Philip Booth is a longtime arts/entertainment journalist, fiction writer and musician who regularly contributes to the St. Petersburg Times, Bass Player, Down Beat, Jazziz , Billboard.com, Las Vegas City Life and Folio Weekly. He blogs at scribelife.

His writing on music, film, books and other areas of popular culture has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, the Boston Globe, Miami New Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jazz Times, CMJ New Music Monthly, Variety, Option, Philadelphia City Life, Detroit Metro Times, Weekly Planet and many other publications. He was the pop music critic for the Tampa Tribune from 1988 to 1996.

Philip recently received an M.A. in English (creative writing) from the University of South Florida. "The Night Frank Sinatra Saved Pop's Life," a short story originally included in Philip's fiction thesis, was published in the journal Florida English. His scholarly essays and reviews have been published in Literature Film Quarterly, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of American Culture, Banyan and online at SawPalm.

Also visit:
philipboothmusic.com
triovibe.com
calliesjewelry.com