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The Laugh Tract — who's bringing the funny
This week features a full slate of touring performers and loc al talent. Whether you like clean material, or filthy jokes, there are shows for you on the schedule. Here's the lineup for this weekend:...
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Album review: Jack White, Lazaretto
Everything Jack White touches turns to gold and the sophomore solo outing from the White Stripes former delivers on the all the quality we’ve come to expect. Lazaretto (Third Man Records/Columbia) is...
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Desert delight
There’s a new kind of green in town, and it just might provide enough bite to kick kale to the curb. Residents of Mexico have been eating and cultivating Opuntia ficus-indica, known as prickly pear...
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Listen up, urbanites
What started as a way for Duckweed Urban Grocery to repurpose its less popular products has transformed into a café that’s local to its core.“We opened the café as a buffer for when the grocery needed...
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Restaurant review: Imperfect storm
The patch of land where Dunedin’s State Road 580 forks into Main Street and Skinner Boulevard was once the site of a Shell station. More recently, it’s proven to be a culinary Bermuda Triangle,...
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On the 2-year anniversary of embassy asylum, Julian Assange calls on U.S. to...
Thursday marks two years that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and to mark that dubious anniversary Assange and his attorneys hosted a conference...
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Bradenton man blames panty raid on diet pills and Red Bull
33-year-old Bradenton man, Micheal Hearns was charged with burglary Monday night after admitting to sneaking into his neighbor's attic to steal tools and underwear. According to the Manatee County...
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OK GO's new video for "The Writing's on the Wall" will melt your mind
OK Go could fart into microphones for three minutes if they kept doing it to videos as painstakingly creative as the ones they've produced over the past several years.Whether they're dancing in sync on...
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A kinder, gentler Hillsborough BOCC takes on Rick Homans
Two weeks ago, members of the Hillsborough County Commission took turns eviscerating Rick Homans, the head of the Tampa/Hillsborough County Economic Development Corporation. Criticisms included...
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Arts Council of Hillsborough County wants cultural non-profits to attend...
Is your cultural, non-profit organization interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Cultural Development Grant? Make sure to sign up early and attend the required workshop. All nonprofit arts...
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Majority of local vets tells Jolly they're satisfied with the care they've...
On Tuesday Pinellas Congressman David Jolly held what his office called a "VA Intake" day, where more than 300 local veterans turned up to tell his staffers and himself the level of care they've...
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San Ann’s new destination for a night on the town
More than 70 guests were invited to preview the fare at restaurateur Curtis Beebe’s latest project, Local Public House and Provisions, on Tuesday evening. Beebe, who co-owns Dade City’s Pearl in the...
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This week in Tampa Bay area live music: David Dondero, Blackbird Blackbird,...
THURSDAY, JUNE 19The Doppelgangaz w/Temp/LB Legalize The Dopplegangaz is a cloak-sporting indie hip-hop duo made up of two rapper/producers from Orange County, N.Y. — Matter Ov Fact and EP (pictured...
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Punishment by neglect
Anthony Carvajal says the pain was so bad, the only thing he had to look forward to some mornings was guessing which bone he might break. While serving three to five years for grand theft and...
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Green dreams
Finally, our community is making the critical connections between kids, gardens, health, jobs and green spaces. The Edible Peace Patch Project in St Pete has come up with a brilliant template for...
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Dark & Sinful: Guess who's making the dinner
I had a dinner party over the weekend. A dinner party. This is a big deal: I’m social outside my apartment; but, since I’ve moved to Tampa, I haven’t had anyone over except family members and close...
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All Decked Out! celebrates the art of the skateboard at Polk Museum of Art
About a decade ago, skateboard culture got a warm embrace from art museums when the exhibition Beautiful Losers toured the U.S., spotlighting contemporary art inspired by 1990s street culture,...
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Born worrier, natural warrior: Nathan Deuel
< The last time I saw Nathan Deuel was seven years ago in the Panhandle. He had quit his job at Rolling Stone to walk from New York to New Orleans; I was investigating hate crimes in Alabama....
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Ice prince — a Q&A with author Rick Moody
He debated Luna’s Dean Wareham on “Daft Punk, disco and whether pleasures should be guilty” on Salon.com, and contributed to The Wilco Book. His most famous novel, The Ice Storm, provides a snapshot...
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Mitch Perry Report 6.19.14: St. Pete's next police chief goes before the people
The greater St. Petersburg citizenry will get the chance to scrutinize the four finalists to become their new police chief tonight, as the candidates will field questions from the public at an event...
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