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Tropical Heatwave, Day 2, Saturday with The Hold Steady, Bright Light Social...
Two CL writers — Julie Garisto and Andy Warrender — and photographer Tracy May hit the ground at the 33rd Annual Tropical Heatwave this weekend. Here's a look back at their adventures... Click here to...
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Florida CAIR has serious questions regarding FBI Agent Who Killed Ibragim...
The Florida chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) today sent letters to the Department of Justice, the Orange County State Attorney's Office, and the FBI demanding answers...
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Poet's Notebook: Mayday!
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… Recently I opened up the Tampa Bay Times...
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KenoSobi presents Stand For Something at a release show this Friday
Kenan Hercules is an important member of the massive, BOTB-winning hip hop collective Gwan Massive. The 31-year-old drummer/producer better known as KenoSobi is also a cog in Gwan Massive-related...
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This year's Eurovision and its bearded wonder
On Sunday, the annual Eurovision Song Contest found its winner – Conchita Wurst, a slim, long-haired beauty who just happens to rock a meticulously trimmed beard. Eurovision is essentially a...
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Mick Foley sells out Side Splitters
Taking a steel folding-chair to the face can’t be very humorous. Nor can being thrown off the top of cage meant to hold either a climactic battle, or perhaps a large dinosaur. Still, WWE Hall of Fame...
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And here's the terrifying trailer for 'Selfie' (VIDEO)
ABC is hoping to capture a younger, social-savvy audience with a horrid new show. by Scott Harrell ABC has a new show coming out. It's called Selfie, and it looks horrifying. A vapid, selfish, social...
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Primal dream — Denis Gaston at Five Deuces
As an illustration of what kind of artist he wants to be, Denis Gaston tells a story about visiting a popular exhibition of Dale Chihuly’s glass sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg,...
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Basketball court: Shawna Vercher vs. Tim Donaghy
In June of 2012, a Pinellas County jury deliberated for less than two hours before awarding former NBA referee Tim Donaghy $1.3 million in his civil trial against Shawna Vercher and her company, VTi...
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This week in Tampa Bay area music: 97X Backyard BBQ with Bastille & others,...
THURSDAY, MAY 15The Toadies20th Anniversary Tour w/BattleMe/Supersuckers Few bands take me back to my youth quite so keenly as the Toadies. Their platinum-selling post-grunge debut came out when I was...
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Transforming Tampa Bay: Saving the good stuff
Americans have a marked tendency to throw stuff out and move on. We initially did this by wearing out the land and moving ever westward. We do this with clothes, jobs and relationships. Persuasive...
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Live and Local Spotlight: Stolen Idols CD Release Show
Stolen Idols, Tampa’s jazzy luau godfathers and worshippers of the tiki gods, present their first full-length album, Moonlight Offerings, this weekend. The title is based on Robert Jimenez’s midnight...
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Mitch Perry Report 5.15.14 - Fast Food Nation asks for a raise
Fast-food workers in Tampa and across the world are staging walk-out strikes today, demanding they be paid a living wage of $15 an hour. That's significantly more than what the proposed increase of...
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Wiser app simplifies Android phones
We all know somebody (hint: it's probably a parent) who's always asking for help doing things on their Android phone, or just complaining that there are too many options. These folks just want to make...
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RPOF reprises 5-year-old anti-Charlie Crist Democratic website
Five years ago today, May 15, 2009, wasn't really a very significant moment in U.S. or Florida history. Or was it? Well, it was the day when Charlie Crist announced he was running for the U.S. Senate...
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Al Cardenas & other Florida conservatives call on House Republicans to pass...
Citing the conservative Florida Legislature's consideration of pro-immigrant bills providing in-state tuition for undocumented schoolchildren and allowing an undocumented immigrant to legally practice...
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Theater Review: Jobsite Theater's All New People
Zach Braff’s All New People is a curious hybrid, three parts silly sitcom and one part modernist despairfest. Since the sitcom makes up the first hour of the play, it’s easy to assume that the whole...
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Fast-food workers demonstrate for a living wage in Tampa
A little past 4:30 p.m., together with other fast-food employees protesting around the world Thursday, Tampa workers rallied outside a cluster of fast-food titans at Fletcher Avenue and 22nd Street....
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Top LGBT weekend happenings
Looking for something fabulous to do this weekend? Here are our top LGBT events taking place in the Tampa Bay area this weekend. Kick off your weekend early Thursday, May 15, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., with...
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Do This: Moving Current's NewGrounds
Tampa’s dance collective, Moving Current, will be presenting the 12th edition of NewGrounds at USF Tampa, Theatre II this upcoming weekend. The event will showcase varied dance routines from nine...
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