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Best of the Day: Best Friends at Workspace Gallery
Pop in on a solo show by an up-and-coming Philadelphia transplant Cory Robinson, who has one of the coolest jobs in the world: He's a display artist at Urban Outfitters. The spirited and amiable...
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Do This: Going to and avoiding Gasparilla
The Gasparilla Pirate Fest begins 11 a.m., taking over Bayshore Boulevard, downtown Tampa and its surrounding waterways. From 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Jose Gasparilla and the flotilla will make their way...
View ArticleFor the 1st time, Alex Sink takes on David Jolly for his lobbying efforts in...
The Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee has been hammering David Jolly hard for his lobbying history since he got into the contest to succeed the late Bill Young in Pinellas' CD13 seat, but...
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Will Weatherford wants to give in-state tuition to immigrants,but will his...
Will Weatherford has just one more legislative session to go before his tenure as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives expires, and he's decided to go bold in his call to allow immigrants...
View ArticleBill Clinton's liason with Monica Lewinsky breaks out in Rand Paul interview...
Of all the national Republicans who have won high office in recent years fueled by the Tea Party insurgence, none are more interesting than Rand Paul.The freshman Senator from Kentucky was the subject...
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Hangin' with Best Friends
Long-necked alpacas, sleepy owls and a doe-eyed giraffe graced the walls of Workspace on Saturday night. Inside, Cory Robinson’s playful installation featured small watercolors and larger acrylic...
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Real Housewives of Atlanta's Mama Joyce Jones speaks her mind
Most people don’t know that Mama Joyce Jones Real Housewives of Atlanta (which airs Sundays at 8 p.m.) had two children: a son named Patrick who died at 22 due in a head-on collision and the...
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A nearly perfect Saturday for Gasparilla Pirate Fest
The crowds were thick and hungry for beads all along Bayshore Boulevard for the 2014 Gasparilla invasion. The Gasparilla Pirate Fest, Tampa's largest annual street party, shivered our timbers Saturday...
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Japanese 'smart' bra explodes open for 'true love' (video)
Finally "a bra that knows how women truly feel!" The Japanese company Ravijour developed a 'smart' bra that works like a chastity belt for boobs; it only opens under the presence of 'true love,' or at...
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Album review: Warpaint, Warpaint
I've spent some quality time getting to know the ladies of Warpaint this week, yet even with undivided musical focus, the LA quartet still seems more like the gauzy photo on the cover of their new...
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Mitch Perry Report 1.27.14 - Please tip your waiters tonight
A happy (if dank) Monday to you all today.The big national political news this week is President Obama's annual State of the State Address, which, let's face it, never lives up to the hype. I mean,...
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GOP Florida Congressman Trey Radel to leave Congress after drug arrest
Trey Radel, the first Congressman ever arrested for possessing cocaine while in office, is resigning from Southwest Florida congressional seat today.I can confirm he is resigning today," Greg Dolan,...
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Tampa Bay's Brass Tap joins the growler movement
After years of growler sales in Florida restricted to craft breweries, the flood gates seem to be opening. First, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits began filling and selling growlers, including at its West...
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At St. Pete Beach appearance, Alex Sink calls David Jolly "too extreme" for...
Over the weekend, Alex Sink began airing ads assailing her CD13 GOP opponent David Jolly for his lobbying background. And she doesn't intend to relent anytime soon. With early voting by mail scheduled...
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Queens of the Stone Age bring their Like Clockwork tour to Mahaffey Theater
Queens of the Stone Age isn’t one of those bands with a long, tidy, unbroken history. The lineup has shifted myriad times since Josh Homme Queens founded the California rock band in 1996. He’s remained...
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Do This: Off-the-radar plays, Richard Thompson
Catch an “ethnodrama” by Charles Vanover at the Studio@620, directed by venue poobah Bob Devin Jones. They’re Only Going to Steal Your Cars is a unique one-woman, verbatim play presented via brief...
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David McKalip touts new poll on Greenlight Pinellas, but were the questions...
A new poll published today finds large opposition to raising the sales tax in Pinellas to improve the county's transportation system, but critics say the questions asked prevented an accurate...
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Medical marijuana ballot language okayed by Florida State Supreme Court
The Florida State Supreme Court has approved language for the medical marijuana legalization amendment to be placed on November's ballot. United for Care, the campaign behind the citizen-petition-led...
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The Afghan Whigs to release first album in 16 years
Once upon a time, Cincinnati foursome The Afghan Whigs became one of the first bands not from the Pacific Northwest to make waves on the then-hip Seattle imprint Sub Pop, as well as one of the first...
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Sundance Interview with Noaz Deshe, director of White Shadow
Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe was planning a trip to teach film in Tanzania. When he read about the illicit trade in human albino meat and entrails, that according to local witch doctors...
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