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Beer vs. wine: Battle for the best beverage pairing
Cigar City Brewpub will serve up a four-course meal during its Beer vs. Wine Dinner at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14. Every course will showcase a wine and beer pairing. Head brewer Tim Ogden picked the...
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Mitch Perry Report 10.1.14: The LWV and a state personal income tax
With apologies to the folks at PolitiFact, my curiosity got the best of me this morning while perusing the letters to the editor section of today's Tampa Bay Times. That's where longtime Hillsborough...
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Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy comes to Tampa to fundraise for Alan Cohn
Five weeks before the election in Congressional District 15, friends of Hillsborough/Polk Democratic candidate Alan Cohn held a fundraiser for him on Davis Islands Tuesday night, where the main...
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Call to artists — The Mahaffey announces contest to design 50th Anniversary...
If you grew up in the Tampa Bay area, you no doubt have wonderful memories of going to shows at the Bayfront Center, now the site of the Mahaffey Theater. I myself went to circuses, ice skating shows...
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HIllsborough County forms group to meet with Rays on stadium — if talks ever...
Following the lead of County Commissioner Ken Hagan, the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners today voted to have a small working group be the lead agency to work with Tampa Bay Rays...
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Album review: Erasure, The Violet Flame
Longtime British synth-pop duo Erasure seem to be going through a slight identity crisis throughout 16th album The Violet Flame. It boasts plenty of those elements that have made the two-man operation...
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Restaurant review: Ulele's native tongue
As I descend the stairs from the valet perch at Seventh Avenue and North Highland and look west toward the sun setting over the Hillsborough River, I wonder about the legend of the Tocobaga Indian...
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The best things I ate at Epcot's food & wine fest
I approached my first Epcot International Food & Wine Festival with a bit of trepidation. I’d heard great things about the festival, which has been a fall attraction at the Disney park since 1995...
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Dunedin Brewery presents its 14th annual Oktobeerfest with Kool Keith, Ghost...
Dunedin Brewery throws a beer party every time the seasons change (or in this year’s case, when it celebrates hallmarks like its 18th anniversary), and the fall is no exception. The only difference is...
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SCENE BREAKER: Love in the library, Ophelia’s goat and vampire lesbians like...
Here’s what’s behind the curtain this week in Tampa Bay theatre... FREE LOVE:Improbable Athenaeum (pronounce it “ath-en-eee-uhm”) will present a free, script-in-hand staging of Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1940...
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Filthy and respectable — a Q&A with John Waters
John Waters — This Filthy World: Filthier & DirtierSat., Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m., at Tampa Theatre. After the show, TIGLFF will host a book-signing of Carsick, and the Mondo Trasho party featuring DJ...
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With minimum drama, Hillsborough County adds protections for LGBT people in...
As has been widely reported in recent years, the evolution and devolution of the gay rights movement in Hillsborough County's government has been somewhat shocking for what is now the 13th biggest...
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Do This Tonight — Doomsayers: Local Authors Predict the End of the World
There’s something reassuring about an impending apocalypse if you’re an anxiety-ridden soul. So, if things have been a little too unsettlingly upbeat, you can get your dystopic, end-of-days fix at the...
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Flick picks — a look at films showing at the Tampa International Gay and...
Blackbird Julian Walker stars as Randy, who struggles daily to reconcile being gay and a devoted Christian, while also dealing with a missing family member, an emotionally distraught mother...
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Stronger together — TIGLFF's 25th anniversary
Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film FestivalOct. 3-11 at Tampa Theatre, freeFall Theatre and Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, tiglff.com. Last year was my first experience of the Tampa...
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Plan-B Block Party hits Ybor City this Saturday with Kishi Bashi, Those...
Antiwarpt spin-offs Plan-B and Don’t Stop St. Pete fall on different weekends this year, and the relief I feel about not h aving to choose between the two is likely shared by numerous other...
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Tonight in live music: Rock the Park, Pompeya
A good Thursday for music, and both of the shows you should be checking out are free, located within blocks of each other, and can both be enjoyed, one right after the other...Rock the Park with...
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Mitch Perry Report 10.2.14: The data shows deportations are up
Because of the lack of any competitive national races this political season in the Tampa Bay area (with the possible exception of the CD15 race between Dennis Ross and Alan Cohn), but it's not getting...
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St. Pete's black community gathers to discuss recent police actions
Whether they were black or white, regular folk, the well-heeled, proud working men in shirt sleeves or young women wearing hijabs; last night, at the Carter G. Woodson Museum : concerned citizens of...
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Poet's notebook: Feminism and language
Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should...
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