We gave you a break from having to examine the social minutiae of existence yesterday, but we're back, and it hasn't really gotten any … anything, really:

March Madness officially begins. If you're not sure, March Madness is the time of year when non-athletic white men who absolutely must have yet another sport to hang their identities on between professional football and baseball seasons completely stop working at work, devoting their time instead to watching numbers on their computer screens related to what college kids are doing on basketball courts change. Yeah, it's not sad and annoying at all.

Due to overwhelming demand, comedian Dave Chappelle has added a fourth show to his April run of dates at Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall. Further proof that all you have to do to become Tampa Bay's absolute favorite thing is be cool ten years ago.

And finally, the International Tree Climbing Championship is in Tampa this weekend. Hey, you can be forgiven for somehow not knowing that the biggest event in competitive arboreal facility is in our own backyard this year — you were sitting at your desk watching those little college-basketball numbers change, weren't you?

This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2015.