Q-tips say: Go try it! OK food and service & drinks. Ambiance is like a sports bar.
Pincher’s seems to be obsessed with cheese. Not a bad thing if you really like cheese. Appetizer- One -Ahi Tuna on bed of lettuce. Another were the oysters on a half shell. Entrees: Mahi Mahi grilled w/ side Caesar salad & fries. A Soft shell crab dinner. Nine shrimp dinner w/ sides. One Grouper dinner.
Enjoyed the socialization with visiting adult kids after a visit to the Loaded Cannon distillery.
3/21/22 – After watching her dad paint, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead decides she’d like to be a painter too. Showing remarkable facility, she’s soon got paintings hanging in a local coffee shop and a handful of interested buyers. A local paper picks up the story, followed by the New York Times, and overnight Marla is hailed as a child prodigy. But not everybody is convinced that Marla painted the works alone. In the wake of a “60 Minutes” piece about her, it begins to look more and more like she had help.
Q-tips & visiting adult kids say: Interesting movie but My Kid Could Paint That gets people thinking and talking. Marla’s story is a sobering illustration of the way children can be exploited by adults who should know better journalists, filmmakers and especially their own parents.
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One Dali Blvd. St. Petersburg, FL. www.thedali.org – 727.823.3767
3/22/22 – Q-tips & their adult kids say: YES, see it.
What a great visit.
Mrs. Q says: Salvador Dalí made paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he had. He painted melting clocks and floating eyes, clouds that look like faces and rocks that look like bodies.
Sounds weird right? Think about what your paintings would look like if you painted your dreams? I bet they would be pretty weird too!
Dalí was involved with surrealism. This was an art movement where painters made dream-like scenes and showed situations that would be bizarre or impossible in real life to shock & scare.
Dalí was even expelled from art school just before his final exams because he said that none of the teachers were qualified to examine him.
Salvador Dalí went to Paris after leaving art school, which was where he met the surrealists. The surrealists appealed to his wild sense of humor, they invented surrealist games and enjoyed putting different objects together to make something playful and disturbing at the same time. Here is Dalí’s version of a surrealist sculpture. It is called Lobster Telephone.
You couldn’t call anything on that!
Dalí liked to use lots of different materials to make art, including paint, sculpture and film. He even designed furniture, jewels and scenery for theatre production. He was a man of many talents and he is still seen as a great artist who influences many artists today!
What do you think of Dalí’s artwork? Is it funny, weird…scary?
3/23/22- Retired talent manager Al reconnects with former client Buddy, a comedian who gave up performing decades ago, and urges him to go back out on the road.
Q-tips say: Was ok. Chevy Chase and Richard Dreyfuss are a sight for sore eyes, but they unfortunately do not get The Last Laugh in a generic buddy comedy that never musters any jokes worthy of their comedic chops. The film has too many weak points to recommend immediately adding to your queue, but off the strength of Dreyfuss’ performance, it’s worth checking out.
3/22/22 – “Licorice Pizza” is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Q-tips & our visiting adult kids say:
Don’t waste your time watching this. Four thumbs down.
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3/22/22 – 211 2nd St. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, 727 623 9037
www.gratzzigrill.com
Q-tips & visiting adult kids say: Was just ok – nothing really special. The Early Bird menu had a few things to order from but the regular menu’s prices were over-priced. They advertise a Happy Hour but when we asked them to make an Old Fashion drink with their Happy Hour bourbon, the waiter said, “No can do.”
Mrs. Q says: There are many other restaurants to go to & enjoy in St. Petersburg- try one of them.
Q-tips & our visiting adult kids say: We did enjoy. Burgers/drinks/service was great along with the pretzels. The ambiance is great but music/noise level – a tad loud.
Really enjoyed the honey mustard dipping sauce. Requested extra to dip our French fries in & our request was granted with a smile.
Mrs. Q says: a visit to the “Pit stop” the washrooms, is a must to see the ambiance. What fun!
American standard burger
Edsel’s hot pretzels – salted pretzels served w/Ford’s beer cheese & honey mustard dipping sauce.
3/11/22 – After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future.
Q-tips say: Yes, enjoyed it.
The Adam Project might bring you back in time to family movie nights where sci-fi narratives found in wonder but also joy because I was watching it as a family. An entertaining film that delivers profound messages.
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Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon and politician.
Inspired by his mother (Kimberly Elise) to never give up, Detroit native Ben Carson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) overcomes poverty and prejudice to become a neurosurgeon.
Q-tips say: See it! We enjoyed Gifted Hands. A tribute to a real role model who’s living proof that it’s possible to overcome any obstacle standing between you and your dreams.
