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Eyehategod w/Pale Rider/Keel Haul/ Mastradon Formed in New Orleans in 1988, Eyehategod are linchpins of the Southern sludgecore scene. Last year saw the release of their fourth studio album, Confederacy of Ruined Lives. Pale Rider is a new Tampa stoner-rock concern who describe their sound as "what would have happened if '80s hair metal glam…
Freebie
Ya know all those craft and fine art shows taking place just about every weekend? You can thank (or curse) Alan Howard for those. The Plantation resident arranges shows throughout Florida and pretty much the rest of the country as well. Alan's shows have become a welcome opportunity for buyers to find an impressive array…
Soundboard
Thursday, March 15 Shows Brass Mug Eyehategod w/Keel Haul/Mastradon/Pale Rider Frankie's Patio Nonpoint/Endo/StereoMud House of Blues, Orlando Foo Fighters Mahaffey Theater Keiko Matsui Tampa Theatre John Hiatt w/Tim Easton Tarpon Springs Performing Arts CenterLiberace – The Legend Lives!" Clubs AJ's Ale HouseSal Beliose Bahama Mama'sDonnie O'Neill Bourbon Street The Lemmings Budious Maximus HiFi Lounge w/Madhatter/Alex…
The Crying Game
Terence Davies is a filmmaker famous (or as famous as an obscure English director can be) for his free-flowing, autobiographical memory-pieces. Time and again, in films like The Long Day Closes and Distant Voices, Still Lives, Davies eschews straightforward storytelling for a fragmented, impressionistic narrative thread that might very well be taking place in the…
Taking Us For a Ride
The piece of dirt called downtown Tampa — which includes the Marriott site and Block 107 — has somewhat landmark status in the arcane annals of government property seizures. Ron Weaver, a land-use lawyer and an eclectic scholar, is fond of telling the story of Robert Hackley, who acquired much of downtown Tampa in a…
Outtakes
15 Minutes (R) Robert De Niro and Ed Burns play the pistol-packing Good Guys on the trail of a pair of mad dog killers with a mania for videotaping their crimes. Tough, exciting, smart and just off-kilter enough to keep us guessing, 15 Minutes is a thriller that manages to transcend the buddy movie genre…
College Degrees of Separation
The 44-year-old head coach of men's basketball at the University of South Florida, Seth Greenberg, was talking up an alumni benefit game last spring. The inaugural USF Roundball Reunion raised scholarship money for former Bulls players who dropped out after using up their athletic eligibility and later re-enrolled on their own in hopes of finally…
Green Means Money
Consumer advocates and environmentalists get labeled as tax-and-spenders. They demand better regulation and anti-pollution mandates. That all costs money. But the consumer and green groups that have teamed with taxpayer watchdogs to compile a new hit list of 74 wasteful federal programs belie the stereotype. Green Scissors 2001 is the latest report from an unusual…
Letters to the Editor
Confession Time Re: "Final Payments" by Charles Flowers (March 1-7) Forgive me, Weekly Planet, for I have strayed. Just when "mainstream" journalism got my attention, your staff grabbed it back with a vengeance. Sugg's piece on St. Pete taxpayers getting the short end of the baseball bat from local politicians and the Times and Flowers'…
Bistros Blossom on Both Sides of the Bay Blue Gardenia
The first time I reviewed the Blue Gardenia, Tom and Emily Golden were in the early stages of turning a storefront in a Safety Harbor strip mall into a neighborhood bistro. It was their first venture into self-employment (i.e., see Webster's definition of "masochism.") and their energy and enthusiasm carried them well past the limitations…
Secret Handouts
It’s bad enough that Florida uses tax money to bribe
Planet Picks
Thursday 3.15 Art-Reach HCC-Ybor has been playing host to Professor Pavol Petras, a portrait artist from the Slovak Republic, in town to share his techniques. The artist's final free workshop takes place at The Tampa Museum of Art at 7 p.m. Museum director Emily Kass is the night's model as Petras demonstrates his unique, contemporary…
Movie Marquee
Hillsborough Brandon REGENCY SQUARE 20 (AMC) 2496 W. Brandon Blvd. 813-243-4955 Enemy at the Gates (R) F, Sa 1:10, 2, 4:30, 5:10, 7:20, 8, 10:10, 10:50; Su-Th Sa 1:10, 2, 4:30, 5:10, 7:20, 8, 10:05, 10:30 15 Minutes (R) F, Sa 1:45, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40; Su-Th 1:45, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20 Road to Redemption (PG) F,…
Church’s Sly Dickens
Don't hate J Church's Lance Hahn because he's smart. Even though he likes to drop the kind of names in his songs that would send the average listener running for a reference book or the Internet — actress Jean Seberg, Manson Family moll Sadie Mae Glutz, documentary filmmaking pioneer (and rumored mistress of Hitler) Leni…
Public Life
Water Resource Forum Wednesday, March 28 7-9 p.m. The area's top experts on water resources discuss water management plans, plant details and steps toward conservation, with speakers from Southwest Florida Water Management District, Tampa Bay Water and Pasco County Utilities. Takes place at Tampa Bay Golf and Country Club clubhouse, 11500 Old Tampa Bay Drive,…
Vice Girls
"You. You. You! Do you know that bad girls go to hell?" So intones an authoritative but creaky male voice at the start of Fabulous Disaster's first proper full-length, Put Out or Get Out (Pink & Black). The San Francisco quartet's answer to that sampled query is "Down the Drain," a barreling pop-punk onslaught sweetened…
Spins
Los Super Seven Canto What began in 1998 as a supergroup dedicated to Mexican/border music has evolved into a collective that reaches much further into the Latin pantheon, incorporating styles from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil and material that resists tidy categories. Canto exhibits an impressive stylistic breadth, from bubbly Afro-Cuban grooves to delicate Brazilian…
Wacky Cliff’s Notes
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is silly, sloppy fun, a hit-and-miss assault on the Bard that at best is hilarious and at worst is (pleasantly) sophomoric. Jobsite Theater actors Jason Evans, David Jenkins and Robert Ray Morgan romp joyously through Shakespeare's loftiest creations, demolishing everything that comes in sight without ever suggesting less…
Books
Everything You Know By Zoe Heller Alfred A. Knopf/$22 Hack writer Willy Muller is supposed to be working on a screenplay adaptation of his memoir while recuperating from a heart attack. But he's too busy feeling sorry for himself and being an asshole to the few people who will still speak to him. If he…
Web Site of the Week
80s Nostalgiahttp://www.80snostalgia.com Once you access the site, do not be alarmed by the Rubik's Cube graphic that follows your pointer around the screen. It's supposed to be there, you're not having a homemade acid flashback. Although if you move your mouse fast enough you may wish you were. Regardless, since trends run in cycles of…
