The future of comic book heroes rests on X-Men
Look, up on the screen! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's . . .

Early returns on 'X Men'
Several hundred moviegoers got a sneak peek at X-Men in Tampa earlier this week. Here's what some of them had to say after the show.

Friday's Entertainment Headlines

• Seize the day
  Friday's best bets
• Radio personalities to duke it out
  The boxers have been chosen.

Pop Beat
That's all the jazz?
No matter how many jazz lovers are out there, Tampa's jazz scene is hurting. The club scene is the lifeblood of the music business, but owners say jazz fans don't spend enough money to keep them going.

Causey says so
Feeling spiritually bereft? The Causey Way, from Gainesville, may be able to help. Though its bumper sticker claims "The Causey Way is not a cult," it's hard to ignore fans' fervor for the man known simply as Causey, the band's leader, a David Koresh lookalike who plays guitar and sings his own praises.

Words from Ween
From a tour stop in San Francisco, Gene Ween, whose alternative rock band Ween comes to town Saturday, answers 10 pressing questions.

Rock star on the run
C.C. DeVille has a new addiction, running, but his music is still pure Poison.

A stand-up guy
George Wallace (the comedian, not the politician) has written for TV and had a series of his own, but, like his friend Jerry Seinfeld, is happiest with a microphone, an audience, and his jokes.

On Stage
Theater in Review
Quick capsules on current stage productions.

Technology transforming music's bible
The next edition of New Grove may be the last printed and bound, all 145 pounds of it.

TimeOut
Gallery highlights Civil War battles
Take an imaginary trip back to the battlefield in the opening weekend of "The Sound of Guns, the Glint of Steel," an exhibit from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Nuance Galleries, 720 S Dale Mabry, Tampa.

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