Public Life
Call to Photographers/Submission Deadline: May 25 The Nature Conservatory's Florida Chapter presents a photo contest for amateur photographers. All images must be taken in Florida. Winning images are chosen from four categories: unspoiled landscapes; animals in their natural habitats; and flora, plants and their surroundings. Rules and entry forms available at www.tncflorida.org. Call 407-682-3664, ext.…
Soundboard
<font Thursday, May 24 Events C.O.R.E. Me Without You /September Engagement/Revolver Method/Holiday Jannus Landing Dickey Betts Band w/support tba Bars/Small Stages Beach Place (Whitey's) Telegraph Road Dave's Bar & Grille Mike Tozier Green Iguana (West Shore) Other Guy/Brother2Brother Green Iguana (Ybor City) Chromatic Gulfport Casino Ballroom Dance w/The Bruce Ralg Band Jack Willie's Tiki Bar…
Planet Picks
Thursday 5.24 Raised On the Radio Release your death grip on the telly and celebrate a simpler time during Radio Days. This 8 p.m. Super Pops Concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall features The Florida Orchestra collaborating with guest ensemble Five By Design. Led by conductor Thomas Wilkins, the orchestra turns big band while Five By…
The Tracks of Reno’s Smears
Last Saturday, while most Florida newspapers had front-page puff pieces on Janet Reno as a fantasy candidate for governor, the former U.S. attorney general was giving grief to a Weekly Planet reporter who wanted to know about her nine-year effort to smear a political rival in Miami. Joseph Gersten, a former state senator and Dade…
Meatless Inspiration
When my sister and I were infants, my mother referred to expulsions of natural gas as "blossoms." We'd be splashing away in the tub when a telltale stream of bubbles would spiral toward the surface of the water, and my mother would demand to know "who's blowing blossoms?" Years later, my creative writing teacher embarrassed…
The Veteran and the Rookie
Music snobbery is tricky, ironic business. Critics' darlings can go from being called "underappreciated" to "overrated" in far less time than it took them, originally, to "cut their career tragically short", i.e., eat bad acid, die or break up the band. Even Richard Thompson — who has been a nabob's pet ever since he and…
Vintage Florida
Despite an underdog status and the huffs of wine connoisseurs, Florida vintners have won awards and exposure with their nontraditional approach to winemaking.
Freebie of the Week
Every community-conscious Tampa citizen has heard of the Prodigy Program, right? Right? If you haven't, you aren't paying close enough attention to the Planet's Best of the Bay issues. Expect a sound thrashing later, but for now we'll reiterate. Created in the summer of 2000 by David Audet and Jorge Acosta (named Best of the…
The List
Visual Arts Openings Brad Cooper Gallery, 1712 E. Seventh Ave., Ybor City (813-248-6098). Mysteries, featuring the works of contemporary artist Peter Mitchev, begins with a reception from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 26, and continues through July 21. Mitchev, one of the most successful and productive Bulgarian painters today, offers works that are slightly…
Spins
Joe Henry: Scar And in creeps the alto sax solo, as if FedExed from another astral plane, tremulous, jittery, with a troubled moan, punctuated by screams, slurs and dancing licks. It's none other than Ornette Coleman, adding a touch of delicious dementia to "Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation," the brooding ballad that leads off…
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…
Getting Our Irish Up
If you love the literary arts, you're probably already Honorary Irish. Maybe you got that way via the plays of Oscar Wilde, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw or Samuel Beckett. Or maybe the change came when you first read the novels of James Joyce or the poems of William Butler Yeats. It's even possible that…
Music Menu
Dickey Betts Band w/support tba Tickets to see the former Allman Brothers Band guitarist cost $16. Doors are at 7 p.m., show's at 8. (May 24, Jannus Landing) Lil' Bow Wow w/Lil' Johnny/B2K/Roc/DJ Shakim 13-year-old Shad Moss, a.k.a. Lil' Bow Wow, claims to be the flyest thing walking through junior high school. Well, shit, that's…
Culinary Events
CULINARY EVENTS Send your Culinary Events to, On the Table, 1310 E. Ninth Ave., Tampa, 33605, or fax to 813-248-9999. Deadline for submissions is two weeks prior to publication date. FOOD Thai Up Your Taste Buds Learn Thai cooking from chef Tin, The Thai Guy, in this hands-on class. You'll prepare crispy noodles, chicken rice…
Dining Guide
The following is Weekly Planet's reliable guide to restaurants throughout the Bay area. We hope this bite-size reference will serve as a quality source to aid in your dining pleasure. Because of the extensiveness of the listings, we run alternate lists each week. Our critic dines anonymously and all meals are paid for by Weekly…
As Good As It Gets
A supreme sampling of new DVD releases from Criterion.
Letters to the Editor
The Ugly Truth Re: "Most Censored Stories" by Gabriel Roth, John F. Sugg, Eric Snider and Andrea Brunais Thanks again for your work in spreading the news. We cannot forget: Truth can be ugly. What really scares me is this is probably the tip of the iceberg! Patrick Ederle St Petersburg ……… Mr. Sugg's informative…
