Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
Spins
I Just Want to be Held NATHANIEL MAYERFat PossumThey found him dissolute in Detroit, a 59-year-old R&B singer with one hit on his resume, 1962's "Village of Love." The Fat Possum fellas, longtime Nathaniel Mayer fans, thought he still had that something, that wild-eyed, lawless, raw-nerved intensity that could translate into a wild-eyed, lawless, raw-nerved…
Sheila DeWinter, Mistress of All She Surveys
Most people would call Sheila high maintenance. Just don't call her that to her face. "I didn't choooooose to get involved with a married man!" she's chided Rick more than a few times, when he's murmured something or other about her constant demands. Truth is, though, Sheila kind of likes being a mistress (although you…
Music Menu
All entries by Scott Harrell except where otherwise noted. A BAKER'S DOZEN The acoustic-show phenomenon rages on. This particularly ambitious New World shinny features a bevy of the usual suspects, along with a couple of names that old hands maybe haven't seen on a bill in a while. The lineup, from beginning to end: Brenda…
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
Lucky, The Dog With All the Luck
The smell of wet, freshly cut grass was the last thing that Lucky remembered before the accident. For months, he had bided his time with the family, accepting their table scraps, half-hearted pats on the head and insincere attempts at fetch. Amateurs. Mom was a control freak, the teenager was secretly obsessed with popping his…
Let It Snow
How do you say “Happy Holidays” when the weather’s so balmy?
Ask the Advice Goddess
Chump Change Several months ago, I met this amazing woman. We fell in love quickly, and everything seemed perfect, but it turned out she'd been speaking with her ex-husband about reuniting all along. He subsequently moved back in. Days afterward, she called me, promising their relationship was "really over." I forgave her and started seeing…
Chris Mixon-Match, Man in Black
Seventeen-year-old Chris Mixon-Match stands outside the sold-out all-ages show, listening to Underoath on his iPod and repeatedly brushing his dyed-black bangs out of his linered-black eyes. It's chilly out, but his extra-extra-large Avenged Sevenfold hoodie keeps him warm. He alternately chastises himself for not buying a ticket in advance and excuses himself for underestimating the…
The Spirit Is Weary
The folks who work the holiday rush
Music Events
THURSDAY, NOV. 18 42nd Street Bistro Freight Train Annie 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar Backwater Blues Band Babalouie's Mark McGourley Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon Bahama Mama's Chris Murphy Barley Hoppers Stephanie Anderson (EVENING) Barnacle Bill's Terry Connoly Blackstone Grill Expressions Boomerz Boiler Room Crooked Edge/11 Minutes Away Brandy's True Colors Band CK's Revolving…
Lily Mixon-Match, Vegan in Training
Lily entered college as an ordinary, fresh-faced teen. A little over a year later, she's home for the holidays, transformed from an enthusiastic meat eater into an outspoken vegan hippie, complete with patchouli perfume and a new hobby of making and selling her own patchwork clothing. She's developed a keen interest in body modification and…
Joysticks to the World
Can’t even steal a copy of Halo 2? Video game alternatives abound
Coin of the Realm
Three Coins sets the gold standard for area diners
Lets Get Serious
Holiday Movie Preview 2004
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, Nov. 23: Amazing Blondel, Going Where the Music Takes Me (Shakedown) Amplified Heat, In for Sin (Arclights) Anthrax, Greater of Two Evils (Sanctuary) The Beautiful South, Gold Diggas Head Nodders & Pholk Songs (Sony International) Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (BMG International) Chris Brokaw, I Was Born But (Atavistic)…
The 12 Flicks of Xmas
A dozen holiday not-so-classics on video
Upcoming Concerts
NOVEMBER 26 Killswitch Engage/The Absence/Trivium/All Hell Breaks Loose Masquerade 26 Albert & Gage Catherine A. Hickman Theater 26 Anthony Gomes w/Damon Fowler Skipper's Smokehouse 26 Reggae Soca Fever Feat. Yami Bolo/Tinga Stewart/ Jahfari Band/Shaka Band/Specialist/Lyrical Don Gaspar's Grotto 27 Melissa Ferrick Skipper's Smokehouse 27 Shortkut & J-Rocc (of The Beat Junkies) Masquerade 27 Genitorturers Masquerade…
Upping the Santa Ante
Are hackers Christmasizing commercialism?
Needs Changing
Is the hype about Metamorphoses mostly a myth?
Turkey Wine
Strategies for getting soused on Thanksgiving
Joey Mixon-Match, Forgotten Child
'Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house, nothing is stirring … not even the 10-year-old boy whose family forgot him. They forgot him. Their little angel. Their baby. Their little angelic presentless baby. Panic-stricken and feeling like crap (not to mention a little loaded), the family races to International Plaza to find…
Cheapskate 101
The art of giving without spending much of anything
Mary Match, Not a Soccer Mom
Mary's coif may be conservative and her clothes desperately out of date, but her attitude's thoroughly modern — and, as an African-American Democrat, she's also a thorn in her husband's Republican side. Currently, she's a member of the ACLU, NAACP, NOW, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and pretty much any other nonprofit organization…
Culinary Events
VEGETARIAN COOKING CLASS Chef Debby DeGraaff teaches participants how to prepare a "Holiday Brunch." 7-8 p.m. Wed., Dec. 1, and 10-11 a.m. Thurs., Dec. 2. Free. Nature's Harvest Market, 1021 N. MacDill Ave., Tampa (813-873-7428). TAMPA BAY CULINARY CLUB Join Chef/Owner Massimo Patano for a cooking demonstration and sampling. 1 p.m. Sat., Dec. 4. $10.…
Have Yourself a Scary Little miX-Mas
In search of the ultimate Christmas mix CD
The Brat Pack
Somehow, some way, they all wind up in Florida
Uncle Robert, Out and About
OK, so he fits a stereotype. It's not his fault he exercises, dresses well, makes lots of money as a real estate broker, and dances till dawn with much younger guys at Chrome. Plus, he makes his own bread, hems his own drapes and dotes on his seriously crazy mother. It's all a little much,…
Rick Mixon, Republi-Dad
Rick Mixon, day trader and Republic-Dad, drives an SUV, wears Brooks Brothers suits, and has an almost clownish devotion to golf and cigars. He is dangerously close to a '50s stereotype, and nobody knows it better than he. Republi-Dad can't shake the feeling that he's come out on the wrong side of hip, and maybe…
Somewhere in Time
At 80, the Coliseum’s tea dances still bring out the stags and drags
Planet Picks
TOP PICKLibrettos Galore If you enjoy opera, or if you've never experienced this type of musical art, you're in luck — opera season has finally arrived and three productions open this weekend for your viewing pleasure. Opera Tampa celebrates 10 years of service to the Bay area with the debut of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. In…
In Vino Veritas
A wine-tasting road trip proves deliciously ripe in Sideways
Losing My Religion
The pluses and minuses of a half-and-half family holiday
Feeding Time at the Zoo
Making an entrée into the Tampa Bay dining scene
Give & Take
In keeping with our totally non-denominational holiday theme, we asked a bunch of local notables to answer two totally non-denominational and extremely open-ended questions: 1. If you could give a gift to anyone, who would it be and what would you give? 2. Tell us your wackiest, weirdest, funniest or just plain most dysfunctional family…
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 688 Skatepark, 6140 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater, 727-523-0785 Adam's Mark, 430 S. Gulfview Blvd., Clearwater, 727-443-5714 The Aging Still, 11561 Walsingham Road, Largo,…
Sylvia Mixon, Grandmother Earth
Manolo who? This aging hippie grandma is forever tuned in to the sounds of the '60s, where she lives fondly in her memories of her Woodstock days, when she hung onto the Who's helicopter and flew away (until she eventually lost her grip, plummeting back to earth where her fall was broken by a huge…
The Compleat Holiday Happenings List
What’s going on from Turkey Day to First Night, and everything in between
The Totally Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Spectacular
The Weekly Planet Holiday Guide 2004
Kiss and Tell
Want to work for the city of Tampa? Better bring your little black book
Letters
Daddy DearestRe: “Not Dead Yet,” Scene & Herd, by Scott Harrell (Nov. 10-16) After reading your article, I realized that the reaction among the left is quite constant: You feel that somehow the wrong man won! Even though Bush won with a record-breaking performance, the left still won't examine itself to see why their man…
