• Issue Archive for
  • Feb 18-24, 2009
  • Vol. 21, No. 49

News & Views

  • Recessionomics

    • Recessionomics: The Graph of Doom

    Barack Obama has his economic stimulus pacakge. Well, not really his economic stimulus package. He ended up with a plan that was mangled by just about everybody who touched it, from the House Democrats (who put just enough stupid pork into it to hand the Republican Party enough ammo for the 2010 midterm elections) to the dingbat GOP'ers (who stripped it of just about anything that resembled retrofitting government buildings or auto fleets or private homes to make them more energy-efficient).

Music

  • Features

    • Southside Johnny, one of rock's most undervalued artists

    At straight-up 3 p.m., the appointed hour, a man on the other end of the line announces himself: "Heyyyyy, it's Southside!" And so begins a spirited 40-minute conversation with one of rock 'n' roll's most undervalued artists, Southside Johnny Lyon, who has fronted a horn-heavy R&B band called the Asbury Jukes for more than three decades. After his first troika of LPs, released in the latter '70s on Columbia, fell short of commercial expectations -- especially in light of the concurrent rise of his Jersey shore compadre Bruce Springsteen -- Southside and company focused mostly on touring. They don't do the road-dog slog of the old days, when 250 dates a year was the norm, but the Jukes still cover plenty of turf. And they try their level best not to let performing get stale. "I've never wanted to just go out and play the songs," Southside says. "I need to find that nugget in the middle of the night, where the audience clicks and is really there, and we're all in that night, in that moment."

A&E

  • Theater

    • A Body of Water at Gorilla Theater

    A Body of Water is an extremely odd play, one that promises, for most of its two acts, to deliver some powerful truths on the subjects of reality, memory, dementia and/or crime, but ends by proving itself little more than a drawn-out anecdote. In the excellent co-production by Stageworks and Gorilla Theatre, author Lee Blessing's night of mind games is treated with all possible seriousness, but we nonetheless leave the theater regretting that so many surprises and hairpin turns have added up to so little.

Food & Drink

  • Corkscrew

    • Wine bar at Datz Deli is truly remarkable

    A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my ideal wine bar, a place I could call home and nuzzle with everyday. At the time, it didn’t exist yet in Tampa, but today, I found a pretty damn close example.
    • by Taylor Eason

Movies & TV

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