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A note from CL's editor: On elections and other changes
They lied. They said Obamacare was a failure. (It isn’t.) They said Greenlight Pinellas was all about light rail. (It wasn’t.) They said Amendment 2 would lead lickety-split to marijuana legalization...
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Design-A-City: Explore the first-ever Tampa Bay Design Week
“A multi-generational acknowledgment of our cities.” That’s how Christine Burdick, president/CEO of the Tampa Downtown Partnership (TDP), describes Tampa Bay Design Week. Other cities around the...
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2014 Midterm elections recap: Sorry, Charlie
As the clock ticked past 10 p.m. on Tuesday night inside the cavernous ballroom at the Vinoy Renaissance Hotel in St. Petersburg, a certain déjà vu took over the room. Just like the scene four years...
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SCENE BREAKER: An actor who dies, an actor on Dead, and “award” may be an...
Here’s what’s behind the curtain this week in Tampa Bay theater... PAGING SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER... MISS LITTLEFEATHER, YOU’RE ON! Monday is the big night for the first-ever Some Sort of Theater...
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A leaner, meaner Lisa Lampanelli
Lisa Lampanelli: The Leaner Meaner Tour Sat., Nov. 8, 8 p.m. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater. $36.75, $125. rutheckerdhall.com When I first saw the woman she was dressed as Mrs. Claus. It was 2007 and she...
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Tonight in live music: Interpol, Melvins, Pangea Project No. 55 & more
From Franken-rigged instrumentation to sludge-weird metal to dark-tinged post-punk, this Thurs., Nov. 6 is looking to be a strange yet interesting one as far as live music goes. Breakdown...
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Mitch Perry Report 11.6.14: How do Florida Democrats become more competitive...
In today's Times, some of Charlie Crist's advisors are attributing their candidate's narrow loss to Rick Scott to the $12.8 million spent by the governor on negative ads in the final week of the...
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Theater review: Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
If you saw Charles Busch’s The Divine Sister at Stageworks nine months ago, you’re to be excused for assuming that the same author’s Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, currently at Jobsite Theater, must be...
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Louie Anderson: Making family funny
Louie Anderson has been a comedy staple for decades, but hasn't exactly stuck to stand-up comedy. He's hosted Family Feud, had his own cartoon, written books and appeared on television shows. But...
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Upright Citizens Brigade and more at the Tampa Improv Festival
The Tampa Improv Festival is back and it’s looking more impressive than ever with 31 troupes and nine workshops presented over four days. Tonight's lineup includes Another Man’s Trash from Eckerd...
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Activists in Tampa want Obama to act on immigration now
At his press conference on Wednesday, President Obama gave no quarter when it comes to his pledge to act on his own to reduce deportations, grant work permits and improve border security by the end of...
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Advocates for high-speed ferry project in Hillsborough announce new committee
The high-speed ferry public/private project being spearheaded by former Hillsborough County Commissioner Ed Turanchik seemed to be going swimmingly over the past year — until objections about the site...
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For the pumpkinheads: Turkey Day sweets
One of my favorite parts of the Thanksgiving meal with my fam is the post-dinner conversation over coffee and dessert. That is, if I don't miss it because I'm cat napping on the couch in a mostly...
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"Queen of Soul Food" dishes out free breakfast Friday
St. Petersburg's Sylvia's Queen of Soul Food will offer diners a complimentary buffet-style breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. Friday. The restaurant's neighbors with the historic Manhattan Casino, and is...
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Movie review: Birdman plays with entertainment-industry tropes to deliver a...
Birdman’s biggest feat may be drawing in, and then artfully toying with, an audience that expects a superhero movie. It’s actually a complex metafiction about creativity and identity aimed at art-house...
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St. Pete Police Chief Anthony Holloway doesn't sound so enamored with police...
In the wake of the high-profile police confrontations with citizens in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City, there has been a clamoring for local police departments to begin wearing body cameras, to...
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Greenlight Pinellas wasn't the only referendum quashed at the polls on Tuesday
Over the course of the last year, advocates for Greenlight Pinellas said they had learned the lessons from the problems with Hillsborough County's transit tax in 2010. And while nobody could dispute...
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Movie preview: The long-awaited sequel to motorcycle classic On Any Sunday is...
When I attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, Ca. in the mid-1990s, I rode my first motorcycle, a Honda CB750 — widely known as the Nighthawk. One of the versions ended up in The Art of the...
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Blue Ocean Film Festival presents Arctic art at the MFA
In August 2015 Ocean Geographic and principal team Dr. Sylvia Earle, David Doubilet, Jennifer Hayes, Ernie Brooks, Michael AW, Göran Ehlmé, Amos Nachoum and Leandro Blanco will lead Elysium – Artists...
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Subway spokesman Jared Fogle visits CL and shares realistic weight loss tips
Jared Fogle, the famed weight-loss spokesman from Subway — he slimmed down from a massive 400 pounds during his college days by eating Subway subs daily — visited the CL Space with friends from the...
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