rss VOLUME 22, NUMBER 31 - 11.05.09 TO 11.11.09

• STEAMY KITCHEN

  Jaden Hair, food blogger and CL alum, publishes Steamy Kitchen Cookbook

  I first met Jaden (rhymnes with "maiden") Hair two years ago, in the drizzled, muddy parki...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Brian Ries
• SAVAGE LOVE

  I want a threesome with my boyfriend, but I'm jealous when he talks to other girls

  Woman interested in threesome may have to do the asking.

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Dan Savage
• RESTAURANT REVIEWS

  Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe in Seminole Heights is retro-modern, with food to match

  I shy away from the the term "hipster," if only because it's tossed around with a disr...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Brian Ries
• FEATURES

  What's next for Jannus Landing?

  The life, death and rebirth of a beloved concert venue.

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Eric Snider
• NEWS FEATURE

  The state of Ybor City

  Is it the best of times or the worst of times? What's in store for Ybor?

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Mitch Perry
• SAVAGE LOVE

  Simply gross

  Here's hoping this Internet creep is making all this up.

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Dan Savage
• VISUAL ART

  Lesley Dill's breathtaking artwork explores how words shape our world

  For all the blows that have been struck against the once-hallowed ideal of the artist as expressive...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Megan Voeller
• FEATURES

  The Genitorturers frontwoman and metal provocateur celebrates her band's new album with a hometown show

  The siren wails of ascending notes, the speedy electro hammering of programmed drums and a fat and s...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Leilani Polk
• COMMENTARY

  It's only a game, parents

  But you wouldn't know it from the coaches and parents watching youth baseball.

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Catherine Durkin Robinson
• NEWS

  What makes Paula Dockery run?

  Why State Senator Paula Dockery jumped into Florida's gubernatorial race.

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Mitch Perry
• FEATURES

  Students highlight the Independents' Film Festival, plus Sarasota's Cine-World

  It used to be that film festivals in the Tampa Bay area were a rarity. No longer. Totaling up all th...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Joe Bardi
• RESTAURANT REVIEWS

  Cafe Dufrain's new chef Ferrell Alvarez needs to catch up to his potential

  One glance at Cafe Dufrain's new menu -- which is still evolving -- and you can see where new ch...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Brian Ries
• STRAIGHT DOPE

  How did the states establish long straight borders before GPS?

  How is it that, in places without natural features such as a river or mountain range to mark a borde...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Cecil Adams
• NEWS FEATURE

  Welcome to the Yborhood, Creative Loafing

  With this issue, Creative Loafing is celebrating a homecoming of sorts: Five years after leaving Ybo...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by David Warner
• THEATER REVIEW

  Smart new improv show The Dumb Show is a welcome monthly addition to American Stage

  Good improv requires a lot more than acting talent. It requires intelligence, a wide-ranging imagina...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Mark E. Leib
• POET'S NOTEBOOK

  War stories

  Tolstoy's War and Peace is as gripping and contemporary as ever.

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Peter Meinke
• THEATER REVIEW

  Art is an entertaining play about male friendship and contemporary art

  Yasmina Reza's Art has two subjects, one of them serious and worthy of attention, the other slig...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Mark E. Leib
• NEWS

  Hillsborough County inches ever closer to a light rail system

  The Hillsborough County Commission last week began the first formal steps toward approving a penny s...

  Vol. 22 No. 31 Published 11.05.09 by Mitch Perry