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Live music radar: Gregg Allman at Ruth Eckerd Hall tonight (video)
Gregg Allman is a man who needs no introduction — he is Florida’s own smoky-voiced keys-playing Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and a Southern rock icon. Gregg underwent a liver transplant in 2010, and...
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Album Review: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Wig Out at Jagbags
Former Pavement principal/college-rock slacker titan Malkmus' fourth album with the Jicks is a love letter to all that came before in rock 'n' roll, executed from the perspective of a group whose own...
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Fundraising for new LGBT Welcome Center underway
With Tampa Bay’s growing reputation as a gay mecca in the Southeast, Metro Wellness and Community Centers is raising funds to transform a historic bungalow into an LGBT Welcome Center for the...
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"The Great Wall of Vagina" destroys the myth of an ideal vagina (NSFW)
British sculptor, Jamie McCartney, spent the last five years making plaster molds of vaginas. Early on in the project he realized how many women worry about how their vaginas compare to other women....
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New Music Tuesday! (January 7) + albums on the horizon
A brand new year means brand new music. Thus, we present you with the first week of new releases in 2014 (and the first week of new music in January)! Info and links for the ones you want to know about...
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Home cooking 101
Being a cooking instructor, I’m often quizzed about simple cooking tips that anyone can learn. It inspired me to compile this first installment of basic skills that every home cook should master. Even...
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Bill's Sports Binge: Quick start to the new year
Happy New Year, proud Tampons. Time to drink less, give up smoking, run a marathon, burn off that gut, learn a language (try mastering English first), write a book, get a better job and make sure...
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Equality Florida calls on its members to thank former NFL punter for...
Although significant strides have been made in the professional sports world in recent years regarding gay rights (think of how many players and teams got behind the "It Gets Better" campaign created...
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Kevin Beckner acknowledges an interest in CFO gig, but not this year
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater's announcement over the weekend that he has applied to become Florida Atlantic University's next president is inspiring all types of scenarios about who...
View ArticlePolk County readies a tax-swap proposal for transit
Transportation options may finally be on the verge of expansion for citizens in the Tampa Bay area. Pinellas County voters will vote on a proposed one-cent sales tax increase that would begin...
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Live music radar: Les Claypool's Duo De Twang plays State Theatre tonight
A bass master of the nth degree making his way through the Pinellas byways, Les Claypool speaks to alternative rock tastes and his idiosyncratic style — outrageously nasally vocals and warped, twisted,...
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The Well-Played List, 1-8-14: Herbie Hancock, Pelican, Damien Jurado & more
The listening series otherwise known as The Well-Played List kicks off in 2014! For those new to WPL, the ongoing series features the most listened-to, jammed-out songs, albums and artists of the week...
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Mitch Perry Report 1.8.14 - Problems with Florida's unemployment website...
While the Republican Party of Florida continues to send out daily emails blasting the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Democrats who support it, there's nary a word of outrage from...
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Baking class at the St. Pete Free Skool
"How to eat your feelings," could be one of the greatest cooking class titles of all time. Learn all about baking and "therapeutic self-care," at the St. Pete Free Skool Wednesday, January 8 at 8...
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AFDI's Pamela Geller vows to sue HART if ads not accepted
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Pamela Geller as "the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead." Others call her far worse. A former associate publisher of the New York...
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Born on Elvis' and Bowie's birthday
Way back in the days of Kurt Cobain, Seinfeld and pre-downsized media, Gina Vivinetto, the local writer, musician and UT assistant professor, and I worked as copy clerks at the newspaper formerly known...
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Do This: Tampa Rep's Heroes and Jobsite's The Hound of the Baskervilles
Tom Stoppard is one of theater's cleverest wordsmiths. He penned Rosencrantz and GuildensternAre Dead and co-wrote the scripts for the films Brazil, The Russia House and Shakespeare In Love. His...
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David Jolly says he has NEVER lobbied for offshore drilling interests
In a statement issued Tuesday night, CD13 GOP candidate David Jolly reiterated a comment he made Monday morning at the Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber of Commerce forum — that, contrary to speculation, he...
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Listen: Broken Bells, "After the Disco"
Broken Bells, the delightfully juxtaposed duo of producer Danger Mouse and The Shins' James Mercer, are set to release their sophomore album, After the Disco on February 4. The duo released the LP's...
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Spring Arts '14 What To Watch For: Movies
DON'T MISS …God at the Multiplex The Almighty gets his due this spring, thanks in large part to the huge ratings enjoyed by History Channel’s The Bible miniseries last year. Prominent releases include...
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