Upcoming Releases The following releases will be in stores Tues., Sept. 13: Antigone Rising, From the Ground Up (Lava) David Axelrod, Edge (Blue Note) Baby Mongoose, Enter the Baby Mongoose (Dionysus) Bedsit Poets, Summer That Changed (Bongo Beat) Blues Traveler, Bastardos (Vanguard) Eric Burdon, It's My Life (Recall) Tracy Chapman, Where You Live (Elektra/Wea) CocoRosie,…

by CL Staff

MEDIA PREVIEW

Business and Professional Women of St. Petersburg/Pinellas and several other area organizations present Preview Forum, an event at Eckerd College that unites journalists with the public for an open discussion about media technology and ownership, how these factors — in addition to government regulations — have inherently altered journalism, and how the community can respond.…

by Leilani Polk

The Passion of the Vine

Fine wines from some unlikely places.

by Taylor Eason

Submerged

The editor of a New Orleans weekly mourns for the city he left behind.

by Michael Tisserand

New Heights

In the Seminole Heights and Tampa Heights neighborhoods, three ultra-hip galleries launch new art shows in tandem on Friday, Sept. 9, make hopping to each one easy and enjoyable. Noires-Noirs: The Black Show is a group exhibit at Bleu Acier featuring contemporary artworks by North American and European talents. Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey, Neil…

by CL Staff

Life Less

Morgan Freeman is the ailing but always noble companion to a cranky old white guy whose deeply repressed life gets a jump start from a plucky young female protégée. No, it's not Million Dollar Baby — not by a long shot. Freeman turns out to be just about the only thing worth watching in Lasse…

by CL Staff

Against All Odds

Gainesville’s Against Me! Just might be the most important band in punk rock.

by Scott Harrell

Every Which Way

St. Pete’s District 6 election is this fall’s most interesting race — and most pivotal.

by Wayne Garcia

BEER HERE!

Rumors of a sale sends shoppers scurrying to a Publix in St. Pete.

by Scott Harrell

Short List After Katrina

No jokes this week. Send these folks (or the disaster relief effort of your choice) some money: Network for Good (www.networkforgood.org) Guides you to a number of disaster relief charities, including the United Way in Louisiana. Noah's Wish (www.noahswish.org) This group rescues animals caught in disasters. 530-622-9313 AmeriCares Foundation (www.americares.org) Thirty percent of this wide-ranging…

by CL Staff

The Blotter

PICTURE THIS: A security officer at Busch Gardens reports "that he spoke with a guest who had left her camera in one of the gift shops." The woman rushed back to the shop when she realized what she had done, but was told by the staff that other guests had claimed the camera. After a…

by Joe Bardi

Get Real

For unconventional USF teacher Alex Duensing, life is what you make of it.

by Max Linsky

Devil in the Details

Exorcism of Emily Rose and Junebugs

by Lance Goldenberg

Where Does the World’s Oil Come From?

Oil is easy to make. Just take some plankton, mix it with some mud and dead plants, bury it a few thousand feet underground inside of a nonporous rock, and wait a few million years. Voila, you've got petroleum. For best results, make sure you bury the stew beneath a location destined to become violent,…

by CL Staff

Meet at the Mesa

Red Mesa adds refinement to the Mexican/Tex-Mex convergence

by Brian Ries

See & Do Picks

MAKIN' COPIES Stageworks and Gorilla Theatre join forces to produce the Southeastern premiere of A Number, Caryl Churchill's sci-fi drama about human cloning and individuality. The play opens with a son confronting his father about a recent discovery that he has genetically identical counterparts and is merely one of "a number" cut from the same…

by CL Staff

Sep 7-13, 2005

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