Spins
Shelby Lynne Love, Shelby After a disastrous career in commercial country and a few years in exile, Shelby Lynne released the jaw-droppingly good I Am Shelby Lynne early last year. It was an emancipation project, done on a small budget sans record deal, that captured the raw energy of Stax/Volt R&B. The critics went ga-ga…
Books
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems By Billy Collins Random House/$21.95 Billy Collins is a fine poet. More to the point, he has a sense of humor and a flair for relating poetically to everyday situations. Although he's certainly erudite and intelligent, he's never flashy. Collins is not a poet to get…
12 Wines, 12 Bucks
These days, a cheap buzz is hard to come by. As wine has grown in popularity, it seems the price has skyrocketed, leaving us winos tunneling deep into the couch cushions. But some wineries have not evolved into greedy corporate bastards. These still offer low-priced, quality wines, despite the rising costs to produce, bottle and…
The Wine List
Pinot Presents and Other Holiday Goodies The folks at Uncorked Fine Wine & Accessories don't want you to go to your next holiday gathering empty handed. Help them help you Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. $10. Includes wine glass as gift. 2706 Fourth St. N., St. Petersburg. 727-829-WINE. Roam through Rhone Journey along the Rhone…
Freebie
Opera 101: ‘Die Fledermaus’
A Knight to Forget: ‘Black Knight’
After the deluge of great, memorable movies that opened last week, it didn't exactly take a degree in rocket science to figure out that a monumental, movie-less dead zone lay directly ahead. That moment is here, sooner than anybody wanted. And the pickings are slimmer than anyone might have guessed. At press time, there were…
Website
Rules of Rockhttp://www.buddyhead.com/other/rulesofrock So you wanna be a rock star, huh? We've all been there. Hell, anybody with half a brain and the ability to count to four has at least considered starting a band. And your band will be better, if only for one simple reason: you've read the Buddyhead Rules of Rock. Who…
Public Life
Drilling Education Tuesday, Nov. 27 7 p.m. Sierra Club offers a forum to learn more about the offshore drilling that is threatening Florida's environment, economy and way of life. Learn what's being done to stop the drilling and preserve Florida's marine life and coastlines. The forum is in the Dendy McNair Auditorium at Eckerd College,…
Conspiracy Query
The (International) Noise Conspiracy are plotting to be the most relevant and exhilarating band on the indie music scene.
Letters
Passive Aggression Re: "Peaceful Patriots" by Rochelle Renford (Nov. 1-7) The title is not only an oxymoron, but it is both insulting and offensive to the victims, the survivors and the families who were subjected to the barbaric attack on the World Trade Center. There is nothing inherently wrong with being a pacifist unless it…
Music Menu
E'VAR feat. Duggie/Paul Oakenfold/Fat Boy Slim/Keoki/Sasha/Carl Cox/Rich Hawtin/Paul Van Dyk/Craze/Scribble/ Rabbit In The Moon/Keith MacKenzie/ Major/Chris Lee/Lascivious/K Funk/Chad Neiro/DJ Bobby/John Corradi/more This seems so implausible that I found myself keeping an ear out for the sound of prank-induced laughter. A three-day dance-music blowout. Featuring not some of the turntable's biggest names, but pretty much all…
Cool and Casual: 3 Palms Grille & Gallery
3 Palms Grille & Gallery is one of those places you go when you don't want to get dressed up but want to eat extremely well. Its casual charm, friendly neighborhood ambiance and high-quality dishes — a creative mix of various ethnic influences and culinary styles — is an attractive combination that's hard to resist.…
Soundboard
<font Thursday, Nov. 22 Events Brass Mug Bite Size/Unrequited Loves/Ferrell Melton/Flat Stanley/Crash Mitchell Bars/Small Stages Beach Place (Whitey's) Hunks of Funk Cadillac Jack's Baby Huey Chase Club Derrick Williams Club America United We Dance w/DJ Sloan/DJ Frequenz Dave's Bar & Grille Mo' Kauffey and Les T Famous Cigars Jazz Lounge New Jazz Friendly's (John's Pass)…
DVD Pick
Rocco and His Brothers (NR) A groundbreaking, transitional film in Italian cinema and beyond, Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers showed the world it was possible to make a movie that honored reality, art and the public, all at the same time. Visconti was a man of deep contradictions — Italy's most high profile gay…
Planet Picks
Thursday 11.22 Mug O'PlentyYou've been with the fam all day. Ugh. Drink away the dysfunction for cheap at Tampa Bay's premier live music dive, Brass Mug. The acts in the Turkey Day lineup may diverge in style, but they all play high-energy, guitar-based rock. Expect fun, improvisational antics and beer-soaked guitar windmills from the three-piece…
Dining Guide
HILLSBOROUGH Brandon La Septima Cafe, 140 N. Parsons Ave., Brandon (813-684-1948). You'll find a taste of the original Latin flavors of old Ybor in this quaint little Brandon cafe. Look for large portions and excellent Cuban sandwiches, succulent roast pork and saffron-kissed chicken and rice. $ Tampa Carrollwood/ Northwest Tampa 3 Palms Grille & Gallery,…
Buyer Be E’var Wary
The Bay area's dance music scene has seen its fair share of disappointments when it comes to the promise of international DJ talent. Electronic music tours such as Mekka have canceled due to a lack of market support, and smaller dance parties suffer whenever a headliner backs out unexpectedly. Recent fliers and ads for a…
Outtakes
Amazing Journeys (PG) IMAX films are about scale, size — from the unfathomably huge (the oceans, the cosmos themselves) to the microscopically small — and this latest IMAX production gives us a little bit to look at from both ends of the spectrum. Amazing Journeys examines the migration habits of various creatures. (3 1/2 Planets)…
Barren Fertility
With the high drama of boldly colored and texturally rich oil paintings filling two galleries, one might think that Stacy Rosende's current exhibition at Scarfone/ Hartley Galleries is mostly about painting. Or is it? There are also more than 50 of her small monoprints, some massed in one hallway and the rest spread across the…
Who Killed Earlene Barksdale?
Joseph Green Brown came within 15 hours of dying in Florida's electric chair. The Penalty traces the legal struggle to save Brown and raises questions about whether he was wrongfully accused of a 1973 Tampa murder. The book, published last spring, is a fictionalized account of Brown's 14-year ordeal. If readers of The Penalty are…
Culinary Events
Branch Out at a black-tie dinner, gala and charity auction for Clearwater's 17th annual Festival of Trees, benefiting The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast; UPARC Foundation and Kids Kommittee Inc. Partygoers indulge in a gourmet meal, followed by dancing and a benefit auction. Black-tie optional dress. 7 p.m.-midnight, Saturday, Nov. 24, Harborview Center, 300 Cleveland…
The List
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Fostering Disunity
God — the intolerant, so-called Christian one — skipped the St. Petersburg City Council's first workshop on anti-homosexual bias on Nov. 13. But Councilman David W. "Bill" Foster made it, doing his best impression of Eddie Haskell. Gay activists want the council to amend the city's human rights ordinance to prohibit discrimination in employment, housing…
Past Digressions: ‘The Immigrant’ and ‘Webb’s City’
It's about halfway through Act II of The Immigrant at American Stage that we're finally able to enjoy a scene of some psychological — and even historical — complexity. Up till now, Mark Harelik's play has shown us Jewish immigrant Haskell Harelik — a character based on the author's grandfather — as he rises from…
Bargain bottles
12 wines, 12 bucks and under
