Credit: Courtesy of Merge Culture

Matt Callahan Man Made Murals Credit: Courtesy of Merge Culture
Ah, May. One month away from the official start of hurricane season, and also the month when the water is finally warm for swimming. When you're not busy daydreaming about chucking the computer out the window of your charming brick office that used to be a cigar factory but now has a ghost cat and starting over fresh on one of the few unspoiled islands in the Florida Keys, making a living on a sailboat and stringing for the local paper down there, you're reading all the things on our website. And we love you for it. Here's what you read the most last month, with the most-read story at the bottom.

10. You sometimes want to have sex when your boyfriend only wants to cuddle, too. 

9. You like to laugh at the weird things people say in bookstores. 

8. You find strong women, like the ones in Stageworks' In the Time of the Butterflies, engaging.

7. You think it's funny, too, that the birds were uncaged at the new Animal Kingdom bird show.

6. You have as many questions as we do about whether or not the new guy at the Museum of Fine Arts will raise chickens.

5. You don't own the perfect-fitting bra any more than we do. 

4. You wanted to know more about local actresses like Marlene Peralta.

3. You have questions about anal sex. 

2. You're jazzed about Jobsite's new season.

1. You miss muralist Matt Callahan. A lot. We don't blame you.

See you in June!

Cathy Salustri is the arts + entertainment editor for Creative Loafing Tampa. Contact her here. 


This article appears in Apr 26 – May 3, 2018.

Cathy's portfolio includes pieces for Visit Florida, USA Today and regional and local press. In 2016, UPF published Backroads of Paradise, her travel narrative about retracing the WPA-era Florida driving...