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After extolling virtues of red-light cameras, Tampa City Council votes to...
(Update- Bob Buckhorn responds. Read below). So much for the convenient narrative that St. Pete hates red-light street cameras and Tampa loves them. The Tampa City Council today voted 4-3 to end the...
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Don't cry for us, Tampa Bay! Broadway's Evita! is back at the Straz
I was introduced to Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical Evita! — about the rise and fall of Argentina’s once first lady — in 1996, when the movie version starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas came...
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Ask the Locals: The Locals Recommend…
We figured you might be hungry after reading the locals’ multiple recommendations so here’s a handy guide. The names in parentheses tell you which locals recommended what. RESTAURANTSABC Chinese...
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Divergent: familiar style, little substance
The latest YA novel adaption flounders on the screen. by Anthony SalveggiWith its young female heroine trying make her way in a dystopic future world, Divergent can't help but invite comparisons to...
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The Well-Played List, 03-21-2014: Black Mountain, Neil Finn, CLPNation & more
It’s the end of the week, which means it's time to get your groove on... The ongoing listening series otherwise known as The Well-Played List features the most listened-to, jammed-out songs, albums and...
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Their 15 minutes: CL's InstaFame Photo Awards presented at FMOPA
Creative Loafing and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMOPA) hosted a reception for the winners of the 2014 InstaFame Photo Contest on Thursday night at the museum. The contest, open to...
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Mitch Perry Report 3.21.14: Expansion of school vouchers totally dead in Tally?
Welcome to the first full day of spring, and the second day of the NCAA College Basketball tournament. There were a couple of significant upsets in yesterday's full slate of games (and the #1-seeded...
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Comedian Erin Foley to perform at Stageworks
March Madness is a big deal to comedian Erin Foley. And not just to Foley, but to her parents as well. Each spring she treks from Los Angeles to Ruskin, Fla. where her parents moved after retirement,...
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A fellowship of awesome
Twice a week, Matt Barker and Bato Ijacic load a rented van with more than 300 cartridge games, 14 systems ranging from Atari 2600 to Nintendo 64, and all the TVs they can fit. On Sundays they bring...
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auto- 1 a combining form meaning “self,”“same,”“spontaneous,” used in the formation of compound words: autograph, autodidact. im·pu·ni·ty [im-pyoo-ni-tee] Noun 1. exemption from punishment. 2....
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Review: Miley Cyrus at the Tampa Bay Times Forum
“Is this the future of America?” A woman sitting in the row behind me at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Thursday night asked me this after noticing my blatantly horrified facial expression, as two tween...
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Bill's Sports Binge: Madness, hat tricks and the end of the world
Spring Break is over, St. Patrick's Day is but a green puke-stain-blurred memory and the tickets have been officially punched in for the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Time to pop some ibuprofen, make the...
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Surfer Blood announced as headliner for Spring Beer Fling on March 29
Tampa's Curtis Hixon Park is going to get another workout next Saturday, and if you think the park can't handle another event (it just hosted Mayor Bob Buckhorn's River O'Green event last Saturday and...
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Former Buc and now author Michael Clayton to sign new book Saturday
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer wide receiver Michael Clayton will be in Tampa on Saturday promoting his self-published autobiography, Chasing My Rookie year: The Michael Clayton Story. The former 2004 No....
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Stand Your Ground debated in Tampa
If Trayvon Martin had beaten up and killed George Zimmerman during their fateful encounter two years ago, he probably would have been charged with two counts of aggravated burglary. That was the...
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Last chance to catch The Odd Couple
Catch Gypsy Stage Repertory Company’s final productions of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple this weekend at St. Pete’s Metro Wellness and Community Center. Tonight’s show runs from 8 to 10 p.m. and...
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New political website focuses on Latino issues in the Sunshine State
There are plenty of websites and blogs devoted to covering Florida politics and public policy. So that fact that that Hispanics now make up 23 percent of the state's population, it shouldn't be too...
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FARE tour highlights St. Petersburg's energy efficient growth
The Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy's 2014 tour landed in Pinellas County on Friday, the fourth of it's five stops as it heads from Miami to the state capitol. With this tour, FARE hopes to...
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Do This: Herb Snitzer Fine Art Gallery Grand Opening, Heights Unites Benefit...
According to his book, Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir, Herb Snitzer began his “40-year odyssey” of immortalizing jazz legends in a lower Manhattan jazz club in 1958, when he was just out of...
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