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Dream team: Tampa Museum of Art's Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF
Robert Rauschenberg, Christian Marclay, James Rosenquist. Big names to be sure, but prestigious alliances alone haven’t pushed USF Graphicstudio to the forefront of the art world. Credit the...
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Drink More Wine: Sip, sniff, chew, spit
If you really want to understand wine, please start thinking when you take a sip. A first impression comes from the tip of your tongue and you get a sense of the fruit. If the wine is say, a big Napa...
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A Q&A with the fabulous Scott & Patti
Actor, singer, dancer, drag performer and emcee to fit your every need, Matthew McGee is fresh from a successful run in Stageworks'The Divine Sister and recovering from a broken nose and fractured...
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Uber's insurance policy not so secret any longer
Uber, the app-based alternative car service that has been trying to break into the Tampa, Miami and Orlando markets over the past couple of years, is pushing hard for their supporters to encourage...
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The Gasparilla Fringe Festival: You’ll GASP!
So we got to thinking: There are music, film and visual art festivals during Gasparilla month (aka March), but no performing arts festivals. So here comes CL on the final weekend of March to fill that...
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The amazing race of American Stage's Around the World in 80 Days
There’s a dangerous wager made at the start of Around the World in 80 Days, but it’s not the one made by Phileas Fogg, the play’s protagonist. Fogg's bet says that he can circle the globe — mostly by...
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This week in Tampa Bay area live music: Deltron 3030, Avett Brothers, Second...
THURSDAY, MARCH 27Second Annual Spring Beer Jam w/Serotonic & Displace (Thursday)/The Heavy Pets & Sophistafunk (Friday)/The Breakfast, Dangermuffin & Shoeless Soul (Saturday)/Uncle John’s...
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Porn Studies is the first scholarly journal on pornography
The first issue of Porn Studies was released this week, becoming the first international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to critically exploring pornography and its cultural, economic, historical,...
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Do This: Lure Pop-Up Shop at Workspace
You know what’s better than an art show? An art show with awesome, affordable and usable pieces. Enter the Lure Design Pop-Up Shop, housed at Workspace for just three days. Lure Design, located in...
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Mitch Perry Report 3.27.14 - Ashton Kutcher's rhetoric strikes out in...
That proposal to vastly expand the school voucher program in Florida apparently isn't dead after all, according to a report in today's Tampa Bay Times. But since it still lacks an accountability...
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Man in the middle: Why Jose Godinez-Samperio still can’t practice law in Florida
Last week marked the first anniversary of a report that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus commissioned in the aftermath of Mitt Romney’s loss in the 2012 presidential election. It...
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Life As We Blow It: Dream a little dream
On Friday, the New York Times Magazine published an excellent piece by writer Eve Fairbanks called, “How Did Sleep Become So Nightmarish?” (It’s available online; go ahead, I’ll wait.) In it, she...
View ArticleCharlie Crist hits Rick Scott on his opposition to ACA in new web ad
A few weeks ago Charlie Crist told CNN that he thought the Affordable Care Act was "great." Today the Rick Scott re-election campaign team is beginning to air an ad bashing Crist for supporting the...
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Tenacious and tender: A Q&A with Lily Tomlin
I’ve grown up admiring Lily Tomlin. When we were kids, my friend Kelly and I used to pinch our noses and mimic Ernestine, Tomlin’s snooty operator on Laugh-In, and we watched The Incredible Shrinking...
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Bill's Sports Binge: Touched in the head, plunked in the head and rock ain't...
We've all done things in our youth that, looking back as new members of the "adult" community, we find ... insane. No two ways about it. When my buddies and I toss back a few cold beverages as we...
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"This is a Trent Reznor Song" spoof gets a rather accurate video
"This Is a Trent Reznor Song" was released earlier this year by comedian Freddy Scott. His spoof of the relentlessly serious and dark artist looks at Reznor's stylistic tendencies (odd percussion,...
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Guido Maniscalco wants another chance to be a member of the Tampa City Council
The next election in Tampa isn't for nearly a year, yet Guido Maniscalco isn't taking any chances that he's not going to be successful this time around. That why the West Tampa native announced back...
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Firestone Grand Prix takes over St. Pete this weekend
The Verizon IndyCar Series kicks off its 2014 season this weekend with the Firestone Grand Prix in downtown St. Petersburg. While four-time series champion and fan favorite Dario Franchitti has called...
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The beer biz: Not so grrrr-eat
Craft beer supporters were breathing a little easier this week after a bill that would legalize 64-ounce growlers passed a House committee. The bill, which was approved by the House Business and...
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Wu-Tang Clan will release ONE copy of new album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
Amidst widespread wonder if a new Wu-Tang Clan album would ever see the light of day, Forbes (of all publications) dropped a bomb today confirming that the group has recorded an expansive, 128-minute...
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