Editor’s note: As hoped, we found someone who graciously volunteered to review Jobsite Theater’s The History of the Devil. Say hello to Adonna, and we promise to give her a proper welcome soon. In the meantime, here is her review. Forget Georgia; the Devil is down in Florida this month in The History of the Devil, [...]
It’s hard to write a post about Choxotica, a new chocolate store on Dale Mabry and Ehrlich, without it turning into a love letter. The small store sells exotic chocolate bars from all over the world and offers a small cafe setting to enjoy the above mentioned bars with chocolate drinks so strong they should [...]
The Red Bull Flugtag was presented here on Saturday, for the first time in Tampa Bay, and I attended with a group of friends along with another 110,000 people or so. The arrow in the photo indicates roughly where I was. See me? I’m jumping up and down and waving! Hello! In case you’re not familiar [...]
A caveat first. Mary Jordan, who co-stars in the New Tampa Players production of Same Time Next Year for the next couple of weekends at the Carrollwood Cultural Center is my niece. So I’m biased. That said, the two-act play, which also stars Marc Sanders, is a hoot. Sander and Jordan reprise the rolls played by Ellen [...]
I’d heard rumors that a restaurant was going to occupy the abandon gas station at the corner of Platt and S Boulevard. Then, while attending a City Council hearing, I heard of a new restaurant going by the name Smoke. I thought it was very clever, the name, Smoke. The lawyer, representing the owner’s of [...]
Funny women salvage surrogate comedy Kate Holbrook is a successful Philadelphia business executive. At age 37, she has it all — including a ticking biological clock. She’d like to have a baby (husband optional), but that doesn’t seem medically likely. Besides, she’s too busy and spoiled to go through the actual pains of pregnancy and birth. So [...]
Spurlock’s search finds that people are people. Everywhere. Remember Morgan Spurlock? He’s the plucky, plainspoken guy who earned comic-documentary cred with “Super Size Me,” in which he stuffed himself with McDonald’s junk for a whole month while his health and love life slid down the tubes. After an unimpressive stint as a TV documentarian, Spurlock returns to [...]
Pacino thriller is bloody nonsense If someone tells you he intends to kill you in exactly 88 minutes, what would you do? Personally, I’d dash to the nearest police station and hang around for an hour and a half or so. But not Dr. Jack Gramm. This professor is a forensic psychologist with a lucrative, admirable sideline: He [...]
Jackie-Jet show filled out with mumbo-jumbo and splashy effects A fantasy-adventure-comedy geared for mass audiences, “The Forbidden Kingdom” is a sort of kung-foolish paella, with a little of everything thrown in so that everyone can find something to like. For kung-fu fanatics, there’s the first-ever pairing of legends Jet Li and Jackie Chan. For youngsters, there’s a [...]
