As July gently ceded to the face-of-the-sun heat of August, we took a look back at what y'all loved in A&E this month. Behold, the 10 things you wanted to read the most. From threesomes to Welcome to Night Vale, there are few surprises. The top hit? A certain sexy "radio" host. Keep reading...
1. You wanted to learn more about Welcome to Night Vale's Cecil Baldwin.
Among the things we now know about him is that Ybor inspired him to speak out about living with HIV. Also, he makes Welcome to Night Vale the amazing podcast it is. No offense, writer-types, but seeing Baldwin live changed Night Vale for us forever.
2. You love and miss Snooty the manatee.
Snooty the manatee died and you hated it as much as we did, because it's one thing for a beloved manatee to die of old age, but it's another for a beloved manatee to die two days after he turned 69 because a human he depended on fucked up due to what's looking more and more like an avoidable accident. We're sure that human never quite get over that.
3. The Blueberry Patch makes y'all crazy excited.
When I first moved to Gulfport 14 years ago, someone described the Blueberry Patch to me as "being on the inside of a lit Christmas tree, looking out" and I've never found a better way to talk about this eccentric collections of music, love and blueberries (note: I've never seen an actual blueberry there). We sent Lis Casanova to check it out, and you guys loved her writeup.
4. Comic Con-flict received more web traffic than the offending post.
I'm not about to open this can of worms again, but I will repeat something my IT friend Jay told me years ago: You can never predict, on any given day, what the internet will find interesting."
5. The arts pump a shit-ton of money into St. Pete, but the artists see precious little of it.
James Chapin shared the good news — the arts bring almost a quarter of a billion dollars to St. Pete — and the bad: Many of the contributing artists are living barely above poverty.
6. Shockingly, you like our new sex advice column.
What's more shocking is that the sex column wasn't our top hit. Maybe it's true, then, that the internet really has ruined sex.
7. But you also like a nice, quiet wine bar with cool art-y decor.
Personally, I love the cheese plate almost as much as the books on the wall, but my favorite part of Room 901 is the ladies' room.
8. You wanted to weekend on IRB.
Well, it is the beach and it is Florida. This one's kinda a no-brainer.
10. And came back for more sex talk.
Hey, putting the word "threesome" in the headline is gonna make some people click every time. Which is not why we published this; it's because we care about your sex questions.
Cathy Salustri is the A+E editor. Contact her here.
