May 4-11, 2017

May 4-11, 2017 / Vol. 30 / No. 9
This week, Creative Loafing celebrates the Tampa Bay area’s entry into the group of progressive communities worldwide that host their own fringe festival. What’s a fringefest, you ask? It’s everything that doesn’t fit into the classic arts and entertainment molds, coming at you in rapid-fire style over four days across several cutting-edge Ybor City venues. […]

Tampa International Fringe Festival: 5 Fringiest fringe blurbs

Half the fun of planning your trip to the Tampa International Fringe Festival is reading the blurbs in the program guide, which in their most archetypal form hit all the Fringe hot buttons: pop references, subversive politics, sex, religious irreverence, LGBTQ-ish-ness, the Apocalypse, sex, and most of all, unabashed outrageousness. Here are five of my…

Taking aim: NRA protesters are targeting reckless legislation, not gun owners

In Atlanta last weekend at the Georgia World Congress Center, people were pointing assault rifles directly at you everywhere you looked. Posters of National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre declared this to be “Freedom’s safest place.” Actor Tom Selleck touted guns rather than the reverse mortgages he normally plugs. The 17th annual convention of the…


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