Mustangs = money for Children's Cancer Center
Want to help a children's charity? Test drive a car on Saturday afternoon. Today's "Drive A Pony, Help A Kid" event at Bill Currie Ford will raise funds for Children's Cancer Center, and to...
View ArticleChateau DeVoid: Not your typical Easter Sunday
Need a break from the pastels and egg hunts of Easter? The Chateau DeVoid Grand Opening on Sunday at 8 p.m. will offer you a dark departure from the wholesome festivities of Christ’s resurrection. The...
View ArticleDebbie Wasserman Schultz OK with latest White House punt on pipeline
Everyone in Washington knows when you want to get out the news when the majority of folks aren't paying attention, Friday afternoon is the time to do it. And on Good Friday? Even better.Regardless of...
View ArticleConcert review: Local Natives conquer State Theatre in St. Petersburg
I’ve had people urging me to see Local Natives live since the much-buzzed-about SXSW performance that followed the relea se of their gorgeous 2009 first album, Gorilla Manor. Many years and a second...
View ArticleMitch Perry Report 4.21.14: Ready or not, Bollywood Oscars come to Tampa
After 10 months of substantial build-up (some would call it hype) in the local press, the International Indian Film Academy awards (also known as the Bollywood Oscars) come to Tampa this week, the...
View ArticleColor-blindsided: The flesh trade of Edgar Sanchez Cumbas
VISUAL ARTEdgar Sanchez Cumbas: Community of Flat Faces runs through May 7 at the Gallery 221 at HCC-Dale Mabry’s, Learning Resources Center, second Floor (inside library), 4001 W Tampa Bay Blvd.,...
View ArticleImmigration reform a theme in local Easter celebration
The Evangelical Immigration Table made an effort to push immigration reform back into the forefront of debate Saturday as they brought out fifteen speakers to speak on the issue from a Biblical...
View ArticleRick Scott strikes out again in the courts on drug testing Floridians
The Supreme Court of the United States today rejected Governor Rick Scott's appeal of a lower court ruling that declared his executive order to drug test state employees unconstitutional. The move was...
View ArticleGrowler bill advances in Florida Senate despite deep opposition from Tampa...
A Senate committee today passed revised legislation that would allow Florida craft breweries to legally sell 64-ounce growlers, but at too high a cost in the opinion of many of those brewers who...
View ArticleA need for nourishment
On March 31, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that climate change and its impacts are “occurring on all continents and across the oceans.” It said the world is...
View ArticleBurgerFi to join Post SoHo development
It takes 111 recycled Coke bottles to make one chair for BurgerFi, an eco-friendly, fast-casual restaurant chain that plans to open its first location in Tampa by August or September. With more than...
View ArticleNew Music Tuesday! (April 22): Iggy Azalea, The Menzingers, Neon Trees, The...
The fourth week of new music releases out in April. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio &...
View ArticleMitch Perry Report 4.22.14: Happy Earth Day
Welcome to the 44th anniversary of Earth Day. Although the biggest issue of the day when it comes to the global health of the planet remains climate change, most experts will tell you not enough is...
View ArticleLinkedin 'Tinder': LinkedUp! connects you with singles in your professional...
The new dating app LinkedUp! combines the ease and addictiveness of Tinder with the professional networking platform, Linkedin. Instead of creating a dating profile by culling information from your...
View ArticlePhoto Review: The Sounds rock State Theatre, St. Petersburg
From the moment she spit into the air and let it fall onto her face, until she blew out the smoke from her last on-stage cigarette that taunted the audience in the smoke-free venue, Maja Ivarsson and...
View ArticleWatch: The Menzingers video, "I Don't Want to Be An Asshole Anymore"
Scranton, Penn. pop punk outfit The Menzingers dropped a so-far-so-solid album Rented World today and along with it, they've released an amusing video for the LP's lead-off single, "I Don't Want to Be...
View ArticleActivists protest PNC shareholder meeting in Tampa over Mountaintop Removal
Earlier this month, JPMorgan Chase updated its environmental policy and revealed that it will be ending its financial relationships with Mountaintop Removal (MTR) coal-mining companies, joining Wells...
View ArticleAdvocacy group says poll shows Floridians don't want minimum fares for cab...
Tampa and two other Florida municipalities, Miami and Orlando, currently mandate minimum fares for limousines. That law is being challenged in Hillsborough County by an advocacy organization which...
View ArticleDo This: ACT pizza fundraiser, Ghost the Musical and The Voice
LOCAL DIVA: Sisuandra Lewis, from Polk County, is hoping not to be eliminated tonight on The Voice. Tampa Bay pet owners were shocked to learn the news of an arson that that killed three cats early...
View ArticleWine & Rhyme goes monthly, diversifies even more for round two
For the last three years, Ol' Dirty Sundays (ODS) has been thee thing for hip hop heads to do at the end of each and every weekend, and while a new event —Wine & Rhyme at Crumb & Cork in...
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