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Maritana Grille, Savory Spice Shop craft new menu
On Tuesday, St. Pete Beach's Maritana Grille at the Don CeSar Hotel announced its new tasting menu partnership with Savory Spice Shop in downtown St. Pete. The restaurant's lineup, which costs $85 per...
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Bill Nelson gets indignant about big money in politics
Bill Nelson isn't very happy about the unlimited money that poured into the Florida gubernatorial race, particularly by individuals like Rick Scott, who wrote himself a check for $12. 8 million of his...
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Ed Narain is looking forward toTallahassee
There were some close races in Hillsborough County on Tuesday night, but the House District 61 race wasn't one of them. That's where Democrat Ed Narain defeated a write-in candidate easily, and will...
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Greenlight Pinellas gets crushed at the polls
There have been two major transit tax referenda in the Tampa Bay area in the past four years, and both times the measures have been resoundingly defeated by the voters. The polls have only been...
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Dwight Dudley tops Bill Young in the bitter HD68 race in St. Petersburg
Taking a prize for one of the nastier races in Tampa Bay area politics this fall had to be the House District 68 race in St. Petersburg between Democratic incumbent Dwight Dudley and his GOP rival,...
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April Griffin beats back Dipa Shah, while Sally Harris stuns everyone in...
April Griffin — the occasionally combative, frequently controversial Hillsborough County School Board member opposed in her bid for a third term this year by a raft of contenders as well as her bête...
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Jeff Brandes handily defeats Judithanne McLauchlan
There were great expectations a year ago when USFSP political science professor Judithanne McLauchlan announced that, disgusted by some of state Senator Jeff Brandes' votes, particularly the one...
View ArticleAl Higginbotham beats Pat Kemp by less than 1 percent in Hillsborough County...
In a very tight race for the County Commission seat for District 7 in Hillsborough County, Pat Kemp lost to Republican Al Higginbotham by .9 percent Tuesday night. At a watch party at Ella’s Americana...
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Tonight in live music: First Aid Kit, Gringo Star
Two noteworthy shows in Ybor City taking place on this Wed., Nov. 5... First Aid Kit with Samantha Crain Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit is sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg, their unique,...
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Mitch Perry Report 11.5.14: Democratic Party devastation in the Sunshine State
Good morning, fellow Floridians. Ready for another four more years of Rick Scott as Governor? Well, ready or not, it is the reality in the Sunshine State — as is the same GOP cabinet of Pam Bondi as...
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A Q&A with Haley Joel Osment, star of the Tampa-filmed Sex Ed
Tampa Bay's long been the ugly redheaded step-child of Florida's film industry, usually sopping up, with stale bread, the dregs of what our state's two larger movie markets, Miami and Orlando, leave...
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Cars & Couture's “Motorfest Weekend” to Feature a Multi Million Dollar Car...
This weekend is Motorfest Weekend, an annual three-day-long car show/event presented by Cars & Couture, which will raise money for Autism Speaks, an organization dedicated to funding global...
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Ultimate spin? Democratic leaning pollster says political landscape "heavily"...
While Democrats contemplate their hangover after the GOP took control of the U.S. Senate last night for the first time in eight years, along comes Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling, to...
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Tampa Bay's weekly literary happenings
Catch Tim Dorsey, the former Tampa Tribune journalist turned novelist, at the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2 p.m. He’ll discuss his 15 zany, Florida-based mystery novels, answer...
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Album review: Primus, Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble
From the first ominous groaning notes of cello and bass that ooze into set opener “Hello Wonkites,” you know you’re in for a wild ride. The eighth and latest studio album from Primus finds Les...
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Libertarian Adrian Wyllie underperforms in his run for governor
At the Libertarian Party of Florida's statewide convention in Tampa last spring, Vice Chairman Alex Snitker exhorted his fellow Libertarians when he shouted out to them that the placement of Amendment...
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Restaurant review: Go fish at Mad Beach Fish House
As you drive north on Gulf Boulevard over the bridge at John’s Pass Village, you leave the Hooters and Bubba Gump franchises in your rearview mirror. A mere two blocks farther on there’s the local Mad...
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Traveling through tastes & time
When Vicente Martinez-Ybor came to Tampa, it was a sleepy seaside town. But after he brought the burgeoning cigar industry to Tampa in 1885, building the largest cigar factory in the world in what is...
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Meet the brewers: Mike Bishop of Big Storm Brewing Co.
Crammed in between the noisy, convivial tasting room and the production area where they make their beer, Big Storm Brewing’s crew members huddle around a piece of the brewery’s brand-new canning line....
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Parquet Courts stream new album, announce January 31 show at American Legion...
Let’s just go ahead and file this thing directly right under “WTF is happening right now?” After mostly shunning the Tampa Bay area for the last half decade, Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts have finally...
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