Who’s the Next Oscar’s Susan Lucci?
Nothing like a slow afternoon to create controversy. A discussion of the upcoming Sarasota Film Festival prompted us to IMDB director Norman Jewison's career and to discover that he has never won an Oscar, despite helming such films as Moonstruck, In the Heat of the Night and Fiddler on the Roof. Given that the consensus…
Tampa Turnout
Just spoke with Jim Reed, No. 2 over at the Supervisor of Elections Office. He said voting is going smoothly, and he estimated a 14 percent turnout when all is said and done. (Ya hear that, JZ?) The Times has a sampling of (mostly male) voters' comments over at The Buzz. They are overwhelmingly for…
Morning Roundup
Election Day in Tampa: Seniors are leaving Florida to return to … New York! Possible presidential candidate Tom Tancredo's website "gives the impression it's being built and maintained by his neighbor's kid." Is South Florida political writer Buddy Nevins being forced out? The answer: Damned little. The question?
Busting Redner
A.J. Matthews is the Republican state committeeman representing Hillsborough County. But in 1983, he was a Tampa police officer. And — as he related on Rob Lorei's Florida This Week show this past weekend — Matthews was the officer who busted Joe Redner in the only felony criminal case ever successfully brought against the strip-club…
Morning Roundup
They tried to make me go to rehab and I said no, no, no: Attack of the liberal Killer Bees! More bad news for newspapers. Hillary back on universal health care shtick. Guessing that Fredo won't be getting that eventual Supreme Court nomination after all. FCAT question: Give the next entry in this series —…
This Can’t be Normal
From Largo, Dawn Morgan reports: Was it the dude holding up a poster board scribbled with the word faggot or the rusty red pick up truck with a full-sized Confederate flag waving from its bed rolling down the streets of Largo that made me a little nervous? Actually, those two incidents aside, I found very…
Tiger Bay: Joe, no Gwen
Joe Redner did a solo act at the Tampa Tiger Bay debate for council District 1 this afternoon, as his opponent Gwen Miller had already told the political club that she could not attend due to a scheduling conflict. But Redner didn't know that, and he had prepared a speech just for "Mr. and Mrs.…
Early voting revisited
OK, so I took some grief at lunch for my post about trends in Tampa's early voting (jeez, EG I'm just trying to fill some digital space). As one Blurbex commenter has already noted as well, comparing two days of runoff early voting to two days of primary early voting (as a St. Pete Times…
Hal-lelujah!
The front half of Ferguson Hall was filled Thursday night with a few hundred people eager to see cult celebrity Hal Sparks. A Renaissance man in the entertainment field, Sparks is an actor, comedian, musician and general hottie (if you’re into guys that weigh less than you). Popular among women and gay men alike, Hal’s…
Striking at the Tip
Name of Kama Sutra Position: Striking at the Tip (oral technique for women) Getting into the position: During oral intercourse with the male, the woman is instructed to let her tongue flick all over the male appendage. Pointing her tongue like a straight arrow, the woman then repeatedly strikes the Òsensitive glans tip.Ó On a…
Sensory Overload
CL has got a great arts event upcoming, Sensory Overload, this Saturday. And our esteemed editor, David Warner, was on Studio 10 this morning pimping it. There is a link to the video here.
Blue State and Rod Smith
Why couldn't Blue State Digital been as creative for Rod Smith as one of its employees was for Barack Obama? Blue State Digital was the former home to Phil de Vellis, who has been outed as the genius behind the YouTube "Vote Different!" ad that skewered Hillary Clinton with Apple's classic "1984" commercial. He says…
I Voted! Sticker, Part 2
Nobody loves a good cup of java as much as I, but I gotta say this doesn't quite match free admission to the Monsa free lap dance.
Miller Strikes Back
It appears that incumbent Tampa City Councilwoman Gwen Miller has had just about enough of this shit. Her campaign began phoning voters this week, with a live-person call telling remining recipients of challenger Joe Redner's numerous arrests (only three cases stuck, by the way) and how he earns his millions "by exploiting women" as a…
Morning Roundup
Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives: Hillary 1984 act creator unmasked, shitcanned/resigned. And yes, of course he had ties to the Obama campaign. Still, the damage is…
Redner vs. Miller in early returns
Janet Zink has a great catch at sptimes.com, about how the early voting turnout is up 32 percent for the Tampa runoff election vs. the same period for the primary vote. The consensus among the experts she interviewed was that this means trouble for Joe Redner in his attempt to unseat Councilwoman Gwen Miller. Interesting.…
Morning Roundup
You can't leave, 'cause your heart is there / But you can't stay, 'cause you been somewhere else: Episode 2 — a main character dies. Dubya doesn't use e-mail. Not surprising. Not sure he can work a computer at all. March Power Madness: NCAA doesn't allow roundball footage online. Just good investigative journalism. A Republican…
Beggar with a baby
How to suck all the fun out of irresponsibility
Turn it up
The loudest band in Tampa Bay, without earplugs
Real football
SportsSunday, March 25
Seeing Stars
Where to view the wonders of the universe – despite the lights of Tampa
Drive-by sightings
Seen from the windows of the car
Offshore Riot
Offshore Riot
Starstruck
Forget Miami – Tampa Bay gets its fair share of celebrities, too
The eyes beside him
A blind man’s tour through a St. Pete neighborhood, with the help of a pup named Accelerator
Re-imagining the West
ArtMonday, March 26
Dalí, Dalí
Life of the party
Curated Visual Artists & IADT activities at SO ’07
COURTYARD Craig Kaths, skate ramp Booty Art Expo, live mural painting CANTINA (ground floor) Kim Coakley, silkscreen and fabric installation Mike Parker and Stepping Stones, paintings Joe Griffith, kinetic sculpture Ana Kaluber and Alyssa Davie, painting Josh Pearson, collage works Kristen Brown and Shara Dewitt, printmaking Shawn Cheatham, split-screen video SECOND FLOOR Theo Wujcik, painting…
CL previews upcoming shows
Hella, Tom Rush, The Who
Noise Pollution
Peace and quiet and the eternal screech
Capsule reviews of recently released movies
Dead Silence, Breaking and Entering, The Number 23
Sensory Overload: It’s More Than a Party
CL‘S signature arts event returns March 24 with a new curator, new partners and four floors of fun (plus more than a bucket of rum).
I Voted! I Voted!!!
Will Joe Redner’s enticement backfire?
The Happy Ending
When the business of touch goes all the way
Urban Explorer’s Handbook ’07: The Sensory Overload Edition
It’s a multi-sensory tour of Tampa Bay: Sky art. Lap dances. A bridge that makes music. And some smells and tastes that can’t be ignored.
X marks the spot
St. Pete’s Geri X is a woman of mystery
SCENT MEMORIES
One whiff takes them back
Putt Putt for Primates
FundraiserWednesday, March 28
Tree innocence
As a follow-up to our Feb. 14 story about Tampa's Leigh Shein and his fight with City Hall to protect trees on his Davis Islands property ("Getting to the roots of a Davis Islands tree dispute"), the city's Code Enforcement Board ruled on Feb. 28 that contractor Don Hughes was not guilty of violating city…
Touch and go
The art – and commerce – of the lap dance
Are You Really Going To Eat That?
We wanted to try something nasty. We got it.
Over the top
Overwrought Tennessee Williams and new heights for Gypsy Productions
There’s the rub
Licensed massage therapists go franchise, with monthly memberships
Keep it local
MusicFriday, March 23
An evening of brass
Classical MusicTuesday, March 27
Mimzy‘s mild, but Shooter scores
A dreary kids’ flick and an action movie with momentum
Photoshop Tennis, Anyone?
From skate-pipes to “Orgasmatic,” veterans to newbies, there’s a wide range of artwork in SO ’07
SMAsh 8 benefit and The Who
Wade Tatangelo reviews SMAsh 8; Eric Snider reviews The Who
Upcoming Concerts
March 29 Live Jannus Landing 29 Joshua Radin w/Schuyler Fisk State Theatre 30 Modern Skirts New World Brewery 30 Lúnasa Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center 30 Victims of Circumstances Orpheum 31 Lamb of God w/Trivium, Machine Head/Gojira Jannus Landing 31 Gilberto Gil Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center APRIL 2 Chuck Mangione Ruth Eckerd Hall 2…
Getting The Stink Out
The Marshall Street Wastewater Treatment Plant puts the ‘clear’ in Clearwater
Take it to the bridge
He heard music in Tampa traffic – and started to compose
Do Drink the Water
If it comes from the refrigerator, that is
Heavy Petting
Noah’s Ark brings the zoo to you. Don’t forget the hand sanitizer
Spins
Modest Mouse, The Icicles, Aerogramme, Ted Leo and band
Hail Columbia
This Ybor institution does well by its reputation
Ohio moves
DanceThursday, March 22
SENSORY OVERLOAD: MUSIC AND MORE
THE MUSICAL LINEUP Curated by Jack Spatafora/Aestheticized The Cantina (ground floor) 8 p.m.: Roppongi's Ace A musical bouillabaisse of rawky blues, salacious funk and euphonic folk-inspired tunes pureed into trio-fied rock from Tampa. 9 p.m.: The Postmarks Lush indie-electro-folk-pop from Miami that references the orchestral and arranging genius of Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach, as…
Sensory Overload
Special Events/FundraiserSaturday, March 24
The Savory Sixteen revealed
It was an exciting first two rounds in the PZZAs
East Side Story
Squeeze
The Year’s Top Tastes
Brian Ries’ best-reviewed restaurants, 2006-07
Download: ‘Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)’
The Raconteurs
Round-up ramblings
As the wine world turns
The Sky Collector
Tampa’s 2006 Photographer Laureate talks about what he sees when he shoots the city (and its skies)
What is Guantánamo?
Don’t Panic … your war questions answered
Sound overload
Dalí Fest, Public Enemy
Arrests. Then what?
The St. Pete PD will start arresting homeless who sleep on the city’s streets this week. Maybe.
