Upcoming Concerts
DECEMBER 2 Most Precious Blood/Remembering Never/It Dies Today/Dead to Fall State Theatre 2 A Peter White Christmas Ruth Eckerd Hall 3 Jake Armerding Octagon Arts Center 2 Anberlin/Don't Look Down/The Kick State Theatre 3 Kottonmouth Kings The Tamiami @ Jannus Landing 3 Voodoo Glow Skulls w/Big D & The Kids Table/Go Betty Go/The F-Ups Masquerade…
How To Write A Really Short, Short, Short Story (In 750 Words or Less)
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. —Henry James First, dispense with the long titles. Most people don't realize that the 750 words begin with the title. It's best to keep the title to two words, one word, or better yet, some strange unpronounceable mathematical symbol much like the one Prince…
Music Menu
All entries by Scott Harrell except where otherwise noted. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE/TRIVIUM/THE ABSENCE/ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE This was supposed to be the big fall Slayer tour-show, complete with fake-blood drizzle and an appearance by untouchable Atlanta heavies Mastodon. But rising post-nu-metal (yes, that's right, there's officially a post-nu-metal milieu) outfit Killswitch Engage's particular brand of melodic…
Spins
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert OriginsPAVEMENTMatadorReleased in February of 1994, Pavement's second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, displayed the limitless ability of the band to gather numerous disparate strands and churn out work that to this day sounds fresh. The record spills out august pop, lovely guitar playing, and ream after ream of some…
Nightlife Safari
Hey, kids! Try our service and meet a whole new clique!
The Old College Try
Looking ahead to some university theater worth a campus visit
Martian Interstate 431-B
He thinks a lot lately about spectacular demise. Not his own, necessarily — that would create fundamental problems in the way of imagining spectacular demise. He thinks maybe he's drawn to the spectacular because everything's so … mundane. Eschewing the fact, of course, that one person's mundane is someone else's spectacular.He sits on his porch…
Planet Turkey
Laura Fries’ step-by-step instructions on how to rock that Thanksgiving feast
How Not to Cook a Turkey
Dispatches from a desperation Thanksgiving
Lo-Flo
The sun rises and falls with the flick of a switch. The grass never needs cutting. And Edna shuffles around the diamond at Tropicana Field, pumped through the arteries of a packed home show — another — meant to fill the sportless void of winter. When snowbirds and retirees and bright young suburbanites seek salvation…
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
The Pan Behind the Curtain
Neverland raises the curtain on J.M. Barrie — but not too much
The Evil Men Do
The Shining Path’s murder of a local reporter in 1989 is echoed in the brutality of today’s terrorists
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, Nov. 30: Don Adams, Don Adams (DBN) Afroman, Jobe Bells (Hungry Hustler) All Parallels, Formulate a Tragedy (Law of Inertia) Art Bergmann, Design Flaw (Other People's Music) Blueskins, Change My Mind (Domino) Celeste Carballo, Celeste Acusticados (EMI) Peter Cetera, Live in Salt Lake City (Brilliant) Kelly Clarkson,…
Kisss…
A roundup of winning entries in a contest that honors the ability to keep it short
Planet Picks
THURSDAY 11.25 Thanksgiving Alternative Thanksgiving is a holiday where we spend time with our families, eat lots of turkey and pass out on the couch in a tryptophan-induced haze. However, if you're looking for a change or if you're tired of having to spend the majority of the day in the kitchen, I suggest taking…
Bellisimo Benedetto!
Chef Bennet Pumo is making a name for himself in Land O’Lakes
Ask the Advice Goddess
Reality Czech I dated this guy for 10 months, and spent the entire time battling his "I'm not good with commitment" stance. Although I was tortured that he would never commit or tell me he loved me, I stayed because I felt so deeply for him. The month after we quit speaking, I discovered he'd…
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 Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar—Largo, 10911…
Culinary Events
HOLIDAY PIES FUNDRAISER Uhuru holiday pies are available to benefit the African People's Education & Defense Fund programs for social and economic justice. Made-from-scratch apple crumb, pumpkin and sweet potato pies will be available for pickup Nov. 23-24 and Dec. 23-24. Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles, 945 Central Ave., St. Petersburg (727-821-2437 or www.apedf.org). TAMPA BAY…
The Good, The Bad, The Local
What, no Christmas albums? Scott rates another slate of local music
Buy Into Buying Nothing
There was a time when I was among the millions who rushed to the stores for the biggest shopping day of the year. I was drawn to the post-Thanksgiving sales and found comfort in knowing I was finishing my Christmas shopping early. But the day never turned out well. I dodged frantic shoppers who all…
Music Events
THURSDAY, NOV. 25 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar Mark Mann's One Mann Band Babalouie's Mark McGourley Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon Bahama Mama's Chris Murphy Blackstone Grill Expressions Bourbon Street Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zepplin Experience/Jeteye Brandy's True Colors Band CK's Revolving Rooftop Restaurant Derrick Williams Clancy' s of New Orleans Steve Santo Club…
Since ‘Nam
… the pure products of America go crazy. —William Carlos Williams Back in 1981, I was a senior ready to leave my hometown and old friends and try for a new life somewhere else. My old friends, however, had greeted the precipice of 18 by becoming bizarre and erratic. The movie Apocalypse Now had inspired…
