Chick Correa smiles with a microphone in hand, gesturing upward
The late Chick Correa. Credit: Chris Rodriguez

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay keeps reaching into the mailbag, and treading carefully into the comments section. The exercise leaves us increasingly grateful for readers who come to us in print—and especially online—to read the news and thoughtfully respond. Keep it coming, folks (you can email us!), and we’ll keep posting it.

The Clearwater home of late jazz legend Chick Corea is now for sale (via Facebook)

Wow, never knew i lived this close to one of my favorite jazz artist—David L. Hall Jr.

 I thought that was a “holy” site for Scientology.—Jack Schooley

Downtown Tampa’s new Bodega Bus deli promises chopped cheese and more until 4 AM (via Facebook)

They better have a Bodega cat—Nicole Mae

Graffiti reminded me of Fo’ Cheezy in St Pete—Kiki Ka Boom

W move. 100%. I’ll definitely stop by sometime.—Alan Henderson

Zatar is a great guy and makes the best smash burgers in Florida!!!!—Jason Casey

Get ready for $18 chopped cheese with fancy aioli and topped with parsley—Matt Hursey

Tampa Democrat Kimberly Overman will challenge Gus Bilirakis in US congressional race(via Facebook and Instagram)

As a resident of this newly gerrymandered Franken-district, I’m looking forward to voting for a fellow Tampeño who understands my community over a career Pasco politician.—@smiecz5

She will win. This new map is going to backfire on the GOP.—@pharmchick06

Gus saved my butt during COVID. My entire household is voting for him.—Costa Kokorin

@Costa Kokorin I believed in him too until he voted to cut social security, Meals on Wheels, Liheap, school lunches, cancer research, EPA regulations, FEMA assistance, and voted for the public footing the bill for the golden ballroom and the illegal war. Gus does not represent me anymore and I am very sad he fell for the lies over the people.—Colleen Schaeffer

@Costa Kokorin you do know that is the job of our representatives. They have staff that support them and enable them to help their constituents no matter party affiliation. Right now Bilirakis is aligning himself with a lot of the administration’s hurtful policies. So, my take is “Gus is not for us.”—Bobbi Potts Siegmann

Tampa police arrest Black 12-year-old during ‘teen takeover,’ then illegally share name in press release (via Facebook)

According to your post TPD said the release was made in error. Mistakes can happen. Whatever law or rule governs a release of this type MAY not consider it “illegal” unless it was done intentionally and maliciously.—Wayne Linney

@Wayne Linney mistakes aren’t supposed to happen under the law. That’s kind of the point.—Tim Jones

Why is nobody asking the real question here? Who in the hell is looking at AOL?—Kevin M. Considine

Crowbar owner Tom DeGeorge has launched a new podcast, ‘Current Conversations’ (via Facebook)

I was just thinking, what we need are more podcasters.—Destiny Grouper

Tom has been a driving force for the Ybor and live music community for decades. Sad that Crowbar is closing, but I know that he’ll make a platform for his voice and continue to serve our community—Laura Rifkin

Creative Loafing, can you do a story about my podcast? We get drunk and tell fart jokes. Love Tom though.—Drew Carlton

Florida Gov. DeSantis signs ‘nearst nickel’ bill (via Facebook)

Maybe if the Florida legislature could shift focus away from Chemtrails, Sharia law, and Pennies, they could pass a budget; it’s literally their most important job.—John Grosso

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This article appears in May 07 – 13, 2026.