For those still expressing outrage over that steamy pre-game promotion preceding a recent Monday Night Football game: Get over it. Not because you’re overreacting. Not because you just don’t “get it.” And not because “that’s ‘show biz.’” But because it’s now too late to re-bottle the genie of mainstream cultural sludge. Frankly, I was more [...]
Picture this: A shouting match at a street dance in downtown St. Petersburg between Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio and St. Pete Mayor Rick Baker. Actually, it’s a scripted exchange from an upcoming musical comedy, “Crossing The Bay,” that plays next month (Jan. 25-30) at Tampa’s Falk Theatre. The play, which is filled with local history [...]
If you’re looking for something a little different – actually, a lot different – this New Year’s Eve, you might consider ringing in 2005 at Ybor City’s Cuban Club (Circulo Cubano de Tampa). It’s not your basic holiday bash; it’s the semi-formal (black tie optional), annual New Year’s Eve Ball hosted by the Krewe of [...]
If you’re looking for something a little different – actually, a lot different – this New Year’s Eve, you might consider ringing in 2005 at Ybor City’s Cuban Club (Circulo Cubano de Tampa). It’s not your basic holiday bash; it’s the semi-formal (black tie optional), annual New Year’s Eve Ball hosted by the Krewe of [...]
I remember it as if it were this morning. Hurricane Charley was bearing down on Tampa Bay. A direct hit, that which we had been lured into believing couldn’t happen here, loomed likely. Tampa Bay as a meteorological funnel would be catastrophic. Plywood and sandbags were the Maginot Line of defense. Rolled up carpets reminiscent [...]
Journalism is the only profession with its own amendment, the First. It is the bedrock of democracy. But it is not a science – rocket or otherwise. The practice is rife with judgment calls. Among them: How do you handle controversial photos? You know the one: that gut-wrenching shot of the dying American soldier in [...]
Urban Meyer may be the next head coach of the Florida Gators. With good reason have many of the usual suspects anointed the 40-year-old head coach of the University of Utah. He’s been highly successful at Utah and prior to that as head coach at Bowling Green. Known as a hard-driving innovator, Meyer loves a [...]
Re: The flap over the controversial pre-game promotion before last week’s Monday Night Football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys. Get over it. Not because “it’s no big deal.” And not because “that’s ‘show biz.’” But because we’re not re-bottling the genie known as mainstream cultural sludge. And prime-time pro sports – [...]
Now that the rhetorical debris from the election and the analytical dust from the postmortems have settled, we can be more objective about what happened a fortnight ago. If you believe the exit polls, a plurality of those voting for President George W. Bush did so on the basis of a moral agenda. Gay marriage [...]
If ever there was a slam dunk issue coming before City Council, it was the recent hearing – and final vote this week — on the Ybor City curfew. And if ever there was a sad commentary on the sorry state of some parents’ priorities, it’s this proposal, which will ban those younger than 18 [...]
