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Live Music Rundown for Friday, July 4
Happy Fourth! Celebrate the holiday by supporting the scene — here's a look at some of tonight's most noteworthy live-music offerings around the Bay area.4th of July Party at the Witch Downtown St....
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Live music weekend: moe., Go Go's, Chilled Monkey Brains & more
Lots of intriguing live music events taking place this holiday weekend. Check out the highlights below...SATURDAY, JULY 5moe. I’ve seen Buffalo, N.Y. jam stalwarts moe. several times over the past...
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Do This: The Weekend Top 10
Strap on your jetpacks — it's the last weekend forReturn to the Forbidden Planet! An additional, final, final show has been added tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are selling fast for the remaining show...
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A more ambient yoga experience — Dark Wave Yoga at Tempus Projects
Tampa gallery Tempus Projects veers a little off the wall every Tuesday night for an hour of Dark Wave Yoga, 7:15-8:15 p.m. Teachers Eric and Erin Wheeler are warm and welcoming. The married yogi duo...
View ArticleTampa teen Tariq Khdeir released by Israeli authorities, but remains under...
Tariq Khdeir, the 15-year-old Palestinian American teenager from Tampa who was allegedly beaten by Israel police last week, has been released from been released from custody but remains under house...
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Bill's Sports Binge: World Cup post USA, never over with the Rays and slow...
Great googly-moogly, it's hot (did I mention I was recently promoted to the rank of captain of the obvious? It's pretty sweet). As I type this sports mess, it's currently 94 and cloudy. Cloudy. If the...
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Live music tonight: Dizzy Wright hits Orpheum with his stoner intellectualism
Signed to Hopsin's indie record label Funk Volume, 23-year-old Las Vegas-based emcee Dizzy Wright has a youthful vocal timbre, an elastic-slick and lightning-quick flow, a mix of trip-groove and...
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Earth to Echo Never Finds its Footing
This found-footage, sci-fi adventure is all over the place. by Katy WilliamsonFriendship is so important when growing up, and that’s essentially what Earth to Echo is about. Tuck (Brian "Astro"...
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Mitch Perry Report 7.7.14: Fatal shooting by TPD SWAT team of Seminole...
Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to the working week. In St. Petersburg, Mayor Rick Kriseman will return from a midsummer vacation later this week and is expected shortly thereafter to name a...
View ArticleCharlie Crist debuts his first TV ad of campaign
Coming off a rough couple of weeks, Charlie Crist's team has finally gone on broadcast television with their first paid campaign ad of the 2014 campaign season. The Florida gubernatorial candidate's...
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Help Teach Me Equals record their new EP
The last time I caught up with Teach Me Equals' Erin Murphy and Greg Bortnichak, they were embarking on their first North American tour, armed with a pop-up camper attached to their Honda and ready to...
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Rick Scott begins the Tough on Crime part of his re-election campaign
Two years ago the GOP-led Florida Legislature voted nearly overwhelmingly in both houses (116-4) to support a bill that would have allowed low-level, non-violent inmates in Florida prisons to receive...
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Bike Share program now scheduled to begin in Tampa this August
A bike-share program scheduled to begin this spring in Tampa will now officially start up sometime in August. That's the message that came out of today's rainy press conference held outside City Hall...
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There's a new Pink Floyd album coming out, but does anybody really care?
You all were busy this weekend. It was probably mostly blowing up moderately expensive, largely mediocre fireworks, but hey, 'Merica right? Well, while you were occupied with celebrating your freedom...
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Keep Calm and Drink Magaritas
Tampa bay, are you ready for a war? It’s on! On July 31st, bartenders from The Bends, Anaar Bar & Grill, Sea Sea Riders, Postcard Inn, Salty’s Gulfport, Mandarin Hide, Datz, The Outpost, Roux,...
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Family & friends of Tariq Abu Khdeir decry his treatment by Israeli officers
Family members and friends of 15-year-old Palestinian-American Tariq Abu Khdeir gathered this afternoon at the offices of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Tampa, days after the Tampa youth...
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New Music Tuesday! (July 8): Braid, Judas Priest, Dirty Heads, Ministry & more
Pretty slim pickings in new music for the second week of July. 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...
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Mitch Perry Report 7-8-14 : The Scott administration feels the heat regarding...
All Aboard Florida is the ostensibly private rail project running from Orlando to Miami that is supported by Governor Rick Scott. But initially it won't be going that far. The South Florida...
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Makin' it grain
The U.S. Open Beer Championship announced its winners on July 4, and more than 10 Florida craft breweries took home gold, silver and bronze medals for their liquids, including Tampa Bay's Green Bench...
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Gualtieri wants every city in Pinellas to cough up more for Safe Harbor
When it comes to dealing with homelessness, Pinellas County officials have been considered a leader in the Tampa Bay area by helping to support the creation of Safe Harbor in Clearwater back in...
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