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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Think Globally, Act Locally: Supporting area music at The Local Revolt
Some of the best bands within 100 miles of Tampa Bay play a new local music series
Posted by Cynthia Mulligan on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:59 PM
- Joe Frisbie
- Brothers Ian and Evan Koteles of 10th Concession at The Local Revolt
Reyna Martin and Bob Teets' sideline, Your Hot Sauce Company, is something they do strictly for fun, and for the love of it. For the past 12 years, they've been putting on spicy food shows, including the Pinellas Pepper Fest in Pinellas Park and the I Like it HOT! Festival in Largo - the largest spicy food show in Florida. They LOVE anything hot, and hosting shows that bring together other aficionados. They generally hire local bands to add to the festive atmosphere of these events, so when - while heated up with hot tunes, peppery condiments and cold beer at one of their events - a fellow enthusiast approached them about putting on a concert, they were all for it. As these conversations are wont to be, there was general agreement all around, and Reyna and Bob set about making it happen.
- photo by Joe Frisbie
- The Jeremy Thomas Band at The Local Revolt - Jeremy Thomas
Is focus on social issues a distraction, or the path to victory for Republicans in 2012?
Posted by Mitch Perry on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Except Gregory spent the first eight minutes of the program discussing contraception and same-sex marriage, compelling Ryan to say, "Actually I came on to talk about the debt crisis that we have and the budget. I think that's really the driving issue of this election."
But after Ryan answered his question, the man George W. Bush nicknamed "Stretch" defended himself, saying, "There's a presidential campaign and you're a Republican leader in the Congress and the reality is that these social issues are occupying a lot of bandwidth with the Republican primary voters. So you may want to talk about other issues, the truth is some of the standard-bearers of your party are also talking about these issues and that's why I wanted to get your views on them."
Later on CNN's State of the Union, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels called the escalating debt "the largest non-military danger we've ever faced," and said that he believed the economy and the debt should have priority.
Will we keep getting Tampa Bay Rays stadium stories with no news?
Posted by Mitch Perry on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:27 AM
But is it too much to ask that sports and news media confine themselves to something that actually contains news? And not just a rehash of the same story, which is that the team and St. Petersburg are in a holding pattern?
Saturday morning readers of the Tampa Bay Times were treated to a story that frankly, contained no news.
Titled "Not courting them, but he's still flirty," the story quoted Mayor Bob Buckhorn as saying on sports talk station WDAE-620-AM once again that he respects the contractual agreements between the Tampa Bay Rays, but if the Rays can't agree with city officials on a new ballpark being built there, then the new stadium should be in downtown Tampa.
It was absolutely nothing new, but the Times made sure to get St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster's reaction, which essentially was that he'd heard it all before.
The Times originally reported the Buckhorn quote Friday afternoon on its Bay Buzz blog, where it was appropriate to read. But with a Tampa Metro section studded with four other stories on its front page on Saturday, I don't quite understand the editors' decision that an exchange of comments previously made in its pages deserved B-1 status.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Springer sprung! Photos from the Knight Parade
Posted by Chip Weiner on Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:46 AM
The bead-grabbing frenzy at Saturday's Knight Parade.
OK, let's see. February night in Ybor City, check. Middle-aged men and women dressed in odd outfits, check. Screaming adults and children and it's hard to tell who acts more the fool, check. Add some dignitaries and Jerry Springer — yes, THE Jerry Springer — check. And yup, it's the Pinchasers Knight parade presented by the Krewe of the Knights of Sant' Yago.
Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Jerry Springer greet the media.
Saturday night at 7:00 7th Avenue in Ybor city was lined with thousands of onlookers anticipating a night of beads, booze, and occasional boob-flashing. Most of them got what they came for. The annual festival of floats came blasting down the heart of the Latin Quarter bringing with it marching bands, illuminated floats, dancers and a whole host of wildly dressed pirate-type people. The Krewe of the Knights of Sant' Yago has hosted the parade every year since 1974, and report that it is the largest of its kind in the Southeast.
Here's the formula for knight parade fun.
Take a fun-loving paradegoer…
Add a buxom krewe member with blow pops in her cleavage…
and...
Friday, February 17, 2012
Final thoughts after a January drought
Posted by Louise Rocco on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM
Her response was so succinct. "That doesn't matter. What matters is you exceeded your expectations."
So how have I been spending my February, you ask?
Two Big Mouths #91 Now Live
Posted by Two Big Mouths on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:20 PM
We are back and ready with another diatribe we call Two Big Mouths. This week, the Main Mouths will talk about PETA and it's lawsuit against Sea World. PETA want's the killer whales to go free. Electronic cigarettes...not as safe as we first thought. And are you putting lead on your lips to look luscious? Associate Editor Joe Bardi is back for The Really Random Report to talk about Creative Loafing's 7th Annual Field Day, cajun music from Boogie Gumbo of Sarasota, and the Mad Movie Reviewer gives us his take on the independant film Fancypants. In Anti-culture news, we talk about the 2012 Grammy's aftermath and Whitney Houston's passing. Kicking butt and taking names this week on Two Big Mouths. Enjoy.
Check out the Main Mouths at http://www.twobigmouths.com
Musking up with pheromones: Is Erox a real life 'Sex Panther'?
Posted by Shawn Alff on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:37 AM
“Introducing Erox, a new unisex attraction fragrance, proven to increase feelings of arousal, excitement, and flirtiness in both female and male users… [Erox] contains a combination of pheromones, and a new revolutionary attraction compound called ER303… [Erox has] been clinically proven to increase feelings of confidence, social warmth and friendliness… I would be happy to send you a sample...
This was my reply:
“Has Erox found a way to turn vodka into an aerosol? Obviously I would love to sample it…”
Mitch Perry Report 2.17.12
Posted by Mitch Perry on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Good day, and welcome to the end of the working week, a week that has included, sadly, a lot of high profile deaths.
We had Whitney Houston, Freddie Solomon and Gary Carter leave this earth sooner than they should, and then there was the news on the website of the New York Times late last night that their star Middle Eastern reporter, Anthony Shadid, had died in Syria from an asthma attack. The 43-year-old writer/reporter was one of the greats writing about the tumult of the Arab Spring over the past year, and his passing is a major loss for journalism.
Meanwhile back at home, Tampa residents are going to have to start ponying up more for city trucks to pick up their garbage. We'll all do so, of course, but I'm still waiting to hear why city trucks that burn lots of gas do so twice a week, when overwhelming anecdotal evidence indicates that a lot of citizens only need their garbage picked up once a week. Like Mary Mulhern, though, who along with Frank Reddick voted against the increase, we'll keep on waiting to hear back from Solid Waste one of these years why that isn't possible. We'd send you to the link but it appears to have disappeared. Anyway, you'll be paying 12 percent more beginning in April with your rates, 12 percent more in October, and 12 percent more in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Tampa City Council members also heard lots of comments — all negative — from members of the V.M. Ybor neighborhood Thursday on why they don't want the Trinity Cafe to move their new restaurant/feeding center into the 'hood, though apparently there's not much that can be done to prevent that.
And if you haven't had the chance yet, check out our piece in the new CL with Mayor Bob Buckhorn talking about a variety of subjects, including homelessness, which Council members again expressed their frustrations about at yesterday's meeting.
Pulitizer Prize-winning reporter Anthony Shadid dies in Syria
Posted by Mitch Perry on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Observing what's gone on in neighboring Middle Eastern countries, al-Assad determined months ago that he would not wind up like former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, and has led a brutal offensive against the uprising.
Syria has banned Western reporters from crosssing its borders, but some have.
Tragically, one reporter who did make the crossing in the past week, the New York Times' Anthony Shadid, died yesterday, not from being caught in the cross-fire between government and opposition forces, but because of an apparent asthma attack.
He was 43.
Valentine’s Day—a post mortem examination
Posted by SWF on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:00 AM
I found myself in an unfamiliar state on February 13; I was openly weeping to a lady friend about how I knew my boyfriend would do nothing special for me the following day. It was not an emotion I would have ever expected from myself, but there it was, and damn it, at least it was raw and honest. It was about to be fucking Valentine’s Day and I wanted ALL of the hoopla.
