Special ed teacher suspended over nude modeling photos (NSFW)
"Can you believe that this girl was hired to work with special education children in the Fitchburg schools?!!"This was the one sentence email sent by an anonymous source to news outlets and the...
View ArticleMitch Perry Report 1.28.14 - Let the Reefer Madness campaign begin
There were several major stories to break out yesterday in Florida, but none bigger than the announcement that the Florida Supreme Court has approved the language in the constitutional amendment...
View ArticleDance It Out: Top 10 songs about dancing that make you want get down
Plenty of songs have the sort of bumpin' rhythms that make you wanna bust a move, but what about those tracks that aren't only about dancing, but that actually make you want to get up and get down?...
View ArticleGasparilla 2014 - Not much misbehavin'
It was a polite crowd — relatively speaking. Gasparilla 2014 proved to be much tamer than parades of shenanigans past.With heightened security including surveillance cameras scanning the crowd, the...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Sports Binge: Breaking down the big game
It's the biggest game of the year and the most blatant example of sports irony on the planet. For those of you who learned the term "irony" from Alanis Morissette, rain on your wedding day is not...
View ArticleNew Music Tuesday! (January 28): David Crosby, Pontiak, The Gaslight Anthem &...
Week four of new releases in 2014! Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your...
View ArticleReady for Hillary super PAC meets up in St. Petersburg
Speaking during a question-and-answer session at a meeting of the National Automobile Dealers Association on Monday, Hillary Clinton was asked about the chances that she would run for president in...
View ArticleTampa Democratic state Rep. Janet Cruz blasts the latest round of voting...
Undaunted by the failures of the state's last attempt at a voter purge, Secretary of State Kent Detzner is expected to send a revised list of alleged non-citizens to the 67 different supervisors of...
View ArticleVideo: Watch Tampa MC Granata tow a wagon, confuse Davis Island in "Palm Trees"
"It's a very immature Granata," explained Alex Granata when queried about his March 2013 video for "Palm Trees."The clip clocks in at just under two minutes long, but it hilariously finds the...
View ArticleA weekend of wizards, wands and butterbeer
Fads are typically short-lived and tend to fade as quickly as they erupt — even for book series and films that have society awestruck initially and seem to be literally inescapable for those of us not...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg's Bella Brava to open Mexican restaurant El Gallo Grande
Drive by the old Bastas Ristorante at 1625 Fourth Street South in St. Petersburg and you'll notice the building has changed quite a bit. The Vitales (Johnny, brother Paul and cousin Bruce) have are...
View ArticleFast Food Workers: Sometimes you gotta take a stand
Sometimes you have to take a stand just because it feels like the right thing to do.For Dunkin’ Donuts’ employee Nijah Pretzer, 33, taking part in the December 5th Fast Food Workers Protest, was the...
View ArticleThe Laugh Tract — who's bringing the funny
This is a good weekend to see experienced comics — with decades of stage experience — as well as up-and-coming performers who are starting their own funny paths. Whether you're looking for comedy vets...
View ArticleThe Coffee Roasters: Meet the people behind the beans
It’s been called “the best part of wakin’ up.” But for Tampa Bay’s coffee roasters, there’s so much more to coffee than meets the mouth. These folks really know their beans: where they come from, what...
View ArticleThe Coffee Roasters: Mazzaro's Italian Market in St. Petersburg
In a way, Mazzaro's Italian Market owes its existence to coffee. The Cuccaro family began roasting its own beans in order to supply good and price-efficient coffee to the six St. Pete Bagel locations...
View ArticleThe Coffee Roasters: Buddy Brew in Tampa
Buddy Brew coffee roaster Phillip Holstein leans into the roaster, ear to the beans. He’s listening for the first crack. Buddy Brew roasts its beans for 10-15 minutes, a medium roast.“You can...
View ArticleThe Coffee Roasters: Kahwa Coffee in St. Petersburg
When husband and wife Raphael and Sarah Perrier moved from Philadelphia to St. Petersburg, Sarah’s home town, Raphael already had 17 years in the coffee biz on his resume. In coming here, the couple...
View ArticleTop 10 best condoms of 2014
Each year Tampa's own CondomDepot.com publishes a list of the top 10 best condoms. To determine the winners, the condom distributor sends out 40 of the top rated condoms and the best-selling rubbers of...
View ArticleHomeschool parents make sex positive masturbation manual for boys
Tumblr user, Homeschooling Geek, and her husband created a masturbation manual for their 14-year-old, home-schooled son. The pamphlet is surprisingly informative, honest, open, and sex positive. They...
View ArticleThis week in Tampa Bay area live music: Carolina Chocolate Drops, Sevendust,...
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 30Nekromantix w/The Scurvy, Housebroken, Switchblade Villain Among the subject matter covered by LA-by-way-of-Denmark’s psychobilly trio Nekromantix: skyscraper-sized spiders...
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