Pinellas Democrats question Helm
The ever-present split in the Pinellas County Democratic Party is rearing its head again. Just got an e-mail about a special meeting that has been called for Oct. 10, an hour before the Pinellas Democratic Executive Committee's regularly scheduled session at 7 p.m. It appears that some members' questions to Chairman Ed Helm have forced…
Short List, All Foley Edition
WHY DOESN’T MARK FOLEY USE A BOOKMARK?Seriously, you didn’t expect us to go there? Give us credit, we’re better than that.BECAUSE HE LIKES HIS PAGES BENT OVEROK, so we’re not.ST. PETE TIMES SAT ON FOLEY STORYSptimes: gonna hold off on the story, does that make you horny? Maf54: A little. Sptimes: cool.ATTORNEY: FOLEY NOT A…
Daily Foley
Let's start with the MSM's complicity in this. The NYT (registration required) details how the St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald both sat on the story until after it was broken by ABC News. The parochialism of both papers is astounding; in each case, they acknowledge making a judgment about the activities instead of allowing…
Police Explore TI Drum Circle
It turns out the Treasure Island Police Department finally found out about their city’s popular beach drum circle (apparently, they don’t read CL).
More MySpace Mayhem
Back in August, I wrote about the perils of the social networking behemoth, MySpace. Now comes a more detailed investigation of its shady beginnings by a young blogger, Trent Lapinski.
The Undressed Q & A
Fiona Zedde Fiona ZeddeÕs got a knack for making folks horny. February 2005, Zedde, a former employee of Charis Books in Atlanta, made Creative Loafing readers drool when she was featured on our annual Lust List of sexy service industry workers. And in August, the Jamaican-born, Atlanta-based author got the literary world all hot-and-bothered with…
Oh, The Horror
I attended the Clearwater stop on low-budget horror-film production company Full Moon's Horror Roadshow tour last Friday, with the hope of making both some new horror-scene friends and some industry contacts. Or rather, I attended the event for about an hour; Becks and I left, feeling more than a little grimy, when it became obvious…
Political Party: ‘Speaking of Iraq’
Join the good folks at Creative Loafing at our monthly Political Party live talk show for a discussion about the Iraq War, part of a special project we're preparing called "Speaking of Iraq." Our publisher, Ben Eason, started an online discussion among some interesting and (sometimes) unconventional voices on the subject of war and terror.…
Political Party: ‘Speaking of Iraq’
Join the good folks at Creative Loafing at our monthly Political Party live talk show for a discussion about the Iraq War, part of a special project we're preparing called "Speaking of Iraq." Our publisher, Ben Eason, started an online discussion among some interesting and (sometimes) unconventional voices on the subject of war and terror.…
The Times, Mark Foley and damage control
The blogosphere was alive yesterday with this question: Why did the St. Petersburg Times sit on the Mark Foley-page e-mails story back in November after interviewing the page? The issue went national after the New York Times quoted an unpublished interview with the Louisiana teen supplied to it by the St. Pete paper. The Times'…
Memories of Mark Foley
Not too surprising, given this morning's stories about his weird e-mails to teen-age pages, but Mark Foley has resigned from Congress. Reuters. Wonkette. Foley's statement on The Buzz. An old profile of him in The Hill. Of course, Foley's sexuality has been a question forever in Florida politics, with the vast majority of political operatives…
Math and Katherine Harris
This from the Harris campaign's e-mail blast today: "Just last week Florida's Governor Jeb Bush and President George Bush endorsed me during a Republican gathering in Orlando. During that same week, I cut Bill Nelson's lead in half." If our favorite politician can just keep cutting Nelson's lead in half every couple of days, then…
Morning Roundup
It's a fine Friday morning. Although I was taken aback by the melodramatic narrative leads I read in the big dailies, I came into the office and immediately got a voice mail from an angry reader of Creative Loafing calling me a "piece of shit" for something I wrote. So things are looking up: The…
APB in Lakeland
An All-Points Bulletin: Missing, the straight news lead. As evidenced by today's coverage of the biggest story in the state, the shooting of two Polk County deputies and a K-9 dog. If found, please return to the Tampa Tribune ("LAKELAND – Donna Wood's voice cracked as she said the name into her cell phone, answering…
Was she kidding?
From the Times this morning, I missed it because it was wayyyy down at the bottom of the story about the reasons why Tampa didn't get the Republican National Convention, which included the threat of hurricane season: "We certainly would have made an effort to try and prevent hurricanes from coming," [Tampa City Councilwoman Mary…
Sign Threats
The Tampa Bay Business Journal's Michael Hinman has an interesting breaking story about a Temple Terrace business that has asked the state attorney to look into allegations that City Councilwoman Linda Shattles threatened it for allowing her opponent's signs on business property. Workers at a salon say Shattles told them their "retail center had posted…
Your own personal political website
Spent some time with Reform Party governor's candidate Max Linn yesterday for an upcoming feature, and he was all geeked about a new feature coming to his website: Personal web pages for all 10 million-plus Florida voters. Starting sometime next week, Linn said, visitors to maxlinn.com will be able to sign into their own political…
Morning Roundup
What good is sitting alone in your room?: The deliciously lurid tale of a South Florida millionaire who loved his daughter so much that he secretly married her, compliments of the alternative press. Now here's a politician we can really get behind. The pic says it all, compliments of the alt press. The secret (and…
Mark Foley and Scientology
An unusual encounter
Ooh la la
Brazilian Girls
Not just a fantasy
Narnia and Middle-earth: Lewis, Tolkien, and the Magic Art
Stogie quarrel
Museum and arts center backers vie for the Oliva Cigar factory
Bright light
THEATER
Roach clipped
PETA protests
On the paper trail
Sarasota government smacked down in referendum case
Head trips
From Lakeland to Dunedin, flights of artistic imagination are all over the map
Alone in autism
The numbers are startling: As many as one out of 166 children will develop autism
Tim’s story
The troubled life of an amazing journalist
Got a beef
Uneven cooking and selection mar the offerings at steakhouse
From behind the wheel
Tampa Taxi Shots blog
Senatorial confessions
The man behind the lingerie
The Blotter
Bizarre crimes from Tampa police reports
Upcoming releases
Tues., Oct. 3, 2005
Capsule reviews of recently released movies
Half Nelson, All the King’s Men
A stranger in the Alps?
The week that was in Blurbex-land
The mean team
School for Scoundrels
Must-dos
Don’t Hug Me!, Perfect Block Party
Lingering brilliance
From Weather Report to “Let it Rain”
Kevin saves?
Alas, Kevin Costner can’t save The Guardian‘s overripe melodrama
Spins
John Mayer, the Black Keys, Yo La Tengo
The persistence of memory
HISTORY
On the road again
SPECIAL EVENTS
He ain’t no bartender
But he won’t stop
Shopping in the Outfield
SPECIAL EVENTS
Joey’s albatross
Worthy of an epic poem
CL‘s picks for the week’s best shows
The French Kicks, Dead Celebs, Soulfly
Brilliantly empty
Though brimming with intelligent dialogue, Three Days of Rain has little to say
Back spin
Time Has Come: The Best of the Chambers Brothers
Space to breathe
As he heads back on the road, Dan Bern brings some of his most personal songs to date
