Free speech, spin, and the case of Gilbert Gottfried
A Q&A with the notoriously outspoken comedian.
La V’s Pho-nomenal Vietnamese fusion
Good food fortune in the ’Burg.
Soup that rocks
A winter soup recipe for thrifty (or lazy) cooks.
Workplace gift ideas
MARTIN MILLER Gift-giving at the workplace is one of the toughest challenges of the holiday season. Giving your neighbor or yoga instructor hand-knitted toe-warmers is fine but giving knitted doilies or toilet roll covers to your co-worker or boss just isn’t going to win you any brownie points. It’s a nice hobby but really, keep…
Behind bars on Repeal Day
Snapshots from the second annual Prohibition-ending party in Ybor.
Mitch Perry Report 12.5.12: “Republicans not handling election results well”
Plus: The Lens, Light Rail and more …
Wooden Nickel no more
A local institution closes, a new vodka is served, and the Tap Room opens at the Hollander.
Stay frosty with winter’s best beers
Hearty, heavy, and perfect for the season.
Michael Maltzan and friends present their vision for The Pier before St. Pete City Council
Michael Maltzan went before the St. Pete City Council on Tuesday Reacting to public criticism about "The Lens" — his concept for a new St. Petersburg Pier — Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan and his team unveiled their new designs a week ago. The team went before the St. Pete City Council on Tuesday afternoon…
Anna Karenina: Impressive but limited
Stoppard’s script deftly combines theatrical and film elements but stops short of a fleshed-out Tolstoy heroine.
Sierra Club director says U.S. energy future “totally up for grabs”
Mary Anne Hitt with the Sierra Club For years, environmentalists have boasted about how clean sources of energy like wind and solar would be the future of how we keep ourselves powered in the U.S. Critics have scoffed at the idea saying even though it's nice to have cleaner fuels, there simply aren't enough to…
A majority of Hillsborough voters support a half-cent sales tax for transit
Last week, the Tampa Tribune reported that the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) will ask its board to consider a mass transit plan that has similarities to the failed 2010 referendum. But during a discussion on Tuesday morning, Beth Alden from the MPO said there was "some confusion" about the report, and she was…
New Music Tuesday! (December 4): Blur, Wiz Khalifa, Memory Tapes, Smashing Pumpkins & more
Audio & video included
So You Think You Can Dance’s Florida girl
Plantation, Fla., native Tiffany Maher wraps up a 30-city tour with her fellow Season 9 finalists.
Mitch Perry Report 12.4.12: Bob Costas needs to keep agitating
Plus: Transit news, TIA plans and more …
Mike Tyson brings his one-man show to Clearwater next spring
“I was just so out of control. I didn’t know how out of control I was until I got out of prison!” Tyson told reporters on Monday.
HART board readies itself for advanced merger talks with Pinellas County’s transit agency
Sandy Murman Although several members of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) board have never hidden their disdain for the top-down study — led by Clearwater state Sen. Jack Latvala — of a possible merger of HART with their Pinelllas County brethren, it has led them to realize that there needs to be more cooperation…
Joe Lopano’s big plans for Tampa International
Tampa International Airport director Joe Lopano has big ideas for the future development of his airport, and he laid out the details of his most recent master plan on Monday morning before the HART board. The question he and his staff have been working on is succinct: How can they maximize the 3,300 acres that…
Concert review: Japandroids explode at Crowbar, Ybor City
Photos included.
#MusicMonday, Vol. 80: Sunglasses, Manic Street Preachers, Vetiver & more
What the CL Music Team is spinning this week; audio & video included
Between the sheets: top 10 most provocative books out this month
The Men on My Couch: True Stories of Sex, Love and Psychotherapy (12/31/2012)by Brandy Engler Publisher's Description: When Dr. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan, she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted to talk about womanizing, porn addiction, impotence, prostitutes—and most of all,…
Mitch Perry Report 12.3.12 – The Guns of Autumn
There was a lot of discussion over the weekend whether or not the Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday should have been postponed or canceled in the wake of the murder-suicide tragedy with Chiefs Jovan Belcher, who shot and killed his girlfriend and the mother of his child on Saturday afternoon, before turning the gun…
Would more guns stop the next lethal shooting attack?
In the wake of the horrific gun shooting massacre in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater last July in which a former graduate student named James E. Holmes allegedly killed 12 people and wounded 58 others, there was virtually no serious national discussion about gun control, despite the best efforts of New York City Mayor Michael…
The fiscal cliff deadline is a month away. So why are folks acting like it’s next week?
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner met up with GOP congressional leaders last week to talk specifics about what it's going to take to come to a deal to avert the fiscal cliff at the end of the month. But House Speaker John Boehner's wasn't impressed, channeling John McEnroe by declaring that Geithner simply could not be…
Tampa activists hold candlelight vigil for Jordan Davis on USF campus
Marisol Marquez & L.I.F.E. at candlight vigil at USF Approximately 20 activists held a candlelight vigil in front of the Marshall Center on the USF campus in Tampa Saturday night, speaking out against the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, a black teenager who was shot by an older white man in Jacksonville last month in…
Going solo
Single and loving it — and planning to stay that way.
Editor’s Note: No Normal production
Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project’s A Normal Heart was amazing theater.
Exit trucks, enter people
Embracing the potential of Ybor’s 21st/22nd Street corridor.
Ybor is Illuminated: Centro Ybor Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony
Those who couldn't make it out to the famed tree lighting at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City joined Mayor Bob Buckhorn along with several other community leaders for the Ybor City version on Wednesday evening. A ceremony to light the 34-foot holiday tree in Centro Ybor began with carolers Jackson Crawford, Erin Lowe, Shay…
Bill Foster says The Rays owe taxpayers 1,215 regular season home games at the Trop
Most people figure there's no way the Tampa Bay Rays will fulfill their obligation to play all of their home games at Tropicana Field before 2027. Bill Foster isn't most people. Earlier this week, the Mayor of St. Petersburg repeated once again that he has no intent of allowing the Rays to play anywhere else…
Sweet spitfire
The lost art of the fire-roasted Gâteau à la Broche still burns in Francis Caussieu’s hearth.
Bill Correira “Woo” remembered by the 600 Block arts community he ardently supported
Derek Connelly 600 BLOCK GODFATHER: Bill Correira "Woo" The story behind Bill Correira “Woo”’s nickname-surname conveys the fun-loving spirit that endeared him to many. According to Jon La Budde, owner of Jonny Reno’s: “He was sitting in the courtyard at the old Big Catch [a ‘90s hotspot] on First Street when a car load of…
Mitch Perry Report – Bill Young vulnerable in 2014? We’ve heard that one before
CL looks forward to hearing from GOP Congressman Bill Young at a Tiger Bay Club event next Friday, where he'll speak a month after he was re-elected to a 22nd term representing Pinellas County. Politico reports that Washington Democrats have identified Young – who turns 82 next month – one of the top four most…
Fashion lives
Street style struts its stuff online.
The meal of a lifetime
Reflections on excellence, balance, surprise and how we taste.
Chris Rutherford as Keith Haring: Memories illustrated
The actor channels the late great artist in a play by local theater legend Jeff Norton.
Mad about Paul Reiser: The comedian/actor headlines The Club at Treasure Island Dec. 1
Comedian Paul Reiser has had quite a prolific career, and even if you don't happen to know his name, you'd definitely say, “Hey, I know that guy,” once you saw him. From a successful stand-up career, to starring in films by Barry Levinson and James Cameron, and most remembered as creator and co-star of the…
A Walk Through The Two Big Mouths Archives
[audio-path:http://archive.org/download/TbmBestOfFromNov2011/Tbm11-24BestOf.mp3] Yes Mouthy friends, it's time to open up the archives and play some more pod-cast gold that is Two Big Mouths. While the Main Mouths ramp up the holiday season, and by ramp up we mean bust tail at the day job and complete as many pleasure maneuvers as possible before the New Year,…
A Walk Through The Two Big Mouths Archives
[audio-path:http://archive.org/download/TbmBestOfFromNov2011/Tbm11-24BestOf.mp3] Yes Mouthy friends, it's time to open up the archives and play some more pod-cast gold that is Two Big Mouths. While the Main Mouths ramp up the holiday season, and by ramp up we mean bust tail at the day job and complete as many pleasure maneuvers as possible before the New Year,…
April Griffin says she’s running for Hillsborough County Commission
Last week, April Griffin was elected chairwoman of the Hillsborough County School Board, a job she said will help beef up her credentials when she becomes a candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Commission in 2014. Griffin said she'll wait until the first part of 2013 before making it official, figuring that with the…
Original Sin exposes the ancient connection between sex, drugs, and the church
The Catholic church has increasingly been accused of attempting to conceal repeated incidents of priests sexually molesting children. While more and more people are accepting the likelihood that the church has been harboring pedophiles, few people are willing to believe that the sexual molestation of children is a fundamental part of church doctrine. In his…
Florida health care advocates fear state is too far behind to create exchange by 2014
On Wednesday, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said she was still "disappointed" by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in June, which called the Affordable Care Act constitutional. She went on to lament the fact that the bill never would have passed Congress if it been sold as a new $4 billion tax on the American…
Mitch Perry Report 11.29.12 – Bill Nelson says he opposes the Nuclear Option on reducing filibusters in the Senate
Even though Democrats have held a majority in the Senate under President Obama, very little of his agenda in the past two years has found traction in part because of the increased use of the filibuster by Republicans, dictating that it now requires 60 votes, not 51, to pass legislation through that august body. That's…
Driven to distraction
Florida legislators are trying (again) to prevent distracted driving, but it’s going to be hard for drivers to break the habit.
Don’t panic
Lessons learned by a first-time Thanksgiving host.
Roger Chamieh’s art will leave you breathless
The artist draws the viewer in with a multi-sensory trek through his psyche.
This week in Tampa Bay area live music: Wiz Khalifa, Raw Oyster Cult, Eddie Vedder & more
Concerts, Nov. 29-Dec. 5.
Spotlight On: 97X Next Big Thing
The annual alternative rock blowout hosted by 97X, Next Big Thing, returns for its 12th year and moves to a more scenic venue: Vinoy Park. Some familiar faces perform at the all-ages event along with a few newbs. Among the highlights are return headliner Bush, the UK post-grungy rock foursome led by Gavin Rossdale, who…
Live and Local Spotlight: Vodkanauts 10th Anniversary Extravaganza
The grooving fedora-sporting cats who make up The Vodkanauts have been dishing out their sometimes slinky, sometimes muscular combo of lounge, surf, rock and swing for a decade. The lineup has changed a bit since the original 2002 edition, and currently, Jonathan Harrison hits on booming Vegas showman-style lead vocals, Mark Warren delivers searing guitar…
Get out your LGBT planner this weekend
If you're still looking to make plans, there's plenty of LGBT events in the Tampa Bay area to choose from this weekend. On Thursday, Nov. 29 head to the L Train bar in St. Pete for Wordier Than Thou. With a focus on prose and fiction, local writers and storytellers will get behind the mic…
Three weeks after fatal traffic accident outside of Eckerd College, Mayor Foster says he’s optimistic about new streetlight
Bill Foster It was exactly three weeks ago tonight that 85-year-old Robert Shepherd was killed driving out of the parking lot at Eckerd College and into traffic on South 54th Avenue. The cruel irony was that he was among a group of citizens who had been agitating for years that a stoplight needed to be…
New Florida Senate Transportation Chair Jeff Brandes not certain about texting while driving legislation
New committee chairmanships in the Florida Senate were announced Wednesday afternoon in Tallahassee by Senate President Don Gaetz, and taking over Transportation is Jeff Brandes, recently elected to represent parts of St. Petersburg and Tampa. Advocates for legislation that would put limits on texting while driving have keenly anticipated the selection, since the chair of…
How I learned to stop worrying and love my huge penis
In a society obsessed with size—with cars as small as soapbox racers and cell phones like matchbooks—it's no wonder men with oversized male genitalia, or OMG, are still persecuted. But, a new book, How to Live with a Huge Penis: Advice, Meditations, and Wisdom for Men Who Have Too Much, offers hope. It has finally…
