Mitch Perry Report 4.24.14: Beverly Young returns
The best local political story of the year may have been written in its first week, when the Tampa Bay Times' Andrew Meacham reported on the late Bill Young's "other family." That would be the one that he ditched after taking up with his then-secretary and future wife, Beverly Young, back in 1984, after having a child with her…
Centenary College of Louisiana
Columnist and Advice-giver Dan Savage takes on multiple sexy questions from a college audience.
Do This: Irreconcilable Differences & Arthouse
Art, awards, music and chicken and waffles – for free. The USF Contemporary Art Museum is hosting the opening reception for Irreconcilable Differences, the MFA 2014 graduation exhibit, on Saturday, March 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The annual exhibition features the research projects of MFA candidates in the School of Art & Art…
USF hires Steve Masiello as basketball coach
According to several Internet reports, Manahattan head coach Steve Masiello is expected to be named the next USF Men's Basketball coach and introduced later this week. Masiello will become the ninth head coach in USF history, replacing Stan Heath, who was fired after the Bulls finished 12-20 this season (3-15 in the American Athletic Conference).…
Pinellas’ People’s Budget Review to conduct their own education plan around Greenlight Pinellas
When the folks with the People's Budget Review announced on Tuesday that they would be releasing information on a survey they conducted regarding the Greenlight Pinellas initiative on this November's ballot, you might have assumed they would be in support of the transit tax that promises to bring more buses and light rail to the…
Guido Maniscalco wants another chance to be a member of the Tampa City Council
The next election in Tampa isn't for nearly a year, yet Guido Maniscalco isn't taking any chances that he's not going to be successful this time around. That why the West Tampa native announced back in January that he's officially running for office in 2015, and kicked off his campaign last Sunday afternoon with a…
Bill’s Sports Binge: Touched in the head, plunked in the head and rock ain’t dead
We've all done things in our youth that, looking back as new members of the "adult" community, we find … insane. No two ways about it. When my buddies and I toss back a few cold beverages as we stumble down fuzzy-memory lane from time to time, the better stories finish off with something along…
Do This: Lure Pop-Up Shop at Workspace
Browse cards, journals, notebooks, cult class film posters and more.
The amazing race of American Stage’s Around the World in 80 Days
The theatrical adaptation circles the globe by ship, train and elephant in high comic style.
Uber’s insurance policy not so secret any longer
Uber, the app-based alternative car service that has been trying to break into the Tampa, Miami and Orlando markets over the past couple of years, is pushing hard for their supporters to encourage state lawmakers to approve legislation that would make it easier for them to do business in the Sunshine State. Currently the car…
The Gasparilla Fringe Festival: You’ll GASP!
CL serves up a smorgasbord of surprises this Friday at the Tampa Museum of Art.
#cockinasock selfies flood Instagram to raise money for testicular and prostate cancer (NSFW)
If women can pose topless for breast cancer, shouldn’t male sock models be allowed to strut their stuff online?
Drink More Wine: Sip, sniff, chew, spit
Finding layers of flavor by being an active, attentive drinker.
Dream team: Tampa Museum of Art’s Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF
For more than four decades, USF’s Graphicstudio has been bringing artists’ visions to life.
Free dental service available this Friday & Saturday in Tampa for first 800 people in line
Whenever health care is discussed in this country (and it's discussed every day), dental care never seems to garner as much coverage as do medical procedures. But the fact is there are huge amounts of people who are suffering from issues with their teeth and gums that are going untreated everyday. Trying to fill in…
Restaurant review: Jackie Oh! Jackie’s on Corey Bistro & Catering
A pleasant spot for dinner and a bit of dancing on St. Pete Beach’s Corey Avenue.
Conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin supports medical marijuana
Blogger and commentator Michelle Malkin will be speaking in Spring Hill next month, giving the keynote address at the Hernando County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner, and while undoubtedly she'll be delivering a lot of the proverbial "red meat" bashing of Barack Obama that has made her such a favorite in conservative circles, she…
Mitch Perry Report 3.26.14: Charlie Crist again says he won’t debate Nan Rich
Last week in the state Senate, the plan for a major expansion of school vouchers in Florida was killed (at least for the time being), thwarting a House bill that would have made the private school scholarship program eligible for sales tax money for the first time since it began in 2001. If approved, the…
A medley of goodness: Paella Valencia
Revel in this savory hot rice dish on Thursday for National Spanish Paella Day.
Gloria Steinem turns 80
Tuesday is feminist icon Gloria Steinem's 80th birthday. Founder of Ms. Magazine, the seemingly ageless Steinem is headed out of the country to celebrate her latest decade. "Do not bother to call. She’s planning to celebrate in Botswana," the New York Times wrote in a recent interview with her. “I thought: ‘What do I really want…
Review: Action Bronson and Riff Raff at The Orpheum
Action Bronson and Riff Raff doled out a night of absurd, dumb fun for the SPOT’s Tampa Pro Party
Free comedy download from Michael Malone
Michael Malone is a nationally-touring headliner with an animated style and clever material. He also sells a lot of merchandise on the road — t-shirts, CDs, etc. To keep things fresh he records pretty often, including his latest release, Hybrid. It's a comedy collaboration with singer/songwriter Ryan M. Brewer. So why should you care? Because…
Judithanne McLauchlan takes a slap at Tallahassee in her first web ad
Saying "Tallahassee's got it all wrong, " and "Jeff Brandes is part of the problem," SD22 Democratic candidate Judithanne McLauchlan released a web video on Tuesday that got a bit biographical before getting in a slam at her GOP opponent. The race is certainly the most appealing from the perspective that it presents two solid…
Do This: Timm Metler Pop-Up Art Show
See his work and maybe meet the artist 7-9 p.m. tonight at The Studio@620.
The Laugh Tract — who’s bringing the funny
Jay Leno’s back, and he’s just one of many comedy options this week.
Charlie Crist goes off on Rick Scott in appearance at West Tampa Sandwich Shop
Charlie Crist made a campaign stop in West Tampa Tuesday afternoon, where he ended up going into the kitchen of the West Tampa Sandwich Shop to hobnob and pose for photographs with the cooking staff of the venerable Armenia Street establishment, as well as gladhanding anybody and everybody who came within his field of vision.…
Distressed Dad
Dan Savage covers sexual identity, spanking and more in this week’s Savage Love
In State of the City address, Buckhorn tells everyone to support Greenlight Pinellas
In his last State of the City Address before his re-election campaign, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn delivered a 40-minute speech this morning from the Tampa Armature Works that emphasized that while the city has come a long way in recent years, it has far more work to accomplish in the coming years. As with a…
Mitch Perry Report: 3.25.14: Georgia’s insane new gun law
In the Florida Legislature this spring, the only tweaks being considered for the Stand Your Ground law are attempts to allow those who use that defense in court to have more power, not less. But the Gunshine State ain't got nothin' on the great state of Georgia. According to the New York Times, lawmakers there want to allow…
New Music Tuesday! (March 25): Kylie Minogue, The Hold Steady, Liars, Owls, Johnny Cash & more
Releases out this week; audio & video included.
“Uber bill” survives first committee hearing in Tallahassee
A proposal by Tampa Representative Jamie Grant that would shift control of limousine service from local governments up to Tallahassee made its way through its first committee in the Florida House this afternoon. The proposed legislation — essentially known as the "Uber bill" because the legislation is supported by the San Francisco tech company whose…
RPOF brings up Alex Sink’s immigration comment in racial tit-for-tat
As you might imagine, the Florida Democratic Party have pounced on the story reported by the Miami Herald's Mark Caputo over the weekend that a racially insensitive move by two campaign staffers for the Rick Scott re-election campaign was a factor in finance co-chairman Mike Fernandez resigning last week. Now the RPOF is fighting back,…
Cuban Sandwich Festival: Ybor’s Stone Soup Company wins 2014 title
Kimberly DeFalco Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor reaches for her first selection of the day in the Third Annual Cuban Sandwich Contest. Long before the first sandwich was unveiled at Saturday’s Third Annual Cuban Sandwich Festival, the judges had made a unanimous decision: Salt is bad! “I decided to research sodium poisoning to see if…
Mike Fernandez departure ruins Scott campaign’s rollout of new anti-Charlie Crist ad
The Rick Scott campaign for re-election is about to release a second major television ad in recent weeks, this one attacking Charlie Crist for defending Obamacare on a recent appearance on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley, where he said Obamacare was "great." But the conference call hosted by Lieutenant-Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera on…
“Anti-Sharia” law comes before Florida Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday
One of the bills that will be discussed this Tuesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Tallahassee is Senator Alan Hays' SB 386: Application of Foreign Law in Certain Cases, aka the "Anti-Sharia" law. It's the fourth year in a row that Hays has attempted to pass legislation aimed at banning the use of…
Mitch Perry Report 3.24.14 – Hillsborough PTC back in Legislature’s crosshairs?
This afternoon, the Transportation & Highway Safety Subcommittee will meet in Tallahassee to discuss legislation that could take away local municipalities' power to regulate limousine services and shift it to the state. Locally, such legislation would reduce the power of the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission, which has been the goal of a few local…
The Green Rush: The Business of Marijuana 101
It was standing room only yesterday in the Orange room of the Sheraton Suites Westshore in Tampa, as veterans of the medical marijuana industry dispensed their sage wisdom to a sold-out crowd of pharmacists, farmers, would-be entrepreneurs, lawyers, and stoned dreamers. The Cannabis Career Institute (CCI) bills its events as "America's Premiere Cannabis Business Seminar"…
Palm voyage
The Palm Restaurant at WestShore Plaza to close Monday, March 24.
Do This: Herb Snitzer Fine Art Gallery Grand Opening, Heights Unites Benefit Bonanza, the Cuban Sandwich Festival and Voca People
Plus AirFest, New Seeds Festival, the 4th Annual Bluegrass Festival, Chasco Fiesta, Neil Bender’s new solo show and Beach Feast.
FARE tour highlights St. Petersburg’s energy efficient growth
Michael Connors, Karl Nurse, and moderator Mike Antheil of FARE The Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy's 2014 tour landed in Pinellas County on Friday, the fourth of it's five stops as it heads from Miami to the state capitol. With this tour, FARE hopes to expose installations that make use of renewable energy throughout the…
New political website focuses on Latino issues in the Sunshine State
There are plenty of websites and blogs devoted to covering Florida politics and public policy. So that fact that that Hispanics now make up 23 percent of the state's population, it shouldn't be too surprising that there's more attention being paid to that growing demographic's concerns – so here comes a new site is devoted to…
Last chance to catch The Odd Couple
Catch Gypsy Stage Repertory Company’s final productions of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple this weekend at St. Pete’s Metro Wellness and Community Center. Tonight’s show runs from 8 to 10 p.m. and Sunday’s show runs from 2 to 4 p.m. The Odd Couple centers on a pair of mismatched roommates, both recently divorced: the slovenly…
Stand Your Ground debated in Tampa
If Trayvon Martin had beaten up and killed George Zimmerman during their fateful encounter two years ago, he probably would have been charged with two counts of aggravated burglary. That was the opinion expressed on Friday by Mark O'Mara, Zimmerman's attorney for his 2013 trial, referring to the fact that his client had suffered injuries…
Former Buc and now author Michael Clayton to sign new book Saturday
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer wide receiver Michael Clayton will be in Tampa on Saturday promoting his self-published autobiography, Chasing My Rookie year: The Michael Clayton Story. The former 2004 No. 1 Draft Pick of the Bucs will host a signing and a meet-and-greet from noon-2 p.m. at the Sports Authority on 4900 W. Kennedy Blvd.…
UPDATE: Inclement weather postpones Spring Beer Fling featuring Surfer Blood until March 30
Downtown Tampa is getting its ass kicked.
Bill’s Sports Binge: Madness, hat tricks and the end of the world
Spring Break is over, St. Patrick's Day is but a green puke-stain-blurred memory and the tickets have been officially punched in for the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Time to pop some ibuprofen, make the appropriate apologies ("I grabbed your what?") and hurry up with your brackets before reality barrels in and fucks them all up before…
Review: Miley Cyrus at the Tampa Bay Times Forum
Cyrus brings the bizarreness of Bangerz to Tampa
A fellowship of awesome
The First United Church of Nintendo bridges the bay.
Comedian Erin Foley to perform at Stageworks
March Madness is a big deal to comedian Erin Foley. And not just to Foley, but to her parents as well. Each spring she treks from Los Angeles to Ruskin, Fla. where her parents moved after retirement, to not only celebrate her mother’s birthday but also college basketball’s biggest annual event. “I come for two…
Mitch Perry Report 3.21.14: Expansion of school vouchers totally dead in Tally?
Welcome to the first full day of spring, and the second day of the NCAA College Basketball tournament. There were a couple of significant upsets in yesterday's full slate of games (and the #1-seeded Florida Gators certainly had their hands full in an unimpressive victory in Orlando), but please, folks — nobody really cares that…
Their 15 minutes: CL’s InstaFame Photo Awards presented at FMOPA
Creative Loafing and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMOPA) hosted a reception for the winners of the 2014 InstaFame Photo Contest on Thursday night at the museum. The contest, open to everyone, had an Andy Warhol theme inspired by the current exhibit at the Dali museum in St Petersburg. Entrants were asked to take…
The Well-Played List, 03-21-2014: Black Mountain, Neil Finn, CLPNation & more
This week’s most played jams; audio, video & Spotify playlist included.
Divergent: familiar style, little substance
The latest YA novel adaptation flounders on the screen.
Don’t cry for us, Tampa Bay! Broadway’s Evita! is back at the Straz
A mini-review of the big revival at Straz this week.
A week in the life of the scene
A series of photos taken over a span of seven days capturing the diverse array of music that springs up around Tampa Bay.
Reality bites in freeFall’s American Monkey
Mikhel Raud’s new play muses on the barbarism of TV talent shows.
The church of spilled blood
Ice is growing on the windowpanes. The clock is repeating: “Don’t be afraid!” Hearing what is walking toward me, I’d be afraid even if I were dead. It was midnight in St. Petersburg, and I’d just read a poem on the radio. It was a call-in poetry program. “It’s midnight,” I said in the silence…
Seeing the big picture
Photography is a mind-altering experience. We may have walked down a street in our neighborhood hundreds of times, but when a gifted photographer homes in on a detail of a porch that we had never paid much attention to, our understanding is expanded. That’s what happens to me when I take a walk with my…
Nathan and Sara Stonecipher
St. Pete entrepreneurs
Brendan & Sandy McLaughlin
TV anchor & non-profit exec
Nadine Smith & Andrea Hildebran
Activists
Duncan McClellan
Artist
Brian Schaefer
Skatepark of Tampa Founder
Paul Wilborn & Eugenie Bondurant
Arts Exec & Actress
Whose History?
T.D. Allman’s Finding Florida was a cause celebre, but he’s still sore about his treatment by the Times.
Mary Mulhern
Tampa City Councilwoman
Ask the Locals: Patrick Manteiga of La Gaceta
Patrick Manteiga is the editor and publisher of La Gaceta. The Ybor City-based newspaper, which was founded in 1922 by Manteiga’s grandfather, Victoriano, is the only tri-lingual newspaper in the country and one of the oldest family-owned minority publications in the nation. A newshound and political watchdog, Manteiga comes from a long line of sharp…
Ask the Locals: Terry & Kanika Tomalin, Times journalist & St. Pete deputy mayor
Terry Tomalin is the outdoors-fitness editor at the Tampa Bay Times. He joined the Times staff in 1986 as a police reporter, but left 18 months into the job to backpack through New Zealand and Australia. When he returned to the paper a year later, he switched to a more appropriate beat in the sports…
Ask the Locals: Todd Smith, Tampa Museum of Art executive director
Todd Smith is executive director of the Tampa Museum of Art. He was hired in 2008 just as the museum was breaking ground on a $32.5-million building on the bank of the Hillsborough River. At the time of his arrival, the 35-year-old museum was without a permanent executive director, vexed with growing pains, and beleaguered…
FMoPA gets intimate with David Hilliard
Photographer David Hilliard explores the subtleties of connection in the aptly titled Intimacies.
Small wonder
Rooster & the Till serves spectacular food in Seminole Heights.
Bánh Mí sandwich Dining Guide
Here are the spots to score this delicious sammy, with options on both sides of the bay.
Tampa emcee Mike Mass curates almost 50 of the area’s best hip hop videos; watch them all now.
MTV sucks, so support local artists and check this instead.
