Listen: Broken Bells, “After the Disco”
Broken Bells, the delightfully juxtaposed duo of producer Danger Mouse and The Shins' James Mercer, are set to release their sophomore album, After the Disco on February 4. The duo released the LP's first single “Holding on for Life” back in November to a collective dull roar of Bee Gees comparisons. Yesterday, they dropped the…
David Jolly says he has NEVER lobbied for offshore drilling interests
Activists protesting at a Hands Across the Sands rally in Pinellas County In a statement issued Tuesday night, CD13 GOP candidate David Jolly reiterated a comment he made Monday morning at the Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber of Commerce forum — that, contrary to speculation, he has never lobbied for offshore drilling interests. The issue is…
Do This: Tampa Rep’s Heroes and Jobsite’s The Hound of the Baskervilles
See the previews tonight!
Born on Elvis’ and Bowie’s birthday
Local musicians Gina Vivinetto and Jeremy Gloff were born on the same day as the rock ‘n’ roll icons. Coincidence? Maybe not.
AFDI’s Pamela Geller vows to sue HART if ads not accepted
Pamela Geller The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Pamela Geller as "the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead." Others call her far worse. A former associate publisher of the New York Observer, she is the founder, editor and publisher of the conservative AtlasShrugs.com website and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), a…
Baking class at the St. Pete Free Skool
"How to eat your feelings," could be one of the greatest cooking class titles of all time. Learn all about baking and "therapeutic self-care," at the St. Pete Free Skool Wednesday, January 8 at 8 p.m. Hosted at the Warehouse Arts Districts' Fuzz Factory, instructor Lauren Bone asks that participants bring an oven-safe coffee mug…
Mitch Perry Report 1.8.14 – Problems with Florida’s unemployment website continue
While the Republican Party of Florida continues to send out daily emails blasting the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Democrats who support it, there's nary a word of outrage from them regarding the botched launch of the state's CONNECT website, which has left tens of thousands of Floridians without their unemployment check.…
Polk County readies a tax-swap proposal for transit
Transportation options may finally be on the verge of expansion for citizens in the Tampa Bay area. Pinellas County voters will vote on a proposed one-cent sales tax increase that would begin construction of a light-rail network running from St. Petersburg to Clearwater in November, but they're not the only transit system with a proposal…
Kevin Beckner acknowledges an interest in CFO gig, but not this year
Kevin Beckner Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater's announcement over the weekend that he has applied to become Florida Atlantic University's next president is inspiring all types of scenarios about who might vie for his position if he does leave the Cabinet level office. Currently Atwater appears to be a shoo-in for re-election this fall.…
Equality Florida calls on its members to thank former NFL punter for advocating for same-sex marriage
Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe Although significant strides have been made in the professional sports world in recent years regarding gay rights (think of how many players and teams got behind the "It Gets Better" campaign created by Dan Savage), it's still not exactly an arena of progressive thoughts on such issues. If you don't…
Bill’s Sports Binge: Quick start to the new year
2014 begins with a new Bucs coach, an FSU championship and more …
Home cooking 101
Simple tips for highly effective at-home cooking.
New Music Tuesday! (January 7) + albums on the horizon
Kid Ink, Peter Gabriel releases out today; new Bruce Springsteen, Phantogram and Beck LPs forthcoming…
Fundraising for new LGBT Welcome Center underway
A rendering of what Metro Wellness planned LGBT Welcome Center. With Tampa Bay’s growing reputation as a gay mecca in the Southeast, Metro Wellness and Community Centers is raising funds to transform a historic bungalow into an LGBT Welcome Center for the region. The organization hopes to raise $30,000 for the project through an online…
Album Review: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Wig Out at Jagbags
The former Pavement frontman returns with another album of quirky, enjoyably category-ambivalent indie-rock
Live music radar: Gregg Allman at Ruth Eckerd Hall tonight (video)
Gregg Allman Gregg Allman is a man who needs no introduction — he is Florida’s own smoky-voiced keys-playing Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and a Southern rock icon. Gregg underwent a liver transplant in 2010, and bounced right back onto the road with Allman Brothers Band and solo gigs like his recent stop at…
The Mitch Perry Report 1.7.14 – So long BCS. We’ll miss you
The Florida State Seminoles defeated the Auburn Tigers 34-31 last night in the final NCAA football championship under the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The 'Noles thrilling fourth-quarter comeback ends their perfect season, bringing the first college football championship to Tallahassee in 14 years. It's also the end of the BCS, which for years has been…
DCCC charges David Jolly “caught in a lie” regarding off-shore oil drilling
(Update) David Jolly The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued a press release late Monday afternoon alleging that CD13 GOP candidate David Jolly was "caught in a lie" earlier today regarding his statement at a candidates forum where he denied he has lobbied on behalf of oil-drilling interests. But just like a previous charge that he…
Morale at HART at an “all-time low”? CEO Phillip Hale disagrees …
HART CEO Philip Hale In October, the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) and one of its main unions, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1593, signed a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that will run into Sept. 30, 2015. But according to Colin Brown, the Vice President of ATU Local 1593, HART management has been uncooperative…
Red Bull Crashed Ice Qualifier drops temps in Oldsmar
Chris Garrison Sixteen athletes competed in a plethora of events at the Tampa Bay Skating Academy in Oldsmar in the Red Bull Crashed Ice Qualifier. While everyone in the Tampa Bay area (and beyond) braced for the polar vortex, a more enjoyable and exciting extreme cold event took place in Oldsmar on Saturday, as the…
Listen: Speedy Ortiz, “No Below”
The Massachusetts quartet plays Mojo Books & Records on Friday.
St. Pete’s Social on Fourth Street closes
Todd Bates The Social's Johnny Ciani. So long and thanks for all the flatbreads and Moscow Mules. St. Petersburg's Social at 5226 Fourth St., (formerly World of Beer) has closed, effectively immediately. The Social opened a little over a year ago, after World of Beer (the first one in St. Petersburg) closed. The bar and…
Anti-Muslim ads coming to Tampa via HART?
This is the ad that HART intends to run Last year a mini-controversy erupted when CAIR, the Council for American-Islamic Relations, wanted to run an ad on Hillsborough buses as part of the Council's "My Jihad" campaign in August. The Hillsborough County Area Regional Transit Authority board initially rejected the ad, saying that it would…
The Laugh Tract — who’s bringing the funny
BLEEP BAT BONG: The Police Academy soundmeister can be seen at Snapper's this weekend. This weekend, comedy-goers can enjoy storytellers, voice artists, television personalities and local comedians. There are even a free show to enjoy. For a wide variety of funny, check out the different acts appearing on stage this week: Theaters Garrison Keillor at…
Least objectionable member of Metallica to re-join old band
Guitarist Kirk Hammet will jam with Exodus at his own FEAR FestEvil.
Artbreaker: CL’s new A&E page
American Apparel Each week, we balance the creative and technical, the managerial and clerical, local culture and national news and trends. It's a lot of juggling for sure. Some plates get broken now and then, but we're always striving to be a little better at meeting your needs. In that spirit, we're focusing more on…
Best of the Day: Tarpon Springs Epiphany Celebration
It's not just a Greek, religious and Tarpon Springs tradition — it's a Tampa Bay institution. The cross-diving celebration of Epiphany begins at 8 a.m. with mass and festivities at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 36 N. Pinellas Ave, Tarpon Springs. At noon, you can catch the blessing of the waters led by His Eminence…
Best of the Day: Tarpon Springs Epiphany Celebration
It's not just a Greek, religious and Tarpon Springs tradition — it's a Tampa Bay institution. The cross-diving celebration of Epiphany begins at 8 a.m. with mass and festivities at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 36 N. Pinellas Ave, Tarpon Springs. At noon, you can catch the blessing of the waters led by His Eminence…
Live music radar: Wesley Stace with Joe Pernice (audio)
Tonight, two noteworthy artists land at Falk Theatre to perform. UK-born, Philly-based singer, songwriter, NPR host and author Wesley Stace (pictured right) finally shed his stage name after 25 years (you might remember him as John Wesley Harding), and he’s touring in support of new 16-track full-length Self-Titled, issued in September on Yep Roc; he…
Mitch Perry Report 1.6.14 – Jill Kelley, Liz Cheney and a walloping expose of the late Bill Young
Welcome back everybody. For some of you, this is your return back to the working life after taking a couple of weeks off for the Christmas holidays. Yours truly spent the holidays here in Tampa Bay for the first time since moving here in 2000. Not bad overall, though it was difficult to feel too…
An introduction to Ear Buds, the new CL music page
Creative Loafing is ushering in a whole new era of online news and how we deliver it to you with the launch of five blogs, each with its own specific focus — food (Potlikker), arts and entertainment (Art Breaker), politics (Political Animal), sex and love (Bed Post), and music (Ear Buds — where you're currently…
Brian Schweitzer to be the progressive challenger to Hillary in ’16?
Just as much as the mainstream media (and much of the Democratic Party) wants to cast Hillary Clinton as the inevitable Democratic nominee for president nearly three years before the next election, there is an equal effort on the part of some other media outlets and grassroots progressive activists within the party to find an…
88,000 Floridians lost their unemployment benefits on Saturday
Approximately 88,000 unemployed Floridians (and a total of 1.3 million Americans nationwide) lost their unemployment benefits over the weekend, and it appears as though the only way that Republicans might agree to a deal with Congressional Republicans to extend those benefits will be to find somewhere to cut $26 billion from the federal budget. That…
Largo’s Barley Mow Brewing expanding to production facility
Expansion was always part of the plan for Barley Mow, the little Largo brewpub Jay Dingman owns with his wife and fellow brewer, Colleen. But not this soon and not this big. The original plan was to add a 20-barrel brewhouse at the end of the third year of brewing. Instead, Barley Mow Brewing Company…
Let it go
Overcome your body issues and start dating already.
Do This Weekend Edition: Travelogues, Silentium, Three Kings’ Day and more
Tonight: Celebrate a year of Travelogues, arguably the best intimate-meets-cultural event to sprout in Tampa in 2013. For the past year, Vessel Collective has organized fun, enlightening and intimate evenings of travel stories and presentations. Celebrate host/founder Gina Moccio's new chapter and a milestone in her event series with a fun, vicarious voyage to parts…
Best of the Day: University of Tampa’s Lectores
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David Jolly brings the fear of Debbie Wasserman Schultz to CD13 race
David Jolly & Mark Bircher at Thursday night's debate in Pinellas Park Although there's still a week and a half of campaigning before the GOP primary election takes place for Pinellas County's Congressional District 13 seat, David Jolly is warning local Republicans that they must unite immediately after the contest to stave off Alex Sink,…
Mitch Perry Report 1.3.14: The Charlie Crist apology tour begins
Charlie Crist back when he was Governor … Let's stipulate that both Rick Scott and Charlie Crist, the two probable candidates to run for governor later this year, are both flawed candidates. Scott's issues are legion. He's been so far down in the polls for the first three years of his term in office that…
The Laugh Tract — who’s bringing the funny
SHARP, WITTY AND CASUAL: Hannibal Burress headlines the Improv this weekend. If one of your resolutions is to laugh more this year, you have plenty of opportunities to hit the ground running in 2014. There's a wide variety of talent on stage, and some variety in prices, too. Here are this week's options to catch…
A new Council and Bill Foster’s teary goodbye
Darden Rice signs in as a new member of the St. Pete City Council In addition to a new mayor, St. Petersburg now has two new City Council members in Darden Rice and Amy Foster, who were officially inaugurated on Thursday morning. But before that happened, the six returning members of the City Council bid…
Kriseman vows that St. Pete will become “a daring city, a beacon of progress”
The new mayor re-emphasized his goal of making St. Pete a “seamless city.”
Mitch Perry Report 1.2.14 – Changes already happening in 2014
Local media outlets are reporting that former Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith is poised to become the next coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a move that is being universally hailed as the right choice by the Glazer brain trust, who now must secure a new general manager to work with their new coach.…
Health & Fitness 2014: Strong medicine
CL kicks off the new year with an issue devoted to helping you feel better.
Kicking the diet soda addiction
Tab was their gateway drug …
The occupational hazards of making music
The unexpected health risks of being a rock star (or just a professional musician).
Learning to live with a malfunctioning thyroid
My hormones have been doing a pogo dance since childhood.
Turn your fitness routine upside down
Aerial yoga flips the script on the usual workout.
MMA training: My risky road to fitness
I put my health on the line to build mental and physical toughness.
Hanging out at TRX Suspension Training
Leverage gravity and your bodyweight in this unique regimen.
The Mudder in me
Think you’re tough? Tough Mudder will make you scream like a little girl.
Sylvia’s: health food for the soul
A cardiologist might not approve, but the “Queen of Soul Food” satisfies.
Neighborhood Dining Guide: Roughage
The festive gluttony has ended, and now it’s time to refresh your body at these nourishing restaurants.
Not-so-mellow mushrooms
This warm sherry vinegar-braised wild mushroom salad is perfect for cooler days.
Downtown St. Pete’s Cask and Ale is a new shrine to craft cocktails
Cask and Ale, downtown St. Petersburg’s newest high-end watering hole, opened to an overflow crowd Friday night in the reimagined space once home to The Independent, 29 3rd St. N. The narrow space with the soaring ceiling features a long bar to the left and seating to the right, the walls covered in unfinished wood,…
Kaleidoscope
Seeing my mother in darkness and in light.
My brush with Obamacare
Complicated? Yes. Level of coverage for the price? Reasonable.
Pills offer hope for Hep C and cancer patients
But oh, the expense.
Cardiac kids
Young survivors of heart disease have some lessons for the rest of us.
Playlists for your fitness – yoga, cardio, pilates and CrossFit
Spotify playlists included.
The art of healing
A singer with a mission and “Potatoheads” with a message.
Fit? Pfft!
And don’t get him started on “Health.”
