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LOS PERROS GUAPOS FRIDAY: Drinks, dinner, dancing... and dogs. One of the Humane Society of Tampa Bay’s coolest fundraising shindigs, Island Paws 2018, moves to Bayshore Boulevard for a waterside sunset. Mingle, meet some adoptable pets, smoke a cigar and listen to music by DJ Arthur Lastra during an evening of “Old Havana style.” Tampa Garden Club, 2629 Bayshore Blvd., Tampa. 6-11 p.m. $125. humanesocietytampa. org. —Scott Harrell

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FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Now in its 43rd year, St. Pete’s MainSail Art Festival packs a whole lotta stuff to do into what’s essentially a giant juried art show — maybe that’s why it’s been ranked as one of the nation’s best “Fine Art & Design Shows” by Sunshine Artist magazine. What more, asks you? Well, I’ll tells ya: live music from a ton of local and national bands including FayRoy, T-Bone Hamilton’s Big Easy Revue, Impulse and Allman Goldflies Band; even more tons of food and drink from a bevy of vendors; live art demonstrations; kids stuff, and of course, the inescapable much, much more! As always, entry both days is free. (Pictured: “Another Perfect Day” by Linda Hughes.) Vinoy Park, 701 Bay Shore Dr. NE, St. Pete. Sat., 9 a.m.-6 p.m. & Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. mainsailart.org. —SH

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NEXT THURSDAY It’s that time again. The time Tampa Bay residents undo that top button on their pants to eat out a little more than usual in support of the international Dining Out For Life — an all-day dining fundraiser, now in its 14th year locally, that helps provide vital services to people living with HIV/AIDs through Empath Health for Epic Eats. Last year’s DOFL event raised more than $43,000 for programs at the three Empath Health centers throughout Pinellas County, and 30-plus restaurants are participating this time around. Those eateries include Community Cafe, The Dunedin Smokehouse, Gratzzi Italian Grille, Neptune Grill, Mortar & Pestle, The Honu, Punky’s Bar & Grill, Happy’s Bayou Bites and Stella’s. Whether guests go for breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee or cocktails, a portion of their checks — up to 25 percent — is donated to Epic Eats. Get a complete list of eateries, the amount they’re donating, and which meals apply at local. cltampa.com. —MH

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FRIDAY: OK, I’m just gonna put this out there: Gulfport’s not like the other 26 incorporated cities in Tampa Bay. It’s... peculiar. The ‘port is one of those places where it’s totally normal to see a dog in a stroller, but put a kid in a stroller and everyone looks at you funny. Which is why when I read Arin Greenwood’s Your Robot Dog Will Die, I knew instantly that “Beachport” was code for “Gulfport,” and those Bad Bitches? Yeah, I know who they are, too. And the reality is, if there was going to be one city in the world that would harbor the last living dogs, it would be Gulfport. Greenwood’s book is a stunning look at what happens when you take the ethical treatment of animals too far, and it will leave you questioning everything you believe about what is and isn’t humane. Meet her at the book launch — and also meet a bunch of adoptable furballs from Suncoast Animal League, ‘cause a portion of the sales from her book that night go to them. See, robot dogs might die, but hopefully we can save some living ones. Gulfport History Museum, 5301 28th Ave. S., Gulfport. 7 p.m. 727-656-5420. —CS

SATURDAY: It’s not as old as the 1920s, but that’s not stopping ARTpool from having a Roaring 20s, Gatsby-Gala-themed art party. It’s a dancing/music/art party — and a runway fashion show, because it’s ARTpool and that’s how they want to celebrate their 10th anniversary. So get your flapper garb and get ready to party like it’s 1929. ARTpool Gallery, 2030 Central Ave., St. Pete. 8 p.m. $10; $20, VIP. artpoolrules.com. —CS continued on page 9

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SUNDAY: It’s a revolution — a fashion revolution. If you’re average, you throw out 82 pounds of clothes a year. If you’re above average? Well, then it’s worse. All you folks recycling glass like it’s going out of style? Newsflash: Glass is not the most frequently thing found in our landfills and garbage trucks — textiles are. So while your 24-year-old socks may deserve to get thrown out, the dress you wore three times maybe has a higher purpose. Find it at Valhalla’s clothing swap — bring your unwanted clean clothes (gently used and better), shoes and accessories any day before the swap. And on swap day, you can take home as many items as you drop off. Leftover stuff gets donated, so everyone wins. BYOB (bag). Valhalla Resale, 6112 N. Central Ave., Seminole Heights. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 813231-3344. —CS PUBLICDO MAIN PICT

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BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE FRIDAY: Sorry, conspiracy theorists — many Jews did, in fact, resist the Nazis during the Holocaust. This weekend, The Florida Orchestra is joining the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay for the first joint performances of Verdi’s Requiem in 10 years. Also known as the “Defiant Requiem” during the Holocaust in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp, a pre-show talk and the concerts at Straz Center (Fri.), Mahaffey Theater (Sat.) and Ruth Eckerd Hall (Sun.) will play artful, powerful tribute to that resistance. $15 and up. floridaorchestra.org. —RR

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SUNDAY: Gloria West is one of the most dynamic voices working in the Bay area, and she returns to headline this beloved Dunedin tradition — which makes sense, since the theme for DFAC’s Garden Party is Deja Vu. It’s a hefty price tag, but your elbow-rubbing is going to help bring more arts education to north Pinellas kids and adults. 1037 Victoria Dr., Dunedin. 5-7 p.m. $150$175. dfac.org. —RR

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Police in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, appealed to the public for help in late March tracking down a most unusual perpetrator. “Over the past year and a half,” the department posted on its Facebook page, “someone has been clogging the women’s toilet (at the Deland Community Center) with a 20-ounce soda bottle. This is very strange... and gross.” The Sheboygan Press reported that the string of more than 25 incidents began in 2016. Joe Kerlin, the city’s parks and forestry superintendent, says the suspect is likely an adult male, based on security camera footage from outside the restroom. The city’s resulting plumbing bills have totaled between $2,000 and $3,000.

BRIGHT IDEAS

The Snell Family Park ficus tree, a sprawling giant that has shaded the park in Fort Myers, Florida, for more than a century, played the part of groom to several brides on March 24 as Karen Cooper and others tried to save it from being cut down. The News-Press reported that

while its roots are on the park property, some of the limbs in the tree’s 8,000-square-foot canopy extend to an adjacent property that is for sale, and potential buyer Jeff Romer was concerned about his liability for the tree’s upkeep. In December, Fort Myers’ public works officials approved the removal of the tree, prompting protests from Cooper and others. She got the idea of marrying the tree from women in Mexico who have been protesting deforestation. “I thought, ‘Oh, we should marry the ficus tree’ — kind of giggle, giggle.” A city spokeswoman said the city is moving ahead to save the newlywed tree, but Cooper is worried that the decision is not final. “If they cut down this tree, I’m going to be a widow.”

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Maghan LeGlue, 25, of Bridge City, Louisiana, shifted her rage into high gear on March 24 when she used her 2004 Ford Expedition to pin her 27-year-old boyfriend up against his Ford Crown Victoria, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. The Times-Picayune reported that the couple, who have three children together, had been arguing when LeGlue hit him, shattering his leg. Doctors performed emergency surgery on the victim. LeGlue was taken into custody and was held without bond.

Read more weird news at WeirdUniverse.net; send items to [email protected].

OOPS

A man playing with a baseball on the roof of a parking structure in Honolulu on March 23 had to be rescued by firefighters after he fell into the space between two buildings, KHON2 TV reported. Security guard Ray Rodrigues was dispatched to the roof to run the 55-year-old off, but found the man had fallen into a 7- to 9-inch-wide space between the walls. Firefighters resorted to using drills and saws to cut through the concrete to free him. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENTS

Shoppers at the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, got more than they bargained for on April 8, 2017, as model Chelsea Guerra, 22, of Indiana Borough and photographer Michael Warnock, 64, of Point Breeze conducted a nude photo shoot around 11 a.m. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, as Warnock took photos and families looked on, Guerra walked around and posed wearing only thigh-high black stockings and high-heeled shoes. In early March of this year, Guerra and Warnock pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct, and paid a $300 fine. “My nude modeling is honest work,” Guerra said, “and I use it mostly to fund my college career.” A dairy truck driver lost his job in early March after being caught on a surveillance camera urinating near dairy cows in a barn at Tremblay Farm in Highgate, Vermont. While no charges were filed, Monica Massey of the Dairy Farmers of America said the driver’s behavior was unacceptable. “We saw the videos. What we saw was deplorable,” Massey said told WCAX TV. Darleen Tremblay said she was “shattered” by what she saw on the video.

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A new St. Pete initiative aims to get rid of plastic straws. By Scott Harrell

How did the idea for #nostrawsstpete come about? I had said early on this year that I was going to be taking a look at single-use plastics. It’s something that’s always been important to me to look for ways that we can reduce the use of those teams because of the effects they have on our environment. I noticed that plastic straws have been a hot topic of discussion among restaurants and consumers and environmental groups, and it’s an item that is not preempted but the state, a ban isn’t pre-empted, which means we’re not prohibited for restricting the use of plastic straws. Other items like polystyrene and plastic bags are a different story because the state prohibits cities from banning those items. And because we want to tackle single-use plastics as a whole, because we want to be an environmentally responsible city, I thought we could start with something small, something pretty easy to live without, something we could replace with reusable materials like paper or bamboo or metal. I thought,, let’s have this discussion and see what the right move is for St. Pete, to take a citywide approach to reducing the use of plastic drinking straws. Had you been following the efforts out on the beach and elsewhere to get rid of plastic straws? Yes, and most recently I noticed that Fort Myers Beach passed a ban that went into effect in February. That’s a town that’s not too far from us, I read about it and we talked to a couple of

people down there just to see how they’d been adjusting to the ban when it went into effect, because they did a complete ban and not just a request-only ordinance. The folks there said the adjustment was very smooth for the businesses and the customers. How has it been going? It’s fantastic, you know, Brian Bailey from I Love The Burg created and is running that campaign and I’m helping out with that. What he tells me is that many restaurants have signed on since we announced it last week, at that time there were about 20 restaurants that had agreed to reduce the use and wait for customers to ask for a straw, and I think it’s close to 50 now. That’s pretty significant to me, because it’s on a purely volunteer basis, and it shows me that when people understand what the problem is, they want to be part of the solution.

ways. There are different prices, businesses that use plastic bags, when we have the conversation, we need to customize the approach in a way that’s good for both businesses and the consumer. Same with polystyrene. When you look at something like bottled water, that can be a tougher one, because that’s something that’s so incredibly convenient, something like that will be tougher to eliminate. Although I would love to eliminate all those things, I know it might not be practical in every situation. So I want to look at each item separately and see what’s the best way for St. Pete to reduce the use.

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Do you see #nostrawsstpete as a sort of gateway to other environmental initiatives? I would like it to be the start of a conversation that includes other single-use plastics. As I mentioned before there are restrictions on what we can do for some items, but I want to address each item separately because they’re used in unique

So what are you doing this Earth Day? We have a big celebration that’s happening at Williams Park downtown, several groups have come together to organize it and I think they have over 100 vendors, lots of great activities and it’s a great way to learn and to celebrate the beautiful city that we have and the environment that we live in, celebrating our coastal community and learning how we can make sure it stays beautiful for generations.

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n Tuesday, April 10, St. Petersburg City Councilwoman Gina Driscoll joined a group of local businesses at City Hall to formally launch #nostrawsstpete, an organized effort at reducing the use of plastic drinking straws, which can’t be recycled and have proven not just an eyesore on our beaches but a danger to the coastal environment and its wildlife. A doubleedged, voluntary initiative, #nostrawsstpete asks local bars and restaurants to only provide plastic straws upon request, while encouraging patrons to order their drinks with “no straw.” As Earth Day 2018 approaches, CL caught up with Driscoll, who has represented St. Pete’s District 6 since her election last November, to find out how the initiative is going, and where it might lead.

Do you think that overall our community is receptive to environmental ideas like this one? Yes, I think it’s really part of who we are as a city. St. Pete is very environmentally progressive, we’re always looking for ways that we can reduce our reliance on forms of energy that are not desirable, we’re really helping out with folks who want to install solar panels on their houses, there are all kind of initiatives that we’re taking, we’re trying to move toward 100% clean energy, all these initiatives, and on an everyday basis, there is so much we can do as residents of the city. Being a coastal community, we understand how important it is to be a good steward of the environment. It really fit the personality of our city.

DRINKING IT IN: Councilwoman Gina Driscoll (center) helps launch #nostrawsstpete at City Hall.

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Dear Abbey

An environmental provocateur's writing remains as relevant as ever. By Nano Riley

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hen Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness was first published in 1968, it garnered little attention. On its 50th anniversary, though, it shares the bookshelf with Thoreau, and Abbey is a cult figure, inspiring the likes of Carl Hiaasen with quirky, satirical ideas on the rapid destruction of nature through modern technology. Today Abbey’s voice is still relevant, and a new generation is listening. In this celebrated book of essays, Abbey chronicles his rambles as a park ranger around Utah’s Arches National Monument, communing with the indigenous critters he viewed as far more hospitable than humans. He rescued hikers, and once found a dead man, a casualty of the desert’s fatal heat. At night, he drove his battered pickup into nearby Moab to hoist a few brews with local miners and cowboys, a brood usually too tired after a long day’s work to start trouble. Even before his untimely death at 62 in 1989, “Cactus Ed” was a legend with his own self-created mystique. In Edward Abbey: A Life, James M. Cahalan examines Abbey’s world, revealing the real man through letters, journals and interviews. It’s not so much that Abbey told outright lies; he put bits and pieces of his life together as he saw fit. Abbey bound together three separate seasons in the Utah desert at Arches National Park for Desert Solitaire. He also claimed his birthplace as Home, Pennsylvania, but Cahalan reveals Abbey was born elsewhere in 1927, and Home is a cozy name, fulfilling the longing for elusive permanence he likely missed in his younger years as his parents traveled looking for work during the Great Depression. Abbey’s desert narrative is memorable because he’s no passive observer. He rants against this onslaught of “industrial tourism” from his quiet corner, the invasion of roaring bulldozers bringing roads and tourists with their motor homes, litter, radios, and other disturbances of the peace; he despises the new visitor’s center where rangers “are going nuts answering the same three basic questions five hundred times a day: (1) Where’s the john? (2) How long does it take to see this place? (3) Where’s the Coke machine?” But who was the real Edward Abbey? He’s been called an anarchist, a misogynist, a womanizer; he drank too much. He also spent time in the army, studied philosophy and music at the University of New Mexico, and played the flute, Cahalan tells us. He finally earned a B.A. in philosophy and English in 1951, and an M.A. in philosophy in 1956. His master’s thesis explored

the relationship between anarchism and violence. He was married five times. He was also a Fulbright scholar. As editor of a student paper he published an article, “Some Implications of Anarchy.” The cover quotation read “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest,” which he attributed to Louisa May Alcott. Irate university officials seized all copies and kicked him off the paper. Friends remember his keen sense of humor. Abbey spent a few months as a park ranger in the Everglades hunting gator poachers in the early ‘60s. He patrolled local highways handing out warnings for speeders, trying to catch the legendary poacher “Gator Roberts.” But even with tips from a helpful roadside café waitress he was unsuccessful, finding only taunting notes left by the notorious hunter. In 1970, Desert Solitaire emerged in paperback, quickly becoming an anthem, a revelation about the ongoing destruction in the West, much as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring sounded the alarm for pesticides a decade earlier. Abbey offered a new and stunning view of a world of deserts and solitude, of his seasons in the tin government trailer in Arches, then a little-known spot attracting few intrepid hikers. There were no facilities, no paved roads, and no motor vehicles allowed in the park. Suddenly, hordes of desert-lovers with dog-eared copies of his book streamed there. In 1975, his famous novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, featured Abbey’s protagonist (and perhaps alter-ego), the anti-hero George Washington Hayduke, who lurks about the Grand Canyon with a like-minded group of environmentalists plotting to sabotage the flooding of the beautiful Glen Canyon to create Lake Powell. It inspired new activists, and in 1980, the radical environmentalist organization Earth First! emerged. While Abbey supported the efforts of Earth First!, he wanted no part of administrative work, preferring to wander his beloved wild lands and write. Cactus Ed simply loved wilderness: “Wilderness. The word itself is music. Wilderness. Wilderness… We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.” (from Desert Solitaire) Sadly, as Cahalan reports, he’d just “grown up,” and found happiness with Clarke, his fifth, and final, wife, when his profligate lifestyle caught up with him. His books were selling, he

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CACTUS ED: 50 years later, Abbey’s bond with wilderness still resonates. had secured a permanent place as a professor at the University of Arizona and he and Clarke had two young children. He developed what he himself called “the old wino’s disease,” technically esophageal varices, causing internal bleeding. After a valiant fight, he found himself hospitalized, with a grim prognosis. That led to Abbey’s last great act of rebellion. A few years earlier he’d made a couple of close friends swear they’d not let him die in a hospital, under the fluorescent lights, tied to tubes and suffocated with the nauseating smell of antiseptic. So, when Cactus Ed reached the end, they took him to the small writing cabin behind his home, where he quietly died. They took his body to an unknown spot in his beloved desert, piled rocks on top to deter coyotes, and placed a large boulder bearing the inscription

he wanted. “Edward Paul Abbey, 1927-1989, No Comment.” Abbey wanted no funeral, only a wake, where he wanted poetry, music, drinking, and lovemaking. There were two such events, one near Taos, and another at his beloved Arches. Thirty years after his death, Abbey’s Desert Solitaire remains relevant. Now that many of our parklands are under the growing threat of an administration that sees no intrinsic value in natural beauty, sacred lands or indigenous wildlife, one can only imagine what Abbey would do. “He was the Mark Twain of the American desert; he was bad behavior and big-hearted ideas,” wrote conservationist and author Terry Tempest Williams. As his pal Jack Loeffler said, “He was a great friend, not a great role model.”

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A teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is arrested after leaving his semiautomatic handgun in a Deerfield Beach restroom. America in a nutshell? Nope — America in a Deerfield Beach crapper stall. NOAA announces that it’s retiring four names from the list of monikers given to hurricanes. Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate are being swept off the slate “because of the death and destruction they caused during the 2017 Atlantic season.” Isn’t it wonderful when science and superstition collide?

SATURDAY 14 The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New Jersey Devils 5-3 in the second game of their first-round playoff series. Steve is suddenly super-interested in local hockey, and claims to have been a fan all along. Shut up, Steve. You’re fooling nobody.

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The Constitution Revision Commission votes to put a greyhound racing ban on the November state ballot. Now everybody’s got a dog in this fight. A 54-year-old St. Pete man is arrested for insurance fraud after claiming he was injured when the letter “O” fell off a Hooters sign during Hurricane Irma, even though he was caught on video looking just fine while handling and then stealing the letter in question, and had actually been in the restaurant demanding free food and drinks in exchange for giving it back. How much do you want to bet he asked every server that walked by him if he could give her a “big O”? Read Scott Harrell’s Shit Happened every weekday at cltampa.com/news.

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How to actually make a difference this Earth Day. By Cathy Salustri If you want to buy an organic cotton T-shirt for Earth Day, well, there’s no shortage of fests and street parties where you can do just that. But what if you want to take meaningful action? You know, actually do something? Sometimes we’re more lip service than earth service, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Here’s how to make a difference in

our corner of paradise this Earth Day: Plant a tree My parents have an oak tree in the front yard that’s huge — they picked it up years ago as a sapling in a tree giveaway by the city of Clearwater, and now it offers gorgeous shade and homes for countless squirrels, each of whom my mother treats like the grandchildren I’ve never given her. (Seriously, all

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the squirrels love her yard.) How do you get the trees (you’re on your own with the squirrels, but as I understand it, they’ll show up)? Well, this year, Grow Financial’s giving away trees — you can get a Dahoon holly (think Christmas berries). Dahoons grow pretty much anywhere, and birds love love love them some berries (they’re like brunchtime prosecco for blue jays). Go into any Grow Financial location during their regular business hours on Apr. 19 & 20 and get yours. Clean a beach So, plastics are kind of a problem, and that may be the understatement of the year. The absolute best thing you can do this Earth Day (and, well, every day) is go clean one of our many, many beaches. Picnic Island Park (7409 Picnic Island Blvd., Tampa on Sat. at 4:30 p.m.), the Tampa side of the Courtney Campbell Causeway (across from boat ramp by the traffic light on Sun. at 11 a.m.) and Memorial Causeway (Clearwater Marine Aquarium, 249 Windward Passage, Clearwater on Sun. at 8 a.m.) all have beach cleanups scheduled. Clean something else OK, fine, so nonbeaches need love, too. Tarpon Springs (Tarpon Springs Community Garden, 116 N. Ring Ave., Tarpon Springs on Sat. at 8 a.m.), St. Pete Eco Village (302 15th St. N., St. Pete on Sun. at 8 a.m.) and Lettuce Lake (Vaughan Center at the University of Tampa, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa on Sat. at 8:30 a.m.) all offer non-salty, terra-firma options. Write something So this isn’t as sexy as meeting a group of your friends and drinking bubbles after a beach cleanup, but it’s pretty important: Write. Write your local board of county commissioners (Read this at cltampa.com to find email for Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota commissioners) and ask them to take specific action on any of the following issues that speaks to you: Phosphate mining, clean water, growth management, clean energy, protecting local wildlife or the Everglades. The Sierra Club has some pretty good talking points; sierraclub.org has a link to ask that the head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, resign. Speaking of which, why not email Senator Bill Nelson at billnelson. senate.gov/contact-bill and ask that he take a super-strong stand in favor of removing government subsidies for Big Sugar? I mean, you can probably send your thoughts about the EPA to Marco Rubio, too, but that’s about as effective as sending him your thoughts and prayers... Send money Bill Nelson’s gonna be running against Rick Scott in the next senate race, and Republicans are gonna be throwing money at Scott like somebody with a serious thing for baldness at FetishCon 2018, so if you have some spare change, Nelson would probably appreciate it. Republicans typically fundraise wayyyyy more than conservatives (we’re too busy sending money to nonprofits that feed the hungry, clothe the homeless and basically take care of everyone screwed by Big Red), so if you’re behind the Blue Wave, they’ll need all they can get.

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fter bidding the neighborhood farewell three years ago, GrillSmith is bringing the heat back to South Tampa. The Tampa-based American restaurant brand — established in Clearwater in 2004 and known for grill-forward, refined-casual comfort cuisine — has started taking over the former site of Grille One Sixteen at 612 N. Dale Mabry Highway. GrillSmith, at one time, ran six restaurants with its “Craft By Fire” tagline, including a location at the Westfield Brandon mall that closed in 2014. But the return of GrillSmith South Tampa now marks the fifth outpost for the locally owned and operated brand — which didn’t shutter its original location at 1108 S. Dale Mabry because of the community. So don’t get it twisted. “We definitely missed being in South Tampa. It was a great location, as far as the community,” said Tara Fallo, GrillSmith’s local store marketing specialist, last week. “The South Tampa community has welcomed us back with open arms for sure, which is great, but the [original] physical location was just not really working for us.” Fallo attributed the closure of the neighborhood’s OG GrillSmith, opened in 2007, to a not-so-surprising culprit. The parking situation wasn’t ideal, she tells CL (when in South Tampa, though, is it ever?), and that could be one reason why the restaurant was reported to be “underperforming,” according to a March 2015 article from the Tampa Tribune. Nonetheless, the team is confident about their new home in the area. “We just found this location, and we really think it’s gonna work a lot better for us. We’re looking to thrive and do really well here,” Fallo said. GrillSmith chef-president Joe Guli added: “We’ve put things in place where everybody

INDUSTRIAL, MEET RUSTIC: GrillSmith chef-president Joe Guli inside the new South Tampa location. Sicilian recipe from Grandma Guli. Launched on April 2, the selection of limited-time plates, titled “Craft Comfort,” rotates every three months with a mix of old and never-beforeseen favorites. Oh, and get this — Guli confirmed there’s a full vegan menu scheduled to roll out in July. One dish in development is the ubiquitous cauliflower steak. “What we do is we look at trends and what’s hot right now with items, and then it just comes down to making the item great. It takes a lot of work,” he said. GrillSmith also aims to evolve by pairing more cocktails and other beverages with the grub. Beer and wine dinners — possibly even cigar dinners — are being considered for the near future, accompanying weekly highlights that include Saturday and Sunday brunch, happy

hour and Tito’s Thursday with $6 martinis. In addition to GrillSmith South Tampa, Scratch Concepts is gearing up to premiere the first Burger 21 in St. Petersburg, where Justhai didn’t work out along Fourth Street North. The fast-casual gourmet burger chain expects to open May 21, but GrillSmith is shooting for a debut a little before that on May 14. What’s more, diners can look forward to additional GrillSmiths around the greater Tampa Bay area. As Guli puts it, the gang has solidified locations in both St. Pete and Sarasota. While he couldn’t talk specifics on the expansion yet, the openings will take place by the end of the year. “We’re really excited,” the chef-president said. “I mean, South Tampa’s been growing, it’s evolving, it’s a very trendy area, and I think we’re gonna bring a lot of value.”

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ver since the sous-vide hype-train left the station, I’ve been on board. Sous vide essentially means without air, but another term associated with the kitchen trend is precision cooking. One of the most common sous-vide machines out there is the immersion circulator (the sous-vide oven is also an option), which, put simply, is a device used to heat a container of water to a specific, consistent temperature and cook food in vacuum-sealed bags — or food-grade ziplocks — at said temp throughout. The beauty of this magic wand is that you can prepare proteins at whatever temperatures you desire and walk away, without overcooking them. It’s like a slow cooker, but with more control. The gadget isn’t hard to find, either. What was once a tool exclusive to restaurants can now be acquired by home cooks for under $100 on Amazon. So, after months of fawning over the glorious device, I received one a few months ago for Christmas. Woohoo! I couldn’t wait to start

cooking the next day. In all my excitement, however, it didn’t occur to me until later that the sous-vide machine had a far better use: cocktails. Longtime readers know I’m a huge proponent of infusing spirits with fresh ingredients. Some store-bought flavors are OK, but infusing your own booze is always better when possible. And now, thanks to the ability to sous vide, this behind-the-bar technique is easier. No longer do you need days, or weeks, to pull off tea-infused gin or Thai basil syrup — it takes hours. Even better is that the flavor possibilities are endless. I would’ve never thought to infuse rum with banana (this week’s tropical sipper is more reminiscent of a piña colada than a Painkiller), but the immersion circulator’s subtle, delicate heat makes the extraction process more precise. Pro tip: Remember to keep the temperature under 173 degrees. Otherwise, you’ll burn the alcohol out of the spirit. Easy enough for me.

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Sous Vide Infused Banana Rum: 1 ripe banana, peeled 1 cup white rum Fill a food-grade ziplock bag with your banana and rum. Fill a large container, like a pot, with water and attach the sousvide machine to the side, but don’t turn it on. Close all but the one corner of the bag and place it in the water. Hold the bag under water, excluding the open corner. Use pressure from the water to force out as much air as possible, then seal the bag. Turn on the sous vide and set its temperature at 140 degrees. (You might have to

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arly last week, the Brewers Association released a first — an inaugural list that celebrates the 50 fastest-growing U.S. breweries of 2017. While the nonprofit trade association’s nationwide nods went to operations across 25 states, everywhere from California to Vermont, a couple of beermakers in the Bay area were also recognized. The locals in question? Mastry’s Brewing Co. in St. Pete Beach and Bradenton’s Darwin Brewing Co., two of the four Florida breweries that made the cut. Darwin Brewing secured the 34th spot, while Mastry’s Brewing landed in the top 10 at No. 7. Founded in 2014 as a brewpub operating out of the family-owned CD Roma restaurant in St. Petersburg’s Tyrone area, Mastry’s Brewing opened its doors as the first brewery in St. Pete Beach two years ago, aiming to push the boundaries of the beach beer experience. Darwin Brewing has a similar story to Mastry’s Brewing in that it was born out of Darwin, a Sarasota gastropub, but the brewery’s been specializing in culinary-inspired ales and lagers since 2012. As for the Sunshine State’s other mentions, Islamorada-based Florida Keys Brewing Co. ranked highest at No. 4, followed by Idyll Hounds Brewing Company in Santa Rosa Beach at No. 16. “We wouldn’t be where we are today if it wasn’t for our family, friends and having such great

patrons. It’s been a real labor of love to bring Mastry’s to where it is today, and we aren’t even close to slowing down,” said Mastry’s Brewing founder and CEO Matthew Dahm. The Brewers Association champions small and independent breweries, which is what its new list reflects. For the 50 operations in the spotlight — eight brewpubs, 40 microbreweries and two regional breweries whose median size went from 284 barrels in 2016 to 963 barrels in 2017 — median growth from 2016 to 2017 was 216 percent. They represent 5.5 percent of the craft category’s growth by volume last year. But, to qualify for consideration, the breweries also had to be executing all production at their own facilities; up and running since Dec. 31, 2015, or earlier; and reporting to the Brewers Association’s annual Beer Industry Production Survey (beermakers with staff estimates and state excise tax report data weren’t taken into account). “With 5 percent growth overall for small and independent brewers in 2017 and microbreweries and brewpubs delivering the majority of that, we wanted to spotlight some of the breweries driving that growth,” said Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers Association. “As the growth base for craft becomes more diffuse, these fast growing brewing companies illustrate that a diverse set of success stories still exist.”

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GRINDHAUS BREW LAB Small batches and no extracts. 1650 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater. 727-240-0804, grindhausbrewlab.com. HIDDEN SPRINGS ALE WORKS This Tampa Heights brewery features a rotating tap selection. 1631 N. Franklin St., Tampa, 813226-2739, hiddenspringsaleworks.com.

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here are a few things you should know about In the Time of the Butterflies right off the bat: One, as Americans, we are piss-poor at history, because Trujillo’s bloody rule over the Dominican Republic is not taught in high school history classes. Two, not every Caribbean island is a sun-seeker’s paradise. Three, although this production isn’t perfect, Stageworks impresses for even attempting it. And they’ve done more than attempt it; this is the year of the woman to the nth degree over here on East Kennedy in Tampa. Man, if they wanted to drive home the idea that #MeToo and #TimesUp merely scratch the surface, they’ve done it, because you walk out of this show feeling like unless you die doing battle against Donald Trump, you’re not fulfilling your destiny. You can wear whatever black dress you want to the Grammys, but that’s fingerling potatoes to these women. OK, so real quick: This show tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, who were quite happy and privileged Dominicans until Rafael Trujillo came to power and wanted to rape little girls. He was also a ruthless, bloody dictator in other ways, but his sexual harassment of Minerva Mirabal (an exquisite performance from Marlene Peralta, and also a gutwrenching moment between Trujillo — Cornelio “Coky” Aguilera — and Peralta) and subsequent punishment of the Mirabal sisters’ father (that led to his death) is what galvanized these women into action. That action brought about their bloody murder — and his — but how they went from being typical young women to revolutionaries is what we’re seeing onstage. At its core, this is a story of girl power, an anthem to the strength of sisterhood. Peralta and Jessy Julianna, who played the youngest sister, Maria-Teresa, or Mate, give stunning performances. At the play’s opening, Mate is the only one not yet a teenager, and because of this the 23 years that pass require the most of whatever actress plays this part — she goes from her First Communion, which means she was in second grade, to a young married woman over the course of two hours. Julianna plays the part of the little girl so well most audience members will be shocked to learn she has three children. With a simple change of hairstyle and different dresses her only physical means of change, Julianna’s ability to transform herself from a child to a married woman only hints at the breadth of her

talent. The set, designed by Frank Chavez, is imposing yet intimate, which means Julianna must do this in ridiculously close proximity to the audience (co-directors Karla Hartley and Jorge Acosta have staged this so that Peralta and Julianna are downstage the most, which means at moments the audience is less than three feet from them in the front row); her face changes in ways that defy description. As for the older two sisters, young Dedé (Isabel Natera) and Patria (Lauren Lisette Valiente), they, too, give insightful, moving performances that will haunt theatergoers long after they speak their last lines. Patria has a monologue about the death of her baby; Valiente had some in the audience in tears. Young Dedé starts the play conflicted about whether or not to become a revolutionary; the day she says goodbye to her sisters for the last time, she is no less so, and that conflict makes adult Dedé’s life all the more haunted. Adult Dedé, played by Blue Feliu, looks every bit the part of the Dominican survivor (in this show; in real life, she looks quite different). The bulk of her performance involves her sitting on the balcony, looking through a photo album of her sisters and talking to the American Woman (Clare Lopez) who has come to tell the story. These exchanges are where the directors could have had the actors take more time; Feliu spends too much time looking down at the album, making audiences wonder if perhaps she had some of her lines in there nestled alongside the photographs. In the moments where she makes eye contact with Lopez, the exchanges are poignant and electric (of note is the moment where adult Dedé chastises the American woman for not wanting chocolate because she is dieting), but those times when she doesn’t, the scenes fall flat, making it seem as though they are both powering through their lines to arrive at the next plot point. The actresses need to slow down and let the tragedy of the memories work the scene for them. If ever a man could be all things to all women — captor, abuser, lover, entertainment — Aguilera is. He plays every male role, from DJ to Minerva’s revolutionary boyfriend, but his performance as Trujillo lands squarely on its target. When we see Trujillo with a young Minerva, his not-so-subtle spreading of his legs as she kneels

certainly sympathetic to production companies but also a far harsher critic in many ways; could I justify another stellar review? Certainly, there will be shows at Jobsite and American Stage and Stageworks — and freeFall, we’re not forgetting you guys — that will deserve less praise. And those shows will get less praise and fewer stars. But, in truth, In the Time of the Butterflies evokes such a visceral reaction at so many levels, it deserves every star it gets. Yes, we’ve had some fine theater lately in Tampa Bay. Yes, this is another four-star show. Yes, It’s a good day to be a theatergoer in Tampa Bay.

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in front of him sent shivers up my spine. We’ve all been there, Minerva. Aguilera somehow transitions from murderous sleazeball — and allows us a glimpse of the remaining humanity inside the sleaze — to murdered driver, a byproduct of Trujillo’s rage. I struggled with how many stars to give this show. The hiccups with adult Dedé and American Woman are not significant enough to suggest you spend your money elsewhere; the sisters and Aguilera’s performances are among the finest this year, but I’ve recently awarded five stars to Jobsite’s HIR and four to Marjorie Prime at American Stage. As a former stage manager, I’m

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The vinyl countdown

Local treasures worth seeking out at this year's Record Store Day. By Ray Roa

RECORD STORE DAY

The impact you make by buying a local’s record on vinyl goes a long way.

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n Record Store Day (RSD), a slew of major a list of local releases worth looking for when and independent labels are teaming up to you’re in the scrum on Saturday. Ask your frenrelease scores of special releases. Some, zied record store employee for the local section. like a double-LP of Bruce Springsteen’s greatest hits, have 5,000 copies available at various Alexander & the Grapes — “Falling stores across the world, while others, like the Apart”/”Seeds (Alternate Version)” This 2013 “Backwash” 7-inch from Pittsburgh experimen- release came out on 300 pieces of “beer-colored tal electronic band Black Moth Super Rainbow, vinyl” (at the same time as an Alexander & the are limited to just 500. Only 250 copies of a Grapes double IPA from Cigar City Brewpub), triple-LP from pioneering and a few copies are still Midwestern emo act The floating around in select Casket Lottery will make it Bay area shops. to shelves around the globe (before some inevitably end Brother Cephus — Not That Record Store Day 2018 up on online vinyl marketImportant Seth and Gabe Sat. April 21, Times vary. place Discogs). Davis lead their Tampa Various Bay Area Record Shops Lost in the hoopla of rock band through an See cltampa.com/music for details. waking up early and crossalbum full of the uncering items off of your vinyl wishlist is the fact tainty, anger and deliriousness of being a that local bands have been releasing their music late-20s kid in Trump’s America. One of CL’s on vinyl since the format was available. Your favorite local albums of 2017. friendly neighborhood musician often has to wait while majors clog up the U.S.’ limited number Career — “Structures” This 2018 release from of pressing plants (as of November 2017, there another one of Tampa’s best indie-rock bands were an estimated 23 pressing plants in the clocks in at just 28 minutes, but it’s the kind of U.S., according to Matt Earley, vice president work that leaves a hole in your chest upon first at Gotta Groove Records, a pressing plant in listen thanks to piles and piles of dizzying, disCleveland, Ohio). orienting waves of distorted rock and frontman That wasn’t the case for Tampa indie-rock Ryan Fouche’s intense vocals. band Empire Cinema, which is releasing just 50 translucent red copies of its self-titled debut combatwoundedveteran — Duck Down For full-length on RSD. The Torso Only 200 blue pieces from a second “We went through Jonathan [Berlin] and pressing exist, but the beloved Tampa grindWalter [Hill] at VINYL Record Pressing,” front- core band did release 2,000 mixed-color records man Brendon Hock told in 2002. CL. The Atlantic Beach indie plant will press as Empire Cinema — Empire few as 100 units, and Cinema The moody boasts some of the fastTampa indie-rock trio est turnarounds in the finally releases its longindustry. In all, Empire awaited self-titled debut Cinema pressed 100 copfull-length pressed at ies of the LP on the red vinyl and 200 more on VINYL Record Pressing near Jacksonville, black vinyl. Florida. Set for formal release in a month, just “I think the whole thing took maybe two 50 copies of translucent red will be available in months,” Hock added. local record shops on RSD. The luster of your limited-edition RSD pick-up may fade off as the months go on, but the impact Failure Face — Discography 1993-1996 With 17 you can make by buying a local’s record on vinyl songs on side A and 10 on side B, this 2012 comgoes a long way. In that spirit, we’ve compiled pilation from Give Praise Records compiles pretty

LOOKING GOOD IN RED: Tampa's Empire Cinema. much everything released by Bob Suren’s in-yourface, yet still-melodic and always angry hardcore. (Suren, also used to run revered punk record distro Sound Idea.) A 1993 self-titled 7-inch, ‘94’s All Pain No Gain 7-inch, a split with Florida metal band Ulcer, one track from a 1995 Amnesia compiation and Failure Face’s Burrito Records split LP with E.B.S. all make the cut on this one. Gino and the Goons — Bastard Greasy, fun-loving garage rock from a goofy Tampa squad of modern rock and roll heroes. It’s a 10-inch, which means it won’t fit in with most of your record collection, but that’s kind of the point, right?

Guiltmaker — Dilemmas This Kickstarter-funded 2009 EP from a now-defunct Tampa rock quartet came out on Kiss Of Death Records, and was limited to 130 copies on transparent red vinyl, 80 white copies and just over 300 regular black vinyl pieces. Have Gun, Will Travel — Science From An Easy Chair White copies of this album from the Bradenton Americana heroes were pressed in Nashville, and the triumphant record still stands proud three years after its initial release. Meatwound — Trash Apparatus EP Meatwound’s 2017 album Largo landed on CL’s best albums continued on page 37

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PLATTERS THAT MATTER: RSD offers plenty of opportunity to buy local. list, but if you’re not ready to dive headfirst into a pool of sludgy hardcore, then this EP is a good way to to take a lap around the Meatwound wasteland while acquiring just a tiny bit of tinnitus. Merchandise — “Begging For Your Life"/"In The City Light” The Tampa art-rock band signed to famed indie label 4AD released 1,000 copies of this clear, 12-inch single previously only available on a split tour cassette with Thurston Moore project Chelsea Light Moving. Permanent Makeup — Scrape No Clear Records and Dead Tank Records teamed up to release 300 mixe- color pieces of the 2017 release by hyperactive Bay area punk instigators Permanent Makeup. Pink Lincolns — Back From The Pink Room By our count, there are six different variations of this 1987 album from Tampa punk forefathers Pink Lincolns. The original appears on the Greed Bastard imprint, and Stiff Pole Records put out another in 1995. In 2008, Jailhouse Records pressed the most recent reissue on redand-white vinyl, and you’d be a really lucky piece of shit to find the German version that Musical Tradgedies put out in 1992.

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Sleeping Pills — A Maze In A Wave Phil Taylor seems to always be working on new music, and Tampa Bay fans of the dark, Buzzcocks and Johnny Thunders-influenced rock he makes under the Sleeping Pills moniker are lucky to always have the opportunity to buy it on vinyl. Soapbox Soliloquy — Good Morning Dragonclaw Its trippy cover was painted by Indiana’s Tom Torluemke, and the inside finds Jasmine Deja and the seven-piece Nimbus Collective getting even weirder on the music and pictorial lyric sheet.

Pleasures — Body Pop A synth- and drum-heavy psych-pop adventure that Katherine Kelly’s St. Pete-based band pressed onto 250 copies of purple splatter vinyl earlier this year.

Vaginasore Jr. — This Here Peninsula If you’ve ever played drunk therapist or screamed “Nice blinker asshole!,” then you need this 2009 ADD Records release from Dave Decker, Joe Paez, Richie Lawler and Russ Van Cleave in your collection. It’s pure indie punk in the vein of Against Me! or Superchunk, and Razorcake’s Dave Rohm once wrote, “It’s like sacrilege, but I have to say it… I like VSJR better than DSJR.”

Pohgoh — In Memory Of Bab The first vinyl reissue of Pohgoh’s 1997 debut album (previously only available on CD, released this time on 200 pieces of clear 180g vinyl) sold out quick, so you’ll probably end up with the standard black second pressing that’s still packaged in

Veiny Hands — “Tonguing”/“Dirty Sheets” Veiny Hands was a short-lived project, but this 7-inch packaged in a bright grapefruit-colored sleeve features two songs from the indie-rock band’s self-titled BUFU Records cassette and is a good way to stay in touch.

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THU 19 C Lou Barlow Remember that time you could buy a ticket to play shuffleboard with the Replacements’ Tommy Stinson before his concert in St. Pete? Well, the chance to sling biscuits with another rock and roller is happening again. This time it’s Dinosaur Jr.’s Lou Barlow (also a founder of Sebadoh and lo-fi indie rock band The Folk Implosion), and folks who don’t spring for the $80 VIP package can still get up close and personal with the 51-year-old guitarist when he plays an acoustic set inside the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club. (St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, St. Petersburg) The Beer Garden Sessions Presented By New Belgium w/Rodney Smith/Shae Krispinsky/Dan Padilla/Marc Ganancias/ Jeff Brawer/David Kibby Crowbar’s courtyard is finally finished with its revamp, and after a series of dry runs the venue’s Beer Gardens Sessions is ready to formally kick things off with this its first official songwriters’ showcase. A veritable who’s who of frontmen and women from Bay area punk and rock outfits is on the bill, and there’ll also be art and BBQ available at the no-cover affair. (Crowbar, Ybor City) C Ronny Elliott w/Rebekah Pulley/Rob Pastore/Steve Connelly/Walt Bucklin Ronny Elliott has played on bills with a holy host of legends (Van Morrison, the Allman Brothers, Wilco, Sly & The Family Stone, Michael Bloomfield, Canned Heat, Steve Miller, NRBQ, Patti Smith, Pete Seeger, Steve Earle, the list goes on), and on Thursday the Bay area folk-scene legend will probably tell stories about a lot of that. Hearing the soon-to-be 71-year-old (his birthday is on

Saturday) rant, rave and preach is a treat in itself, but the addition of Rebekah Pulley and Rob Pastore — plus an opening set from legendary Bay area songwriter/producer Steve Connelly with Walt Bucklin — makes this a nice foil to another strong songwriter show happening a few blocks away (Lou Barlow at St. Pete Shuffle). (Side Door Cabaret at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) C Art & Soul 2-year anniversary w/Lisa McClendon/Kristen Warren/Trumaine Lamar/Jay Camaro/Iamflux/Crown Marquiss/Cali Poetik/King Knoxygen A monthly showcase of the Bay area’s brightest young talent celebrates two turns around the sun with a show that’ll be heavy on strong singers (Lisa McClendon, Trumaine Lamar, Jay Camaro, Iamflux) and peppered with a little hip-hop (Crown Marquiss) and jazz, too (Kristen Warren). The basement at St. Pete restaurant Iberian Rooster is probably one of the coolest places to sit back and take in a full night of music, so a table reservation might be in order if you plan on going the distance. (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) C Klimchak w/Mountain Holler/ Uhlectronic/Trout In Paris John D. Klimchak played Lakeland DIY spot ART/ifact on Wednesday, but the Atlanta experimental soundscape artist is a little closer to home on Thursday when he appears in Safety Harbor alongside Michael Lyn Bryant’s loop-based psych project Trout In Paris, synth and sound collecting mad professor Uhlectronic and the comparatively traditional sounds of folkcrooner Mountain Holler. (Safety Harbor Art and Music Center, Safety Harbor)

FRI 20 C Listening Room Festival Showcase A weeklong celebration of the hyper-intimate

concert experience kicked off on Wednesday, and this Friday showcase is an evening-time catch-all show where the Tampa Bay Listening Room Festival’s featured artists — including folk-singing Korean-American sisters Chasing Lovely — will take the big stage at the Palladium Theater. Harmony-driven folkrock band The Novelists is on the bill along with fiddle master Luke Bulla, Canadian folkpop group Big Little Lions, mando-wielding Americana and vocal-folk collective Escaping Pavement, and Alberta-based, award-winning troubadour John Wort Hannam. A full schedule and more info is available via listeningroomfestival.com. (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) AJ Ghent w/Come Back Alice AJ Ghent is fresh off of the release of his latest album The Neo Blues Project, where the Ft. Pierce native reworks a Junior Kimbrough tune (“Do The Rump”) and then gives listeners his own special brand of fiery sacred steel-driven funk, blues, rock and soul all while channeling the sounds of his favorite influences and collaborators like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson or even Zac Brown (who invited Ghent to play on 2013’s Grohl Sessions Vol. 1). (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) 98 Rockfest w/Shinedown/Three Days Grace/Seether/Starset/Fozzy/10 Years/ more The memory of last year’s 98 Rockfest headlined by Soundgarden still lingers (frontman Chris Cornell committed suicide less than three weeks after the band’s Tampa show), but the hard-rock station will try and make new ones on Saturday when it hosts another edition of its long-running Rockfest. Chris Jericho’s Fozzy project makes the bill alongside a familiar list of radio-rock favorites like Jacksonville boys done good Shinedown (“If You Only Knew”), Canadian quartet Three Days Grace (“I Hate Everything About You”), Seether (“Broken”) and more. (Amalie Arena, Tampa) Gaul w/Weltesser/Pipe Dreamer You can’t actually spark up inside of Planet Retro, but your mind will get smoked when three of the Sunshine State’s heaviest bands take to the Fringe District record shop for this show, which is kind of like a pre-party for Record Store Day kicking off the next morning. (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg) Goldlink Third time’s a charm, right? D’Anthony Carlos (aka Goldlink) has already canceled two Ybor City shows (the first due to Hurricane Irma, the second because of a family emergency), but all things look good for this show from the 2015 XXL Freshman Class member. His full-length debut album — At What Cost — and its golden hit single “Crew” still bump, and we’re expecting the the 24-year-old Washington D.C. rapper to put on one hell of a makeup show for faithful fans. Read Jenna Rances’ interview with Goldlink on cltampa.com/music before you get to the gig. (Orpheum, Ybor City)

Poetry ‘n’ Lotion Listening to Tampa instrumental collective Poetry ‘n’ Lotion noodle around for an afternoon is always a good idea, and that notion is made even better since you can also eat noodles (Chicken roulade with fettuccine!) while taking it all in at this Seminole Heights eatery. (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) C Scholar’s Symposium: Aisha Durham “Home with Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture” is a cultural, intellectual and political project that looks to extend the artistic, analytical and advocacyoriented work of girls and women of color from the “post” generations. Its author Aisha Durham — a cultural studies and feminist media studies professor at USF — heads to another campus as she mines memory in recalling her southern roots to narrate her hip-hop becoming. Durham’s performanceinformed autoethnography and embodied cultural criticism demonstrates “how critically-engaged, community-centered and culturally relevant research can serve as a catalyst for new areas of inquiry and social movements.” Get learned at this open-tothe-public music talk. (Vaughn Center at University of Tampa, Tampa) String Time Social Tampa Bay misses the Pickford Sundries, but Tug Winthrop (dobro player for the inactive Bay area bluegrass band) has tapped fiddler Molly Getson and guitarist Chad Spikes for a new project — String Time Social — which has a collection of tunes that’ll go over well under the oak canopy draped over Crooked Thumb Brewery. Free show as always. (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor)

SAT 21 C Record Store Day In its 11th year, Record Store day has become a full-on daylong celebration of independent retail. There are lots of exclusive releases available, but CL has compiled a list of local pickups on p. 35. Head to cltampa.com/music to get details on all the concerts and happenings scheduled to go down at various shops on Saturday. John McEuen & Friends Classic rock figurehead John McCuen is joined by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-mates Les Thompson and John Cable (plus Matt Cartsonis) in Largo as he revisits the old-school country rock band’s more-than-50-year-old catalog. Expect some stuff from McCuen’s latest solo album Made in Brooklyn — released in 2016 via Chesky Records — as well as a slideshow featuring archival footage from NGDB’s heyday. (Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo) Bad Ass Beerfest w/Oak Hay/Greg White Jr. Beer is the star at this one (more than 60 breweries will tap their wares on Sunday), but country rocker Greg White Jr. and Fil

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40 continued from page 39 Pate’s Clearwater folk-grass trio Oak Hay will be pickin’ and singing for four hours while the Westchase crowd at TBBC’s east Tampa location looks and listens on. (Tampa Bay Brewing Co., Tampa) C Brainquility Music Festival w/Beats Antique/Lettuce/Tauk/Voodoo Visionary/ MZG/Side Trakd “Tranquil” is a nearly perfect word to describe the setting at Safety Harbor’s Waterfront Park, so the moniker fits as the new Brainquility Festival brings a heady lineup of jamtronic acts, funk bands and DJs to the sleepy small town. Last week’s Ybor City pre-party featured Gainesville producer Side Trackd, and folks who don’t get to see him (or fellow Brainquility artist MZG) at the festival proper can still catch a set at the official after-party happening exactly one mile away at Crooked Thumb Brewery. (Waterfront Park, Safety Harbor) C Nightwish Nightwish is what happens when a classically-trained opera vocalist fronts a metal-nerd’s acoustic project. Nightwish eventually adopted full-band instrumentation, which attracted the attention of Spinefarm records in the late ‘90s, and the rest has been history for this longrunning, universally loved Finnish goth-metal band. The group is celebrating 20 years of gorgeous symphonic sounds at this one, so expect to hear lot from its 1998 album Oceanborn as well as a healthy selection of cuts from Nightwish’s epic eight-piece discography. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) Kenny Chesney w/Old Dominion/Brandon Lay Kenny Chesney’s optimistic new song, “Get Along,” is a simplistic ode to altruism that’ll go over well with fans (watch out for broken beer bottles at the tailgate, No Shoes Nation!). The cut should also go over well at Ray Jay, where the 50-year-old country megastar is kicking off his extensive and expansive summer tour (Pollstar says that it takes a traveling staff of 133 plus hundreds more in local crews to set up the the stage — which weighs 360,000 pounds — and that the production requires 28 trucks, 19 buses, and 60,000 to 80,000 square feet of flooring to protect stadium fields). (Raymond James Stadium, Tampa)

Tampa Skate & Art Festival w/Famous Dex/6ix9ine Dexter Gore Jr.’s mother died in 2014, and that pushed the 24-year-old Chicago rapper into music full-time. The effort hasn’t been in vain. His big single, “Pick It Up” broke

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In a fourth-floor office that pretty much shares an address with the historic Tampa Theatre, Symphonic Distribution’s more than 20 employees sit primed for what they hope is a turn at driving the future of the music industry. The 12-year-old company relocated from Wesley Chapel to downtown Tampa late last year, and marketing director Janette Berrios expects the company’s new, 4,000-square-foot headquarters to eventually be home base to more than 30 web developers, designers, videographers, interns, customer support reps and sales and marketing staff who’ll work in tandem with other Symphonic team members operating out of Madrid, New York City, Denver, Los Angeles, the Dominican Republic and Colombia.

but its sphere of influence extends into nearly every aspect of music distribution that requires a power outlet and an internet connection. On April 20, the company will open its doors for a grand opening celebration where musicians, or anyone interested in the businesses or growth of Tampa, can check out the digs Symphonic has been working on since first moving in 10 months ago.

In December, Ballast Point Ventures invested $4 million in the company. That influx of capital allows Symphonic to add to its staff, increase marketing efforts and enhance the capabilities of its products. A new CFO, Taylor Garland, will use his experience as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley and an associate at NYC private equity firm AEA Investors to help Symphonic and its artists find a new level of efficiency and effectiveness.

A trio of CL favorites — Tampa producer Fr33dback, emcee Mike Mass and songwriter JT Brown — will provide the tunes, and fans of Bay area art will be happy to see the mark of globally renowned local muralist Ales “Bask” Hostomsky all over Symphonic’s walls.

On the ground in Tampa, Symphonic helps artists — including a number of Bay area locals like Dynasty, Infinite Third, Jinx and Joshua Cruz — navigate the many, mindbending aspects of releasing music online. Symphonic works with partners such as Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and Pandora,

“Throughout our growth we’ve been committed to the artist community by launching exciting products and solutions aimed at helping artists focus on what matters most — their art,” Symphonic founder and CEO Jorge Brea said. “Another constant has been being a part of the Tampa community.”

The company let CL poke around on a cloudy afternoon, and we’re happy to share a first look into Symphonic’s new downtown headquarters; see the photos via cltampa. com/music, and get more information on the free grand opening below and at local. cltampa.com. —Ray Roa Symphonic Distribution grand opening w/Mike Mass/Fr33dback/JT Brown Fri. April 20, 4:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Free. 707 N. Franklin St., Tampa.

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C Postmodern Jukebox Not quite sure what took so long, but Postmodern Jukebox finally put out a live album. The New Classics (released last fall) is the companion piece to a PBS special taped live in Las Vegas, and the Tampa Theatre is the perfect place to watch the group’s vintage takes on contemporary songs (think Bruno Mars backed by a big band) come to life, whether it’s your first, second or 15th time seeing the band. “It’s one thing to be in your living room and making videos, but to interact with both the cast and the audience really makes our music come to life,” bandleader Scott Bradlee said. “This first live album is not only representative of our work, but it’s completely unique in the sense that if you’re new to PMJ, you’ll love it for exposing you to an amazing new universe, and if you’ve been part of our community for years, you’ll relive that night when you first saw us.” (Tampa Theatre, Tampa)

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the Billboard Hot 100 last year, and on Sunday he’ll be in the Channel District to headline the new-to-us Tampa Skate & Art Festival. What’s kind of head-scratching on this bill is the addition of Brooklyn’s Daniel Hernandez (aka 6ix9ine) whose rise to fame has been plagued by a rap sheet (Hernandez was booked on three felony counts on use of a child in a sexual performance when he was 18 years old), an Instagram fake death hoax and a January 2018 accusation that Hernandez choked out

a fan during a shopping mall altercation. (Aja Channelside, Tampa) Have Gun, Will Travel w/Joshua Reilly/ The Florida Mountain Boys The Ale & The Witch almost slipped this knockout bill under our radar, and we’re glad to see a agenda of bluegrass, strong singer-songwriter material and always-rollicking Americana come to life at one of downtown St. Pete’s most laid-back

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places to catch a free show. (The Ale & The Witch, St. Petersburg) C Saba w/Joseph Chilliams Saba sits in the footnotes of some of Chance The Rapper’s most important music (listen to “Angels”), and on Sunday the 23-year-old who’s been playing piano since the age of 10 gets to shine in the headlining slot in support of his brand new album, CARE FOR ME, for which Saba (real name Tahj Malik Chandler) has channeled teenage grief and heartache into a work that could be one of 2018’s best hip-hop albums. Another charming Windy City emcee — Joseph Chilliams — opens the show. (Crowbar, Ybor City)

SUN 22 C Al Downing Jazz Jazz Noir Film noir scores like Ascenseur pour L’Échafaud, A Streetcar Named Desire, Laura, Touch of Evil, The Uninvited and more get the jazz treatment care of an ensemble featuring more than a dozen of the Bay area’s most talented musicians. If you enjoy the dark moods of Miles, Mancini, Elmer Bernstein and Krzysztof Komeda, then this one at Hough Hall is where you want to be. (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) C Terroir006: to the earth I knew Tampa Heights had turned the corner towards hipster-dom when a succulent shop showed up, and now the good people at Terroir New Music have all but confirmed it. “Terroir006: to the earth” brings the experimental music collective to the Fancy Free Nursery, where Hidden Springs will pair beers with songs from a program that features Bay area composers Susanna Hancock, Tyler Kline, and Baljinder Sekhon working through their own music as well as some by more recognized names like Frederic Rzewski and Kaija Saariaho. Each piece on the program has been written with subjects of nature and the earth in mind, and you can expect a few flower pots and actual plants to be utilized in the program, too. It is Earth Day after all, you hippies. (Fancy Free Nursery, Tampa) C Hideaway Café 9-year Anniversary w/Rebekah Pulley & the Reluctant

MON 23 C Rhiannon Giddens w/Dead Horses Rhiannon Giddens has a rich history in the Tampa Bay area; she found fans early on as a member of the Grammy-winning folk outfit Carolina Chocolate Drops, which headlined WMNF’s now-on-hiatus Tropical Heatwave festival in 2011. but it’s the 41-year-old fiddler, singer and banjo player’s approach to American history that’s earned her the most acclaim. In 2017 she was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant, and that money is going to help Giddens’ continuous exploration of the rich history of American slave music and the instruments that made it possible. This Tampa date finds Giddens near the end of a tour supporting her bone-chilling 2017 album, Freedom Highway, so expect her band to have a lot of fun as it closes the book on one of the recent past’s most important musical statements on U.S. folk music. Dead Horses opens the show, and you’ll want to be in your seat early for this Monday-night show. (David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa)

TUES 24 C Lydia Loveless w/The Burke Bros./Scott Harrell Another Hurricane Irma concert casualty gets a makeup date when Lydia Loveless brings her breakup album (2017’s Real, which was recorded and released as she was finalizing a divorce) to Crowbar. The 27-year-old songwriter is so much more than one album about a relationship that didn’t work out, however, and we’re excited to see her bring a full band (plus all the ‘tude and twang from her incredible eight-yearold discography) to Ybor City, where HGWT’s

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Where the vinyl is: a list of Bay area record stores Not every single record retailer in Tampa Bay participates in Record Store Day (with some totally eschewing the retail holiday and reminding people about their own carefully curated selection of hard-to-find records instead). That said, it’s good to know where the shops are. Throughout the year, we update an evolving list of the independent stores that sell records in Tampa Bay. Most of these in the list’s latest iteration conform to record store norms (knowledgeable staff, expansive, multigenre selection), and some waver from them. Others have smaller collections and are more or less places to buy used records (love ya, Dustin’s Vinyl Shop). Some — like Unique Music & Collectables in Dunedin — might need to be stripped from the list altogether if you buy into Yelp reviews. We’ll naturally cross ‘em out if they shut the doors, and add some as they open. Let us know which ones we need to be adding, deleting and updating by connecting on Twitter (@CL_music) and at cltampa.com/ music. —Ray Roa ArtPool Records (2030 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-433-5195, artpoolrules.com Asylum Sights and Sounds (6566 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-384-1221 Asylum Sights and Sounds Outlet (7180 49th St., Pinellas Park) 727-362-9990, facebook.com/pg/Asylum.on.49th Banana’s Records (2887 22nd Ave N., St. Petersburg) 727 327-4616 ext. 1, bananasrecords.com Banana’s Records Warehouse (2226 16th Ave N., St. Petersburg) 727 327-4616 ext. 2, bananasrecords.com

Hello Darlin’ Records (Roving VW Camper) 727-479-6783, hellodarlinrecords.com Hot Wax (1524 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City) 813248-6999, hotwaxglass.com/ Kingfish Records (Main Store) (26024-B US Highway 19 N., Clearwater) 727-351-5177, kingfishrecords.com Kingfish Records (Flea Market) (180 Race Track Rd., Tampa) 727-455-9923, kingfishrecords.com Microgroove (906 N. Florida Ave., Tampa) 813-667-7089, microgroovetampa.co

Blue Moon Antiques, Books & Music (1413 Cleveland St., Clearwater) 727 443-7444

Mojo Books & Records (2540 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa) 813-971-9717, mojotampa.com

The Clearwater Record Shop (1610 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater) 727-755-1201, clearwaterrecordshow.com

Planet Retro Records (226 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N., St. Petersburg) 727218-7434, planetretrorecords.com

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