Some things you say rarely –if at all — in a public forum, unless, of course, you don’t mind being labeled a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, an ethno-centric Neanderthal, an anti-Allah alarmist, a generic bigot or a traitor to a cause. To even broach certain topics, you need to know which code words to [...]
Now that the promise of an affordable artists’ community is off the drawing boards with the planned East Village of the Arts in Ybor City, a key question is begged. No, not the one about why artists should be singled out and subsidized to do what they do, which sometimes includes creating stuff that even [...]
Let’s go over this one more time. Steroids threaten the game’s players and integrity; serial spitters further pollute the image; un-capped salaries create competitive apartheid; and the designated hitter remains an iconoclastic misstep. But Major League Baseball has drawn a line in the diamond. Visible tattoos are taboo on pitchers. As a result, Toronto Blue [...]
Let’s go over this one more time. Steroids threaten the game’s players and integrity; serial spitters further pollute the image; un-capped salaries create competitive apartheid; and the designated hitter remains an iconoclastic misstep. But Major League Baseball has drawn a line in the diamond. Visible tattoos are taboo on pitchers. As a result, Toronto Blue [...]
The train-bomb carnage in Madrid has ratcheted the terrorism stakes even higher — yet again. Apparently the horrific deed that killed 200 and maimed a thousand was enough to galvanize the Spanish electorate into voting out the center right Popular Party of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a staunch American ally against terrorism. Socialist Prime [...]
Can it be just 14 months ago that we were reveling in the Jon Gruden mystique and retracting our harshest Glazer critiques? Sure, a disappointing season ensued, but stuff like that happens in the National Football League. That’s why NFL also stands for “Not For Long.” Injuries and parity scenarios are co-conspirators. But the John [...]
It’s long been axiomatic that Tampa’s waterfront was the city’s most underutilized asset. It was a good place to build a parking garage or a beer-can shaped office tower. That attitude, mercifully, no longer prevails. The new art museum will incorporate a waterfront park and several eyesore, ad-hoc parking lots will morph into vista-enhancing green [...]
It’s long been axiomatic that Tampa’s waterfront was the city’s most underutilized asset. It was a good place to build a parking garage or a beer-can shaped office tower. That attitude, mercifully, no longer prevails. The new art museum will incorporate a waterfront park and several eyesore, ad-hoc parking lots will morph into vista-enhancing green [...]
A recent study has shown that motorcycle fatalities in Florida have risen since the repeal of the helmet law. Another study showed that the risk of a car crash is a lot higher for elderly drivers. And a third study showed that there’s no end in sight of studies that prove the obvious. *It’s illegal [...]
Had he been a contemporary, Benjamin Disraeli would surely agree that there are “Lies, damn lies and movie ads.” Hopefully, most of us are aware of the scam by now. There are publicist ploys, sham critics and out-of-context reviews. We’ve all seen, regrettably, an awful movie that was huckstered as, say, an “awesome spectacle,” “truly [...]
