Tooth and Claw
Stone crab season has diners scratching and scrambling
We ? Huckabees
We wanted to ♥ Huckabees but our ♥ wasn’t in it
Upcoming Concerts
OCTOBER 28 Wynonna Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall (Sarasota) 28 Hatebreed w/The Absence/Hate Eternal/Silence After Tragedy State Theatre 28 Damageplan w/Shadows Fall/The Haunted Masquerade 28 Donna Wissinger & Chrstine Mori Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center 29 Taking Back Sunday/Fallout Boy/Matchbook Romance/The Varsity Jannus Landing 29 Bitch w/TBA Orpheum 29 Freepoets.com Presents Science Non Fiction/ Spontaneous…
Coming Around Again
Five Eight is poised to become rock’s hot new thing … for the umpteenth time
Brian’s Song
Brian Wilson Presents Smile (Nonesuch)
Ask the Advice Goddess
Grope Against Hope I went out with a friend to meet two guys she went to college with. We played pool, had a few beers, and I ended up sleeping with one of them. He was passionate, romantic and generous in bed. He called the next day and said we should go out. He told…
Letters
Shock Jock TalkRe: “No Romeo,” by David Bramer (Oct. 6-12) Your column was brought to my attention by quite a few of my listeners for obvious reasons, and I just wanted to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. Passionate fans of morning shows are probably very similar to passionate fans of columnists; they're always looking out…
Upcoming Releases
The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, Oct. 26: Aloha, Here Comes Everyone (Polyvinyl) Anyone's Daughter, Wrong (Inside Out Music) Autumn Tears, Eclipse (Dark Symphonies) The Blue Nile, High (Sanctuary) The Bones, Screwed, Blued and Tattooed (Sonic Bubblegum) Capitalist Casualties, Years in Ruin (Six Weeks) Combatwoundedveteran, This Is Not an Erect, All Red Neon…
Carrying the Torch
In last week’s Kerouac trial, the most colorful character was forced to wait on the sidelines
Don’t Panic
Your war questions answered
High Karate
Definitely not just another Beantown band
Years in the Making
A Brian Wilson Timeline
Acid Trip
Food falls for Chianti in a big way
Music Events
THURSDAY, OCT. 21 42nd Street Bistro Starry Night 4th Street Cigars & Martini Bar Backwater Blues Babalouie's Mark McGourley Bahama Breeze Mike Hastings/Denny Falzon Bahama Mama's Chris Murphy Barnacle Bill's Jason Longoria Big J.R.'s The Johnny Charro Band Blackstone Grill Expressions Brandy's True Colors Band Carlie's Hard Truth CK's Revolving Rooftop Restaurant Derrick Williams Clancy's…
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…
Smile Again
The remarkable fall and rise of former Beach Boy Brian Wilson — and the story of how he finished the most renowned unfinished album of all time
Culinary Events
SEAFOOD COOKING DEMONSTRATION Chef Gui leads a cooking demonstration which features fresh local seafood, culinary tips and a wine tasting. 6 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 21. $20 per person. The Reef Seafood Market, 17811 Gulf Blvd., Redington Shores (727-391-2000 or www.chefgui.com). VEGETARIAN COOKING CLASS Join Debby DeGraaff for a "Taste of India"; 7-8 p.m. Wed., Oct.…
Planet Picks
THURSDAY 10.21 Deliciously Horror-ble Before he achieved worldwide fame with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directed one of the greatest, most disgusting splatterpieces of the comedy/horror genre — 1992's Dead Alive (aka Braindead). In this flick, we meet Lionel, who lives with his overbearing, disapproving mother. Being a pain-in-the-ass, dear old mom…
Battle of the Bays
Cross the bridge and defend your hometowns, Tampa Bay!
Music Menu
All entries by Eric Snider and Mark Sanders. BRIAN WILSON The reclusive former leader of the Beach Boys performs Smile, which he completed last year after the music spent 37 years in the vaults. For more on the project, including a monosyllabic interview with Wilson, see the cover story. (Oct. 21, Tampa Bay Performing Arts…
Outtakes
Short reviews of movies playing throughout the Tampa Bay area
With Fall Comes Pops
I've lived in the Bay area most of my life, and every year I find myself in the same routine. Winter blasts through, I shiver and complain (I know nothing about the real cold), and suddenly it's spring, and I'm enjoying the two-week period of utterly perfect weather. But before long, I'm driving sans air…
Bush: The Only Media Choice for President
Journalists for Bush demand, “Give us the guy who’ll make the best copy!”
Spins
LoverockGUITAR WOLFNarnackOn the giant 1-10 measuring scale of punk-rock chaos, Guitar Wolf is striving for that mythical, Spinal Tapian 11. The band's music is strictly high voltage — all fast, all the time, with an admirable sloppiness, and Japanese lyrics shouted and screamed with a raw-throated fury. Loverock is Guitar Wolf's fifth album to arrive…
Shallow Be Thy Name
Young men, early Mamet: Amusing, immature — and yes, perverse
