Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tues., March 8: Boom Bip, Blue Eyed in the Red Room (Lex)Cigar Store Indians, Built of Stone (Overall) 50 Cent, Massacre (Aftermath)Above This Fire, In Perspective (Life Sentence) The Alter Boys, Exotic Sounds of the Alter Boys (Fractured Trans) Black Lipstick, Sincerely Black Lipstick (Peek-A-Boo) Sarah Borges, Silver…
The Urban Explorer’s Handbook
Welcome to the Neighborhoods
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
You’ve Been Served
Roy’s has a great location, high-class food and one obnoxious waiter
Upcoming Concerts
March 10 Soulfly/God Forbid/TBA State Theatre 10 Disciple/Staple 688 Skatepark 10 Mini Music Fest. Feat. Jimmy Payne/Meredith Demming/J.R. Rogers Trio/More Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa 11 Enon w/The Empty Spaces/Swearing at Motorists/Mants/DJ Cinthusia Masquerade 11 Toots & The Maytals/Particle/Inner Circle Jannus Landing 11 Perpetual Groove/Robert Walter's 20th Congress Skipper's Smokehouse 11-13 5th Annual Cajun/Zydeco Crawfish…
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
A Rock and a Hard Place
“Is there an award for sitting through an entire Oscar show?”
Letters
Auction News Re: "Scene & Herd: Going Once, Going Twice…" by Scott Harrell (Feb. 23-Mar. 1) Awesome article! We really appreciate it… even the honesty on the slow start. Your take on people's perspective and how they think of auctions, was right on! I hope in time everyone gets the fact that our events aren't…
Freebie
Free Press for Free Fests
My First Cuppa
Southern women like their caffeine cold.
Pinellas St. Petersburg / Historic Kenwood
Cake-baking neighbors, Grand Central shopping, the Gay-borhood ?
Pinellas / Pass-a-Grille
Golden beach, golden chopsticks, and location, location, location ?
Pinellas / Safety Harbor
Small-town downtown, mineral springs, condos-in-waiting?
Sturm Und Twang
Though the band is more or less based out of Athens, Ga., The Drive-By Truckers' soulful, literate Southern rock/alt-country hybrid grew out of the musically fertile soil of Muscle Shoals, Ala. – where principal Trucker Patterson Hood's father David helped record some of the best loved rock 'n' soul of all time. DBT's 2001 pseudo-concept…
Music Menu
THURSDAY, MARCH 03 CHASCO FIESTA New Port Richey's annual celebration kicks in today, and you know what that means – more than a week's worth of weird and (sometimes) wonderful live outdoor entertainment. Tonight's show features Native-American singer-songwriter Bill Miller and a tribal dance troupe, starting at 7:30 p.m. Here's the rundown for the rest…
Culinary Events
RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL Come out and experience a culinary wonder at the Feast of Fantasy: a six-course gourmet feast. $50. Daily at 1 p.m. Then, meet the Queen at her Royal High Tea: a 4-course luncheon featuring scrumptious desserts. Daily at 3:30 p.m. (Both include entertainment.) Until April 10. Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI),11315 46th…
Hillsborough / Temple Terrace
Oak trees, strip malls, downtown visions?
Wine List
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. CHEESE ANYONE? Charlie's Wine Cellar presents a French wine and cheese pairing experience. $12 in advance, $15 at door. 7:30 p.m. Fri., March 4. Charlie's Wine Cellar, 533 S. Howard…
Hillsborough / Seminole Heights
Front porches, used car lots, “Hyde Park for the rest of us”
Wine Ramblings
Stuff I can’t keep bottled up.
Music Events
Thursday, Mar. 342nd Street Bistro Stacey Knights 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar Back Water Blues Alley Cat's Cafe Lionheart Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon Blue Martini The Black Honkeys Captain Jack's Rus Anderson The Chic-A-Boom Room Stephanie Anderson CK's Revolving Rooftop Restaurant Derrick Williams Clancy' s of New Orleans Steve Santo Clearwater Main Library…
Kentucky’s Other Roots Music
Louisville’s The Juggernaut Jug Band jams really old-school urban
A Tale of Two Projects
The best of coverage; the worst of coverage
Hillsborough Tampa / Westshore Palms/North Bon Air
Tranquility amidst the traffic, shops around the corner, parakeets in the trees…
Short List
Attack of the Killer Developments
Good Chemistry
Gorilla Theatre has Copenhagen (mostly) down to a science
Dead Man Walking
The Jacket honors but doesn’t transcend the classic noir formula.
Planet Picks
MARCH 03 THURSDAY CELEBRATING FLORIDA'S JUICY RED GEMS The Florida Strawberry Festival is like a smaller, less fashionable version of the Florida State Fair, except that the headliners are all first-rate country stars (Lorrie Morgan, Vince Gill, Clint Black and Wayne Newton, to name a few) and the food, while varied, takes a back seat…
Spins
Angel of RetributionJUDAS PRIESTEpicRob Halford's back, and it's almost as if all that hey-let's-get-that-kid-from-the-tribute-band-to-sing-for-us unpleasantness never happened. Stylistically, Angel of Retribution would've served nicely as the transition from Ram It Down to the more extreme-metal sounds of the last Halford-fronted effort, 1990's Painkiller. Drummer Scott Travis' double-bass mastery is in full effect, and overall, Angel…
Music Venues
VENUES For a comprehensive list of addresses and contact information for the nightspots listed in SOUNDBOARD, log on to www.weeklyplanet.com. 688 SKATEPARK, 6140 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater, 727-523-0785 THE BANK NIGHTCLUB AND CONCERT VENUE, 1950 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg, 727-898-4488 BOOMERZ BOILER ROOM/BOOMERZ CAFÉ, 6990 Seminole Blvd., Seminole, 727-391-7066 BOURBON STREET, 4331 U.S. 19 N.,…
Pinellas / Gulfport
Art Walks, Casino nights, eclecticism for everybody?
Ask the Advice Goddess
Spine Language Three years ago, I got out of a dysfunctional three-year relationship where I did anything and everything for the guy, including ditching all my friends and tolerating him sleeping with another woman. When he inevitably left me for somebody else, I worked very hard to get my friends back and build a life…
Cool Reception
John Travolta returns as wise guy turned movie producer Chili Palmer in this disjointed and very disappointing sequel to the 1995 oddball comedy Get Shorty. Even those of us who weren't huge fans of the original could appreciate that film's smoothly manic energy and director Barry Sonnenfeld's lightness of touch, all of which is missing…
Hillsborough / The Channel District, aka Futurama
Towers, lofts, a neighborhood in the making?
NW Hillsborough / Westchase
Planned living, deed restrictions, South Tampa North…
