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Mayor Jane Castor, Bennett’s boss, has suggested that rent stabilization would “kill devel opment.” Earlier this year, CL found that Castor’s election PAC was largely funded by developers.

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Multiple members of city council supported the proposal. “I think that’s a great idea,” coun cilman Guido Maniscalco said before asking about how much money for housing will be com ing from the city’s Community Redevelopment AgencyCouncilmanbudget.

Gudes also supported the idea, but also was wary of whether or not the money would actually be available for housing in March.

“I think it’s a theoretical risk, but I think it’s a good one and everyone agrees,” Bennett said, referring to fellow staff who he discussed the idea

“Thiscrisis.[city] refuses to look at rent stabilization as one means that would probably help,” Gudes said. “It wouldn’t hurt the economy, I don’t care what anybody says.”

up rent control, as he has many times, saying that it would help alleviate the rental

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Carlson pointed out that former Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s administration tore down thousands of affordable housing units, and now the city finds itself in an affordable housing crisis. “I don’t look at five-and-a-half million dollar oppor tunity as crumbs, it was an option to give Council an idea to put a pin in that money amount until the rate study was done,” Bennett replied to Carlson.Prior to the council meeting, members of Tampa Bay Community Action Committee (TBCAC) had made a demand for millions in ARPA funding to be moved to housing. During the public comment portion, several members of TBCAC and others spoke out about how the rental crisis is affecting them and people they care

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“It’s a theoretical risk, but I think it’s a good one and everyone agrees.”

uring a 2023 budget hearing last week, Tampa city staff and council members agreed to consider moving millions from solid waste to housing. After resident outcry about the need for more stable housing in Tampa, Chief of Staff John Bennett told council that the city could consider possibly moving up to $5.5 million of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to housing.Before Bennett made his suggestion, Stephanie Poynor, President of the Tampa Homeowners Association of Neighborhoods, pointed out that council could move the millions from solid waste to housing during public comment. “After listening to public comment and especially the feedback from [Mrs.] Poynor, we know that there’s $5.5 million in ARPA sitting in solid waste,” Bennett told council.

Bennett explained that around midway through the fiscal year, usually right after March, the city does a rate study. He said that

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after the rate study, if the city concludes that money has been saved in solid waste projects, the money might then instead go to housing.

“So it’s a chance we’re taking?” Gudes asked.

but also said that more needs to be done to address affordable housing. “What you want to do is look at crumbs when we’ve been hearing for more than three years that affordable housing is a problem,” Carlson told Bennett.

“And if so, we could put a pin in that [money] saying that anything that can be recovered from that rate study would go to housing by the midterm of the fiscal year,” he said. Bennett added that he was “very confident” that the rate study in March would show that the $5.5 million would be available.

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Councilman Bill Carlson appreciated the desire of the city to find more funds for housing,

Activist finds $5.5 million for housing in 2023 budget.

Councilwoman Hurtak said the extra money for housing is encouraging, but that ideally, the city will find even more. She calculated that currently, around 7% of the city budget is going to housing, but getting that number to 10% would be even bet ter. “We need to find this extra money and I really appreciate Chief Bennett finding this $5.5 million from solid waste—I’m sorry, [Mrs.] Poynor—for finding it and chief Bennett agreeing, that this is a great way to add more money,” Hurtak said.

“Iabout.really respect the public for coming in at all ages and all demographics for sharing,” Bennett said. “That’s why staff is sitting here to listen in real time to the challenges that we’re all facing.”

The most recent challenge for resto ration comes mainly from needing more space to rebuild, which a property ease ment would provide. But the easement has to be allowed by 717 Parking, controlled by Jason and John Accardi, who own the parking lots surrounding Jackson House.

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Foundation.Tampa’s Director of Economic Development Nicole Travis—who thinks the renovation will cost more than the projected $4 million—told the CRA that she could return in November with a report on what other funds might be available for a negotiation with the Accardi brothers over the Buteasement.theCRA also wants 30% of its fund ing to go to affordable housing next year, so her department would have to figure out how much money is available. “I can also take a look and see what money is available in down town, outside of [previous] commitments that could presumably be used to further support the Jackson House,” she said.

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But it may be a challenge to restore the building if the Accardis are unwill ing to Councilmannegotiate. Guido Maniscalco asked if eminent domain could be used to procure the land necessary for the easement. City attorney Morris Massey, who is sitting in for city council attor ney Martin Shelby in his absence, said that eminent domain was not an option for the ButCRA.hesaid there are avenues to explore that could help with the resto ration of the house, and that the options under city council are more expansive than the CRA. The city would, however, have to own the property first to con sider eminent domain, and currently the property belongs to the Jackson House

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ast week at a Downtown Tampa Community Redevelopment Area meeting, members of the Jackson House Foundation said that obstacles won’t stand in the way of restoring the historic house.

The vision for the Jackson house is to restore it as a historic house, as well as an African American History Museum, Roberts said. He told the CRA that keeping the house in its exact spot is important because it is “one of the last vestiges of what was once a very vibrant African American neighborhood and there’s nothing left, and so telling that story is key.”

“But as we’ve all pointed out, the building is very vulnerable and time is certainly not on our side,” Roberts said.

Collins and the Tampa Bay History Center said that the rebuild will go on.

“The CRA board [membership] is the same as city council but it’s a totally separate entity that stands alone from the city and we have the resources to be able to help the Jackson

About the easement that the Accardis are refusing, Collins said, “It would accomplish so much and would only have to sacrifice a few parking

The Tampa Bay Times reported last month that after a year of negotiations, the Accardi brothers denied the foundation a 10-foot easement to meet fire code require ments for the rebuild. At the same time, the Accardi brothers said they understood the historical importance of the house, but refused monetary and trade offers from the Atfoundation.themeeting, Jackson House Foundation Chair Carolyn Collins told the CRA that the house will be renovated one way or another.“Itwill be rebuilt,” Collins said. “We are ready to move forward with the process and with the grant we have from the State of Florida.”

partnered with the foundation and University of South Florida to place internal bracing that holds the building up currently, and that they have established a security fence around the perimeter of property. Roberts told the CRA that USF has also digitally docu mented the contents of the house, so the contents can be accurately installed in the event of renovations.

Councilman Bill Carlson said that he has advocated for the Jackson House since 2013. He motioned to have the property discussed at the meeting and said that the CRA, which has already allocated $1 million to the res toration of the house for 2023, has the special ability to help with the rebuild outside of the city budget.

The foundation has $3 million dollars in funding commitments to rebuild the house, but without the easement, the rebuild will cost more. Exact numbers are uncertain, but repre sentatives from the Tampa Bay History Center estimate it could cost around $4 million. City staff said it could cost more.

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Foundation says obstacles won’t stop restoration of Tampa’s historic Jackson House.

Safety was a point of concern for Bob Buckhorn’s administration in 2014 as dif ferent community groups tried to preserve the house. “At the end of the day this is a building that needs to be saved and thanks to the new not for profit that has been set up to do that and the generosity of people like Jeff Vinik I believe it will be,” Buckhorn told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay after yesterday’s CRA meeting.

Sorry, Mr. Jackson

“The building is very vulnerable and time is certainly not on our side.”

Located just a block away from Tampa’s historic Union Station, the Jackson House, built in 1901 by Moses Jackson, stands in shambles and needs major renovations to survive. The historic rooming house sheltered Black visitors, including famous names like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who weren’t allowed to stay in other hotels due to segregation. The building—located at 851 E Zack St.—has lacked necessary repairs and could fall apart on its own if something isn’t done soon to restore it.

house,” Carlson said. “So we can work through theseCarlsonissues.”explained that what he’d like to see happen soon is a partnership with CRA, the foundation and the Tampa Bay History Center to address Jackson House’s most immediate structural needs. From there, he’d like to see a full renovation and restoration.

C.J. Roberts, President and CEO of Tampa Bay History Center, said that the museum has

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Zelman was recently officially confirmed by city council as the new city attorney, but only after multiple city council members asked if the animosity between Mayor Jane Castor’s administration and council would stop now that Grimes was no longer in charge. But last week, City Communications Director Adam Smith said that Grimes is still working on staff, and that her last day is “tentatively” Sept. 16. Smith added that Grimes is being considered for working for the city in a new role after that.

DAMN, GINA: Looks like former Tampa City Attorney Gina Grimes (L) could be back in City Hall soon.

A familiar face could be headed back to Tampa City Hall.

“As part of her transition out of legal office, she has been looking into the prospect of the city creating an internal project manager type position to ensure accountability, efficiency, equity, etc. on the multiple major city projects in the works that overlap multiple city depart ments,” Smith wrote via email to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.

Earlier this year, CL reported that Grimes used her personal cellphone to communicate with an attorney who sued former council man John Dingfelder out of office, in part, for using a personal email. Grimes declined to represent Dingfelder in the lawsuit. Despite telling City Council members to not use their personal phones for city business, Grimes used hers to stay in regular contact with the attor ney who sued Dingfelder, Ethan Loeb, during hours of phone calls between December and March of this year, according to documents obtained by CL.

family circumstances, it is no longer feasible for me to relocate into the City of Tampa,” Grimes wrote in the memo announcing her resignation.

ormer Tampa City Attorney Gina Grimes resigned just over a month ago, and now the city says she’s a favorite for a new “manager type” position. Since her last official day as city attorney on Aug. 5 , Grimes has still been work ing at the city, serving in a four-week transition period as Andrea Zelman takes on the role.

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“I know the mayor would love to have Gina in that role, but noth ing has been decided.”

When Grimes resigned in August, she said it was mainly because of bureaucratic rules, which require department heads to live within City of Tampa limits. Grimes, appointed to city attor ney by Castor in 2019, is currently a resident of Pinellas County and has not lived in Tampa dur ing her time as city attorney. “Due to personal

When CL asked where the images and PDFs were, the city attorney’s office said that’s how they appeared on Grime’s phone when it was scanned as part of the request made by CL. All of the attachments in the records request said that they are stored in Apple’s iCloud web storage service, but the city could not locate them—which infringes on the Sunshine Law, that requires public records be maintained.

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In Grimes’ communications with Michelini, information from the texts was missing that he had sent to Grimes on Oct. 5, two days before Grimes said the city would not represent Dingfelder.

Grimes formerly served as chief assistant city attorney and city council attorney for the city from 1985-2004. Before returning to the city in 2019, she worked as a land-use attorney with Hill Ward Henderson.

Grimes also used her personal cell to discuss a property in Tampa city limits with Steven Michelini, a consultant for developer Jon Lum.

“I have worked with Gina Grimes for over two decades. She is an incredible attorney who has built the best law firm in Tampa. An amazing team that continues to serve all of our varied community needs,” Castor said when Grimes resigned. “I am grateful for her service and friendship. No doubt she will continue to follow her servant heart.”

Details about any potential new position for Grimes—including which Sunshine Laws she would be subject to—are still unclear.

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he federal trial seeking accountability for the death of Andrew Joseph III began Monday, Sept. 12, and several activists from Florida and around the country arrived in Downtown Tampa to support the Joseph fam ily. While jury selection occurred inside Judge Mary Scriven’s courtroom at the Sam Gibbons Federal Courthouse, the activists gathered outside. There, they decried the actions of Hillsborough County Sheriff (HCSO) Deputies, who detained and removed Joseph against his will from Student Day the Florida State Fair in 2014.

Andrew Joseph’s mother, Deanna Joseph, also decried qualified immunity when she spoke to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay about the trial on Aug. 31. She said that immunity has made it difficult for the family to receive any information from HCSO about their son’s death. Because of qualified immunity, only one officer has been subpoenaed for the trial— HCSO Corporal Mark Clark.

Jones Jolivet of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. “That is why we’re here.”

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Jones added that the trial will display the disregard for Andrew Joseph’s life, and also highlight the way in which qualified immunity harms victims of law enforcement miscon duct. Several speakers sounded off while Joseph’s parents were inside for the jury selection. They focused on the fact that quali fied immunity is not a law, but an unjust legal principle that families like the Josephs encounter when they try to get justice for police abuse.

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Activists from across come to Tampa for Andrew Joseph III

trial.

“We’re here from all over the coun try,” Abdullah added. “We must uplift the

“We know without a doubt that this young man was racially profiled with no regard for his civil rights, safety or the concern for his parents,” he said. “So today, we are outraged but we are partially relieved as we start this trial. We are hoping for the truth to be revealed to the public and we are looking for transparency.”

name Andrew Joseph the third because that 14-year-old child represents my children. That 14-year-old child represents all Black children.”

Carl Soto, a pastor who co-founded Black Lives Matter Restoration Polk County, said that the trial brings both anger and hope.

“Hillsborough County Sheriffs disregarded, devalued and criminalized him,” said Tabatha

ASKING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY: Melina Abdullah outside Tampa’s federal courthouse.

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“We stand together as one, and I think that it is unity that we need in this commu nity against what has been done,” Coward said. “It is our prayer and hope that the right thing will be done.”

criminalizedCounty“HillsboroughSheriffsdisregarded,devaluedandhim.”

Unqualified immunity

Several local activists helped organize the rally today, including members of Restorative Justice Coalition, Dream Defenders, Tampa Bay Community Action Committee and local faith groups. Pastor Clayton Coward of the Lakeland activist group Poor and Minority Justice Association called for unity from activ ists of all kinds.

Some kids were out of control at the event, HCSO says, but the Josephs say their son wasn’t involved in the alleged bad behavior. Still, sher iff’s deputies removed the 14-year-old from the fair, and didn’t notify his parents. While trying to make his way home, Joseph was struck by a car on Interstate-4 and killed.

But the activists pointed out that at least three more officers were involved in Joseph’s death, and that qualified immunity has shielded them from being involved in the trial.

She said HCSO has “deepened the wound” of the Joseph family by drag ging out the trial process for the past several years with its co-defendant, the Florida State Fair Authority. She added that the coalition of activists hopes for as large as a monetary settle ment as possible for the family. The settlement would help show law enforcement they can’t treat Black families this way, not just in Tampa, but elsewhere as well.

“They don’t get to steal the lives of our people, they don’t get to steal the lives of our children and not be held accountable,” BLM Grassroots Director Melina Abdullah said. “Accountability means that when wrong is done, someone must pay.”

Abdullah said that activists from Michigan, Boston, California, Alabama and Florida were at the rally in support, and that most of them would remain for the entirety of the trial, which is set to run until Sept. 22.

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Despite those laws, Marlowe sounded off about his disdain for public input and for those who want transparency from his government. Marlowe called public comment “garbage.”

“I know we’ve got at least one person in this room tonight that is involved in that and I will let them remain nameless,” Marlowe said. “But I know who they are and I know who the others are.”

“I’d love to see them settle down and go about their lives.”

“I’d love to see them settle down and go about their lives,” he said. After a long rant against the public speakers, Marlowe wasn’t done. He claimed that a handful of people have “weap onized the requests for public records.” He said that his staff is “buried” under the requests, which are slowing down other work. He then called out a member of the audience.

“I don’t care where they go, just go away,” Marlowe said of the people who were request ing the records. In the midst of his rant, and without proof, he also accused protesters of ter rorizing children and said that BLM protesters marched downtown explicitly to hurt people and localSpeakersbusinesses.filed into city hall last Tuesday as part of a prolonged push for accountability within New Port Richey government. The city has been caught in several scandals recently, especially over the actions of police during the George Floyd uprising. Residents also spoke about what they perceive as corruption within cityInmanagement.2020,NPRPD officers were caught by CL praying with SPLC-designated hate group “The Proud Boys” which showed up to counterpro test a BLM march. In 2021, an NPRPD officer leaked department intel about BLM protest ers to an armed right-wing vigilante. Activists caught an NPRPD officer posing in front of a confederate flag.

The department also tried to put Marlowe Jones, a Black activist, in jail for battery on a law enforcement officer—a felony—despite not having evidence. All of the BLM protests in New

ney for St. Pete Beach “in midst of distrust” for giving “duplicitous advice” to city commissioners. At the Sept. 6 meeting, city officials re-appointed Driscoll as city attorney for another year. That drew more criticism from resi dents who said Driscoll allows code enforcement to operate without proper warrants. Driscoll defended himself, telling coun cil, “There’s been a lot of misstatements made here tonight. And I really can’t let you sit here and listen to that and believe that some of the hyperbole that you’re hearing here is true.”

Afterrights.themeeting,

Altman commented to CL about the importance of transparency in government. “I think it is critical that elected officials always take the high road no matter how frustrated or anxious they are,” Altman said. “Having just come from the Florida League of Cities ethics training with a good section of time devoted to public records. I understand that it’s critical to take those requests seriously.”

The matter of Manns and Driscoll’s communications has now reached the attor ney general’s office. The Florida Center for Government Accountability (FLCGA) has also communicated with CL about the issue. “By using their personal phones to conduct official business they have become the custodian of public records,” Michael Barfield, Director of Public Access at FLCGA told CL. “It is unrea sonable to pass the costs of their hourly rates onto the requestor simply because they chose to become the sole custodians of public records.”

the protester and the cops. The mayor left out the fact that Jones had broken up the fight to protect the woman. Mayor Marlowe eventually kicked Jones out of the Sept. 6 meet ing, for speaking while city council was in the midst of a discussion.

He claimed that requests for public records were disrupting the city’s operations, adding that he’d “had enough of it.”

After the meeting Jones told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that the mayor’s comments were “very concerning and distressful” for his mental health.

But video from a March incident shows NPR code enforcement officer Erik Jay—who retired from NPRPD before moving to code enforcement—on site at a property talking to residents. In the video, the occupants said Jay arrived when they weren’t home and searched the property, and said they failed to provide them with a paper warrant.

New Port Richey mayor says people seeking public records should ‘go away.’

Port Richey were peaceful, largely because of Jones’ work with the city and the police to keep them that way. During one protest, a drunk white man attacked a woman protester. Jones broke up the fight, and when the police arrived, they falsely accused him of battery on a law enforcement officer. During the trial Nicholas Rickus, the cop who accused Jones, couldn’t get his story straight or show on video where Jones struck him.

By Justin Garcia

Mistreatment from city officials is noth ing new to Jones. After his trial, CL found

Marlowe, Driscoll, Manns, Bogart and Meyers have not responded to requests for comment on this story.

“We do not conduct searches without war rants,” Driscoll said, referring to a resident named Judith Allen who had accused code enforcement of attempting to enter another property without a warrant, and of serving warrants that don’t have the name or address listed, which is illegal.

Ain’t no sunshine

DARK ROOM: Mayor Rob Marlowe called public comment ‘garbage.’

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through public records that City manager Debbie Manns—who under NPR city charter holds the most power in the city—texted that she was “not happy” about Jones being found not guilty. Michelle Wojciechowski also criticized New Port Richey city officials during the meeting. Wojciechowski, who is Jewish, recently had her home broken into by police and code enforcement. During the searching of her house, body camera footage obtained by CL shows an NPR PD officer making a Holocaust joke. When Wojciechowski’s home was raided, the warrant the code enforcement and police used did not contain her name, her correct address, or correct property parcel number. Meanwhile, Florida state law says that police can only search “the property described in the warrant or the person named.”

NPR City Attorney Tim Driscoll was present when police and code broke into Wojciechowski’s house to investigate alleged code violations. In 2007, Driscoll was forced to resign as city attor

The only NPR city council member who said that the government should listen to their con stituents at the meeting was Peter Altman. The rest of the council members sided with Mayor Marlowe and even thanked him for speaking up against the people who are exercising their lawful

When CL made a records request for those text communications, the city decided that it would charge Driscoll’s hourly rate of $150 for his public records, and Mann’s would cost $67, her estimated hourly rate. When this reporter said it was an unreasonable amount to charge for public records, City Clerk Judy Meyers said that those charges would stand because the public officials would have to access the public records themselves.

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It’s not just residents having trouble getting transparency when it comes to the behavior of certain city departments. Both City Manager Manns and Driscoll have chosen to use per sonal cell phones when communicating city business, which are public record regardless of where they exist.

At the Sept. 6 meeting, Jones asked why the city hasn’t investigated the actions of Police Chief Kim Bogart’s department. In response, Mayor Marlowe attempted to paint Jones as a sketchy character who put himself between

t a New Port Richey city council meeting last Tuesday, Mayor Rob Marlowe went on a tirade against people who speak during pub lic comment, and against citizens who request public records. Government agencies, including New Port Richey, are required under the law to receive public comments. And, according to Harvard Law School, an agency must consider the comments it receives. Florida’s “Sunshine Law” requires records be maintained and pro vided by governments in a timely manner.

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laintiffs challenging a Florida law restrict ing instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools are asking a judge to reverse an order stalling their ability to gather information in the case, arguing that the law is being used throughout the state to “censor any positive or supportive reference to LGBT people.”LGBTQ-advocacy organi zations Equality Florida and Family Equality, parents, students and a teacher filed the lawsuit in March, shortly after the Republicandominated Legislature passed the law. The plaintiffs allege the law violates constitutional free-speech and equal-protection rights.

The law “is affecting virtually every aspect of public education, from what materials can be displayed in classrooms to which books are available to students to whether teachers can

• A Palm Beach County history teacher changed her lesson about Sally Ride, the country’s first female astronaut, “to omit her identity as a

“Consistentidentity.withthat modest limitation, the law prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for the young est children, neutrally allowing all parents, no matter their views, to introduce those sensitive

Defendants in the lawsuit, who include mem bers of the State Board of Education and several school boards, have asked that the case be dis missed. U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in July put on hold plaintiffs’ ability to seek information from the defendants, a process known as discovery, until requests to dismiss the case are resolved.

The law, which has drawn national atten tion, bars instruction on sexual orientation and

lesbian” because “she didn’t know how to explain that without running afoul of the new laws.”

But in a motion filed Monday, lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that “the facts on the ground have changed materially” in the weeks since Winsor’s ruling and the onset of the school year in August.“Throughout Florida, schools are taking extraordinary measures to purge any trace of LGBT people from schools, and teachers are afraid to show any support for LGBT students,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote in Monday’s court filing, adding “the intended and foreseeable harms” of the law “are stark, widespread and proliferating.”Themotion, citing news stories, laid out numerous examples of how schools, teachers and students are interpreting the measure (HB 1557). It alleged:

topics to their children as they see fit,” the state’s lawyers wrote.

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• Multiple school districts have removed books with LGBTQ content from library shelves and book fairs, and teachers have been warned that they could lose their teaching licenses if objectionable content is found in their classrooms.

Republican lawmakers titled the measure the “Parental Rights in Education” bill, while opponents dubbed it the “don’t say gay” bill. The lawsuit alleged that the measure is uncon stitutional, discriminatory and “clearly the product of animus towards Florida’s LGBTQ community.”Butina motion to dismiss the case filed in June, lawyers for Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office argued that the legislation “expressly allows age- and developmentally

Even if discovery were allowed to begin immediately, a trial in the case likely wouldn’t take place until mid-April, “exposing plaintiffs to ever-increasing harms through the end of the school year,” the lawyers argued.

appropriate education” on sexual orientation and gender

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“Now that implementation of the law has begun and its sweeping impact is apparent, plaintiffs respectfully ask the court to reassess the equities of maintaining the stay of discovery at this point,” they wrote.

JUST DO IT: Activists in St. Petersburg on March 12.

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Florida’s so-called ‘don’t say gay’ law doing ‘widespread’ harm, motion says.

• The Pasco County school district told teach ers to “remove ‘safe space stickers’ from all schools … in order to comply with HB 1557.” Safe spaces are “inclusive environments” where LGBT students can feel secure and welcome.

The motion, which included other examples, said the cited instances “only scratch the sur face” of the law’s “harmful impact,” and argued that other circumstances are unknown to the plaintiffs without the discovery process.

“These escalating harms and uncertainties emphasize the need for discovery to commence, so that the case can get back on track and plaintiffs’ claims can be adjudicated on the merits on as expedited a basis as possible,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote in the 20-page motion.

The motion to lift the stay on discovery also noted that, since Winsor’s July decision, plain tiffs have promised to curtail the amount of information they are seeking. The motion also said the way the law is being applied “looks nothing like” the law the defendants described in court filings as being limited to “curricular standards” and not subjecting the plaintiffs to differential treatment.

gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and requires that such instruction in older grades be “age-appropriate … in accordance with state academic standards.”

• Orange County school officials “warned educators not to wear rainbow articles of cloth ing” and to remove safe-space stickers as well as “pictures of same-sex spouses from their desks.”

mention a same-sex spouse or sponsor a gay student club,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers argued.

That claim might hold up better if the court hadn’t spent the last decade crippling democratic safeguards: first with Citizens United, which

Hack jobs

It’s true that the court has decided many controversial cases over the last 220 years. But there’s a reason fewer Americans than ever— especially Democrats and independent —profess confidence in the justices now.

It’s not just that a few decisions didn’t go their way. It’s that most of these justices were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote and confirmed by senators who represent a minority of the popu lation. And they did it while lecturing about “judicialMorerestraint.”thanthat, the crisis in confidence stems from the growing recognition that five or six members of the Supreme Court are the far right’s bulwark against democracy itself— their means of imposing an agenda without publicWhensupport.Justice

Most obnoxiously, Cannon ordered the FBI to stop using those documents—including the more than 100 classified documents Trump had taken from the White House—as part of its investi gation, a remarkable mandate from a judge in a civil proceeding considering that the search that obtained these records was approved and overseen by a fed eralCannon,magistrate.trying

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assessment could continue while the investigation was on hold, even as she held out the possibility of ordering the government to return to Trump the classified records he’d stolen. On Friday, the Justice Department gently reminded her that the FBI is part of the intelligence community and is deeply intertwined in the threat assessment.

Brett Kavanaugh tried to minimize the enormity of overturning Roe, he argued that he and his colleagues hadn’t out lawed abortion but rather returned the issue to the states, where democracy could function as the founders intended.

This is why Americans don’t trust Trumpified courts.

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Last week, Reed O’Connor, the George W. Bush appointee who previously tried to strike down the Affordable Care Act on a batshit theory that Congress ending the individual mandate killed the whole thing, ruled that a Texas

So last week, it was Chief Justice John Roberts’ turn to assure the country that his court wasn’t composed of partisan hacks.

“The court has always decided controversial cases and decisions have always been subject to intense criticism, and that is entirely appropri ate,” Roberts said in Colorado Springs. “But I don’t understand the connection between the opinions people disagree with and the legiti macy of the Supreme Court.”

company doesn’t have to cover HIV prophylaxis drugs because its owner says that medication “facilitates and encourages homosexual behav ior,” and saving the lives of homosexuals makes GodThemad.ruling might not stand. But Roberts laid the groundwork in the 2014 Hobby Lobby ruling, in which he declared that corporations can have religious beliefs that exempt them from federal law. And the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear the inevitable appeal, is one of the most conservative in the country.

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Roberts isn’t that naive.

Cannon has yet to rule on the government’s motion to let the FBI investigate the recovered classifiedTrumpdocuments.triedtoget Cannon assigned to the bonkers-ass lawsuit he filed accusing Hillary Clinton of spreading misinformation about his connections to Russia in 2016.

“I note that Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the Fort Pierce division of this District, where only one federal judge sits: Judge Aileen Cannon, who Plaintiff appointed in 2020,” Judge Donald Middlebrooks wrote in April. Middlebrooks dismissed what he called Trump’s “200-page political manifesto.”

Of course, revanchist judges pre-date Trump; the conservative movement to capture the judiciary has been in progress for decades.

We’ve seen them for the political hacks they are.

And the more exposure we have to any of Donald Trump’s judges, the more reason we have to be skeptical of all of them.

The court had just green-lit Texas’ Roe v. Wade workaround and blocked President Joe Biden from reversing a Trump-era immigration policy. In the following year, it overturned the right to abortion and invented constitutional the ories to gut environmental regulations, obliviate gun policies, and allow states to execute innocent men because they’d been given shitty lawyers.

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NOT THAT INNOCENT: Roberts tried to assure the country that his court wasn’t composed of partisan hacks.

“The themovementconservativetocapturejudiciaryhasbeeninprogressfordecades.”

The Presidential Records Act is explicit that the documents Trump hoarded belong to the fed eral government, and any lawsuits involving the PRA must be filed in Washington, D.C. Cannon ignored that. Both the PRA and Supreme Court precedent are clear that Trump can’t exert exec utive privilege to keep records from the FBI (or any other part of the executive branch). Cannon decided he might, should the special master she planned to appoint decide that the records the law says belong to the government don’t actu ally belong to the government.

n Sept. 12, 2021, Justice Amy Coney Barrett assured an audience at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center—named for the Senate majority leader who both introduced her that night and secured her place on the Supreme Court a year earlier—that “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.”

From there, it will go to the Supreme Court, where five justices have made their ideological agenda clear. That, John Roberts, is why people don’t trust the Trumpified courts.

to sound reasonable, said the community’sintelligencethreat

If the government appeals Cannon’s rulings, the case will move to the 11th Circuit, where Trump appointed six of the 11 active judges.

opened the floodgates to untold billions of dol lars in election-buying money; then with Shelby County, which junked a key part of the Voting Rights Act; then with Rucho, which signed off on extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Look no further than Aileen Cannon, the undistinguished Federalist Society member the Republican Senate confirmed to the federal bench in South Florida as Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, and who Trump ran to in his desperate bid to slow the FBI’s investi gation into stolen classified materials.Cannon obliged.

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Ashley Moody’s office says Florida’s consti tutional privacy clause should not protect abortion rights. Way to make Tampa proud.

The price of gasoline keeps going down in Florida, to its lowest since February—but the number of Let’s Go Brandon flags keeps increasing for some reason.

A Tampa woman spots a large gator strapped to a car on I-95. If there’s a J.D. Power Award for strapping large, dead reptiles to a bumper, then the Chevy SUV just won “Best in Class.”

Florida’s independent voters will likely play a key role in the upcoming election, say polls. They’re being called “persuadable” which is way better than “deplorable” if you ask me.

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Zydeco Brew Works Ybor City’s Zydeco Brew Works’ big Oktoberfest event already passed, but Zydeco is still offering several exclu sive German food and drink specials throughout the end of the month. Zydeco’s festive foods have a Nola twist, which includes dishes like pretzelcrusted schnitzel and apple strudel beignets. The Cigar City brewery also offers seven dif ferent Oktoberfest brews— like its “Prost,” an Oktoberfest Märzen-style lager—in addition to merch and “das boot” glasses. Food and drink specials through the end of September. 1902 E 7th Ave.,Ybor City. zydecobeer.com

23 Oktoberfest events happening in Tampa Bay this fall

Coppertail Brewing Co. Coppertail’s motto for this year’s Oktoberfest is “lagers, lagers, lagers,” but it’ll boast an exclusive food menu, games, live music and other German brews available by the half-liter stein. Sip on its fruited Berliner weisses, German ciders

“biggest beer celebration of the year,” and it will be complete with games, prizes, live music, food and festive brews like its Vienna Vixen lager and German pilsner. Although its big gest event takes place on Sept. 17, Bootleggers Brewing Company celebrates the beer-centric holiday all month long. Saturday, Sept. 17. 12 p.m. 10256 Causeway Blvd., Tampa. bootleg gerbrewingco.com

Green Bench Guests at this St. Pete event can get the first taste of Green Bench’s exclusive Oktoberfest Tampa Dunkel beer, but it’ll be fea tured at Tampa’s official celebration at Curtis Hixon Park a few weeks later. A $45 ticket gets access to two different firkin tappings (think old-timey beer kegs), commemorative steins, German-style cuisine by Dusty’s Hot Stuff, live music from Apple Strudel Oktoberfest Band, games prizes and more. Saturday, Sept.17.12 p.m.-5 p.m.1133 Baum Ave. N, St. Petersburg. greenbenchbrewing.com

Crooked Thumb Brewery This Safety Harbor Biergarten will be full of live music, German-style beer, hearty food and steinhosting contests all weekend-long. Crooked Thumb is releasing exclusive beer collabora

Wies’n,” which literally translates into “a little Oktoberfest” (although it seems like a pretty big deal to us.) Beer drinkers can expect a steady rotation of drafts from Hofbrauhaus, Ayinger, Barriehaus, Motorworks, Weihenstephan, and

tions with Green Bench, Gulfport Brewery & Barriehaus Beer Co.—all spots hosting their own Oktoberfest events throughout Tampa Bay. Special liter steins & mixed four-pack cans will be available for purchase as well. Friday, Sept. 23 (5 p.m.-10 p.m.) and Saturday, Sept. 24

St. Pete Brewing Co. This Saturday party—loaded with German food and the brew ery’s popular ales and stouts—starts at noon and goes on until who knows when, so St. Pete Brewing Co. might be the go-to spot for an allday Oktoberfest hangout. German-inspired music happens on The Nest stage, the brew ery’s next door neighbor, all day-long as well. Saturday, Sept.17. 12 p.m. 544 1st Ave. N, St. Petersburg. stpetebrewingcompany.com

and Kölsch at this free event. Saturday, Sept. 17. 11 a.m. 2601 E 2nd Ave.,Tampa. copper tailbrewing.com

ust off the lederhosen and get your steins ready, because it’s Oktoberfest season in Tampa Bay once again. Luckily (for your liver) there are dozens of different celebra tions happening on both sides of the bridge, from Green Bench Brewery’s exclusive beer releases to Tampa’s 12th annual Oktoberfest at Curtis Hixon Park. Here are close to two dozen events happening over the next few weeks. Submit yours to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s event calendar via cltampa.com, and email kyla@cltampa.com with information about your celebration.

BRU Florida Growler Bar Odessa’s BRU Florida Growler Bar will sling exclusive German brews, bratwursts and pretzels dur ing its celebration, in addition to an exciting stein-holding competition for its braver patrons. Saturday, Sept. 17. 2 p.m. 8729 Gunn Hwy., Odessa. brufl.com

Oktoberfest at Bayboro This St. Pete brewery is organizing games, music, and German food for its annual celebration of allthings beer. Although there isn’t a full menu released yet, guests can definitely expect a bratwurst and spätzle special from Chef Bill Tarleton. Apple Strudel Oktoberfest Band— which is definitely booked and busy this holiday season—takes Bayboro’s stage at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24. 12 p.m. 2390 5th Ave. S, St. Petersburg. bayborobrewing.com

Bootleggers Brewing Company This Tampa brewery calls its Oktoberfest event the

Independent Bar St.Petersburg St. Pete’s Independent Bar hosts a “Eine Kleine

HOLY SCHNIT: Ybor City’s Zydeco Brew Werks offers German-inspired food and booze specials throughout September.

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Barriehaus This Ybor City brewery already offers a German twist year-round, so it makes sense that it hosts one of the largest Oktoberfest celebrations in the Bay. Stein-holding and brattossing competitions abound, this day-long party also features traditional German polka music, festive trivia, a commemorative BarrieHaus stein, and access to a full Bavarian feast plat ter (for an extra $12-$18.) Saturday, Oct. 15. 1 p.m.-9 p.m. $50-$500.1403 E 5th Ave., Tampa. barriehaus.com

World of Beer Westchase’s World of Beer celebrates the holiday a little differently this year (but still with copious amounts of beer.) Its Oktoberfest-themed trivia tournament will test patrons’ knowledge of beers around the world. The trivia tournament is free to enter. Monday, Sept. 26. 7 p.m. 9524 W Linebaugh Ave., Tampa. worldofbeer.com

The Bier Boutique Imported German beers, dishes like sausages with sauerkraut and pretzels smothered in beer cheese, and intense Oktoberfest games will make The Bier Boutique’s celebration one of the best in The Burg’.This event is free to attend but it’ll cost $50-$60 to register you and your friends to compete in its Beer Olympics; teams are encour aged to create a theme and come in costume too. Saturday, Oct 15. 1 p.m. 465 7th Ave. N, St. Petersburg. thebierboutiquestpete.com

Pinellas Ale Works German beers will be served in liter pints and boot glasses all week end-long at Pinellas Ale Works’ “Pawtoberfest” party. The pet-friendly spot releases its seasonal pumpkin beer over the weekend, in addition to hosting a stein-hoisting contest on Saturday. Friday, Sept. 30-Sunday, Oct. 2. Noon-8 p.m. 1962 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg. pawbeer.com

Tampa Bay Brewing Company TBBC’s Westchase location will host an entire week end of festivities, which has all of the expected characteristics of a good time: tasty food, great beer, ax-throwing (courtesy of Stumpy’s Hatchet House) and an ultimate Oktoberfest competi tion. Saturday, Oct.1-Sunday, Oct. 2. 1 p.m.-7 p.m. 13937 Monroes Business Park, Tampa. tbbc.beer Tampa’s 12th annual Oktoberfest Arguably the largest Oktoberfest party in all of Tampa Bay, this three day party is chock full of live music, dancing, outrageous games, dirndls and lederhosen, the tasty waterfront views at Curtis Hixon Park, and a Bavarian food hall slinging all of the bratwurst and schnitzel you can eat. Green Bench Brewing provides the tra ditional German brews, but there will be a wide variety of other beers available. Friday, Oct.7Sunday, Oct. 9. 4 p.m. -11 p.m., 11 a.m.-11 p.m. and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. $10-$25. 600 N Ashley Dr., Tampa. oktoberfesttampa.com

3 Daughters Get ready to be at St. Pete’s 3 Daughters Brewing all day-long, because you can start drinking at 11:30 a.m. at this Oktoberfest celebration. This party features a special German themed menu, a traditional oompah band from 2 p.m.-6 p.m., a stein-hold ing competition, prizes for best dressed and of course, tons of fantastic German brews. Sunday, Sept. 25. 11:30 a.m. 222 22nd St. S, St. Petersburg. 3dbrewing.com

The Wheelhouse This casual St. Pete bar transforms into a German-style Biergarten during this year’s Oktoberfest celebra tion. For nine days, The Wheelhouse offers German-style beer and dishes, in addition to other types of festive programming. It also recently released a variety of pumpkin-flavored beers and san grias, if you’d like to celebrate Oktoberfest with a little fall flare. Sunday, Sept. 25-Monday, Oct.3. 7220 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. the wheelhousestpete.com

noon-5 p.m. 2340 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. grandcentralbrew.com

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Piertoberfest One of the only Oktoberfest events you can take a tram to, St. Pete Pier’s celebration (aka Piertoberfest,) features Germanstyle beer, food, music, games, and more. If you opt for the pricier VIP experience, you can also get access to a shaded private area, receive a collectible stein, four drink tickets, and light German bites. Saturday, Oct. 1. $15-$110. 600 2nd Ave. NE, St. Petersburg. piertoberfest.com

OktoberFest Tampa Arts & Crafts Fair Tampa-based event organizer Your Tampa Markets hosts an upcoming market with an Oktoberfest twist. Waterworks Park is the host of its family-friendly fair chock full of local artists, artisans, food trucks and other small businesses. Saturday, Oct. 8. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. 8. 701 N Highland Ave., Tampa. yourtampamarkets.com

Gulfport Brewery If you don’t win the stein-holding contest at the 3rd-annual Oktoberfest at Gulfport Brewery, at least you can dust your lederhosen off and try your hand at the costume contest instead. Live music, exclusive steins, and beer puppeteers round out this Oktoberfest celebration. Saturday, Sept. 24. 12 p.m. 3007 Beach Blvd., Gulfport. gulfport-brewing.com

HAUS PARTY: BarrieHaus hosts a stein-hoisting competition alongside other games.

Publix GreenWise Market Even Publix is in on it. Water Street Tampa’s GreenWise Market offers a more family-friendly take on Oktoberfest, with live music, games and give aways, in addition to a variety of curated food and drink specials. Different specials include pretzels and beer for $5 and $1 off house made beer brats. Saturday, Oct. 1. 12 p.m. 555 Channelside Dr., Tampa. greenwisemarket.com

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Grand Central Brewhouse This second annual get-together features all the best aspects of a good Oktoberfest party: traditional Germanstyle lagers, oompah music from Apple Strudel & Nu Soundz, German fare provided by Lolita’s & Le Clementine, a stein-hoisting contest and other fun games. Commemorative GCB steins, mugs, & Oktoberfest t-shirts will also be avail able for purchase. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 1-2.

German American Society of Pinellas County You won’t get more traditional than the German American Society of Pinellas County’s multi-day Oktoberfest celebration. These Best of the Bay-winning shindigs will feature a wide variety of German brews and traditional foods, a keg tapping ceremony, a parade of flags, stein-hoisting competitions, music, exclusive merchandise and raffle prizes. Friday, Sept. 30-Saturday, Oct. 15. 5 p.m.-10 p.m. $10 (children 12 and under free.) 8098 66th St. N, Pinellas Park. germantampa.com

King State all month-long, but folks at its Sept. 24 party can buy special $10 liters of “the brews that paved the way for all the beers we enjoy today.” Saturday, Sept. 24. 6 p.m.1049 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. independentbarstpete.com

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Good Intentions soft-opened to friends and family last weekend.

By Kyla Fields

St. Pete plant-based eatery Good Intentions soft opens, and more in Tampa Bay food news.

After this week’s soft opening, Good Intentions will be open from 5 p.m.-10 p.m.

For the next few weeks, the newly-opened restaurant will offer a somewhat-limited menu and gradually add dishes as it transitions into full service. Other popular appetizers include pan-charred shishito peppers, tofu fries, “dev ilish” crab balls, buffalo tempeh, and kimchi-fried rice with Just Egg. Good Intentions and Golden Dinosaurs co-owner Audrey Dingeman tells Creative Loafing Tampa bay that as its menu expands, so will its operating hours (although it may not ever accept reservations.)

Black Cattle Burger Co. is now open in down town St. Pete Nestled in between Mary Margaret’s Irish Tavern and Top Slice Pizzeria is downtown’s newest latenight restaurant—and it dishes out all of the appropriate greasy eats .Black Cattle Burger Co., from the brains of local restaurateur Shan Bakrac and Benson Hospitality Group, opened last week at 17 3rd St N. in the 200 block of The Burg’.

Its initial drink list—which includes concoctions like the “16 Dances” with watermelon-infused tequila, basil syrup, Ancho Reyes liqueur and lime— is full of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options. There are several craft mocktail offer ings alongside other NA beverages like Topo

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he folks behind Tampa Bay vegan hotspots Black Radish Grocer, Golden Dinosaur and Nah Dogs are ready to give birth to their culinary lovechild.After months of buildout, and a recent weekend of friends and family trial runs, St. Petersburg vegan restaurant Good Intentions opened to the public on Wednesday. The restaurant—located at 1900 1st Ave. S in the Grand Central District—will be open at 5 p.m. again on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with availability happening on a first-come-firstserved basis. On Instagram, Good Intentions wrote that its warm, vintage contemporary inte rior boasts “plenty of comfortable space to relax and wait for a table (with beverages if you’d like!)”

sautéed mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes, blistered heirloom tomatoes, charred corn, car amelized onion and a drizzle of basil szechuan oil), the fanciest adult vegan Lunchable ever (cheese from Catalyst Creamery, house made seitan, pickled grapes, onion jam, salami, nuts, and more), a hot Italian beef sandwich, and of course veganized takes on popular cocktails.

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Wednesdays and Thursdays and 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Follow its Instagram at @goodintentions_fl for the latest news on its soon-to-change hours and menu.—Ray Roa

Chico, Liquid Death, kombucha, Bud Zeros and Guinness Zeros.

Vegan ventures

Menu highlights from the weekend include Good Intentions’ seasonal gnocchi (with

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hand-breaded chicken tenders, fries and sal ads are offered as well. Although its burgers are customizable, there are a few specials like its “Black Pearl,” which comes with two pat ties, cheese, griddled mushrooms, pickles and truffle aioli. And there’s soft serve ice cream for dessert, too.

The only Buffalo Wild Wings in Tampa where you have to pay to park is now closed. The Ybor City B-Dubs location, located at 1625 E. 7th Ave, is no longer in business, and the sign has also been removed from the historic building.

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Courtney Weil of Courtney’s Cafe and Catering took over the former Ground Foods space just a few months ago, and now offers both catering and dine-in services in Seminole Heights. Its large American menu is sprinkled with Latin, Asian and Italian influences, as popular offerings include stacked charcuterie spreads, chicken and waffles with candied bacon, Spanish-stuffed steak, rosemary-roasted pork loin and stuffed mushrooms.

Seminole Heights’ Rene’s Mexican Kitchen launches new $2 breakfast tacos

Seminole Heights has a new breakfast fix, and all you need is two bucks. Located at 4414 N Nebraska Ave. in Seminole Heights, Rene’s Mexican Kitchen recently launched its break fast menu stacked with loaded tacos ($2 each), burritos and chilaquiles (tortilla chips tossed in a dry chile salsa and topped with protein, crema, queso fresco, red onions and avocado.)

The food trailer is also getting ready for its exclusive Mexican Independence Day Dinner, happening on Saturday, Sept. 17. Ribeye steak tacos, Huitlacoche—a delectable corn fungus— chicharron prensado, smoked beef short-ribs and jumbo prawn tacos are on the one-night-only menu. These dishes are meant to highlight less mainstream ingredients in traditional Mexican cuisine— something that Chef Rene does quite well on his everyday menu. This ticketed event costs $68 per person and will take place at Southern Brewing & Winery, down the street from the Seminole Heights food trailer.For more information on this popular Mexican spot and next week’s exciting event, keep up with its Facebook page (@renesmexicankitchenofficial), where its specials are posted every week as well.

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MASTERFUL: St. Pete’s CellarMasters is now a nationally-recognized bottle shop.

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Black Radish’s Cuban kitchen pop-up this month

Rene’s Mexican Kitchen now serves breakfast from 7 a.m.-11 a.m. Wednesday-Sunday every week. After those hours, the popular taco trailer switches to its normal lunch and dinner menu of chile rellenos, loaded chorizo and shrimp tacos and pork belly bur ritos, alongside many other Mexican specialties.

Tampa’s resident vegan grocery is known for working with other local businesses—like House of Vegano, Lucky Tigre and Oh My Cod Vegan Seafood Co.—and its latest collabora tion happens on Wednesday, Sept. 21. Black Radish’s Cuban kitchen pop-up will take place at Courtney’s Cafe—located at 6428 N Florida Ave. inside the former Grounds Food Cafe in Seminole Heights— and offer an exclusive menu of Cactus Hat oyster mushroom “asado,” black beans and rice, guava y queso puffs, plant-based picadillo and vaca frita, and vegan mocktails, among many other traditional Cuban dishes. This Wednesday night pop-up runs from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. and requires an RSVP reservation by tex ting (813) 467-6496 (please include name, party size, date and time.) Black Radish sources a lot of its vegan goods locally, so expect a few ingre dients featured in its upcoming pop-up to be from other Tampa Bay-based small businesses.

After 10 years, Ybor City’s Buffalo Wild Wings is now closed

It’s unclear exactly why the Ybor BW3 shuttered. The spot was originally opened by its previous owners, Diversified Restaurant Holdings, in 2012 with a 10 year lease. At the time, the company boasted that the new res taurant would be one of the largest ever for the franchise, with a 235-seat capacity. In 2018, the chicken wing chain was sold to Arby’s for nearly $3 billion.

Ruggs and Lynn opened CellarMasters at 1005 1st Ave. N in spring of 2020, and was imme diately met with great reviews and warm local reception. The bottle shop focuses on natural wines and beers in addition to non-alcoholic fare, but also offers a small menu of locally-sourced cheeses, charcuterie and small plates. Wine can be purchased by the glass or bottle, as prices are meant to be as affordable as possible. According to its website, a majority of CellarMasters’ stock costs less than $20 a bottle.

A St. Pete wine bar and bottle shop recently received national recognition, and it’s only been open since 2020. Last week, Wine Enthusiast magazine named The Burg’s CellarMasters as one of the best bottle shops in the country. Nate Siegel, co-owner of Hyde Park’s popular American restaurant Willa’s, shared kind words with Wine Enthusiast about the St. Pete bottle shop. No other Tampa Bay wine shops appear on the“Thelist.vibe of the bar is your uncle’s basement in the 1970s in Iowa, with hip-hop music on the speakers. There’s no food, but every first Monday they host a pop up, usually with a taco truck in the back, which is a favorite of industry friends,” he tells the magazine. He continues to shout out CellarMasters’ owners Ryan Ruggs and Kory

The building’s owner told CL that her ten ant—which owns nearby Showbar dueling Piano bar and Tangra—intends to put a new bar in the space. City of Tampa records show that the bar will be called “Southern Belle.” Chris Lenahan, who owns Showbar and Tangra, told CL that ownership is not yet ready to talk about the concept.—Colin Wolf

The location has been erased from the compa ny’s website, and the Google business page now says “permanently closed. Phone calls to the restaurant from CL also went unanswered.

The burger joint’s motto is “We’re Reclaiming Classic,” and Benson Hospitality’s Corey Rose says that the burgers “are the perfect blend of ground chuck, brisket, and short rib that don’t need anything other than classic yel low American cheese to make it one of the best burgers you’ve ever tasted.” Black Cattle Burger Co. is now open from 11 a.m.-midnight Sunday-Wednesday and 11 a.m.-3 a.m. from Thursday-Saturday. Follow its new Instagram page at @blackcattleburgers for the latest news on downtown’s newest burger spot.

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With the death of the Ybor B-Dubs, Tampa residents will now have to trek over the bridge, or to either the Brandon, South Tampa or Oldsmar locations to stack up those Blazin’ Rewards.

Taco and burrito options include steak, cho rizo, slow-cooked beef brisket or bacon with eggs, as well as scrambled tofu, sundried tomatoes, plant-based mozzarella and baby spinach as the lone vegan and vegetarian option. All tacos are served with charred tomatillo green salsa and fiery brick-orange chile de árbol salsa.

Wine Enthusiast magazine lists St. Pete’s CellarMasters as one of the best bottle shops in the country

The popular downtown wine shop is open from 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays and noon-7 p.m. on Sundays.

Lynn and their large selection of fairly-priced FrenchWinewines.Enthusiast spoke to various wine, drink and food industry professionals to create its extensive, countrywide list. CellarMasters Wine Bar and Bottle Shop joins other busi nesses like Jackson’s Corkscrew Wine and Spirits, Miami’s Happy Wine Calle Ocho and New Orleans’ Keife & Co. as some of the best wine shops in the South.

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DARWIN BREWING CO. 803 17th Ave. W., Bradenton. 941-747-1970, darwinbrewingco.com

GRINDHAUS BREW LAB 1650 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater. 727-240-0804, grindhausbrewlab.com

SOGGY BOTTOM BREWING 660 Main St., Dunedin. 727-601-1698, soggybottombrew ing.com

PYE ROAD MEADWORKS 8533 Gunn Hwy., Odessa. 813-510-3500, pyeroad.com

Help CL with this evolvinglisting. Did we miss a brewery or leave out an important detail? Email rroa@cltampa.com. Include brewery name, address, phone number and website, plus a short description of the unique offerings.

BIG STORM BREWING CO. Multiple loca tions, bigstormbrewery.com

LEAVEN BREWING 11238 Boyette Rd., Riverview. 813-677-7023, leavenbrewing.com

5 BRANCHES BREWING 531 Athens St., Tarpon Springs. fivebranchesbrewing.com

YUENGLING BREWING CO. 11111 N 30th St., Tampa. 813-972-8529, yuengling.com

SWAN BREWING 15 W Pine St., Lakeland. 863-703-0472, swanbrewing.com

POUR HOUSE 1208 E Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. 813-402-2923, pourhousetampa.com

UNREFINED BREWING 312 E Tarpon Ave., Tarpon Springs. 727-940-4822, unrefinedbrew ing.com

FOUR STACKS BREWING 5469 N. US HWY 41, Apollo Beach. 813-641-2036, fourstacks brewing.com

KING STATE 520 E Floribraska Ave., Tampa. 813-221-2100, king-state.com

SOUTHERN BREWING & WINEMAKING 4500 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa. southernbrewingwinemaking.com813-238-7800,

Lithia Pinecrest Rd., Valrico. 813-703-8835, bull frogcreekbrewing.com

CRAFT LIFE BREWING 4624 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’ Lakes. 813-575-8440. facebook. com/CraftLifeBrewing

DUNEDIN BREWERY 937 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. dunedinbrewery.com727-736-0606,

3 KEYS BREWING 2505 Manatee Ave. E., Bradenton. 951-218-0396, 3keysbrewing.com

CROOKED THUMB BREWERY 555 10th Ave. S., Safety Harbor. crookedthumbbrew.com727-724-5953,

KEEL FARMS AGRARIAN ALE + CIDER 5210 W. Thonotosassa Rd., Plant City. 813-7529100, keelandcurleywinery.com

RAPP BREWING COMPANY 10930 Endeavor Way, Seminole. 727-544-1752, rappbrewing.com

TROUBLED WATERS BREWING 670 Main St., Safety Harbor. 727-221-9973, troubledwatersbeer.com

OZONA BREWING COMPANY 315 Orange St., Palm Harbor. 920-392-9390, ozonabrewing.com

7VENTH SUN BREWING 1012 Broadway, Dunedin. 727-733-3013/6809 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa. 813-231-5900, 7venthsun.com

CIGAR CITY BREWING 3924 W. Spruce St., Tampa. 813-348-6363, cigarcitybrewing.com

DADE CITY BREW HOUSE 14323 7th St., Dade City. 352-218-3122, dadecitybrewhouse.com

ANECDOTE BREWING CO. 321 Gulf Blvd., Indian Rocks Beach. anecdotebrewing.com

FLORIDA BREWINGAVENUECO.2029

MOTORWORKSBREWING 1014 9th Street worksbrewing.com941-567-6218,Bradenton.West,motor

SIX TEN BREWING 7052 Benjamin Rd., Tampa. 813-886-0610, sixtenbrewing.com

WELTON BREWING CO. 2624 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’Lakes. 813-820-0050, thebrew craftery.com

CALUSA BREWING 5701 Derek Ave., Sarasota. 941-922-8150, calusabrewing.com

TWO LIONS WINERY & PALM HARBOR BREWERY 1022 Georgia Ave., Palm Harbor. 727-786-8039, twolionswinery.com

CALEDONIA BREWING 587 Main St., Dunedin. 727-351-5105, caledoniabrewing.com

MAD BEACH CRAFT BREWING 12945 Village Boulevard, Madeira Beach. 727-362-0008, beachbrewing.commad

CARROLLWOOD BREWING CO. 10047 N. Dale Mabry Hwy, Suite 23, Tampa. 813-969-2337

SOUTHERN LIGHTS BREWING CO. 2075 Sunnydale Blvd., Clearwater. 727-648-4314, southernlightsbrewing.com

SEA DOG BREWING 9610 Gulf Blvd., Treasure Island/ 26200 US Highway 19 N, Clearwater. 727-954-7805, seadogbrewing.com

ROCK BROTHERS BREWING 1901 N. 15th St., Ybor City. 813-241-0110, rockbrothersbrewing.com

SILVERKING BREWING CO. 325 E Lemon St., Tarpon Springs. 727-422-7598, silverking brewing.com

FRONT PAGE BREWING CO. 190 S Florida Ave., Bartow. 863-537-7249, frontpagebrew ing.com

RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER 2244 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. 727-360-0766, stpetearcadebar.com

DUNEDIN HOUSE OF BEER 927 Broadway, Dunedin. 727 dunedinhob.com216-6318,

GRAND CENTRAL BREWHOUSE 2340 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, 727-202-6071, grandcentral brew.com

TEMPLE OF BEER 1776 11th Ave. N, St. Petersburg. 727-350-3055, templeofbeer.com

LATE START BREWING 1018 E Cass St., Tampa, latestartbrewing.com

DEVIANT LIBATION 3800 N Nebraska Ave., 727-379-4677, deviantlibation.com

BREW HUB 3900 Frontage Rd. S., Lakeland. 863-698-7600, brewhub.com

BEACH ISLAND BREWERY 2058 Bayshore Blvd. Suite 5, Dunedin. 352-541-0616

CYCLE BREWING 534 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. 727-320-7954. cyclebrewing.com

EIGHT-FOOT BREWING 4417 SE 16th Place, Cape Coral. eightfootbrewing.com239-984-2655,

FLORIDA BREWERY 202 Gandy Rd., 863-965-1825Auburndale.

ST. PETE BREWING COMPANY 544 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-692-8809, stpetebrewingcompany.com

BIG TOP BREWING 6111 Porter Way, Sarasota. 941-371-2939, bigtopbrewing.com

81BAY BREWING CO. 4465 W. Gandy Blvd., Tampa. 813-837-BREW, 81baybrewco.com

Monroe’s Business Park, Westchase. 813-2471422, tbbc.beer

CLEARWATER BREWING CO. 1700 N. Fort Harrison Ave., Clearwater. clearwaterbrewing company.com

HOB BREWING CO. 931 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. hob.beer

WOODWRIGHT BREWING COMPANY 985 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. 727-238-8717, facebook.com/woodwrightbrewing WOVEN WATER BREWING CO. 456 W Columbus Drive, Tampa. 813-443-9463, woven waterbrew.com

MR. DUNDERBAK’S 14929 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa. 813-9774104, dunderbaks.com OFF THE BREWERYWAGON 2107 S Tamiami Trail, Venice. 941-497-2048, otwbar.com

OLDE FLORIDA BREWING 1158 7th St. NW, Largo. 727-2298010, facebook.com/oldefloridabrew

TIDAL BREWING COMPANY 14311 Spring Hill Dr., Spring Hill. 352-701-1602, tidalbrewingfl.com

PINELLAS ALE WORKS 1962 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-235-0970, pawbeer.com

ARKANE ALEWORKS 2480 E. Bay Dr., #23, Largo. 727-270-7117, arkanebeer.com

BOOTLEGGERS BREWING CO. 652 Oakfield Dr., Brandon. 813-643-9463, bootleggers brewco.com

DISSENT CRAFT BREWING CO. 5518 Haines Rd. N., St. Petersburg. 727-3420255. dissentcraftbrewingfacebook.com/

3 CAR GARAGE 8405 Heritage Green Way, Bradenton. 941-741-8877, 3cargaragebrew ing.com

CORPORATE LADDER BREWING COMPANY 4935 96th St. E, Palmetto. 941-4794799, corporateladderbrewing.square.site

BRIGHTER DAYS BREW CO. 311 N Safford Ave., Tarpon Springs. 7272-940-2350

DE BINE BREWING CO. 933 Florida Ave., Palm Harbor. 727-233-7964.

TAP THIS! BAR AND BREWING CO. 10730 US-19, Port Richey. 727-378-4358, tapthisbar.com

Arrowgrass Dr., Wesley Chapel. 813-452-6333, flori daavebrewing.com

BAYBORO BREWING CO. 2390 5th Ave. S, St. Petersburg. 727-767-9666, bayborobrewing.com

CAGE BREWING 2001 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-201-4278

INFUSION BREWING CO. 6345 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. 7272-484-4757

IF I BREWED THE WORLD 2200 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-201-4484, ifibrewedtheworld.com

PEPPER BREWING 9366 Oakhurst Rd., Seminole. 727-596-5766, angrypeppertap house.com

SARASOTA BREWING COMPANY 6607 Gateway Ave., Sarasota. 941-925-2337, sarasotabrewing.com

THREE BULLS TAVERN & BREWERY 4330 Bell Shoals Road, Valrico. 813-381-3853, threebullstavern.com

BREWINGMAGNANIMOUS 1410 Florida Ave., imousbrewing.com813-415-3671,Tampa.magnan

ZEPHYRHILLS BREWING COMPANY 38530 5th Ave., Zephyrhills. 813-715-2683, zbcbeer.com

COMMERCE BREWING 521 Commerce Drive S, Largo. commercebrewing@gmail.com

COTEE RIVER BREWING 5760 Main St., New Port Richey. 727-807-6806, coteeriver brewing.com

GOOD LIQUID BREWING CO. 4824 14th St. W., Bradenton. 941-896-6381, thegoodliquid brewing.com

ZYDECO BREW WERKS 902 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City. 813-252-4541, facebook.com/ zydecobrewwerks

GULFPORT BREWERY + EATERY 3007 Beach Blvd., Tampa. facebook.com/GulfportBrewery

LAGERHAUS BREWERY & GRILL 3438 East Lake Business, Palm Harbor. 727-216-9682, lagerhausbrewery.com

CUENI BREWING CO. 945 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. 727-266-4102, cuenibrewing.com

AVID BREWING 1745 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-388-6756, avidbrew.com

HIDDEN SPRINGS ALE WORKS 1631 N. Franklin St., Tampa, hiddenspringsaleworks.com813-226-2739,

BREW LIFE BREWING 5765 S. Beneva Rd., Sarasota. 941-952-3831, brewlifebrewing.com

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THE WILD ROVER BREWERY 13921 Lynmar Blvd., Tampa. 813-475-5995, thewildroverbrew ery.com

COPPERTAIL BREWING CO. 2601 E. 2nd Ave., Tampa. 813-247-1500, coppertailbrewing.com

LIQUID GARAGE CO. 1306 Seven Springs Blvd., New Port Richey. 727-645-5885. theliquidgarage.com

IN THE LOOP BREWING 3338 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’ Lakes. 813-997-9189, intheloopbrewingcompany.com

BAY CANNON BEER CO. 2106 W Main St., Tampa. 813-442-5615, baycannon.com

ANGRY CHAIR 6401 N. Florida Ave., Seminole Heights. 813-238-1122, angrychairbrewing.com

BASTET 1951 E Adamo Dr. Suite B, Tampa. bastetbrewing.com

BULLFROG CREEK BREWING CO. 3632

OVERFLOW BREWING 70 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-914-0665, facebook.com/ overflowbrewingco

TBBC 1600 E 8th Ave., Ybor City/13933

ULELE SPRING BREWERY 1810 N. Highland Ave., Tampa. 813-999-4952, ulele.com

DENTED KEG ALE WORKS 5500 Main St., New Port Richey. 727-232-2582, dentedkegaleworks.com

3 DAUGHTERS BREWING 222 22nd St. S., St. Petersburg. 727-495-6002, 3dbrewing.com

GREEN BENCH BREWING COMPANY 1133 Baum Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-800-9836, greenbenchbrewing.com

MARKER 48 12147 Cortez Blvd, Weeki Wachee. marker48.com352-606-2509, MASTRY’S BREWING CO. 7701 Blind Pass Rd., St. Pete 727-202-8045,Beach.mastrysbrewingco.com

SCOTTY’S BIERWORKS 901 East Industrial Circle, Cape Coral. 239-888-5482, scottysbierworks.net

PESKY PELICAN BREW PUB 923 72nd. St. N., St. Petersburg. 727-302-9600, peskypelicanbrewpub.com

ESCAPE BREWING CO. 9945 Trinity Blvd., Suite 108, brewingcompany.com727-807-6092,Trinity.escape

COPP WINERY & BREWERY 7855 W Gulf Lake Highway, Crystal River. 352-228-8103, cop pbrewery.com

STILT HOUSE BREWERY 625 U.S. Hwy Alt. 19, Palm Harbor. 727-270-7373, stilthousebrewery.com

TWO FROGS BREWING COMPANY 151 E. Tarpon Ave., Tarpon Springs. facebook.com/twofrogsbrewing727-940-6077,

BARRIEHAUS BEER CO. 1403 E 5th Ave., Ybor City. barriehaus.com

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Pinellas

Imagine Museum 1901 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. imaginemuseum.com

Ringling Museum 5401 Bay Shore Rd., Sarasota. ringling.org

Rollins Museum of Art 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park. rollins.edu/rma

Beyond

Come See Me: Tampa MuseumsBay

Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum 100 Beekman Ln., Tarpon Springs. tarponarts.org

Ybor City Museum State Park 1818 E 9th Ave., Ybor City. floridastateparks.org

Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg 255 Beach Dr. NE, St. Petersburg. mfastpete.org St. Petersburg Museum of History 335 2nd Ave NE, St. Petersburg. spmoh.com

The Dalí 1 Dali Blvd., St. Petersburg. thedali.org

Museum of Science & Industry 4801 E Fowler Ave., Tampa. mosi.org

J.C. Newman Cigar Company 2701 N 16th St., Ybor City. jcnewman.com

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Tampa Museum of Art 120 W Gasparilla Plaza., Tampa. tampamuseum.org

Dunedin Fine Art Center 1143 Michigan Blvd., Dunedin. dfac.org

Fairgrounds 800 28th St. S, St. Petersburg. fairgrounds.art

Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th St S, St. Petersburg. thefhm.org

Morean Arts Center 719 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. moreanartscenter.org

Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum 2240 9th Ave S, St. Petersburg. woodsonmuseum.org

Tampa Bay History Center 801 Water St., Tampa. tampabayhistorycenter.org

Great Explorations Children’s Museum 1925 4th St N, St. Petersburg. greatex.org

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts 400 North Ashley Dr., Tampa. fmopa.org Glazer Children’s Museum 110 W Gasparilla Plaza., Tampa. glazermuseum.org Henry B. Plant Museum 401 W Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. plantmuseum.com

Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement 355 4th Street N, St. Petersburg. museumaacm.org

Polk Museum of Art 800 E Palmetto St., Lakeland. polkmuseumofart.org

Hillsborough

Tampa Bay is home to more museums than we can list. But whether you’re new to the area or just looking to reconnect with the gallery scene, here are some of the big’uns. Make sure to contact each museum to get the most updated health and safety protocols.

The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art 150 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. thejamesmuseum.org

By Kyla Fields

f anyone in the Tampa Bay area still has their frayed Blockbuster card, there’s a Pinellas Park business created with you in mind. Adorned with those familiar yellow walls and blue carpet, several shelves worth of DVDs and movie posters at every corner, Beerbusters is a nostalgia-driven space that appeals to film buffs, craft beer-lovers and nerdsBeerbusters,alike. recentlyopened at 6836 N Park Blvd., is stocked with hundreds of movies, a craft beer bar, a kitchen that will dish out movie snacks, and lots of seat ing. There’s even a “haunted hallway” to the bathroom that features old horror movie posters and a handmade coffin shelf that holds a multitude of spooky films available for rent. Beerbusters passed its final inspection about two weeks ago and officially soft opened on Friday, Sept. 2 after almost two years in the making.

the following weekend on Sept. 24. Beerbusters t-shirts, magnets, pins and other merchandise will be available for sale alongside its craft brews, DVD rentals, and movie snacks.

Beerbusters was initially located in Largo but after starting the opening process, Dieli says the city wouldn’t approve his business because it was in close proximity to a church-owned prop erty. Largo municipal code prohibits the sale of alcohol within 300 feet of any church, countylicensed child care facility or public school

Bustin’ out

“There’s not really a theme with the movies that I’ll rent out, everything is just going to be a little nerdy and feature the things I’m really into,” co-owner William Dieli, one of the store’s two employ ees, tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “I really focus on movies that I like person ally, because they’re easier to talk about.” Dieli operates the newly-opened Pinellas Park business with his girl friend Rachel Smith, who crafted Beerbusters’ haunted hallway alongside other kitschy cor ners of the space.

“There’s not really a theme with the movies that I rent out, everything is just going to be a little nerdy.”

site, although a bar was previously open out of the same building before Dieli moved in. Dieli originally wanted to open Beerbusters in St. Petersburg, but was deterred by expensive rent.

Follow Beerbusters on Facebook and Instagram for the latest news on its upcoming soft opening, both at @beerbustersmoviebar. Beerbusters is now open from 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 2 p.m.-midnight on Friday, noon-midnight on Saturdays and noon-8 p.m. on Sunday.

He worked at a Tampa Blockbuster on the corner of Hillsborough Avenue and N 22nd Street from 2002-2009, and still has his origi nal membership card.The last Blockbuster in Hillsborough County remained open until 2013, but the very last Florida location of the oncepopular movie rental store closed in Fort Pierce in 2015. The last remaining Blockbuster in the country, located in Bend, Oregon, can now be rented as an Airbnb. And although Dieli is fol lowing in the footsteps of his previous employer,

Dieli tells CL that the movie rental aspect is secondary to the craft beer, movie snacks, games and chill atmosphere that Beerbusters provides.The store’s massive movie stock mainly came from Dieli and his family member’s per sonal DVD collections. The hundreds of films range from mid-2000s comedies to superhero action movies and complete seasons of popular TV shows. It will cost $1 a day to rent any movie in the store, but he also plans to offer a movie pass, where folks can rent an unlimited amount of movies for $10 a month. And yes, you’ll be charged $1 for every day that you don’t return the rented Beerbusters’movie.“Grayskull” kitchen—a homage to the popular fantasy roleplaying game— will dish out movie snacks like popcorn, hot dogs and pizza rolls. The bar’s tap list features local brews alongside canned and bottled imports, wines and seltzers. After his business is fully up and running, Dieli also plans to expand the menu to offer more made-to-order dishes.

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BE KIND: There’s no need to rewind DVDs.

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Nostalgic movie rental bar Beerbusters is now open in Pinellas Park.

there will be aspects of Beerbusters that are completely unique.

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In addition to movie rentals and its craft beer bar, the Pinellas Park business will host events like movie watching parties, Dungeons and Dragons nights and other media-focused gath erings. Video games hooked up on Beerbusters’ various TVs allow customers to play while sip ping on craft brews. The newly-opened business hosts its first event on Saturday, Sept. 17 to celebrate national Batman Day (one of Dieli’s favorite series), as well as a grand opening party

National Batman Day at Beerbusters

“I want to have beers on tap from local breweries like Magnanimous and Angry Chair, some of the more pop ular spots around here,” Dieli says. Currently, Beerbusters features local brews like Magnanimous’ Juice Lord and Critical Haze IPAs on tap, along side cans of Ology Brewing’s Rainbow Colored Glasses sour and Woven Water’s Oculus IPA.

Saturday, Sept. 17. Noon-midnight 6836 N Park Blvd., Pinellas @beerbustersmoviebarPark

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Once-Tampa-based actor J. Elijah Cho is return ing to town for limited performances of his satirical play “Mr. Yunioshi,” at freeFall Theatre. Tickets to any one of the five performances of “Mr. Yunioshi”at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sept. 15-18 start at $20.

Attendees can take part in more than 50 panel discussions, visit almost 100 vendors, par ticipate in events like “Anime Jeopardy,” com pete in cosplay contests and a lip sync competi tion and even enjoy a TikTok film festival. But the biggest draw, Caruthers said, is the six big-name anime voice actors who will be fea tured at the convention. Featured actors include Aaron Dismuke, known for work in “My Hero Academia,” “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Dr. Stone” and Ryan Bartley, who voices characters in “Hunter x Hunter,” “Demon Slayer” and “Neon Genesis Evangelion.” Actors Bryson Baugus, Chris Guerrero, Jill Harris and Dallas Reid will also be Caruthersfeatured.saidthe intention is to make this an annual event, so Anime St. Pete can continue bringing the city the anime hub it’s never had.

Cho, who got his start in several Tampa the aters, has appeared as the character Wonderboy in the AMC series “Halt & Catch Fire,” per formed in comedy musicals at Second City Hollywood and made his drag debut as “Scarlet Chohanson” at the Los Angeles Pack Theater.

Because you’ll never shine if you don’t glow, an actual Shrek rave will bring its “Swamps Across America” tour to Tampa this winter. On Dec. 2, the internet viral rave-turnedcross-country-tour is making a stop at the newly-relocated Orpheum at 14802 N Nebraska Ave. in North Tampa.

overs of all things fantasy, action and anima tion will soon have a signature event in St. Petersburg with the city’s very first anime convention happening this weekend. Tickets to Anime St. Pete happening Sept. 17-18 at the Coliseum in downtown start at $28 and are available now. There’s a $28 single-day pass and $43 for the weekend. VIP passes are available for $128, which give early access both days, access to the VIP party Saturday night and a gift bag. Prices increase by $5 on Sept. 16.

And to the haters asking why, the rave’s spiel replies, “It’s dumb just come have fun!”

The 18 and up, “rain or shine,” show will open doors at 9 p.m. featuring ogre-themed DJ sets, green glow sticks and a gathering place for like-minded, ‘Shrek’loving individuals. Though a current nationwide phenomenon, the Shrekthemed celebration began as a birthday party for North Carolina native rapper and known meme lord, Ka5ash, in Los Angeles. When the rapper posted a flier for the event on his Instagram (@ka5ash) in February, the caption read, “shrek rave is upon us i’ve been trying to do this for 2 years now and nothing is gonna stop us at this point.”

A ‘Shrek’-themed rave is coming to Tampa

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Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 17-18. 10 a.m. $28 & up The Coliseum. 535 4th Ave. N, St. animestpete.floridacomiccons.comPetersburg

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“Who cares,” each flyer for the rave says. “Cool is dead!”—Molly Ryan

Anime St. Pete

However, the post detailed that the rave was no longer a birthday celebration, but a fundraiser for his sister and family. After the original St. Patrick’s Day rave in LA experienced viral success and appearances from celebri ties and influencers like rapper Rico Nasty, Ka5ash planned another rave in New York. And then another in LA. And then San Francisco, Portland, Chicago and the rest is history. Now, Shrek Rave is slated to host over 30 shows in cities across the nation, with more dates to be added.While the $15 general admission tickets are already sold-out, the $20 tier tickets are still available for purchase on eventbrite.com. Tickets are nonrefundable and nontransferable. If you miss the rave in Tampa, fear not, tickets for the Orlando rave go on sale next month.

explores Rooney’s character in the original film and begs the questions, “What compels an actor to play a character that they really shouldn’t be playing?” through clever satire and humor.

St. Pete’s first anime convention, plus more A&E happenings.

The convention is being put on by the same organizers of this year’s St. Pete Comic Con— another first for the city—which organizers say sold more than 3,500 tickets. Almost every other major Florida city already has anime conventions, said convention organizer Dewey Caruthers.“Itputs St. Pete on the map,” Caruthers told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “We’re coming out as a first year convention very strong in terms of our offerings to attendees.”

The play, which won best solo show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, features Cho as Mickey Rooney, the white actor infamous for his racist character in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Cho

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By Chloe Greenberg

Cartoon con

Tampa expat J. Elijah Cho brings his awardwinning comedy ‘Mr. Yunioshi’ to St. Pete’s freeFall Theatre

J Stage Theatre at the JCC on the Cohn Campus Professionally directed by Vivid Theatre Productions

Generously sponsored by Gemunder Family Foundation and supported by the Manners Family and the Jewish Book Council

In partnership with the Jewish Fertility Foundation and the Tampa PJ Library Program

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Tickets, All-Access Pass and event details can be found at JewishTampa.com/ACMiniFest Mark your calendar for the next mini-fest: December 15-18, 2022

Tess and AJ meet cute in the dank, subterranean maze that exists beneath the rental property that AJ owns, where 40 years before another man named Frank (Richard Brake) started collecting women to be his con jugal incubators…wait, hold on, that’s giving a little too much away.

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CW: The next passage alludes to sexual assault.

‘Barbarian’ is the craziest, goriest theatrical release of the year so far.

IN DIALOGUE UNEXPECTED CONVERSATIONSVISUAL ON VIEW THROUGH JUNE 25, 2023 Kon Trubkovich (b. 1979), I walked to find you grey, 2015, Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 in. Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of Adrian M. Turner, New York, 2017.14.3. © Courtesy of the Artist and Morán Morán MULTIPLE PRINCE SEVEN-SEVENTWINS ON VIEW JANUARYTHROUGH15,2023 Prince Twins Seven-Seven, African Princess in Culture Shock on a Visit to NY (detail), 1974, Etching on paper, Gift of Irwin and Marcia Hersey EXPLORE THE VAULTS CABINET PICTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 4, 2022 GIO SWABY FRESH UP ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 9, 2022

What I can tell you is that Cregger makes masterful use of light and darkness, and he deftly navigates some cramped confines to generate maximum unease. He writes with a propulsive flair that keeps his movie moving forward with purpose even as you struggle to acclimate to its slippery narrative slope.

AIR-BRB: Tess (Georgina Campbell) should’ve walked away from that rental immediately.

Facing career suicide and financial ruin, AJ remembers that he owns property in Detroit, which makes you immediately think that this is going to become some horror movie about white male privilege and violent comeuppance

when the prodigal asshole returns home. If only “Barbarian” were that easy to describe or evenEventually,define.

Part of the joy of discovery in “Barbarian” is not having a clue about the plot of “Barbarian” prior to the movie starting. And part of the rea son that “Barbarian” proves so confounding is that even after watching it, you still don’t know a damn thing about the plot.

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But then “Barbarian” pivots unexpectedly from the ravaged residential ruins of Michigan to the sun-kissed beaches of California to suddenly focus on AJ (Justin Long), a schmuck-y TV director whose career gets #MeToo’d. You know you’re not supposed to feel bad for AJ because he says stupid things, like “it took some convinc ing,” when asked if his sexual tryst with the actress accusing him of rape was consensual.

By John W. Allman

This is a movie that opens on Tess (Georgina Campbell) as she arrives at her Airbnb rental in a terrible neighborhood outside of Detroit, only to find it occupied by Keith (Bill Skarsgård). Keith acts so weird and awkward that you immediately think, “OK, this is going to be some kind of crazy timeshare slasher flick like Dave Franco’s not-scary-at-all ‘The Rental’ or Brandon Christensen’s considerably more unhinged ‘Superhost.’”

Best of all, it’s not giving anything away to share that the deranged third act of “Barbarian” includes some of the most insane and stom ach-churning practical effects work in recent memory, and for at least the diehard horror fans, that right there is enough. For everyone else, you’re just going to have to trust me. “Barbarian” may not make a lick of sense, but it is brutal AF and entertaining as hell.

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ike some bastard abomination that escaped from captivity, Zach Cregger’s first solo ven ture, “Barbarian,” is the craziest, goriest, most what-the-fuck-iest theatrical release thus far in 2022. I still don’t know exactly what I watched, but I know that I would watch it again.

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C Pup w/Palehound/The OBGMs Next month, Pup releases a new live EP, Pup Unravels Live In Front Of Everyone They Know, which the Toronto band recorded across several

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C Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band This is one of those rare years where both surviving Beatles will have performed in Florida. Paul McCartney caused tears and adrenaline to flow in Orlando back in May, and Ringo Starr’s very sold-out, thrice-postponed Clearwater show finally drops into Ruth Eckerd Hall on Friday. The gig was supposed to happen over the summer, but Edgar Winter and Steve Lukather—both members of the current AllStarr Band—came down with COVID-19. Also included in the 82-year-old goofy one’s regi ment is Hamish Stuart of Average White Band, Men At Work’s Colin Hay (who has already been to Clearwater twice this year) as well as Toto touring saxophonist Warren Ham, and David Lee Roth drummer Gregg Bissonette. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)

High Road Pale Ale Release Party: Have Gun, Will Travel/FayRoy Bay area Americana favorite HGWT has a new EP on the way (Silver Sounds EP due Sept. 30) and now has a fresh batch of signature beer to toast with. Named for the band’s 2013 single, “High Road” is a hoppy pale ale that was initially released nearly a decade ago. It relaunches at this listening room show along side some of Indian Rocks Beach’s sexiest collection of goth-rock surfers, Fayroy. (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City)

Greg Koch A guitarist’s guitarist, Milwaukee native Koch has a never-ending bag of tricks that borrows from Albert King and Hendrix. The work even earned him fans like Steve Vai who released Koch’s 2001 album The Grip on his own Favored Nations imprint. For this gig, his Koch Marshall Trio will go to church with a set of bluesy jazz and funk-rock. (Side Door Cabaret at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg)

The Fixx For a rock group that recently celebrated 40 years since inception, The Fixx is still very intact. Four out of five original members still hit the stage and appear on this summer’s Every Five Seconds , the band’s first new album in a decade. For the second time since live music has been considered “back,” the group that graced us with “One Thing Leads to Another” tears down the Cap where tickets are borderline sold-out. (Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater)

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C 808 Club feat. Jordan Patrick/ Jubilee/Wally Rios/DJ Dredd Mes McDonald is one of Tampa Bay’s foremost connoisseurs of beat culture, and this weekend his Lab City collective teams up with DIY promoter Liquid Love to bring together some of the city’s best producers who’ll play a free shindig featuring original work and mixes in between live sets from Jordan Patrick (aka Jxpvtty), Jubilee and Wally Rios. (Corner Club, Tampa)

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Delta Heavy w/Bensely It’s been a productive summer for UK-based EDM duo Ben Hall and Simon James, aka Delta Heavy. There have been gigs in Australia, a video for “Heaven,” plus this U.S. tour. While “Heaven”—a new single with Jem Cooke—is not ultra upbeat, it would probably make a really great show closer if it weren’t so new. It’s less dubstep-oriented, and more of a nod to synthpop, if anything. (The Ritz, Ybor City)

The busy last week in live, local jazz wraps with this free show from Brazilian six-piece O Som Do Jazz, which promises to play new works of samba, Bossa Nova and Baião. (Music Center at St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg)

Rhythm & Brews By The Bay: Gin Blossoms w/Andrew Copeland After a two-year hiatus and a slight name change, The Florida Aquarium finally brings back one of Tampa’s best philanthropic parties. Gin Blossoms is no stranger to the area, as the five-piece band brought its notable songs like “Hey Jealousy” and “Til I Hear it From You” to St. Pete’s Palladium Theater just last fall. And although the alt-rock band has released a slew of music since the early ‘90s, some of its most popular singles are still from its 1992 LP, New Miserable Experience. Opening is Ken Block and Andrew Copeland of Florida-based band Sister Hazel, who will kick things off with an acoustic set. (Florida Aquarium, Tampa)—Kyla Fields

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Master P founded the independent No Limit Records in the early-‘90s before it went on to include artists like Snoop Dogg, Mercedes Silk the Shocker, Mystikal, Mia X, Soulja

hometown shows earlier this year. Ahead of that, Tampa Bay fans—who’ve watched the punk outfit outgrow venues like Crowbar and Orpheum on the way to this gig at St. Pete’s largest outdoor venue—can get a taste of the chaos. Get there early, too, to catch Ellen Kempner’s band Palehound, which just played Jannus last summer. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)

C Come Together 3: Monk w/Brian Busto/Alen P/Skyler Devries Ybor City’s emerging PTL night club has a busy week that includes TikTok K-pop style boy band The North Star Boys (5:30 p.m.), plus this throwback “Come Together” show (9 p.m.) featuring legends of Tampa Bay’s dance music scene (Monk, co-founder of the Hallucination Before Christmas; Brian Busto of Serious Soul). Hip-hop heads might want to be on the lookout for a still-unannounced appearance next week, too… (PTL, Ybor City)

Still outraged by those Bruce Springsteen ticket prices? We are too, but a longtime buddy of the Boss’ is dropping into Tampa’s Hard Rock Event Center for the first time ever next Thursday. John “Southside Johnny” Lyon also had a major influence on Jon Bon Jovi, so there’s really no pondering as to why the 73-year-old—who plays Florida just about every year—is a pioneer of the Jersey sound. $25 tickets are still available, which is a hell of a lot better than $200 to look at Springsteen’s ass from up high for three-and-ahalf hours. (Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)

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Wilderado Fans of Mt. Joy might want to consider a night out to see the group’s musi cal brethren, Wilderado, which has blended its Tulsa-born alt-rock with the folky Laurel Canyon sensibilities of its current home town, Los Angeles. Wilderado opened for Mt. Joy last spring, but this time arrives to headline a tour supporting its own, selftitled album. Great Lakes State songwriter Jason Singer (aka Michigander) was sup posed to open the show, but broke his leg, so it’ll be a surprise to see who kicks things off. (Crowbar, Ybor City)

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—Chloe Greenberg

Shwayze w/Icroniq Shwayze SZN kicked off earlier this month, with the release of the latest album by SoCal rapper, actor and musician Aaron Smith, a Warped Tourdarling who’s been working the Bay area since he brought his breakout LP Buzzin to St. Petersburg. The 37-year-old is at New World this weekend as the venue’s music hall continues to expand its embrace of hip-hop. (New World Brewery, Tampa)

This year, punk funk trio Pilot Jonezz made it to New York City’s Berlin, an indie-rock bar that showcased “the hottest emerging art ists & bands in premium locations around the city.” This weekend, the self-styled FunkadelicRadiohead hybrid takes a stage much closer to home, along with House of I side band Blonde Gentlemen—a COVID-19 project that recently made its live debut—and indie psych-surf group Foncy. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)

Slim and more. After 20 years, the collective comes together for a reunion tour to cel ebrate the No Limit legacy. “It’s not about us. It’s about the fans. We want to salute them for supporting the No Limit movement,” Master P said. (Yuengling Center, Tampa)

The Sol Exhibit: Brunch Edition w/ Samuel Rashad/Scxtt Aye/Lex Deveaux Sol, the brainchild of Tampa music power couple Jinx and Shelby Sol, goes into brunch mode for this installment of its recurring creators summit where live music—this time singer-songwriters Samuel Rashad and Lex Deveaux, plus rapper Scxtt Aye—meets local vendors for the ultimate expression of com munity. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)

C Lamb of God w/Killswitch Engage/ Baroness/Suicide Silence The last time Lamb of God played Tampa, the heavy metal legend opened for Slayer. This weekend, the band gets to headline the same venue, with its own brutally-heavy supporting cast of bands opening, specifically Killswitch Engage, Baroness and Suicide Silence. Lamb of God’s tour supports a forthcoming album, Omens , due Oct. 7. Blabbermouth says it could perhaps be “the band’s angriest album yet.” (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)

Palaye Royale w/Mod Sun Avril Lavigne’s fiancee was the only act at last year’s 97X NBT to request the formation of a mosh pit. “If you see anyone on the fucking ground, pick ‘em up!” he demanded. The 35-yearold also made his crowd pinky-promise that we’d come back to see him the next time he dropped into town. Nine months later, who the hell are we to break a promise to Mod Sun? The flamboyant, eclectic emcee-slashsongwriter opens for Palaye Royale’s first Tampa Bay show since 2018’s Warped Tour. (The Ritz, Ybor City)

If you have tickets for Brendon Urie’s— err, Panic! At The Disco’s—show at Amalie Arena next month, The Ritz is hosting an unofficial warmup of sorts. I Dont Know How But They Found Me (stylized “iDK HOW”)—featuring ex-Panic touring member and Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! -era co-songwriter Dallon Weekes, and Falling In Reverse drummer Ryan Seaman—has had a rough few weeks thanks to Weekes’ bout with laryngitis, but he’s feeling slightly bet ter, and even conducted a karaoke night during the L.A stop of this tour where the crowd sang most everything. (The Ritz, Ybor City)

C Johanna Warren w/Julia Powell/ Laverty Despite it not being Pisces sea son, our ears will still be at attention when Warren plays “Piscean Lover” and any thing, really, from her forthcoming sixth studio LP, Lessons for Mutants (due Oct. 7).

C Wu-Tang Clan & Nas Tampa Bay might want to gear up for a true Wu-Tang Wednesday, which kicks off when GZA heads to Dunedin to play chess (yes, you read that right) with fans at The Moontower before jetting off to play a big show at Tampa’s old Gary amphitheater 30 miles away (how he plans to get around traffic is another mystery of chessboxin’). While Method Man isn’t on the tour this time thanks to a scheduling conflict with a movie taping, the gig includes legendary Queens rapper Nas, who is more than a consola tion prize. Don’t be surprised if members of the Clan show up somewhere for an afterparty either. (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)

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Beloved Bay area punk promoter Chewy Hemphill (aka Savage Beat) welcomes back Off With Their Heads, a favorite of Florida punk-rock bacchanal The Fest. The group, which released acoustic and live albums in 2020, was supposed to play Crowbar last year, but ended up canceling when the Delta vari ant surged in the free state of Florida. “Even though I believe most people that come to the shows are vaccinated, we don’t want to head to an area that is struggling with hospital capacity,” the band wrote at the time. We’ve lost track of which coronavirus strain the Sunshine State is on these days, but you’re going to kick yourself in the crotch if you miss this headlining set preceded by Busy Weather, a self-professed purveyor of “muppet punk and goblin pop,” plus local favorites Rutterkin and City Mouse. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)

Joywave w/iDKHOW/Savannah Conley

C Pink Turns Blue w/Sleeping Pills/ Layne Lyre Lurk Records is a good home for A Bend In Time , the new album from Tampa post-punk and new wave outfit Sleeping Pills. The group—fronted by Phil Taylor—wrote the eight-track outing during the pandemic and emerged with a beach-goth-approved collection of weird guitar and dance floor-ready bass lines for fans of The Cramps, Dick Dale and Joy Division. We’re hoping Fjshwjfe’s Kate Magruder makes it onstage for a performance of album highlight “Hole In the Heart” at this show headlined by German heavyweight of the genre Pink Turns Blue, which is on the road supporting its 2021 album, Tainted . (Crowbar, Ybor City)

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Johanna Warren

Just that song and the album’s lead single “I’d Be Orange” are out in the ether, but a press release promises the most dynamic,

shapeshifting work from the St. Petersburgborn, classically-trained songwriter who quarantined in rural Wales, which she now calls home. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)

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C Alicia Keys Hard Rock’s event center very quickly proved itself as a serious con cert venue, and some show announcements continue to bolster this newfound reputation. In 2020, Grammy award-winning R&B singer Keys made plans to headline Hard Rock’s 1,500 capacity venue. One pandemic and two epony mous studio albums later, the badass behind “You Don’t Know My Name” finally arrives for the third-to-last stop on her world tour. The show is long sold-out, so either go have a great time, or forever stare at overpriced resale tickets on StubHub. (Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)—KF

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release, True Love , but also dip into material from the band’s new EP, Billboard For My Feelings , which gave fans more of the slowcore-leaning indie-rock quiet storm followers have grown to love and cry to. Girlpuppy is supporting her debut fulllength, When I’m Alone , due Oct. 28, which was produced by Slow Pulp’s Henry Stoehr and Alex G guitarist Sam Acchione.

Intern John’s Lost Saturday, Nov. 5. 8 p.m. $15-$25. Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg

Loathe w/Static Dress/Omerta/ Paledusk Tuesday, Dec. 6. 6:30 p.m. $18. Orpheum, Tampa

Debbie Gibson Thursday, Dec. 15. 8 p.m. $30-$75. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater

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Bowzer’s Holiday Rock ‘N’ Roll Party feat. Peter Noone/Gary U.S. Bonds/ Dennis Tufano/Joey Dee/more Saturday, Dec. 17. 7:30 p.m. $41.75 & up. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater

Emo Lite: Bill w/Sorry Barb/Aidan Polly Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m. No cover. Jug & Bottle, Tampa

Genitorturers w/Living Dead Girl/TBA Friday, Oct. 21. 7 p.m. Prices TBA. Brass Mug, Tampa

Daikaiju w/Prince Midnight/TBA Monday, Oct. 24. 7:30 p.m. $15. Hooch and Hive, Tampa

There’ll be no place to hide your tears when Hovvdy plays Tampa this fall. The Austin, Texas folk-rock duo announced a seven-date tour of the South today, and tickets to see Hovvdy play an all-ages, early show (5 p.m.) at Crowbar in Tampa, Florida on Sunday, Nov. 13 go on sale Friday, Sept. 16 at 10 a.m. for $15-$18. Girlpuppy, the project of Atlanta songwriter Becca Harvey, opens the show.

The Urbane Cowboys w/The Easy Button/Quaint Delusions/Growler Friday, Nov. 11. 8 p.m. $10. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa

Greylan James (opening for Ryan Griffin) Friday, Dec. 2. 8 p.m $18. Crowbar, Ybor City

Hovvdy, made up of Charlie Martin and Will Taylor, will likely play songs from its 2021

The Wailers Tuesday, Oct. 18. 7 p.m. $19.50-$59.99. The Ritz, Ybor City

Eric Rachmany w/Cydeways Saturday, Jan. 14. 7 p.m. $29.50. Orpheum, Tampa

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Machine Head Tuesday, Dec. 13. 7 p.m. $29.50. Orpheum, Tampa

Kimberly Overman’s Leadership Matters Concert and Campaign Fundraiser feat. Shevonne Tuesday, Sept. 27. 5:30 p.m. $15. Crowbar, Ybor City

Chimes w/Spanish Needles/Deaf Company Friday, Sept. 16. 9 p.m. No cover. The Nest at St. Pete Brewing Co., St. Petersburg

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Capstan w/In Her Own Words/Cherie Amour/Shallow Pools Tuesday, Nov. 22. 6 p.m. $18. Orpheum, Tampa

Emo Night Tampa: Folktale San Pedro w/Brother Cephus/0 Miles Per Hour/ Sportsmode Saturday, Oct. 1, 9 p.m. No cover. Crowbar, Ybor City

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Gay kinky sub here and after quite a few years of meeting guys in bars, online, apps, etc., I’m questioning if there are…

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According to ABC News, fewer and fewer people these days do want to be teachers. There are 300,000 teacher and school staff vacancies in the United States right now, a situation the Washington Post describes as “catastrophic,” with red states and Trump counties experiencing the worst shortages. Which should come as no sur prise to anyone who’s been paying attention, as red states and rural areas are overrun with precisely

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But to find them you’re going to have to get on the apps, TACO, which may mean getting out of your small town.

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I don’t want another apple-themed gift. I want my pussy licked.—Teacher After Cunnilingus Only

the kind of deranged Trump supporters and other assorted conspiracy theorists who keep attacking teachers and school librarians and administrators.

Schooled me once

Why would anyone want to be a teacher these days? Outraged parents, shit pay, shittier gover nors, racist demagoguery, book bans, “don’t say gay” laws… and on top of all that, not being free to look for sex where everyone else does these days—on the apps—because you might get spot ted by a parent who is also looking for sex on the apps and then get attacked at a school board meeting that makes the local news and goes viral and then have to endure a month of death threats after getting dragged on Libs of TikTok and Fox News.

wondered whether you might prefer a woman to a man, seeing as you never really cared for dick.

There is more to this week’s Savage Love. To read the entire column, go to savage.love. I’m a 38-year-old cis het woman who is also a public high school teacher in a small town. After a string of unsatisfying relationships in my 20s, I realized that I’ve only experienced sexual plea sure without a partner. Despite being excited by the idea of partnered sex, once there’s a dick inside me, I hate it. Only one thing still seemed appeal ing: receiving oral sex. I’d love that with someone skilled. By age 33, I gave up dating since finding a partner only interested in going down on me seemed both impossible and selfish. I put all my energy into my career, my family, and my com munity. After years of fighting the fascism that is gaining hold in our public schools, I’m burnt out and my standard self-care routines aren’t cut ting it. I’m considering seeking companionship once again. Is there an easy way to find a partner interested in eating me out but not (or only rarely) anything else? I know the best options are the apps but there are parents as well as former students on those. I already have a target on my back as a liberal teacher. I can’t afford to get caught seeking sex online and the time and energy to date before disclosing my sexual preference sounds exhausting.

But there are shortages of teachers in more progressive places too, TACO, which means you could easily get a job in a big city in a blue state. Not only would you be less likely to be spotted on the apps by a parent with a kid in your school in a blue state (because there a lot more people on the apps in big cities), you would also be far less likely to be attacked by a parent who did spot you on an app. (Less likely to get attacked, more likely to get licked.) And just as the gov ernors of blue states think you should be able to teach about, oh, slavery and redlining and segrega tion and Jim Crow (and the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese intern ment camps during WWII and the Trail of Tears and on and on), most blue state governors would be fine with you getting your pussy licked—on your own time, by other consenting adults—if that’s what you want.

Hoping to get some tips from other teachers, I shared your email on Twitter. Suggestions ranged from getting on FetLife, which can be a problem atic place, to checking out—and perhaps posting on—the r/RandomActsOfMuffDive subreddit on Reddit. And more than a few of my followers

Being a gay dude, however, I know plenty of people who are attracted to men but don’t enjoy getting fucked. (Some guys are tops, some guys are sides.) Luckily for you, TACO, there are straight and bi men out there who only want to eat pussy. I’ve heard from scores of them over the years. Some had severe erectile dysfunction and preferred succeeding at cunnilingus to failing at vaginal intercourse; others were straight male submissives who wanted to orally service a woman without getting anything in return; and more than a few were men who loved eating pussy and somehow wound up married to women who hated oral sex and these men wanted to find women to go down on—and just go down on—outside their relation ships, with their wives’ permission (in some cases) or without it (in most cases).

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