Too many people and not enough beer cause chaos at Cigar City Hunahpu's release
The Cigar City Brewing Hunahpu's beer release is known for being the most highly attended and highly anticipated event of Tampa Bay Beer Week. But when beer lovers lined up for the $20 bottle on...
View ArticleHuzzah, homies! Photos from the 2014 Bay Area Renaissance Festival
The 36th Bay Area Renaissance Festival is going strong on the grounds of MOSI in north Tampa. The annual salute to everything medieval features 7 themed weekends, over 100 merchants selling period...
View ArticleMitch Perry Report 3.10.14 - Reading CPAC's tea leaves
Happy Monday to you all. I hope everyone got the opportunity to enjoy some parts of a very nice and vibrant weekend in the Tampa Bay area. Between attending a Tampa Bay Lightning game on Thursday...
View ArticleCigar City announces end of Hunahpu's Day
It's the end of an era. After hundreds waited hours Saturday for a bottle of the coveted Hunahpu Imperial Stout, many leaving empty-handed, Cigar City Brewing is ending the Hunahpu Day Release. The...
View ArticleLocal Whole Foods protests held in solidarity with Rhiannon Broschat
As the world acknowledged International Women's Day on Saturday, activists spent the day outside of a Tampa Whole Foods spreading awareness to the plight of Rhiannon Broschat. a former Whole Foods...
View ArticleLive review: Wild Splash 2014 with Wiz Khalifa, B.o.B., Sage the Gemini & more
Every year WiLD 94.1 kicks off spring break with a festival style concert at Clearwater’s Coachman Park. Almost a dozen food and drink vendors served a sold-out mass of people who packed the Charles...
View ArticleJoey Redner on Hunahpu's Day: "I just don't want to deal with it"
Cigar City Brewing owner Joey Redner felt sick over the Hunahpu’s Day debacle. “It made me physically ill,’’ said Redner. Hunahpu’s Day was supposed to be the joyous capstone of Tampa Bay Beer Week...
View ArticleFormer USF student body president now employed at Tampa City Hall
How dedicated was Cesar Hernandez in trying to make a difference when he was student body president at USF three years ago? Dedicated enough to speak for 24 straight hours to call attention to a...
View ArticleACLU asks Clemency Board to review voting ban policy receiving intl. scrutiny
Although it's doubtful it will cause any reflection whatsoever on the part of Governor Scott or the rest of the state's executive clemency board, Florida's current policy barring ex-felons from...
View ArticleTIGLFF to screen gay whodunnit
The makers of Out to Kill, a gay whodunnit filmed in Tampa last fall, will hold an exclusive pre-premiere screening at the freeFall Theatre on Wed., March 12.Los Angeles-based filmmaker Rob Williams,...
View ArticleSarasota-Bradenton Intl. Airport rejects ad on Florida's gender pay gap
The issue of pay equity has surfaced in the CD13 race, with Alex Sink trying to make hay out of David Jolly's stance on the issue. Jolly has previously lobbied against the Paycheck Fairness Act,...
View ArticleNew Music Tuesday! (March 11): Elbow, Aloe Blacc, 311, Metronomy & more
Week two of new releases for March! 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 ArticleWhat happens when strangers are asked to kiss (video)
The premise of Tatia Pilieva’s short film, "First Kiss" is simple. The filmmaker asked 20 strangers to kiss on camera for the first time. What happened next was surprisingly honest, beautiful, sexy,...
View ArticleNeil Young to premiere high-quality, awkward-looking music player and...
Because legendary folk singers with loads of cash and half-cooked ideas need something to do with their time, Neil Young will premier his newest venture, a high-quality digital music service called...
View ArticleMitch Perry Report 3.11.14 - This $12 million dollar race is going to end...
Good morning from the political capital of the world today. Let's note this: As of this morning, there are 232 Republicans in the House of Representatives, 199 Democrats. A victory by David Jolly or...
View ArticleSkrillex released a new album while you were sleeping, download it and hear...
The majority of Bay area Skrillex fans probably won't get into any of the EDM producer's upcoming Winter Music Conference appearances in Miami, and anyone who lives a close-to-normal existence can't...
View ArticleNew Rick Scott ad emphasizes his humble roots in major media buy
If you didn't get the message during his State of the State Address last week, Rick Scott's re-election campaign is going to emphasize his humble roots. The campaign announced today that a new ad...
View ArticleDo This: Learn About the Herb
We all have a thought or two on marijuana, but if an informed opinion is what you're after, The Witch’s Brew Café/Pub in Palm Harbor is hosting a Free Monthly Educational Series on Hemp &...
View ArticleThe Florida Listening Room Festival expands to an office near you.
Not to be confused with the punk and hardcore-oriented DIY house shows, living room concerts are acoustic-oriented affairs with audiences that seek a quieter, more intimate live music experience than...
View ArticleHBO releases Normal Heart trailer
HBO has just released the trailer for The Normal Heart, the first screen adaptation of Larry Kramer's incendiary 1985 play about the ignorance, bigotry and government foot-dragging that exacerbated the...
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