Spring Arts '14 What To Watch For: Visual Arts
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, ContributionVITA BREVIS: Andy Warhol’s “Skull” (1976, acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen) at the Dalì.DON’T MISS …Warhol: Art. Fame....
View ArticleRick Kriseman's hiring boom
A funny thing happened on the way to Rick Kriseman’s coronation/inauguration last Thursday in front of City Hall in St. Petersburg. The mayor-elect, who won a smashing 12-point victory over incumbent...
View ArticleFlorida Democrats hit GOP on unemployment & minimum wage
On the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty speech, Florida Democrats in Washington attacked Republicans for failing to support an extension of unemployment benefits, while Democrats in...
View ArticleSpring Arts '14 What to watch for: Etcetera
Don’t miss…Inside Amy Schumer’s Back Door Tour What happens when you get inside the head of a woman who doesn’t really keep anything inside? Hilarity. Amy Schumer is one of today’s leading ladies of...
View ArticleDocumentary on men who dress as living sex dolls (videos)
Female masking is a form of cross-dressing with a modern twist. Maskers not only wear women's clothes, they put on rubber masks and skin suits. In their outfits, these fetishists more closely resemble...
View ArticleRick Scott slams Kathy Castor for criticizing state's troubled unemployment...
Rick Scott has certainly heard lots of criticism from Democrats during his term as governor of Florida, but rarely does he react in kind. But late Wednesday afternoon at a Honda dealership in East...
View ArticleSpring Arts '14 What to watch for: Theater
Don’t miss…Two Trains Running. It’s 1969, and in Memphis Lee’s diner in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, seven African-Americans gather to talk about money and death and social justice. Because it’s the...
View ArticleSpring Arts '14 What to Watch For: Live Music
A breakdown of the most highly anticipated concerts taking place in Tampa Bay this spring, from January through April.DON’T MISS…Arctic Monkeys The UK’s indie psych- garage quartet has done rather well...
View ArticleThe 2014 Spring Arts Preview
All the best in Visual Art, Theater, Music, Movies and more … by David WarnerThe Culture of Narcissism, the controversial 1979 book by the late historian Christopher Lasch, has been viewed both as...
View ArticleTampa Bay's room with a view dining guide
Get the best seat in the house. by Arielle StevensonFor the Spring Arts issue, we wanted to focus on the places that not only hit the nail on the head with food and service but with aesthetics, too,...
View ArticleAnise Global Gastrobar's power couple of flavor in Tampa
Cocktails and flavors marry well at Downtown Tampa’s Anise Global Gastrobar. by Jon Palmer ClaridgeI’m not sure who first paired craft cocktails with small plates, but it is a match made in heaven....
View ArticleThis week in Tampa Bay area live music: Blackberry Smoke, Speedy Ortiz, The...
The complete weekly schedule; start your planning here...THURSDAY, JANUARY 9Blackberry Smoke Charlie Starr might have the most impressive set of mutton chops in the South; his shaggy facial hair has a...
View ArticleThe man with two penises answers your questions (NSFW pics)
A few days ago an anonymous man known only as "The Double Dick Dude" (DDD) made waves online when he exposed his two, fully functioning penises to the world. Naturally the public had many questions and...
View ArticleTest driving the Pyxis finger massager
The instruction manual for the Pyxis finger massager had no warnings about using the sex toy while operating heavy machinery, so it seemed sensible to “road test" the ring-shaped vibrator while driving...
View ArticleTampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn's January food truck rally (with video)
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn's January food truck rally (with video) from Arielle Stevenson on Vimeo. [jump] On the first Wednesday of every month, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn hosts a lunchtime food truck...
View ArticleMitch Perry Report 1.9.14 - "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee"
Remember when Lyndon Johnson supposedly said after Walter Cronkite criticized the U.S. effort in Vietnam that if he had lost Cronkite, he had lost the country? I wonder what Chris Christie was thinking...
View ArticleAll 3 GOP candidates in CD13 race take pledge NOT to raise taxes
During his very short-lived campaign to challenge Kathy Castor for Congress in 2012, Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpevowed that if elected to serve in Washington, the only pledge that he...
View ArticleBest of the Day: Benefit Party for Nathan Cicle
This past October, local resident and music scenester Nathan Cicle was riding his scooter down Central Avenue in St. Petersburg when he encountered a few pedestrians crossing the street. One stopped at...
View ArticleJanet Long says "everyone knew" about Bill Young's first family situation
Andrew Meacham's story in Sunday's Tampa Bay Times regarding the revelations that former Congressman Bill Young had an unreported affair and out-of-wedlock child while still married to his first wife...
View ArticleConcert review: Gregg Allman, a new lease on life - and music.
Amazing what a new liver will do for you. Three-and-a-half years ago, Gregg Allman, one of rock’s most notoriously hard-living characters, had that vital organ replaced after being diagnosed with Hep...
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