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Do This: Happy Pi Day, Joan Rivers, Carmen, American Monkey premiere and more
Not only is it Friday, it's Pi Day, folks. (3.14, get it?) Because artist Salvador Dali loved the irrational numbers and often using them and other mathematical principles in his art, the Dali Museum...
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Lady Gaga performs in human vomit at SXSW. What is the world coming to?
"I love my fans so much," Lady Gaga cooed after performing "Swine" at music uber-conference SXSW last night, "because they always let me be myself — and they don't care what anybody says." (via CoS)...
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Stand-up Librarian brings her act to the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
Long before she became the Stand-Up Librarian, Meredith Myers was just a girl who loved books growing up in St. Petersburg, a fifth-generation resident of the city. Reading “was a family affair,” she...
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Drink More Wine: Using your senses
This month marks one year for the Drink More Wine column. If you’re a regular reader of CL, I hope it’s pushed you to explore grapes outside of your usual boundaries. The world of wine is an...
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The Hip-Hop ABCs: Letter H
It is nearly impossible to get a bunch of passionate hip-hop fans to agree on anything. But I tried anyhow, starting with a series of polls on Facebook that aimed to figure out which emcee or group...
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Get yer Irish up: CL's St. Patrick's picks
Perhaps you aren’t even Irish, but you can still use St. Patrick’s Day as an excuse to have fun in Tampa Bay. Here's a sampling events that should be a pot o' fun ... Today and continuing ...6th...
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Eckerd College officials pleased that Dept. of Transportation finally "saw...
Nearly a year and a half after a retired diplomat was killed pulling out of Eckerd College onto 54th Avenue South in St. Petersburg, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) last month finally...
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St. Pete's failing school receives support of city council
At Thursday’s meeting, St. Pete’s City Council got welcome relief from the hot button issues it has grappled with since being seated a little over two months ago. Blarney (defined by the Irish as...
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Do This: Katt Williams, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Tempus' Nitty Gritty Dance...
For his touring show Katt Williams: Growth Spurt, the comic gets candid about his crazy past year. He says, “If I can discuss the government shutdown, I can certainly discuss my own.” If you haven't...
View ArticleSunday morning pundits ponder if Jolly's victory is 1st indication of GOP...
Five days after David Jolly defeated Alex Sink in the CD13 race in Pinellas County, the verdict is in from America's pundit class: Obamacare was the culprit for Jolly's victory, and essentially the...
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Do This: Aziz Ansari, Sunday with Stanley and more
In addition to comedian/actor Aziz Ansari's endless slew of bon mots and aphorisms known as Haverfordisms on NBC's Parks and Recreation, he has been doing his own brand of sociological research on...
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Mitch Perry Report 3.17.14: Florida is number one in March Madness, but Miami...
Last night the NCAA selection committee chose the 68 teams who will play in the annual college basketball tournament that begins this week, and the University of Florida is seeded number one in the...
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Do this: Happy St. Pat's, new Seminole Heights Branch Library
It isn't a huge deal in Ireland, but American Irish people made it one across the pond. So, Happy St. Patrick's Day, folks. Drink up, but drive responsibly. (Best mixed message ever.)Claddagh — An...
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Tyler, the Creator got arrested at SXSW, he'll still be at The Ritz Ybor...
Unfortunately South By Southwest (SXSW) — the annual gathering of seemingly every single, solitary important person in the music industry — should be referred to as South By Sad West this time around....
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Seminole Heights opens its new library to the public
Less than a year and a half since its previous structure was razed, Seminole Heights residents now have a spanking new library, larger in all aspects than the nearly 50-year-old facility that it has...
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Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gaultieri latest Bay Area official to change...
A couple of months after St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman delivered on his campaign promise to change that police department's car chase pursuit policy, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri...
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Latino advocacy group says GOP is all talk, no action on immigration
Who can forget where we all were a year ago, when the Republican National Committee unveiled its so-called "Autopsy Report"? That's the study commissioned by RNC Chair Reince Priebus to attempt to...
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Katt Williams'"Growth Spurts" show soars and sputters out
After a slew of embarrassing arrests, outbursts, fights and bizarre confrontations, Katt Williams is back on the road with his Growth Spurts tour to show fans that he's a survivor and he's still got...
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New Music Tuesday! (March 18): Foster the People, Tycho, George Michael,...
Week three of March sees some intriguing releases. 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 &...
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A second HIV positive infant cured
Last year researchers announced that a child born with HIV was living free of the virus as a result of aggressive drug treatment just 30 hours after birth. The existence of a second such child was...
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