Soundboard
<font Thursday, July 5 Events Brass Mug Mike Tramp/V.M./Kenny McGee's Disease/Grid Loc Bars/Small Stages AJ's Ale House Sal Beloise Alley Cat's Cafe Jamie Perlow Bahama Mama's Bobby Sibayan Beach Place (Whitey's) Beggar's Opera Big J.R.'s The New Sevilles Budious Maximus DJs Madhatter/Alex Lugo Cadillac Jack's The Connectors Carlie's Stormbringer Club Hedo Gemini/Passthamic/Ryan McGary/Cory K Cool…
Books
On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark $26/Simon & Schuster I was anxious about reading this book. Having reviewed two of the author's novels in the last year-and-a-half, I've become the unofficial Mary Higgins Clark book reviewer, and those last two were nothing to write home about. But I was pleasantly surprised…
Freebie of the Week
I could really use some sort of an herbal refreshment. —Tai, Clueless Everybody must get stoned. —Bob Dylan Well, we can't promise you'll find any herbal refreshments at the third annual Hemp Revolution Bar-B-Que and Festival, so you might want to get your high on before leaving the house. But the afternoon is filled with…
Good Season’s
In summertime, a performance critic's thoughts turn to … the other three seasons. Yes, there's a trickle of productions coming up this month and next. But let's face it: The performance season goes, roughly, from September to May, and when we professional spectators meditate the Promise of Happiness, our yearning minds reach wistfully for autumn…
The List
Visual ArtsOpenings Covivant Gallery, 4906 N. Florida Ave., Tampa (813-232-3283). Black Out, a showcase of Bay area artists, features Ryan Arcieri, David Greg Harth, Thomas Raymond Hipschen, Polly Holt, Jon Karl Holm and Ski. The opening reception is at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 7, and the exhibition runs through July 29. Hours are noon to…
Public Life
Back to School Seminar Monday, July 9 9-11 a.m. The Centre for Women offers a workshop on college registration, cost and payment options. Representatives from the University of South Florida and Hillsborough Community College address questions concerning application, registration and financing a college education. The Centre for Women is at 305 S. Hyde Park Ave.,…
Music Menu
Mike Tramp w/Grid Loc/V.M. Seriously, what's up with all the formerly finely-tressed frontmen (alliteration, people) hitting the road lately? Kip Winger, Ron Keel — now it's one-time White Lion singer and frosted heartthrob Mike Tramp, whose plaintive, scratchy whine was considered compelling by young girls, and by the young boys who wanted to touch their…
Culinary Events
FOOD Chef Webber Cooking Demo Chef Eric Webber of the Sutherland Cafe demonstrates an Italian-influenced menu of scallop-stuffed artichoke bottoms, buffalo mozzarella and sun-dried tomato tapenade, parmesan-crusted chicken, fire-roasted corn polenta, fresh tomato basil sauce and champagne sabayon with fresh berries. $35. 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, at La Maison Gourmet (formerly Home Gourmet) 471…
Spins
Cachaito Cachaito Bassist Orlando Cachaito Lopez is the only musician to play on every recorded song of the vaunted Buena Vista Social Club franchise. Fellow Cuban veterans Ruben Gonzalez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo and Juan de Marcos have released solo efforts under the BVSC umbrella, and now it's Cachaito's turn to step to the plate.…
Broadcast Blues
For the past month, the national half-hour daily news program Free Speech Radio News has been heard every night at 6 p.m. on WMNF-88.5 FM. Though it may be short lived, Free Speech Radio News is the first sustained attempt at creating an alternative to the purported "alternative" daily news radio broadcast, The Pacifica Network…
Outtakes
A.I. (PG-13) A film directed by Steven Speilberg 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…
Inflammatory Comment
Since the release of their debut full-length As The World Burns in the late summer of 1999, Brooklyn-bred hip-hop collective Arsonists have scored quite a bit of press, in both the glossy rap mags and edgier journals aimed squarely at the college-music listener. Most of the coverage has ranged from complimentary to fawning, lauding the…
Crazy for Feeling So Hungry
For the love of Levi, will someone please call Bennigan's and tell them the jeans that guy is pulling out of the dryer in their commercial are NOT button fly! Because every morning, as I'm trying to catch the weather and traffic reports on Channel 13, I see that freakin' spot about 37 times, and…
Dining Guide
HILLSBOROUGH Tampa Carrollwood/ Northwest Tampa Kaisen Sushi, 12785 N. Dale Mabry, in Mission Bell Square (813-969-3848). This friendly, casual and tiny cafe offers exceptionally fresh, artfully prepared, delicious and value priced sushi. What more can you ask for? A must-try is the calamari, thick slices of succulent grilled squid served in a dark, smoky sauce.…
Gandhi Goes to Hell
"Lovely, lovely," murmurs the huge moun-tain of sweaty flesh in a Speedo. The sweaty flesh licks its lips, savoring the brilliant heat of the Mediterranean sun beating down upon its glorious fleshiness. The flesh has a name — Gal Dove — and for him this is as good as it gets. The nominal hero of…
Web Site of the Week
Heads up, you're gonna have to move fast to get in on this sites raging tournament action! The thrills! The chills! The inbred marmosets wait, that's just me. Right. Anyway, the roadtospringfield.com takes two of America's favorite "pass times" and combines them into one caramel-coated Web goodness site. No, not prostitution and tax evasion (although…
Letters
Rhonda's Finger Re: "From Artists to Jell-O Shooters" by RhondaK (June 21-27) I appreciated the non-linear, anecdotal writing that comes from a strong sense of rootedness in Tampa and Ybor, specifically. Please send more assignments to Rhonda. She has her finger on the city's pulse. Robin Leigh Via e-mail Measured Analysis Re: "The Other Side"…
The Man Who Wrote Too Much
Before dawn, while the rest of the nine-to-five world huddles in bed, Harvey Slavin is up and ready for action. He doesn't jog, fish, or schlep himself to the sandy beach outside his oceanfront apartment building for an early swim. Slavin writes. Every day. And more often than not, his words offer a hearty thrashing…
Swing Shift
On Nebraska Avenue — where throngs of prostitutes and drug dealers jostle each other for prime corner locations with scant interference from Tampa Police — there is a rather stately, Spanish-style, coral-colored, well-maintained former home just north of Hillsborough Avenue. No signs advertise what business, if any, is conducted in the two-story building. Considering Nebraska's…
Planet Picks
Thursday 7.5 The Wizard of Oz The perennial fantasy musical from MGM's golden years has aired annually since 1939 on network TV during Thanksgiving and Christmas, making an icon of Judy Garland's Dorothy, whose plagued journey to the elusive Emerald City is now an institution. Oz was voted to the National Film Registry in 1989.…
