You know what you have to do, don’t you? Then do it.
The Tampa Bay Times won two more Pulitzer Prizes in this, the awards’ 100th year, for local reporting (
failure factories ) and investigative reporting (
Florida's mental health hospitals ). Meanwhile, recent editions of regular local news round-up column Sh*t happened have garnered four “smileys” and one of that emoticon that I think is supposed to be throwing up. In all seriousness, congratulations to the staff at the
Times for the recognition of their work, and for continuing to show the world why it still needs newspapers.
Tampa’s unique and cult-beloved place to drink beer while watching a movie or get messy at
The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the zillionth time,
The Pitcher Show in Carrollwood,
announced its own independent film festival May 7 to help bring in some scratch to keep the place running. It’s important because it’s weird, folks. It’s weirdportant. Weirdportant trumps Starbucks in any city that matters.
Speaking of weirdportant, here is its opposite: T
he lineup for the Rays' first three summer postgame concerts, which
is more the same than ever .
And finally, news broke yesterday of
actress Doris Roberts ‘
passing Sunday at the age of 90 . She might be best known as the mom from
Everybody Loves Raymond , but I suspect plenty of people have a favorite role of hers just the same — mine is probably the understanding titular grandmother in
Grandma's Boy .
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2016.