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Ask the Locals: Bob Devin Jones of The Studio@620
Bob Devin Jones is an artistic force of nature. He and David Ellis opened The Studio@620 in 2004 — the Paleozoic era of downtown St. Pete’s offbeat art scene. When Jones, a Los Angeles native,...
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Ask the Locals: Barbara Banno of Stella's Deli
Barbara Banno is the proprietor of Stella’s Deli, Gulfport’s coziest pancake-slinging, hot-pastrami-pressing, Kahwa-coffee-pouring diner. The Gulfport resident named the restaurant after her Great...
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Ask the Locals: Brian Schaefer of Skatepark of Tampa
Brian Schaefer is the owner and founder of Skatepark of Tampa (SPoT), a treasured mecca for skateboarders on the fringes of downtown Tampa. He opened the park 21 years ago in the most grassroots way...
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Ask the Locals: Paul Wilborn & Eugenie Bondurant, arts exec & actress
Paul Wilborn is executive director of the Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College. Under his direction, the Palladium has made upgrades to its 1926 digs, added an intimate cabaret series, and...
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Ask the Locals: Artist Duncan McClellan
Four years ago, glass artist Duncan McClellan moved his studio, gallery and home into a former tomato packing plant on the industrial fringes of downtown St. Petersburg. His arrival helped birth a new...
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Ask the Locals: Tina Avila of Casa Tina
Tina Avila has helped turn downtown Dunedin into a dining destination. Her Mexican restaurant Casa Tina is renowned in Tampa Bay for its cultural authenticity, fresh ingredients, vegetarian options...
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Ask the Locals: Joey Redner of Cigar City Brewing
Stepping out of the shadow of his notorious father (he’s the son of Mons Venus strip club owner Joe Redner), Joey Redner has made a name for himself as a craft beer entrepreneur and all-around good...
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Ask the Locals: Nadine Smith & Andrea Hildebran, activists
Longtime LGBT advocate Nadine Smith has served as the chief executive officer of Equality Florida since its inception in 1997. In 1993, she co-chaired the LGBT March on Washington and organized a...
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Ask the Locals: Artist Evander Preston
Evander Preston is an artist, recluse, rabble-rouser, beer drinker, Asian food fanatic and shoe whore. At 80, he’s still churning out outlandish projects and turning heads in Pass-a-Grille, where he’s...
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Ask the Locals: Cheong Choi of Café Hey
Cheong Choi is the owner of Café Hey, the downtown Tampa hotbed for hipsters, politicos, crunchy vegetarians and caffeine addicts. Choi grew up in Tampa and graduated from H.B. Plant High School in...
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Ask the Locals: WFLA Meteorologist Steve Jerve
WFLA chief meteorologist Steve Jerve is the calm before, during and after the storm. The weatherman’s even temper and smooth delivery have made him a reassuring fixture on Bay area television for 16...
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Ask the Locals: Arielle Stevenson, journalist
Arielle Stevenson, 24, got her start in media as a teenager reporting for WMNF Community Radio’s newscast. She later moved onto hosting the station’s Artful Dodgings program, a weekly musical grab bag...
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Ask the Locals: Brendan & Sandy McLaughlin, TV anchor & non-profit exec
Brendan McLaughlin is the popular early evening anchor of ABC Action News. Every weeknight at 5:30 and 6 p.m. you can catch him delivering the news and the occasional witticism (he’s notoriously...
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Ask the Locals: Restaurateur Michael “Frenchy” Preston
No nickname is more synonymous with Clearwater Beach dining than Frenchy. You can’t set foot on the island without seeing at least one Frenchy’s business. Heck, even the town’s Jolley Trolley is...
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Ask the Locals: Nathan & Sara Stonecipher, St. Pete entrepreneurs
St. Petersburg natives Nathan and Sara Stonecipher are poster children for the city’s indie business scene. Sara, a former advertising stylist for Dillard’s southeast headquarters, put the 600 block...
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Ask the Locals: Trevor Burgess of C1 Bank
The CEO of C1 Bank and the 2013 recipient of the coveted Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Florida’s financial services category, Trevor Burgess has the kind of weighty resume you...
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Ask the Locals: Eric Deggans, NPR television critic
Eric Deggans is a journalist, author, pundit and public speaker. In October of 2013, he left his longtime post as the TV and media critic at the Tampa Bay Times to do what he does best (dissect our...
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Seeing the big picture
Photography is a mind-altering experience. We may have walked down a street in our neighborhood hundreds of times, but when a gifted photographer homes in on a detail of a porch that we had never paid...
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The church of spilled blood
Ice is growing on the windowpanes. The clock is repeating: “Don’t be afraid!” Hearing what is walking toward me, I’d be afraid even if I were dead. It was midnight in St. Petersburg, and I’d just read...
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Reality bites in freeFall's American Monkey
Are talent competitions like American Idol the depraved offspring of the murderous gladiatorial games of ancient Roman times? This is the question that animates American Monkey, the interesting but...
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