Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, Nov. 16: Alarum, Eventuality (Willowtip) The Archies, Best of the Archies (Liquid 8) Atomkraft, Neat Anthology (Castle) Badlands, Killing Kind (GMM) Bon Jovi, 100 Million Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong (Island) Burmese, Men (Load) Capital Inicial, Gigante! (BMG International) The Chariot, Everything's Alive, Everything's Breathing (Tooth…
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
Planet Picks
THURSDAY 11.11 Piano Seed Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe kicks off its 2004-05 season with August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Piano Lesson. The play is set in the 1930s and opens with the arrival of Boy Willie at his sister Berniece's house. Willie dreams of buying the same Mississippi land that his ancestors once worked…
Upcoming Concerts
NOVEMBER 19 Whiskey Store (Tab Benoit & Jimmy Thackery) Skipper's Smokehouse 19 Finger Eleven/Local H State Theatre 19 Spider John Koerner University of South Florida 19 The Legendary Shack Shakers w/TBA Orpheum 19 Alter Bridge Jannus LandingMAKEUP SHOW 19 Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown St. Bart's Island House 20 The Killers w/Now It's Overhead/The Zutons…
Senior Central
If you're having trouble finding something fun to do with Gramps (or you just want to get him out of the house), mark your calendar now for the Third Annual Senior-Friendly Extravaganza, which takes place at Tropicana Field (1 Tropicana Drive, St. Petersburg) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wed., Nov. 17.The excitement begins…
Music Venues
420 Park Place, 420 Park Place Blvd., Clearwater, 727-796-7867 42nd Street Bistro, 516 S. Howard Ave., Tampa, 813-253-0042 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar, 2900 Fourth St. N., Suite A101, St. Petersburg, 727-898-1884 Adam's Mark, 430 S. Gulfview Blvd., Clearwater, 727-443-5714 The Aging Still, 11561 Walsingham Road, Largo, 727-581-5466 Al Lopez Park, 4810 N. Himes…
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
Precious Medal
The Purple Heart can be bought. Not the honor — which is earned only if one is killed or wounded in battle — but the medal itself. You can buy one at the MacDill AFB store, packaged in a cardboard-and-cellophane box about the size of a deck of cards and placed among rows of other…
Pleased to Meat Me
Ever wonder how much it costs to have fresh iguana steaks shipped overland to your favorite exotic-foods restaurant? Probably not, and we couldn't find out, anyway. But here are some interesting price breakdowns for the fiscally minded carnivores out there. 16 oz. strip sirloin @ Bern's Steakhouse, Tampa: $59.62 Four 4-oz. Quarter Pounders @ McDonald's:…
Music Menu
All entries by Scott Harrell except where otherwise noted. CRADLE OF FILTH/BLEEDING THROUGH/ARCH ENEMY/HIMSA British outfit Cradle of Filth is one of the most theatrical, long-running black metal bands around — extroverted frontman Dani Filth has been a favorite subject of the European music press for more than a decade. Bleeding Through hail from punk-…
Ask the Advice Goddess
Venus Envy One night, I told my girlfriend she was really hot. She kept asking if there was anyone hotter. I ended up saying Beyoncé did have a little bit on her, then jokingly added, "Sorry, you're only hotter than 99.99 percent of the women in the world." Now, she brings it up all the…
Elephant Stampede
Republican dominance of Hillsborough is now complete
Spins
American IdiotGREEN DAYRepriseIt's now been a month since Green Day's allegorical little rock opera was released, and I'm very glad I didn't review the album a week after the advance copy came in. Initially, I couldn't stand the thing, partly because it wasn't what I wanted in a Green Day record and partly because I…
Good Luck
Gypsy Productions’ Lucky caps promising first season
Letters
Who Did You Love? Re: Editor’s Note, “The Day After Tomorrow,” by David Warner (Nov. 3-9) Welcome to the area. You've probably heard that a few thousand times, but not from me! I've enjoyed all of the articles you've written in the Planet since you've come aboard. I was wondering why the Planet never made…
Accounting for Elephants
Don't ask Lowry Park Zoo spokeswoman Heather Sitton what it costs to "buy" an elephant. What she'll tell you is that Lowry Park Zoo is not in the business of buying elephants. They "rescue" them. Within the last year, she says, the zoo rescued four elephants that were slated for destruction at a game reserve…
What Stuff Costs
Everything Has Its Price
Death Becomes Her
Angela Gossow puts the death in Arch Enemy’s metal
So You Can’t Cope?
Free-range chicken soup for the liberal’s soul
Rhapsody In Blue
Cozy Palm Harbor spot offers romantic environs and inventive cuisine
In Deep
Undertow flirts with the mainstream without getting pulled under
Culinary Events
VEGETARIAN COOKING CLASS Chef Debby DeGraaff instructs participants on how to prepare for "Seasons of Thanksgiving"; 7-8 p.m. Wed., Nov. 17, and 10-11 a.m. Thurs., Nov. 18. Free. Nature's Harvest Market, 1021 N. MacDill Ave., Tampa (813-873-7428). FREE COOKING CLASSES Regularly scheduled cooking demonstrations of vegetarian dishes. This week, Kerrie and Robert Broe explore healthy…
Pay to Play
So you got the itch, but you're new to this business of buying sex. You flip through the adult classifieds and find one that says "Absolutely Necessary: Some things U just can't live without (true enough, you think) & I'd like 2-B-1 of them." You punch in the number. Veronica answers. When buying sex, the…
Your New Watering Hole
South African wine makers get the funk out
Fair and Biased
A post-election tale of two conversations
The Sodom Strategy
The Republicans’ Southern Strategy gets a homophobic twist
Not Dead Yet
The first-timers haven’t given up
Music Events
THURSDAY, NOV. 11 42nd Street Bistro Eddie and the Jazz Cats 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar Band of Friends Babalouie's Mark McGourley Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon Bahama Mama's Chris Murphy Barley Hoppers Stephanie Anderson (EVENING) Barnacle Bill's Jason Longoria Big J.R.'s The Johnny Charro Band Blackstone Grill Expressions Brandy's True Colors Band CK's…
Into The Pool!
Florida's hotter than a habanero for the better part of each year, and while that sucks in many (many, many) ways, it's cool for the pool lovers among us. Tens of thousands of homeowners sport above- or in-ground pools, and for those of you who don't, here's something for you to consider: An average-size, 20'x10'…
