Music Menu
Dismemberment Plan w/Enon/Gena Rowlands Band At Heatwave last year, I asked No Clubs diva and notorious rockabilly/punk maven Kim Dicce what she thought of my darling Dismemberment Plan; she replied something like, Now I know what you mean by math rock. Well, I gotcher math for ya, right here, Dicce: In the simplest terms, the…
Dining Guide
HILLSBOROUGH Tampa Carrollwood/Northwest Tampa Kaisen Sushi, 12785 N. Dale Mabry, in Mission Bell Square (813-969-3848). This friendly, casual and tiny cafe offers exceptionally fresh, artfully prepared, delicious and value priced sushi. What more can you ask for? A must-try is the calamari, thick slices of succulent grilled squid served in a dark, smoky sauce. Sweet…
The List
Visual Arts: Openings Feel Good Art Series, at Purple Moon, takes place from noon to dusk Sunday, May 20. Purple Moon features a different artist on the third Sunday of each month, and Joanna Levine commands the May event. Levine's monotype, linoleum and lithograph prints are on display and up for grabs. Ally Smith contributes…
Tropical Heatwave Celebrates its Roaring 20th
The details and schedule for this year’s WMNF blowout.
Summer Camps and Workshops for Kids
Artists Unlimited Inc., 223 N. 12th St., Tampa (813-229-5958). This center for creative thinkers is offering week-long art camps for children ages 4-14 in areas such as candlemaking, cartoon drawing, mosaics, silk painting, printmaking, pottery, painting, drawing, photography and music. The Summer Arts Institute Program runs June 4 to Aug. 10, and prices for the…
Public Life
HIV Course On Thursday, May 17, 6-10 p.m., Tampa Aids Network offers AIDS 104, a free course on HIV/AIDS prevention, education and treatment options, designed to update the general public, cosmetologists, barbers and medical professionals about the disease. The four-hour, interactive session explores the history of the disease, effects on the immune system, symptoms, risk…
Sarasota’s Must-Visit Place: Selby Gardens
If you think Sarasota is just a lot of sun, surf and white sand beaches where tanned, hard-bunned boys with sixpack abs and overly endowed babes frolic, mostly naked, you're partially right. We got lotsa sun, surf and white sand. Sarasota is also a cultural Mecca; chock full of museums, art galleries, ballet, opera, our…
Anarchist Personals
Down With Dating Disillusioned, paternal DMA, 38, 6'1, 183 lbs., green eyes, loves dogs, content to sit in contemplative silence. Seeking good egg, 30-40, womanly, non-optimistic, for whom I can open doors and canned foods. Bedroom politics unimportant. AWOL Decorator Cunning, witty SMA, 32, 5'11, 150 lbs., self-loathing fan of well-organized seduction, enjoys renovating warehouse…
Freebie of the Week
Woman is woman's natural ally. —Euripides You said it, 'ripi. In this humble chick's opinion, a whole gaggle of men have nothing on just a pair of women when it comes to working together for just about any cause. Through the ages, most women have been taught they must struggle to make their mark, to…
Sweaty Balls: Minor League Baseball
They sweat when they play — not just 'cause they're actually trying, but 'cause it's damn hot. They're outdoors and it's July and the air is like soup. They are minor leaguers. For every eight-figure shortstop in the bigs, there are, like, 27 dozen of these guys. They play 'cause they love the game —…
Show and Tell: Museums and Attractions
Florida International Museum, 100 Second St. N., St. Petersburg (727-822-3693). Summer exhibits at the museum include The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Kennedy Collection (featuring more than 500 objects that belonged to the young president), Countdown to Destiny (photos of Martin Luther King Jr.), Habana Esperando: Photographs by Margaux Ravis, and U-2: The Spy Plane. Summer…
Jurassic Lark
Dinosaur World's Mike Segers leads the way through the attraction's statue-lined walkways. Passing one of the attraction's rootbeer-color ponds, Segers mentions that a mutant amphibian — a five-legged frog — has taken up residence among the fish. "Amphibians are dying out," he says. "We're unfortunately on the cutting edge of extinction here at Dinosaur World."…
Killing Joke
Loved, loathed and the subject of more dinner party chatter and water cooler talk than a barrel full of Bridget Joneses, Chopper is almost certainly the most controversial movie of the year. This award-winning Australian film has already been acclaimed far and wide as a brilliantly kinky study of violence at its most outrageously brutal…
Ask Ann Archy
Dear Ann Archy, My husband hogs the remote, which is nothing new, except he wants to watch Survivor when I want to watch Friends. What should I do? —Shy in Cheyenne Dear Shy: While part of me wants to urge tact and moderation — after all, both your shows will be in repeats all summer…
Hello, Muddah
Dear Mom and Dad, My hand is feeling better. I think the finger is going to stay on. I want to try out for the 7th grade football team when school starts, and the doctor says I should get most of the movement back. But I don't think I'm going to go to bomb-making class…
Fun ‘N’ Sun: Gulf Coast Beaches
Anna Maria Island, Bradenton Beach area. There are three major beaches on Anna Maria: Coquina, Manatee Public and Bayfront Park. Coquina, one of the prettiest beaches on Florida's west coast, is a mile stretch of spacious beach popular with both families and kids. It has lifeguards on duty seven days a week from 9 a.m.…
Thrills and Spills: Amusements
Adventure Island, 10001 Malcolm McKinley Drive, near Busch Gardens (813-987-5660). Features the Aruba Tuba inner tube flume, a wide variety of slides, pools and water activities, including the Spike Zone volleyball park and the Wahoo Run, a slide that features waterfalls and a five-person raft, so the whole family can ride together. Makes ya wet…
Planet Picks
Thursday 5.17 Venemous Gorilla Theatre gives you a bit of Off-Broadway action with the 7 p.m. production of Snakebit. An aspiring actor, his wife (an actress turned homemaker) and their gay friend — smart alecks all — try to shift the course of their sorry lives in this comedic play. A stranger comes along amid…
Fugitive Furlough
Consider the vacation: part logistical forced march; part exercise in family dysfunction; and always, but always, too damned expensive. We offer you an escape from that web of horrors with a getaway that whisks you through the Deep South/New South, has enough edge to chill the bickering among the young 'uns, aerate the mind and…
Doing it Doggie Style: Sup with the Pup
The prick in the golf cart loudly yakking on his cell phone should be summoned by the waitress with a serious, "Asshole. Party of one. Asshole. Party of one." He's looking down on me as if I couldn't see the manly lack up his shorts from my pug view. While I realize that pricks exist…
Culinary Events
FOOD Parents And Kids Cook It Up Parents and children 8-14 years old will cook it up in the kitchen, preparing green salad and fresh dressing, turkey cutlets with honey mustard pan sauce, buttered green bean casserole with garlic bread crust, mango bar cookies and more. $50 for 1 adult and 1 child. 10:30 a.m.-1…
Mission from God: Paradise Garden
Now 84 years old, Howard Finster had his first vision at age 3. At 16 he was called to preach. And in 1976 he heard a voice that told him to paint sacred art. Finster is no ordinary folk artist; he believes his entire life's work has been a mission from God. "I am not…
Soundboard
<font Thursday, May 17 Events Frankie's Patio Jackyl State Theatre Dismemberment Plan w/Enon/Gena Rowlands Band Bars/Small Stages AJ's Ale House Sal Beloise Bahama Mama's ML2 Beach Place (Whitey's) Kenny McGee & Lefty Cadillac Jack's Ozona Carlie's Stormbringer Club Hedo Gemini/Passthamic/Ryan McGary/Cory K Cool Tunes Coffee Bar Paul Reynolds Daiquiri Deck Sam I Am Dave's Bar…
An Anarchy Filmfest: Social Chaos on Celluloid
"Dammit men, we've got to get organized!" —Jonathan Winters, The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming! What you think about anarchy depends on what you think about human nature. If, like Rousseau, you think "man is born free but is everywhere in chains," the end of civilization as we know it is a good…
Anarchy Between The Covers
Summer’s here and the time is right for reading on the beach, boy
Graphic Content: Anarchistic Comics
In the mid-'80s the mass media "discovered" alternative comics and graphic novels, and the subsequent boom brought new readers and creators to the fold. But comics have yet to really become part of mainstream American pop culture (like, say, independent film has), and personal, quirky comics still retain their cachet as art outside the establishment.…
The Compleat Nine-to-Five Anarchist
Anarchists in the 21st century have it rough. You want to be true to your doctrine and wreak havoc on the status quo, but at the same time find yourself reliant on The System. Nowhere is this more true than in the workplace. Your boss may be a Bible-totin', right-wing, pantywaist with balls the size…
Nature and Nurture: Parks, Trails
The following parks and trails are free and open dawn to dusk unless otherwise indicated. A.L. Anderson Park, 1095 Tookes Road, Tarpon Springs (727-943-4085). This 128-acre site includes a boardwalk and nature trail, boat ramp, playground, picnic shelter and restrooms. Alderman's Ford, State Road 39, south of State Road 60 in Hillsborough County (813-757-3801). This…
Stuff to Do
Suggestions on where to go and what to do with anarchistic bliss this summer.
Bonnie’s Beef
When it comes to beef, we've heard it all. Since 1993, when the first big E. coli scare left many of us with the impression that babies were dropping dead outside McDonald's, we've been bombarded with bad news about beef. We've heard beef consumption contributes to heart disease, as well as colon, rectal and prostate…
A Diva Does Dives
It's relatively easy to sashay into any trendy bar in Tampa or St. Pete. But in a dive, if you're not hitting people as "real," then you may suffer the fate of a social piñata, verbally or even physically. I've seen a welder in a skirt get more street cred and respect than a fast-talking…
Incite an Anarchist Party
Throw parties, not bombs! Today's younger generation of anarchists has inherited a fondness for sloganeering from their ideological fathers and mothers. But they aren't nearly as doctrinaire or violence-prone as their political forebears. When summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, they prefer a good bash — in the back…
The New Anarchist Manifesto
A spectre is haunting America: Chaos. Too long have we been organized. The nation is far too efficient. Things get done, and that's just not acceptable. Man has not evolved to be regimented. No, indeedy. We were blueprinted to the free, unrestrained, irresponsible. Despite some recent encouraging signs — for example, the ascendancy of anarchy…
Sweating Out Apparel Protests
Three Florida universities, including USF, have signed purported anti-sweatshop pacts with an apparel industry-backed monitor. Will they also join a group promising tougher scrutiny of overseas factories?
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 and just off-kilter enough to keep us guessing, 15 Minutes is a thriller that transcends the buddy movie genre and even says a…
Summer Book Previews
Summer Book PreviewsSummerAn early look at hot reading due out this summer.boy.By Julia Ridley Smith The Fourth Hand by John Irving Book-jacket blurbs have compared John Irving to Charles Dickens. Both are engaging storytellers with a wide social scope, and people tend to think of them in a similar way, remembering the humor and sentiment…
