Letters to the Editor
All Saints Re: "The Man Who Wrote Too Much" by Emma Trelles (July 5-11) I read your article with trepidation because it reminded me of similar articles published in the Sturmer, the Nazi's official newspaper in Germany before and during World War II. Drawing a picture of a Jew as a person of undesirable character…
Spins
Aretha Franklin Aretha's BestVarious Artists Girl Group Greats These Rhino retrospectives, single discs both, make for splendid thematic bookends to an era: Aretha, not only the Queen of Soul but a voice of feminism during her ascendancy in the mid-to-late '60s; girl-group pop — cute, catchy and representative of an age when a young lady's…
The List
Visual Arts Openings Closing the Opening Avant Garde, the young professionals group of art lovers at the Tampa's Museum of Art, hosts a party following the members' reception for the opening of underCURRENT/overVIEW 5. The party is free to Avant Garde members, $10 for non-members, and includes a silent auction, door prizes, hors d'oeuvres, a…
Music Feature
<font Thursday, July 19 Events Rain Lounge DJ SS w/MC Warren G/Twisted Individual/Bamboo/CLRH2O/Dingo/Screwface Bars/Small Stages Adam's Mark Jamtastics/Charlie Zayas & the Midnight Ramblers AJ's Ale House Sal Beloise Alley Cat's Cafe Jamie Perlow Bahama Mama's Bobby Sibayan Beach Place (Whitey's) 4th Street Band Big J.R.'s Leslie & Trade Secrets Bourbon Street Real Knockout Street Fighting…
Planet Picks
Thursday 7.19 Straight Outta Leicester The Formation Records Group is a landmark in U.K. breakbeat music. Founded in 1989, Foundation has continued at the forefront of underground dance music and is now internationally respected for a unique style of hardstep drum 'n' bass. The Formation Tour, headlined by co-founder DJ SS and MC Warren G,…
Face Lift
If Tampa police are really interested in catching felons partying in Ybor City, then Saturday offered a prime opportunity. OJ Simpson, Charles Manson and even Pee Wee Herman made the scene as more than 100 protestors presented masked mugs — and a few obscene gestures — to the cameras outside Centro Ybor. The Tampa Bay…
A ‘Sideways’ Glance
There are a couple of reasons why you've been seeing more one-character autobiographical plays (or monologues, or performance pieces) on stage over the last 10 years. One of them is, simply, finance: From a producer's point of view, it's a lot easier to pay one actor to appear for three weeks in "Anecdotes of My…
Freebie of the Week
In recent years, Old Hyde Park Village has progressively differentiated itself from expanded Bay area retail outlets like Brandon Town Center and West Shore Plaza's Saks Fifth Avenue by developing the neighborhood's unique flavor. The mall's more fashionable stores have nipped significantly at the well-heeled heels of Hyde Park's upscale shops, but there's been no…
The Face of Florida
Weekly Planet’s Third Annual Photo Contest
Books
Yeats Is Dead! Edited by Joseph O'Connor Knopf/$23 What would you do to get your hot little hands on the only known copy of James Joyce's last, unpublished novel? Americans, well … we'd probably ante a large amount of our almighty dollars. Dubliners, as proved in Yeats Is Dead!, will resort to far more severe…
Culinary Events
FOOD Match Game Seated Seminar at Vintage Wine Cellar, 3629 Henderson Blvd., Tampa. Matching wines with food is like a game. Tonight's event endeavors to pair 11 wines with samples of seafood, beef, lasagna and dessert while discussing how different wines enhance the food we serve it with. Seating is limited to only 40 panelists…
Music Menu
DJ SS w/MC WARREN G/Twisted Individual/Bamboo/CLRH2O/ Dingo/Screwface One of UK's finest DJ and MC combos, SS and Warren G, combine lyrical punches with rough beats in a jungle drum 'n' bass style that ranges from ragga to hard step. DJ SS has been at the forefront of D&B's development since the style's inception, responsible for…
Web Site of the Week
HonkyTimeBruce Hoby: American Honky http://www.honkytime.faithweb.com/index.html Sometimes you need to look for guidance, see the world from a new viewpoint, find a hero whose example you can follow to lead a good, clean, righteous life. But who in this new world of technology, deceit and barely veiled alien abductions involving lemurs (oh, you know what I'm…
Cook’s Night Out
Once hidden behind kitchen doors, chefs have emerged as the new celebrities, jetting about the country for book singings and personal appearances, dishing out food industry gossip or Bam!-ing their way into TV sitcoms. Ah, what a splendid life it must be, up to your elbows in foie gras and caviar every night, hobnobbing with…
The Odetta File
Seventy-one year-old singer/guitarist Odetta has been performing for more than half a century. She's been hailed as a protest-movement icon and folk inspiration for nearly as long, and has been cited as an influence by artists ranging from Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin to Nick Cave and (shudder) Jewel. But when asked if she's acutely…
Public Life
Employers SeminarFriday, July 20 8:30-10 a.m. The Mayor's and County's alliances hold an employers seminar at Hillsborough Community College. The program is a free forum for employers to learn new means of finding competent workers. The seminar takes place at HCC-Dale Mabry campus, 4001 Tampa Bay Blvd., Tampa, room 108, in the Student Services building.…
The Fame Game
A sharp-eyed but sweet-natured movie that has a fine time poking fun at the increasingly bizarre ways people jockey for their 15 minutes in the sun, Everybody Famous offers a little something for almost everyone. The film does an admirable job walking the line between quirky and cute, never tipping too far over on either…
Gross-Out for Grown-Ups
There's an eerie sense of deja vu that creeps up on us while watching the intro to the latest installment of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. As a drooling, inbred gunman passing himself off as festival founder Spike proceeds to swig from a whisky bottle and blow away little ceramic figurines…
Outtakes
A.I. (PG-13) A film directed by Steven Spielberg based on a long-gestating idea by Stanley Kubrick, A.I. is an odd and intriguing hybrid of a movie, combining elements that smack of both filmmakers but not really fully in either's camp. The story tells us of a little robot boy (Haley Joel Osment) who has troubles…
‘Planet’ Loses Round 1
A Hillsborough County circuit judge has dismissed a Weekly Planet lawsuit seeking a document that might reveal how much businessman Richard A. Corbett is making off a sweetheart deal at Tampa International Airport. Judge Sam D. Pendino ruled July 16 that the document wasn't a public record. Pendino ruled that Corbett and the county aviation…
Bequeathed Bigotry
Forty-eight hours after Tampa Police Officer Lois Marrero was machine-gunned down by a lowlife, the media finally began reporting what was obvious: The heroic cop was gay. The St. Petersburg Times commendably broke the ice, in a story about who would receive Marrero's survivor benefits. Normally, a spouse would get lifetime payments of 65 percent…
