Florida Beer Company wins at Open Beer Championship
This week, the Florida Beer Company won gold and silver medals at the 2013 U.S. Open Beer Championship for two of their brews. The national competition included over 2,500 beers in 68 categories, including 20 international breweries. Florida Beer Company's Florida Lager won a gold medal for the Premium Lager competition. Meanwhile, FBC's Hurricane Reef…
CL Tampa wins multiple journalism awards from AAN, SPJ
It's awards season for Creative Loafing Tampa, and this weekend we learned that we'd done very well. In the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) Awards, a national competition judged by Ohio University's Scripps School of Journalism, we won first place in Election Coverage and second place in Photography, both for our coverage of last year's…
New Music Tuesday! (July 16): Mayer Hawthorne, David Lynch, Tallhart, San Cisco, Sons of Hippies & more
Releases out this week; audio & video included.
Change the conversation: Community insights on the Trayvon Martin verdict and Stand Your Ground
Two days have passed since the jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of Sanford, Fla. teen Trayvon Martin. Since then, social media and news outlets have buzzed with speculations on race, gun control, and the controversial Stand Your Ground law. So what does the verdict mean? And what could or should happen moving forward?…
Couple caught in the act of an Urban Art Attack
ELVIS SHIVA: Artists Ari and Christian Little are painting a mural of Elvis Presley as the Hindu god known as "the Destroyer" or "the Transformer." While my friends participate in the the Zimmerman verdict Tweet-comment-Google-athon, I am choosing to shift my focus, to share a positive discovery made in my 'hood en route to dinner…
St. Pete art shows galore tonight!
If you're craving some creative stimuli, venture over to the Burg. Downtown St. Petersburg is hosting its Second Saturday Gallery Walk 5-9 p.m. tonight and the Warehouse Arts District trolley will be shuttling art lovers from downtown St. Pete to its little cluster of venues, too. Audiowood Listening Party and Record Player Display Audiowood designs…
What happens on vacay …
The romance of travel turns sour for one reader.
Inside the photo booth: Historical artist Rick Reeves
Kevin Tighe Artist Rick Reeves (click to enlarge)
Cornucopia of comedians yuk up Tampa Bay this weekend
Boundaries will be pushed and cultures clashed as two comedians converge on Tampa Bay. Jamie Kennedy, most known for starring roles in films like, Malibu’s Most Wanted and Scream as well as his short-lived TV series, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and Blowin’ Up, comes to Side Splitters for a weekend-long stand. The latter Kennedy show…
Bill’s Sports Binge: The Bionic David Price
Ronde returns (sort of) and tampons can be fun …
SoHo: Too much of a good thing?
Growing pains in a booming district.
Mitch Perry Report 7.12.13 – Don’t discount Chris Christie being our next president
I have assiduously eschewed citing any presidential polls about 2016 because, really? A great part of our problem with our political culture is the never ending thoughts about politics and not policy, so I've attempted not to play that silly game, even if some folks are already bored with Barack Obama's second term. However, this…
Dwight Dudley blasts Duke Energy’s new CEO for alleged comments on cost recovery
Duke CEO Lynn Good The new woman in charge of Duke Energy Corporation thinks Floridians aren't charged enough to pay for nuclear power plants that, based on recent events, may never be built. The Associated Press reported that according to a financial analyst, Duke CEO Lynn Good recently referred "specifically to this issue of backward-looking…
Travelogues is in a New York state of mind
Storytellers and photographers take a bite out of the Big Apple.
Capital Glass
Washington, D.C., artists travel to Duncan McClellan Glass for a hot new show.
PETA to Tampa Bay Rays: Tear down your “touch tank”
The Rays are not commenting on the situation.
Tampa Bay area health clinics get funding to spread word about health care exchanges
Although the employer mandate was waived and businesses meeting the requirement won't be required to offer health care insurance until next year, every other aspect of the Affordable Care Act is taking place as scheduled. So beginning in October, Floridians without insurance can apply to get coverage through new exchanges; the details of the health…
Mitch Perry Report 7.11.13 – Our most trusted officials are letting us down
Okay, where do we to start today in feeling disgust towards the people we're supposed to revere? How about the Lakeland Police Department, where nearly a dozen police officers had sex with a "civilian" crime analyst? The AP's Tamara Lush has the best story on that. You've got Peter Jamison in the Times following up…
The Surprising Travel Issue
You won’t believe where we’ve been!
Asylum found in Ecuador
The progressive South American nation isn’t just a favorite among cyber leakers.
Long Island: Napa Northeast
Head north to NOFO, aka Long Island wine country.
Destination: Music Festival
Intimate alternatives to the music fest biggies.
New Orleans, no reservations
Losing the gotta-do blues in my first trip to the Big Easy.
London learning
The unexpected fruits of a liberal education, British-style.
Hello, world! It’s Tampa Bay!
If anyone can convince tourists and conventions to come to Tampa, it’s Santiago Corrada.
Balti from Brum
How to make Birmingham’s most celebrated curry dish.
His wiener rose again
Crowbar’s seventh annual hot dog eating competition crowns a two-time champion.
Protest against NSA surveillance scheduled for this Friday in St. Pete
Despite rumors that he was heading for Venezuela, the latest media reports indicate that NSA contractor Edward Snowden remains somewhere inside the transit zone at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow. Over the weekend, The Guardian posted the second part of its interview with Snowden, recorded on June 6, 2013. Meanwhile a second protest against NSA surveillance…
After $7.5 million fine, Bill Foster stands behind alliance with Bill Edwards
Bill Edwards Car troubles prevented me from attending Wednesday's Tiger Bay Debate in St. Petersburg between mayoral candidates Bill Foster and Rick Kriseman (Kathleen Ford was a no-show), but thanks to a video feed from the Tampa Bay Times website, I was able to catch the last few moments of the forum after I got…
20 Feet From Stardom goes behind the music
Backup singers grab the spotlight in this hummable doc.
Chomp into the Cuban Sandwich Show event series
Indulge in Tampa/Tampa Bay area culture by way of an event series named after its edible claim to fame. The Cuban Sandwich Show, up and running through Aug. 8, is an annual hodgepodge of arts and cultural events around Tampa that occur over the course of a month — it’s a little whimsical and has…
New poll of GOP primary voters say even with flaws, they support Senate bill on immigration
The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol Yesterday respected conservative editors Rich Lowry and William Kristol penned an op-ed on the National Review's website where they declared that "passing any version of the Gang of Eight's bill (on immigration reform) would be worse than passing nothing." But according to a nationwide survey of 1,000 voters who have…
Nature’s Food Patch honored for GMO labeling
Nature's Food Patch NO GMO: Nature's Food Patch strives to stock shelves with non-GMO food options. As the fight continues for GMO label laws in Florida, and around the country, one local grocer is doing right by their customers on this issue. The U.S. Organic Retail and Consumer Alliance named Nature's Food Patch one of…
Stuffing the beach bag for a summer full of reading
Time to load up the beach bag for summer reading. Here’s what I have so far, with some new additions: Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville by Michael Stressguth (It Books, $26.99). This is a great book idea whose time has come. The hit television series Nashville tells tales of the singer-songwriters…
