Patrons shouldn’t expect much to stay the same.
Editor’s Note: Guest columnist Mark Sharpe is a former Hillsborough County commissioner and executive director of the Tampa Innovation Alliance. A passionate advocate for overhauling transit in the region, Sharpe is chronicling his own attempt to experience life without a car — something thousands of residents contend with every day. —Kate Bradshaw Tampa is not…
The party goes down on May 19 at Crowbar
Donna Summer passed away today, too.
Rising Houston rapper Dice Soho is in Ybor, too.
Florida lawmakers made public education a private matter and they did it wrong, say education advocates. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa) called on Governor Rick Scott to veto a massive education bill that advocates say would fund charter schools at the expense of public schools. And she wasn't alone. Standing in front of…
Friday, March 31 Gasp! The Gasparilla Fringe Festival 2017 w/TRC/Billy Mays III/more (Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa) Swimm w/Veiny Hands/FayRoy/The Jackettes (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) Saturday, April 1 Lil Uzi Vert (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) DNCE (Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival, Tampa) Sunday, April 2 The Al Downing Jazz Association and HCC Visual and Performing…
It's the bleakest peak of the week. Take hard, fellow cubicler, for topping yonder rise, we shall glimpse a morrow's morrow, and the sweet release which heralds its fruitful climes. Authorities released harrowing video of Monday's hit-and-run in Holiday that clearly shows an erratically traveling gold SUV (license GYC T99) careening into a 14-year-old kid…
Exene & co. renew a 40 year promise to diehard fans.
Participants will sample the Ybor pizza restaurant’s line of sauces to benefit a good cause.
By-the-glass wines and a retail wall are also part of the Tampa wine bar’s Armature Works outpost.
The rain cleared, and your boy turned up the charm.
If you are a Democratic member of Congress or you do communications for one, you may want to maintain a large bank of words and phrases to help convey your outrage and disgust at whatever the latest White House snafu may be. Perhaps it's a Google doc you occasionally add to, and pull up roughly…
With a strong opening set by Ray Volpe, LA-based 12th planet had the block of 14th and Palm rumbling
Dylan, Patti Smith getting in on the action, too
In the immortal words of one of the great philosophical minds of the very late '80s, let's do this. In the wake of a party at which one person was shot, another was stabbed and two pregnant women were trampled, Quail Hollow residents are outraged that their country club is being used for such out-of-control…
Noise at Sawgrass, too.
And how to stop the likes of Rick Scott from using it as an excuse to suppress turnout?
Four days after his official pitch for a third term on the steps of City Hall Tuesday, former St. Petersburg mayor Rick Baker held his first campaign event – a barbecue picnic at Lake Maggiore Park in predominantly African-American south St. Pete — his biggest hope for besting the man he's challenging. Ostensibly, the event…
The all-male, all-fun a capella group returns to the Straz.
A little frugal ingenuity led to a neighborhood summer tradition.
St. Pete City Council Chair Darden Rice shouldn't have too much trouble getting elected to a second term. Constituents in the downtown/Old Northeast district she represents — the ones who show up to municipal elections, anyway — probably appreciate the progressive causes she's advanced at the dais. Still, she faces a challenger in consultant Jerick…
Good morning! Were your medical or business records held for ransom by hackers this weekend in a global security scandal? You're not sure, are you? Maybe you should look into that. FRIDAY, MAY 12: What kind of thoughtless jackass fires a flare gun through a total stranger's window for no discernible reason other than, you…
Pre-sale registration happening now
One big ol’ Tyler-rific good time.
An encounter in a train station at what may be the end of the world.
Scott Stapp is at the Palladium Theatre, too.
Katie Mack shines in a play that takes many surprising turns.
Artists played to a full house at last night’s midnight cabaret. Miss (Matthew) McGee hosted a variety show of epic proportions. There was song, there was dance, there was comedy. Each of the 10 acts brought something unique to the stage, starting with Ladell Thomas, aka Mr. Ocean, who danced to Rick James’s “Give It…
TMI brings back old-fashioned episodic live radio theater.
Peter Nason’s play poses the question: Is this troubled student Charles Dickens or Charles Manson?
“Money For Nothing” dominates MTV, Zeppelin plays Hawaii, and Stevie Wonder’s birthday.
Have Gun Will Quinlan is also in the house
The boys open for The Damned on May 13.
25 cuts, including tracks from 6lack, Belly and Rae Sremmurd.
Abel has made it, and this is only the beginning.
The Fringe Festival’s opening-night open mic brought a tight-knit group of performers (about a dozen) to New World Brewery (aka Fringe Central) Thursday night. Most of the audience consisted of the performers themselves. They played to each other and vied for the attentions of those drinking in the beer garden.
“Stray cats love to congregate in these types of areas, but because of the redevelopment Midtown now has a chance to clean up the community and help these cats.”
They play Crowbar in Ybor City on May 18.
Nicole Jeannine Smith’s one-character play shows the shards of a woman’s life.
The pace is fast, but you’d better know your Shakespeare.
“Killy” Kelly Dwyer sends up musical celebrity with smarts and sass.
A stunning performance in a powerful play.
“Our relations with the community are definitely getting stronger and they’re growing every day.”
And none of them involves getting wasted. True Story.
Dylan leaves in protest, while the Jimi Hendrix Experience is released to the world.
Dog moms can celebrate Mother’s Day, too, plus other food and drink happenings this weekend.
Howie Day’s two-night stand starts tonight, too
Good morrow. How was your Day of Jupiter? Two idiotic Pasco teens could be charged with a crime after posting video online of themselves basically terrorizing a 9-year-old girl by chasing her. There are certain rules regarding age and interaction, and when you break them, you end up looking at best like a moron and at…
Combined, Tampa’s BeerFest and St. Pete’s Beer Project have more than 20 brewers in store.
It’s a bird… it’s a plane… well, no. That’s the South Tampa dining spot’s Amazon Warrior.
A curated weekly playlist featuring 15 new songs by a range of artists; Spotify playlist included.
What unknown benefits might their proximity provide?
If you pass by the southwest quadrant of the intersection of Gulf-to-Bay and U.S. 19 sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, you'll likely see a group of protesters holding signs featuring images of cetaceans: whales, dolphins, porpoises. They'll be taking part in the Empty the Tanks campaign's day of action against the practice…
The famous astrophysicist takes issue with the lyrics from Kanye West.
Jeffrey Willis: Stand-up guy or shademeister?
How cool is this year’s slate of hot-months sequels, franchises and reboots? Uh…
SubCentral at The Iberian Rooster is St. Pete’s coolest eclectic new venue.
The reggae legend passed away 36 years ago today.
Good morning! Today is National Eat What You Want Day, because that's exactly what the most out-of-shape, unhealthy, impulse-driven, self-gratifying country on the face of the planet needs. That USF football player who was arrested for false imprisonment and sexual battery over a March incident was arrested for the same thing again, and dismissed from the…
“Boozesicles, big dill pickle, high school honeys sure were fickle…”
Savi Fernandez two-night stand, The Biss’ at the The Witch.
Excerpts from 27 of 29 Fringe shows, all in one night? It happened at CL Space.
The service will transport residents to the nearest Walmart from Tangerine Plaza for 13 weeks.
Shade sails: A great way to cool down a hot house.
David Fischer came in and ZaZoo’d it.
Concert prices got you down? Just chill.
Ease into summer with CL’s guide to everything cool, chill and a little bit shady.
These hangouts above Tampa Bay will take your summer to new heights.
The heat-beating power of the adult slushie.
Kicking it (and sipping it) at two of Tampa’s most picturesque dog parks.
We love our pool. We’d love it more if the pool company could, you know, finish it.
What really happens when the summer camps go home. Spoiler alert: They have lots of sex.
The name has two “L”s, not three, and Scheer wants the nation to know it.
The guy at the mall made it look easy-peasy.
Plus a list of where to see jazz in Tampa Bay
These trees have it made in the shade.
The top eight shows to stream this summer.
Trust us, it works.
Spoiler: It ain’t the four-day workweek.
“America is seeing bicycle as a reasonable and respectable way of transportation.”
Tormented by a faceless, though not voiceless, enemy.
Celebrate World Cocktail Day with one of the Mediterranean restaurant’s signature cocktails.
What do Casita Taqueria and The Lure have in common besides St. Pete? Guess.
