Tonight in live music: Drake vs. Lil Wayne, Archnemesis, Naughty Professor
A rather bombastic Thursday full of hip hop, electro-funk and jazz-ness. Info below... Drake vs. Lil Wayne Two of the biggest names in the hip-hop game come together for one epic co-headlining “Drake...
View ArticleAlbum review: Merchandise, After the End
“If I’m your enemy, then I’m keen to be your enemy,” Carson Cox sings to open After The End (4AD). Cox, 28, is probably used to animosity by now. Merchandise’s first shows were Tampa storage unit sets...
View ArticleMitch Perry Report 9.4.14- New Times poll says medical marijuana initiative...
The question this morning is whether the Tampa Bay Times' new poll on the medical marijuana initiative is an outlier, or a true reflection of where the Florida electorate is on this high-profile...
View ArticleBenedetto's brings Delectable Dining award to Land O' Lakes
Benedetto's Ristorante Italiano in Land O'Lakes is the duPont Registry's first annual Posh Pick for Delectable Dining. The family-owned New York Italian restaurant beat out the likes of Eddie V's...
View ArticleBeer up for fall
Cerveza, bier, turn-up juice — whatever you call your craft beer, fall's bringing a lineup of festivals overflowing with the stuff. While some of the fests feature locally loved breweries and...
View ArticleDo This: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with biographer Alina...
Just in time to kick-off National Hispanic Heritage Month, Cuban-American author Alina García-Lapuerta will be in Tampa today for a talk and signing event for her book, La Belle Créole: The Cuban...
View ArticleSeminole Heights Market at Southern: Fresh, Local & Lively.
Looking for something to do next weekend? While it might be hard to compete with last weekend’s end-of-summer Labor Day festivities, you can start the month off right by shopping local and celebrating...
View ArticleHealth professionals discuss how EPA proposal on carbon emissions will affect...
On June 2, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule designed to cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants by as much as 30 percent nationally by 2030 compared with 2005 levels...
View ArticlePoet's Notebook: Poetry & age
The buffalo eats grass, I eat him, and when I die, the earth eats me and sprouts more grass. Therefore nothing is ever lost, and each thing is everything forever, though all things move.— Old Lodge...
View ArticleA chat with Martin before his Very Stupid Conversation with Steve
Two of showbiz's beloved Three Amigos reunite for Steve Martin & Martin Short in A Very Stupid Conversation, a show that's stopping at downtown St. Petersburg's Mahaffey Theater on Sun., Sept. 7....
View ArticleAction Bronson channels Guy Fieri in Fuck That's Delicious Episode 4
In the fourth episode of his web cooking show Fuck, That's Delicious, Queens rapper Action Bronson takes us on a ride through flavor town dressed as America's most beloved douchiest Food Network...
View ArticleDancer performance review — Sola at USF
The physical embodiment of emotion, dance combines the auditory and the visual with the purpose of communicating an idea – a feeling. It calls upon the imagination of the audience, almost more than...
View ArticleSeminole Heights art gallery Epoxy closes
Epoxy wouldn’t appear to mean much. As far as mother-in-law apartments go, the space at 1202 E. Henry Ave. was small. As an art gallery it was tiny. However, the self-described Seminole Heights...
View ArticleHillsborough County Board of Commissioners proclaims September "Best of the...
On Thursday, September 4, CL's Marketing, Events & Promotions Coordinator Gina Moccio and I attended the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners' regular meeting, where we were honored to...
View ArticleFrank Reddick wants Jane Castor to hire more minority officers to the TPD
One of the most jarring facts to come out of the events of Ferguson, Missouri last month — where protests took place for weeks after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer —...
View ArticleTampa fast food workers demand fair wages
Today in Tampa in front of two different McDonald’s stores, fast food workers walked off the job during two separate protests. They joined fellow fast food workers, organizers and activists to demand...
View ArticleSome closing remarks as Richard Beckman exhibit is celebrated one last time...
Art lovers, it’s your last week to pay tribute to one of Tampa’s finest sculptors and view a daringly improvised exhibition at the University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum. Richard...
View ArticleJoan Rivers – Honorary Librarian
“Can we talk?” I only wish we had the chance, Joan. Joan Rivers was known as many things. Relentless comedian. First woman to ever host a late night talk show. Reality star. Fashion critic. Lover of...
View ArticleTonight in live music: Coldair, Kings of Leon, Public Speaking & more
The best in live music happenings for this Fri., Sept. 5. Start your planning now...Kings of Leon with Young the Giant, Kongos I know folks who actively loathe the catchy, only slightly twangy...
View ArticleMitch Perry Report 9.5.14 - Is the Tampa Bay area ready to embrace their NFL...
The National Football League kicked off its 2014 regular season last night in Seattle, where for the first time in that franchise's history, the Seahawks are begining the season as the defending NFL...
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