Daily Loaf

*Creepier headlines than this are hard to come by, even with Halloween approaching: Amy Winehouse’s Dad: She and Her New Boobs Are ‘Fantastic’ …. Mmmmmmk, well first of all, this is a lie because I am a person and I know about things and I have eyes. Second, I did not realize that Joe Simpson was Amy Winehouse’s father. Small world.

*Mischa Barton has made a statement, which is basically the Hollywood equivalent of “Well, I didn’t want to be on your team anyway so I am taking my ball and going home” by telling the media “that whole world of network television, probably isn’t, for me, a good idea now. I need to start reading for more serious roles.” This news come just weeks after her ill-fated and awful CW series, The Beautiful Life, was pulled off the air.

*In Full House news, because that show will remain relevant for-e-ver,  Jodie Sweetin is releasing her memoir next month and as it turns out, the Olsen twins weren’t the only ones spending the majority of their New York Minute premiere in a bathroom stall. That was a bulimia joke. Get it? Cuz they are so thin? Okay, fine, it wasn’t that funny. This gets better, I promise.

After the jump: girl on girl for charity, people who are still the same as they were last week and a little Adam Lambert candy for the soul.

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All photos and text by Mike Wilson.

It’s been almost seven years since I last saw blink-182, and things haven’t changed one bit. With traffic backed up for miles, lines were filled with soccer mom mini vans and screaming girls who were so young it felt illegal just looking at them. But thankfully, the long lines kept me behind schedule. Now, you may ask why I was happy that I got stuck in traffic for such a huge show. The reasons are as follows: All American Rejects and Fall Out Boy. (Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge of blink-182 pictured below.)

I talked my way through the under-qualified parking staff, finally managed to convince them I belonged in VIP parking, and slowly walked toward the Ford Amphitheatre entrance. I was in no rush to get ahead of this crowd. Read the rest of this entry »

A quick breakdown of this holiday weekend’s most worthy concerts. For a more comprehensive schedule, check out our Upcoming Events page.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
JJ Grey & Mofro w/Shooter Jennings/Earl Greyhound [pictured] A good ol’ boy from the backwaters of Jacksonville, JJ Grey is the creative force and frontman of Mofro, their music swamp-stomping, finger-licking, funked-out rock ‘n’ roll with a solid R&B groove marked by Grey’s husky soulful drawl. LA alt-country rocker Shooter Jennings (the sole spawn of country singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter) just released his first compilation, Bad Magick: The Best of Shooter Jennings and the .357’s, which includes select tracks from his first three studio albums, a few live recordings and a cover of Hank Williams Jr.’s 1976 single, “Living Proof.” And NY’s Earl Greyhound features afro-thrashing bassist/singer Kamara Thomas, who brings charismatic energy to the power trio’s fiery, heavy-handed blues rock. 8 p.m., The Ritz Ybor, Ybor City, $20.

Tom Goss w/Mara Levi Goss is an out-of-the-closet singer-songwriter who abandoned seminary school and impending priesthood to pursue social justice issues and his love of music. His vocals are high and pleasantly emotive, his acoustic pop touching and uplifting. He’s currently touring in support of his 2009 release, Back to Love.  4:30-6:00pm, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg,  free (students only). Read the rest of this entry »

A weekly bulletin about who’s playing on late night TV; set your TIVOs or DVRs if you’ve got an early bedtime. See a day missing? No musical guest that night…

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Tuesday, August 11: Elvis Costello (pictured) (rerun, June 4)
Wednesday, August 12: Rob Thomas (July 7)
Thursday, August 13: Paul McCartney (July 15)
Friday, August 14: MSTRKRFT with John Legend (June 23, performing “Heartbreaker”)

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, NBC
Monday, August 10: Lyle Lovett
Tuesday, August 11: Cobra Starship feat. Estelle (REGINA SPEKTOR AFTER THE JUMP) Read the rest of this entry »

Rebecca Tinsley, journalist and director of human rights group Waging Peace, is the first guest in USF Libraries’ Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center 2009 Lecture Series. Tinsley draws on her experiences reporting on war-torn countries and serving as a Waging Peace advocate during her talk, “Genocide in Darfur: Lessons from Rwanda and Uganda.” Tinsley’s visit coincides with Lost Voices of Darfur, an exhibit of enlarged reproductions of drawings by Darfuri child refugees ages six to 18. The drawings came after Waging Peace researcher Anna Schmitt — who was gathering testimonies from Darfuri refugees and displaced Chadians — was encouraged to talk to the refugee camp’s smallest and most impressionable witnesses, who were given paper and pencils and asked to sketch their strongest memory and their dreams for the future. In November of 2007, the children’s graphic drawings were accepted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague as contextual evidence of crimes committed in Darfur, and will be used as a graphic illustration of the atrocities in the trials against the accused. (Pictured: Tinsley with Darfuri children.) Wed., Jan. 28, 4 p.m. (lecture), USF Library Grace Allen Room, fourth floor, with the works on display now through January 31, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, free admission, 813-974-2729. (Leilani Polk)

Other things to do today:

• King Hedley II: August Wilson drama at American Stage, 211 3rd St. S., St. Petersburg, 7:30 p.m., 727-823-PLAY.

• The NFL and Getty Images, football photo exhibition the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, 200 N. Tampa St., Tampa,  timed to coincide with you-know-what. Exhibit hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; dinner event tonight at 8:15 at The Tampa Club.

• “Secret” Fall Out Boy concert at State Theatre, St. Petersburg, around 9 p.m. By invite only, but you may be able to find a way in; see Leilani Polk’s post here.