Outtakes
A Beautiful Mind (PG-13) A Russell Crowe is the main reason to see this atypically twisty Ron Howard production, the Academy Award winner for Best Picture, about an emotionally fragile genius whose life spins out of control in all sorts of unexpected ways. Big Trouble (PG-13) Barry Sonnenfeld's zany, dark-ish ensemble comedy is generally very…
Rainy Day Woman
Spend Mother’s Day at Jack’s StormWatch Bayside Restaurant
The State of Sunshine
************** Betting on Sunshine By Francis X. Gilpin Ralph DeLuise plays the Florida Lottery. He understood, as the slogan goes, that you can't win if you don't play. Once he put down his money, though, DeLuise was ticked at having to pay again to find out if he'd won. For almost six years, DeLuise and…
Sun Screens
Summer Film Season 2002
The Misunderstood Media
It wasn't that long ago that I heard a Politician Who Should Know Better dismiss negative articles that ran about him/her several years ago as a ploy to sell newspapers. I am not revealing the name of the Politician Who Should Know Better because our lunch was off the record. But, I promise you: He/she…
Off the Chain
American Stage’s ‘Bomb-itty of Errors’
Spins: Elvis Costello and Wilco
Elvis Costello When I Was Cruel Jesus and Elvis Costello: One's the beloved son of the God, the other a bastard child and snide martyr, whose role comprises a sad-comic routine of lamenting the world and poking fun at Dad's handiwork. And like devout Christians, Elvis fans have heralded his second coming with the ecstatic,…
Freebie: An Informal Farewell
The Florida Orchestra's free concerts in the park are best described as informal. Where else can you wear shorts and a T-shirt to a classical music concert? Or for that matter, bring a cooler and your dog? Maestro Thomas Wilkins conducts the last two park concerts of his tenure with The Florida Orchestra at 7…
You Bet Your Burrito: Cinco de Mayo Wines
In case nobody ever told you, Cinco de Mayo is not a national celebration of cheap tequila. Cinco de Mayo ("fifth of May") is a regional holiday celebrated in the capital city of Puebla, Mexico. It commemorates the defeat of Napoleon's troops at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. What that has to…
Reigning Over the Posthardore Scene
The Dukes of Hillsborough smell a conspiracy. Those untouchable, ivory-tower assholes who decide who plays when, on any given bill, and are out to permanently saddle the trio with a reputation as a drunken, sloppy, edge-of-chaos show-closing spectacle. How else can one explain that for the overwhelming majority of gigs The Dukes have played, they've…
What a Difference a Decade Makes
Who put the radioactive waste dump in the middle of the West Shore business district between 1986 and 1996 and didn't tell anybody? How else to explain a $53.6-million drop in property value. That is the huge discrepancy between two real estate appraisals of the same 155 acres, conducted 10 years apart. The land, owned…
Letters
Responses to "Too Old and Too Centured by Rochelle Renford, "Blunder Storms" (April 10-16) by Fawn Germer, "Israeli Pacifist" (April 3-9) by Rochelle Renford, St. Petersburg Times' and The Tampa Tribune's coverage of the Democratic state convention and Democracy Rising event, and a couple corrections Nader's No Phony Re: "Too Old and Too Centered" by…
