Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area.
Eating Among Beasts
Busch Gardens — A Food Odyssey
Road Rave
An Odyssey on Armenia Avenue
It’s An Idiot’s Thing
The unexpected perils of shark-fishing
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
Letters
UNFORTUNATE OR UNREPENTANT? Re: “Mandatory Madness” by Eric Snider (June 16-22) As a longtime reader of the Weekly Planet, I read this article with particular interest since I was the prosecutor responsible for the case. I believe your story was very misleading for a number of reasons. First, it failed to acknowledge in any meaningful…
Old Sport
Time is a baller’s toughest foe
Where the Power Meets the Pop
The Thermals are that rarest of things — a great rock band
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, July 13: About the Fire, Rites of Passage (Happy Couples Never) Susan Angeletti, Bittersweet (Utr Music Group) The Army of Freshmen, Beg, Borrow, Steal (33rd Street) Blues Traveler, Live on the Rocks (Sanctuary) Jimmy Buffett, License to Chill (RCA) Cats and Dogs, This Life (Bullseye UK) Cheaper…
Freebie
Fighting Fists with Fashion According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, domestic abuse is the leading cause of injury to women in this country. Locally, The Spring of Tampa Bay plays a crucial role in fighting this trend, providing sanctuary and services to the area's abused adults and their children. The Spring is the…
Staying Power
Sitting behind the desk at the Kids & Kubs office in downtown St. Petersburg, Clarence Fountain is talking about how the body of an old softball player breaks down. "The first to go is the legs, then the arm, the third thing … I can't remember," he says with a mischievous grin. The storied softball…
Ask the Advice Goddess
Elbow Groom I've been with my boyfriend for four years. We're happy together, and we constantly discuss our future, but talking about it is all we do. Well, I just got my master's, and I've started looking for jobs in other cities because I don't want to sit around waiting for him. He seems to…
Losing Your Footing
Amy Mandel owns Feet First athletic shoe stores in Tampa and St. Pete. She played in an indoor soccer league until two years ago when a bad hamstring injury sidelined her — for good, as it turns out. "It really did a number on me," she says. "The biggest for me was not having that…
Moment of Truth
Dorothy Parker departs from the formula — once
We’ll Talk
A Note From Our New Editor
Mail Bonding
Talking amongst ourselves
Reality Check
When it comes to knowing when you're over the hill, boxers have more at stake than other athletes. They don't just risk late-career embarrassment (see Michael Jordan) or an awkward departure (John Lynch) — their wits are literally on the line. And so it was that Clearwater's Tyrone Booze, the WBO Cruiser Weight champion in…
DVD Pick
WP’s recommendation of the week
A Chip Off the Old Baadasssss
Son’s Baadasssss! a little too worshipful of father’s blaxploitation flick
Wake-Up Call
For 13 years, Jeff Albinson has performed a valuable service to a select group of basketball players in Pinellas County. He personally organizes a standing, invitation-only game at 8 a.m. Saturday mornings. He rents the gym, collects the money (and usually covers the shortfalls), makes sure there's the right number of players, and breaks us…
If the Shoe Fits
John Cannon was an undersize defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they wore uniforms the color of orange sherbet. He went to the playoffs in his rookie year, 1982, then endured nothing but doldrums until retiring nine years later at age 31. "I didn't feel I could play at the level to be…
City of God
WP’s recommendation of the week
Spins
Now Here Is NowhereSECRET MACHINESRepriseThink of Secret Machines as this season's Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They're a trio. They're from New York (albeit by way of Dallas). They're doing their thing somewhere in the middle of a buzz so large and intense it may actually cause tectonic plates to shift. And, like Karen O and the…
Soundboard
MUSIC EVENTS THURSDAY, JULY 8 420 Park Place DJ Matt the Bratt 42nd Street Bistro Rafael & Co. 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar d'Visitors * 688 Skatepark Sidewalk Slam/Calibretto/ Mercury Radio Theater Alley Cat's Cafe Acoustakats Babalouie's Mark McGourley Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon Bahama Mama's Tom Arnold Benedetto's Italiano Ristorante Piano Bar w/Tom…
Culinary Events
FRIDA'S FIESTA A chance for Frida wanna-be's to don unibrows and join Club Las Fridas: Frida's 97th birthday and 50th death anniversary, with food, music and dance. 7-9 p.m. Wed., July 14. ALSO, third anniversary party with complimentary tos-tapas, cash bar and music. 7-10 p.m. Mon., July 12. Viva la Frida's Cafe y Galeria, 5901…
