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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Creative Loafing Gasparilla Party Contest!
Posted by CL Staff on Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:58 PM
- Chip Weiner
- It's party time.
Creative Loafing wants to party with you on Gasparilla.
Do you have a crazy way of celebrating Tampa's annual tradition? We are having a contest to identify the most unique and peculiar Gasparilla celebrations in town.
We want to see the pirate booty, the greatest grog, the nutttiest traditions and the wildest and most offbeat ways of commemorating the day. Send us your wacky Gasparilla plans and an invitation to gasparilla@creativeloafing.com. If you are selected, we will send a CL photography crew to your place to shoot the action — and we’ll publish photos of the best parties on the Daily Loaf - one lucky winner will even make it in the paper!
That's not all: The best will also win $100 in CL Deals.
So, once again, send your party plans and an invite to gasparilla@creativeloafing.com. If your party is selected, we’ll send you an e-mail confirming that you’re on the list, and we’ll see you on parade day, Jan. 28!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Aging and feeling beautiful: Dr. Diller says woman can experience both
Dr. Vivian Diller, author of Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change, appears in Tampa this weekend.
Posted by Julie Garisto on Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:49 PM
These days, Diller is promoting her most recent book, Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change, co-written with Jill Muir-Sukenick, Ph.D, and edited by Michele Willens. It's billed as a "psychological guide to help women deal with the emotions brought on by their changing appearances."
Diller will be making an appearance in Tampa. She will be traveling to Tampa as part of the I Can Do It! Conference (icanddoit.net), Nov. 11-13 at the Tampa Convention Center. I Can Do It! brings together a group of distinguished, bestselling self-help authors annually to present and hold interactive workshops.
Diller took some time before her Tampa visit to share some of her aging-beautifully insights with CL.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: Transvestite midget clowns ... stealing underwear?
Posted by Dream Momma on Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Wish Upon a Wedding
Posted by Meeghan Gilchrist on Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:02 PM
Wish Upon a Wedding has helped their first Florida wish recipients: Eden and Cory Banks. Wish Upon a Wedding is a nationwide organization that helps celebrate the bravery and dedication of couples during their most challenging times together.
Eden Banks was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2009 that had metastasized to her liver. During a visit last month, doctors discovered that the cancer had metastasized to the brain. Eden, who lives in Parrish and works in Tampa, underwent 10 full brain radiation treatments immediately and was given a life expectancy of 12-17 months. Her husband Cory has stayed true to his vows and stood by his wife of almost five years every step of the way.
Eden applied to Wish Upon a Wedding to thank Cory for his commitment and bring her family and friends together for one last party. The couple celebrated their vow renewal ceremony on July 17 at the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota. The reception was donated by Roy's Hawaiian Fusion Restaurant and followed the ceremony.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Obama's pledge: "One Million electric vehicles by 2015"
Posted by Jennifer Meier-Herz on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Friday, July 8, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: Dual Identity
Posted by Dream Momma on Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:38 PM
I remember feeling a vague sense of warm happiness when I woke up. But I have no idea what the dream means or what it might symbolize. Any suggestions?”
Dream Momma is so happy to return to her blog for Creative Loafing with this remarkable, journey dream. Why is it remarkable? Because it describes, in a symbolic nature, the individuation phase of psychological development and the relationship between the animus and anima.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Clarity, Big Bottom, iPhone-Ready: Coloud's C22M Series Headphones
Posted by Joran Oppelt on Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Coloud C22M (Flag Series)
also available - Jamaican and Brazilian models
These star-spangled doo-hickies arrived on our way out the door last week, just in time for the long July 4th weekend. It turns out the timing couldn’t have been better, as we had (and made) plenty of time to test these in a number of settings.
1. Phone Conversation on iPhone 3G
What sets these apart from other earbuds and headphones is the talk button/mic feature which allows them to double as an iPhone headset. The cans are well-insulated, which reduce much noise, and in every other test, this earned major points. However when used for phone (and Skype) conversations, the user’s own voice seemed barely-audible and muffled, giving the conversation a strange one-way quality.
2. Streaming audio (96/128K)
MOG Streaming Service on iPhone; “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele
Crisp highs and big bottom, but the bass is a little much, and with today’s lack of “tone” settings on devices, there’s no way to dial it back. Call me old, but I worry that extended exposure to bass frequencies may induce headache.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Romancing Israel and its wines
A new-found love for Israeli wine
Posted by Cecelia Messina on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:00 PM
How many loves does one get in a lifetime? I googled that question and came up with hundreds of responses. Some responses said you get six or more in a lifetime, others two, but more than any other response was that you only get one true love in a lifetime. Wow! Don’t know if I agree with that one.
My favorite response was the one that said that you get many true loves in different times and places; there is no basis for believing in only one true love. That’s a response I can live with, especially in light of the fact that I have fallen in love...again! The name of my new love is Israel and it sang to me the lyrics of the Arlen/Koehler song “Let’s Fall in Love” and my heart was certainly made for it.
I’ve had love affairs before: Tuscany and Rome, Paris and New York among others. I’ve loved them all; still do. But Israel is different, it’s new love. You know how it is when love is new — it tingles, it excites, it keeps you lying awake at night and smiling during the day. Israel is different because it is a whole country not just a town or a region and it is filled with exciting sights, sounds and sensations.
When you are in love, you yearn for the sight of your new love. Israel is filled with wonders as far as the eye can see: mountains, deserts, beaches, rural areas and bustling cities. Experience the sunrise coming over Mt. Meron as this majestic mound is outlined in the rising pink and orange colors and the vineyards come to life with the warmth of the new day sun. Galil Mountain Vineyards is located in the Upper Galilee mountain range. Founded eleven years ago, the winery works with 13 different grape varietals and offers reasonably priced wines from about $10 a bottle in an array of choices. One of my favorites is the Galil Mountain Rosé made mainly from Sangiovese and blended with Barbera and Pinot Noir. This rosé was made in the saignée method where the wine is bled off from the red grape skins. The wine is refreshing with red berry flavors and a bright orange-pink color, much like the sunrise.
- Galil Mountains Winery
- Gailil Mountains vineyards at sunrise
Friday, May 27, 2011
Don't call it a comeback: Have cassette tapes returned?
Posted by Joran Oppelt on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:05 PM
"When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free." — Rob Sheffield
The “cloud” may very well be where all music is stored in the not-too-distant future, and vinyl might be the format that never dies, but the cassette tape is making an unanticipated comeback. Or is it?
The cassette — or more specifically, the compact cassette — had many uses during its heyday, roughly the early 1970s to the early ’90s. Lauded primarily as the initial medium for bootlegging (some people placed their cassette recorders directly in front of the radio speakers before radios came with built-in tape decks), the format also found uses in computing and data storage, and even video.
Most people celebrated the demise of the cassette, citing tape hiss, the tendency of the actual tape to melt, warp (or worse, snap), or the clunky mechanics of the motor needed to drive the takeup reel. To make matters worse, a second motor was added in later years, doubling the clunk factor.
The word “cassette” is even hard to type. I mean, two S’s and two T’s? What is that, French or something?
The 1980s boom in consumer-facing cassette culture has much to do with the fact that musicians and recording artists were, until that point, unable to record at home without investing in expensive reel-to-reel studio equipment. But now, armed with a 4-track tape recorder (which used store-bought cassettes!), they could record at home, quickly and cheaply, and if they didn’t like a certain track, they could tape over it. It was a revolution at the time, and should have prepared the music industry for the eventual appearance of home-recording software and file sharing (but it didn’t, and that’s another story).
Eventually, the tape gave way to the compact disc, the praises of which I will not sing here (or anywhere). But we all bought them. What choice did we have? The CD gave way to MP3s. Why own the plastic disc the information is stored on when you can just have the actual data? A rather cold and un-romantic way to think about music, but now, even “owning” or “having” the file seems cute (at best) and obsessive (at worst) in an era where you can stream any song you like on the Internet at anytime using services like MOG, Grooveshark, Last.fm and others.
So, why in the world would the cassette tape ever make a comeback? If you ask some people, it never went away.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Wedding weight: through the thick and thin
Posted by jasandrasolis on Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:20 PM
