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By Ray Roa t’s only been four months since a local reader responded to the creation of the Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Press Club with this piece of advice: “ …it might help not to alienate half of your potential readership at the hands of writers/journalists who push their own political agenda on your platform. CL has been staunchly liberal and now may be the best time to fix that.” It doesn’t happen a lot, but a short Twitter essay spilled out of me. As CL moves into the second phase of its Press Club campaign, I’m happy to share that since then, many of our readers have pitched in—in ways big and small, financially and otherwise—to keep this endeavor going. I’m proud of the reporting this paper’s contributors and staff, skeleton crew and all, has done, especially the coverage of protests and calls for change that started happening in our streets less than two weeks after CL got the choice advice. What follows below is my response to that advice from a reader who (I want to believe) had the best of intentions. If you agree CL needs to “fix” itself, I implore you to read, and if you don’t, I think you should read it, too. No matter what, I do humbly ask you to consider making a onetime or recurring donation—in any amount—if you believe that Tampa Bay should still have a scrappy, 33-year-old alt-weekly available on newsstands and online for free 24/7/365. If you’re already a member, please tell your friends, grandparents and local QAnon den leader about the Press Club. We really do need
you, and your contribution goes a long way in helping fix this thing up. ••• CL has long embraced progressive ideals. The paper has always told the stories of people on the margins of society. In ’88, when CL was founded, those people on the margins probably looked a lot different than they do now (you could argue that QAnon folks live on the margins now; CL regularly debunks many in that camp these days). It’s safe to say that CL took unpopular opinions back then. We stood with marginalized communities (ie: the poor, LGBTQ, Black, brown and the generally overlooked). We celebrated them, told their stories and probably got a lot of backlash (I was three years old when CL was founded). This paper is not for everyone, but it is for a lot of people. We’re not asking everyone to donate. We’re asking people who believe in the long standing mission of our alt-weekly to prop us up. People who believe in CL’s independent voice, which is unafraid to (often) speak to “staunchly liberal” ideals. Push a political agenda? Maybe in some of our most heated columns, our endorsements, and some of our fact-based reporting that doesn’t pull punches when elected officials—on both
sides, mind you—behave in a way that harms the common person. But I would argue that even people who don’t wax with CL’s “staunchly liberal” approach can appreciate that along with our “non-political work” (though art, sports, LIFE, are very political in my opinion). CL covers music, theater, art, food and the Times (the last local daily and an essential cog in Tampa Bay’s media landscape) like no other local pub does. I can’t tell you how many times people say, “love everything else, hate the politics.” I could even point to several times our “staunchly liberal” fans probably disagree with us sometimes (did you see the Jeffrey Billman column we ran next to our Bernie endorsement?). Your major piece of advice actually led me to a quick, rudimentary search of the definition of “liberalism,” which is “belief in the goodness of the human race and the amelioration of social inequity. Preventing those who govern from abusing power…” Then I looked up what a liberal ideal may be. “…someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties…” Time will tell if the community can get this paper through whatever the fuck is happening right now. As I said, if you read my note: “The newspaper business is rough in the best of times. Right now, CL—like so many of our readers—is fighting for its life.” Being “staunchly liberal” is kinda sorta part of that sometimes uncomfortable fight. It’s a fight CL’s been in, in its own unique way, for the last 33 years. I’m not dumb enough to think that at
“This paper is not for everyone, but it is for a lot of people.”
35 years old, I have things definitively figured out, but I don’t think the readers who’ll help save CL want us to “fix” that part of ourselves. Everyone is different; we respect that and folks’ right to their opinions. CL’s coverage has evolved a lot over the years; some longtime fans would say in a bad way, but they stick with us. Our web traffic (now propped up by more news, with sometimes brutally honest headlines, and other products) now supports stuff that didn’t always slay the numbers: arts, food and theater coverage that is outside of the box—coverage we’ll keep on doing regardless of traffic. And, yes, CL now also publishes the kind of rosy, offend-no-one, fodder you regularly see on blogs and other websites. But I’m not sure we’re not gonna waver from some of our core beliefs and betray an evolving community we’ve been looking out for, covering, and been a part of, so we can make a buck. As I said, in the post that you hopefully read, we’re making a bet that our readers want a no-holds barred paper like CL. One of my favorite things about our parent company, EMG, is that it truly does believe in the independence of our editorial room. Not once has anyone told us not to write something. Our commitment is to our readers. I think readers know that and appreciate it. I think it’s why readers will pitch in to help us, but I don’t have a crystal ball. What I do have, however, and I hope it serves the paper well, is the gumption to cultivate the spirit of a paper that’s been lifting me and the people I love up for the 20-plus years I’ve been reading it. All are welcome here at CL. You don’t have to agree with us all the time, but I’d argue that you’ll want to come along. Jump in.
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n September 11, Black Lives Matter Pasco County continued its weekly tradition of a Friday evening stroll through New Port Richey. The group saw additional media coverage from WUSF and continued attention from local police. There was even at least one Trump supporter who was—get this—wearing a mask. See more coverage via photos.cltampa.com. —Ray Roa
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Meet Hernando County Commission candidate Isaiah Haddon. By Christopher Cann who came out in support of peaceful dialogue in Brooksville. “This is not just our peers, these are hundreds of people that kind of need a leader,” she said. “Hernando needed somebody.” Up until the protest, Haddon planned on running for state representative in a few years, but the peace walk’s success accelerated Haddon’s jump into politics. After deciding to run for county commission, Haddon’s biggest obstacle was raising enough money to pay the $4,269.78 partisan county commission candidate qualifying fee (the sum represents 6% of a Hernando County Commissioner’s annual salary of $71,163; Haddon has pledged to allocate $20,000 of it to schools, more below). His campaign did so in three days. Quickly gaining over 500 Facebook followers and thousands of dollars in donations, the mixed-race amateur politician surpassed early predictions from rival candidates that he would fizzle out. He has not received any death threats and he does not feel in danger in lieu of his running, which may come as a surprise to those aware of the multiple death threats targeted towards the protesters at Haddon’s peace walk. Haddon sees the looming presence of overt racism in Hernando County as a motivator and a tool to dismantle his opponents. He described a common occurrence when working as a phlebotomist at Lifesouth Community Blood Bank, where the person he is taking blood from asks an intrusive question about his race or if he is Muslim. He once refused to take someone’s blood, switching out with another employee, after they made a racist remark. “It’s really nothing new in town. I am so used to it at this point,” he said. Haddon’s thick skin comes from growing up in a single-parent household. He moved over 10 times; the main source of income was mom's waiting job at Steak ‘n Shake. The hardship faced by hard working residents is one of Haddon’s biggest concerns. He is committed to taking $20,000 of his salary and giving it to teachers in the form of a grant so that they may buy supplies and other necessities for their classrooms.
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saiah Haddon said he was in an apolitical fog when a conversation with his high school classmate Trevor Zhang, a week after the 2018 Parkland shooting “pulled him out.” Haddon told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, “[Zhang] made me realize that if I don’t stand for something, I don’t stand for anything.” Two years later, a now 20-year-old Haddon (Democrat) will face off against Beth Narverud (Republican) in the Nov. 3 general election for the Hernando County Commissioner District 1 seat. At the beginning of the month, he had over $11,000 in monetary contributions with more than 70 individual donations arriving on the first day he announced that he was running. Shirley Anderson told CL that Haddon is the youngest county commission candidate she’s seen since she took the role of Hernando County Supervisor of Elections in January 2013. Data from the Hernando County Supervisor of Elections shows Republicans making up roughly 43% of registered voters. Democrats account for 30% while 27% are unaffiliated. Writer Cheri Danson Miller recently wrote that a decade ago, Republican and Democrat representation in the county was nearly equal. Haddon—a lifelong Hernando County resident who was born in Spring Hill Regional Hospital—planned the June 5 Peace Walk for Black Lives that made headlines because of its significant counter-protester attendance. Particularly that of David Howell, who was tased by officers after refusing to drop a machete. The same protest saw counter protesters wearing Confederate flags, shouting “White Is Right,” and calling some protesters the N-word. Haddon said he decided to plan the peace walk after attending a protest in Tampa. Following his inclination to start a demonstration, he began work on flyers, one of which caught the eye of his current campaign manager, Allisa Babor. The 25-year-old Hernando County resident said she contacted Haddon to help plan the peace walk before he had plans to run for local office. The peace walk’s large, diverse turnout had a profound effect on both Haddon and Babor, who told CL she was amazed by the older people
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: Isaiah Haddon is a lifelong Hernando resident who was born in Spring Hill Regional Hospital. Haddon often thumbs his nose at the current and former commissioners. His website describes them as “self-serving” and “corrupt,” while positioning Haddon as a marker for change. The criticisms of current and former commissioners are not unfounded. Hernando County Commissioner Steve Champion, who was elected in 2016 and recently won the primary election, received scrutiny for his social media use, most notably for blocking Facebook users from his page—which experts and courts have ruled to be a violation of the First Amendment since he is a public official and uses his page to post about local government action. Most recently, Champion reposted praise for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with killing two people at a protest in Kenosha, proclaiming him as “the embodiment of what the second amendment is all about.”
At the end of August, Haddon and his team hosted an in-person meet and greet to accompany the release of his yard signs, stickers and T-shirts. The new merchandise arrived just two months ahead of the general election, which Haddon and Babor say is just the cherry on top. The goal of Haddon’s campaign, he says, is providing an education to a large group of young people, equipping them with the tools they need to continue to make a change regardless of the outcome of the primary election. “Education is the backbone of our campaign,” Babor said. For now, Haddon and his diverse team, filled with both amateurs and local leaders, will continue on their quest for a commission seat, which Haddon is humbly optimistic about. “I am genuinely hopeful,” he said. “I think Hernando is going to change for the better.”
“I think Hernando is going to change for the better.”
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After labeling it an ‘ambush,’ TPD struggles to deal with weekly block party in V.M. Ybor. By Colin Wolf
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n response to an alleged “ambush” against Tampa Police officers last June in the V.M. Ybor neighborhood, TPD recently requested a series of street signs which would restrict parking in the area where the incident initially took place. The signs, which were put up Sept. 3 and quickly removed on Sept. 10 after Creative Loafing Tampa Bay asked for more information from the City of Tampa, initially said “No stopping, standing, parking, at anytime, 9 a.m.-5 p.m,” and were placed along 26th Ave and 15th St., as well as 27th Ave to 16th St.” As CL previously reported, residents of the neighborhood have filed complaints to Tampa Police about gatherings, which allegedly attract hundreds of people on a near weekly basis, as far back as January 10. However, despite having the foresight to send nine officers to one of the gatherings on June 20, at the intersection of N. 15th Street
and E. 26th Avenue, Police Chief Brian Dugan labeled the incident as an “ambush,” claiming on Fox & Friends that “it was clearly a setup,” and there was no way for his officers to know if this was a block party or a protest. Dugan also said a bottle was thrown at an officer, though zero body cam or dash cam footage has been released from the incident. “It was no ambush, it was months of neglect,” said a resident to CL back in June, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from TPD. “Plus, nobody is ambushing anyone, it’s just people getting drunk at a party.” The resident added that there’s a general feeling of neglect by the police in this neighborhood. Another resident, who also remained anonymous fearing retaliation, said TPD wouldn’t respond to the parties over the last nine months because it was “afraid of rioting,” and also that there’s nothing they can do about it because the gatherings are on private property.
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Member of the V.M. Ybor Facebook group have also regularly complained about the weekly gatherings. “I called seven times last night. And I’m much further away from you,” wrote one resident in a comment. “I asked the officers to come by my house so I could talk to them and they could hear the noise level. Three different officers stopped by. Then drove done [sic] and apparently didn’t do anything.” On Sept. 9, TPD spokesperson Jamel Lanee told CL that the recent signs were indeed in response to the June “ambush” incident, and that they were put there after a survey was requested with local residents. She also pointed out that so far no one’s been ticketed, and that the signs were supposed to say “9 p.m.-5 a.m,” not “9 a.m.-5 p.m.” “Cars were parked along the roadway and blocking people’s driveways. If an ambulance or fire truck needed to get through, it would have been impossible,” said Lanee in an email. “The goal was to help the residents that live there when it came to people parking after hours and hanging out on the street overnight,” Lanee added. However, residents say they were not informed of the new signs, and argue that one of the main issues is that many homes in the
V.M. Ybor and Ybor Heights neighborhoods don’t have driveways—so residents are forced to park their cars on the street overnight. According to City of Tampa Communications Director Ashley Bauman, Lanee was incorrect when claiming there was a survey, saying there was actually an “assessment to the area,” and the signs came about after TPD spoke with Tampa’s Mobility Department for a solution. “The signs were removed this morning,” Bauman told CL on Sept. 10; she also said TPD is now going to go back and chat with the neighboring property owners and businesses to go cover a parking parking permitting process that would work for everyone. Meanwhile, residents say restricting parking isn’t the problem and only adds unnecessary burdens on their community. “We would have to come together and agree upon the funding, how to do it and implement it,” said one resident. “Then we have to buy the permit. So that’s another stressor.” “Instead of focusing on parking,” they added, “why not ticket them for a noise violation? Or unlawful assembly for having over 20 people? We’re still in a pandemic," the resident added "This would not happen in South Tampa.”
“This would not happen in South Tampa.”
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Is this fascism? (pt. 2)
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What else do you call something that rejects democracy, scapegoats immigrants, and is consumed by grievance? By Jeffrey C. Billman
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here’s a plausible argument that the first recognizably proto-fascist campaign appeared in the southern United States in the late 1860s with the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan: white-robed men, in league with conservative elites, using extrajudicial violence to enforce their vision of racial purity. Scholars are more likely to look for fascism’s protean DNA in the fin de siécle movement of 1880s France, a rejection of materialism and liberal democracy rooted in Social Darwinism and racialism; or perhaps the populist nationalism of the French general Georges Boulanger, who, had he not lost his nerve, might have overthrown the Third Republic in 1889. Fascism officially arrived a generation later, in Milan on March 23, 1919, when Benito Mussolini formed the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento. But Italian fascism was qualitatively different from the national socialism that captured Germany in 1933, as well as the myriad fascist variants that arose throughout Europe in the interregnum between world wars. Fascists shared a seething hatred for socialism, liberalism, and bourgeois individualism. They believed in authoritarian leadership and the right of the strong to subjugate the weak. They believed in the primacy of the state over the rights of the individual. They believed their collective grievance justified violence. What they didn’t share was a cogent intellectual grounding. Fascism wasn’t conceived in an Age of Reason but in an Age of Emotion— in the aftermath of a Great War that had ruined empires and shattered Europe, that saw globalized markets devastate agriculture and manufacturing, that remade homogenous nations through immigration. As the historian Robert O. Paxton wrote in 2004’s “The Anatomy of Fascism,” many of fascism’s tenets “belong more to the realm of visceral feelings than to the realm of reasoned propositions.” Indeed, two months after Adolf Hitler assumed the chancellorship, the German novelist Thomas Mann keenly observed that he had witnessed a revolution “without underlying ideas, against ideas.” Herein lies our dilemma. To answer the question posed in my previous column (this is part two of two)—whether Donald Trump is a fascist—we first need to settle on what fascism actually is. That’s not as easy as you’d think. Yale philosopher Jason Stanley defines
fascism as the “cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists, and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation.” Eliah Bures, a historian of modern Europe, thinks that’s too expansive. As he wrote in Foreign Policy last year, “Real fascism is revolutionary and dictatorial, practicing a purifying brutality in furtherance of utopian goals.” Argentinean historian Federico Finchelstein, meanwhile, believes the right-wing populism practiced by Trump and other modern autocrats is an “authoritarian form of democracy” that evolved from fascism—postfascism, in other words. In “The Anatomy of Fascism”, Paxton proffered this exhaustive definition: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” Without question, Trump has surrounded himself with white nationalists and fashioned a political career from white victimhood. He has supported violence—state-sponsored and otherwise—against antagonistic protesters. He has promulgated dangerous conspiracy theories. He has eroded the rule of law to benefit friends and punish adversaries. He has attacked voting rights. He has inspired neo-Nazis and clung to power through alliances with complicit conservative elites. But he has not (yet) pursued internal cleansing or external expansion (unless you count his obsession with Greenland). And the only goal his brutality has furthered is self-aggrandizement. So, strictly speaking, Donald Trump is not a fascist, at least not by these terms. However, as Paxton pointed out, if you look to the feelings that underlie fascism—the sense of grievance, the pull of authoritarianism, the distrust of democracy, the scapegoating—you can spot it within every democracy, always seeking a toehold. “We know from tracing its path that fascism does not require a march on some capital to take root,” he warned.
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IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK: Then it’s probably facism. “Seemingly anodyne decisions to tolerate lawless treatment of national enemies is enough.” Let’s consider some not-even-anodyne things we’ve come to tolerate as, if not normal, then unavoidable aspects of the Trumpian landscape. Right now, we have desperate Senate Republicans and a corrupted Department of Justice cooking up October surprises—the former using documents laundered by a Russian agent to discredit Trump’s impeachment, the latter under pressure from the attorney general to discredit the Mueller probe. We have right-wing judges suppressing voting rights in Florida and Wisconsin with decisions that can be described, at best, as specious. We have an administration using the pretense of a pandemic to expel nearly 9,000 unaccompanied migrant children. We have armed crackpots setting up checkpoints in Oregon because they think antifa is lighting forest fires. We have the top communications official at the Department of
Health and Human Services—the same one who tried to alter Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports to suit Trump’s everythingis-fine COVID messaging—publicly alleging that CDC scientists “do not want America to get well, not until after Joe Biden is president,” and that left-wing “hit squads [are] being trained all over the country” for a post-election insurrection, so Trump supporters should load up on guns. And we have a president who, despite consistently lagging in the polls, has told his followers that if he loses, the “election is rigged.” So, 75 years after Mussolini met a firing squad and Hitler committed suicide, perhaps disting uishing between fascism and postfascism and fascism-adjacent authoritarianism is a pedantic exercise. After all, it’s unlikely the next threat to liberal democracy will look exactly like the last. But the emotional core on which fascism was built never vanished. And for the first time in modern American history, it has found a home in a mainstream political party.
“They believed in authoritarian leadership and the right of the strong to subjugate the weak.”
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ou consider yourself a patriot. You’re willing to die for your country. Okay, maybe not die, exactly. But you’d be willing to do something. If you weren’t busy that day. And it didn’t involve anything more strenuous than yelling at a lady for speaking Mexican in the school supplies aisle at Walmart. But what if you hate America without even knowing it? Based on not fake science, we’ve developed a test to precisely measure your patriotism. Simply tabulate the number of statements that apply to you, then register your score at the end: • You have never fantasized about a Caribbean weekend with Mike Pence. • You’ve been known to put the needs of others before your own. • You filed for conscientious objector status during the War on Christmas. • You have yet to ask an usher to seat you in the whites-only section at a professional wrestling match. • You see the irony in telling an Apache woman to “Go back to your own country.” • You’ve never starred in a viral video for calling police on black kids running a Kool-Aid stand. • You have yet to tell your son that if he’s nice to other children, he won’t grow up to be Jared Kushner. • You think Antifa is an insurance company whose mascot is a talking duck. • You took down your Confederate Flag at home because it collided with the mauve accents of the trim. • You once vacationed in Europe. And liked it. • You find Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” derivative and hard to party to. • You once bought a futon from IKEA, knowing full well it was made by Scandinavian socialists. • You keep forgetting to wear your Kevlar vest at the Cheesecake Factory. • You think Jefferson Davis is a weak hitting second baseman for the San Diego Padres.
• Your nieces have yet to unfriend you on Instagram. • You’ve never berated a Costco cashier over your Constitutional rights to endanger the health of others. • Your church’s light show budget comes in at under $700,000 annually. • You once spent an evening at a vegan restaurant without punching anyone. • You consider “happy holidays” a perfectly festive seasonal greeting. • You believe in sacrificing for your country— even when it’s inconvenient. • You’ve never applied for a license to marry a Beretta ARX160 assault rifle. • You secretly believe Canada has a better national anthem. • You don’t tell your kids how cool it would be to shoot the animals while visiting the zoo. • You’ve never excoriated the handicapped over their special parking privileges.
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Scoring your patriotism: 0: You’re 100 percent red-blooded American. Everyone admires you. Don’t be surprised if random citizens approach hoping to have your baby. 1-5: Your access to the gun range has been suspended. You can only be readmitted by harassing the Puerto Rican kids who moved in upstairs. 6-10: Go immediately to confession. Tell God you purposely tanked the test to keep the Deep State off your trail. 11-15: WTF is wrong with you? 16-20: You’re a traitor to your country. You think 189,000 deaths is an unacceptable price to restart the economy. No, you cannot bring a kayak to the Trump 2020 Boat Parade. 21-24: Don’t even try to donate to the Kyle Rittenhouse Legal Defense Fund. We don’t want your blood money. This post originally appeared in CL’s sibling paper Cleveland Scene.
“Tell God you purposely tanked the test to keep the Deep State off your trail.”
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ope you’re hungry because we’ve got new eats coming down the pipeline for foodies in need of fresh bites. Tampa welcomed Hip Hop Crab Bar, Iberian Rooster revamped its kitchen and St. Pete’s Uptown Eats is doing to-go meals before launching dine-in service. Chains are continuing to sink their teeth into the Tampa Bay food scene, too. The latest is Texasbased burger chain Mooyah, and Miami-based brunch joint Bacon Bitch. As we try to navigate this new dining protocol, go with your gut when it comes to dining in or delivery. But either way, wear a mask and tip your server and or delivery driver like your money is on fire. Opening Alert Coffee Co. This Saturday, the coffee concept is making its debut within 7venth Sun Brewing in Seminole Heights. Alert Coffee Co.’s menu includes a full range of coffee beverages like espresso-based sips, drip, a slow bar pourover menu, flat as well as nitro cold brew. Oh, and there’s a selection of teas to choose from for those who are trying to take it easy on the caffeine. Hours for the shop vary from the brewery’s—7 a.m.-2 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on weekends. 6809 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa. alertcoffeeco.com Avo’s Kitchen Like other Tampa Bay concepts, St. Pete’s Iberian Rooster is evolving due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Case in point: The kitchen has transformed into a counter-service concept called Avo’s Kitchen. Goan bowls are the focus; diners can build their own choosing a base, a protein, sauce and toppings. There are also seven signature chef bowls to dig into like
“Prawn Stars”, a packed bread bowl with cauliflower rice, shrimp curry, green sauce, chickpeas and onions. 475 Central Ave. Suite no. 100, St. Petersburg. avoskitchen.com Citi Loc Mobile Kitchen This Friday, this Jamaican and American cuisine food truck is debuting its new outdoor space. The new covered outdoor space allows for easy access to loaded to-go meals while maintaining social distancing in the rainy season. Slide by for a fat plate of curry shrimp with a side of beef patties. 9027 Causeway Blvd., Tampa. @citilockitchen on Facebook. Hip Hop Crab Bar Seafood enthusiasts, rejoice! Hip Hop Crab’s menu consists of plates like seafood egg rolls, a fried lobster platter, or a variety of their “Trap Tacos.” There’s also a homemade “Boujee Crab Cake” on toasted Kaiser, served with sriracha aioli drip and waffle fries. Oh, and four flavors of crab bowls (cajun, garlic butter, Caribbean curry, lemon pepper), which all come served with corn, potatoes, boiled eggs, and sausage. Bring a bib. 4924 E. Busch Blvd., Tampa. hiphopcrab.com Pollo Supremo The New Jersey-based fast-casual restaurant opened its doors to diners after offering its menu through delivery apps since August. The concept was founded in 1982 with a secret family chicken recipe; grab a whole bird or buy it in quarter and half sizes. The restaurant’s menu has a variety of eats like bowls, sandos, salads, steak dishes and soups. 7616 W. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa. pollosupremo.com
Uptown Eats Although it’s not technically open, Uptown Eats is selling fully-cooked, homemade “Monday Meals” for pickup. The restaurant posts a rotating menu each week for locals to order from until they sell out—which they tend to do so don’t sleep on it. Previous menu items included a mixed green salad ($3), a steakhouse salad ($12), and the corn and crab chowder made with potatoes, roasted peppers, fresh veggies and bacon served with jalapeno cheddar cornbread for $8. 689 Martin Luther King Jr. St. N., St. Petersburg. uptowneatsstpete.com Coming soon Bacon Bitch A Miami-based breakfast and brunch concept, Bacon Bitch, is expanding to the ‘Burg and making a home within Bodega’s former space on Central Avenue. The restaurant specializes in, you guessed it, bacon. Like the signature, "Queens" croissant with bacon, scrambled eggs and melted cheddar. Other menu items include silver dollar pancakes, cheddarstuffed hash browns, and inside out Nutella stuffed French toast. 1124 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. baconbitch.com BurgerFi The chain is expanding throughout Tampa Bay with a location underway in St. Pete. The menu is a lineup of both meaty and plantbased burgers, loaded hot dogs, hand-cut fries and onion rings. The dessert options include custard cups, shakes and concretes. The projected opening is before the end of 2020. 875 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. burgerfi.com Job Site Burgers Stuffed burgers are on deck when this joint takes over the previous home of Evil Don Tattoo, but it’ll leave a different kind of mark on your body—and possibly your arteries. Customers can choose whatever ingredients they want to be stuffed into their burger so the
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possibilities are truly endless. If you’re not the creative type, a few signature stuffed burgers are on deck. Central Avenue and 21st Street N., St. Petersburg. thejobsiteburgers.com Mooyah As more chains are laying down roots in Tampa Bay, Plano, Texas-based burger chain Mooyah is throwing its hat into the ring with plans to open 10 locations between Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties in the next three to five years. Mooyah is known for its loaded burgers, hand-cut fries and shakes. mooyah.com SoFresh Health-focused fast-casual chain SoFresh announces Tampa Bay locations in Carrollwood, Lakeland and Westshore. Speaking of nutritional meals, diners can snag bowls like the vegan Superfood loaded with red quinoa, brown rice, broccoli, tomatoes, walnuts, avocado and balsamic vinaigrette. All three locations are scheduled to open this fall. lovesofresh.com ICYMI Free Wendy’s honey butter chicken biscuits Wendy’s partnered up with the University of South Florida to give away a free honey butter chicken biscuit to USF fans on every football game day. The only catch is that it’s only free with a purchase of another item. So win or lose, you’ll have a biscuit in your hands as long as you have a dollar or two for some coffee to go along with it. Have a game schedule handy for free eats. Ybor City Saturday Market After 27 weeks away, the Ybor City Saturday Market returned last weekend, reacquainting itself with marketgoers who’ve missed the weekly eclectic mix of produce, plants, and craft booths in Centennial Park. Hours for the market are 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Saturday. Don’t forget to bring your mask and keep a safe distance from fellow shoppers. 1901 19th St. in between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, Ybor City. ybormarket.com
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NOMADS: DANK founders Ashleigh “Kirby” (R) Cleveland and Chalamar “Chy” Harris.
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Partners turn a bet into a new Tampa food truck and meal-delivery service. By Alexandria Jones
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hen Dank (stylized “DANK”) co-founders/ partners Ashleigh “Kirby” Cleveland (R) and Chalamar “Chy” Harris first started their business, they weren’t sure how it was going to turn out. “We had no equipment, no financing, and no previous experience building a food truck. We just knew if we bought one, we’d figure it out,” Harris told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Harris and Cleveland met while in the marching band at Miles College, a historically Black college located outside of Birmingham, Alabama. The story of Dank, an acronym for Delicious Ass Nomadic Kitchen, goes like this: Back in 2014, a friend had a challenge—if she entered a bodybuilding competition, then Harris had to launch the food business he’d been talking about. Once his friend entered (she placed second, by the way), Cleveland and Harris got the ball rolling on their new endeavor in early 2015. “I got with Kirby and we talked about it. The next month, Kirby made a down payment on a food truck and we had a custom trailer built,” Harris explains. Over the next several years, any money they had left over from paychecks went to finishing
the truck. They ran into a few issues along the way, but they were finally able to make their debut at the end of last year. Once COVID-19, happened and everything shut down, Cleveland and Harris had to figure out how to stay afloat. “What you’re seeing now with the pop-ups and stuff like that is our comeback,” Harris says. Both of them left their respective full-time jobs and decided to put all their focus solely on DANK. After coronavirus hit, they saw the potential in their business and didn’t see any reason to go back to their previous careers. Once they started the transition into making DANK their full-time priority, Harris says they felt some pressure. “We’d already made the changes, but we had to do it. No ifs, ands, or buts. After a while, we realized we’d come out of this alright,” Harris says. They launched Dank earlier this year at Ybor City’s First Chance Last Chance bar back in Marchl; there was definitely reluctance about opening a food business during a pandemic. “You just have to find ways to do it safely. We’re wearing masks and gloves plus we make our customers do the same,” says Cleveland. While COVID-19 impacted small businesses negatively, Dank experienced the opposite.
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An overwhelming amount of support from social media helped them build their fan base. “One promoter put our page up and stuff like that really helped. The followers liked all our pictures, placed orders, and we’ve developed a lot of relationships with our customers,” says Harris. Dank’s pop-up taco stand is located at 904 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Seminole Heights. According to Harris, the reason they choose to do pop-ups is because they don’t want to be a restaurant. They say if it makes sense for them, they’re open to doing pop-ups at more spots. Harris says Dank is for people who like serious or luxury food and don’t mind waiting for it. He and Cleveland want to do it on their terms. “It’s for the cool factor. We wanted to do more of an underground thing, so we chose the days to pop-up and just do it,” he adds. Dank serves the popular birra tacos (a sort of stewed barbacoa), which come with free guac (beat that Chipotle!). In addition to the taco stand, Harris and Cleveland do contactless catering and offer a newly-launched meal prep membership called the Slightly Secret Eat Club. Members can decide between a “Lite Eater” (bi-weekly) or “Eater” (weekly) membership. An email is sent every Sunday listing the week’s meal options, ranging from shrimp and grits to French toast covered with various cereals like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Cap’n Crunch. There’s even Hennessy butter pecan fried chicken. When members make an order, their chosen secret names act as a coupon code for any meal preorders.
Dank’s menu price ranges from $3 for birria tacos up to $65 for the Slightly Secret Eat Club Eater membership. They are working on creating vegan and vegetarian menu options at the moment. “I think everyone makes the same food but you have to think outside the box and make yours stand out in some way,” says Cleveland. You can catch a Dank pop-up every Tuesday and Saturday from 6:30 p.m. until they’re sold out. If you’re part of the Slightly Secret Eat Club, meals are ready for pickup every Thursday starting at 6:30p.m. “We had the vision to do birria because we saw the cool things other cities were doing and thought this would be dope for Tampa,” says Harris. Cleveland and Harris are talking to a few bars without kitchens to see if Dank can be served outside to their customers, but nothing is official yet. If it makes sense to everyone involved, they’re open to working with whoever. “Those are a lot of our partners because we both added value to each other. Hopefully, we can go back up to Ybor City on Thursdays,” Harris says. Cleveland and Harris say people are mind boggled when they find out that a Black-and woman-owned business serving tacos exists, but that doesn’t stop their hustle. “It’s a real grind but people are surprised. It’s all love and good energy at the end of the day when our customers come out,” says Harris.
“There’s even Hennessy butter pecan fried chicken.”
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JAX GAME: Vincent Jackson, Vice President of The Callaloo Group.
Vincent Jackson details re-opening of Manhattan Casino food hall. By Alexandria Jones
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ampa Bay is quickly becoming a hotbed for “We were able to partner with them and several upcoming food hall concepts coming bring that vibe into our space to create more to the area in the next few months. Don’t space and consistency with patrons in the buildforget to add The Historic Manhattan Casino’s ing,” Jackson explains. food hall to your list when it opens early October. Jackson says they want to expand The landmark is getting a facelift two years Manhattan Casino’s incubator for a commisafter its grand reopening with restaurants sary kitchen. Memberships for the kitchen Callaloo and Pipo’s To Go. vary depending on usage. Main vendors pay “We’re creating more of a destination. $4,000-$8,000 per month while others who This space will have more uses than what we don’t require too much kitchen use will pay started with previously,” Vincent Jackson, Vice a different rate. Members have full access to President of The Callaloo Group, tells CL. work on their products. St. Petersburg’s Chef Jackson, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer who Mel from 3 Generations food truck and the stayed invested in the community, along with Graveley brothers serve as two anchor tenants partners Mario Farias and Ramon Hernandez, for the restaurant side while a search for a third is transitioning the space into a destination that anchor is ongoing. Deuces Coffee and Calle 22 works as a launching pad for smaller, local busi- are smaller entities that allow visitors to netnesses. The transformation began earlier this work while grabbing a hot drink or a selection year with a partnership with Leigh Fletcher of small bites like sandwiches and pastries. Per and Tina Fischer of cotheir lease, Manhattan working space Rising Casino will still host Tide Innovation Center. various events featuring The Historic Manhattan Casino Jackson says the partlive music. Lunch prices 642 22nd St S., St. Petersburg. (727) 266-2667 nership brings a new range between $6-$12, crowd and a new look to the building located dinner will be $8-$16. at 642 22nd St. S in S. Petersburg. Once Fletcher “You’ll have two or three restaurants to and Fischer understood what the lease entailed choose from if you want to sit down and stay and how the historic building serves the youth for a meal, the to-go counter for lunch, coffee, and community, they were on board. and pastries," Jackson eplains.
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"And we’ll be creating more nightlife with the event spaces." Inside seating is capped at 150 seats to adhere to social distancing rules so visitors aren’t on top of each other. “It’ll be more usable for people to come in and do meetings if they want. We need to have different tables and chairs, so the setting is comfortable,” he says. The food hall is still in the development phase, so everything is tentative. Jackson says it’s a step-by-step process and they can’t have a big grand opening right away. The food hall will open in increments, beginning with the coffee shop and small bites to accommodate social distancing, around early October. Once the phases are complete, look out for a relaunch event early 2021. “We don’t want to jeopardize tenants. We’re going to open in phases that are manageable to get some activity going,” he says. A nonprofit was created to empower and bring more support to vendors. They’ll learn how to transition their businesses into brick-and-mortars through hands-on methods like raising money and creating generational wealth. He says they’ll have the opportunity to be successful and expand their businesses. “Whether it’s out of their house or food truck, the nonprofit will be hands-on with the different vendors,” Jackson says. Food businesses interested in qualifying to
be part of the food hall or commissary kitchen must have a business plan, be a non-brick-andmortar restaurant concept, and focus on the South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Area’s (CRA) residents, minorities, and lowincome entrepreneurs. “The vendors aren’t high-end. We’re bringing in people that are local and affordable to everyone,” says Jackson. An advisory board made of community residents from South St. Pete was created to ensure the changes to the Manhattan Casino don’t erase its significance to the area. The board, composed of 14 members, is involved with any decisionmaking like vendors, events, and building use. Jackson says people are excited for the new concept but there’s been concern surrounding getting the Manhattan Casino back thriving like in its heyday when entertainers like James Brown, Ray Charles, and Sarah Vaughn performed. “People want to see this building because it’s valuable. There’s a sensitivity for the historic value of what it’s been since 1925,” he says. Jackson says the food hall will provide opportunities for the community. There’s a huge focus on minorities getting the chance to develop their own businesses while also catering to the community’s interests from music to art. “We want to be diverse and offer different food options for the local community to enjoy and afford. We’ll just be a facility for everything South St. Pete represents,” he says.
“We’re bringing in people that are local and affordable to everyone.”
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There’s more to Black experiences than the struggle.
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By Jennifer Ring t’s hard to imagine feeling weightless or buoy- player Grant Hill’s (The Grant Hill Collection ant in this day and age. Perhaps that’s why of African American Art). Adams is so popular we should all take a moment to consider it. with collectors that you don’t often get to see Imagine yourself sheltered in the embrace of a so many of his paintings displayed together colorful pool floatie as you drift along the surface in one place. of your swimming pool. Now imagine a Black “We are so fortunate that they [The Hudson person you’ve never met doing the same exact River Museum in New York] are loaning it to us, thing. This is what “Derrick Adams: Buoyant,” because it’s comprised of 12 private loans,” MFA now at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Pete, Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill told asks of us. Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “These are works It’s not a radical idea. Or is it? that are not on view to the public normally, so In the 1960s, a group of Black people swim- we’re really excited to see them all together here ming in a segregated pool in the South was in Florida, and we are the last stop.” revolutionary. When a group of white and On a quiet Thursday afternoon, before the African American integrationists entered the MFA officially reopened to the public, I walked Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool in St. through “Derrick Adams: Buoyant” with Pill Augustine on June 18, 1964, the hotel manager and the MFA’s Manager of Communications & poured acid into the pool and police arrested Public Relations, Lashonda Curry. the demonstrators. The first thing you encounter upon enterAdams’ paintings are dramatically differ- ing “Derrick Adams: Buoyant” at the MFA is ent from the protest images we’ve been seeing the June 1967 issue of Ebony featuring “MLK’s so much of lately, but there’s more to Black Tropic Interlude.” The article features photoexperience than the struggle. There’s also joy. graphs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his “Regardless of all the things that are hap- wife Coretta Scott King vacationing in Jamaica, pening to Black people around the world, we still including a photo of MLK relaxing in the pool. find time to connect with each other,” Adams These photos, along with Adams’ personal poolhas said in past statements about his work. “If time memories and experiences, provided the we were constantly in this place of battle, we inspiration for Adams’ “Floaters” series. really couldn’t exist. We need time to replenish Despite being born and raised in Atlanta our love and faith and joy.” (MLK’s birthplace), Curry told me she’d never Adams’ “Floaters” seen these images of series, shown in MLK before. “Buoyant,” boldly “It was really shockasserts that ing to me, Derrick Adams: Buoyant Black people but in a good Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Dr. NE., St. Petersburg. are worthy of way, to see Open to the public Sept. 19-Nov. 29 (open to members only now) leisure and him relaxFace coverings, advance tickets, social distancing and temperature checks joy. Still in ing in a pool required mfastpete.org 2020, images and walking of Black peoon the beach. ple at leisure are rare, but they do exist. I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, is that Dr. King Rare images of Black leisure are just one of without a shirt??’ I even called home to tell my many reasons to go see “Derrick Adams: Buoyant mom and she couldn’t believe it!Like most peoat the MFA this fall.” ple, when I think of Dr. King, he’s protesting, The main reason to see the show: You may preaching, marching, getting arrested. With not have noticed, but Adams is kind of a big deal. these photos, you see him in a different light." Adams’ artwork is featured in the collections "It really normalizes him and makes him of many Black celebrities, including Kasseem relatable," Curry added, "which is basically Dean (aka Swizz Beatz) and Alicia Keys’ private what Derrick Adams wants people to come away art collection (The Dean Collection), R&B singer with when they see his paintings portraying Tamia and her husband’s, plus former NBA Black leisure.”
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BLACK JOY: Derrick Adams’ “Floater 66” (2018) Next to the Ebony magazine spread, there’s a self-portrait of Adams on a black unicorn floatie he designed himself. “This is a print that’s actually from our collection,” Pill told CL. It’s a woodblock print with gold leaf and collage done at Tandem Press. “We purchased it last year through funds from Jim Sweeny. It’s a puzzle block technique, which means that they used 100, or close to 100, blocks of wood. And they had to do, I think, 30 print runs, because in a puzzle block print, no two blocks of wood can ever touch each other during the same run; otherwise, there’s a white line.” Given the technical challenges of creating a puzzle block print, I couldn’t help but wonder why anyone would bother. “This is the aesthetic he’s known for,” Pill said. “He is so inspired by theories of deconstruction and this idea of multiple parts making up one whole, or one person. It’s really about trying to express the wholeness of identity in all these little parts, and I think that’s why the face and the bodies are always sort of broken apart in that way. So the color variations are very important.” Entering the large gallery, where the 12 loaned Derrick Adams paintings hang around
a swimming pool installation, I literally said, “Whoa.” The installation is so immersive, it feels like being at a community pool in summer. I’d entered Derrick Adam’s world of Black joy and leisure, and it’s beautiful. My eyes went straight to a four-panel painting taking up an entire wall at the far end of the gallery. “Floater 74” looks like a pool party in a painting. A Black man reclining on a bright yellow pizza floatie stretches across two of the bright blue panels. He shares the pool with 11 other men, women and children. They float on a black swan, pink flamingos, and a bright orange innertube. Their swimsuits are a collage of West African and American fabrics. “The person that owns this is lucky,” I said to Pill. “That’d be Alicia Keys,” she replied. This is when Curry and Pill directed my attention to “Floater 78,” owned by Tamia and Grant Hill. In this painting, three children sit together on a swan floatie. A woman I assume is their mother smiles beside them. The room is full of paintings like this. Each one features a Black person or a group of Black people relaxing on floaties in a pool. They are colorful, joyful, and full of life.
“It’s really about trying to express the wholeness of identity in all these little parts.”
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FLOAT ON: “Floater 74” (R) is on loan from Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz. This joyfulness is one of the reasons why Adams thinks his work is so popular with Black collectors. “My work represents a life that is aspirational and reflects the way that some of these people live,” Adams said in an interview with Artnet. “After working all day, or being in an environment where you have to deal with so many different types of people, you want to come home and see things that are relatable. I don’t think you want to come home to a noose. The audience I’m interested in wants to see how they live and see what they aspire to be.” Black scholars and artists at Derrick Adams: Buoyant at the MFA Another reason to get excited about “Derrick Adams: Buoyant” is the uncommonly large number of Black scholars, artists, and writers involved. They’re at every single level of this exhibition, from curation to commentary to virtual events. This level of commitment to Black excellence is a large part of what makes “Derrick Adams: Buoyant” a Black experience that everyone can understand and enjoy. • James E. Bartlett, former Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn, New York, co-curated the show with Hudson River Museum’s Curatorial Department Chair, Laura Vookles. • Antwaun Sargent, writer, is a New York Citybased art critic published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and more. Sargent’s catalog essay (along with Bartlett’s essay, “Black
and Buoyant”) does an excellent job of describing Adams’ Floaters in the context of American history and art history. His perspective was essential to my fully understanding and appreciating this exhibition. • Like Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas is another successful African-American artist working out of New York. She met Adams at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and they’ve been friends ever since. Similar to Adams, Thomas often depicts African Americans just being, as opposed to constantly fighting oppression. Watch Adams and Thomas discuss Black radical joy, one of “Derrick Adams: Buoyant” exhibition themes, earlier this year on YouTube or read the transcript in the exhibition catalog. • Dr. Gretchen Sorin, author of “Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights,” and Cynthia Wilson-Graham, coauthor of “Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs,” participate in a panel discussion on African American leisure on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. • Author Tenea D. Johnson introduces us to Afrofuturism in “Black Fantastic, Buoyant and Bold: Art’s Ways of Levitating Over the Weight of the World” on Thursday, Oct. 22, 6 p.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 15, 3 p.m.-4 p.m. • Poet and Author Denzel Johnson-Green hosts a poetry reading in conjunction with “Derrick Adams: Buoyant” on Sunday, Oct. 25, 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
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A unique mid-century modern gem goes on sale in Dade City. By Colin Wolf
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ny Tampa Bay residents looking to fully work from home may want to take advantage of this truly unique mid-century modern gem in Dade City. Built in 1968 for Jimmy Evans Jr., son of former citrus magnate James Emmett Evans, the home was designed by renown modernist architect Mark G. Hampton. However, listing agent Molly James of Smith & Associates, tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that the home was more of a collaborative effort between Evans and Hampton. “He was friends with Mark, and he drew up the initial designs on the back of
a napkin when they were together one day,” says James. Located at 14314 Hale Rd., the 5,572-squarefoot home sits on a heavily-wooded 3.5-acre lot, and according to James was “built for entertaining.” “They loved to throw parties. This is the ultimate party house,” James added. The mid-century modern estate comes with five bedrooms and six bathrooms, as well as a sunken formal living room, a wet bar and a massive screened-in back porch. Owned solely by family, the home is now being sold by Evans’ adult children for $825,000.
“Hampton’s residential projects rarely come up on the market.”
While Hampton’s career spanned nearly 60 years, his remaining residential projects, like this Dade City home, rarely come up on the market. Hampton started his career at the influential Sarasota firm Twitchell & Rudolph. When the firm disbanded in 1951, Hampton then moved back to his hometown of Tampa and opened his own office. Over his long career, Hampton was responsible for quite a few notable residential and commercial buildings in the Tampa area, including two science buildings at the University of South Florida, the Galloway’s Furniture Showroom, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Adams Middle School, and the National Design Awardwinning Horizon House in Carrollwood. At the time, many of Hampton’s residential homes could also be found in the South Tampa area, especially in the Gandy and Kennedy areas.
In 1966, Hampton relocated to Miami to partner with Herbert H. Johnson & Associates, and later started his own firm in Coconut Grove. In South Florida, his work is still found at places like the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami, as well as the Bal Harbour Shops. Over his massive career, Hampton earned a handful of awards from the American Institute of Architects and the Florida AIA, and was recognized as a Fellow of the AIA in 1967. Hampton died in 2015 at the age 91 at his Coconut Grove home. Photos courtesy of Molly James/Smith & Associates. CL regularly features on-sale Tampa Bay homes with unique backstorys, architecture and troves of photos. See more via photos.cltampa. com and email comments@cltampa.com if you have any tips.
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SUNNY BURN: Napoleon the Wilderness’ new single reminds us that feeling down is OK.
St. Petersburg songwriter Nikhil Johns addresses toxic positivity on new single. By Ray Roa
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our months ago, Nikhil Johns arrived at Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's Tampa Heights office with just a guitar in hand. The St. Petersburg songwriter—who performs as Napoleon the Wilderness—stepped into our expansive ballroom/event space then found a seat in front of bright lights and cameras set up by Katie Talbert of Saved By Streaming. The event was the May edition of Rock the Park Tampa, a free concert usually attended by about 1,000 people in beautiful Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park less than a mile away. Instead, he played a 50-minute set for a virtual audience which was, at the time, just starting to settle into a life where clubs that hosted live original music were shut down. Until Monday, that shutdown was still the reality. Clubs, now allowed to reopen at 50% capacity, are still in danger of not making it out of the pandemic thanks to a touring industry that is on hold until at least next year (maybe even longer for Florida thanks to geography and a
haphazard plan for containing and contact tracing coronavirus). That set was the first live music I’d seen since March, and I’ve seen only one concert in between then and today (July’s streaming-only Rock the Park at the River Center at Julian B. Lane), but one then-unreleased song Johns performed (“Good Vibes,” available now) spoke to me and has been a source of stability over the last 16 weeks. At the time, Johns, who turned 28 years old on Wednesday, explained that the tune was about toxic positivity. “It’s about when you’re feeling kind of down, depressed or whatever, and someone who just doesn’t want to hear it, wants you to be happy, no matter what. And I think there’s a lot of that that we see on social media these days,” Johns, said. In the half-tempo, polished-up, three-minute studio version, Johns lays bare his troubles and the problematic nature of being eternally positive before delivering this tongue-in-cheek
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thank you to online happiness gurus: “I saw a post on the internet, it told me happiness is just a mindset—cured my depression in a single step. It said, ‘No worries,’ and the hashtag said, ‘#blessed.’” Johns is sharing the track with listeners via cltampa.com/music starting Friday, Sept. 18. He’ll also be donating half of the proceeds from the song and sticker sales to the Black Mental Health Alliance. “Sometimes it’s OK just to feel your feelings and live in kind of a dark space at the moment. And it’s OK to have a down day or whatever,” Johns added when explaining the song back in May. “We don’t always have to fake a smile.” That’s a good reminder, and this is a reminder that a real-life, trained representative from the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay is always one phone call away (211) to help with anything and connect you with other professionals who can assist you with anything from food insecurity to mental health.
Ditty did a faux campaign photo shoot, went on a social media blitz and even had a laugh with Dunedin’s actual mayor, Julie Ward Bujalski about the situation. He also recorded a new tune, “Idiocracy”, as part of the campaign (find out if he won on Oct. 1 when the BOTB issue hits newsstands). The production comes at the hands of Orlando producer and emcee Swamburger (of Solillaquists of Sound), but the beat was supposed to be for perennial underground hip-hop favorite Aesop Rock. A press release says Swamburger decided to put the beat in Ditty’s hands instead. Ditty then enlisted producer and songwriter Stick Martin to help create a hook that re-samples former MTV talk show host, comedian Tom Green. “In our nation’s current state of upheaval, uncertainty, grave lack of leadership, and devolution to a meme predicting Mike Judge’s fictional movie “Idiocracy” was, in fact, becoming a documentary, Ditty unapologetically criticizes the inaction, wrongful actions, and debilitating misdirected public concern,” the release adds. “He proclaims his unfortunate experience, in attempting to reason with others, when there is no critical thought at play—simply stated, ‘you can’t cure stupid.’” Listen via cltampa.com/music. Donate to Ditty’s super PAC via Patreon.
“We don’t always have to fake a smile.”
Dunedin rapper Jon Ditty says ‘you can’t cure stupid’ in new song, ‘Idiocracy’ Dunedin rapper Jon Ditty somehow ended up getting nominated for “Best Mayor” in the Reader’s Pick Best of the Bay 2020 polls, so the emcee (who’s actually won other BOTB awards in the past) ran with it.
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The maiden. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “At the necessary moment, going naked will be your most convincing disguise,” writes poet Dobby Gibson. As I apply his witty statement to your life, I’ll interpret it metaphorically. My sense is that you could really use the kind of “disguise” he’s talking about. What I mean is that you would benefit by appearing to be different from what people expect of you. You can gain key advantages by shifting the image you present to the world—by expressing a part of your identity that is not usually obvious. And I think the best way to do that is to “go naked”—i.e. be candid and transparent and vulnerable about your core truths.
available by taking practical action in behalf of your high ideals. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You know what perfectionists are: people who obsessively strive to finesse every last detail, polishing and honing so compulsively that they risk sucking all the soul out of the finished product. In contrast to them, I propose that we identify a different class of humans known as “imperfectionists.” They understand that a ferocious drive for utter purity can make things sterile and ugly. They resolve to cul-
Aquarius. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I and me are always too deeply in conversation,” confessed philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. I wonder why he said “too deeply” and not just “deeply.” Did he mean his dialogs with himself distracted him from important matters in the world outside of his imagination? Was he implying that he got so consumed while conducting his self-interviews that he lost his bearings and forgot what his goals were? With these cautions in mind, Pisces, I invite you to
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran playwright Wendy Wasserstein wrote, “Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.” I recommend Wasserstein’s practice to you, dear Libra. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to launch this ritual as an annual tradition. For best results, write it out as a vow. I mean take a pen and paper and compose a solemn pledge, then sign it on the bottom to seal your determination. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I may not lead the most dramatic life,” confesses singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, “but in my brain it’s War and Peace every day.” He was referencing Leo Tolstoy’s sprawling, exuberant 1,200-page novel “War and Peace”, which features stories about five families who lived through Napoléon’s invasion of Russia in the 19th century. I’m guessing that these days your fantasy life may also be filled with epic fairy tales and heroic sagas and tear-jerking myths. Is there a problem with that? Not necessarily. It could be quite entertaining and educational. I do recommend that you keep your actual life a little calmer and saner, however. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!” said author Helen Keller (1880–1968). She was a smart activist who worked hard in behalf of women’s equality, labor rights, antimilitarism, and socialism. Was she being sarcastic in saying she loved being alive during a time of upheaval? Not at all. She derived excitement and vigor from critiquing injustice. Her lust for life soared as she lent her considerable energy to making life on earth more enjoyable for more people. I invite you to consider adopting her attitude in the coming weeks. It’s a good time to experiment with generating the personal power that becomes
tivate excell e n c e while at the same time they understand that irregularities and eccentricities may infuse their work with beauty. I hope you’ll act like an imperfectionist in the coming weeks, Capricorn.
dive into a n intense but spacious communion with yourself. Make this a delightful and illuminating conference, not a raging debate or a debilitating argument.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In one of your past AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Everything good lives, maybe you were a Neanderthal midwife I’ve ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave in what’s now southern France. In another something else up,” writes author Elizabeth incarnation, you may have been a 17th-century Gilbert. To that melodramatic declaration, I Guarani shaman who shared your knowledge say, “Really? Everything? about local plants with I don’t believe you.” And an Italian Jesuit misyet I do think she has a sionary in what’s now point. On some occasions, Uruguay. All the powers the most effective stratand aptitudes you perBy Rob Brezsny egy for bringing good new fected in those and other influences into our lives previous ages could prove is to sacrifice an influence or habit or pattern helpful as you cultivate your genius in the comwe’re attached to. And often the thing that needs ing weeks. JUST KIDDING! Cancel my previous to be sacrificed is comfortable or consoling or speculations,. For you Aries folks, past achievemildly pleasurable. I suspect that the coming ments are often of secondary importance as weeks will offer you one of these opportunities, you create your future. In fact, your mandate
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is usually to transcend the old days and old ways. It may be better not to imitate or rely on old stories, no matter how dazzling. This will be especially true in the coming weeks. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “There are no ordinary feelings,” says poet Dean Young. “Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.” That’s always true, but it will be especially true for you in the coming weeks. I suspect you will be host to a wealth of interesting, unique, and profound feelings. They might be a bit overwhelming at times, but I think they will mostly provide rich opportunities for your soul to grow deeper and stronger and more resilient. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “There should be a science of discontent,” said novelist Frank Herbert. “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” I partially agree with that observation, but I also think it’s a gratuitous cliché that’s not at all absolute. In fact, our culture is under the spell of a mass delusion that tempts us to believe “no pain, no gain” is the supreme learning principle. I’d like to see the development of a robust science of contentment: how fascination and freedom and generosity can build psychic muscles. You’ll be a good candidate to study that subject in the coming weeks. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian songwriter Mathangi Arulpragasam is better known by her stage name M.I.A. She has accomplished a lot in her 45 years on the planet, having been nominated for three Grammy Awards and an Academy Award. Esquire magazine named her the 75th most influential person of the 21st century. One key to her success is the fact that she formulated a clear master plan many years ago, and has used it to guide her decisions. In her song “Matangi,” she refers to it: “If you’re gonna be me, you need a manifesto / If you ain’t got one, you better get one presto.” I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to formulate (or re-formulate) your life manifesto and master plan. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you’re not invited to the party, throw your own,” declares singer and actress Diahann Carroll. In the coming weeks, I urge you Leos to use that advice as a metaphor in every way you can imagine. For example, if you’re not getting the love you want from a certain someone, give it to yourself. If no one hands you the opportunity you need, hand it to yourself. If you wish people would tell you what you want to hear, but they’re not saying it, tell yourself what you want to hear. It’s a time when you need to go beyond mere selfsufficiency. Be self-gratifying, self-rewarding, self-acknowledging.
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I’m a straight man who’s been dating a woman for not quite four months. In the beginning things were light. But things started to get heavy quickly. Two weeks in she revealed her very serious abandonment issues and then began asking me whether I really loved her and demanding reassurance that I wasn’t going anywhere and that she wouldn’t be “just a single chapter” in my life. After a month, I met her seven-year-old son, her parents, and her ex. Then we had a pregnancy scare. She told me that if she was pregnant she would keep it because then I would have to stay. That alarmed me. I voiced that we’d been dating for a very short time and this wasn’t a good time for either of us to have a child. She wasn’t pregnant, luckily. Even before this incident, my body had started to manifest signs of anxiety— upset stomach, sleepless nights, loss of appetite, etc. So, I summoned up all of my courage (conversations like this are extremely difficult for me) and told her that I couldn’t do this anymore. She started to cry and begged me to give her a second chance. I wound up spending the rest of the weekend at her place and agreed to stay in the relationship. But I didn’t feel good about it. When I finally got back to my place, I felt anxious, confused, hollow, and hopeless. I tried to end things again after speaking to my therapist, but she won’t take no for an answer and constantly brings up the promises I made her about really loving her. I hate this and I feel terrible for her son. Any thoughts on how to dismantle this thing? Or do I just need to run? —Passionate Reassurances Extracted So Soon Undoes Relationship Exit
subconscious—efforts to manipulate you. She shouldn’t have asked you to swear your undying love after you’d known each other for such a short time, and you shouldn’t have made the promises you did. You failed her and yourself by not telling her it was too soon for that shit—too soon to say “I love you,” too soon to know whether she would be a chapter in your life, too soon to meet her son (!), her parents (!!), and her ex (!!!). Demands for premature reassurances of everlasting love, like all demands for premature commitments, are intended to make exiting the relationship more difficult. Not for the person making the demands, of course; they’re always free to go. They make it more difficult for the person those demands are being made of to go. And while I’m not calling your girlfriend an abuser, demands for premature commitments are often red flags for abuse; being asked to make a premature commitment after a few weeks or months—by moving in together or adopting a dog or (God forbid) getting married—makes it infinitely harder for a person to leave once the mask slips and they see the abuser lurking behind it. Again, I don’t think your girlfriend is an abuser, but she weaponized her insecurities (“It’s nice to meet you, now let me tell you about my abandonment issues!”) to extract what amounts to premature commitment from you. And she involved her son in that effort, which is really unconscionable. And while that’s on her, PRESSURE, not you, you should’ve refused to meet her son so quickly and seen her desire to introduce you to him as a red flag. Learn the lessons, PRESSURE: When someone you’ve only recently started dating says, “Will you love me forever?,” the correct answer is never, “Of course I will!” The correct answer is always, “I think you’re a wonderful person and I want to keep seeing you, but we can’t know— at this stage—what the future will bring.” If they respond by saying, “You know what? You’re right,” keep seeing them. If they respond by melting down and bringing up their abandonment issues, well, they’ve just demonstrated that they aren’t someone you would want a future with. And finally, I’m #TeamAmanza on the issue of meeting a new partner’s children from a previous relationship. You should be seeing someone for at least six months to a year—you should be well out of the honeymoon phase if not quite into the farting-in-front-of-each-other phase—before being introduced to your new partner’s kid(s).
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As I explained to a reader in a similar situation… “We need someone’s consent before we kiss them, suck them, fuck them, spank them, spoon them, marry them, collar them, etc. But we do not need someone’s consent to leave them. Breakups are the only aspect of our romantic lives where the other person’s consent is irrelevant. The other person’s pain is relevant, of course, and we should be as compassionate and considerate as possible when ending a relationship. (Unless we’re talking about dumping an abuser, in which case safety and self-care are all that matters.) But we don’t need someone’s consent to dump them.” Voice that it’s over, PRESSURE, and then refuse to get drawn into negotiations about whether it’s over. It’s over. If she needs to cry on someone’s shoulder, she’ll have to call a friend. And if she brings up the promises you made after she “revealed” her abandonment issues weeks into this relationship, apologize for not being strong enough to resist her obvious—if possibly
I’m a 32-year-old straight man dating a 31-yearold straight woman. We’ve been seeing each other for eight months and became “Facebook official” (if that’s still a thing) in June. We are both in our first serious relationship after being divorced from relatively long marriages. (Me: eight years, two kids. Her: 10 years, no kids.) My question
is when does suspicion—suspicion of cheating— become something you should bring up? I tend to spill everything that’s going on in my life, which she says she appreciates but isn’t used to doing. She’s a very independent person, which I’ve never experienced before. It’s refreshing to know that my partner has her own friends but there are moments when I get stonewalled. Sometimes I get vague answers or no answers about where she is or who she’s with. She often tells me she “accidentally” turned off her notifications. Sometimes she will say she’s staying in, and then I later find out that she went out. Maybe I’m taking things way too seriously considering the amount of time we’ve been together but I feel I have to take things seriously since kids are involved. —The Absent Girlfriend The uncharitable read: Your hunch is correct and your new girlfriend is being cagey about where she’s going and who she’s with because she’s cheating on you. The charitable read: Your new girlfriend is 31 years old, she was married for 10 years, and you’ve been dating for eight months. Math has never been my strong suit, but assuming her marriage didn’t end five minutes before you met, TAG, your girlfriend married very young. Which means she spent her entire adult life— most or all of her 20s and possibly a chunk of
her teens—having to answer to a spouse. She only recently began to experience the kind of autonomy most of us get to enjoy before we marry and settle down (if we marry and settle down), TAG, and she may be reluctant to surrender that autonomy so shortly after achieving it. She may also have different ideas about what being “Facebook official” means. Does that mean you’re monogamous? If it does, does she define monogamy the same way you do? Some other questions: Was going Facebook official your idea or her idea? Did you ask for a premature commitment? You’re only eight months in—is it possible you involved your kids too soon? You obviously need to have a conversation with your girlfriend—if you can get her on the phone—about your expectations and definitions. If you expect her to let you know where she is at all times and who’s she’s with, TAG, make that clear. But if that is what you expect, well, here’s hoping she dumps you. Because even if you lived together, even if you were married, even if she wanted to spend the rest of her life with you, your girlfriend would still be entitled to a little privacy and her autonomy. Contact mail@savagelove.net, follow @ FakeDanSavage on Twitter and visit savagelovecast.com to catch up with America’s favorite mortician Caitlin Doughty!
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