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Review: The Grecian Urns bring gang-vocal-love-jams to Green Bench Brewing...
It’s been more than three years since The Grecian Urns hung up their tambourines and gave up writing sunny songs together to pursue careers individually that were, for many of them, outside the...
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No Words: On Maya Angelou
I have a friend who’s been posting pictures of Maya Angelou’s stoop-turned-memorial, just up the street from her own home in Harlem. A wreath of white peonies. Stacks of single roses wrapped in...
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Transforming Tampa Bay: The groves of academe — Temple Terrace
If I were looking around for a special place to live, on the Hillsborough River, with loads of amenities, I’d choose Temple Terrace. This one-mile square, incorporated town, located just east of the...
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Life as we blow it: A little too auto
Driverless cars. Driverless cars! The future is here! Safety! Fuel efficiency! Environmental friendliness! It’s the single greatest technological development in the history of humanity! Oh, wait — no,...
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This week in Tampa Bay area live music: Weezer, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Little...
THURSDAY, JUNE 5Rock the Park: Paleface/Beartoe/The Heavy Metals The June edition of Rock the Park features national anti-folk troubadour Paleface, a guitarist/harmonica blower associated with Beck,...
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Mitch Perry Report 6.5.-6.6.14: The Zen of Zim
The passing of baseball lifer Don Zimmer last night at the age of 83 is being mourned not only in Tampa Bay, but in Boston, New York City and Chicago, where he also managed or coached in his long and...
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Arts: Made in China
In her 2010 book The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China, Barbara Pollack describes a moment after a friendly argument with artist Ai Weiwei. The two are squabbling over the...
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Meet the CL Street Team
You can find us out at concerts, art, food and sporting events throughout Tampa Bay doing what we do best—making a scene and giving away free s#!t. And if you're lucky, we'll take your picture. We’re...
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Kathy Castor to host townhall to solicit information about VA issues on Friday
Pasco/Pinellas GOP Congressman Gus Bilirakis hosted a town hall meeting in Port Richey on Thursday, inviting Pinellas County veterans to have a "candid conversation" about their issues with their...
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Live and Local Spotlight: Selwyn Birchwood CD Release Party
There's no mistaking the sound of the blues, one of the 20th century's oldest and most practiced genres, a fact that makes it difficult for bluesmen (and women) to stand out in amid the seemingly...
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Video: Fifteen years later, American Football's "Never Meant" finally gets a...
American Football had an un-Google-able band name before Googling band names was even a thing (just see the advertisement YouTube runs before the video). The Chicago-based emo legends probably never...
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Movie Review: Words and Pictures is a film without enough emphasis on either
Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche pair up for a rom-com whose reach exceeds its grasp. by Anthony Salveggi To determine whether Words and Pictures is right for you, please answer the following: Are you...
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St. Pete Polls survey now has Greenlight Pinellas leading in popularity
A new poll published shows that Greenlight Pinellas, the one-cent transit tax measure on the November ballot in Pinellas County, leads 48-45 percent, a dramatic turnaround from a poll conducted by the...
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A stoned review of Snow White XXX
I just texted my friend Sydney a shirtless selfie because I’m stoned and I haven’t had sex in a week and I have a lingering case of blue balls from the previous night when a woman had me pull her hair...
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Weekend Preview: Hellooo, Summer! Please Stay a While.
Libation. Cold one. Cerveza. Whatever you call beer—the CL Street Team loves it. And that’s why we've teamed up with New Belgium Brewing to bring you brag-worthy prizes and wallet-friendly drink...
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Adult Swim Announces 2014 Singles Program
Earlier this week, Adult Swim announced the launch of its 2014 Singles Program, a weekly series of new songs from a variety of artists including Giorgio Moroder, Future, Mastodon, Run the Jewels and...
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Do This: Brocante Vintage Market
Vintage connoisseurs can follow their bliss at Brocante Market in downtown St. Pete this weekend. Run by multiple vendors who call themselves “Brocanteurs,” the store’s monthly bazaar captures all of...
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The locals' laboratory
For Todd Strauss, Cigar City Cider and Mead is collaborative as much as it is creative. Headquartered at 1812 N. 15th St., an address whose former tenants have included Roosevelt 2.0 and Tampa Bay...
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Few Faults to be found in Our Stars
Woodley, Elgort, and supporting cast bring a beloved YA novel to life. by Katy WilliamsonThe Fault in Our Stars is not the first teen melodrama about star-crossed lovers. It’s also not the first teen...
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Florida flasher disguises penis as bag of vegetables in checkout line
Luis Gonzaga, 77, was arrested after allegedly concealing his penis in a plastic bag before rubbing himself against a woman inline ahead of him at the Volusia County Fairgrounds. Witnesses claim they...
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