A tale of two downtowns
TS Alberto didn't keep everyone at home Monday night as a crowd of involved readers came out to be part of the Political Party about "Downtowns on the Verge." Thanks to our panelists, Christine Burdick of the Tampa Downtown Partnership, Don Shea of the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership, Chris Vela of YARD-OPS, Greg Minder of…
A tale of two downtowns
TS Alberto didn't keep everyone at home Monday night as a crowd of involved readers came out to be part of the Political Party about "Downtowns on the Verge." Thanks to our panelists, Christine Burdick of the Tampa Downtown Partnership, Don Shea of the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership, Chris Vela of YARD-OPS, Greg Minder of…
Today’s Canine News
I got two emails about breaking doggie news, and seeing as I received them within 15 minutes of each other, I felt the need to share. 1. Apparently, Friday, June 23, is Take Your Dog to Work Day. In celebration, 3M Pet Care hosts an online photo gallery of doggies at the workplace. If you've…
Davis-Smith dead heat
As we talked about a few posts ago, Rod Smith is catching up to Jim Davis, thanks to a stronger force of personality and Davis' lackluster performance to date. A Florida Chamber of Commerce poll confirms this and puts the two in a statistical tie. For those who are dubious about polling, this one was…
The Terri Card
Balls. That’s what it takes to wave a red cape in front of the angry bull that social conservative voters can be, but that is apparently the campaign strategy of former Pinellas Sheriff and current legislator Everett Rice. Rice has posted a blog item excoriating his opponents for Florida Attorney General, former Congressman Bill McCollum…
Can you make a bullshot?
Our Top 15 potential band names (and the genres they best fit) inspired by the movie "Caddyshack:" 15. Cinderella Boy — glam rock14. Billy Barou — blues guitar slinger heavily indebted to SRV13. Low Grade Dog Food — jam band12. Naked Lady Tees — neo-Swing11. Gunga-Galoonga — Coite d'Ivoire soukous 10. Chuck Shick — jazz…
The 100 Must-Do List
Last week, our print alter ego, the Weekly Planet, published a story we called "The Must-Do List: 100 things you gotta do" in order to consider yourself a "true" Tampa Bay resident. As the story explains, it was a lark that started when we realized at a staff meeting that one of our own had…
Pirates at the Pass
Festival
Going Postal
STILL AS SWEET I am glad to hear you all at the Planet will be returning [in September] to your former moniker (Editor's Note, "What's In A Name?" by David Warner, May 31-June 6). My excitement is mostly due to nostalgia. I began reading the weekly in high school (when it was called Creative Loafing),…
Music Menu
THURSDAY, JUNE 08 GUITARS & SAXES Four geniuses of smooth jazz combine their titanic talents in a show for the ages. The legends on stage will include saxophonists Gerald Albright and Richard Elliot, and guitarists Peter White and Jeff Golub. Go so you can tell your grandchildren. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) Eric Snider FRIDAY, JUNE…
The Museum’s Pride
ART/FUNDRAISER
Sell Out
A revisionist take on TV advertising.
Downtowns On The Verge
Change is coming to St. Pete and Tampa. Will it fill our downtowns with life — or ruin what we’ve already got?
Smoking Not Required
La Sociedad (The Society) of Ybor City House of Artists is a new group of artists and musicians working together to promote mutual aid to the creative talents who live, work and play in the former cigar capital of the world. (In case you were wondering, the name "La Sociedad" is supposed to hint at…
The Good, The Bad, The Local
A bi-monthly (or so) critical look at Bay area recordings.
Winelist
Got an upcoming or ongoing wine event? Send information to: The Wine List, 810 N. Howard Ave., Tampa, FL 33606, fax 813-739-4801 or e-mail winestuff@weeklyplanet.com. SIPPIN' SANGRIA Summer is here and it's time to try some good sangria recipes. $10; includes souvenir glass and hors d'oeuvres. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fri., June 9. Uncorked, 2706 Fourth St.…
Spins
10,000 Days TOOL Volcano/Zomba One of the past decade's unlikeliest success stories, L.A.'s Tool far transcended cult-fave status by making moody atmosphere, dark lyrical themes and a conspicuously proggy bent a mainstream alternative to lowest-common-denominator metal trends. The group made its bones, in other words, by being arty and weird. 10,000 Days, Tool's fourth full-length…
Six Six Sick
A numbingly literal remake of the fair-to-middling 1976 horror flick, The Omen is almost as big an embalming job as Gus Van Sant's utterly unnecessary Psycho. Van Sant's slavishness was at least in the service of something worth genuflection, though; this new version of The Omen is like a cult devoted to drywall. The plot…
Backspin
Buzzy Linhart Loves You: Classic Recordings BUZZY LINHART Razor & Tie One of rock's great unearthed treasures, Buzzy Linhart hung around the periphery of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early '60s, and by the turn of the decade had developed his own idiosyncratic, watery psychedelic style that incorporated jazz, raga, blues and acid…
The Fabric of Life
Theater
Grimm Redux
THEATER
Party Downtown
Ask about the future of our downtowns at the next Political Party.
Art of Conversation
The Museum of Fine Arts’ current exhibits say a lot about each other.
Pay up
Jobsite Theater takes a run at Dario Fo’s political farce.
Not Just Kool-aid
Beaujolais isn’t all bad.
Style in the Suburbs
Hapa’s high-end ambitions
Twang ’em High
Roadhouse-rockin' country star Dwight Yoakam has come a long way since Snider saw him performing in a Nudie suit at Tampa's legendary London Victory Club back in the early '80s. Despite being a household name with several Top 10 singles to his credit, Yoakam's eclectic, earnest songwriting never garnered him arena-headliner status. Instead, he's become…
Viva, Muerta, Viva
Viva la Frida in flux; Dagwood’s to debut in Palm Harbor.
The Blotter
FAMILY SMACKDOWN: Officers were dispatched to a private residence on Bird Street in Tampa in response to a call from a child who stated that his father had struck his mother. On the scene police found Mom with a "small cut on her lip," Dad with "a small amount of blood coming from the right…
HOME on the PRAIRIE
Off-kilter Americana from venerated oddballs Keillor and Altman.
Outtakes
NEW RELEASES CARS (G) As animated opuses go, this one doesn't quite scale the heights of the Toy Story movies, Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles or Nemo, but — and of course you knew this was coming — even the least of Pixar's efforts is better than 99 percent of the competition. The story here —…
Time’s Up
A day in the life of a man people love to hate.
Rollin’ with Punches
SPORTS
I’m Going Your Way
FILM
HYPE PATROL
Is Rod Smith catching up with Jim Davis?
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tues., June 13: The Acacia Strain, Dead Walk (Prosthetic) Apollo Up, Chariots of Fire (Emergent/92e) Between the Buried and Me, Anatomy Of (Victory) Boodah an da Bandit, Brain on Drugz (Tuff City) Sam Bush, Laps in Seven (Sugarhill) Busta Rhymes, The Big Bang (Aftermath) Clifton, We Never Change…
