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Late-night eats after beats
We love hangouts that provide patrons with a space to hear solid tunes and enjoy a meal all in one, but since CL’s Music Issue includes a number of such venues this year, here’s a list of eateries...
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Restaurant review: Get baked
The good news is that the Italian Bakery DeLucia is absolutely wonderful and a great addition to the ‘Burg’s culinary scene. The less good news is that the rest of the Cafe menu is a bit ho-hum....
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Adrian Wyllie on his new poll rating: "It's just total voter disgust with the...
Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Adrian Wyllie has been saying for months that his internal polls show growing support for his third-party candidacy for governor, and the mainstream media is...
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Set And Setting detail Prosthetic Records debut, hear "Coping" now
It was a pretty sweet achievement for local music when St. Pete instrumental post-metal quintet Set And Setting signed with Los Angeles-based metal imprint Prosthetic Records. It was even sweeter to...
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National Hot Dog Day marred by arrest of National Pork Producers Council...
Hey, it's National Hot Dog Day! While you're slurping up some heavily topped and flavored lips and anuses from a capsule of bleached and processed flour, give up a little sympathy for National Pork...
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Album review: Morrissey, World Peace Is None of Your Business
Fans will be happy to know that, after a five-year wait since his last album was released, Morrissey hasn't lost a bit of his venom, his acerbic tone or his desire to be a perennial thorn in the side...
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Marco Rubio condemns "growing intolerance" toward opponents of same-sex marriage
Aiming straight for the Christian conservative vote, Marco Rubio polished up his anti-gay-marriage bona fides this afternoon in an address at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. The...
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Group of conservative Pinellas County residents call on David Jolly to...
You just knew it couldn't be that clean. Less than 48 hours after David Jolly made a statement to the Washington Post announcing his support for same-sex marriage in Florida, now comes the...
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Spatial engagement — Poetics of Space at Dunedin Fine Art Center
The Dunedin Fine Art Center is far enough along in its $1.2 million renovation that visitors can start to see the results. Earlier this summer, four new studio art classrooms and a third exhibition...
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The Music Issue 2014 — Seminole Heights/Mid-East Tampa
Dallas Bull The boot-scooting honky tonk is Tampa Bay’s one-stop shop for country music, founded more than three decades ago but only in its current 34,000-square-foot digs since 2006. A laundry list...
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The Music Issue 2014 — South Tampa
Hyde Park Café The house music capital of Central Florida has been operating under the radar at Hyde Park Café for nearly two decades, bringing in the biggest national and international names in house...
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The Music Issue 2014 — Ybor City
Amphitheatre Located right on Seventh Avenue, the Amphitheatre Event Facility has grown in popularity with the rise of EDM and all its subgenres. The 550-cap main room features a 30-foot rotating dance...
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Tonight in live music: Atlanta bands at Venture Compound, Cultura Profetica...
Thursday kicks off the almost-to-the-weekend live music schedule with an intriguing mix of Southern-soaked indie rock, Latin-bred roots reggae, and Long Island hardcore. More info below...Swank...
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Mitch Perry Report 7.24.14: House Republicans split on border situation?
The Tampa Tribune uses the entire top fold of its editions today to feature the bold headline, "Border crisis hits home"— and then proceeds to inform us of a story that's been known for weeks — that a...
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Theater review — American Stage's God of Carnage
How civilized are the civilized? This is the question that Yasmina Reza pointedly asks in God of Carnage, and her answer is “not very.” In Reza’s view of things, the veneer of polite mutuality on...
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Carmada Art Car Fest looking for a few good (or not so good) cars!
In Tampa Bay, we spend a lot of time driving. Too much, according to almost anyone you could ask. Creative Pinellas director Mitzi Gordon has one solution that can't get defunded by Rick Scott — if...
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Buckhorn proposed $876 million FY2015 budget won't dip into reserves
For the first time since Bob Buckhorn was elected Mayor in 2011, the proposed budget he submitted today for fiscal year 2015 does not dip into financial reserves, and in fact includes a modest surplus...
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Weekend Preview: Music & Margaritas
First thing's first: Happy Music Issue Day! Make sure you find your copy of our latest issue, featuring write-ups on the best venues that host original live music throughout the Tampa Bay...
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Movie Review: Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson
It’s fitting that the central factoid underpinning Luc Besson’s Lucy— that humans only use 10 percent of their brains — is false. This is, after all, a movie that’s completely full of shit. Besson is...
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Life as we blow it: Gone but not forgotten
Where you see live music often informs the experience every bit as much as what you’re seeing and hearing. Different environments have different vibes, and let’s face it — a concert doesn’t exist in a...
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