

Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area.
Fightin’ Words
Battle Basics is miles ahead of the 8 Mile-inspired insta-thugfests
Italian Big’uns
Tall, dark and tannin
Ask the Advice Goddess
The Tart Of Compromise My husband planned a weekend vacation for the two of us. He bought me an outfit for the occasion — a black leather miniskirt, knee-high boots, and fishnet stockings. This is not my style, so I returned it and bought something more conservative. My husband is very hurt. Why would he…
Tainted Cases
The potential effects of a feud within the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa keep getting juicier.
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, Feb. 3:
Spins
Tell Them Hi CAMPFIRE GIRLS Interscope Nearly 10 years ago, Los Angeles' all-male Campfire Girls made enough waves with their moody, idiosyncratic alt-rock to get them signed to Interscope. In the wake of some heavy hype and EP releases, however, the group sank back below the surface, weighed down by rumors of drug use and…
Letters
No ridersRe: "Bus Boy" by Scott Harrell (January 7-13) Thanks very much for this article. Though Scott Harrell finds a lot of fault — which is there to be found — I believe that whatever brings public transportation to the public's attention is good. Those of us who come from places with good public transportation…
In the Company of dancers
Altman dances with the Capezio crowd in The Company
Winning Without a Fight
A growing alternative to lawsuits helps people get what they need without a costly court battle
Sexing the Alternative Nation
The Suicide Girls burlesque yesterday’s burlesque
Next Stage
Proposed Acorn Theatre is moving forward
People or Property?
Grand redevelopment plans too often focus on the land, not the poor people who live there.
Pacheco Chronicles
Ferdie Pacheco loves to tell the many stories of his life.There's the colorful immigrant history he witnessed growing up in Tampa in the 1930s. The accounts of seeing operations as a child and beginning to paint early on, eventually partly paying for his education in medicine by contributing cartoons to magazines. The sagas of the…
Hungry Minds
In this Italian class, students eat, drink and talk Italian






