Dennis Lehane’s Night moves
With Live by Night, the Florida crime novelist finally sends a protagonist to Ybor City.
Inside the Photo Booth: Bluesman Josh Lamkin
Kevin Tighe Josh Lamkin, St. Petersburg, FL 12/22/12
Wilborn-Bondurant’s regards to Broadway
Paul Wilborn and Eugenie Bondurant are stylish masters of the American Songbook.
What will Weatherford and Brandes do in wake of poll showing overwhelming support for ban on texting while driving?
Florida Speaker of the House Will Weatherford Most polls have shown Americans (and Floridians) strongly supporting distracted driving legislation. That's never seen to make much of an impression on the members of the Florida Legislature — at least not the ones with the power to allow such legislation to get an up or down vote…
Good news for GOP members who supported fiscal cliff agreement: Grover Norquist won’t hold it against you
Grover Norquist When looking at the past few negotiations between President Obama and the Republican-led House of Representatives, most Democrats will tell you that their man came out getting the worst part of the deal. Think back two years ago when the Bush-era tax cuts were initially designed to expire. President Obama wanted to extend…
Craft cocktail drinking guide
Where to go for the best handcrafted cocktails.
Signs of the asspocalypse
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World If you, too, are disappointed that the Mayans were unable to predict the end of our civilization — especially after being unable to predict the end of their own civilization — you're not alone. Imagine all those people who will now have to spend the rest…
Mitch Perry Report 1.2.13 – Bill Young breaks with his fellow Republicans and votes to avoid ‘fiscal cliff’
Our two-month national nightmare has been averted, as 85 Republicans in the House of Representatives late last night joined with 172 Democrats in agreeing to raise taxes on some of America's richest households, while delaying massive budget cuts for at least two more months. The House vote (that began at 10:45 p.m. last night) to…
Ups and downs
Columbia soars at TIA, Boundary closes.
South Florida Tea Party: America “gang raped” by fiscal cliff agreement
Early front-runner for Most Egregiously Tone-Deaf Right-Wing Pronouncement of 2013: The South Florida Tea Party has compared the fiscal cliff agreement to gang rape. In a press release about the bill sent late Sunday evening, SFTP chairman Everett Wilkinson begins: "America is being gang raped of prosperity by tax and spend politicians and political parties…
The TV screen in ’13: What to watch
The shows to forward to on television this year.
Senate passes bill to avert fiscal cliff. Marco Rubio 1 of only 8 Senators to vote no.
If there was any doubt that Marco Rubio intends to run for president in 2016, those thoughts should be vanquished this New Years Day after the Florida Senator was only of only eight members of that body to reject a cobbled together last-hour proposal designed to alleviate the so-called "fiscal cliff" earlier this morning. The…
Top 10 sexiest interviews of 2012
My most provocative Q&A’s with porn stars.
Ex wife new life: from divorcee to online dater
Things were looking pretty good for me: 48 years old, four kids almost grown, a husband with a full head of hair, and a kitchen with miles of granite. What more could a girl want … other than an outdoor kitchen and new Tommy Bahama patio furniture for the lanai (what us Floridians call a…
The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson to speak at Suncoast Tiger Bay event in late January
If you're a regular MSNBC viewer, you're used to seeing Eugene Robinson weighing in on the affairs of Washington D.C almost as much as network regulars Chris Matthews or Chuck Todd. Now Tampa Bay area political junkies will have the opportunity to see and hear from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist in the flesh…
Bright House and WFLA dispute? Who cares?
NBC may be dropped from Brighthouse’s cable package … and that’s okay.
Bill McBride’s life is celebrated in moving memorial service
Although the majority of Floridians knew the late Bill McBride solely from his unsuccessful 2002 race to unseat Jeb Bush as governor, there was just one brief mention of that campaign in a 95-minute funeral service that honored his life Friday afternoon in South Tampa. Lexi McBride Crawford, McBride's 23-year-old daughter, mentioned the fact that…
Get out your LGBT New Year’s Eve planner
Frenchie Davis performs at Sawmill on New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is the biggest party night of the year and there are plenty of LGBT events to choose from over the long holiday weekend. Sawmill in Dade City gets an early start on celebrating the new year with five days of non-stop fun, starting…
Tampa Bay Food 2013: There’ll be a lot on our plates
Kale, donuts, weird food news — and will bacon jump the shark?
The CL Music Team Presents: Best Albums of 2012
From Father John Misty to Django Django to Big Boi and more.
Two Big Mouths: Goodbye 2012
[audio-path:http://archive.org/download/TbmBestOf20-12/TbmNovemberBestOf11-15.mp3] Hello Mouthy friends and we hope your Christmas or Chanukah or Kwanza was a memorable one. Speaking of memories, how about taking a listen to the best bits from the Main Mouths this year? We scanned the archives far and wide and put together our "Best Of 2012" show. All the bickering, some really…
Two Big Mouths: Goodbye 2012
[audio-path:http://archive.org/download/TbmBestOf20-12/TbmNovemberBestOf11-15.mp3] Hello Mouthy friends and we hope your Christmas or Chanukah or Kwanza was a memorable one. Speaking of memories, how about taking a listen to the best bits from the Main Mouths this year? We scanned the archives far and wide and put together our "Best Of 2012" show. All the bickering, some really…
Gov. Scott calls on President Obama to stop dockworkers from going on strike
The potential shutdown of some of Florida's major container ports led Gov. Rick Scott and the directors of some of those ports to call on President Obama. They asked the president to invoke the controversial Taft-Hartley Act if the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) can't come together by this…
What’s going up, what’s coming down in 2013
What’s ahead for our urban landscape.
Rockin’ 2013: Predictions in music for the year ahead.
A (not so earnest) look into the future.
