Creative Loafing Tampa — May 23, 2024

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Nice shots

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Tampa Bay had a boozy night at the museum last Friday when Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s 2024 edition of Margarita Wars took over St. Petersburg’s James Museum, where partygoers sampled cocktails from nearly two dozen entries from the Bay area’s best restaurants and bars. Last year’s champ, Jotoro Kitchen + Tequila Bar (stylized "JOTORO"), once again wowed attendees to earn the title of Tampa Bay’s Best Margarita while Tequila Daisy took home the first-ever Mom’s for Margarita Award, decided by a group of mothers who were tasked with deciding the best mom-approved margs. See all the photos via cltampa.com/slideshows.—Ray Roa

PRIDE WEEKEND 2024

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Tampa Bay's best things to do from May 23 - 29

Pressing matter

You can celebrate Memorial Day weekend with your typical beer and hot dogs, or opt to honor one of Tampa’s most famous dishes. The 13th annual Ford Cuban Sandwich Festival returns to Ybor City with dozens of food vendors, a “Best Sandwich” competition and live entertainment in tow. Another popular aspect of this food festival is the annual attempt to break the “World’s Longest Cuban Sandwich” record; this year’s goal is a whopping 350 feet. Organizers say that the massive sammie is then donated to a local shelter, and can feed up to 700 people. In addition to the celebrated sandwich, there will also be dozens of local and out-of-town food vendors and trucks slinging Hispanic fare and other cuisine, plus live music and the chance to vote for your favorite sandwich of the day. When it’s not hosting Ybor City’s annual festival, the Hispanic Cultural Resource Foundation is organizing other Cuban Sandwichoriented events and cultural celebrations throughout Central Florida.

13th Annual Ford Cuban Sandwich Festival: Sunday, May 26. Noon-6 p.m. No cover (VIP available for $85), Centennial Park, 1800 E 8th Ave., Ybor City. cubansandwichfestival.com —Kyla Fields

Ink-a-versary

Tattooing is one of the most underrated public services and art forms, and one studio has been inking (and covering up) Tampa Bay for three decades. To celebrate a big anniversary, Blue Devil Tattoo is getting out of the shop and into the club for a no-cover party that features food from This Little Pig plus music from “2Hot” rappers Scumbag World, death metal outfit Cold Steel, Lakeland punk band The Kuttoffs, and DJ Chuck Norris.

Blue Devil Tattoo 30th Anniversary Party: Thursday, May 23. 7 p.m. No cover. Crowbar, 1812 N 17th St., Ybor City. @ bluedeviltattoo on Instagram —Ray Roa

Game on

Lowry Parade is a place where both your inner child and beer-loving 20-something can have a great time. The arcade, beer bar and retro event space—that boasts everything from themed pinball machines and air hockey to throwbacks like “Pac-Man,” “Tetris” and “Donkey Kong”—is celebrating its eighth year in Tampa. The party kicks off next Friday with classic ‘80s tunes courtesy of DJ AcidBitter and a fresh keg of Deadpils—a video game-themed collaboration brew with Florida Avenue Brewing Co.—and continues the next day with a cosplay-inspired burlesque show featuring local performers Magnolia Minx, Lilabelle Quaintrelle, Indie Sinclair and Paris Cyte. Celebrations wrap up on Sunday where the arcade’s games will be free to play all day-long and patrons can snag deals on beer and merchandise. Tickets to Saturday’s 21-and-up burlesque show are $8 at the door (or $15 if you’d like front row seating and your first drink on the house).

Lowry Parcade’s 8th Anniversary Weekend: Friday-Sunday, May 24-26. No cover ($8 for Saturday burlesque), 1213 W Waters Ave., Tampa. lowryparcade.com

—Kyla Fields

Momma’s boys

It’s about to be hotter than the inside of satan’s butthole outside, so Tampa’s beloved streetcar concert series is taking the summer off. To close out the 2023-24 season, TECO and Gasparilla Music Festival have tapped Whataboutmomma to ride the rails for a couple hours, giving riders a dose of the band’s indie-rock, which is borne of members’ loves of beat production from the likes of Mr. Carmack and Kaytranada, rock, and all the skill members picked up studying jazz at Blake High School and then schools like Berklee and Florida A&M. While the concert travels the length of the streetcar’s 2.7-mile route, your best bet for a guaranteed seat is to catch the trolley at station no. 1 near Centennial Park in Ybor City before departure at 6 p.m.

Streetcar Live: Whataboutmomma: Friday, May 24. 6 p.m.-8 p.m. No cover. Departs from Centennial Park station on E 8th Avenue in between N 19th and N 20th Streets, Ybor City. @TECOLineStreetcar on Facebook —Ray Roa

So hot

Who said summer had to be slow? Gallery114 at Hillsborough Community College’s Ybor City campus opened its month-long, inaugural Annual Juried Members Show last weekend showcasing the work of 48 HCC students, faculty and community members. While the exhibition is free and open to the public, gallery members (starting at $2/ month) get access to a closed mocktail hour and opening reception on Thursday, May 23. And mark your calendar for next Saturday, June 1, when HCC takes over Ybor City for its first-ever public art festival happening on campus, at Hotel Haya, and the historic Kress building. The gallery is located inside HCC Ybor’s visual arts building (pictured).

HCC Art Galleries Annual Juried Members Show: Through June 28. No cover. Gallery114 at Hillsborough Community College, 1411 E 11th Ave., Ybor City. hccfl.edu —Ray Roa

Mx it up

Hide the governor, Pride Month is upon us. While Tampa held its parade in March, the Southeast’s biggest Pride celebration is just getting ready to kick off four weeks of festivities with a gauntlet of beauty and talent. Eighteen contestants are set to perform in the hopes of being crowned either Mr., Miss, and Mx. St. Pete Pride. Alyssa Edwards from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” will be in the house to guest judge, while members of the 2023 court—including Vyn Suazion, Ceazia Giovanni Kreshe, and Kamarion Lavish—look on.

Mx St. Pete Pride Pageant: Sunday, May 26. 5 p.m. $20-$50. Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, 253 5th Ave. N, St. Petersburg. stpetepride.org — Ray Roa

“Many of us still struggle while the value we produce goes into corporate pockets.”

Grinding

Tampa Starbucks workers vote to unionize.

By McKenna Schueler

Workers at a Starbucks store in Tampa voted to unionize last week, joining seven other unionized Starbucks locations in Florida and over 400 Starbucks stores nationwide. Four other stores—in Oregon, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Iowa—similarly voted in favor of unionization on May 14.

Blake Smallen, a 24-year-old barista at the Starbucks in Tampa, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that they made an effort to keep themselves “calm and composed” on the outside as the votes came—patiently, if eagerly waiting for the outcome of an organizing campaign that was just about a year in the making.

Seated next to a company lawyer at their coffee shop in Carrollwood at the corner of N Dale Mabry Highway and Linebaugh Avenue, Smallen wanted to jump up and down and scream. Instead, the barista “sat there politely,” they said, albeit “very filled with joy.”

According to Starbucks Workers United, the final vote count was 13–5 in favor of unionization at the Tampa location, which was shut down for the union election. According to Smallen, a Starbucks employee of four-and-a-half years, workers first began organizing in earnest with Starbucks Workers United nearly a year to the day. However, they didn’t officially file a petition with the federal labor board to unionize until May 1 of this year.

Smallen’s store is the only Starbucks in the Tampa Bay area that has voted to unionize. In 2022, an Orlando-area Starbucks became the first unionized location in Central Florida. Workers at another Starbucks in Bradenton narrowly voted against unionization last summer.

Smallen, who uses they/them pronouns, works part-time at Starbucks, generally working the drive-thru on the evening shift upwards of 20-30 hours per week.

The process of organizing, they said, began by simply having conversations with coworkers about challenges they faced on the job. Smallen, who’s never been a union member before now, said that general working conditions—particularly understaffing—was “always the number one issue for us.”

“We’re the busiest store in the district, and with the drive-thru always going, the cafe always going, and then all the [other] tasks that we still have to do, it gets extremely overwhelming when staffing is lackluster,” they shared.

Addressing staffing issues has been a key demand of Starbucks Workers United, a campaign of the labor union Workers United that first kicked off in earnest in August of 2021.

The union secured its first, historic victory at a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York later that year in December.

In the wake of the vote, a representative for Starbucks told CL, “We are committed to delivering on our promise to offer a bridge to a better future to all Starbucks partners.”

The Seattle-based coffee chain, however, aggressively opposed the unionization campaign from the start, spending millions of dollars on

“It’s really commendable that workers really stuck together and stuck it out, and got us to a place where now the company is willing to bargain with us,” Smallen said, referring to the collective bargaining process.

After fighting the union for years—racking up hundreds of “unfair labor practice” charges and frustrating company shareholders—Starbucks finally waved a white flag of sorts this past February, and has begun meeting with representatives from unionized Starbucks nationwide in earnest to negotiate union contracts.

Beyond improved staffing levels, workers at the Tampa-based Starbucks in their letter to the company also expressed a desire to use their collective voice to address health and safety concerns in the store, establish protections for baristas facing inappropriate customer behavior, and to increase pay to help workers afford the region’s higher cost of living.

LOCAL NEWS

At Smallen’s store, where they say the workforce skews on the younger side, building a union required being open-minded and listening to different perspectives from coworkers. “It took a lot of connecting and a lot of empathy,” they said.

Smallen was one of 15 Starbucks workers

“Many of us still struggle while the value we produce goes into corporate pockets,” their letter reads. Local job listings show a starting pay of $15-$16 an hour for Starbucks’ hourly barista positions, a pay rate far below what studies show a working adult in Tampa needs to earn to live comfortably. That is, the income a working adult or family needs to cover basic necessities like housing and grocery costs, as well as to pay off debt, put money away into savings, and—yes—maybe take your family

legal counsel through notoriously anti-union law firms, and violating workers’ union rights by illegally firing and otherwise retaliating against pro-union workers along the way. The unionization campaign, still, spread like wildfire, slowed only at times by delays in getting company representatives to the bargaining table for contract talks.

Smallen said they and their coworkers in Tampa were inspired by the union’s tenacity, despite challenges workers have faced in moving forward with negotiating a first union contract.

to sign a letter addressed to Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan earlier this month, announcing their decision to unionize.

At first, they carefully avoided using the term “union” in talks with other coworkers, understanding that for some, the term can draw certain, negative connotations, especially in Southern, Republican-controlled states like Florida, where union membership is dismally low, and state politicians regularly take legislative stabs at labor unions (and, by extension, their members) as it is.

to a movie or professional sports game every once in a while.

A social media account for Starbucks Workers United, representing more than 10,500 Starbucks retail workers nationwide, congratulated baristas and shift supervisors in Tampa on Tuesday, in addition to those at other stores who voted to unionize.

“CONGRATULATIONS to the many new Starbucks workers who are joining our SBWU union family,” a post published on X, formerly known as Twitters, reads.

RAY ROA

YUKON DO IT: Workers said the Carrollwood area Starbucks is the busiest in its district.

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JUNE 13TH - 23RD

CREATIVE LOAFING’S annual Food Issue hits stands on June 13th, and to celebrate, we’re hosting our 19th annual Tampa Bay Restaurant Week from June 13th through 23rd.

For a limited time, participating Tampa Bay area restaurants are o ering multiple-course prix fixe menus and exclusive pricing on drink specials and more!

To take advantage of Restaurant Week, all you have to do is ask for the Tampa Bay Restaurant Week menu, at any of the following participating restaurants:

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INTRODUCING

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Hands on

St. Pete Youth Farm launches ‘Community Meal’ series with new outdoor kitchen

By Kyla Fields

For almost five years, a community-run farm on a city-owned .83-acre lot has brought folks together and given the teens of St. Petersburg a chance to grow—in a literal sense, but also as future leaders. When you walk through the gates at 1664 12th St. S, the air feels noticeably fresher.

St. Pete Youth Farm was launched in 2019 and has expanded programming, the number of volunteers and employees, and ecological diversity since. The youth-lead farm’s newest addition is the center of attention this week at its first community dinner.

St. Pete Youth Farm’s very first Community Meal happens this week in south St. Pete. The free-to-attend dinner features a collaborative curry courtesy of local restaurant Thai Wok, plus a variety of dishes created from freshly-harvested produce. The gathering marks the first time the farm’s newly-completed outdoor kitchen and gathering area is unveiled to the public. Farm Collaboration Manager Carla Bristol tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that this week’s Community Meal, like all of the farm’s events, is open to the public, regardless of area code or background.

St. Pete Youth Farm’s new kitchen and gathering space was funded and physically built by Leadership St. Pete, organized each year by the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce. One of the oldest initiatives of its kind in the country, LSP is a “six-month program that identifies, recruits, and develops leaders for the local community.” The cohort chooses one “class project” per year to dedicate its time and civic efforts towards. In 2024, southside’s St. Pete Youth Farm benefited from its intense fundraising (with a goal of $50,000) and hands-on work that ultimately resulted in leveled ground for its gathering area, a new outdoor kitchen, waterproof rain sails and over 100 chairs.

“A lot of the project was about enhancing and increasing the functionality of things we were already doing—and they (LSP) absolutely nailed it,” Bristol says. “‘Available’ doesn’t always mean ‘accessible’—and we just want to bring back a sense of community in a very accessible way.”

And while its new wood-fired oven, prep area, butcher block and outdoor storage will certainly make future cooking-oriented events easier to host, the youth-lead farm has been

organizing a wide variety of culinary demonstrations in collaboration with local chefs since its inception.

“These meals are all about bringing the community together, cooking together and not only being able to not only break bread, but actually participate in the experience of preparing the meal,” Bristol explains. “We want to promote eating, sharing and getting to know one another in a way that you typically don’t see any more. We’re gathering for the sole purpose of connecting and building community—with no goals or agenda besides getting to know one another.”

greens, a variety of different spicy peppers, okra, passion fruit, and sugarcane, that will be eventually made into freshly-pressed juice.

All of these meals will remain vegetarian in an effort to portray how tasty and nourishing plant-based meals can be. Alongside providing a healthy dinner on the farm, Bristol also hopes that this new event series will encourage volunteers and employees alike to cook more often at home with their own families.

being present. There’s value in being able to engage with somebody new that you don’t know,” Bristol adds.

FOOD NEWS

Community Meal

Bristol says that the farm’s community meals will happen once a month to start, and hopefully more often as they pick up momentum. Besides these monthly dinners, St. Pete Youth Farm also hosts a variety of other programs—from its “Mental Health Mondays” to composting workshops, poetry and creative writing meet-ups and other educational events.

St. Pete Youth farm unveils its latest addition just a few weeks shy of its fifth anniversary celebration set for Saturday, June 29. Bristol says she’s excited to portray how far the farm has come since 2019 when it was first created in response to south St. Pete’s growing status as a food desert.

Thursday, May 23. 6 p.m. No cover St. Pete Youth Farm. 1664 12th St. S, St. Petersburg

Over the past five years, the farm has seen over 100 teen employees come and go, in addition to hosting hundreds of volunteers and workers in collaboration with local schools and equal opportunity programs like CareerSource. Kids that need to serve court-ordered hours can also lend a helping hand on the farm, whether its planting, pruning or contributing to its many events and workshops.

In addition to the collaborative curry filled with farm-fresh produce and collard green pesto that will be the center of this month’s Community Meal, other in-season fruits and vegetables that will be featured over the next few months include: herbs like Thai basil and Cuban oregano, kale, watermelon, collard

While volunteers are always welcome, Bristol and other leaders invite folks who haven’t been on the farm just to visit, relax, and enjoy the quality of the air—“then before you know it, you might be getting your hands dirty.”

“The idea isn’t to come and figure out how to contribute, the contribution is nearly

More news that will most likely be shared at next month’s anniversary celebration is an exciting update on St. Pete Youth Farm’s community compost initiative, which is just shy of 100 members. Launched earlier this year courtesy of a $10,000 grant from LocalShops1, the program encourages local residents (and restaurants) to drop off their excess food waste to compost it into nutrient-dense soil and fertilizer to help bolster the farm’s year-round crops. In return, participants can also use the compost in their own gardens, creating a cycle of sustainable growth.

This growth cycle not only operates in a physical and ecological sense, but in social, interpersonal and mental ways within its many employees and volunteers—perpetuating the farm’s values of self-reliance, leadership and wellness throughout St. Pete and beyond.

“When you’re able to put that type of deliberate intention into the youth of our city, I think what we’ll see going forward is a greater return on this investment that the city of St. Petersburg is making towards its future,” Bristol tells CL. “It’s all about making fresh produce and healthy food—and the knowledge of doing it yourself— accessible and available to all.”

Follow @stpeteyouthfarm on Facebook or Instagram for the latest news on its upcoming events, workshops, community meals and 5th anniversary celebration, or subscribe to its monthly “Fresh Press” newsletter on stpeteyouthfarm.org.

TOGETHER WE GROW: St. Pete Youth Farm’s many teen employees grow a variety of fruits and veggies year-round.

Headin’ south

Popular fast-food chain Cook Out is coming to Tampa, plus more local food news.

By CL Sta

ATar Heel favorite will soon make its debut in the Tampa Bay area. North Carolina-based fast food chain Cook Out will open locations in Temple Terrace and Carrollwood, according to Hillsborough County property records.

Earlier this month, the company purchased two former Boston Market locations, one at 5501 E Fowler Ave. in Temple Terrace, and the other at 16215 N Dale Mabry Hwy. in Carrollwood, as first reported by WFLA. The popular 35-yearold chain has over 300 locations mostly in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Mississippi.

The two new Tampa outposts will be among Cook Out’s first locations in Florida. Last year, the company announced plans to open spots in Tallahassee and Pensacola areas. For the unfamiliar, Cook Out is known for its “trays,” or combos, which includes everything from burgers, barbecue, corn dogs, quesadillas, milkshakes, and more. As of now, it’s unclear exactly when the two locations will open.—Colin Wolf

Pete Beach in 2020 and were surprised to find that its coffee service quickly rocketed in popularity. Pete Gottschling told WhatNowTampa that he and Lindsey plan to eventually add a tapas menu and start expanding the new cafe’s hours to include the afternoon and evening, too.

Head to @grovesurfcafe on Instagram for the latest news on Grove Surf + Coffee’s new sister concept on Indian Rocks Beach. Grove Surf Cafe is now open from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. WednesdaySunday and is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, although operating hours may expand in the future.

Longtime Tampa sandwich shop Brocato’s files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

OPENINGS & CLOSINGS

We’re still hoping it sticks around for another 76 years, but one of Tampa’s oldest restaurants may be up against a wall. The Tampa Bay Business Journal reports that Brocato’s Sandwich Shop filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week in an effort “to reorganize its debts after falling behind on payments to the Florida Department of Revenue and several vendors.”

Grove Surf + Co ee opens new full-service cafe on Indian Rocks Beach

St. Pete Beach’s go-to spot for craft coffee and trendy beach gear just expanded northward—and its new sister concept is even closer to the water. Grove Surf + Coffee’s full-service sibling—aptly named Grove Surf Cafe—soft opened last week and now offers a variety of pastries, breakfast and light lunch options alongside lattes, matcha and other specialty beverages. Located at 1309 Gulf Blvd. less than a block away from beach access, Grove Surf Cafe is an expanded version of the flagship coffee shop on St. Pete Beach, although both concepts share a similar drink menu using beans from St. Pete’s Bandit Coffee Co.

While Grove Surf + Coffee boasts a massive retail section with surfing gear, beachy souvenirs and branded merchandise, Grove Surf Cafe on Indian Rocks Beach will focus more on an expanded food menu. Daytime bites on the new cafe’s menu include whipped ricotta and avocado toast, a traditional bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, hearty hash brown bowl, chicken Caesar wrap and a yogurt parfait. Pastries like croissants, “Pop Tarts,” cookies and doughnuts are also made in-house.

Owners Lindsey and Peter Gottschling opened their first retail shop and cafe on St.

According to the recent filing, the Tampa restaurant owes about $1.4 million to its creditors and $700,000 to the Department of Revenue.

The federal government says that “a chapter 11 debtor usually proposes a plan of reorganization to keep its business alive and pay creditors over time,” so it doesn’t seem like this week’s filing will immediately affect operations at the beloved Tampa gem. Brocato’s ownership has not yet commented on its recent filling.

According to its website, Brocato’s debuted in Tampa in 1948 and has experienced many evolutions since its opening, although ownership has remained in the same family over the past seven decades. It was initially a grocery store that became a meat market and eventually reached its final form as a sandwich shop and fast casual restaurant.While Brocato’s is most known for Cuban-inspired and regional fare like its Best of the Bay-winning devil crabs and stuffed potatoes, it also sells a variety of breakfast items, pressed sandwiches and a few dinner platters loaded with rice and beans. Brocato’s Sandwich Shop is located at 5021 E Columbus Dr. and is open from 9 a.m.5:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Fridays, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Thursdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays and is closed on Sundays.

ICYMI

• Tiki Tim’s Pub & Grille, a full-liquor pub dishing out regional fare from Philly and Maryland, just opened out of St. Pete’s former Pesky Pelican Pub at 923 72nd St. N last weekend. During its soft opening, the new bar and restaurant will dish out Philly cheesesteaks, chips and salsa, buffalo chicken dip and grilled chicken sandwiches. Tiki Tim’s is now open from 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.

• Grillaking, a “Korean-Mexican confusion” food truck from Fo’Cheezy Twisted Meltz owner Robert Hesse, made its Tampa Bay debut last week. Featuring fusion fare with a rock and roll-themed twist—offering tongue-in cheekdishes like the “Judas Beef Gogi Hoagie” and “Deadhead Dawg”—Hesse’s new 15-foot-long

food truck dishes out a variety of burritos, bowls, tacos, loaded nachos, burgers, sandwiches and Korean-style chicken wings.

“I understand that we’re doing fusion, but it may be confusing, too. But I think we’re paying tribute to the techniques, traditions and chefs that came before us in order to get the flavors right,” Hesse, who recently survived two heart attacks, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay last month. “This new concept is all about having fun and creating food that we love to eat. With all of the health issues I had last year, I really want to focus on creativity and doing what I enjoy.”

Head to @grillaking on Instagram for the latest updates on Grillaking’s whereabouts in St. Petersburg and Tampa.

CHEERS!: North Carolina-based Cook Out sells Cheerwine floats, hushpuppies and more.

INTERVIEW

Uptown Music & Arts Festival Alex Harris w/Eric Darius/DW3/José Valentino & Charlton Singleton/Kayla Waters/Rob Zinn/Tim GeorgeAdam Hawley/Paula Atherton/Tim George Saturday-Sunday, May 25-26. 2:30 p.m.-10 p.m. $90 & up. Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. 600 N Ashley Dr, Tampa. uptownmusicfestival.com

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PROFILES MUSIC WEEK

We turn to us

Alex Harris helps usher in a new era for the Uptown Music & Arts Festival.

By Ray Roa

For a quarter of a century, Tampa’s University Area Community Development Corporation (UACDC) has tackled issues in and around “Suitcase City” near the University of South Florida where blight, poverty, crime and a lack of basic resources once plagued the neighborhood. After its inception in 1998, the nonprofit quickly brought in bus service, a community center, and programs to not only help at-risk youth learn valuable emotional skills and communication, but also facilitate learning in populations from preschool kids to senior citizens. Schools followed, and so did business associations, clinics, infrastructure improvements, housing initiatives, community gardens and parks.

In 2019, the UACDC launched Uptown Music Festival at University Area Community Park with a mission to highlight the rich and diverse culture of the Bay area and continue raising money that ends up back in the community. Despite having to go on pause in 2020-2021 due to Covid-19, the festival has enjoyed success. Now, Uptown is going downtown.

“Uptown Music & Arts Festival received notice from the Tampa Bay cultural and public relations community, more specifically, Visit Tampa Bay. With that recognition and at their recommendation, the festival was moved to a new venue,” Mark Perry, festival co-founder, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The company he created to help organize the festival, UEG Productions, Inc., is adjusting to the growth, and built teams to create the infrastructure in and around this year’s party. “We have had to learn and adapt to a never ending cascade of challenges,” Perry said.

a hand up to conquer the barriers that separate them from their full potential and the dignity that comes from it.”

Perry and his UEG co-founders won’t be the only ones making a debut at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. Dr. Alex Harris has played abroad and across the U.S., with a couple festival sets under his belt, but told CL, "this is the first time I’m doing a festival in Tampa.”

The timing couldn’t be better.

box as Al Green’s work on Hi Records, and lauds the churchy, Hammond-drenched take on Solomon Burke’s “Millionaire.”

“It’s a stunner,” No Depression said about the LP. “Back to Us is another reminder that soul is not dead, it’s just been hiding in the shadows, waiting for the right time for a resurrection. Thanks to Alex Harris, that time is now.”

The aesthetic is no accident.

The Georgia-born Harris is the son of a Pentecostal preacher and a student of work from the likes of Willie Neal Johnson & the Gospel Keynotes. He and his six siblings were in a family band. Harris can play any style of music, but eschews trends in favor of music he said reflects who he is.

“I think there’s something to be said when you look at music that has and continues to stand the test of time. It was that energy that each person brought from their personal experience, whether it’s something they lived through personally or observed,” Harris added.

He has a front row seat to lived experiences every day. Like the UACDC, Harris’ non-music life also revolves around the community.

In 2012, he founded the Arts Conservatory for Teens (ACT), a nonprofit which has grown its mission to serve underserved, at-risk students and communities to also provide equitable access to high level arts education for all students.

He travels the country to bring awareness to the cause and has recently started to focus on reminding policymakers that arts and culture are economic drivers in Florida. Harris noted that a report from the Americans for the Arts Action Fund points out that Florida’s arts and culture sectors generated $45.3 billion for the state. “That’s 3.15% of Florida’s GDP,” he said.

ACT has already impacted more than 5,000 teens and their families, and Harris hopes that the next phase of the group’s growth will prepare students to be part of that creative economy, whether that’s onstage with a mic in hand or behind the scenes via production.

“We have an opportunity in our region to be the leading communities when it comes to creating one of the largest incubators and accelerator programs for young people to pursue these careers,” he added.

“We know that music is the universal language that has the power to bring people together and unite them in mind, body, and soul,” Perry added. “It is our desire to focus this power for the sake of all those who simply need

Harris’ debut album, Back To Us, was released last month by roots-centric Shanachie Records, which has handled work by King Tubby, Bunny Wailer, Rita Marley, and even the Soweto Gospel Choir, Los Jóvenes del Barrio and acid jazz band Liquid Soul.

No Depression, the U.S.’ quarterly journal of roots music, said that the 11-track outing “breathes new life into soul music.” A review puts Harris’ old-school R&B into the same

“What I learned early on, and I attribute this to my upbringing, is to find the self and what my uniqueness I can bring to the table or bring to the space,” he told CL.

Themes of self-discovery, and self-love are baked into the record and Harris’ live set, which on Sunday will also feature his brother Zo, who is musical director for five-time Grammy-winner H.E.R. Having real humans play all of the instruments was paramount to the process, too.

For now, however, Harris is hoping people bring their dancing shoes downtown this weekend. His set will draw a lot from the new album, and also include an Otis Redding and James Brown tribute, plus intimate moments not just for fans, but for those still getting to know Harris.

“I think it’s very important that people leave inspired, leave with something that they can take back home,” Harris said. “Something that resonates or reverberates in a way until the next time we can be together.”

Tickets to the Uptown Music & Arts Festival on Saturday-Sunday, May 25-26 are still available and start at $90.

DON’T HIDE: Alex Harris’ devotion to music and the community doesn’t end onstage.

Signing o

Cameron Dilley, the last WMNF co-founder on the air, will present his final show on Friday.

By Eric Snider

To describe WMNF’s early days as humble beginnings doesn’t quite cut it. Add hardscrabble, hand-to-mouth, quixotic, Sysyphean at times. Cameron Dilley was there, one of a handful of idealistic young people from around the country who in 1978 joined with locals in Tampa to stand up a public radio station at 88.5 on the FM dial. They had little more than a $30,000 grant and good intentions. It took the scrappy group about a year of boots-on-theground fundraising to get the station on the air. They hoisted the antenna themselves and began broadcasting on Sept. 14, 1979. The “studio” was on the second floor of a roach-infested, termite-ridden house on South Boulevard. The staffers didn’t use the ground floor because of the rats.

As Dilley, 71, prepares to log his final edition of The Morning Show on Friday, May 24—a program he’s hosted for 45 years—he took some time to reflect on his tenure at MNF. He’s the last of the original co-founders to sign off from the station. “This represents the final passing of a baton to the next generation,” Dilley said.

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Cam Dilley on WMNF-Tampa 88.5-FM (final show)

Friday, May 24. 6 a.m.-9 a.m. wmnf.org

“I almost screamed on the air one day because a big palmetto bug ran up my arm,” Dilley told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “Fortunately, I had just snapped off the mic before I screamed and flew over backwards and hit my head on the wall behind me. I watched the bug fly around the room.”

He and his wife, former Tampa City Councilwoman Mary Mulhern, are returning to their Midwestern roots, moving to a place in uptown Chicago. “We got tired of suffering through the summers down here,” he explained. “We’ve found the heat, the hurricanes and the political climate all to be increasingly stressful, inhospitable.”

WMNF is handing the Friday Morning Show reins to DJ Spaceship (Greg Bowers), who Dilley said is “younger (41), better looking and uniquely talented.”

Not satisfied with restricting his radioactivity to three hours a week, Dilley has made significant contributions to the station behind the scenes—all of it volunteer, save for the very

early days when all staffers earned a hundred bucks a week. He’s had stints as a board member, been on a variety of committees— long-range planning, fundraising, volunteer, marketing, mission—and played a vital role in implementing a strategy to move, some might say drag, WMNF into modernity with an audience-focused strategy that’s been underway for about five years.

Nancy Johnson, a former member of the WMNF board and co-host of the “Mo’ Blues Monday” show, has worked closely with Dilley over the years.

“Cam has been pivotal in many of the directions that the station has taken,” she told CL. “Primarily, that everything needs to grow and we need to be conscious of the times. He feels strongly that [the product] needs to be station-driven, not personal-driven. He’s been determined and persistent. That didn’t make everyone happy all the time, but that’s the way leadership works. Still, I think the majority of people at MNF just love him.”

For too many years, volunteer deejay/ programmers treated their shows like fiefdoms—protective of their slot, resistant to direction from station brass. As a listener since the early-‘80s, I’d often roll my eyes when jocks rambled on, lapsing into minutiae about the music and, worse, yapping about themselves and sharing inside jokes with co-hosts.

That has always made Dilley cringe. “It’s WMNF, not W, I, Me, My,” he quipped. Fortunately, that sort of on-air self-indulgence has been gradually declining.

“Cam has been pivotal in many of the directions that the station has taken.”

Dilley keeps his commentary between music sets tight and professional, and does so in a relaxed, conversational style. He spends several hours prepping for his weekly three-hour block—drafting an initial song list, adjusting for times and flow, building short instrumental tracks to announce over, and other details. Dilley also leaves room for requests. “The final playlist and order [are] always different from the one I start with,” he added.

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THE LAST DJ: Cam Dilley is the last WMNF co-founder to sign off from the station.

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The best word to describe his programming, however shopworn, is eclectic. Make that wildly-eclectic. Dilley strives for inclusivity, incorporating singer/songwriters (the show’s bedrock in the early days), R&B, old Motown and British Invasion rock, Americana, hip-hop, neo-soul/jazz, ‘80s new wave, reggae, Afrobeat and other world musics, plus any number of hybrids that defy genre. Here’s a few selections that Dilley sequenced on his April 26 show: a delicate Joan Baez ballad (“Farewell, Angelina”), jangle-pop by Better Oblivion Community Center (“Dylan Thomas”), neo-soul from Samm Henshaw (“Enough”), modern Afro-pop courtesy of Les Amazones d’Afrique (“Flaws”) and the classic Temptations hit “I Wish It Would Rain.” These segues, rather than jarring, are connective. You’re left considering the tunes more in terms of commonality than contrast.

Dilley massages his playlists to take his listeners on a little sojourn of discovery.

I dare any music lover to listen to his Friday show and not go scrambling to Spotify or YouTube to check out a few artists you’ve never heard before. “I’ve had people tell me they Shazam songs while they’re driving,” he said with a chuckle. Spotify users can check out back playlists of his shows by searching “Cameron Dilley.”

Dilley grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan in a twoparent home with two younger sisters. Like the other kids, Cam listened to Top 40 radio, but had his “DNA changed” at around seven years old when he happened upon a live television broadcast of a James Brown concert.

“I came out of the basement looking like I’d been shot out of a rocket,” Dilley remembered. “The babysitter said, ‘What’s wrong?’” She didn’t approve of me watching it.”

There was The Beatles, of course, a formative influence on just about everyone coming of age in that era. His first rock station was WLAV-FM in Grand Rapids, but he also tuned into AM Top 40 outlets in Detroit and Chicago.

deejayed on the college radio station, WSRX, and worked at the PBS outlet based on campus. After graduating, he did short stints at public radio stations in the San Francisco Bay area, never landing a full-time gig. In the summer of ’78, a friend called Dilley with an opportunity. “It was basically—‘Do you want to come down and help some locals get a public radio station going?’” Dilley recalled. “‘There won’t be much money, but you’ll get all the radio you can eat.’”

He didn’t hesitate. Dilley packed up his 1971 Datsun 610 station wagon and drove to Tampa. “We lived six to eight people in a house and paid ourselves out of the money we were able to raise going door to door,” he said. That’s right, door to door. The founders needed way more than $30,000 to get up and running, and the grant money was off limits

in mid-air with my clipboard. I lowered the dog down to the floor with its teeth clamped to it.”

Despite the occasional harrowing encounter and tons of rejection—not to mention his long, billowing locks and droopy mustache—Dilley was a successful solicitor, as were his colleagues. “Enough people had moved here from up north where there was good public radio,” Dilley said. “And even though we weren’t on the air yet, we were the only game in town.”

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After a day of knocking on doors, the radio panhandlers combined their cash and checks and put it in the station bank account. At week’s end, they each pulled out their hundred bucks, “which you could live on in Tampa back then,” he said.

But not well. “I realized I was not going to make a real living [at WMNF] so I walked into the PBS station [WEDU-Ch. 3] and got a job on

to do some freelance work for the real estate marketing firm.

Dilley met Mulhern on a flight from Madrid to Atlanta in 1997. “We happened to sit next to each other and had a nine-and-a-half hour blind date,” he said.

She was a fellow Michigan native who was living in Chicago. Mulhern relocated to Tampa within a year, accompanied by her daughter Isabel (now 34). Dilley and Mulhern also have a son, Miles, 24, named after Miles Davis (Kind of Blue was playing in the delivery room when he was born). Mulhern served two terms on the Tampa City Council, from 2007-2011, then left politics for health reasons. Cam and Mary are leaving the house in South Tampa where they lived for 25 years.

When Dilley signed on at WMNF in ‘79, the station didn’t have enough volunteer DJs, so it only broadcasted in the afternoon and evenings. (It went 24 hours within months.)

because it was set aside to buy equipment.

Dilley played drums in cover bands in junior high and high school. He attended Grand Valley State University, about a half hour from home, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy with a major in Eastern Religions and a minor in Communications. Yes, he was a hippie. Dilley

“By the time I got there, Tampa had been pretty much covered,” he said of the group’s shoe-leather fundraising. “We’d meet and drive over to far-flung places in Pinellas County, like Belleair Beach, and knock on doors asking for contributions. I had people come to the door and point guns at me. One time, a dog came flying out the door, heading for my throat. I caught it

the studio crew—and went from making $5,200 a year to $9,400 a year.” Dilley remembered with a laugh.

In 1981, he landed a job as a junior copywriter with Louis Benito Advertising. That started a career as a writer and creative director for an array of agencies and companies. He’s leaving his gig as creative director for United Landmark Associates, but said he’ll continue

Announcers used a homemade soundboard and two turntables, and brought in their own records. For the most part, the roaches left them alone. Dilley did a New Wave (now old wave) show from midnight-to-2 a.m. on Tuesdays, the Wednesday night Bop City jazz show and the Friday morning program. In short order, that schedule got pared down to Fridays only.

When he hosts his final show, he’ll do so in a spacious, state-of-the-art control room in WMNF’s stylish, tree-shrouded building on Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. His departure is bittersweet.

“I’m the last of the Mohicans, the last of the OGs,” he said lightheartedly, then turned serious. “I’ve been an advocate for change and progress, just pushing the station forward, focusing on the mission. And the audience.”

During our conversations, Dilley repeatedly gave flowers to his WMNF colleagues over the years.

“We were so fortunate to have such incredible talent come out of the woodwork,” he mused. “I’m really in a place of overwhelming gratitude for the opportunity I got, for the people I worked with, for the opportunity to turn people on to great music, for helping realize the station’s mission to provide independent news and a platform for a variety of voices.”

Then Dilley called upon an early WMNF slogan. “We’re still carrying forward the spirit of ‘Radio Free Tampa,’” he said, signing off.

OUR HOUSE: WMNF’s first staffers broadcasted from the second floor because of rats at ground level.

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DJ Flaco Friday, May 24. 9 p.m. No cover with RSVP. Alter Ego, Tampa

Downsyde Up Friday, May 24. 6 p.m. No cover. Pete’s Place, Tampa

The Dusty Boys Friday, May 24. 6 p.m. No cover. Woven Water Brewing Company, Tampa Friday Night Heights: DJ Cub Friday, May 24. 8 p.m. No cover. Independent Bar & Cafe, Tampa Grunge Night: Pearl Jam vs. Stone Temple Pilots Tributes Friday, May 24. 7 p.m. $10. Floridian Social, St. Petersburg Hamdi Friday, May 24. 10 p.m. $20. The Ritz, Ybor City

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Kaojoshi w/The Fly One/Young Savages Friday, May 24. 7 p.m. $8. Oscura, Bradenton Moonbae w/Kayla Korpics Friday, May 24. 8 p.m. No cover. Hooch and Hive, Tampa

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Same Day Delivery Orchestra Friday, May 24. 9 p.m. No cover. Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa

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Unwell/Chasing Airplanes Friday, May 24. 6 p.m. $18. Orpheum, Tampa

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Insyde Saturday, May 25. 6:30 p.m. $12. Brass Mug, Tampa

DJ Casper Saturday, May 25. 9 p.m. No cover with RSVP. Alter Ego, Tampa

Fil Pate Loops Saturday, May 25. 7:30 p.m. No cover. Biergarten at New World Brewery, Tampa

Hold A Grunge Saturday, May 25. 1 p.m. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg

Hot Rod Hornets Saturday, May 25. 8

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K.L.L w/Danny Grooves/Tygris Saturday, May 25. 8 p.m. $20 & up. Floridian Social, St. Petersburg

Loud Luxury Saturday, May 25. 10 p.m. $45.

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Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster w/ Islander/Saltwound Saturday, May 25. 6

p.m. $25. Orpheum, Tampa

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Saturday, May 25. 7 p.m. $15. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa

Roxy Wyndham w/OuterEdge Saturday, May 25. Time and prices TBA. Hooch and Hive, Tampa

Savannah Lee Duo Saturday, May 25. 7

p.m. No cover. Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor

Slater w/Tony Velour Saturday, May 25. 7

p.m. $15. Crowbar, Ybor City

Smash ‘Em Up w/Ramtha/Vast Decline/ Othalan/Dissectomy Saturday, May 25. 7

p.m. $10. Deviant Libation, Tampa

Tru Phonic Saturday, May 25. 9 p.m. No cover. Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin

Acoustic Sunday Brunch: Julie Black

Duo Sunday, May 26. 1 p.m. No cover. Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa

Ari Hest Sunday, May 26. 6:30 p.m. $25. Music4Life Living Arts Center, Clearwater

The Florida Orchestra: Mahler

Resurrection Symphony Sunday, May 26. 7:30 p.m. $25.50 & up. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater

Friendly City Pride Festival and Market: The Tilt w/Peace Cult/Meteoreyes/Sorry Barb/Now In Color/DJ Daligania & Drag

Friends Sunday, May 26. 3 p.m. No cover. Oscura, Bradenton

The Josue Estrada Band Sunday, May 26. 8 p.m. $9. Hooch and Hive, Tampa

One Love Rising Sunday, May 26. 4 p.m. No cover. Shuffle, Tampa

Parker & Victor Hugo Sunday, May 26. 7 p.m. No cover with RSVP. Alter Ego, Tampa

The People’s Brunch: Von Garden w/The Crate Brothers Sunday, May 26. 11 a.m. No cover. Hooch and Hive, Tampa

Phoenix 5 Sunday, May 26. 2 p.m. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg

Sunday Jazz in the Lounge: Boho

Sideshow Sunday, May 26. 2 p.m. No cover with RSVP. Floridian Social, St. Petersburg

Sunday Jazz with The Crew Sunday, May 26. 6 p.m. No cover with RSVP. Floridian Social, St. Petersburg

TJ & Flycatcher Sunday, May 26. 3 p.m. No cover. Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor

Uncle John’s Band Sunday, May 26. 6:35 p.m. No cover. The Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg Victims of Circumstance Sunday, May 26. 2 p.m. No cover. Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin

The Waymores Sunday, May 26. 3 p.m. No cover. Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa Ban Mondays: Johnny Champagne w/Chach Coronado/Kingsleyiii/Ace Jonezz/Yogi Monday, May 27. 8 p.m. $10. Hooch and Hive, Tampa

Emmet Stevens Jr. Tuesday, May 28. 7 p.m. No cover. Southern Belle Bar, Ybor City Perseus w/The Band Repent/Sacrificial Betrayal/Get Out Of Nashville

Wednesday, May 29. 9 p.m. $15. Brass Mug, Tampa The Vibe: DJ Cub Wednesday, May 29. 7 p.m. No cover. Hooch and Hive, Tampa Cypher Machine w/The D.O.O.D./Vast Decline/Announce The Apocalypse Thursday, May 30. 6 p.m. $15. Orpheum, Tampa

Elizabeth Glushko Thursday, May 30. 7:30 p.m. No cover. Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg Emily Frost & Co. Thursday, May 30. 7 p.m. No cover but tips appreciated. Oscura, Bradenton

Good Luck Club: An Unapologetic Party Thursday, May 30. 9 p.m. $15. Crowbar, Ybor City

Luxe: A Latin Night Thursday, May 30. 7 p.m. $10. Floridian Social, St. Petersburg Articles w/Razor and the Boogie Men/ New Aesthetics Thursday, May 30. 7 p.m. $5. The Nest at St. Pete Brewing Company, St. Petersburg

Chance Reynolds

Leah Senior is pretty clear about how it feels to see people at shows. “I’m grateful to the people who come along and listen. I’m getting older and I’ll never stop. In fact I’m more dedicated though I keep working my day job,” the Australian songwriter says on the title track of a 2023 album, The Music That I Make

She’s come a long way to be in Florida to support the outing written in batches during lockdowns in Melbourne. The songs, like “Springtime Studio” recall the quietest moments of Joni Mitchell’s catalog, but Senior—who opened for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard last fall—also deploys acoustic guitar run through pedals and a wild DI.

Senior’s pristine vocal takes the stage at one of Tampa Bay’s finest listening spaces as she sneaks a St. Petersburg in between dates opening for Kairos Creature Club. Songwriter Delaney Stack opens alongside Bay area psych-rock outfi t The Venus.

Tickets to see Leah Senior play the music hall at Bayboro Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg on Saturday, June 29 are still available and start at $10.

See Josh Bradley’s round up of new concerts annoucements below.—Ray Roa

It’s Gemini Season: Kings vs. Queens Drag Show feat. Adriana Sparkle/more Thursday, June 6. 7 p.m. $10. Floridian Social, St. Petersburg

[:SITD:]: 00tz 00tz w/Retractor/DJ Dave Friday, June 14. 7 p.m. $20. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa

Florist w/Hollow Leg/Old Bones Saturday, June 15. 8 p.m. $10. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa

Emo Night Tampa: Blvck Hippie w/Bad Bad Things/Earthgirl Saturday, June 22. 8 p.m. $10. Crowbar, Ybor City

Little Big Sunday, June 23. 6:30 p.m. $19.50 & up. The Ritz, Ybor City

Exile w/Sirplus/SlopFunkDust/Sponatola/ O.P. Supa/Xzstnce/Deejay Kellan/Wally Rios/Mr. Naso/Knux/more Monday, June 24. 9 p.m. $10. Crowbar, Ybor City

Larry Carlton Sunday, June 30. 7 p.m.

$49.50 & up. Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo

Hot Dog Party XVIII: Wolf Face w/The Don’t Belongs/Jeremy Gloff/This Is Goodbye/Wally Rios Wednesday, July 3. 7 p.m. $10. Crowbar, Ybor City

4th Of July Weekend Bash: Gucci Mane w/Plies/Yung Miami/Rob49/ Ball Greezy/Tom G/Manny G/Soulja K Saturday, July 6. 8 p.m. $75 & up. Yuengling Center, Tampa

Our House: The Music of CSNY feat. James Raymond w/Astrid Young/Steve Postell/more Friday, July 19. 8 p.m. $34.50 & up. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater

Koyo w/One Step Closer/Anxious/Prize Horse Wednesday, July 24. 6 p.m. $25. Orpheum, Tampa

$not w/Cochise/Fourfive/Scarlet House/0500GCSY Friday, July 26. 6:30 p.m. $36 & up. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg

Radiohead Tribute: Lavola w/Pilot

Jonezz/Hollowhouse Thursday, Aug. 1. 7 p.m. $12. Crowbar, Ybor City

Anna Graves (opening for Maren Morris) Saturday, Aug. 17. 8 p.m. $44 & up. Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg

Ladytron Tuesday, Aug. 27. 7 p.m. $35. Orpheum, Tampa

Heavy Temple w/Valley of the Sun/ Florist Thursday, August 29. 7 p.m. $15. Orpheum, Tampa

Graham Bonnet w/The Marco Mendoza Band Friday, Sept. 27. 8 p.m. $24.50 & up. Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band Friday, Oct. 4. 8 p.m. $53.25 & up. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater

Landon Conrath Wednesday, Oct. 9. 7 p.m. $15. Crowbar, Ybor City

Messed up

By Dan Savage

I recently discovered that my on-again/offagain boyfriend of 10 years has been using online classifieds to schedule encounters with men. He creates posts when he’s out of town for work and he’s very specific about what he’s looking for. The acts are punitive in nature (but consensual) and he is always on the receiving end of these punitive activities. I wish to note that I am not someone who snoops. Rather, I am the sort of person who notices patterns of behavior and things suddenly come to me when I’m cooking or on a walk. Based on the secular community my boyfriend grew up in, I suspect that his anonymous activities are the result of some early childhood trauma. Based on the activities involved, I believe he was either abused or witnessed abuse while his brain was still developing and these activities—along with his chronic use of pot (on top painkillers and a couple of drinks each day)—are an unhealthy coping mechanism. I don’t judge him for the acts themselves, nor do I judge him for his sexuality. But I am not OK with his lying and cheating and I very much resent his haphazard attitude towards my sexual health. He refuses to talk with me about this and the silence is further eroding my trust, to say nothing of the plans we made for our future together. Since he won’t discuss it, I have no way of knowing if he’s sought help, as he has in the past with other issues. I’ve spoken with one trusted friend about this, but I have otherwise kept it to myself. I love him and that will never change. But now what?—Boyfriend Troubling Secrets

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that violate the spirit of your on-again monogamous commitment, you were right to snoop and you have grounds for going off-again. But was he doing anything that put your health at risk? If spanking and/or flogging and/or some other mystery punishment is all he’s been doing with other men—no sexual activities, just punitive ones— he wasn’t putting you at risk, BTS, and your boyfriend may have rationalized his deceit for that reason. He may also have been reluctant to tell you because he thought you wouldn’t understand… and it’s clear from your reaction that you don’t. You’ve made a huge, pathologizing leap from, “My boyfriend likes being spanked by other men,” to, “My boyfriend must have been sexually abused before his brain was fully formed.” Your boyfriend might have a history of childhood sexual abuse—many men sadly do—but not all kinky men were abused and not all men who were abused are kinky. And while his use of substances is concerning, his substance abuse and his kinks aren’t necessarily linked.

right now, he might be doing OK—either way, your ex-boyfriend is under no obligation to make you feel better about your decision to end this relationship. If he changes his mind and wants to meet up and talk, you’ll hear from him. In the meantime, WHW, you’re gonna have to respect his expressed wants and needs: he wants you to fuck off, he needs you to leave him alone.

P.S. What the fuck was his boss thinking when he told you your ex was coming to town? That’s not information any employer should be sharing with the exes of their employees!

improve lives and relationships, coming out as kinky has the power to improve love lives and romantic relationships.

Here’s what you know: something about punitive (“inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment”) theatrics makes your boyfriend’s dick hard and he’s been seeking out other men who share his kink for consensual encounters. And here’s what you don’t know: why these punitive activities, whatever they are (spanking? flogging? flossing?), make your boyfriend’s dick hard. Backing up for a second: While you claim to have intuited these facts about your boyfriend—the realization came to you while you were making soup or something—the details you shared are too specific for this to be a mere hunch. It sounds like you suspected something was up and snooped on his computer or his phone. So, while you may not like to think of yourself as the kind of person who snoops, BTS, you are the kind of person who snoops. (The proof is in the snooping.) And snooping is always wrong… except when the person who snooped finds something they had a right to know about, e.g., massive debts, a secret second family, sexual risk taking that puts the snooper at risk, etc. So, if your boyfriend is engaging in sex acts that place your health at risk and/or doing things

You have a legitimate beef with your boyfriend: He’s been lying to you, BTS, and if his meetups with other men involved more than punitive activities—if spanking and/or flogging was followed up by sucking and/or fucking— he put your health at risk and he owes you an explanation, an apology, and some lab work. If you can keep the conversation focused on what he was doing, BTS, and stop making up shit up about why, he’s likelier to open up to you about the what and the why.

I broke up with my ex in February after four years together and he didn’t take it very well even though I was as caring about it as possible. It had just become clear to me that we had totally different goals and visions for how we wanted to live our lives. He is coming back to town next week for work—his boss told me—and he’ll be here for a week. I want to see him. Should I ask if he would be willing to meet for coffee or something? I want to know how he is doing and what his plans for the future are. I want to know he’s OK. But he refuses to talk to me. Maybe it’s still too soon? What do you think, Dan? Should I reach out or let him be?—Wishing Him Well It doesn’t matter what I think, WHW, and it doesn’t matter what you want. If your exboyfriend doesn’t want to see you right now, you don’t get to have coffee with him. And since I’m guessing your ex-boyfriend’s refusal to see you wasn’t unprompted—you reached out to him already, he told you to fuck off already—you already know how he feels about seeing you: he’s not into the idea. He might be devastated

I’m a 33-year-old gay man emailing you because I have a kink that I enjoy but have always felt ashamed about. Earth-shattering, right? My kink is called “wet and messy” (WAM) and it involves getting covered head to toe in messy, gloopy substances. People who are into this usually have preferred substances; in no specific order my preferred substances are paint, mud, and pies. People enjoy WAM for a variety of reasons; some people like the humiliation aspect, but I just love the feeling of losing myself in the mess. It’s very primal and very freeing. I’ve done this with a couple of men I met through a website that caters to people who are interested in this, and I’ve even told my long-term boyfriend about it. He took it well and even offered to do it with me, but I shot him down. The problem is I feel ashamed about this on some level. I know it’s harmless, if a little weird, but I can’t shake the feeling of shame that keeps me from enjoying this part of my sexuality. I feel like I’ll be branded a freak forever if my boyfriend sees how much I enjoy this. This feels like as much of a struggle as coming out of the closet was. Any sage words?

Getting Off On Pies

I’ve talked with a lot of kinky gay men over the years—ahem—and more than one has described kink as a second coming out. That said, gay people who wanna come out to lovers and friends about kink have an advantage over straight people who wanna do the same: experience and perspective. Because telling lovers you’re kinky is a lot less scary than telling parents you’re gay; lovers that shame can be replaced, parents who shame are forever. But just as coming out as gay has the power to

And speaking of romantic relationships… Don’t deny yourself the pleasure of exploring your kink with someone who cares about you and don’t deny your boyfriend the pleasure of giving you this pleasure. It doesn’t sound like he offered to indulge you because he doesn’t want you doing this with other guys—he’s not offering to grimly go through the motions to control you—but that he offered because he’s sincerely invested in your pleasure. And if your boyfriend is one of those guys who gets off on getting people off, letting him get you off will get him off too. And sometimes kinks are contagious, GOOP, even the weirder ones: a guy gives his partner’s kink a try and something clicks and before you know it’s his weird kink too.

And your kink isn’t really that weird. While WAM, aka “gunging” and “sploshing,” isn’t my thing, it’s not that hard to wrap my head around it. You find the sensation of paint, mud, and pies running down your skin arousing. Not for me! But easily understood! Additionally, you like being covered in gooey substances because it relieves you— temporarily— from the burden of being yourself. Like a drone covered head-to-toe in rubber or a furry in a mascot costume or woman in Lycra a superhero, you enjoy—from time to time—erasing and/or transforming yourself. In that, you are far from alone. Look, GOOP, if getting covered in slime gives you joy and doesn’t hurt anyone, take your boyfriend’s yes for an answer! If you could learn to let go of the shame of being a cocksucker, you can let go of the shame of being a wet-andmessy player. Get some tarp, bake some pies, and invite the boyfriend over to play.

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