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Only Jorge Labarga deserves to stay on Florida's Supreme Court
When Ron DeSantis is the one picking Supreme Court Justices, you’ve got to turn things around. Voting four judges out of office in this question of Retention of Justices of the Supreme Court obviously...
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Michelle Rayner among Creative Loafing endorsements for Florida House of...
Not taking away anything from the accomplished career of Michelle Rayner, the first openly queer Black member of the Florida Legislature, but her opponent was literally arrested for his alleged role...
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Angela Birdsong among Creative Loafing endorsements for Hillsborough County...
Three of the races here are no-brainers, but for some reason, voters are a bit confused about District 2. Perhaps it’s the name recognition of Commissioner Ken Hagan—or maybe it’s the more than $416K...
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Vote 'No' on all three amendments on Florida's 2022 election ballot
A “Yes” vote on amendment No. 1 about the Limitation on the Assessment of Real Property Used for Residential Purposes is risky for taxpayers since Florida’s home insurance situation is in shambles,...
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Creative Loafing endorses Keesha Benson and Brian M. Martin for Pinellas...
Sometimes the candidate who attended Pinellas schools from kindergarten all through high school, then earned her Master’s at FAMU, and PhD at UNC, on the way to becoming a college professor is the...
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Vote 'No' on Largo recreation center referendum, plus more Pinellas amendment...
Largo residents decide if the city should sell nearly 88 acres of a former landfill to a private developer. That developer is Lester “Les” Porter of Porter Development, who wants to turn Largo’s...
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For retention of Hillsborough District Court of Appeals judges, abortion...
Retention of Hillsborough District Court of Appeals Judges Judge John Stargel sided with now infamous Judge Jared Smith in an appeal over Smith’s decision to deny a teenager an abortion, in part,...
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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay endorses Naomi Esther Blemur for Commissioner of...
CL breaks with other local pubs here in selecting Naomi Esther Blemur to fill the seat vacated by Nikki Fried when she decided to run for governor. As senate president, Wilton Simpson more or less sat...
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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's endorsements for the 2022 election
If you believe the polls, then you’re probably expecting Charlie Crist to lose to big baby Ron DeSantis. We hope those polls are wrong, but the danger in giving credence to polls is that you get...
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New free tour turns Ybor City into a walkable art museum on Thursday
How do you experience art in a neighborhood without an art museum? This is no mystery for artists living and working in Tampa, which is full of such places.
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Emo faves Signals Midwest and Bob Nanna are playing Seminole Heights on Thursday
Halloween comes a little but early for emo fans thanks to this Thursday, Oct. 27 Tampa show at Microgroove featuring a solo set from Bob Nanna whose band Braid lives somewhere between the genre’s...
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WMNF's Halloween concert brings Tampa goth act Layne Lyre to New World on...
Community radio station WMNF 88.5-FM has always made space for the harder sounds of industrial rock and EBM, and the airwaves come to life at least once a year for gigs like this one Thursday, Oct. 27...
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St. Pete's Floridian Social Club stages '27 Club' Halloween concert
The other club that Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain are both a part of—besides the left-handed guitar club—will be saluted by a barrage of local acts when St. Pete's Floridian Social Club hosts a "27...
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St. Pete-based 'Marvel' star and Balenciaga runway icon Eugenie Bondurant...
St. Petersburg actor and model Eugenie Bondurant is a household name for comic book fans right now thanks to her role as Azarel in "Werewolf By Night," and on Saturday she's playing host for the...
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There's no reason to expect the Bucs get a win against the Ravens tonight
The Bucs are coming off a two-game stretch where they lost to teams with a single win to their name. Tampa Bay is playing some truly awful football, and now with a short week and the injuries piling...
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'Horses & Weed' country songwriter Ian Munsick plays Tampa on Friday
Country singer-songwriter Ian Munsick is currently in the process of developing his next studio album, due in 2023, you might get to hear a lot of it when the 29-year-old plays Tampa's Dallas Bull on...
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Busch Gardens Tampa names new baby rhino 'Viazi,' which means potato
A baby southern white rhino was recently born at Busch Gardens Tampa, and its name is Viazi, or "potato" in Swahili. Several weeks ago, theme park opened a poll, allowing voters to choose between the...
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There's a 'Smashing Pumpkins' concert in Seminole Heights on Friday
Smashing pumpkins happens this weekend. Not the band, but a celebration where folks can throw pumpkins off of Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe's second balcony onto a target below (not surprising as the...
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Jakob Dylan is bringing The Wallflowers to Clearwater this weekend
Jakob Dylan and his longtime band The Wallflowers were supposed to co-headline Tampa Bay with Matchbox Twenty in 2020, but they had to reboot that mission. Now, after a number of postponements, the...
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Discord Theory is part of the 'Ybor Horror' concert lineup happening in Tampa...
It sucks that Halloween is on a Monday this year, but Ybor City is naturally flexible enough to party down a little early—and that's what happening at this Halloween concert going down at Crowbar on...
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