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Move over Rocky Horror — attend The Room interactive screening

Since its release in 2003, The Room has become the defining bad movie of our era. Director/latter-day Ed Wood/producer/star Tommy Wiseau spent over $6 million to produce a drama inspired by Tennessee Williams, but his utter lack of experience and talent turned it into something closer to a Tim and Eric Are Awesome episode. Comedy…

by David Z. Morris

Locally shot teen doc wins Indie Film Fest Award

Project: Shattered Silence, Jared O’Roark's tour de force with 46 Tampa Bay area teens, has won the Award of Excellence: Documentary Feature at the Indie Film Fest Awards. The film follows O'Roark's 2013 Ruth Eckerd Hall theatrical production, a uniquely reality-based showcase that tackles difficult and often cathartic topics such as adoption, immigration, depression, sexual…

by Julie Garisto

Poet’s notebook: Jimmy Carter walks the walk

Dear Lord of all the fields What am I going to do? Street lights, blue-force and frail As the homes of men, tell me how to do it. . . Let’s cut Jimmy Carter a break. I’m thinking about him because 1) he recently turned 90 and is still out there doing good deeds; 2)…

by Peter Meinke

Photos: Yesterday’s protest in St. Pete

As Ferguson, MO smoldered in the aftermath of violent riots, more than 50 demonstrators peacefully protested the Michael Brown grand jury decision in St. Pete by commandeering the intersection at Central Avenue and Fifth Street, for about an hour, disrupting noontime traffic, while police officers kept their distance and looked on. The organizers, the International…

by Ellen Kirkland

Savage love: Sticking Points

I am a 30-year-old trans guy, on T since college, happy and comfortable with my sexuality. However, I can’t find any helpful health info on a fetish I’ve developed: I insert needles directly into my clit, maybe an inch and a half in. I’m not talking through it, like a piercing, but into it, going…

by Dan Savage

World AIDS Day: Bay area events & services

Each year on Dec. 1, people around the world unite in the fight against HIV. On Dec. 1, 2014, the World Health Organization will release a new update recommending antiretrovirals as an emergency prevention following HIV exposure, and to prevent infections affecting a large number of people living with HIV. Visit who.int or worldaidsday.org for…

by CL Staff

World AIDS Day: A St. Pete artist sees red

In 1991, days before World AIDS Day, which is honored each year on Dec. 1, Jim Buresch headed to his local crafts store in Huntington, West Virginia. He had a mission: oak tag and popsicle sticks. When he got home, he used the supplies to fashion mock gravestones. His partner, Dennis, had died from AIDS…

by Tiffany Razzano

Ferguson: Protests on the street in St. Pete

Omali Yeshitela, head of the Uhuru movement for black independence, lead a peaceful protest at 5th Street and Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg today, on the heels of a Missouri grand jury's decision not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed Ferguson teen who was shot six times…

by Devon Crumpacker

Hello, Jerry — Seinfeld to hit the Burg in 2015

Seinfeld (Jerry) will always be associated with "Seinfeld" (the show). And that's a good thing, since he literally re-wrote the desired trajectory for comedians. Sure, other stand-up talents had been given their own show, but none became the phenomenon Seinfeld was. Since then, Seinfeld has done pretty much whatever he wanted, whether that's voicing animation,…

by Michael Murillo

Do This: Radio Theatre Project, Scott & Patti’s Thanks for the Mammaries

Attend a Special Thanksgiving Radio Theatre Project Live! show at 7 p.m.  The RTP Live! ensemble will present an adaptation of Lux Radio Theater’s classic, “The Egg and I,” the story that introduced Ma and Pa Kettle and their brood to popular culture.  If you're not familiar, the joint Studio@620-WMNF Radio Theater Project presents radio theater…

by Julie Garisto

Everything is illuminated — holiday light highlights

There are plenty of sites with sparkly, blinking lights to stroll amidst this holiday season. Head to North Straub Park in downtown St. Petersburg for the official St. Petersburg’s Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Fri., Nov. 28. Ceremony starts at 5 p.m. After the tree lighting, make your way along a path glowing with thousands…

by Julie Garisto

The Laugh Tract — who’s bringing the funny

Thanksgiving is a time to spend with friends and family, and a lot of touring stand-up headliners are doing just that. So this a weekend where it will be mostly local comedians featured on comedy stages, and larger theaters don't have a big name on the bill. But that doesn't mean it isn't a good…

by Michael Murillo

Hillsborough County firefighter Mike Morris highlights RFC 32

The final Real Fighting Championships event of the 2014 season took place on Friday night at the A La Carte Pavilion and like the previous 31 tournaments, the RFC 32 “Mayhem” included plenty of hard-hitting action in the ring and a plethora of eye candy throughout the venue — including ring girls provided by Scores…

by Chris Girandola

The FSU shooting — a mother’s perspective

For the last four years, I have watched the media reports, with an acceptable level of parental anxiety, of one school shooting after the next, waiting for the other shoe to drop and asking myself: when will it happen at FSU? Last Thursday, all of my parental fears boomeranged back to me when I switched…

by Ellen Kirkland

This weekend in live music: Tampa Heights Music Festival

Lots of live music on tap this weekend before Thanksgiving. A breakdown below… SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22The Whiskey Gentry, The Higher Choir, Will Quinlan A few Atlanta-area roots-hued acts share the New World’s patio stage with the Bay area’s own folk rock troubadour Will Quinlan on this night – The Whiskey Gentry, their country-twangy fiddle-jumping sound fueled…

by Leilani Polk

No joke: Comedian opens local comedy club

A new comedy club fires up the laughter this weekend. How can you be sure a comedy club really knows how to run a comedy show? Have a comedian run it, of course. Local comedian Paul Olen decided it was time to go from owning the stage to literally owning the stage: His Antics Comedy…

by Michael Murillo

Feeding Tampa Bay: The working hungry

Lawrence Strickland remembers what it was like to be a hungry child in Tampa. “You do whatever it takes to eat,” he told me. “Whether it’s knocking on a neighbor’s door asking for a pack of chicken, or waking up early in the morning at 9 o’clock or 8 o’clock and going through the phone…

by Mark E. Leib

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