Do This: The Weekend Top 10
St. Pete Zine Fest, new plays, block parties, the Sunshine City Antiques and Collectibles and more.
Lectores 2015 — Roxane Gay and other acclaimed writers at UT
The bi-annual event is a must for book lovers and aspiring writers.
Sh*t happened 1/8/15: Congress moves to ban abortions, Largo commission catfight & more
Was Wednesday the day that your hope finally guttered, like the sputtery pilot light on a too-old water heater, out in the garage and years beyond its most recent receipt of care? Unfortunately, they don't make Hallmark cards for that. On the very first day of the new Congress, two Republicans introduced a measure to…
Tonight in live music: Raekwon & Ghostface Killah, Jeremy Gloff Album Release, and more
A breakdown of live music happening on this Thurs., Jan. 8… Jeremy Gloff 40th Birthday Celebration & Album Release Party with Y Los Dos Pistoles & more If any local independent artist has earned the right to release a best-of, it’s Gloffy; over the course of more than two decades, he’s released nearly 20 albums…
Jordan Miller — community spokes man
Vélo Champ and its owner Jordan Miller have helped customize Tampa’s bike culture.
Health & Fitness 2015: The great bike/car/streetcar challenge
Bike sharing was introduced to Tampa with great fanfare last fall, as Mayor Buckhorn and his two-wheeled friends gathered at Water Works Park to jump aboard a fleet of bicyles from Coast Bike Share. An affiliate of the nationwide SoBi (Social Bicycles) system, it allows riders to sign up online and access Coast’s GPS-equipped bikes…
Whirls on film — some of our favorite bike movies
An overview of cinema’s most memorable bike flicks.
Bike events, trails and shops
The state of Florida, including the Tampa Bay area, has a mind-boggling array of biking recreation and retail options. Here’s just a sampling to help get you rolling. Special Events C2C Spring Ride Choose from a 50- or 65-mile loop in the hills of central Florida, on March 28. It is a supported ride, much of…
Transforming Tampa Bay: Tampa’s finally getting its cycling act together
After suffering years of humiliation for its record on bicycle safety — Tampa Bay ranked as the country’s second most dangerous metropolitan area for cyclists in a 2012 Transportation for America study — signs of improvement are appearing. And Tampa, which has lagged behind St. Pete in bike-friendliness, is finally creating some decent routes for…
Sen. Nelson backs nice bill “repealing” DOMA while GOP does GOP things
On the heels of Florida's historic legalization of gay marriage, Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida Bill Nelson and 199 colleagues are cosponsoring the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that that would repeal the federal Defense for Marriage Act…sort of. According to an Equality Florida press release, the bill "ensures that every married couple has…
SCENE BREAKER: Local playwrights, local grads and local star all rise
Here’s what’s behind the curtain this week in Tampa Bay theatre… NO NEED TO IMAGINE THE PLAYWRIGHT: The author of Tampa Repertory Theatre’s season-four opener Imagining Madoff will attend the show tomorrow and Friday, and chat with the audience and cast afterward. A co-founder of New York City’s venerable Split Britches theater, playwright Deborah Margolin dusts…
Tampa houses eighth 4 Rivers Smokehouse eatery
4 Rivers Smokehouse in Carrollwood features more than 10 barbecue styles and a bakery.
Life as we blow it: 2015 — Year of the Bro
You know what I wanna see less of in 2015? Feminism. Feminism — ugh! So many chicks thinking and talking, not wearing bikinis and, you know, demanding stuff. What the fuck, right? That’s pretty much exactly the opposite of what the girls on menforguys.com do, and that’s not even porn, it’s just where I order…
Cocktail ideas for New Year’s Eve reveling
Kick off those “Happy New Year!” cheers with two seasonal drink recipes.
The morning after: St. Pete go-to’s for a New Year’s Bloody Mary
Five spots slinging Bloody Marys that represent multiple sides of downtown St. Pete.
Get ready to fork out some serious dough for NYE rideshares
They call New Year's Eve amateur night for a reason, but with the profusion of ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft, the roads could be safer in the wee hours of 01/01/15. But all those rides won't be cheap. Sure, supply and demand is an economic principle that helps keep America strong, but when it's…
Make it so, Mark! A theater critic’s wish list for 2015
What he hopes to see on local and national stages.
Trending 2015: To be or not to be in A&E
What to see more and less of in Tampa Bay and beyond.
Trending 2015: Musical predictions from the ridiculous to the sublime
Kendrick Lamar, Gary Busey, and other wishes, lies and dreams.
Trending 2015: Making (up) the news
As people who do news, we are often asked to speculate on what might happen in the future. For your convenience, we have assembled the following list of predictions for the biggest stories going into the New Year, save for the ones we couldn’t joke about. Fed up with a stubborn St. Petersburg City Council…
Trending 2015: The news stories that bear watching
Last week we noted some of the more relentlessly covered stories (or, in some cases, non-stories) of 2014. Here are a few of the stories that bear watching in the new year. Don’t shoot/I can’t breathe Tensions between law enforcement and African-American communities in the wake of the Mike Brown and Eric Garner deaths aren’t…
Five Courses: Whatever happened to fries?
And additional thoughts on what’s trending for the new year.
Wolfing it Down: Smokin’ J’s is a slam dunk
The region’s favorite punk-rock wolf pack tears up the grub at Smokin’ J’s BBQ in Gulfport.
Trending 2015: It’s easy being green
Seaweed, absinthe and pistachios are among the foodstuffs getting their moment in 2015.
