Word Surge
If you have the patience to wait for it, you'll find about 20 minutes of absolutely riveting theater in Ned Snell's about the author …, currently playing at the Silver Meteor Gallery. Of course, first you have to get there — which means sitting through writer/performer Snell's impersonations of novelist Peter Wasser, lover Martin, critic…
Planet Picks
Thursday 10.11 Too Bad to be True A zany adult comedy, Trailer Trash Tabloid! centers on the 12 cartoonish residents of New Drawl City Mobile Home Village & Putt-Putt Golf, Skoal County, Ga. The play by Lewis Routh takes place on The Lamont Lazarus Hour, a newsmagazine TV show, covering the mysterious death of Frank…
Soundboard
<font Thursday, Oct. 11 Events Borderline David Allan Coe Castle Miles Tillman/Stillife/Gaijin Lobby Lounge at the Garden Dine for America Benefit w/The Meryl Streep Pharm David Gans Bars/Small Stages AJ's Ale House Sal & Zoom Alley Cat's Cafe Jamie Perlow Beach Place (Whitey's) Saturn 5 Big J.R.'s Sequel Billy G'Z (Clw.) The Gita Brass Mug…
Books
Fuhgeddaboutit By Jon Macks Simon and Schuster/$9.95 Undoubtedly influenced by media romanticism of the Mafia lifestyle, this tongue-in-cheek work takes comic license with that trend. Complete with photographs to guide you along the pathway, this book provides aspiring mobsters with a blueprint for acceptance and success. You never know when the included glossary of mob…
Graphic Situation
Art and commerce collide at Graphicstudio
Letters
Stearns Punishment Re: "Best Media Slut," "Best of the Bay" (Sept. 20-26) I have been featured in a positive light in The Tampa Tribune, St. Pete Times; channels 9, 10, 28 and PBS; WMNF and a.m. radio's Parent Talk; Tampa Bay Magazine, Stash Magazine as well as many media nationwide. You contend that makes me…
Web Site of the Week
Ouchy the Clownhttp://www.ouchytheclown.com It's time to play a game, kiddies. But not just any old game, oh no, this one is called "Web site of no redeeming value that you really didn't need to know about but the author found it so disturbingly funny that he had to it share with you." If you have…
Bottom’s Up
Saying goodbye to the late, great Rock Bottom
Do Vintages Matter?
O, Say Can You Drink?
Monotone Maverick
I have this bitchen transcriber machine. It's got a foot pedal that makes me feel like a race car driver, only without the danger. Using the pedal, I can play, rewind and fastforward microcassette recordings, and on the main console, there are hand levers to adjust volume, speed and tone. If I slow the tape…
Public Life
Free Depression Screening at USF Thursday, Oct. 11 Screenings include a questionnaire, individual and confidential consultation with a clinician, information and referrals. Scheduled one month after the Sept. 11 attacks, the screenings aim to help those having severe symptoms of depression, uncontrollable crying, anger or an overwhelming feeling of despair. USF free screenings offer three…
Culinary Events
Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund Marty and Maryann Blitz, proprietors of Mise En Place Restaurant, host a community dinner to launch relief fund to provide immediate relief plus future scholarships and funds for families of the victims of the World Trade Center tragedy. Chef Blitz, along with Adelsheim Vineyard, provide comfort food and wine…
Libre Rising
We've all said it. It's 9:40 on a Friday night, and you're alternately trying to find your coolest clean shirt and perusing this week's club listings for something, anything to do that's a little different. When it becomes clear that tonight's options are limited to the same usual indie, hip-hop and rap-rock suspects you've been…
Freebie
What could be better than a picnic on a cool Autumn evening with The Florida Orchestra in concert under the stars, completed by fireworks over a nearby body of water? Two such evening concerts, you say? That's precisely what The Florida Orchestra has planned — at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, in Vinoy Park, and…
Hippie Together
A review of the Swedish film ‘Together’
THE WINE LIST
Bargain Basement Wines A tasting of 10 to 12 unique wines, both whites and reds. Prices range from under $10 to around $30. Finger foods included. Admission: $10. Thursday, Oct. 11. 6:30-9 p.m. La Maison Gourmet, 471 Main St., Dunedin. 727-736-3070. It's all in the Preparation Learn the art of food and wine preparing Friday,…
Spins
Reviews of CDs from Bob Marley, Call and Response, Pep Love and more
Spin Doctorates
Death threats, freedom and a big PR black eye. This is a tough one for the University of South Florida. On one hand there's Dr. Sami Al-Arian, who says he should not have been forced onto paid leave following his appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, where the host suggested he might have ties to terrorists.…
E-mail from Exile
While the world was riveted on global terrorism, President Isaias Afewerki of the small east African country of Eritrea grasped for new power in his own country. He was once a freedom fighter, the George Washington of his country, but recently some ministers in his own government were describing him as "autocratic" and advocating his…
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 Kaisen Sushi, 12785 N. Dale…
Ball of Profusion
After the shock and the numbing sight of people and buildings in flames following the World Trade Center attacks, I was not the only one who sought solace in the familiar pleasure of friends gathered around a table and the reassuring rituals of dining. My solution to the melancholia was a straight shot up West…
The List
Halloween Fright Fest 2001, an eerie nighttime tour through Asylum Gardens (Adult Trail), takes place at Largo Central Park from 6 to 11 p.m. Oct. 12, 13, 19, 20, 26-31. There is also a Children's Trail, full of mildly terrifying scenes to frighten the little ones. Also for the kids is Boo Bash, featuring storytelling,…
Monkey Redux
He floats through the air with the greatest of ease, this daring young Asian who mocks gravity. He scampers straight up walls, skims across rooftops, leaps over tall buildings in a single bound and, in general, plays completely fast and loose with the laws of physics. Our very first glimpse of him, in fact, is…
Music Menu
David Gans David Gans, the modern-day Renaissance man perhaps best known as a leading Grateful Dead historian and record producer, is currently touring in support of his ingeniously titled new disc Solo Acoustic. He's found a perfect venue to play, methinks, in The Pharm. Gans' dreamy, inventive-yet-accessible style is undeniably colored by his association with…
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. American Pie 2…
Do vintages matter?
Some years are better than others
