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Green Bench gets its brewhouse
The last time Creative Loafing was at Green Bench Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg, the space was naked (save for a few piles of debris). It was February, partners Nathan Stonecipher and Steven Duffy,...
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Florida Beer Company wins at Open Beer Championship
This week, the Florida Beer Company won gold and silver medals at the 2013 U.S. Open Beer Championship for two of their brews. The national competition included over 2,500 beers in 68 categories,...
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She’s on a boat
Local chef Adrienne Gang sets sail on Bravo’s Below Deck. by Aaron AlperChef, reality television star and Tampa Bay native — Adrienne Gang is all of these things.Gang appears on Below Deck, the new...
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Piano festival hits a high note for USF recital hall
“I think when you devote yourself whole-heartedly to a piece, it lives inside of you all the way up until the concert,” Rebecca Penneys said. “You’re on a journey with that piece.”As a practiced...
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Lightning release 2013-14 schedule
The Tampa Bay Lightning and the NHL announced the new regular season schedule for the upcoming 2013-14 season.The Tampa Bay Lightning open on the road this season for the first 3 games. The first two...
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Repealing Stand Your Ground and the value of black life in U.S. discussed at...
Although there were more a dozen speakers who addressed a rally in downtown Tampa protesting the George Zimmerman/Travyon Martin verdict early Saturday afternoon, it was the last man at the microphone,...
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Amy Brooke's ass brings new meaning to triple-X
Amy Brooke's ass is indestructible. She once shattered a glass dildo in her ass. Her partner asked if she wanted to stop fooling around. Fuck no she didn't want to stop. Brooke's ass is as hardcore a...
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Buckhorn talks tough about going after Tampa slumlords
Some parts of the Tampa Bay area political establishment reacted with shock and dismay earlier this month after the Tampa Bay Timesreported earlier this month that then-Tampa Port Authority chairman...
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John Boehner defends slacker work pace in the House
Since John Boehner succeeded Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House in 2010, our Representatives in Congress have never had more time off, literally. By design when the House has been in session, Boehner...
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The Many faces of Trayvon — images from Tampa Bay rallies this weekend
Linda Paulk of Ice Cream Magazine holds portrait of Travon Martin at the Justice for Trayvon rally at Tampa Federal Courthouse SaturdayHundreds of people in the Tampa Bay area rallied this weekend...
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Mitch Perry Report 7.22.13 - Ford's stock dropping in St. Pete?
Hours after I last posted on this blog 10 days ago, the Tampa Bay Times wrote a story about the mysterious chicken who was appearing at recent St. Pete mayoral debates, mocking the fact that...
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Tampa Bay's leading food bank is going on a PR offensive
A little while ago, we contacted officials with Feeding America Tampa Bay about profiling the food bank for last month's Food Issue. The agency's development director, Debbie McCarthy, said our...
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Bill Nelson doesn't have much of an opinion on "stand your ground"
On Sunday, Arizona Sen. John McCain said that his home state should review its "stand your ground" law, which is similar to the Florida statute that has been the focus of attention in the wake of...
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International travelers get a potential boost with Global Entry at Tampa...
This summer, Tampa International Airport has become the latest destination in the country to offer a federal program designed to speed international travelers through customs and passport checks at the...
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New Music Tuesday! (July 23): Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Gogol...
July continues with more new jams in its fourth week. 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 &...
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Mitch Perry Report 7.23.13 - Fearing U.S. involvement in Syria? You shouldn't
And now for something completely different.While the country obsesses over England's royal baby and/or the aftermath of the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin trial, let's take a look at U.S. foreign...
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Nan Rich slams Bill Nelson for not weighing in on "stand your ground"
Although Florida political pundits still aren't taking Nan Rich's candidacy seriously, it's not dogging the former Senate minority leader one bit. Buoyed by a poll released last week that shows her...
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Bob Buckhorn proudly signs new ordinances cracking down on the homeless in Tampa
On Monday, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn posted a photo of himself on social media that showed him signing two new ordinances that ban panhandling in downtown Tampa, Ybor City, and parts of West Tampa. The...
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James Deen and Andy San Dimas break in the first porn app for Google Glass:...
It's a law of human nature that whatever new technology comes along will, in some capacity, be used to facilitate human orgasms. The goal of all porn is to facilitate fantasies that users are actually...
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What the alleged photos of Anthony Weiner's lap daschund reveal (NSFW)
Yesterday, Anthony Weiner admitted to engaging in another bout of explicit, electronic flirtations with women—the very same behavior that resulted in his resignation from Congress in 2011. With his...
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