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Down to Ybor City again: The return of The Hold Steady
When Hold Steady vocalist Craig Finn wrote the lines “Ybor City is tres speedy / but they throw such killer parties” and “Well, hold steady, Ybor City / You’re up to your neck in the sweat and wet...
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Tropical Heatwave: ask the DJs
Tough to pick from 60-plus acts over two days? We asked some people in the know: WMNF programmers, who not only told us the acts they’re most looking forward to that aren't The Hold Steady (who...
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The remaking of Tampa's Riverfront Park begins
Although virtually everyone is familiar with Curtis Hixon Park in Tampa, surprisingly few know about Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, located north of the University of Tampa campus, on the western...
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The professor is in: An interview with Melissa Harris-Perry
Melissa Harris-Perry bears the distinction of being the only tenured professor with her own cable news talk show. Harris-Perry, 40, is in a great place in her life — she’s been on the air with her...
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Catching Ybor’s biggest wave
WMNF Tropical Heatwave 2014 with The Hold Steady, Matrimony, Katchafire, Hayes Carll, Joseph Arthur, Elephant Stone, Matrimony,Victor Wainwright, Bright Light Social Hour, Black Taxi, Moon Hooch &...
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Mitch Perry Report 5.8.14: Charlie Crist says he may go to Cuba. And..?
You had to know that when the Times' Adam C. Smith posted early Wednesday morning that Charlie Crist was considering a visit to Cuba that it would drive the day's news cycle for those covering the...
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Border garde: Noelle Mason's Transliminal at HCC-Ybor
Thirty years after the fact, Noelle Mason jokes that her childhood might have been a little odd. For starters, her father was a SWAT team sniper while she was growing up in San Diego, Calif. One of...
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Buckhorn says HART could be main transportation agency in Hillsborough, but...
In his first couple of years in office, Bob Buckhorn didn't have too much to do about one of his city's greatest problems: transportation. While the Hillsborough County Commission dithered and did...
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This week in Tampa Bay area live music: The Gipsy Kings, Deer Tick, Mike...
THURSDAY, MAY 8Blitzen Trapper w/Lauris Vidal Blitzen Trapper unites alt country timbres – rusted drawling vocals and haunting harmonies, guitars with Southern greasy riffs, slides and solos, fine...
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Movie Review: The German Doctor
The German Doctor peeks in on a post-World War II Josef Mengele. by Joe Bardi I’ve always found it fascinating that after World War II some of the Nazi brass found refuge from war crimes tribunals by...
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Review: Big Guava Music Festival, Day 3 (Sunday) with Foster the People, Girl...
Click here to check out a review & pics from Day 2, and here to check out a review & pics from Day 1. The gloomy wet blanket that had covered Big Guava Music Festival finally cleared on Sunday...
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Demystifying the steamy Allie Haze
A sexually charged cyborg with stilt legs trounces through the crowd at Exxxotica Ft. Lauderdale just as I start to interview Allie Haze. The cyborg proceeds to do some mechanical pelvic thrusting,...
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A Q&A with Mike Reno before Loverboy plays Taste of Pinellas
Sometime back, the power-pop/arena-rock band Loverboy got some flak when frontman Mike Reno made an off-the-cuff semi-serious comment about letting the grunge-era fad ride out before making it big...
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Lela Lilyquist's quest to help the less fortunate in Hillsborough County...
Lela Lilyquist is not your average political candidate. For one thing, she's more intense than most people you'll ever come across. The Brandon-based homeless provider and health store owner is on a...
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Hear Benjamin Booker debut new songs on NPR's World Cafe, watch his Letterman...
Things just keep heating up for once Tampa-based artist Benjamin Booker and his band (Max Norton of Roppongi’s Ace and The Laurel Canyon, and Alex Spoto on drums and bass, respectively). Last week saw...
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Do This: Craftology
Le Geek c’est chic. For it’s second year, the Glazer Children's Museum has chosen geekiness as its official theme for its "science of beer" event, so show up in your favorite geek-wear, be it...
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Between two QUAIDS gives an inside view of an upstart art group
The QUAID collective has been a shot in the arm for the Tampa art scene (though one that only a few people have felt the euphoric effects of so far). Their Sketch Gang project has offered a home for...
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The juice is loose
Swami Juice, Tampa’s newest juice venue, joined the region’s growing cold-pressed, organic juice scene on April 26. Sisters Kim Dionisio and Kelly Koleos and their business partner Kerry Hanan, who...
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Mitch Perry Report 5.9.14: Could new Benghazi hearings lead House GOP to the...
After she took over as Speaker of the House in 2007, Nancy Pelosi alienated many progressives when she repeated that "impeachment was off the table." The question continued to dog her into 2008, after...
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Watch these women attempt to sing while having orgasms (video)
The all-girl EDM band, ADAM, had a simple idea for the music video to their latest single, "Go to Go." The camera focuses on a stagnant shot of these women singing while they are inconspicuously...
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