Dick Greco has left the building. The one on East Jackson. Now he’s in an office complex up on North Florida. Closer to Avila than Harbour Island. Troubleshooting for Eddie DeBartolo. The trappings are as different as City Hall and the Magdalene Center. His office is smaller. Less memorabilia. There’s room for a couple of [...]
Not that anyone asked, but here are a few suggestions for the Bay Area’s newest entry into television news, Town ‘N Country-based WTTA, Channel 38. The 10 p.m. newscast should be on air by mid-July. 1) Please keep us informed about the weather, but don’t hype and tease and scare us because hurricane season is [...]
Here’s what Operation Golf War or the “Annika Sorenstam Open” was really about. First, it was a marketing coup. The Bank of America Colonial, which typically doesn’t excite the national media, was off the charts with coverage. More than 600 reporters and the MetLife blimp hovered over and probed the event’s main attraction: Annika Sorenstam. [...]
The aftermath of that notorious New York Times ‘ case of journalistic fraud has prompted a predictable and exhaustive reaction from the Times . It went on the offensive with an unprecedented page-one explanation and expiation of the Jayson Blair affair. With two jumps, the mother of all mea culpas ran to some 7,200 words. [...]
The conservative Weekly Standard ran a recent piece on Gov. Jeb Bush, anointing him as the early favorite for the GOP 2008 presidential nomination. As Dana Carvey might say, “Wouldn’t be prudent.” Even with the best possible spin on Jeb’s controversial tenure as governor. Even with the understanding that Jeb was his own family’s top [...]
Welcome news that Tampa will soon be the primary production location for a major movie starring John Travolta. “The Punisher,” an adaptation of the Marvel Comics superhero, will begin shooting this summer. The title character is an undercover FBI agent who turns vigilante after his family is murdered by mobsters. The feature movie shoot, this [...]
Welcome news that Tampa will soon be the primary production location for a major movie starring John Travolta. “The Punisher,” an adaptation of the Marvel Comics superhero, will begin shooting this summer. The title character is an undercover FBI agent who turns vigilante after his family is murdered by mobsters. The feature movie shoot, this [...]
If there’s anything more asinine than “Jackass the Movie,” it’s got to be jackasses, the audience. Especially the wannabes.
Earlier this week former Tampa Bay area priest Robert Schaeufele was found not guilty of capital sexual battery in an emotion-and-controversy-charged trial. The jurors all looked shaken after the verdict and none were immediately available for comment. Schaeufele now awaits trials on three more capital sexual battery charges. The wrenching verdict underscores one aspect of [...]
We all have such lists. Stuff we just “don’t get.” Not just dislike — but “don’t get.” And seriously wonder why anyone else would. Maybe yours would include modern monarchies or rap music or croquet or mosh pits or cats or slasher movies or O’Doul’s or France or Jackass The Movie or jackass the audience [...]
