowd, the icy, gossiping smart girl; David Brooks, polishing up for debate practice; Paul Krugman, the seething math nerd. And, finally, Thomas L. Friedman, the kiss-ass student government liaison. Friedman is in town (well, close enough, anyway) to pimp his latest…
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tues., Jan. 24: Akimbo, Forging Steel and Laying Stone (Alternative Tentacles) Bones Brigade, Endless Bummer (Coalition) Catfish Haven, Please Come Back (Secretly Canadian) Davis Coen, Can't Get There from Here (219) Craft, Fuck the Universe (Southern Lord) The Crystal Method, London [Soundtrack] (Reincarnate) Deeds of Flesh, Path of…
Taking Back Hillsborough
The bipartisan effort to create a county mayor.
Inventive Contortions
Pilobolus began as an experimental troupe of Dartmouth College dance students who combined collaborative choreographic processes with a unique weight-sharing approach to partnering. Thirty-three years later, the ad hoc dance collective has matured into a successful, self-sufficient arts organization, and the seven-person touring Pilobolus Dance Theatre makes its fourth Ruth Eckerd Hall stop this weekend.…
Music Menu
THURSDAY, JAN. 19 ROY CLARK Growing up in New York, I always saw Roy Clark as that eye-rolling hayseed on Hee Haw a-pickin' and a-grinnin' on a stack-a-hay. Come to find out later that he's a highly regarded guitar and banjo player with chops aplenty. He's guest-hosted for Carson, played Vegas countless times and had…
Outtakes
New Releases UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION (R) Kate Beckinsale returns in the sequel to the 2003 horror-action epic about a world where a blood feud between werewolves and vampires rages. Also stars Scott Speedman and Bill Nighy. Opens Jan. 20 at local theaters. (Not Reviewed) RECENT RELEASES AEON FLUX (PG-13) Based on the popular MTV animated series…
Burnin’ Down The House
A late-night fire shakes up Ybor’s Hot Spot.
No Secrets
You want surveillance? We’ll give you surveillance.
Party of Four
In certain dialects of the Greek language, "phyro" is the imperfect case of ephyron, which means to mix something dry with something wet. The word is also a popular "skin" for characters of Quake III, the name of an X-Men mutant, a popular message board pseudonym, and one-half of the title of the second work…
GOOD SPORTS
The Press Box scores with a collection of sports bar standards.
Who’s Playing Who?
Hat Trick’s Private Eyes toys with the audience.
