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Do This: A Life Onstage
In addition to carving out an admirable performance career of his own, Garry Breul (pictured above) has helped raise funds for local charities, bringing uproarious and inspirational performances to...
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Mitch Perry Report 6.10.14: The VA situation is worse than imagined
The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center at Bay Pines is among 110 Veterans Affairs facilities listed for additional review in an auditor's report about the problem with waiting lists for veterans...
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Activist group wants Florida to end for-profit youth prisons
Critics contend that privatization of juvenile prisons has had detrimental effects on youth, including high recidivism rates. A report last year from the Huffington Post showed that 40 percent of...
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Ty Segall announces new album, show at Tampa's Epic Problem on September 12
Ty Segall is prolific if anything, so it comes with some surprise that it's taken him six months to announce a follow-up to his 2013 LP Sleeper. Today, the San Francisco-born fuzz rock king (who has...
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New poll shows Floridians not really into Rick Scott OR Charlie Crist
If you're with Charlie Crist's brain trust this morning, the question that has to be asked is: How long can we stay off the airwaves? That's because a new Public Policy Survey of nearly 600 Floridians...
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New Music Tuesday! (June 10): Jack White, Umphrey's McGee, First Aid Kit & more
The second week of new jams for June. 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 & video for your...
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Dress up your dick pic with a new app (video)
Women are tired of having their phones bombarded with tasteless dick pics that have bad lighting, the same tired poses, and uninspired backgrounds. Rockthatcock.org created an imaginary smartphone app...
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The Weekend That Was: China, Mieka, Norma, Tony
An exhibit that expands your view of the world, a concert that expands the capacity of your living room, a juicy love triangle with killer music (or was that a killer love triangle with juicy music?),...
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Concert review: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at Orpheum, Ybor City
I hadn’t seen Clap Your Hands Say Yeah since Langerado ’06, following the blog-hyped release of their impeccable 2005 self-titled debut, which grabbed my heart and made me a fan, initially anyway. I...
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Tiki time
The United States Bartenders' Guild (USBG) Tampa Bay Chapter hosted its annual Sunset Tiki Party Sunday, June 8, at St. Pete Beach’s Postcard Inn on the Beach. Libations flowed with unlimited pours of...
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The Strokes and Phoenix stand out at the fourth annual Governors Ball in NYC
After missing out on attending Coachella for the first time since George W. Bush was still in the White House, I was determined to find some other out-of-town festival this summer that could bring...
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Florida fails to land any city in top 20 most LGBT-friendly list
To hear Bill O'Reilly describe it, Seattle has now transcended San Francisco (thanks to legalizing pot) as the most liberal enclave in America. Whether the Fox News host's take is accurate or not, the...
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Mitch Perry Report 6.11.14: Ted Cruz wing of the GOP emboldened after Cantor...
On CBS'This Morning, longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz said "Republican pollsters suck," in explaining to Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary...
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Second meeting on the future of Tampa's Riverfront Park a bit more contentious
Last month the city of Tampa convened the first in a series of publicly announced meetings inviting the West Tampa community to weigh in on Mayor Bob Buckhorn's intentions on redeveloping Riverfront...
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Nipple tattoo artist Vinnie Myers helps breast cancer survivors (video)
Breast cancer not only threatens many women's lives, it often wrecks their sense of femininity. Breast implants can help survivors with a double mastectomy feel more confident in clothes, but often...
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Hangover helpers
You wake up to the piercing sun peeking through an unfamiliar window, regretting those last five shots, wondering where you are and what happened last night. And to top it all off you have a stomach...
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Florida man arrested for sexting a police officer
Men who use naked photos as a pick-up line may want to rethink their strategy after a Marco Island resident was arrested for drunkenly sexting an officer at 5 AM. Paul Kirleis, 30, called 911 to...
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Spoon, advise, yelp!
Some of them are frequent travelers, others are bloggers and a few got tired of the hooey written by other users and review websites. Locals Ariana Lee-Fisher, Steve Elliot, Crystal Hamilton and David...
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Tastes of the future
What’s the recipe for successful redevelopment of a problematic but iconic area of St. Pete? Or to put it in culinary terms, how do the sad leftovers of BayWalk rise like a successful soufflé as...
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Concert review: Selwyn Birchwood throws an album release party at the...
I've had the Selwyn Birchwood hooks running through my head ever since he headlined 2013's Tropical Heatwave. The homegrown blues pioneer's career has come a long way in the past 18 months; from...
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