A salon and a local marketing firm joined forces to organize a fun way to help the American Heart Association reach its objective of ending heart disease.
The Andy, Kyle and Corey show.
Choose between everything from down-home crawfish boils to energetic pub crawls.
This week, Congress is on recess, that magical time when U.S. Senators and Representatives leave D.C. with the expectation that they'll go to their home districts and states to hear the concerns of the common man. Or something. Some are doing that. Some aren't. It's up to them, really; they're the ones that have to…
Troy and Chele Pfost hid out on CBS’s “Hunted” in hopes of winning $250,000.
[FRI 17] Prep for Lobby Day Write a short, polite, direct letter to both your state senator and state representative, explaining why you believe Sen. Greg Steube’s proposed gun bills are dangerous (find fact sheets about each bill on the ATTB Facebook group). “I’m a voter in your district, I want you to oppose this…
With rough exuberance, this show launches comic harpoons.
It should be released in the next few weeks
The northern reaches of the ‘Glades in an unexpected place.
Their beach days draw to a close, but the iguanas at the Gulf Coast Iguana Sanctuary are about to get a new home — and new friends.
OK, who had "another story about how we're actively trying to kill people on foot" in the poll? A new report finds three Tampa Bay metro areas — Lakeland-Winter Haven, Tampa-St. Pete and Sarasota-Bradenton-North Port — among the 10 most dangerous for pedestrians in the country. This opens up a whole new arena of marketing…
When St. Petersburg City Councilwoman Lisa Wheeler-Bowman proposed to join a call for stronger restrictions on assault rifles in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub massacre, she didn’t know the measure might have opened up the city to a lawsuit. City attorneys advised her to withdraw the resolution, which was merely symbolic in nature and…
Spins on the iconic Manhattan will drive an Anise Global Gastrobar cocktail competition.
“The official love song of Ybor City.”
And one — The Refinery and Fodder & Shine’s Greg Baker — is from Tampa Bay.
Back in 2016, the Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee paid for a mailer touting then-Representative Dana Young’s commitment to clean water, citing her support of House Bill 191, “a statewide fracking ban to protect our water.” The mailer was disingenuous; that bill was actually a temporary moratorium on the practice of hydraulic fracturing that could…
Orange is the theme. Thursday, Feb. 23, at 5 p.m. is the deadline.
Those who do not know the past are destined to repeat it. Those who do know the past know we’re destined to repeat it.
Penny and Sparrow w/Corey Kilgannon Austin Americna duo Penny and Sparrow come to State Theatre to show fans how their 2016 LP, Let A Lover Drown You, has grown up. There’s no telling if it’s come to be less sorrowful, but uninitiated fans should know that Civil Wars producer John Paul White helped the boys…
Now where were we? Oh, yes — chronicling the downfall. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission released the numbers from its annual manatee count, and for the third straight year more than 6,000 of the marine mammals were counted. So obviously it's time to start eating them again. Hey, who owns the most anti-Trump…
Look and listen now.
Over the weekend, Petit Piquant held its soft opening in Tampa.
Eason purchased the Atlanta paper from SouthComm, Inc.; Tampa’s Creative Loafing is not part of the deal.
Happy [one of those holidays that makes you wonder which of your friends are working and which are not]! Please enjoy this weekend news roundup in lieu of any mail you were hoping to receive. FRIDAY, FEB. 17: The guy accused of killing Pinky the flamingo last August was found not competent to stand trial…
Louie Louie will also be on WMNF 88.5 FM this afternoon.
Because you don’t have to work tomorrow.
Dre Day and BeauSoleil, too.
Panelists at this week’s St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs talked Trump, policy and…strawberries? Turns out that strawberries, one of Florida’s most notable crops, can tell us a lot about how policy affects daily life. Migrant labor took a front seat at a panel on Trump’s pro-wall, anti-immigrant rhetoric. Speakers discussed the lives and labor…
Five places embracing the savory and sweet this weekend in food and drink.
Council unanimously passed the first reading of the resolution. But what does that mean?
Baby, it’s cold outside. That was not supposed to happen…
A&E’s nonfiction crime series offers a front-row seat to the overnight action of Tampa’s cops and firefighters.
Eh, it's Friday, and there's no time for pithy intros — the sooner we get through this, the sooner the beers. A St. Petersburg woman was arrested for kidnapping a neighbor's baby in order to force the neighbor to change a statement she made to the police about witnessing the kidnapper trying to run over…
“My name is Chris and together, with you, we are Dashboard Confessional.” With that single sentence before an encore performance of “Hands Down,” homestate boy Chris Carrabba — standing proud in a sleeveless Stranger Things knockoff t shirt — summed up what could arguably be the essence of his existence. The 41 year old songwriter,…
But their new song “We Fight” isn’t on there.
Hide your Faygo.
You know your state legislature has a gun problem when they try to tell doctors they can't ask their patients whether there's a gun at home. So if a Florida law passed in 2011 is any indication, Florida lawmakers may have a bit of an issue—one the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Thursday.…
That’s $30,000 more than their goal.
The company’s sustainable salt-cured grey mullet roe is a win for local eaters, too.
An hour’s worth of songs to stay in love to.
A whole lotta ‘House,’ still plenty of hits.
He’s still wanted by all our moms and dads.
Chef Gerry Malynowsky, previously of Cigar City Brewpub, runs the Clearwater taproom’s kitchen.
Learning about bees and wasps, in ways both easy and hard.
As debate rages over President Trump’s proposed wall between the United States and Mexico, some Florida business owners are attempting to tear down a wall of their own. Dubbed the “liquor wall,” current Florida law requires liquor stores to be separated from grocery and other retail stores by a physical wall and a separate entrance…
Tommy Emmanuel kicks off his two night stand in Clearwater, too.
Isn't it weird how when you hear "Hava Nagila" on Thursday, your mind just sort of sings along, "Friday, it's nearly Friday, it's nearly Friday, it's almost here"? Terrible phosphate company Mosaic — of "sorry we didn't tell you about that catastrophic sinkhole" fame — was given permission by the Manatee County Commission to rezone…
As controversy swirls almost daily in Washington D.C., lawmakers are getting what some are calling record volumes of correspondence from constituents. When votes loom on everything from President Trump’s Cabinet nominees to the Affordable Care Act loom, they hear about it more than ever. When Betsy DeVos, Trump’s highly controversial pick for secretary of education,…
Among the eats now overseen by Bay Harbor Hotel’s Joe Garcia? A beignet-style doughnut burger.
Kick back with this week’s cocktail without leaving your own backyard.
Craft cocktails and much of the dishes from Palm Harbor’s C&tR show attention to detail.
McAuley’s Pub, replacing the Flying Pig Taphouse, has started its EDGE District transition.
