If Love Were All
The oldest subject in the world demands a fresh perspective.
Music Venues
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…
What To Watch For
Our critics consider the possibilities for Spring 2005.
Baby Boom
Clint Eastwood embraces the old boxing-movie clichés é then rises above them.
Music Menu
SNOOP THERE HE IS Snoop Dogg: A big man in a little venue. Prior to November's Pharrell-assisted single "Drop It Like It's Hot," Snoop hadn't really put out any seriously kick-ass music in a while. But smokin' records or no, Calvin Broadus is nothing less than a pop-culture icon – since his introduction via Dr.…
Bob Mould brings his Body of Song to the Sarasota Film Festival.
Bob Mould isn't the type of guy to see himself as a punk elder, dispensing wisdom from the mountaintop to young rock-stars-to-be. But when the Ex-Hüsker Dü frontman describes the current musical landscape as "the crap era," and muses that if he was a "21-year-old kid trying to do this, I would just go back…
Take A Chance On Me
Artists to presenters: Be brave.
South America’s Gems
The New Chilean Wild West (Part I)
Prostrate in Paradise
What kind of whimpering weasel gets felled by the flu after a measly cold snap?
Music Events
Thursday, Jan. 27 42nd Street Bistro Stacy Knight 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar Gale Trippsmith Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon Blue Martini Black Honkeys Blue Shark Gary Brown's Band Bootlegger's Saloon Michael Southern Band Brass Mug Hollow Point Carlie's Cell Fish CK's Revolving Rooftop Restaurant Derrick Williams Clancy' s of New Orleans Steve Santo…
Spins
Ruin Everything!WE VERSUS THE SHARKHello Sir This brand new Athens, Ga. combo tries to cram an awful lot of hip indie subgenres into its debut full-length – dance-punk, noise, math-rock, and a distinctly Dischord Records-influenced sort of raw, rhythmic experimentation all fight to define the group's schizoid yet surprisingly cohesive style. It's tough to throw…
Ratchada serves up a tasty grab bag of Asian fusion.
I think I might be addicted to Thai food. In college, I lived one street over from a block that housed four Thai restaurants, which were supported by a population of college students with the munchies. All four stirred up some of the best pad Thai this side of Siam. Even now, three years later,…
Planet Picks
january 27 thursday What's Up, Doc? Dr. Ruth Westheimer — the exceedingly amiable Jewish grandmother known by anyone and everyone as Dr. Ruth — is a chatty Cathy when it comes to sex. The psychosexual therapist launched her career in 1980 with "Sexually Speaking," an innovative, 15-minute radio segment; today, the show is widely distributed…
Here Come the Newbies
As scores of middle-aged presenters and agents near retirement, an equal number of younger faces are rising in the ranks – as seen at this year's Association of Performing Arts Presenters. The changeover in leadership could have a large impact for the field of live arts, as the younger newcomers will now get their chance…
Group Therapy
Comfort in numbers é however small é on the streets of St. Pete.
Future Tense
How do they choose those seasons, anyway? The leaders of TBPAC, Ruth Eckerd and the Van Wezel wheel and deal at a massive performing arts bazaar in NYC. By ALLYSON GONZALEZ
Upcoming Concerts
February 3 Steel Pulse Jannus Landing 3 Barry & Holly Tashian w/Mike O'Neill Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa 3 The Toasters w/RudeSquad/The Supervillains/The Cohorts State Theatre 4 Bright Eyes w/Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter/Neva/Dinova Tampa Theatre 4 Li'l Ed & The Blues Imperials/Blues Pig/Tim Tim Dorsey Book Signing Skipper's Smokehouse 4 Mason Jennings/The Human…
Popping The Question
Single? Of a certain age? If you’re a politician, the rumors will fly.
Upcoming Releases
Anberlin, Never Take Friendship Personal (Tooth & Nail)Antony and the Johnsons, I'm a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)Bargain Music, Little Taste of … (Beatville)Terry Bozzio, Prime Cuts (Magna Carta)Blue Merle, Burning In The Sun (Island)Bucket Full of Teeth, Bucket Full of Teeth, (Level Plane)Built Like Alaska, Autumnland (Future Farmer)Al Cook, Birmingham Jam (Wolf)Draugar, Weathering the Curse…
Spins
Same MotherJASON MORANBlue Note Mountain PassagesDAVE DOUGLASGreenleaf/KOCH Pianist Jason Moran and trumpeter Dave Douglas, arguably the two most creative and important artists on the current jazz scene, have each dropped CDs on the same day (Jan. 25), getting 2005 off to a promising start. While these discs don't sound particularly alike, they reflect shared aesthetics…
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
Ask the Advice Goddess
TO THE BETTER ENDMy girlfriends and I spend so much effort trying to find the right man to settle down with, yet marriage seems such a bleak prospect. My grandparents are still married (not happily, I might add), but my parents aren't. And now, I have friends who aren't even 30 and are already divorced.…
Freebie
Breathe in, Stretch Out
Spring Arts Preview 2005
CHOICES, CHOICES
Chicken Soup-A-Thon
Sniffling my way through the cans and can’ts.
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
Snowball’s ChanceA wintry ambush breaks down the barriers – for a while.
INAUGURATE THIS: On placards, behind fences or on the street, the anti-Bush brigades made their feelings known.
Letters
Under CoverRe: "That's So Gay," by Eric Snider (Jan. 19-25)I have been shopping at Publix for 15 years almost exclusively and I have NEVER seen a cover over Redbook or Cosmopolitan magazines. They sit there in the magazine racks with the rest of the publications right out in the open. And they are usually in…
