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Joffrey's debuts in larger Ybor City abode
Joffrey's, the 30-year-old Tampa-based coffee and tea company, moved its shop from the Centro Ybor complex to a larger space a block away. It reopened in its new dwelling three days ago. The building...
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The Hip Hop ABCs: Letter W
This was one of the letters where there was never any doubt. I put it up for vote just because I wanted to maintain fairness throughout this entire Hip Hop ABCs process. Voting really wasn’t necessary...
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Experience a multitude of culture at the Maxima Hispanic Heritage Festival
For police officer Ray Croze events like the Hispanic Heritage Festival help make his job easier. He runs the Hispanic Outreach Center in Clearwater, where about 20 percent of the more than 105,000...
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Tampa forum on Ferguson asks 'Could it happen here?'
As the St. Louis area is forced to deal with another police shooting of a young black man, the Tampa Bay association of Black Journalists commenced a community forum discussing the death of Mike Brown...
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Movie review: The Liberator is reverent to a fault
Rather than lend his film a sense of grandeur and import, Alberto Arvelo’s sweeping shots of gorgeous vistas and masses of loyal soldiers trekking across the vast South American continent serve mostly...
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Movie review: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Watch Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day with a cynical eye — or at least with the eye that occasionally catches sight of the memes and comments that invade our Twitter and...
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Meet the Brewers: Bob Sylvester of Saint Somewhere Brewing
Bob Sylvester doesn’t make the hippest beer in Tampa Bay. Like the industrial storage space located in the northernmost climes of Tarpon Springs where he’s brewed his own take on Belgian-style...
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This weekend in live music: Gov't Mule, The LOX, Ninebullets.net Final...
This weekend proves a rather varied one, when it comes to live music. A breakdown for Sat., Oct. 11 and Sun., Oct. 12 below... SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 Gov’t Mule Among the jam scene’s most respected...
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Facebook team coming to Tampa to train small biz on how to boost their presence
Although Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have all been around for several years now, the ability for businesses (and individuals) to use these social media tools to their economic benefit isn't an...
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A different way to sit: 14 Chairs at Tempus Projects
The handiwork of a talented group of students from the USF School of Architecture and Community Design will be on display for two weeks at Tempus Projects, from Oct. 11 through Oct. 24.14 Chairs will...
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Do This: The Weekend Top 10
Last call for TIGLFF — Saturday evening is the last night of the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Festival. Celebrate a memorable 25th anniversary TIGLFF 7:30-9 p.m. at Anise Global Gastrobar 777 N....
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Can't Stop the Serenity — St. Pete gaming store hosts charity sci-fi film...
For the last 10 years, the fan-started fundraiser Can't Stop the Serenity has raised more than $900,000 for Equality Now, a human rights organization that advocates for women and girls all over the...
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As seen on TV: American Horror Story: Freak Show, the return of Twin Peaks
The accents are more than a little wonky in the season premiere of American Horror Story: Freak Show — Jessica Lange trying to channel her inner Marlene, Kathy Bates doing some kind of twang that the...
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R.I.P. Jan Hooks — a look at two of her best moments
Doe-eyed spitfire and comedic chameleon Jan Hooks — whom The New Yorker called "one of the all-time great Saturday Night Live cast members — died Thursday at 57; cause of death unconfirmed. Hooks...
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Delicious dismemberment: Stone crab season opens Oct. 15
Rejoice, lifelong dock-hangers, foodie tourists and discerning snowbirds alike, because Florida's favorite winter-months marine bounty is coming back into season October 15. Stone crabs are like...
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Integrate This: Demystifying the Asian market
Basic Asian philosophy is about balance. For many non-Asians crossing the threshold of an Asian market, confusion often overrides balance. There is no yin. There is no yang. Dizzying arrays of color...
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Bernie Sanders says fight against ISIS is a war "for the soul of Islam"
Although the U.S. led coalition's fight against ISIS hasn't been going on for that long, critics are already claiming that we're losing the battle. "They’re winning, and we’re not,” John McCain...
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Album review: Johnny Marr, Playland
Ex-Smiths guitarist and songwriter Johnny Marr isn't interested in reviving old ghosts. The man who gave the legendary British group from the '80s their sound and style has reinvented himself as a...
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Mitch Perry Report 10.13.14: U.S. nurses say training is at issue with Ebola...
It was a little more eventful than usual watching the Sunday morning news programs yesterday, because rarely do they begin with breaking news. But there it was yesterday at 9 a.m. for everyone to...
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Block the Boat Tampa holds their latest protest
At their third protest on Saturday morning at the Port of Tampa, members of Block the Boat Tampa stood in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza who have been displaced, wounded and martyred in the...
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