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Do This: Inkwood Birthday Party Sale-a-Bration & Ben Montgomery Book Signing
Celebrate Inkwood Books’ first birthday since Stefani Beddingfield bought the store. The "Sale-a-Bration" at 7 p.m. features renowned local writer Ben Montgomery— the award-winning, Pulizer nominee...
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Do vegans swallow and other radical sex queries
It's an age old question, just like whether the chicken came before the egg. Do vegans swallow? This is not some cheap or novel query, there's a lot going on in this question. Or maybe it is cheap...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.2.14: Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade and political protests
Last week's New Yorker included a lengthy look inside the mind of Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers basketball star now in the twilight of his amazing career. It's been an incredibly frustrating...
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Thyme for Spring: Ring in spring with this simple lemon-thyme yogurt cake
Inspired by the sunny, bright and warmer days that are on our doorstep, here's a sweet and easy treat to whip up to ring in the spring season. This citrusy cake is sweet and tangy with hints of fresh...
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Evander Preston and Cigar City team up for canned beer
It was during an interview with Cigar City's Joey Redner that I inquired about the silver beer tab necklace he wears. You'll see them on other CCB employees too. “That's Evander Preston," he told me...
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Pizza and pints
When trying to appeal to someone who’s been slowly trucking along a traffic-jammed interstate for about two hours, utter three simple words: pizza and pints. This was all I needed to hear in a dinner...
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Florida Listening Room Festival brings concerts to homes, offices and the...
Not to be confused with DIY punk and hardcore-oriented house shows, living room concerts are acoustic-oriented affairs with audiences that seek a quieter, more intimate live music experience than...
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Starry Night: St. Pete's Il Ritorno
The sidewalk tables and umbrellas outside Il Ritorno, a new Italian restaurant on the 400 block of St. Pete’s Central Avenue, give no hint of anything out of the ordinary. Inside, too, is nice, but...
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Kick off the Rowdies' 2014 season
If you love the Rowdies, stand up — and come to St. Petersburg to kick off the 2014 campaign with two festive events. On Friday, the Tampa Bay Rowdies will host a meet-and-greet and jersey unveiling...
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Activists in St. Petersburg demand Duke Energy begin using clean energy sources
Chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, dirty coal has got to go,” a group of around 100 protesters marched in front of Duke Energy headquarters in downtown St. Petersburg on Wednesday, dropping off over 5,500...
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Gay mom shares her long road to adoption
Just about five years ago, Cathy James was still lobbying against the state’s gay adoption ban and fighting for recognition as her son’s second parent. Now that a judge has ruled the law...
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Drake and (Nick) Drake released new songs today, but which one's better?
It's been a good morning for fans of Drakes. Both the Toronto-based emcee/singer (Drake, real name Aubrey Graham) and the late English singer-songwriter Nick Drake released new music, and the tunes are...
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Ten Percent of Marta Solano is 100 percent skewed
The existence of alternate realities is a theme that turns up most often in fiction and film, and not usually in the theater. Novels like Philip Roth’s The Counterlife and movies like Inception test...
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Charlie Crist says he could have persuaded Legislature to accept Medicaid...
Tampa philanthropist David Straz, a registered Republican who endorsed Rick Scott over Alex Sink in the 2010 Florida gubernatorial campaign, today endorsed Charlie Crist over Scott in this year's...
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The legacy of Theo Wujcik
Theo Wujcik, an artist revered for his prolificity, his collaborations with other artists as a master printer and his teaching as an art professor at the University of South Florida over 33 years,...
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Captain America protects the S.H.I.E.L.D.
The Winter Soldier is Marvel’s biggest and best cinematic extravaganza to date. by Kevin Tall When last we checked in on Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), he was kicking the Chitauri out of...
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Marriage takes a beating in Le Week-End
An anniversary trip turns into an existential crisis for the characters and the audience. by Joe BardiI’ve been married to my lovely wife Heidi for four and a half years, which I’ve been told still...
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Growth market: The rush to make a buck in Florida’s still-hypothetical...
I’m just going to come out up front and say I bought some weed over spring break — part of the grueling research that journalism occasionally calls for. It was a gift for a friend, of course, and...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.3.14: Dwight Dudley's outrage
As reported on Wednesday by the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald, Representative Ritch Workman (R-Melbourne) does not favor incentivizing renewable energy. That's a problem considering that he's the...
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Study: where Harry met Sally matters more than when
How and where you meet your mate matters most when seeking approval for your relationship, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Indianapolis.“Perceptions...
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