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Tonight in live music: The Lone Bellow, Randy Newman, WMNF Listener...
This Tue., Nov. 11 is jam-packed with live music offerings — breakdown below.The Lone Bellow“Then Came the Morning”– the latest single from The Lone Bellow off a forthcoming album produced by The...
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Orgy etiquette as learned on the set of Wicked’s 'Holly… Would' (NSFW)
A number of questions flooded my mind when I RSVPed “yes” to a twelve-person orgy. Was I required to bring some sort of gift: a cake, a twelve pack of wine coolers, a leather-bound sex-slave? Would...
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The 2015 Gasparilla International Film Festival plans to revive Channelside...
It hasn't seen a blockbuster since The Dark Knight rose again, but the now empty Channelside Theaters will be filled with audiences again for the 2015 Gasparilla International Film Festival March...
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Ava invites diners to be culinary guinea pigs
Ava, the latest restaurant project by 717 South owner Michael Stewart and former Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon, announced it will open its doors to diners for a seven-day series of test kitchens....
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Epic eats at Tampa Bay Veg Fest
Saturday’s fifth annual Tampa Bay Veg Fest offered a dish for every palate. It gave vegetarians and vegans a taste of what the Bay area has to offer, as well as toothsome incentives for skeptics to...
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Tonight in live music: Emmylou Harris, Robin Trower & more
Hump Day, yay! A rather intriguing lineup of concerts on tap this Wed., Nov. 12. Check it out below...Emmylou Harris Her sweetly drawling intones have been soaring for four decades and over 27 albums...
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St. Pete gets a perfect score in HRC's LGBT equality index
Last year, when Tampa scored higher than St. Petersburg in the Human Rights Campaign's annual measure of LGBT equality across the nation, St. Pete was more than a little peeved. City officials vowed...
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Album review: Primus (SHOW TONIGHT!)
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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Rick Steves has returned from Europe and his next destination is Tampa
Rick Steves' Europe Wed., Nov. 12, 8 p.m. at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. MacInnes Place, Tampa. Regularly priced tickets are $25-$45. strazcenter.org. "For 30 years, I’ve been...
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An Earful (Local Edition): Big Guava downsizes, Coastline brings Flaming Lips...
Big Guava is back, and while it’s notasbig this time around, it will have a noticeable impact on the agendas of some local festhusiasts. Live Nation’s summertime music festival is taking over the shed...
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The buzz about Tampa's Sustany Foundation
Lynn Pham started a home garden for herself, and for a better understanding of the ingredients used at her downtown Tampa restaurant, Bamboozle Cafe. The garden also played a role in Pham’s...
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Sweet restoration at Chief's Creole Cafe
Elihu and Carolyn Brayboy didn’t intend to open a fine-dining restaurant of their own along St. Petersburg’s “The Deuces.” The couple, both 65 and serial Midtown revitalizers, saw opportunity in the...
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Restaurant review: Come together through Café Martí
What’s great about the Bay area’s restaurant scene is diversity. You can opt for finesse and white tablecloths, with the price tag that premium ingredients and complicated techniques demand. Or you...
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BOTB-winning Church Of Nintendo seeks help repairing van, putting "smiles on...
The two-and-half year saga (not Sega) of the First United Church Of Nintendo has been amazing to follow. From its humble beginnings illuminating the mirrored walls of Fubar, to the way it’s become a...
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SCENE BREAKER: Stoppard spoofs le Carré, Fay assays the Magdalene and mom’s...
Here’s what’s behind the curtain this week in Tampa Bay theatre... THE BIG DOG IS BACK: Long one of the Bay Area’s busiest performers, accomplished stage and screen actor Petrus Antonius has been...
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Because Florida is for (book) lovers — Florida Bookstore Day is Nov. 15
Florida Bookstore Day Events at Haslam’s, Oxford Exchange Inkwood Books and more. Statewide schedule at wordierthanthou.com/bookstoreday. As the Information Age becomes more digitized and commerce...
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Dunedin Fine Art Center's Lost Worlds and Living Matter(s)
Lost Worlds, Living Matter(s) Runs through Dec. 23 at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, 1143 Michigan Blvd, Dunedin, 727-298-3322, dfac.org If you’re a regular at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, you know that...
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Public records ploy: Making hay out of the Sunshine Law
The nonprofit Citizens Awareness Foundation was founded to “empower citizens to exercise their right to know,” according to its mission statement. The South Florida millionaire backing the foundation...
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Poet's notebook: ISIS crisis
Hark, how the peoples surge and sigh,And laughters fail, and greetings die. Statisticians assure us that the world’s getting safer. Crime is down, wars less frequent, diets healthier. But why are we so...
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Dark & Sinful: Taking the black out of Black Friday
Wikipedia just blew my mind. I’ve been walking around all this time thinking “Black Friday” is a financial term. It refers to the fact that stores, in the red all year, finally turn a profit and get...
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