Vice President Dick Cheney and snowboard-cross silver medalist Lindsey Jacobellis have something in common besides being controversial names in the news the past fortnight. They both provided teachable moments. First, the Olympian who pried a runner-up spot from the jaws of gold-medal victory. To recap, Jacobellis, in a Torino version of the classic hare-vs.-tortoise runoff, [...]
*Let’s face it; the Olympics were more fun during the Cold War. US vs. Them. Chauvinism for a good cause. Now it’s a global variety show. It’s about individuals and their personalities – and losing the ratings’ race to American Idol. Bode Who? *Nordic combined, biathlon, curling. Somebody cares even if you don’t, but these [...]
This column gets its share of e-mail correspondence. Some of it favorable. A recent one merely commented on a current event, one that was largely under the radar at that point. Now it’s the epicenter of a national political firestorm. So plaudits to Anthony Williams of Apollo Beach, who fired off a heat-seeking epistle upon [...]
Barring any unforeseen complications with City Council, Tampa has itself a workable art museum plan. Finally. The parties were running out of drawing boards to go back to. And barring any deathbed conversions, not everyone will ever agree that the new plan is just splendid. Which is pretty much what you’d expect when talking art [...]
Tampa Theatre scored big with the recent showing of that campy, largely-shot- in-Florida, 3-D film from the ’50s, “The Creature From The Black Lagoon.” On a blustery Sunday afternoon, a crowd snaked around The Hub and down Polk Street to queue up for the ninth show of the 11-part Winter Classic Movie Series. The turnout [...]
Let’s see if we have this right. From Gaza to Indonesia, Muslim robes have been in a menacing knot over caricatures of Mohammad. A Danish newspaper – and then a French one and other Europeans in solidarity — ran some Prophet cartoons, one of which showed Mohammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a burning fuse. [...]
It had seemed that Jimmy Carter’s niche was secure. He was an unsuccessful, micro-managing president who became one of our most accomplished former presidents. From Habitat For Humanity home construction to international bridge building. Granted, he did occasionally wander off the reservation overseas and didn’t always endear himself to the Clinton Administration. But then he [...]
I’ll acknowledge this much up front; I’m one of the Village people. As in Old Hyde Park Village. I prefer town-square ambience to an enclosed, suburban Pentagon. I’m blessed to live within walking distance. I like lunch at Restaurant BT, dinner at The Wine Exchange, a movie at Sunrise Cinemas, open-air retail, a place to [...]
I’ll acknowledge this much up front; I’m one of the Village people. As in Old Hyde Park Village. I prefer town-square ambience to an enclosed, suburban Pentagon. I’m blessed to live within walking distance. I like lunch at Restaurant BT, dinner at The Wine Exchange, a movie at Sunrise Cinemas, open-air retail, a place to [...]
“ABC World News Tonight” co-anchor Bob Woodruff has lived through a journalist’s worst nightmare: becoming collateral damage in covering a dangerous story. The exact extent of his injuries caused by that roadside bomb near Taji, Iraq, and a precise prognosis won’t be known for a while. But this much is known. Woodruff is a serious [...]
