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e’re marking the halfway point to St. Patrick's Day with the whiskey with over 150 awards since launching in 2021, Keeper's Heart—a unique blend that marries the best of Irish and American whiskey-making traditions.
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The Horse & Jockey
1155 Pasadena Ave S, South Pasadena, FL
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1562 Main St, Sarasota, FL
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8110 Lakewood Main St, Bradenton, FL
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Irish 1916
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Hattricks
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FAC-ing amazing
Photos by Dave Decker
As it approaches a huge anniversary, Dunedin Fine Arts Center’s “Wearable Art 18” returned last Saturday, bringing with it the pageantry of the Tampa Bay area’s finest melding of fashion and fine art. See all the photos via cltampa.com/slideshows.—Ray Roa
The James Museum
August 24, 2024 – January 19, 2025 August 24, 2024 – January 19, 2025
Richard “Ricky” Armendariz, Tlazolteotl as a Horse–detail, 2013 • This exhibition is organized and curated by Diana Molina.
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Tampa Bay's best things to do from August 29 - September 05
Bustin’ makes me feel good
Dish Network may have shuttered the last Blockbuster video stores 10 years ago, but nostalgia for VHS tapes is still high. The Pinellas Park beer bar that celebrates the format is on a roll, too, and marks two years of being kind and rewinding by, well, unwinding at an anniversary bottle share. Seminole Heights’ Saucin’ wings makes the trek over to feed the Beerbusters faithful who regularly flock to the collection culled from the personal and family collection of store-bar founder William Dieli.
Beerbusters second anniversary: Sunday, Sept. 1. Noon. No cover. Beerbusters Movie Bar, 6836 N Park Blvd., Pinellas Park. @ Beerbustersmoviebar on Facebook—Ray Roa
Gimme some ‘moe
Inspired, in part, by the bright color and symbolism of anime, plus Japanese and Filipino culture, University of South Florida alum Cheryl Weber makes mural, illustration and graphic design marked by happy colors and the absence of straight lines. A late-’90s-early2000s kid, Weber—better known as Jujmo— moved around as a military kid, but now makes a home in the Bay area where her public art is filled with dainty detail that brightens up walls, restaurant facades and any room lucky enough to have a Jujmo (pronounced “jooj-moe,” and pictured here working on St. Pete’s “Black History Matters” mural last year) on the wall. She shares her experiences and talks about how public art can positively impact the wellbeing of a neighborhood at this lecture.
Artist Lecture Series—Jujmo: Tuesday, Sept. 3. 6 p.m.-7 p.m. $5. Imagine Museum, 1901 Central Ave., St. Petersburg imaginemuseum.com—Ray Roa
Gecks who’s back Downtown Gulfport channels “Saturday Night Live” energy for the 2024 theme to its annual Geckofest celebration, which honors the waterfront town’s unofficial mascot. The day-long party spans about six blocks from Shore to Gulfport Boulevards, and includes five stages hosting live music, contexts, and more, plus roving street theater. It’s free to take part in the family-and-pet-friendly festivities.
Geckofest 2024: Saturday, Aug. 31. 10 a.m.-10:30 p.m. No cover. Downtown Gulfport. visitgulfportflorida.com—Ray Roa
Sing your heart out
You might be too pure to be pink, but don’t let that stop your from kicking off Tampa Theatre’s ridiculously popular September sing-along series with a screening of the 1978 classic “Grease,” complete with on-screen lyrics. The month-long string of Sunday matinees wraps with Disney’s animated classic “Encanto” on Sept. 29. In between are audience favorite “The Greatest Showman” starring Hugh Jackman (Sept. 8), plus director Bryan Singer’s Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Sept. 22).
Sing Along Sundays—Grease: Sunday, Sept. 1. 3 p.m. $11.50-$15.50. Historic Duncan Auditorium at Tampa Theatre, 711 N Franklin St. Tampa. tampatheatre.org—Ray Roa
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The views and people-watching on the Curtis Hixon lawn have evolved a whole heck of a lot over the last 14 years, and as Tampa changes around it, downtown’s long-running nocover concert series has continued to always look forward by booking the best up-and-coming bands from across the Bay area. To celebrate its anniversary, Rock the Park welcomes Jay Browne (pictured) whose 2019 album 1-800-813-4evr served not just as intro to his sharp lyricism, but as a personal mantra for the Tampa rapper who continues to make a name for himself and collaborators in the scene. Plant City purveyor of punchy indie-rock Hollowhouse brings a 2024 single, “Hold My Beer” to the family-and-petfriendly party.
Rock the Park 14th anniversary w/Hollowhouse/Jay Browne: Next Thursday, Sept. 5. 6:30 p.m. No cover. Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. 600 N Ashley Dr., Tampa. @ rocktheparktpa on Facebook— Ray Roa
Rights ride
Just because it’s ugly doesn’t mean you should look away. Tampa Bay is a great place to live for many, but there’s often a dark past buried beneath the surface. The St. Pete Pier’s “Bending Arc” sculpture, for example, is a reminder that Spa Beach was “whites-only” (South Mole beach, pictured, where Demens Landing is now, was the “colored-only” spot). A two-hour trolley tour by the St. Petersburg Museum of History will explore that topic, plus local lunch counter sit-ins and civil disobedience as residents lived through Jim Crow and fought for their civil rights in the Sunshine City.
Civil rights trolley tour: Saturday, Aug. 31. 9 a.m.-11 a.m. $35-$45. St. Petersburg Museum of History, 335 2nd Ave. NE, St. Petersburg. spmoh. com—Ray Roa
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“Politics has taken center stage for eons.”
MOVIES THEATER ART CULTURE
Bodies politic
The
fall theater season catches the election-year bug.
By David Warner
From “Oedipus the King” to “Hamilton,” from “All the King’s Men” to “Clinton: The Musical” (yup, there is such a show), politics has taken center stage for eons. And in this highly dramatic U.S. election year, several local theaters are jumping on the bandwagon.
POTUS The subtitle says it all: “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.” The Washington Post called Selina Fillinger’s farce “the next best thing to ‘Veep’... a profane West Wing comic strip of a play in which a septet of hyper-caffeinated actresses let their funny flags fly.” On Broadway two years ago, the septet included such queens of comedy as Rachel Dratch from “Saturday Night Live” and Lea DeLaria from “Orange Is the New Black.” For Jobsite, director Summer Bohnenkamp has rounded up a who’s who of Tampa Bay talents, including Noa Friedman as the President’s latest dalliance, Katrina Stevenson as his beleaguered Chief of Staff, and Andresia Moseley as his Harvard-educated First Lady, all trying to rescue POTUS from a self-inflicted PR nightmare. As for POTUS himself, he remains unseen (but we can kinda guess who he’s based on). Sept. 4-29, $30 & up. Jobsite Theater at Shimberg Playhouse. David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts. W Tyler St., Tampa. jobsitetheater.org
What the Constitution Means to Me Heidi Schreck’s unique play, a Pulitzer finalist in 2019, takes inspiration from her experience as a teenager, when she gave speeches about the U.S. Constitution to raise college money. She re-examines America’s guiding document with candid personal anecdotes and a wry perspective on its flaws and limitations, especially regarding women, then debates a presentday teenager. So who else could Stageworks Theatre cast but Kari Goetz? Not just because she has the range, passion and comic panache the role demands, she was also awarded, she says in her bio, “Best Statesman at the YMCA Youth in Government Conference on National Affairs when I was 16!” Sept. 27-Oct. 13, $45 & up. Stageworks Theatre. 1120 E Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, stageworkstheatre.org
The Mountaintop “I’ve been to the mountaintop… And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you.” Dr. Martin Luther King spoke those tragically prescient words in Memphis on April 3, 1968 in support of the city’s striking sanitation workers—the day before he was assassinated on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel. Katori Jackson’s play imagines an encounter in the motel room the night before his death, in which the civil rights leader shares his hopes and dreams with a sassy chambermaid. The twocharacter play has been widely praised for Hall’s “warts-and-all” portrayal of King as an ordinary
Musical)”. Still, this woman’s whole life has been one long political drama. And won’t it be fun to hear what she thinks about childless cat ladies and “crazy” Kamala and that orange-skinned debate stalker? The former First Lady, Secretary of State and presidential candidate has written a new book called “Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty,” so no doubt she’ll be talking about that, too. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 7 p.m. $79.50 & up. Carol Morsani Hall at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts. 1010 N Macinnes Pl., Tampa. strazcenter.org
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Some Like It Hot Alert the governor! Lock up your babies! This show will feature (gasp) MEN IN DRESSES! It’s about two musicians who escape from the mob by disguising themselves as women and joining an all-girl band! Sure, it’s based on one of the funniest movies of all time and it was a huge, Tony-winning hit on Broadway,
to get tickets. (The book is by USF theater grad Matthew López, so we gotta support our Bulls!) Dec. 11-15, dynamic ticket pricing. Carol Morsani Hall at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts. 1010 N Macinnes Pl., Tampa. strazcenter.org
But wait, there’s more Not everything on stage this fall gets political. Here are more shows to look forward to, ranging from deeply serious to seriously fun.
• Right Before I Go A staged reading of a play by “Gilmore Girls” writer/producer Stan Zimmerman that brings to life the final words of individuals lost to suicide. Local celebs like ABC Action News’ Denis Phillips and Wendy Ryan will be among the readers. The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay is a partner in the event, a fundraiser for Powerstories. Sept. 20-21, $40 & up. New Tampa Performing Arts Center, powerstories.com
• Per A psychodrama from the excellent playwright Donald Loftus based on the true story of a young Swedish man in 1889 who fights to prove his sanity after collaborating with his mother in the murder of his wife. Sept. 5-22, $31. Lab Theater Project. 812 E Henderson Ave., Tampa, labtheaterproject.com
man who did extraordinary things. Nov. 6-24, $23 & up. American Stage, 163 3rd St. N., St. Petersburg, americanstage.org
Hillary Rodham Clinton OK, not theater exactly (it’s definitely not “Clinton: The
but those New York audiences are, of course, depraved. (That commie rag the New York Times called it “flat-out entertainment.”) So send out your sad-faced cultural warriors to picket the damn thing. Meanwhile, the rest of us will try
• Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty at freeFall One of last season’s major delights was freeFall’s tour de force rendition of Ludwig’s “Baskerville,” in which Eric Davis and Matthew McGee masterfully played off one another as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and three actors navigated quick changes of costume and accent to play everyone else. Kelly Pekar and Robert Teasdale from that cast rejoin the dynamic duo (with the addition of comic powerhouse Sara DelBeato), to solve another classic Holmes mystery, this one involving the detective’s deliciously evil nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Nov. 8-Dec. 15. $25 & up. freeFall Theatre, 6099 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, freefalltheatre.com.
• Theatre For The newest company on this list is presenting the comedy “Academia Nuts” as its inaugural production through Sept. 8, followed by two Bard-centric shows: “The Man from Stratford” (Sept. 19-Oct. 6), a mash-up of Shakespeare’s tragedies, and Paula Vogel’s “Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief” (Nov. 14-Dec. 1), which shows Othello’s tragic heroine in a bawdy new light. $30. Theatre For. 1863 N Highland Ave., Clearwater. theatrefor.com
WEST WINGIN' IT: Behind every great dumbass are seven women trying to keep him alive.
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Hot topics
Events and arts shows for your fall calendar.
By Jennifer Ring
Great art has always commented on the issues of the day, and in case you haven’t noticed, we have a lot of issues these days. While local and national politicians weigh in on LGBTQ+ issues, immigration, climate change, foreign affairs, cost of living, and a woman’s right to choose, artists in Tampa Bay and beyond express how these issues hit them. But even in an election year, we can still enjoy art for art’s sake. Here’s are a few art and entertainment events—political and otherwise—to look forward to in Tampa Bay this fall. See the full list at cltampa.com/arts.
Now-September
Edison Peñafiel: Mare Magnvm (A Floridian Odyssey/Una Odisea en la Florida)
South Florida-based artist Edison Peñafiel reflects on the immigrant’s journey in Mare Magnvm. The panoramic video installation immerses viewers in an ongoing border crossing, as they watch migrants cross the ocean in makeshift boats on a loop. Through Oct. 26. Harbor Hall Gallery at University of South Florida St. Petersburg, 1000 3rd St. S, St. Petersburg. usfcam.usf.edu
Flourishing Dichotomies: Florida Art, Past & Present A piece of the world’s largest collection of Florida art is now on display at Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus. Flourishing Dichotomies presents artwork from the Vickers Collection, on loan from the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville. Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers’ collection includes more than a thousand Florida artworks, made during the early-1800s through the mid-1900s. The collection is too large for even the Harn to show all at once, so it’s slowly started loaning these artworks out to galleries throughout Florida. Flourishing Dichotomies—up through Oct. 17— presents nine works of modern Florida art from the Vickers collection alongside works by contemporary Florida artists Jenny Carey, Miguel Fleitas, Bruce Marsh, Selina Román, and Alex Torres. Together, they span 100 years of Florida art. While you’re at HCC, check out “Common Grounds,” an exhibition that includes selections from the college’s permanent collection (like the Eric Ondina painting pictured above). Reception with artist talk happens on Thursday,, Sept. 5, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Gallery221@HCC Dale Mabry, 4001 W Tampa Bay Blvd., Tampa. hccfl.edu/galleries
October
John Gascot’s ‘Red, White, & Free: Reclaiming Patriotism’ Latin pop artist John Gascot didn’t start painting politics until Trump. The portrait, entitled “Baby Dick Devil,” earned Gascot his first death threat on Facebook. When Christmas came, he added the text “Loser 2020”
and made it into prints and ornaments. They sold out. His first piece of 2024-election inspired artwork is a positive portrait of a smiling Kamala Harris. Could it be part of a new, positive trend for Gascot? Find out at this show where the work is meant “to foster a deeper understanding of patriotism that goes beyond nationalism or unquestioning loyalty, emphasizing themes of inclusivity, social justice, and critical engagement with history and society.” Saturday, Oct. 5. 5 p.m.-9 p.m. No cover. The Gallery@5663. 5663 Park Blvd., Pinellas Park. gascot.com
Shine Mural Festival Shine (stylized in all-caps) celebrates its 10th anniversary with the creation of 15 more murals in St. Petersburg. This year, the fun begins at The Morean Arts Center with a group exhibition featuring artwork from a decade’s worth of Shine muralists who've brought public art to the Sunshine City over the years. Oct. 11-20. Art Districts of St. Petersburg. stpeteartsalliance.org
Ybor Arts Tour Journey through the historic district’s art scene at this popular selfguided walking art tour. The biannual Ybor Arts Tour—not to be confused with monthly Ybor Art
Walks—returns with special programming in multiple venues. A full list of venues is not yet available, but Kress Contemporary and Gallery114 at Hillsborough Community College are mainstays at this ever-expanding event, which included more than 20 venues last April. Thursday, Oct. 17, 5-9 p.m. Multiple venues. No cover (parking passes available at Gallery114, 1411 E 11th Ave., Ybor City). @yborartstour on Instagram Audubon’s Birds of America This traveling exhibition tells the story of famous naturalist John James Audobon and the creation of his “Birds of America.” The classic tome, first published as a series between 1827-1838, contains 435 life-sized prints of North American birds made from hand-engraved plates. The exhibition brings 46 of these plates to the MFA all the way from Scotland. Oct. 12-Feb. 16, 2025. Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, 255 Beach Dr. NE, St. Petersburg. mfastpete.org
November
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Creative Pinellas’ Arts Annual Now in its seventh year, the arts advocacy group’s signature combination of performing and visual arts is one of the most well-attended art events in the area. The party starts with the Arts Annual Fundraiser, an evening of live performances featuring all local talent. The accompanying Arts Annual 2024 Exhibition, which showcases the county’s visual artists, shows from Nov. 10-Jan. 5. Saturday, Nov. 9, 6 p.m.-9 p.m.. $100-$250. Creative Pinellas, 12211 Walsingham Rd., Largo. creativepinellas.org. The Subversive Eye Celebrate 100 years of Surrealism at The Dali Museum. Included in the price of gallery admission, the surrealist photography exhibition features over a hundred works by more than 50 artists and highlights the various techniques these artists used to challenge what is real or seen. Nov. 16-May 4, 2025. The Dali Museum, 1 Dali Blvd., St. Petersburg. thedali.org
Kaitlin Crockett Print Party Print St. Pete’s founder hosts a one-day-only event at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve. Catch demos and hands-on activities by local printmakers and artists at this free family-friendly celebration of all things print. Saturday, Nov. 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. No cover. Boyd Hill Nature Preserve Pinellas Pioneer Settlement, 2900 31st St. S, St. Petersburg. stpeteparksrec.org
Sanding Ovations Gigantic sand castles return to Treasure Island where Sanding Ovations’ new theme is inspired by “the artistry and creativity found in museums, murals and galleries around the Tampa Bay area.” Step into The Gallery of Sand and see how creative master sculptors can. Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 21-24 (encore Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 30-Dec. 1). No cover. 10400 Gulf Blvd., Treasure Island. SandingOvationsMastersCup.com
‘Idle Shrine’: By Eric Ondina, egg tempera emulsion on canvas, 51 x 71 x 2 in., 2023.
Join us for an engaging discussion with Dr. Robert Drapkin, one of Tampa Bay’s foremost collectors, Jason Wya , Director of Collec ons Management, and Dr. Stanton omas, Chief Curator, as they explore the exhibi on True to the Tint: e Quest for Color Photography. is ar ul conversa on will delve into the exhibi on’s crea on, the collec on of the works, and the obsolete color processes used to produce these images. It will also address the technical challenges of displaying these photographs. For ckets and addi onal informa on, visit mfastpete.org
Rudolph Eickemeyer, Portrait of Evelyn Nesbit, 1905, Hand-colored platinum print, On loan from a private collection
Rally caps
City council to vote on St. Pete’s push to save the arts.
By Jennifer Ring
In June, Ron DeSantis’ historic veto of Florida state arts funding rocked Tampa Bay’s arts community. Of the $32 million earmarked for arts and culture programs across the state, close to $1 million would have gone to arts and culture organizations in St. Petersburg. For artists who’ve spent a lifetime trying to inspire and entertain Tampa Bay area residents, DeSantis’ decision to axe their state funding was a knife to the heart. Adding insult to injury, few outside our local arts community noticed or cared. But in St. Pete, a movement is gaining momentum— and next month, city council will essentially vote on giving 1% of the city’s budget to the arts.
Less than a week postveto, Warehouse Arts District Association (WADA) Executive Director Markus Gottschlich contacted St. Pete arts organizations affected by the decision. Together, they produced a video stressing the economic impact of the arts in St. Pete.
advocate for the arts at City Council’s next weekly meeting. Nine days later, on Aug. 1, so many artists and art leaders descended upon City Hall there wasn’t enough time for all of them to speak.
“I have to credit Markus for rallying the troops,” Aeling told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “He got a group of folks from WADA to show up, and we went through and made sure that we all covered different topics within the subject so we weren’t just repeating the same battle cry.”
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“That was the beginning of it,” WADA Board President Mark Aeling recounts, “and then we organized.”
WADA contacted Jason Mathis, CEO of the Downtown Partnership in St. Petersburg, and Mathis reached out to St. Pete City Council Member Gina Driscoll. On July 23, WADA brought Mathis and Driscoll together with local arts administrators for a town hall-like discussion about how St. Pete can keep the arts alive without state funding.
Even before the arts veto, Aeling told those in attendance that St. Pete was “hemorrhaging artists” due to cost-of-living increases. Steven Kenny, Jennifer Kosharek, and Frank Strunk III are among those who’ve left the area. Yet St. Pete markets itself as a city of the arts.
Together, they stressed the economic impact of the arts in St. Pete, the costs and benefits of providing free arts education and events to historically underserved communities, and the outsized role of the arts in St. Pete’s identity. Their statements, which continued for the allotted 30 minutes, came at just the right time. Later that afternoon, St. Petersburg City Council Members assembled in Room 100 of City Hall for a Committee of the Whole: Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Workshop. They lined one side of a long table, each with a laptop and a $900 million budget in front of them. On the other side: City Administrator Rob Gerdes and Budget Department staff.
Budget Director Liz Makofske started the meeting with a PowerPoint outlining the city’s recommended budget. Then, the discussion went round the table. On Driscoll’s turn, the arts conversation began.
“It’s important that the city put its money where its mouth is.”
She floated a spreadsheet of all the St. Pete arts organizations denied state funding—nearly two dozen in total including, Morean Arts Center, freeFall Theatre, The Dalí, MFA St. Pete and more.
they’re not going to succeed without our help, and I believe we need to start now. So I hope that I can get some support in finding a path to do something today and more tomorrow.”
“It’s not the county of the arts,” Aeling told those assembled, “although we appreciate the county funding very much. It’s not the state of the arts—we had that demonstrated very vividly by the veto that we experienced. We are a city of the arts, and I think it’s important that the city put its money where its mouth is in relation to the arts community.”
Luckily, the City of St. Petersburg is currently deciding its budget, and Driscoll suggests that 1% of that budget go to the arts.
While city administrators worked on St. Pete’s budget, Gottschlich gathered people to
“The initial ask for these was just over two million dollars,” Driscoll explained, “The legislature recommended 47% of that. So there was ultimately $941,200 that was vetoed.”
At the bottom of the spreadsheet, Driscoll added Shine Mural Festival (stylized “SHINE”), whose request didn’t even make it past the state legislature.
“What I’m asking for today is that every single department take a look at how they can give a little towards this cause so that we can help to make the arts whole and maintain our reputation as a true city of the arts,” Driscoll said during her proposal to designate 1% of the general fund operating budget to fund the arts in St. Pete. “They’re not going to do well;
Several St. Pete City Council Members expressed “conceptual” support of the arts but objected to assigning city money by percentage. Most wanted to know where this money would be coming from. At the very least, all of them were open to considering increased funding for the arts in St. Pete.
As the discussion continued, Gerdes asked for a dollar amount rather than a percentage.
On Aug. 22 Committee of the Whole Meeting, Makofske presented council with a number. Funding the arts at 1% of the city’s budget would require an additional $695,000.
Council members went back and forth with city administrators over where this money should come from. The consensus: council should vote to take $695,000 left over from last year’s budget to fund the arts right now. Out of that $695,000, $25,000 would be allocated to Shine.
Then Celeste Davis, St. Petersburg’s Director of Arts, Culture and Tourism, would distribute
the remaining funds amongst the 17 arts organizations that applied for (and were denied) both state and city grants. Anything not spent before October would roll into FY25. On top of this, the city brought WADA funding up to $100,000 and added another $200,000 (for a total of $250,000) for individual artist grants to the proposed FY25 budget. If the proposal passes, 1% for the arts becomes a reality in St. Pete.
Council votes on the budget this September at two public budget hearings, on Sept. 12 and Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall.
As the City of St. Pete makes its final decision, arts activism efforts are ramping up at the county level. On Friday, Sept. 13, at 1 p.m., the Pinellas County Legislative Delegation meets (at St. Petersburg College Seminole Campus, University Partnership Building, Room 160) to hear from the arts community about how the state veto impacts them. In the meantime, Creative Pinellas is making advocacy toolkits and inviting everyone they know to attend the meeting and advocate for the arts in Pinellas County. Learn more and register to speak (by Sept. 6, 8 p.m.) at pinellas.gov.
SHAKE IT UP: Shine Mural Festival’ s request for funding didn’t even make it past state legislature.
ENVIRONMENT
Public comment on plans to develop Florida State Parks Set for week of Sept. 2, 2024 floridadep.gov
POLITICS ISSUES OPINION
OVER THE MOON: Honeymoon Island is one of nine Florida State Parks recently targeted for development.
Park jam
Golf
course developer pulls out, as state moves to reschedule meetings about state park development.
By Ray Roa
There’s not a lot out there about Tuskegee Dunes, but the group has withdrawn controversial plans to build golf courses at Jonathan Dickinson State Park. The news arrived last Sunday, hours after Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) cited “overwhelming interest” in announcing plans to reschedule meetings about development at state parks.
“We did not understand the local community landscape and appreciate the clarity. We will not pursue building in the beloved [park],” Tuskegee Dunes—which claimed that it was going to donate proceeds from the golf courses was supposed to “support military and first responders’ families”—told Florida Trident. Over the last week, environmentalists, and really anyone who appreciates wild Florida, has been up in arms after the DeSantis administration announced proposals to develop nine
Florida State Parks. As previously reported, pickleball and disc golf courses are proposed for Hillsborough River State Park and Honeymoon Island, while parks north of the Bay area are targeted for more extreme development.
Proposals for Anastasia State Park in St. Johns County, in part, call for not just pickleball and disc golf, but a 350-room hotel. A “lodge” of the same size is proposed at the panhandle’s Topsail Hill Preserve State Park. Martin County’s Dickinson State Park was targeted for three golf courses.
But reporter Max Chesnes of the Tampa Bay Times (TBT) asked state officials if last Sunday’s news meant that DEP was abandoning the idea of golf courses altogether or just involvement from Tuskegee Dunes. The state did not respond, and DEP has also not said if there are any other changes to plans at parks where “lodges,” pickleball and disc golf have been proposed.
There’s also been no update on the rescheduled meetings originally set for Tuesday, Aug. 27. Last week, DEP wrote on social media that, “New meeting dates will be announced soon, with meetings expected the week of Sept. 2, 2024.” Until DEP announces new meeting details, it has created a webpage to gather feedback.
After the state postponed the public meetings, Ryan Smart, Executive Director of the nonprofit Florida Springs Council, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay he would remain concerned “until all the proposals are dead, buried, and forgotten.”
Rick Scott, six years after Scott had to back down from plans to build an RV park at Honeymoon Island.
“I haven’t seen anything like it in more than a decade of environmental advocacy.”
The Palm Beach Post noted that there’s not a lot of information on Tuskegee Dunes, which hasn’t even launched a website. The Post added that Ryan E. Matthews lobbies on behalf of Tuskegee Dunes Foundation, which shares an Oklahoma address with another veterans group, Folds of Honor. Last year, Folds of Honor lobbied Florida lawmakers about building a golf course on Dickinson State Park, according to TBT.
Matthews spent four months in 2017 as interim secretary of DEP under former Gov.
Last weekend, activists lined the streets outside state parks, urging lawmakers to reject proposals to develop. On A1A in North Florida, a line stretched on both sides of the entrance to Anastasia State Park. Smart was also at the Anastasia island protest where he was in awe of hundreds of people defying partisanship to protect the state park. “Almost every car and truck that passed by was honking in support. I haven’t seen anything like it in more than a decade of environmental advocacy,” he said.
Last Friday, Smart told WMNF public affairs program The Skinny that he’s been impressed with the reaction from the environmental community.
“One thing about proposals like this is it affects everyone. Even if you don’t live by one of these parks, everyone in Florida has probably had an experience at a state park, and many of continued on page 27
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them at these state parks,” Smart—a water policy expert and the only lobbyist in Tallahassee whose sole focus is the protection of Florida’s springs and springfed waterways—added.
Environmentalists have decried the proposals to interfere with lands the state acquired in the name of preservation. They also questioned the state’s initial decision to only give the public six days to prepare for public comment. Eric Draper, director of Florida Park Service from 2017-2021 told Chesnes and Romy Ellenbogen that the DEP might be operating outside of the legal process and the park systems own manual as it moves to update park management plans.
Smart said his world’s been hectic since the state’s announcement, but again pointed to the public’s advocacy as a bright spot.
“What we’ve seen is local advocates—not not just people like me who are paid to do this—by the tens of thousands reaching out to their legislators, to Gov. DeSantis, to Secretary Shawn Hamilton at the Department of Environment Protection and saying, ‘This is a terrible idea. It’s terrible policy, a terrible process, and it needs to be stopped,’” he said.
Smart said past efforts to simply work on a tram route at Ichetucknee Springs State Park north of Gainesville went through months of public comment. Allowing less than a week before public comment, Smart noted, proves that state officials knew what they were doing was wrong.
“They were trying to avoid this kind of public opposition, and they’ve really stepped in it with this one. Not only is the public opposed, but in the last 48 hours, we have seen many legislators from both sides of the aisle come out in strong opposition to this proposal,” he added.
On social media, Naples Republican and Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo referenced the hard work the state has taken to protect natural habitats while enhancing access to hiking, biking and canoeing.
“Our vision did not contemplate the addition of golf courses and hotels, which in my view are not in-line with the peaceful and quiet enjoyment of nature. I am open to other ideas, but from what I know at this time, the proposal should not move forward in its current form,” she added. Even the governor’s Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis expressed concern about the proposals.
In an email to this reporter last week, DeSantis Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern promised “multiple phases of public discussion to evaluate stakeholders’ feedback.” He said DEP’s recommendations to make the parks “more visitor-friendly” are based on public input and proposals.
“... the proposals vary and may not all be approved. Finally, recommendations will be evaluated, and no final decisions will be made until the public comment and review process has been completed,” he added before invoking Teddy Roosevelt’s
past comments about public parks being for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.
“And we agree with him. No administration has done more than we have to conserve Florida’s natural resources, grow conservation lands, and keep our environment pristine,” Redfern wrote. “But it’s high time we made public lands more accessible to the public.”
The Florida State Parks Foundation says that last year more than 28 million people visited the system, generating $3.6 billion in direct economic impact on local economies throughout the state.
Smart dismissed the notion that the state park system has accessibility issues and lauded officials for working to improve trails in recent years.
“If they want to provide more opportunities for kayaking and canoeing, we’re all about that,” Smart added. “We need to get people out in nature—they’re not going to want to protect something they don’t love. But what they’re doing here is destroying nature.”
Others have argued that the space these proposed developments takes up is tiny when compared to the overall acreage of Florida’s State Parks System. Some say roadways pose more of a threat to natural Florida and the wildlife corridor, which consists of more than 18 million acres of connected public and private land up and down the state. (State figures say there are 813,000 acres in the parks; a January summary from the Florida Natural Areas Inventory says there are more than 1.1 million total acres of non-submerged state, federal and local conservation lands.)
Smart drew attention to the special nature of the land that the state has worked hard to purchase for preservation, adding, “These state parks, these are what belong to us.”
Topsail—widely regarded as one of the most beautiful stretches of natural coastline in Florida—would look a lot different with a 350room hotel on the property, Smart noted. He said Dickinson, where Tuskegee Dunes dropped plans to build three golf courses, is some of the most important scrub habitat in the state. He also pointed to four gold medals earned by the state park system as proof that state conservation efforts are working.
The recognition, Smart said, is not because Florida developed its state parks.
“It’s because we’ve kept them in their natural state,” Smart added. “What do you do with the critters and the habitat and the plants that are only where those golf courses are going to go? What do you do with those beaches? What about the sea turtles? These are our most sensitive lands.”
Plus, he said, there are other places to put golf courses, hotels, pickleball, and disc golf. The state may have a lot of conservation land, but there is a whole lot more land outside of conservation areas.
“All of Florida is going to be developed, except for the stuff that we can conserve—that’s just the truth,” he said. “So if we begin to develop the things that we have conserved, nothing will be conserved.”
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By CL Sta
It’s time to fall into some restaurant openings, Tampa Bay. While predicting a restaurant’s grand opening date is about as accurate as a hurricane spaghetti model, we’re feeling pretty confident that most of these spots will debut before the year is over. For those who love food halls, Asian-fusion and beer—this is gonna be a great fall for you.
Bar Mezzo A downtown St. Pete favorite is expanding its footprint in the Edge District this year. Intermezzo Coffee & Cocktails took to social media to announce the debut of its sister concept Bar Mezzo, which will boost the cafe’s already-stellar reputation for cocktails and spirits up a notch. While Intermezzo operates as a coffee shop during the day and laid-back lounge with simple beverages at night, the upcoming bar across Central Avenue will focus on upscale spirits, seasonal drinks, housemade syrups, infusions and cocktails on tap. Bar Mezzo will open out of the former St. Pete location of Independent Bar, which closed its doors in late 2022. Since Bar Mezzo will boast an extensive, yet rotating cocktail list, Intermezzo will continue to focus on beer, sparkling wine and coffee cocktail options during its evening service. 1049 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. @barmezzostpete on Instagram
Bonchon Arguably one of the best South Korean fried chicken chains, is on its way to Tampa. The new Tampa location has been rumored for over a year now, and over the last couple weeks, Bonchon started posting multiple job openings. But according to the company, the outpost will finally make its debut in the USF area. As of now, no exact opening date for the Tampa location has been announced, though there’s some speculation it may open mid to late August. 308 E Fletcher Ave., Tampa. bonchon.com
Bosphorous A popular Turkish restaurant in the Orlando area, will soon open a new location in Tampa Bay. The concept has signed a lease to debut within the new mixed-use Edge Collective in St. Petersburg. While no exact opening date was given, Bosphorous will open on the ground floor in a large 5,000 squarefoot space previously occupied by Furnish Me Vintage, sometime during the Phase 1 opening of the development. 1246 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. bosphorousrestaurant.com
Cheeky’s A new raw bar & seafood grill is coming to St. Pete’s Grand Central District,
and it’s from local restaurateur Nate Siegel, cofounder of new American restaurant Willa’s in North Hyde Park. Cheeky’s, which is expected to debut sometime in in mid-2024, plans to offer up “fresh seafood, including East Coast oysters, shrimp, fish and daily specials from local waters and the Gulf, along with piping hot bowls of chowder, fried chicken, salads and more,” according to a press release. 2823 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. cheekys.net
Cook Out A Tar Heel favorite will soon make its debut in the Bay area. North Carolina-based fast food chain Cook Out will open locations in
barbecue, corn dogs, quesadillas, milkshakes, and more. cookout.com
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse A new and shiny Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar will debut in Tampa on Sept. 9. Opening literally next door to the original location, the new flagship restaurant boasts 13,000-square-foot of space, with a wine bar with 2,700 international and domestic wines, new cocktail offerings, acoustic ceiling tiles to mitigate noise, live music, and more. 4342 W Boy Scout Rd. flemingssteakhouse.com
Green Lemon St. Pete A beloved Tampa modern Mexican institution Green Lemon is looking to tacover the Bay. The Ciccio Restaurant Group (CRG) told St. Pete Rising that Green Lemon will open a new St. Pete location at 4400 4th St. N in the former home of Baytenders Oyster Bar & Steamers. While no
Temple Terrace and Carrollwood, according to Hillsborough County property records. The popular 35-year-old 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—5501 E Fowler Ave. in Temple Terrace and 16215 N Dale Mabry Hwy—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,
exact opening date was given, the new 150-seat, 2,580-square-foot space space hopes to debut by this fall, according to the blog. 4400 4th St. N St. Petersburg. eatgreenlemon.com
Hales Blackbrick Hyde Park A popular Drew Park concept is heading south—to Hyde Park, that is. Hales Blackbrick—a modern Chinese restaurant helmed by Tampa native Chef Richard Hales—will debut a second location sometime this fall. The new spot plans to offer the same menu of dumplings, fried rice, noodles and stir-fried veggies, plus protein-packed plates like Peking duck, General Tso-style alligator,
char siu pork belly, bison ribeyes and 40-oz tomahawk steak served with Hunan sauce. While its Raymond James Stadium-adjacent, Drew Park location pays homage to the building’s diner roots with refurbished booths, checkered tiles and retro lighting, design renderings shared by Hales Blackbrick depict its upcoming Hyde Park restaurant as a bit more modern, with sleek decor and gold accents. 1809 W Platt St., Tampa. @Halesblackbrick on Instagram
Highland House A historic golf club is wrapping up its multi-million dollar renovations later this year, but you won’t need a decent swing to enjoy its on-site restaurant. Highland House, a new concept from the Dunedin-based Feinstein Group, will be the resident restaurant at the new-and-improved Dunedin Golf Club—which both members and non-members alike can enjoy. The Highland House’s grand opening is slated for Friday, Nov. 1. 1050 Palm Blvd., Dunedin. highlandhousefl.com
The Huntsman A new restaurant headed to one of downtown St. Pete’s most bustling blocks aims to expand the palate of diners throughout The ‘Burg. The Huntsman—a new American concept that focuses on ethically-sourced wild game and “farm & stream-to-table” fare— hopes to debut out of The Mill’s former space at 200 Central Ave. No. 100 during the fourth quarter of this year. With an appetizer menu of small plates like wood-fired bone marrow, grouper tartare, and fire-roasted oysters alongside entrees like boar and rabbit cacciatore, moulard duck cassoulet and seafood jambalaya, the upcoming restaurant will feature a wide spread of familiar dishes with an eclectic, wild bent. 200 Central Ave. No. 100, St. Petersburg. huntsmantallahassee.com
Juno & The Peacock/Pluma Two new concepts are now open at the former 400 Beach Seafood and Tap House location in downtown St. Pete: A new cocktail lounge called Pluma, and a full service restaurant, Juno & The Peacock, featuring “new American coastal cuisine” for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. A press release says the menu at Juno spans everything from dry-aged steaks, to seafood towers, seared grouper, crab cakes and more. At Pluma, the lounge focuses on light bites and cocktails, as well as a “curated wine selection highlighting over 1,400 choices primarily sourced from New World regions.” Collectively, the two spaces accommodate up to 268 guests both indoors and out. 400 Beach Dr. NE, St. Petersburg. junoandthepeacock.com. plumalounge.com continued on page 39
WANT THAT SMOKE: Cook Out is known for its ‘trays,’ or combos.
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Lara It’s been well over a year since seasoned Tampa chef Suzanne “Suz” Lara announced her debut concept that pays homage to her newlyacquired last name, but watchers of the local dining scene haven’t forgotten about the unique bar, kitchen and marketplace. After taking a slight pause to deal with some personal circumstances earlier this year, owner and Executive Chef Lara says that her concept’s opening is chugging along. The 41 year-old chef tells Creative Loafi ng Tampa Bay that Lara’s doors are slated to open in Ybor City sometime this fall. tampalara.com
Maru and O-ku Two new South Tampa restaurants focus on fresh seafood and seasonal ingredients. Tampa Bay Business Journal says Charleston’s Indigo Road Hospitality Group will debut Japanese-Peruvian concept Maru out of Bayshore Gardens’ rooftop space in late 2024. An upscale sushi spot, O-ku, will follow, set to open on the ground floor of the building slated in early-2025. These concepts will share the South Tampa complex with Counter Culture, Chef Jeannie Pierola’s celebrated restaurant known for its rotating selection of modern plates. 2909 W Bay to Bay Blvd, Tampa. @okutampa and @ marutampa on Instagram
New Seminole Heights food hall If you’ve driven by Florida Avenue’s former Little Care Bears daycare recently, you may have noticed the speedy construction happening on the Seminole Heights building. The owner of NYC-based chain Champion Pizza Hakki Akdeniz tells Creative Loafi ng Tampa Bay that a brand new food hall is slated to open out of the former plaza at 4205 N Florida Ave. While recent permit-related documents acquired through Accela state that the upcoming food hall will be called “Hikari,” ownership says that its name may be subject to change. 4205 N Florida Ave., Tampa
No View Bar A new Mexican-inspired restaurant and bar, will open adjacent to Grillin N Chillin in St. Pete Beach. According to St. Pete Rising, the concept will share the kitchen and dining space with the established barbecue joint, and will focus on seafood and Mexican-inspired plates. No View is aiming for a September opening date. 6708 Gulf Blvd., St Pete Beach. grillinchillinstpete.com
Pepper Lunch In June, Japanese fast-casual concept Pepper Lunch announced that its first Tampa Bay location hopes to open in Pinellas Park by September. Tampa-based Majestic Restaurant Group—which operates Zukku concepts across the Bay area along with Lings
Dumplings and the Han Hand Roll Bar—will own and operate Pinellas Park’s Pepper Lunch. The group has also signed on to open 10 more locations in and around Tampa Bay, Orlando and Gainesville over the next five years. There are more than 500 Pepper Lunch locations across the word, but the first ones in the Southeastern U.S. will be in Florida. 4699 Park Blvd., Pinellas Park. pepperlunchrestaurants.com
The Saint 2.0 Popular St. Petersburg speakeasy The Saint will be resurrected as something new this fall. “After four years of incredible success and demand, The Saint will be going dark sometime in November,” said Pour Behavior Hospitality owner David Fischer in a press release. Fischer, who also owns the Cocktail St. Pete nightclub and The Wet Spot, said the decision did not come easy, and added that the company will be rebranding the space at 49 24th St. N “within weeks of the concept’s closure.” As of now, no details about the next iteration of the space have been released, other than the new bar will be “immersive.” 49 24th St. N, St. Petersburg. thesaintspeakeasy.com
Slim Charmer The folks behind St. Pete rsburgfavorite Wild Child are opening a new sister concept called Slim Charmer. The new 800-squarefoot space will focus on cocktails and small plates
and will open next door. Slim Charmer hopes to open in late-October, reports the Tampa Bay Times. 2706 Central Ave. , St. Petersburg. wildchildstpete.com
Sparrow Rooftop Edge District’s newest hotel, Moxy St. Pete, will soon have a rooftop restaurant and bar. Sparrow aims to open in October and offer an Asian-fusion cuisine and craft cocktails in a sleek 4,000-square foot space with unobstructed city views. 1234 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. marriott.com
Stormrunners Tavern A new concept in a familiar building is getting ready to open its doors in downtown Gulfport. While Stormrunners Tavern occupies the ground floor as a casual bar and restaurant, its second floor will be dubbed the “Crow’s Nest,” an open-air bar and patio that features prized views of Boca Ciega Bay. An outdoor dog bar, Bark Gulfport, will also be on site, complete with a tiki-style thatched roof and a turfed area for pups to play on. Ownership includes Dave Burton of Tampa’s Soho Sushi and GenX Tavern, plus Dog Bar owner Fred Metzler and Ian Taylor and Joey Frasco of downtown St. Pete’s The Galley. 3128 Beach Blvd. S, Gulfport. stormrunnerstavern.com Reporting from Kyla Fields appears in this dining guide.
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Nana’s rebirth in Ybor City, and more food news.
By Kyla Fields
Three months after a permit-related stop work order effectively shutdown Nana’s Restaurant & Juice Bar in Ybor City, Anisa Meija is back in the kitchen. The celebrated plant-based chef—who could usually be seen greeting and hugging her regular customers—decided to team up with a new partner and pivot to a food truck instead of re-opening her popular brick and mortar.
Nana’s Rooted is parked at Food Truck Culture’s lot at 4914 E Broadway Ave. (about three miles from Meija closed Ybor City restaurant), and will also be available for events and festivals throughout the greater Tampa Bay area. According to its new social media page, Nana’s Rooted celebrates its grand opening on Saturday, Aug. 31 starting at noon.
pop-ups, worked private chef gigs and offered meal prep services in the meantime. Head to @nanas.rooted on Instagram for the latest news on this new plant-based food truck and its rotating menu.
Tampa’s Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe closes this weekend
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Other concepts that use Food Truck Culture as a homebase include Three Stones Kenyan Cuisine, fellow plant-based spot Seasoned Green, Norma’s Kitchen, Willie Mae’s, Mai Thai, Mother Shuckers 813 and more.
“This food truck is something separate from the restaurant—a whole new business. It’s not a brick-and-mortar, which is nice because the overhead cost isn’t so high,” Meija tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “The goal is definitely to open another restaurant eventually, but this is just the next step to get there one day.”
The food truck will continue to dish out whole food-based “meal of the day” plates, plus the expected smoothies, juices, empanadas and sandwiches that Nana’s Restaurant & Juice Bar was known for. In addition to Nana’s walnutbased empanadas, Meija is also workshopping a nut allergy-friendly spinach option as well as a vegan take on a guava and cheese empanada. “I’m also looking to add a few more baked goods, salads, wraps, quick grab and go items and gluten-free options to the menu, too,” Meija adds.
Eight months after hitting the market, staple Seminole Heights restaurant Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe seems to have found the right buyer—and will close on Sept. 1. Last week on social media, the restaurant—which has been a cornerstone of the neighborhood for 15 years—expressed deep gratitude and a heavy heart about the end of the road. It invited the community to share a last meal, drink and “celebrate the memories that have made our time together in Seminole Heights so much fun.”
“The goal is definitely to open another restaurant eventually.”
As previously reported, the restaurant’s clientele since opening day has been eclectic as the neighborhood, and its menu has always been a surefire way to satisfy a craving for Southern comfort food. The Sunday brunches—which frequently saw lines form outside 5119 N Nebraska Ave.—were stuff of legend. Late last year, cofounder Melissa Deming told CL that it was time for her to start a new chapter in life, adding that putting the perennial Best Of the Bay-winning concept on the market was one of the hardest decisions she’s ever made. “I feel honored to have had their support for so many years,” she said about the love from the neighborhood since opening day. Go cry into a BBQ rib bloody mary on Sunday, folks.—Ray Roa
After closing 14 locations, Tampa-based World of Beer files for bankruptcy
Those unfamiliar with popular plant-based fare from the previous Nana’s location, can expect the food truck menu to include bang bang broccoli with coconut mac and cheese, walnut bolognese pasta, jackfruit griot with rice and beans, Dominican-style stewed eggplant, lentil meatloafs, black bean flautas and more.
Nana’s Ybor City restaurant closed in early April, and Meija has hosted a multitude of
After shuttering at least 14 locations in the last 12 months, Tampa-based World of Beer Bar & Kitchen filed for bankruptcy this month. WOB is reorganizing through Chapter 11 bankruptcy to eliminate outstanding debts, and to end leases at underperforming locations, the company said in a press release.
Court records show that the company filed the bankruptcy petition last Friday, Aug. 2, in the Tampa division of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida. The beerfocused brand blamed the filing on “growing market pressures, including rising interest rates, inflation, increased operating costs and
a slow return to pre-pandemic dining habits by consumers.”
“Today’s restructuring ensures the longterm health and sustainability of WOB Bar & Kitchen. This step is a strategic move to realign our operations, reduce debt, and enhance our financial flexibility. We are confident in our future, backed by a solid plan and a dedicated
team committed to delivering exceptional dining experiences,” Paul Avery, World of Beer president and CEO, said in a statement.
Founded in Tampa in 2007, World of Beer currently has 34 locations across the country listed on its website, including five in the Tampa area. Earlier this year, the company opened a new outpost in Odessa.—Colin Wolf
ON BROADWAY: Anisa Meija is back in action, three miles from her shuttered brick-and-mortar.
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To call this weekend the end of an era at Crowbar doesn’t do the occasion justice. In fact, it’s hard to think of any party that’s enjoyed a run like Ol’ Dirty Sundays. For nearly 14 years, ODS has been a staple of Tampa nightlife, bringing people from all walks of life together at one special patio in Ybor City under a really simple banner: music.
“It was a perfect storm,” Justin Layman told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay about the party’s inception in 2011. Brunch wasn’t even really a thing yet in Tampa, and there certainly wasn’t a night built around the art of DJing with a soundtrack rooted not just in old-school hip-hop, but the genre’s origins in soul, funk, disco, and reggae.
“There was definitely a void,” Layman, better known as DJ Casper, added. The pitch was relatively simple, too. Tampa scene staple Mike Mendolusky (aka DJ Blenda) walked Casper into a chaotic and sweaty sold-out metal show—really the last time to talk to Crowbar co-founder and owner Tom DeGeorge about anything.
“Me and Blenda meet him at the soundboard. Tom’s like, ‘What’s up brother?’,” Casper recalled. “We shake his hand, then walk into his office. He sits down in his chair, and boom, spins around, and he’s like, ‘So what the fuck do you want?’” Casper told DeGeorge about his observations in the scene and replied, “I want to basically throw a party in the back alley, and play rap records, and smoke weed, and get drunk, and pass this and that out for free.”
He remembers being asked how the night was going to make any money and not having an answer, but recalls DeGeorge replying, “Alright. I’ll give you 400 bucks,” before telling him when the start date would be.
“I forget more than I remember here,” DeGeorge told CL about the pitch, and most nights at Crowbar. But he can still hear four dudes—Casper and Blenda along with Aaron LeSage and Neal “DJ Mega” Stoll—pitching some kind of miniscule bar sales split.
“I told them, it’ll never last, because you guys aren’t gonna make any fucking money—there’s four of you, it just won’t work if we only do 15% of the bar sales,” DeGeorge said. “So I told them I was going to pay them more, and let’s make a run at this thing.”
Mega, Blenda and LeSage have since moved on from their residencies at ODS, with Anthony “DJ Fader” Othouse coming in to fill the void early in the game, but what a run it’s been.
The first iterations of ODS kicked off at 4 p.m., with DeGeorge on a grill cooking Sam’s Club burgers and giving them to people for free.
“Then he would get watermelon and pineapple and soak them in vodka and walk around—people would just dip their hands in there and just fucking grab chunks,” Casper said.
Those people never wanted to leave, and the barbecue that used to wrap about 10 p.m. started bleeding into the morning hours. And while ODS pushed doors back to 10 p.m. to shorten the day, DeGeorge told CL that he still “Just saw it just as what a great community party that we can do.”
Until Oct. 2, 2021.
By then, Casper & co. had already booked big names like 9th Wonder who came up with North Carolina's Little Brother before breaking out by producing tracks on Jay-Z’s Black Album
That night, Talib Kweli and Mos Def were in town on a Black Star anniversary tour, with Kweli set to DJ at ODS afterwards.
Legend has it that Mos Def, with some help from Tampa’s hip-hop godfather DJ Sandman and then-ODS host DJ Deacon, decided on a
B-boys and girls would, and still do, breakdance in the courtyard where partygoers come together to decompress while artists make graffiti and paintings. These days, it's awardwinning Clam Master Jay in the courtyard cooking, and Indy as emcee.
“On top of that, what I like about ODS is that they give back to the community by not charging, which is awesome” DJ Charlie Chase of seminal hip-hop group Cold Crush Brothers said in a documentary about ODS. “So you have a lot of broke people coming to party, but it’s all great.”
whim to come along. Casper remembers sneaking them in through the back alley where Tampa rapper Dynasty had pulled her yellow Ford Mustang. The patio was at capacity, and lost it as Mos Def—now known as Yasin Bey—played host, hyping up the crowd and doing some of the most iconic songs in hip-hop with virtually no separation between them and the party.
“That was definitely a monumental night, but there’s been so many,” Casper said. That’s when DeGeorge knew ODS was on another plane.
Since then, it’s been a fantasy list of DJs and rappers, from Z-Trip, to Rich Medina, Kool DJ Red Alert, Ghostface Killah, Adrian Younge, and even the infamous seven-minute set from DJ Scratch who got stuck on a tarmac but raced over to have a chance to spin next to luminaries like Chase even for a moment. It’s been expensive to bring that kind of talent to Ybor City, but it’s been money well spent.
The sets have been a vibe, but they’ve also been an education in the different eras and sounds—from Fania to Fela Kuti—that gave birth to hip-hop. ODS has been a placemaking party for Tampeños, and changed the way music fans see the world around them.
In between all-vinyl sets at a one of the last ODS parties, DJ Shafiq told CL that playing actual records—most of them un-Shazamable—is like riding in a time machine. Rahim Samad, a New York export and producer-rapper that’s long called Tampa home, said DJs come to ODS to get an education. Longtime Bay area rapper B.C. is still in awe of the humanity that a hip-hop party has drawn to the Crowbar patio.
“Anybody that shows up on a Sunday night has somewhere they have to be on Monday morning,” B.C., said. “Hopefully the energy will evolve into something new. I’m sad to see it go, but it was comforting to know that it was in the world.”
Fader—who credit ODS with his evolution as a DJ—told CL that in some ways, music fans have lost touch with the nightclub experience as festivals force artists into prefabricated sets. At ODS, DJs read the room to tap into the psyche and souls of the people on the dance floor.
“Now it’s the big money spenders, the sparklers and big bottles, but nobody is dancing—no art and things like that,” he explained. “I think that’s what attracted so many people to Ol’ Dirty Sundays, having all those elements in one place, was refreshing.”
While the pandemic certainly affected turnout, with a move to charging a $5 cover not turning the tables soon enough, DeGeorge and Casper wanted to make sure ODS went out on a high note. Casper told CL that ODS could not, and will not, ever happen anywhere but Crowbar; he and the others have not ruled out the possibility of one-offs. But the spotlight that flipped on when doors opened at Ol’ Dirty Sundays goes dark this weekend. And as founders said when they launched the party more than 13 years ago, Sundays will never be the same.
Read more and see photos from ODS over the years at cltampa.com.
SUNDAY NIGHT SHUTDOWN: (L-R) Blenda, Shafiq, Tom DeGeorge, Casper and Fader at Crowbar on Aug. 11, 2024.
Joy to the world
A dozen shows for your fall and winter concert calendar.
By Ray Roa
The fall is famously packed with great concerts. Showtember and Rocktober don’t disappoint this year, and the winter doesn’t look too shabby either. Unlike our regular Music Week offering that attempts to surface the best shows regardless of size (p. 52-57), this fall guide listing of is made up of big, can’t-miss gigs.
Herbie Hancock In the ‘60s, Hancock made a name for himself as a leader in jazz piano. By 1974, months after dropping his landmark Head Hunters album, the now-84-year-old was a bonafide legend. Last month, the 15-time Grammy winner reunited with surviving members of the Head Hunters band for a one-off L.A. gig to celebrate what’s arguably still the most significant instrumental jazz album of all time. We still don’t know who’ll be in the lineup as Hancock kicks off a fall tour in Florida, but the show is certainly one of the last chances to see a true giant of jazz up-close-and-personal.
Nicki Minaj Grab your Barbz because the queen of Gag City is coming to paint the town pink. Minaj’s show in downtown Tampa happens just a couple weeks after the release of a deluxe edition of her charttopping 2023 album Pink Friday 2, and you can bet that legions of fans will show out for the 41-year-old superstar.
Cimafunk Cimafunk’s live show has been compared to that of James Brown. Last April, the 35-year-old New Orleans Jazz Fest alum made Coachella history by becoming the first Cuban-born artist to play the festival where the rhythm of his heart-stopping gig brought audiences back to a tribal state of consuming live music. The songwriter and musician born Erik Alejandro Iglesias Rodríguez already has a somewhat long love affair with the Tampa Bay area—where he made his debut as part of Gasparilla Music Festival’s 2022 lineup, then returned eight months later—and he’s back in support of a new album released last Friday.
Sunday, Oct. 6. 5:30 p.m. $30. Crowbar, Ybor City Peso Pluma Fingers crossed that Peso Pluma gets this show off. The Mexican superstar was forced to reschedule due to a foot fracture, but that’s given fans more time to get acquainted with the 25-year-old’s fourth album Éxodo released in June. The record features two dozen songs that straddle the worlds of regional Mexican music and more hip-hop and reggaetonflavored offerings. Wednesday, Oct. 16. 8 p.m. $35.75 & up. Amalie Arena, Tampa
Clearwater Jazz Holiday: St Paul & the Broken Bones w/Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers/Cory Wong/Boney James/ Mavis Staples/Tower of Power/Galactic feat. Jelly Joseph/more Sierra Ferrell dropped out of the lineup last week, but was promptly replaced with Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers who bring more jazz to a festival that is still genre-fluid (other headliners include U.S. Air Force Falconaires, Mavis Staples, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Cory Wong, Boney James, Tower of Power, and Galactic with Anjelika Jelly Joseph). What’s more is that Clearwater Jazz Holiday—which spends the rest of the year supporting jazz and music education across the Bay area—still features the very best in homegrown jazz artists. Plus, the festival is getting back to its roots for its 45th anniversary by offering mainstage viewing areas and festival side stages that can be accessed at no-cost. The party was free for 32 years thanks to corporate sponsors, grants and donations, and CEO Steve Weinberger told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that the 2024 format is “a hybrid, and in a way, reminiscent of those years.” Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 17-20. $45 & up. Coachman Park, Clearwater Samara Joy There’s a lot to love about Samara Joy, a young singer and songwriter from the Boogie Down Bronx with a sophisticated vocal that’s already being compared to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. The three-time Grammy winner (including Best New Artist in 2023) plays an intimate gig at the Cap, which will be very familiar to at least one person in her band—trumpeter Jason Charos, a Gibbs High School product and Grammy-winner for his work alongside University of Miami instructor Brian Lynch—whose father used to own the historic theater. There’s more familiarity in Joy’s band, too, thanks to more Gibbs alum, tenor saxophonist Kendric McCallister and St. Petersburg alto saxophone and flute player David Mason. Saturday, Oct. 13. 7 p.m. $45 & up. Nancy & David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Cyndi Lauper Lauper hasn’t done a proper tour in more than 10 years, and she swears this farewell run really is goodbye. “I don’t think I can perform the way I want to in a couple of years,” the 71-year-old told the New York Times. “I want to be strong.” Openers have yet to be announced, but the pop icon and activist recently released “Let the Canary Sing,” a feature-length documentary directed by Emmy-winner Alison Ellwood. Wednesday, Nov. 6. 8 p.m. $25.75 & up. Amalie Arena, Tampa
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Samara Joy brings some hometown boys to Clearwater this fall.
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: Kacey Musgraves’ ‘Deeper Well’ tour happens after Thanksgiving.
Juvenile We know you can still back that azz up—and you better plan on putting an ice pack on your back after this show celebrating the 25th anniversary of Juvenile’s landmark single, which changed the landscape of Southern hip-hop forever. Thursday, Nov. 14. 7 p.m. $77 & up (resale only). Jannus Live, St. Petersburg The Avett Brothers Fifteen years after bringing a then-fresh brand of singalong Americana to a since-demolished Cuban Club bandshell in Ybor City, Seth and Scott Avett, plus longtime bandmates Bob Crawford and Joe Kwon, are still at it. The band—which plays a much bigger venue this fall—has racked up a trio of Grammy nominations since then and arrives in Clearwater with its 11th studio album in tow. The self-titled effort finds the boys once again in the studio with Rick Rubin, who brought the Avetts to the mainstream in 2009, and updating their sound a bit with flourishes of ‘70s songwriter vibes and a touch of ‘90s-rock, too. Saturday, Nov. 16. 7 p.m. $44.50 & up. The BayCare Sound, Clearwater Ben Folds w/Lindsey Kraft Hecklers are gonna love this. Folds is expanding his requests tour where fans of the 57-year-old songwriter, arts advocate and founder of Ben Folds Five are encouraged to launch their requests onto the stage via paper airplane (you haven’t forgotten how to fold one have you?). Folds has only played a handful of headlining shows this year, and they were all in support of his 2024 album What Matters Most, but a rep for Folds told CL that he plays a setlist for the first 45 minutes before an intermission gives fans time
to get paper from the merch table and work on their requests. “At the end of intermission, there will be a countdown for the launch of the paper airplanes. Ben then returns to the stage to spend the second 45 minutes of the show randomly picking up planes and playing song requests gleaned from those that landed on stage,” Harper Beattie of Big Hassle Media added. Saturday, Nov. 23. 7:30 p.m. $45.50 & up. Ferguson Hall at Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa
SHOW PREVIEW
Kacey Musgraves w/Lord Huron/Nickel Creek There might not be a better way to wrap up the Thanksgiving holiday weekend than this show. Musgraves is on the road in support of Deeper Well, the 36-year-old’s sixth studio album released last March. On it, the Texas-born songwriter is more hopeful than ever and fully in control of her unique gift of crafting catchy and gentle melodies that bring down walls and let emotion pour out of the listener. Opening for the seven-time Grammy-winner are Americana hero Lord Huron and pop-bluegrass supergroup Nickel Creek Friday, Nov. 29. 7:30 p.m. $35.75 & up. Amalie Arena, Tampa
Underoath w/Static Dress There aren’t many homegrown bands bigger than Underoath. The hardcore outfit burst onto the scene almost 30 years ago, and picked up two Grammy nominations along the way (packaging for its album Voyeurist, designed in part by Tampa artist Joel Cook, was also nominated in 2023). In December 2018, the fellas packed 4,600 fans into Yuengling Center, and this fall have already sold-out two of three dates at Jannus. Friday-Sunday, Dec. 13-15. 6:30 p.m. $32.50. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
By Ray Roa
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C Jane’s Addiction w/Love and Rockets This ain’t the same band you saw with Smashing Pumpkins two years ago. A full reunion of the quintessential ‘90s altrock outfit has been in the works for years. But due to a struggle with long COVID, Dave Navarro needed a little more time to rest up before anything massive could happen. Now that the gang’s back together, a new single (its first with the original lineup in 34 years) “Imminent Redemption” lives up to its name, and shows zero signs of wear or tear in the original band, despite a few years away. (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)
C The Hub 75th anniversary: Florida Night Heat w/Night Child/The Beauvilles No celebration of The Hub would be complete without Florida Night Heat. The once-stalwart anchor of the Bay area instrumental-rock scene plays sporadically since two founding members—bassist Andre Jones, guitarist Jensen Kistler— relocated to New York City and Las Vegas, respectively, but will reconnect at the dive to cap-off a month-long 75th anniversary agenda. FNH last played for a Halloween show in 2020 to mark what we thought was the end of the pandemic. Drummer Chris Wood promises fan favorites for the reunion, which Kistler described as the last piece of a trifecta of shows for the band. “We got to play the old New World on its last night,” Kistler told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “I told Dre, and he agreed, that it’d be perfect to go down in a blaze of glory at The Hub.” Raucous rock-and-roll trio Night Child opens a perfect bill that includes a reunion gig from The Beauvilles. (The Hub, Tampa)
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Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association: Guitars Galore Unlike in rock and roll—thanks in part to brass, woodwinds, and keys—the guitar doesn’t dominate jazz. That’s not the case at this gig where five of the most dynamic fretmen in Tampa Bay are backed by a piano-bass-drums trio. Carl Amundson, Bart Hanchey, Charley Robinson, Jose Velandia, and Vincent Sims will all play solo sets and then come together for a finale. (freeFall Theatre, St. Petersburg)
C Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser w/Spoiled Rat/SureThing/We’re Sweet Girls For almost a decade now, Ben Katzman’s been coming to The Bends to throw down his untamable brand of shreddy rock-and-roll. The Miami music teacher arrives at the swanky dive’s 12th anniversary with extra
notoriety this year, thanks to his status as a finalist on season 46 of “Survivor.” The 32-year-old has a new album, too, which features cameos from fellow Survivors like season 45 winner Dee Valladares, plus artists like Colleen Green (who played The Bends with Katzaman in 2016), Mannequin Pussy, Illuminati Hotties (stylized in all-lowercase), and Guerilla Toss. “On camera, he was the vulnerable, sensitive, kind soul — the kid who got bullied in high school. That darker side, the rage, never came out, but it’s all there in his new music, the heaviest stuff he’s ever created,” Rolling Stone wrote about Tears on the Beach , released last Friday. Katzman’s DeGreaser is joined by a heavyweight lineup on this no-cover show, thanks to sleazy indierock band Sure Thing, punk outfit Spoiled Rat, and the We’re Sweet Girls party syndicate. (The Bends, St. Petersburg)
Buckethead It’s hard to call Chinese Democracy a true Guns N’ Roses album— mainly due to Slash’s absence—but the stories of Buckethead’s presence on the record would be enough to build up hype around a “Get Back”-style documentary. The 55-year-old guitarist, born Brian Patrick Carroll, infamously had a full chicken coop installed in the studio for himself, but due to undiscarded dog crap (which Carroll apparently enjoyed the smell of) and a number of other unorthodox factors, the coop didn’t last long. Needless to say, he won’t be doing any storytelling at his first Tampa Bay gig in five years this week, but with a catalog of over 600 releases, who needs it? (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
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w/Mtvh1n1/Chaunces/Gnats/ The George Over 200 miles separate the Bay area from Boynton Beach, but it’s less than 50 miles to Bradenton. That’s the drive fans of smart, occasionally-silly, genre agnostic indie-pop are going to want to make for this stacked gig built around Palm Beach County’s Dirtbike which is still riding high on last summer’s Snug Harbor. The six-track outing is a gem of Mark DuBois’ discography that finds him going full-on beach-pop for songs that sound like having mai tais on an old Hunter 30 while reading travelogues by Pedro Alvares Cabral. Tampa art-pop band Mtvh1n1 makes a rare appearance for this one alongside St. Pete outfit Chaunces. (Oscura, Bradenton)
C Filthy Richard Party The party was infamous for its cheap drinks (dollar drinks, PBR kill-the-keg, and hundreds of free shot tickets), and served as a conduit for prestreaming partygoers to get their ears around the very best of indie music (Passion Pit, Gorillaz, before they were cool). Filthy Richard was also a feast for the eyes thanks to Steve McClure—better known as Best of the Bay-winning DJ/VJ Monk—and a team that custom built infrastructure which complimented an array of lasers. It relaunches this weekend after an eight-year hibernation. (Floridian Social, St. Petersburg)
shared some lore for listeners to visualize while raving to his latest album Life of a Street Rat . The stories feature a colony of humanlike rats residing in a city once seen as a bubbleprotected safe haven that would protect from nuclear destruction, but eventually went to hell in a handbasket anyway. The Hudson, Floridabased EDM producer headlines this latest edition of #Pound Friday. (The Ritz, Ybor City)
Ricky Valido (album release) If you do a Google search for Hialeah, a city in the Miami metropolitan area where roosters wander the streets, the country singer-songwriter pops up almost immediately. Valido, who rocks the twang of ‘70s outlaw-country and has toyed around with flamenco, wraps a tour of release parties for his new album and will sign never-to-be-pressed-again vinyl copies of A Collection of Songs at this show which also features an auction of a guitar that he wrote a number of songs on. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
Scary Neighbor Festival preshow: Drosera w/Colo/Knifelighter/more Over the weekend rock bands from across the Bay area and Southeastern U.S. will be in Ybor City for the Scary Neighbor Festival. Before that, there’s a pre-show set to rock the suburbs thanks to Gainesville hardcore quartet Drosera, Virginia skate-punk outfit Colo, and Eustis blast-beat maker Knifelighter, which just donated its song “Otokoyuh” to a hardcore comp that benefits displaced Palestinians. (The Noise Box, Brandon)
C Someday Honey Someday Honey is all the way back, although it never fully went away. Well, Kaleigh Baker did. In 2022, the band’s lead singer moved to Orchard Park, New York, near Buffalo—and not far from where she grew up—to work on a 100-acre farm and clear her head. “I was just running,” she said told CL. “I do that sometimes.” Baker didn’t know whether she’d return to Florida or not. The band—which blends blues, soul and guitar parts that have grown more subtle, more abstract, more reverby, more twangy, and more mature over the years—also has a formal recording session scheduled. The group arrives at a lounge gig armed with a specific set of songs and, unlike
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their live sets, an honest-to-goodness plan— until, one presumes, the plan changes. (Lost & Found, St. Petersburg)—Eric Snider
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C Adam Randall w/Joshua Reilly/Liam Bauman/Mercy McCoy/Tanner Boyle
Swaggering Southern blues and rock band Mercy McCoy has fallen in love, well guitarist and singer Stefan Scheuermann has at least. “I tied the knot recently and we thought a free concert that included some lovethemed originals and a few fun covers would be a fun way to celebrate with our musical community,” he told CL. Expat Pinellas songwriter Liam Bauman joins a support bill that includes introspective songsmiths Joshua Reilly, Adam Randall, and even Tanner Boyle (the artist, not the shortstop from “Bad News Bears”). (Bayboro Brewing, St. Petersburg)
C Articles w/Home Bodies/F.A.C.A./The Paperback Whale/The New Aesthetics A busy week at Ybor Heights brewery Deviant Libation includes punky Disney-skeptic The Louskateers (playing Friday), plus this lineup the next day: Gainesville punk band Articles (FFO: Monikers, The Lawrence Arms), Lakeland grunge-pop outfit The Paperback Whale, and The New Aesthetics, the latest project from Bay area emo hero Vic Alvarez which will play a duo show. The locals support a duo of
out-of-towners—melodic hardcore trio Home Bodies (Brooklyn), and Latino hardcore unit F.A.C.A. (NYC). (Deviant Libation, Tampa)
Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones Four Green Fields’ since-demolished Platt Street location brought some of the biggest names in Irish music to downtown Tampa. The late Sinead O’Connor played there in 2005, and so did folk rebellion band The Wolfe Tones. Derek Warfield, a founding member of The Wolfe Tones brings a different iteration of his band to Four Green Fields’ Channelside pub (the facade is painted to look like the Platt Street spot) for a Florida exclusive show where there’ll surely be a lot of half and halves poured out while Warfield belts out tunes like “Come out Ye Black ‘n’ Tans.” (Four Green Fields, Tampa)
The Original Wailers feat. Al Anderson w/Cas Haley While local rasta fans are surely jazzed about the upcoming Marley Brothers tour—featuring most of Bob’s children—you can’t forget about the backing band that put the reggae pioneer on the map. Al Anderson played guitar in the Wailers through most of Marley’s last decade alive, and though he’s the only one in this band that has actually performed with its original frontman, it’s safe to say that he knows enough about its original chemistry to keep a faithful version alive. Reggae singer-songwriter Cas Haley opens. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
C Sinners Last Supper: Skinny McGee & the Handshakes w/Nervous Turkey/ Boho Sideshow/Henry Locke/Suwanee Ave. Marching Band The end of an era on the corner of Tampa’s N Nebraska and E Shadowlawn Avenues arrives this weekend when Ella’s shuts down after 15 years of Southern-fried hospitality and comfort food. No funeral for the Seminole Heights staple would be complete without live music, and while the ceremonies start on Thursday with a songwriter showcase topped by gravelvoiced Jeff Brawer, the big Sunday brunch showdown will be the final act. Countrybilly duo Skinny McGee & the Handshakes hits the stage along with rock outfit Boho Sideshow (featuring perhaps the Bay area’s only bassistdrummer), the Suwanee Ave. Marching Band, guitar-playing Blake High student Henry Locke, and Nervous Turkey. Locke’s dad, Ernie—who together with Ella’s owner Melissa Deming started the restaurant a-decadeand-a-half ago—is the driving force behind the swampified blues-rock band, and his wild, harmonica-laden, stage show is bound to reach new heights to mark the occasion. (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa)
C Spirit and the Cosmic Heart w/The Venus/Post Sex High Due to some creative difficulty, caring for family members with Alzheimer’s disease, and life-ing in general, it’s been three years since Joshua Miller and Spirit And The Cosmic Heart have released anything new. After numerous attempts at
creating music it truly believed in, the shoegaze quartet finally released a digital 45, with plenty of reverbed vocals and dreamy synths on “Pyramids,” and a more new-wave influence on “Anosognosia (There You Are).” Local psychedelic outfit The Venus and Post Sex High open. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
C Tampa Beat Weekend: Barely Legal Collective w/Cherele/Wahid/Kwe The Artist/Brittney Carter/Ay Browne/ Johnny Champagne/Notsew/Monae Marleau The Tampa Bay beat scene took a couple of years off and returns this weekend for two days of action that kick off with a Friday night beat battle at The Bricks in Ybor City where producers will go head-to-head in between sets from Tampa rapper with a New York state of mind (Asaru), producerrapper Bauxmonk, plus beatmakers Knux and Whoa1.0. The main showcase happens 24 hours later, six miles away in Sulphur Springs where close to a dozen tastemaking Florida artists including the Bay area’s Black Backstreet Boys (aka Barely Legal Collective), Johnny Champagne and, Notsew, plus Orlando emcee Wahid and others. The booking of Missy Elliott-approved Windy City rapper Brittney Carter feels like a coup, too, and gives locals a glimpse at a talent whose delivery comes with a bounce and lively pulse that’s one of the most-refreshing in hip-hop. (Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa)
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Galactic Empire If “Lord of the Rings” fans can have the dwarf metal of Wind Rose, who says that the “Star Wars” camp can’t have galactic metal? The quintet, which performs in full armor inspired by Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and more, reimagines John Williams’ timeless scores from the original films and turns them into instrumental metal pieces. While it recently branched out of “Star Wars” territory and tackled “The Raiders March” (from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” dummy!), this Ybor City gig will probably make you wish the Empire had a regular gig at Oga’s Cantina over at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. (Crowbar, Ybor City)
Imagine Dragons w/Cannons As if it weren’t fairly obvious already, Cannons—an L.A-based indie pop trio—proved on its latest album Heartbeat Highway that it shares a lot of influences with Imagine Dragons. Along with a few lo-fi bits, the record encapsulates new-wave, ‘70s pop, and even sprinkles in a catchiness similar to what you hear in a Paul McCartney song on “Dancing In The Moonlight” (no, not the King Harvest tune). (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)
C The Psychedelic Furs w/Black Lips Live, the Furs run through all the classics— including “Heartbreak Beat,” “Pretty in Pink” and “Love My Way”—while also airing material from well-regarded 2020 comeback album Made of Rain . “When we got back together, we realized we still liked the songs we had written and liked playing together, and the audience haven’t forgotten us,” Furs bassist Tim Butler told Scenestr earlier this year. “Every time we tour we get a larger audience, which ranges from people who bring their kids down, so it gets from [age] 15 or 16 up to, you know, 60 or 70. It’s a real broad span of audience ages, which is good.” (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)—Matthew Moyer
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Meghan Trainor w/Paul Russell If you were in middle or high school when “All About That Bass” made it big, you officially have the right to say that time is slipping through your fingers, because this year marks 10 years since the single first dropped. Trainor’s new album Timeless continues her love of doo-wop, and is musically diverse enough that you’d think that she had been on a binge including AJR, The Drifters, and some bedroom pop standards. Paul Russell, whose “Lil Boo Thang” made waves on TikTok last year, opens this Labor Day show, taking place in the smallest room Trainor will play on her fall tour. (Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)
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C Incubus w/Coheed and Cambria To honor the record’s upcoming 23rd birthday, Incubus re-recorded its best-selling album Morning View last May. And after prog-rock outfit Coheed and Cambria (which we hope
with bated breath is working on the comic book counterpart to its latest album Vaxis –Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind) opens at the old Ice Palace, Incubus will play the entire album cover-to-cover, followed by a set of obligatory greatest hits. Ahead of the show, frontman Brandon Boyd told CL about how seeing Leonard Cohen in California a few years before his death was the greatest concert he ever attended. Read more at cltampa.com/music. (Amalie Arena, Tampa)
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C Childish Gambino w/Willow The 40-year-old actor and rapper also known as Donald Glover released Atavista , a “finished version” of his 2020 album 3.15.20 , and told fans that an “all new childish gambino album comes out in the summer.” Glover’s had good reason to take his time on wrapping up the loose ends on 3.15.20 thanks to his work on FX’s “Atlanta,” involvement with a “Lando” feature film, and the “Swarm” video series on Prime. Willow, the daughter of Jada Pinkett-Smith, opens the show. (Amalie Arena, Tampa)
C Dream Phases Indie-rock is the bin Dream Phases lives in at the record store, but it’s not hard to hear the influence of everything from Laurel Canyon folk, ‘60s psychedelia, and even the pained optimism of Elliott Smith on songs like “New Distractions.” The L.A. quintet—fresh off the release of a new album, Phantom Idol —plays a hometown-ish show over the weekend, but will be in the Sunshine State by hump day as part of a short tour that wraps at South Florida’s revered Bumblefest. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Live in Concert Due to last year’s SAGAFTRA strike, it’s gonna be a while before we see the third “Spider-Verse” movie emerge. But following last year’s “Into the Spider-Verse” tour, in which an all-female, mostly-POC orchestra performed Daniel Pemberton’s score with the series’ groundbreaking first film rolling on a screen above, its much longer sequel is getting the same treatment—with a scratch DJ and all—under the same roof as last year’s show. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
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C Fea w/Hovercar/Eleni and The Uprising Fea embodies the spirit of San Antonio’s Latina punk scene, but it can rock the theater, too, as evidenced by the band’s contribution to “Fabulous Monsters,” a production set in the ‘70s punk revolution. Drummer Phanie Diaz, bassist Jenn Alva and vocalist Letty Martinez have been praised by Rolling Stone and NPR, plus earned kudos from Florida man and punk fairy godfather Iggy Pop. The band (FFO Bikini Kill, Generacion Suicida, Alice Bag) headlines a gig supported by Tampa grunge-rock duo Hovercar and pop songwriter Eleni and the Uprising. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
See an extended version of this listing via cltampa.com/music.
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Global dance music dips its toes into the underworld this Halloween when the Pangea Sound collective returns to Crowbar this fall.
Over the summer, the Los Angeles-based party sent DJs Supernova and Falcons to Ybor City for a steamy ass throwing session where they played favela funk sounds married to amapiano, afrobeat and everything in between. The rest of the DJ world has followed suit, with world music nights popping up, so it’ll be interesting to hear how the tastemaking Pangea crew is pushing the envelope.
A full lineup has yet to be announced, but with the crews at Crash Test Joyride and Mischief doing the local promotion, the party should be as wild as the last time. Tickets to see the Pangea Sound collective play Crowbar in Ybor City on Wednesday, Oct, 30 are still available for $25.
Amphitheatre & Club Hedo Reunion: DJ Huda Hudia w/Xquizit DJ X/DJ Mondo/ Gemini/Matt the Bratt/more Saturday, Sept. 7. 8 p.m. $10. The Ritz, Ybor City
Babe Haven w/The Rosies/Vile Serpent/ Spoiled Rat Saturday, Sept. 7. 7:30 p.m. $15. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa
Joyryde Friday, Oct. 25. 10 p.m. $20 & up. The Ritz, Ybor City
HAPPY HOUR AT AMSO Monday - Friday, 4pm-7pm Saturday 3pm-6pm
Big ask
By Dan Savage
I’m a 26-year-old cisgender woman who works from home. I’m going on the second business trip of my career later this month. The first time, I had a hotel room to myself. This time, I’ll be sharing a room with one other person. Thing is, I snore. Not an insane amount, but I’m definitely a snorer. Should I tell my roommate before going to sleep on the first night so they can prepare? Maybe buy some earplugs or something if needed? Or am I overthinking this? I don’t think it’s see-a-doctor level snoring, and I don’t know if I could get to a doctor and cut down my snoring time in just a few weeks anyway. I just don’t want to mess up someone’s sleep for the event we’re running dusk until dawn for four days straight. What are your thoughts?—Seeking Notes On Respectful Etiquette
I don’t think this is a Savage Love question. There are advice columnists and podcasters out there who specialize in matters of etiquette (Miss Manners, Awesome Etiquette), SNORE, and advice columnists and podcasters out there who specialize in workplace issues (Ask a Manager, Work Friend). Perhaps you meant to send your question to one of them?
Actually, you probably did send your question to one of them. Email has made it easy for people to send their questions to more than one advice columnist, which is why you sometimes see the same question appear in different advice columns at roughly the same time. I recently responded to a question from a frustrated straight male sub that Dr. Nerd Love responded to a few days later. I’m not suggesting our readers are doing anything wrong by sending their letters to more than one advice columnist — I have no right to expect exclusivity from anyone, given my body of work — but it’s a little weird when I receive a question that was clearly meant for (and doubtless already sent to) a very different kind of advice columnist.
But I appreciate everyone who sends me a question, SNORE, even when I suspect it was copied and pasted from a letter meant for someone else, so here’s some advice for you: Tell the person you’re bunking with about your snoring before the trip so they can get buy some earplugs and/or make a case to your bosses for private rooms. As a courtesy, SNORE, you should also pack some earplugs. That way you’ll be able to offer them to your roommate if they assumed your snoring couldn’t be that bad and it turned out to be that bad. And don’t pack those useless little foam things, SNORE, but some of those silicone plugs you’re not supposed to roll up jam into your ear canals, even though that’s literally what everyone who uses them does. Good luck!
My very good friend is a gay man with extreme sexual interests involving domination, submission, and body modifications. He identifies
as a sadist, but he is not a sociopath. He is a very nice person who only wishes to hurt people who enjoy receiving pain from him. He worries he will never meet his “dream sub” because he wants to partner with a man who is willing to undergo a “nulloplasty” and become his personal “nullo.” (A “nullo” is a cisgender man who has had his penis and his testicles surgically removed.) I suggested he could expand his pool of potential partners by dating trans gay men who haven’t had bottom surgery. A trans man who loved him might be willing to role play being his personal “nullo.” He would not consider it. While he agrees that trans men are men and many trans men are his type, his dream sub is cis man willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for him and “give up” his genitals, and this rules out men who never had male genitalia in the first place. He just turned 30 and he longs for a committed relationship. I think he might have more luck finding someone if was at least open to the idea of dating one of the many gay trans men active in the large kink community in the city where he lives. Am I correct?—The Ultimate Sacrifice
a a future potential partner (in reality or during role play)—is huge.
Now, there are cis men out there who want, for their own reasons, to undergo the nullification process. But the wannabe nullo population is a tiny one, TUS, and it’s not all cis gay men. And even if your friend were to find a gay cis man who wanted to be a nullo, surely that’s not the only thing your friend wants out of (or off of) the man that he marries. Presumably the guy of his dreams would also be someone he was attracted to emotionally, someone who wanted the same things from life (generally, not just sexually), because relationships, while enhanced by sexual fantasies, are more than sexual fantasies.
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Now that’s a Savage Love question. There’s not much data on this question—here’s the handful of studies I found about men who wanna be nullos—but I’m guessing there are more gay trans men on this planet who might be willing to indulge your friend’s fantasies during role play than there are cis gay men willing to have their cocks and balls surgically removed to give their boyfriend a thrill. Even controlling for differing population sizes— there are a lot more cis gay men than there are trans gay men—I’m guessing there are fewer gay cis men willing to “sacrifice” their cocks and balls than trans gay men willing to indulge a fucking freak in fucked up dirty talk.
And if your friend is as “nice” a sadist as you claim, TUS, he won’t romance cis gay men who don’t wanna be nullos and then spring this on them after they’ve an emotional investment in him. And he won’t spring this on trans gay men either, TUS, since asking a trans man to pretend he once had the genitals he wishes he was born with removed could be highly triggering. So, whether your friend dates cis gay men or trans gay men, he needs to bear in mind that what he’s asking—from the universe, from
Look, there’s no settling down without settling for, as I like to say, and no one with a long-term partner gets everything they want. If I were to sit down at my little desk and compose a little list of things a gay man might have to settle for, TUS, “A guy who wasn’t willing to cut off his cock and balls for me,” would be right at the top. When it comes to extreme kinks like your friend’s kink, the best someone can hope for is a partner willing to engage in a little role play. Role playing a scenario this extreme is going to be a challenge for most people, TUS, so if your friend finds a guy—cis or trans—who’s willing to pretend he’s a nullo for him, your friend should regard that not just as a win, but as a miracle.
P.S. A cis gay man can just easily indulge your friend’s fantasy during role play as a trans gay man. Cis men can tuck in, as all those queens on Ru Paul’s Drag Race have been demonstrating to us for years, and as that one Olympic pole vaulter learned this weekend.
I’ve been in a painful push/pull “relationship” with a man since last fall. We met on Feeld with the intention of him joining me and my husband in an MFM threesome. This other man went from seeming super into it and GGG to backing out of the MFM plans and stating he wanted me all for himself, something he knew wasn’t part of mine and my husband’s agreement. My first response was to say “no” and “that’s not cool,” but after a few weeks of private texting I was incredibly turned on and agreed to a one-on-one meetup, which I told my husband about. All we did at that first meeting was kiss but I was 100% down to fuck him after that. My husband and I had several heart-felt talks and
revamped our ENM agreement to allow for me to be with this man. But every time we’ve made plans to get together, he goes MIA or comes up with some last-minute excuse about why we can’t meet. It makes me feel hurt and disappointed, I tell myself I’m done with him, and disconnect and try to move on. Inevitably, however, he or I break the freeze by reaching out, the steamy sexting starts back up, we make plans to meet and he inevitably cancels them. We’ve only seen each other in person a few times over the last nine months and never gotten further than a hot make out session before he withdraws. I am a beautiful, strong, professional—I’m a therapist!—with so many resources and a happy marriage and yet all of my tools, insight, and training can’t keep me away from this boy. Please help! How can I kick this bad habit? Or better yet, how can I get him to follow through? The sexual chemistry between us is so intense it’s almost scary, and I think the sex—if we ever have it—will be epic! Help!
Confusing Himbo Endangering My Sanity
This dude is never gonna fuck you. I don’t know why this dude is never gonna fuck you, CHEMS, but it was clear to me after reading your letter— and should certainly be clear to you by now—that you’re never gonna get what you want from him. Meanwhile, it looks like he’s getting everything he wants from you: your time, your attention, and your desperation. This whole thing is a power trip for him. He approached you on Feeld when you were looking for a third and got you to meet up with him alone, which wasn’t on offer, and then got you to risk blowing up your marriage by asking your husband to renegotiate your open agreement. All he wanted from you at the start… and all he wants still… is to see how badly you want him.
If you enjoy this particular kind of agony—if frustration and orgasm denial are your thing— you could keep sexting with this guy and meeting up once in a while for a hot make-out session. (And here’s hoping those meet ups inspire you to go home and fuck the shit out of your husband.)
But to avoid being driven insane, CHEMS, you’re going to have to bring your expectations into alignment with what he’s offering and work at keeping your expectations in check. So, before you text him back—certainly before you meet up with him again—you need to remind yourself that this man would’ve fucked you already if he actually ever intended to fuck you at all.
Sadly, once your expectations are in check— once you don’t want more from him than the sexts and make-out sessions—he’ll most likely lose interest in you. It’s your desperation and frustration he enjoys and once he senses you aren’t quite so desperate anymore, CHEMS, there won’t be anything in sexting or the makeout sessions for him anymore.
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