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Best Place to Put Your Dance Face On
Hyde Park Café by CL Staff SoHo has developed a reputation for its after-dark party vibe. Amid all the bars and nightclubs that have sprung up in recent years, Hyde Park Café has maintained a long and...
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Best local knob turner, beats maker, and barista
Spies on Bikes (Nathan Scott Cochran) by CL Staff Buddy Brew barista by day, electronic musician by night, Nathan Cochran (a.k.a, Spies on Bikes) has become the staple local opener for the biggies in...
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Best Radio Show
Grand National Championships GNC celebrates 10 years on ’MNF this December, and for good reason: few radio shows support the local indie music scene with as much dedication, love and cheeky humor...
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Best Karaoke
Octave by CL Staff Whether you favor Katy Perry, Led Zeppelin, Snoop Dogg or the obligatory down-on-yer-luck country ode, Octave is among the best dives in town to belt out bad karaoke (and hear it,...
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Best Artistic Banker
Stacia Schrader, Regions Bank Downtown St. Petersburg by CL Staff When Regions opened a brand new branch last year in the middle of one of St. Pete’s artiest districts, across the street from Florida...
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Best Local Fashion Designer
Bunny Couture by CL Staff Runners up: Marisu Miranda, Eugenia Woods[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Best art supply store
Michael's by CL Staff Runners up: Figure 8 Art Supplies, AOE[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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The International Indian Film Academy awards Sure, the behind-the-scenes melee of IIFA was a bit too long and a little chaotic, but the good (a private, vulgarity-speckled lecture from Kevin Spacey, a...
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Best physical therapist
Tarpon Total Health Care by CL Staff Runners up: Dr. Huey, Marsha Chorlog[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Don't Stop St. Pete announces its festival lineup, Plan B Block Party adds...
Come October, music festival fans will have no problem spending their disposable income. Live Nation's Coral Skies Festival and St. Pete Folkfest happen on the last weekend of that month, and now a...
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Mitch Perry Report 9.18.14 - Bill Edwards deal with St. Pete on Al Lang goes...
A vote scheduled this afternoon at the St. Petersburg City Council that would have given Bill Edwards control of Al Lang Stadium for the next four years in exchange for $1.5 million is apparently off...
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"Mantervention" at AMC Westshore Tonight
Yet another newfangled comedy flick for all the man-boys out there struggling with their transition from adolescence to adulthood is scheduled for a one night only release tonight, in Tampa, at 7p.m.,...
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Best success story from a Best of the Bay alum
Benjamin Booker We gave Booker & Norton Best New Band honors in 2013 for their soulful driving rock and greasy punk-garage blues. So far, Benjamin Booker and Max Norton have only done us proud....
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Reunion Shows Everybody’s been getting back together, whether it’s for a single one-off show, to play one last gig before the musicians go their separate ways, or a permanent re-bandment as an active...
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Best new tour stop hotspot
Downtown St. Petersburg Word must’ve spread about the ’Burg’s quaint yet culturally happening downtown, ’cause over the past several months an impressive range of national-scale talent has landed at...
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Best show that no one saw
EMEFE at New World Brewery The many-piece Antibalas offshoot otherwise known as EMEFE stopped at New World in April and made a marching-band style entrance into the venue before laying down a set of...
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Best spectacle
Kanye West at Tampa Bay Times ForumDude brought a mountain to town. A mountain. Its massive white peak jutted from the stage and a footpath ran to its zenith. He scaled it. Multiple times. There was...
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Best New Beer Transport
The Crowler by CL StaffDesigned for boozin’ it up by land or sea, crowlers (growler-sized cans) are the latest, and pretty darn neatest, way to enjoy a 32-ounce craft brew outside. Colorado and North...
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Best Synergy
Bands and Breweries by CL StaffHave Gun Will Travel collaborated on High Road Ale with Rock Brothers Brewing, Jacksonville’s JJ Grey & Mofro got in on the Rock Brothers action with Nare Sugar...
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Best Place Not to Bring Your Dog
The Emerald Bar on a Saturday night by CL StaffIt’s loud. It’s poorly lit. You can barely wiggle yourself into the bartender’s line of vision at the packed dive bar’s counter, so how do you think your...
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