Creative Loafing Tampa: Max LinskyTampa Creative Loafing Weekly Newspaper, shelter from the mainstream for news, event listings, dining, movies and music, restaurants.Bay to Bay- February 15, 2006 After 16 months of exploring the Bay area, he's headed for a new orbit.... By Max Linsky I'm no good with goodbyes. I've spent the past two weeks trying to figure out what I should do for this last column. I could go with the "By the time you read this, I'll be halfway across the country" angle, but that doesn't feel right. I'm writing this from my porch, where I've written every other column for the last year and a half. Not a sock has been...http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/bay_to_bay/Content?oid=6192 Lust List 2006- February 8, 2006 By Scott Harrell Ah, Valentine's Day. If you've got someone, February the 14th is either a marvelous opportunity to express the depths of your affection, or just another foregone commitment to spend time and money in the name of not sleeping out in the living room. If you've got no one, it's either a depressing reminder of your inability to find that perfect partner, or a reinforcement of your status as a loner, Dottie, a rebel. It's all in the eye of thehttp://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/lust_list_2006/Content?oid=6205 Lapping It Up- February 8, 2006 A rained-out afternoon morphs into a challenge for the ages.... By Max Linsky The retention pond next to the Planet parking lot, dry since the last big rainfall in August, had done its job. The thing was almost full, probably three feet deep with leaves, street run-off and other unspeakable muck. Even for standing water, the pond was particularly ... what's the word ... uninviting. "What would it take to get you in there" Anthony asked me,...http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/lapping_it_up/Content?oid=6228 The Other Super Bowl- February 1, 2006 Will we be cereal monogamists or cereal killers Let the battle begin.... By Max Linsky Welcome, welcome, welcome, one and all, tall and small, to the finest show on Earth, the fight that puts the 'fast' in breakfast. That's right, ladies and germs, it's the first ever Baaatle of the Breaaaakfasts in a Booooowl! In this corner, serving handmade granola and tasty pastries, coming all the way from 230 Fourth St. N., it's ... the 4th Street Granola...http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/the_other_super_bowl/Content?oid=6268 |