Definitely Not Stuck On You
Left and right too black and white in Mineola Twins
All Flourish, No Finesse
Every once in a while, you find a darling little trattoria, a small, casual, family-friendly cucina Italiana where the chianti flows like water, the marinara is to die for and the cannelloni comes off like a preview of heaven. This is not that time.From all appearances, I was positive that Caffe Amaretto would be a…
The Best of the Blancs
The star of New Zealand’s fermented firmament
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area.
Mr. Dashboard Confessional’s Confessional
Chris Carrabba comes clean on stardom, detractors and the L.A. Lakers
After the Fall
Misery abounds in darkly engrossing Young Adam
Letters
Our contentious readersIt's very interesting that right-winged supporters usually resort to name-calling whenever they cannot provide sources to back up their opinions. The recent letter by Dan Calabria is a prime example. While bashing Robert F. Kennedy's article "Killing Science," he doesn't provide anything even remotely resembling sources to back up his rants. Instead, Calabria…
Culinary Events
Classes and events that bolster your cuisine expertise and offer tasty experiences.
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
Ask the Advice Goddess
Meet MarketingRecently, a guy at a local bar struck up a conversation with me. We spent over an hour swapping stories and cracking each other up, but, to my surprise, he ended up leaving without asking for my number. While it's possible that he had a girlfriend or just wasn't into me, this sort of…
Free Way
Who needs the media when you can talk straight to the people?
Made in the Shade
Many fine Southern authors thrive in the shadow of Grisham and Conroy
Freebie
Dancing Machines When I was younger and less practical, I had very high aspirations for my future. First, I would take piano lessons and achieve reasonable recognition for my talents before the age of 30. If that didn't pan out, I would immediately learn to dance in such a way that the outcome would be…
Tim Gautreaux
In his first 10 years of writing fiction, Tim Gautreaux collected enough rejection slips to paper the four walls, ceiling and filing cabinets in his office at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he taught creative writing for 30 years. His breakthrough came in 1990 when the Atlantic Monthly published one of his stories. He's since published…
Location Location Location
Architecture as movie set
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, June 15: Aeternus, And So the Night Became (Candlelight) Approach, Ultraproteus (Coup d'Etat) Beastie Boys, To the 5 Boroughs (Capitol) Bond, Classified (Decca) Brandtson, Send Us a Signal (Militia) Jonathan Byrd, Sea & The Sky (Waterbug) Lori Carson, Finest Thing (Meta) Vic Chesnutt, Is the Actor Happy…
From Headphones to Headliners
Former Tampa musician ups the rock quotient for the Manx
Silas House
Literary awards vie for wall space with pictures of Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs in the office where Silas House writes. House, 32, is the author of Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves and The Coal Tattoo (forthcoming), three novels inspired by his family's Appalachian heritage and underscored by his passion for…
Spins
Misery Is a ButterflyBLONDE REDHEAD4ADSwirling, breathy vocals, shimmering guitars, slow death, newfound depths to melancholy — welcome to Blonde Redhead's winter-tinged world. Misery Is a Butterfly, their first effort on venerable indie imprint 4AD, finds the group (Italian expats/twins Amedeo and Simone Pace, Japanese chanteuse Kazu Makino) honing a unified sound throughout. While Misery isn't…
Pamela Duncan
Pamela Duncan grew up in Shelby, a mill town in the North Carolina foothills, the daughter of a corrections officer and a textile worker. Her fiction draws its accents from those rural working-class origins, focusing on the intergenerational struggles of Southern women. Inspired by her mentor, novelist Lee Smith, Duncan earned a master's degree from…
Southern Writers by State
ALABAMA 1.Tom FranklinBooks: Hell at the Breech, PoachersBorn in Dickinson, Alabama, near setting of his novel Hell at the Breech Lives in Oxford, Miss., with wife, poet Beth-Ann Fennelly 2. Vicki CovingtonBooks: Bird of Paradise, Gathering Home, Night Ride Home, The Last Hotel for WomenBorn in Birmingham, Alabama Lives in Birmingham with her husband, Dennis…
