Until we move Blurbex over to a new server. Full info here, including links for RSS.
For now, just go ahead and check out the new Blurbex site and our new political, music and food blogs at:
Blurbex
Eat My Florida
Tampa Calling
Political Whore
And Morning Roundup [...]
Our marketing guru, Durium Jones, and Senior Editor Eric Snider are headed over to the Palm Avenue Y as I write this to settle a longstanding, trash-talking rivalry over who can really ball the best. First one to 15 wins. Ops Editor Joe Bardi set [...]
MR has moved over to the new Political Whore blog. Here's the link.
[...]Just another reminder:
Sometime this week, we are going to flip the switch and move our blog, Blurbex, over to a new server inside our CL website. (This is not exactly the exciting part.) You can find the new Blurbex here, with RSS feeds here.
As part of this [...]
Mayor Pam Iorio has hired a transit manager to "focus solely" on getting a working transit system in Tampa and the region. In an announcement this afternoon, her office said:
Elaine R. McCloud has been selected by Mayor Pam Iorio to serve as the city’s Transit Manager. McCloud will bring [...]
As this blog feared one month ago, The Tampa Tribune this afternoon announced it will be laying off 70 employees and realigning some sections (including merging the Friday BayLife into the tabloid Friday Extra) in a cost-cutting move. Fewer than 10 of those cuts are expected to come [...]
This is only my second season watching 24, and I’m thoroughly hooked on the adrenaline jolt the show gives me. (I particularly appreciate that it doesn’t get caught up in a bunch of bullshit hiatuses; you can count on that ticking clock every Monday night.)
One of the 24’s essential [...]
I've got some exciting Creative Loafing blog news for you all. Sometime this week, we are going to flip the switch and move our blog, Blurbex, over to a new server inside our CL website. (This is not exactly the exciting part.) You can find the new [...]
Not long ago I emerged from my office pod and posed a question to a few of my colleagues: Who is the definitive superhero of the 21st Century? Furrowed brows. Someone suggested Spider Man. “No,” I said with the authority of someone who knows they’re right. “Today’s definitive superhero is [...]
This is the wonder of devotion / I see the torch we all must hold:
This comes courtesy of Howard K. Stern's new lawyer, L. Lin Wood, who warns those who would accuse the Anna Nicole Smith confidante of any wrongdoing — or at least those NOT in the "traditional media" (via PRNewswire):
There is no evidence that Mr. Stern was in any way responsible [...]
Let it rain, let it rain:
Tampa City Council Chairwoman (again) Gwen Miller wasn't even two weeks from her triumphant victory over Joe Redner when she moved to assert herself in a way that the public hadn't seen in her previous 12 years in office. Miller, criticized by Redner and others for being too silent on [...]
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble:
Rudy Giuliani — the man who would carry the presidential election in Florida if it were held today, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll — sounded an awful lot like Jack Bauer in his biggest Tampa Bay appearance to date today: It's all about fighting the terrorists.
"Before September [...]
Will the 'controversial crash test robot artwork' self-destruct successfully? Will the Defense Dept. send emissaries to retrieve their dummies? Will Homeland Security send the artist to Guantanamo? These are just some of the questions provoked by artist David Karave's project as part of Art Against Fear, which should make [...]
OK, I wasn't going to talk about this — a shame thing, really — but I unloaded at the edit meeting this morning and it felt better, so here goes: If you were trying to get to the Grand Prix festivities last Friday night, and you were late because some [...]
Getting ready for the big Rudy speech this afternoon:
After a disastrous campaign week that found him atop national headlines carrying Dubya's water in Iraq, John McCain is now set to revamp his fundraising approach and delay his formal entry into Presidency:2008, according to tomorrow's NYT.
Given how incredibly stupid his trip to the heart of the war was, [...]
Imprisoned videographer Josh Wolf, the subject of a CL cover story, could be released finally. Details here.
FRIDAY AM UPDATE: Wolf is free, and he has both a statement and the unedited footage that sent him to prison in the first place posted on his blog.
[...]It's great to be a Florida Gator:
Happy Pesach to all:
- Phil de Vellis speaks.
- The rest of of Florida's problems well in hand, the Guv turns his attention to the last pressing issue.
- "I am very aware that I am self-centered and flighty and dazzled by shiny things, but I am not manipulative and I am [...]
A member of the Pinellas Republican Executive Committee point us to a planned appearance by GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani at St. Petersburg High School next Wednesday (April 4). Doors will open at 2 p.m., with the former mayor of New York speaking at 2:30 p.m.
Giuliani will be addressing [...]
Three super appealing new shows have been added to the aes presents concert lineup: The Album Leaf, melancholy, electronic neo-post rock by San Diego's classically-trained multi-instrumentalist, Jimmy LaValle, Monday, May 7; Matt & Kim, a drums-and-keys duo that performs tight, happy rock songs, Thursday, May 19; and [...]
Someone at the Drudge Report needs to think before they post.
I'm not the only one with a dirty mind. Someone on staff at Drudge noticed pretty quickly, and this headline disappeared after only a few minutes. God bless OS X's [...]
Woodwork squeaks and out come the freaks:
Where's that damned "I Voted" sticker?:
It's over. Joe Redner is well behind in his effort to defeat Gwen Miller. With 92 of 112 precincts reporting, Miller has 12,623 votes to Redner's 9,287. That is too many votes to make up at this point.
UPDATE: Final returns are Miller, 15,383 votes; Redner, 11,857.
ANALYSIS: The turnout was about [...]
Nothing like a slow afternoon to create controversy. A discussion of the upcoming Sarasota Film Festival prompted us to IMDB director Norman Jewison's career and to discover that he has never won an Oscar, despite helming such films as Moonstruck, In the Heat of the Night and Fiddler [...]
Just spoke with Jim Reed, No. 2 over at the Supervisor of Elections Office. He said voting is going smoothly, and he estimated a 14 percent turnout when all is said and done. (Ya hear that, JZ?)
The Times has a sampling of (mostly male) voters' comments over at The [...]
Election Day in Tampa:
A.J. Matthews is the Republican state committeeman representing Hillsborough County. But in 1983, he was a Tampa police officer. And — as he related on Rob Lorei's Florida This Week show this past weekend — Matthews was the officer who busted Joe Redner in the only felony criminal case [...]
They tried to make me go to rehab and I said no, no, no:
From Largo, Dawn Morgan reports:
Was it the dude holding up a poster board scribbled with the word faggot or the rusty red pick up truck with a full-sized Confederate flag waving from its bed rolling down the streets of Largo that made me a little nervous?
Actually, those two [...]
Joe Redner did a solo act at the Tampa Tiger Bay debate for council District 1 this afternoon, as his opponent Gwen Miller had already told the political club that she could not attend due to a scheduling conflict.
But Redner didn't know that, and he had prepared a speech just [...]
The front half of Ferguson Hall was filled Thursday night with a few hundred people eager to see cult celebrity Hal Sparks. A Renaissance man in the entertainment field, Sparks is an actor, comedian, musician and general hottie (if you’re into guys that weigh less than you).
CL has got a great arts event upcoming, Sensory Overload, this Saturday. And our esteemed editor, David Warner, was on Studio 10 this morning pimping it. There is a link to the video here.
[...]Why couldn't Blue State Digital been as creative for Rod Smith as one of its employees was for Barack Obama?
Blue State Digital was the former home to Phil de Vellis, who has been outed as the genius behind the YouTube "Vote Different!" ad that skewered Hillary Clinton with [...]
Nobody loves a good cup of java as much as I, but I gotta say this doesn't quite match free admission to the Mons a free lap dance.
It appears that incumbent Tampa City Councilwoman Gwen Miller has had just about enough of this shit. Her campaign began phoning voters this week, with a live-person call telling remining recipients of challenger Joe Redner's numerous arrests (only three cases stuck, by the way) and how he earns his [...]
Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives:
You can't leave, 'cause your heart is there / But you can't stay, 'cause you been somewhere else:
A scene from Monday evening's peace protest in Crescent Lake Park, marking the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War. (photo by James Ostrand)
[...]Dawn Morgan reports: Yesterday, as protests occurred throughout the U.S. on the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq, 13 people gathered by the Java Junction parking lot at Kennedy and Sterling at the height of rush hour. They were volunteers with Veterans for Peace, Code Pink and MoveOn.org. One [...]
Back-to-work edition:
