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TRIP THE TOWN FRINGE-TASTIC OPENS TODAY: What makes us so kick-ass over here in Ybor? Nope, it’s not the roosters. It’s how — despite encroaching bourgeois developments — we retain artists, a sense of style and our own Fringe fest. Now in its second year, Tampa Fringe Fest has an abundance of offerings, including — but not limited to — a reprise of The Flashlight Play, Are You Lovin’ It?, Schwasted Shakespeare and — well, there’s a lot, is what we’re saying. Find the full schedule — and a more complete explanation of each of these fringy scraps of awesome — inside. Various Ybor City venues. Through May 12; times and prices vary. tampafringe.org. —Cathy Salustri
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FLEA HISTORY ON THE CHEAP SATURDAY: Want to grab some cool decor, vintage items and other not-quitehistorically-significant-butstill-would-look-great-inyour-home stuff? Check out the Pinellas Historical Society Flea Market this weekend. If you’ve always wanted a 1930s ice crusher, this is the place to find it. We’re holding out hope for a vintage ice tray — the ones with the metal levers — but these fleas are like a box of chocolate: you never know what you’re gonna get. Heritage Village, Pinewood Cultural Park, 11909 125th St. N., Largo. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 727-582-2123. —CS
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SATURDAY: “May the Fourth be with you” is tired. It’s time for Revenge of the Fifth, a celebration of the Dark Side where you can “Goth out with your Hoth out” at everybody’s favorite home of shadowy debauchery, The Castle. Entertainment includes costume and Wookiee howl contests, as well as drink specials and killer tunes. And in a little sci-fi crossover magic, there’ll be a “landing party” section at the bar for Trekkers, too. The Castle, 2004 N. 16th St., Ybor City. 10:30 p.m. $13. castleybor.com. — Scott Harrell
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THEY BROUGHT THE MOUNTAIN TO US FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Live that hectic life, but love the great outdoors? Are you inspired by nature’s grandeur? Let the outside in at Mountainfilm on Tour, a curated selection of adventurous documentary films shown at Telluride, CO’s nearly 40-years-strong Mountainfilm Festival. Films screening this year include 120 Days: Tarpon Season and the BASE jumping flick Where The Wild Things Play. Will there also be bears catching salmon? Eagles riding updrafts? A cowboy surfing on a shark? We’re not sure, but probably not that last one. The Don CeSar, 3400 Gulf Blvd., St. Pete Beach. 7 p.m., $65/$50 student per day. mountainfilm.org. —SH
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For more info on these and other events, go to local.cltampa.com JEDI-LIKE POWERS FRIDAY: Arkane Aleworks gets into the spirit of Star Wars Day with a shit-ton of themed beers during May the Fourth be with You — among them Yoda Pants, a guava, mango and ginger Florida Weisse “made with bits of real Yoda.” Of the beer, Arkane writes on its Facebook event page: “It is rumored that drinking this liquid will give you Jedi-like powers for about 30 minutes.” Other tap-list highlights include Episode 13 (B. Nektar Meadery’s 15.5 percent ABV honey wine aged in bourbon barrels) and Wicket Weed (a red IPA named for that clever little Ewok). Spaceballs and Star Wars flicks accompany a special food menu from Lolita’s Cocina Latina and Timeless Entertainment’s Star Wars trivia. Arkane Aleworks, 2480 E. Bay Drive #23, Largo. 3 p.m.-close. 727-270-7117. —Meaghan Habuda
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HEY, PEARL... NEXT THURSDAY: When is a pearl tablecloth art? No, this isn’t a joke, it’s a for-real question with a for-real answer: When it’s an art exhibit created by a community. That’s what The Pearl Project is — a 60-pound, 118” (in diameter), big-ass pearl tablecloth created by artist Maria Saraceno and a local community. Many hands make light work — although not literally in this case — and they also offer people a window into the makers, because each person who worked a section does so slightly differently. The exhibit’s fascinating, and it’s only here for seven days: May 4-11. Head to the artist reception on May 10 at 5:30 and get insight about the project, and what common customs like sitting around a dinner table mean. HCC Ybor Art Gallery, Palm Ave. & 15th St., Ybor. 5:30 p.m. 813-253-7674. —CS
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PARTY DERBY DAY SATURDAY: This waterfront hotel along downtown St. Pete’s buzzing Beach Drive puts on Kentucky Derby watch parties at the on-site Canopy and Lantern Lane Lounge. You’ll have to drop by, however, to learn what’s in the featured cocktails: The Contender and The Matador. Alongside swag giveaways throughout the day, The Birchwood plans to present a golf bag to the best-dressed male and a gift basket to the best-dressed female (uh... a little sexist, no?) who come decked out in their finest Derby Day attire. The winners are announced after the race. The Birchwood, 340 Beach Dr. NE, St. Pete. 727-896-1080. —MH
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NEXT THURSDAY: Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1997, making him one of the first openly gay officials in the United States. Milk was killed the next year, and on May 10-12, Sarasota will celebrate Milk with a three-day Harvey Milk Festival that culminates in a free all-day concert on May 12. Opening night, May 10, kicks off the fest with the 9th annual art exhibit, Fluid Lines and concerts abound all weekend. Cody Critcheloe’s rowdy NYC art-punk project SSION (pictured) headlines after Atlanta glam rock band Starbenders and more take the stage. Five Points Park, N. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota. May 10-12. harveymilkfestival.org. —RR
DOG, BISCUITS SUNDAY: You know what’s cool? Friends of Strays. You know what’s also cool? Shuffleboard. Put ‘em together for a fundraiser and you’ve got Shuffle for Strays, a guaranteed good time. Get with a friend for a 2-person tournament team — that ticket includes entry fee, a T-shirt, a BBQ lunch and a drink for both of you — or just buy an individual ticket to hang out and maybe learn not to suck so bad at shuffleboard. St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, 559 Mirror Lake Dr. N., St. Pete. 2 p.m. $50 2-person team ticket/$15 individual non-tournament ticket. friendsofstrays.com. —SH
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In Dorking, England, Chris Hepworth and his partner, Tanisha Prince, both of London, dove across the finish line in one minute and 37 seconds, setting a course record and capturing the coveted U.K. Wife Carrying championship on April 8. Any adult couple can compete in the contest — married or not and regardless of gender — which consists of one team member carrying the other, most using the “Estonian carry,” with the “wife” upside-down, her legs over her partner’s shoulders and gripping him around the waist from behind. About 40 pairs competed over the quarter-mile course strewn with hay bales and mud, Reuters reported. Hepworth and Prince plan to move on to the world finals in Finland. “I think a Finnish guy wins it every year,” Hepworth noted, “so it’ll be good to go there and take them down.”
This year, according to WTVD, the restaurant offered a tarantula challenge. Customers were invited to enter their name in a raffle, and if chosen could claim a $30 tarantula burger, which included a pasture-raised beef patty, gruyere cheese, spicy chili sauce — and an ovenroasted zebra tarantula. Those who finished the
You may have read that the company that makes Necco Wafers announced in March that it would have to shut down in May unless a buyer was found. Since then, crazed Necco fans have been stockpiling candy. “Necco Wafers are up 150 percent,” Candystore.com reported in a blog post. “A clear signal of panic-buying.” Katie Samuels, 23, of Florida tried to strike a deal with Candystore. com, a wholesaler. “I offered to trade my 2003 Honda Accord for all of their stock,” Samuels told the Boston Globe. “I don’t have much right now, so I was like, ‘I’ve got this car, and I want
all that candy,’ so maybe they would consider it.” Candystore didn’t accept her offer, but Samuels did buy 48 rolls of candy using her credit card.
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Officials in the city of Vordingborg, Denmark, planned the demolition of a 174-foot-tall silo months ahead of the event, but as onlookers cheered the explosion on April 6, the tower toppled in the wrong direction, landing on a waterfront library and music school. No injuries were reported, according to The Guardian, and the library interior, while covered with dust, sustained no serious damage.
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Richland Carrousel Park in Mansfield, Ohio, a family-oriented destination, just wanted to provide a seasonal attraction for kids who wanted to pose for a picture with the Easter Bunny. But Ladonna Hughett, 54, had other things in mind on March 24 when she plopped into the bunny’s lap, grabbed him in inappropriate ways and made lewd comments, reported Fox 8 Cleveland. She then moved on to ride a horse on the carousel, also in ways witnesses described as lewd. “As soon as you think you hear all,” said Mansfield Assistant Police Chief Keith Porch, “I’ve never heard of somebody performing those types of acts on the Easter Bunny.” Hughett was arrested for public drunkenness and is no longer welcome at the amusement park.
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Workers renovating the old Dayton’s department store in downtown Minneapolis came across an unusual find in early April: the mummified remains of a monkey. The store apparently had a pet department in the 1960s, and The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported that Steven Laboe, who worked in the building in the early 2000s, heard stories of a monkey escaping into an air conditioning duct, where it may have met its fate in the form of an exhaust fan. In fact, the mummy does show an injury to the abdomen. “We continue to find pieces of history in the Dayton’s project as we redevelop the building,” Cailin Rogers, a spokeswoman for the redevelopment team, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. At Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, North Carolina, April is Exotic Meat Month!
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“It is very important to us that the people working in the industry are as prepared as possible.” POLITICS ISSUES OPINION PHARMACOLOGY UNIVERSITY TAMPA
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ike it or not, medical marijuana is coming to Florida. The Florida Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, aka Amendment 2, passed with much more than its required supermajority back in November 2016. Even if it hadn’t, however, popular opinion has it that medical marijuana is coming to everywhere, eventually. And jobs are coming with it. The various forces opposed to the mainstreaming of medical pot — or any legal cannabis enterprise, for that matter — don’t like to talk about it, but any new industry needs workers, and the medical cannabis industry is no different. A 2016 report by Marijuana Business Daily estimated the U.S. legal cannabis market had generated between 100,000 and 150,000 jobs nationwide at that time, and last year Forbes covered a report by New Frontier Data that projected the creation of more than a quarter of a million positions by 2020 — more than the manufacturing sector is expected to produce in the same time period. When medical marijuana really, finally comes Florida, there will be jobs growing the plants. Jobs turning the plants into medicine. Jobs dispensing the medicine. And jobs training people to do all those jobs. That’s where Pharmacology University comes in. During ski vacations with his family in Colorado, an engineer from Puerto Rico named Daniel Elias noticed the ads for dispensaries around the state, and became intrigued by the possibilities for investment. It was during his research that he became familiar with weed’s more medically beneficial elements, and his focus changed. "I started learning about the medicinal benefits, and about lots of people being helped by the product, and that’s what took my mind away,” he said. “From there on, I started working in Puerto Rico trying to get the local government to pass a law about it.” Elias joined lobbying efforts at home, and by the time cannabis was legalized for medical purposes in 2015, he had already been working
with Pharmacology University to put a plan in place for a business that educated individuals in every aspect of the industry — as well as the government’s approval. “We worked to grow the education part of it,” he said. “It is very important to us that the people who are working in the industry are as prepared as possible... it’s important that people know how to deal with the medicine product.” Since becoming required training in Puerto Rico, Pharmacology University, with Elias as president, has brought its educational services to major cities in Texas, Nevada, Arkansas and Florida; the company is about to roll out training in Tampa and Orlando. Pharmacology University Tampa’s flagship product is its comprehensive Medicinal Cannabis Course, a 30-hour certification program covering each facet of the industry that’s broken up into five weekly six-hour courses and costs $999 plus tax. “Basically we teach all the three categories of the industry,” Elias said. “The first one is cultivation, when you cultivate the flower. The second one is oil extraction and manufacturing — from the flower you get oil, and from the oil you make edibles, medicine, drugs, you name it, the technology has come so far since the beginning. And the last part of the industry is dispensary, that’s the people who get directly in touch with the patients, and basically with their knowledge and the doctors’ requirements, then they can tell the patients which medicine, it depends on the patient’s needs and conditions. “We have developed a course that will teach each one of those very thoroughly, and when people get our certification they will be ready to work in the industry in any of those areas.” Interestingly, Elias estimated that 30% of the people most interested in the cultivation part of the course have experience on the illegal side of the weed-growing fence, and are looking to broaden their skills and enter the legitimate workforce. He said someone who moves on to other cultivation-specific Pharmacology University courses and achieves the certification of Master Grower can make up to $125,000 a year, and a quick look at employment site
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BUDDING ENTREPRENEUR: Daniel Elias. indeed.com reveals nearly 2,000 job openings in the more pot-friendly states, many of them in the cultivation arena. While the Pharmacology University certification is not required for employment in the industry in Florida, in other states it is among the courses accepted for licensing. Elias said the company has had conversations with members of the state senate and Chamber of Commerce as well as the health department, and hopes to be included in a law currently being crafted that will provide clearer requirements for licensing statewide. He also said the course is accredited by the Florida Bar Association’s continuing education program, and that Pharmacology University operates within FDA guidelines,
though CL was unable to independently confirm these assertions before press time. When asked if the recalcitrance of the Florida Department of Health and other state agencies to move forward with full implementation of medical cannabis infrastructure was a hindrance, Elias was practical, saying that it’s par for the course. “Actually, we have been doing this for many years and typically it’s the same everywhere,” he said. “Even though it seems slow, it’s on the same pace as everybody else... It will take some time, but it is good for us because we are the first ones to offer education [in Florida], and that’s the only thing we do because it’s the thing we do best.”
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Shit Happened If you are born with an extra chromosome, the result is Down syndrome, not special healing powers.
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Some parents are outraged that a sex education course being taught in Pinellas County schools is run by a pro-life Christian group. It’s cute that you thought the separation of church and state was actually a thing. Also, abstinence education or no, your children are doing sex stuff to one another. A Plant City Winn Dixie reimburses a customer for the $4,000 he spent at the store buying gift cards when he fell victim to phone scammers claiming to be the IRS. That’s super awesome, and a timely reminder to all of us to sit down with our parents or grandparents sometime soon and make sure they know that the IRS doesn’t accept Google Play credits as payment.
MONDAY 30 Busch Gardens brings back free beer for visitors, inspiring tons of locals to suddenly wonder if their young children might like to experience the place where they spent so many summers drinking free beer, er, enjoying the magic. Two Polk County teachers are placed on administrative leave after being accused of making a seven-year-old clean the floor with a toothbrush as punishment for talking in class. Protip: If it sounds like something you think somebody whose first name is “Wicked” might do to a child in a fairy tale, don’t do that shit.
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A Hillsborough judge drops the charges against one of those douchecanoes who were recorded on video dragging a shark behind a fast-moving boat for fun last year. No, not that one, the other one, the one who’s daddy is a partner at a powerful personal injury law firm. Go figure. Read Scott Harrell’s Shit Happened every weekday at cltampa.com/news.
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IT’S GOING TIBIA OK: A 1946 “laying on of hands” healing ceremony at the Pentecostal Church of God.
Amateur healing
The rabbit hole of alternative medicine. First in a series. By Jennifer Ring
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he sicker you are in life, the more people offer to cure you. As someone with a visible disability, I would know. Around 2011, my immune system got so out of whack it started destroying the blood vessels in my lungs. The result: I went from being a full-time research scientist
at a top research university to being an unemployed 30-something on oxygen. Walking through life as a 30-something on oxygen is an interesting experience. All of a sudden, total strangers approach you in public and offer to cure your disease. Most of them don’t
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even know what that disease is, but that doesn’t stop them from offering you a handful of pink salt and a mountain of false hopes. I remember the day I was approached by a woman wanting to sell me Himalayan sea salt. She was positive that her Himalayan sea salt could cure me. I had just ordered my espresso when she walked over and started chatting me up on the “miracle” that is sea salt. Fucking sea salt. It’s delicious, but it won’t cure you of anything. I politely said no three times before grabbing my coffee and running for the door. The practice of amateur healing isn’t restricted to just salespeople, either. Let’s not forget about religion. One day, I was sitting outside a shopping mall enjoying a delicious sandwich when two young men walked over and asked if they could pray for me. I’m thinking, sure, why not, if it makes them feel better. Apparently, it was supposed to make me feel better, too, because after they finished their solemn prayer ritual, hand on my shoulder, they told me I could take my oxygen off. I don’t want to say that these guys were trying to kill me, but they totally could have killed me — if I were a total moron, that is. Think this sounds bad? Dr. Edward Leonard has seen worse. As CEO of Tampabased Florida Wellness Medical Group, it’s his job to evaluate different conventional and alternative medicine approaches and decide which to incorporate into his practice. In the process, he’s seen some good medicine and some weird shit. My favorite of his stories involves a form of energy healing observed in the Netherlands. The “technique” is practiced by a man claiming to have an extra chromosome, says Leonard. “Because he has Down syndrome?” I ask. “Because he has alien DNA,” says Leonard. “It’s a special chromosome, so that he can communicate with his home planet.” “That must be chromosome 82,” I jest. “It must have been,” says Dr. Leonard, playing along. “He would reach up to the sky to grab energy and manipulate the person on the table so he could heal them.” What a load of bullshit. Humans have 46 chromosomes. If you are born with an extra chromosome, the result is Down syndrome, not special healing powers. Alternative medicine. It’s a jungle out there. Stick with us in the coming days, as we riddle it out with local doctors.
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That’s how the light gets in
We use poetry at times when nothing else can show our heart. By Peter Meinke Put in mind of his own father and moved to tears Achilles took him by the hand and pushed the old king Gently away, but Priam curled up at his feet and Wept with him until their sadness filled the building . . .
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oward the end of National Poetry Month, I heard the Irish poet Michael Longley read on NPR and, in answer to a question, he said that if prose was a river, poetry was a plant, which is a poetic idea in itself. During the last month I’ve been asked “What is poetry?” and “What’s the value of poetry?” dozens of times, and found myself giving different answers. There are pat and famous ones: “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty” (Poe), or “Poetry makes nothing happen” (Auden); “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tranquility” (Wordsworth); “what gets lost in translation” (Frost); and my favorite, “the best words in the best order” — Coleridge. This last works well in class, but the trouble with it is that people seldom agree what is actually the “best.” Still, it’s a good idea for a writer, settling down to begin, to hold in his or her head. Poetry as a plant is very suggestive. It does seem at first to make nothing happen, like a plant; but also like a plant it has a certain effect that can be felt. Our azaleas make JEANNE MEINKE us feel better every morning; they send us (and others) into action, writing, drawing, photographing, beautifying the neighborhood, making suggestions to outside organizations, even voting for someone who might help beautify the city (remember Mayor David Fischer, who planted thousands of trees and ornamental bushes, and was recently appointed St. Pete’s “tree czar,” now trying to get $500,000 from BP’s oil spill penalty? That would be a wonderful “action”). In March, the Parkland students held a large poetry reading on the one-month anniversary of the massacre at the school. Americans as a group aren’t avid poetry readers, but we know enough to turn to poetry at our most important moments: birth, death, love, tragedy, war. Prose
won’t do; we need at these times the best words in the best order. At Parkland’s “Poetry for Peace,” youngsters from middle school, mature and talented high school students, fathers and siblings of the victims read poems; a tall black student named Butterfly sang with enormous emotion. Poetry for them wasn’t something soppy to make them “happy.” It was cathartic, making them more able to handle disaster. These deaths had meaning. This was a call for action, and the world has watched in amazement at what they’ve already accomplished. Another definition of poetry that comes to mind is “news that stays news.” Longley’s poem “Ceasefire,” quoted here, retells the story of Achilles, the Greek hero of Homer’s Iliad, killing Hector, the Trojan hero. Because Hector had killed Achilles’ friend Patroclus, Achilles desecrated Hector’s body by dragging it around the walls of Troy, driving Hector’s father Priam, the king of Troy, into despair. Atrocious as all this was, the cruelty wasn’t worse than what was happening in the “Troubles,” the civil war fought until 1998 in Northern Ireland. In “Ceasefire” (and the Iliad) Priam comes to Achilles to beg for his beloved son’s body. Achilles, thinking of his own father, relents, washes Hector’s body and returns it to Priam. Longley’s poem, a sonnet which looks both backwards to ancient Greece and forward to contemporary Ireland, came out toward the end of the Troubles. It was widely interpreted as a cry for unity, mercy and empathy — and apparently influential in creating the necessary forgiving to end the decades-long war. I believe poetry can be fun, but it also has the power to help our better selves. I’ll give the great English poet William Blake the last shot at a definition of poetry:
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Callaloo’s entrees need tweaking for it to thrive in St. Pete. By Jon Palmer Claridge
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on the menu that it leafy green popular HH½ serves the “World’s in the islands — gets 642 22nd St. S., St. Petersburg. Appetizers: $3-$12; off to a smooth start. entrees: $10-$19; desserts: $4-$6; wines by the glass: Best Fried Chicken.” $7-$10; beer & cider: $4.50-$8; cocktails & sipping Our server is charmI’m psyched. This is rum: $6-$13. 727-256-1806; callaloostpete.com. ing to the max and one of the real icons seduces us into ordering a trio of great spe- of Southern cuisine. Plus, it’s served with wafcialty cocktails. fles inspired by cornbread stuffing. How can The lemon basil mojito is rum-based, but we not order this? it swaps mint and lime for basil and lemon Our hopes are sadly dashed. The three to great effect. Sun Tea takes a tumbler of waffle segments are burnt and barely warm. Maker’s Mark, plus a dash of bitters, and adds How they were allowed to leave the kitchen is lemon juice and honey with mint, creating a anybody’s guess. Also, the five small chicken delightful freshness for bourbon aficionados. pieces are covered with a grainy coating that’s Most revelatory, however, is a companion’s underseasoned, even with a dip of the balanced Sin City Martini. I’m a purist who twitches hot maple mustard sauce on the side. It’s a at any martini reference that’s not about gin reminder of the core importance of salt and with vermouth. I realize, though, that I’ve lost pepper as the first step to building flavor. The that battle. What I do appreciate is technique. separate blue ceramic oval filled with tasty A properly shaken martini has a thin layer of cheese grits can’t rescue a dish with these ice, with a sheen that reminds me of the Arctic unforced errors. Circle. So, when the glass arrives with a blend The huge slice of meatloaf smothered with a of Malibu, Absolut raspberry vodka, triple sec blanket of mild coffee-onion gravy fares better. and peach schnapps and I see the icy patches But, still, there’s nothing to make it sing. The floating on the surface, I’m all smiles. roasted garlic mashed potatoes and traditional We decide to begin with classic, crisp green Southern green beans, authenticity cooked into tomatoes, which chef Moran pairs with a split submission, aren’t as exciting as the starters. head of grilled romaine lettuce topped with a Original mojo-style pork is a huge serving drizzle of blue cheese ranch dressing, a gar- with a pile of meaty chunks floating in plenty of nish of crunchy tobacco onion rings and green yummy sauce, though it’s a bit unrelenting for a scallions, and a swirl of homemade hot sauce. single seating. We ate half and took the rest home. Even tastier is the Hurricane Shrimp Bowl The coconut-cilantro rice is pleasant, yet the garlic
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he Manhattan Casino is such an iconic that buries a school of crispy fried shrimp in part of St. Petersburg’s rich cultural his- a cilantro forest loaded with accents of garlic, tory that I was sad to note the demise of shallots and jalapeño. The tangy, sunset-hued Sylvia’s Queen of Soul Food in 2016. Happily, hurricane sauce ringing the plate enhances there’s a new tenant aiming to be an everyday the burst of flavor. restaurant where executive chef Gary Moran Our last starter is a cute, biscuit-topped creates a Floribbean mashup of Caribbean and chicken pot pie served in a small cast-iron pot. traditional Southern fare. The biscuit is perfectly golden with a lovely and Moran brings considerable street cred to light density, while the herb gravy surroundthe endeavor with a gig at NYC’s famed Tavern ing the chicken lacks the seductive punch that on the Green prior to cementing his reputation makes for a comfort food sigh. It’s an oversight, locally at Datz, Mermaid Tavern and particu- which should easily be remedied. larly the Southern-inflected Wimauma, where We’re quite happy with the way the evening the food trumped begins and await our shaky service in early entrees while bondreviews. ing with our attentive Luckily, our visit server. It takes great to Callaloo — named confidence for a resCallaloo taurant to proclaim after the steamed
CAST-IRON CUTENESS: Callaloo’s chicken pot pie, topped with a perfectly golden biscuit, is among the starters. yucca is both undercooked and underwhelming. I was singing its praises to one guest who never had the pleasure, comparing it to perfect fries — crisp on the surface yielding to a meltingly soft interior. This version isn’t worth eating. Luckily, chef de cuisine Kyrie Rotolo (former pastry chef at Clearwater’s Little Lamb Gastropub) helps us finish with a bang. The pineapple upside-down tres leche features a coconut cream and sprinkling of coconut granola. The cake is a clever fusion of tropical elements that’s a marvelous twist on tradition. We wolf it down. Equally tasty is the dulce de leche flan. It’s
creamy and full of caramel-y goodness with a contrasting note of spicy mango and basil salad. Again, a smart blend of flavors that adds welcome surprise to an oft-predictable dessert. Something as simple as cafe con leche is made with care — and a lovely finish to our meal. I so want for Callaloo to thrive, but that can’t happen till the entrees are tweaked and rise to the level of the meal’s bookends. It’s a rookie mistake to send out an underseasoned dish, and I’ll never understand how burnt waffles end up on any plate. Better to let the table know there’s been a delay and refire a dish than to serve inedible food.
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What to expect from Late Start Brewery’s home base inside Pour House. By Meaghan Habuda
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efore you know it, you won’t have to ask Tyler Sankey, Jordan Copher or Nick Streeter where you can score their beers on the regular. That’s because a new, long-awaited chapter is on the horizon for the Tampa natives behind Late Start Brewery. The trio has awesomely joined forces with Pour House owner Andy Nietzel to build a three-barrel brewery inside his Channel District craft beer bar at 1208 E. Kennedy Blvd. According to Sankey, their partnership came together pretty quickly after Nietzel approached Late Start about collaborating on the project. “He’s a super easy guy to work with,” said Sankey, who got to know Nietzel better during frequent visits to Pour House while living in Channelside with his brother Chris. “Because it’s just like, we have the same mindset, wanna make great beer and wanna have fun doin’ it,” Sankey continued. A similar sort of ease has fueled Late Start’s previous collaborations, whether it be an event or a beer. After all, they make it a point to link up with people who “follow their same path,” as Sankey puts it. Serial beer dinner organizer and chef John Loscalzo of LOKO Cuisine is one of those people, along with Streeter, who eventually came on board with Late Start after Copher and Sankey met him during their stints at Cigar City Brewing. This strategy, if that’s what you want to call it, is also partly responsible for the loyal following Late Start has hooked without a brewhouse of their own. And know what else hasn’t hurt? Jobs in other local breweries — Sankey is now brewing at Yuengling Brewing Company, Copher at Angry Chair Brewing and Streeter at 7venth Sun Brewery — that give them the opportunity to forge connections with beer industry folks on both a personal and professional level. But let’s back it up a little: Late Start originated as a kind of garage project six years ago. At the time, Sankey owned a house in the New Tampa/Tampa Palms area, where they began to experiment with a 15-gallon homemade system. Copher, who spearheaded the creative aspect of their newfound hobby, developed some out-there recipes — and it wasn’t long before the community started paying attention. “From there on out, it was like, ‘Oh, we’ll do an event, we’ll do another event. Well, we’re making beer, so maybe we should start something up,’” Sankey recalled. Up until the Pour House partnership, Late Start was doing a bit of gypsy brewing. Their journey, however, hasn’t involved taking over their buddies’ breweries as much as it has saying,
“Hey, let’s make a beer.” Then the collaboration process goes from there. The good news is that the trio’s Channel District brewery is coming along adjacent to downtown Tampa, where they were originally scouting locations. When CL spoke to Streeter, Copher and Sankey in Seminole Heights on 4/20 — during the can release for Stash, the rye session IPA they brewed with 7venth Sun — the walls and floors of their facility were getting ready to be put in. The equipment is in, too; all they have to do is plug in the tanks. “Probably soon” is their anticipated, oh-socoy launch date. “We’ll be brewing beers in the next couple months, but to have a big to-do might be a couple months after that,” said Copher. “[We’ll have a] soft opening for a couple months, and then a grand opening, try to do — they have 40 taps at the location, so maybe try to do all 40 taps.” The goal is to regularly feature Late Start on 12 of Pour House’s taps, and at first, it’s probably going to take a month or so to get there. Their three-barrel system and six three-barrel fermenters allow them to produce 18 barrels, meaning they could have six different beers going at a time. Florida Weisse beers are still the focus, yet brewing original recipes is just as important,
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as evidenced by their popular series of cocktailstyle Berliners (they’ve done close to 10 at this point) — including the Tequila Sunrise, Mai Tai, Cucumber Gimlet and Margarita Gose. In addition to those mainstays, they’re committed to brewing other styles like stouts and IPAs, plus treatments, but brewing them well. “We wanna do everything good,” Sankey said. “We don’t wanna kind of pigeonhole ourselves into one particular style.” With a penchant for being one-of-a-kind and very spontaneous, Late Start is also going about the selection of their “core four” carefully. While they’d like to have a fruited Berliner available 24/7, for instance, they’d rather have patrons decide for themselves what they want to drink. Additional highlights of the forthcoming project include a crowler machine for guests who want their brews to-go and bottle releases mainly driven by stouts and Berliners, alongside some IPAs (maybe in a smaller format). “I feel like the local beer industry’s given a lot to us,” Copher said. “We’ve been educated by a lot of the people we respect around town. We’ve been able to do events like this with great breweries, and we look forward to doing more of that and being able to provide beer more consistently for the people.” Streeter added: “I think it’s exciting that we’re gonna be in downtown, where we wanted to be in the first place… We don’t know what the next step’s gonna be. We’ve kinda debated it at different times, but it’s exciting to have our own place, too.” “Yeah,” Copher said, “we finally have a home base.”
BEER BUDS: Jordan Copher, Tyler Sankey and Nick Streeter (L-R) of Late Start Brewery.
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A ST. PETE FAVORITE SINCE 1978 How to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Tampa Bay without going hungry — or thirsty. —Meaghan Habuda All events take place on May 5 unless otherwise noted. bartaco Head to this coastal chain at Hyde Park Village for inventive, Instagramable tacos and signature margaritas, as well as live music and activities for kids. In-the-know patrons order the off-the-menu “secret taco,” consisting of maitake mushrooms roasted with thyme and garlic, sweet corn purée, spring asparagus, corn relish and zesty salsa de ajo verde. 1601 W. Snow Ave., Tampa, 813-258-8226, bartaco.com.
Mastry’s Brewing Co. Beer and music collide during this bash on the beach — silent disco-style. Three DJs spin the best of reggae, reggaeton, modern dance, hip-hop, and old-school ‘80s and ‘90s sounds. Admission includes headphones and one full pour from the draft lines. Go dance the night away. $10. 7 p.m. 7701 Blind Pass Road, St. Pete Beach, 727-202-8045, mastrysbrewingco.com.
Blue Harbour A Cinco de Derby bash with new $14 cocktails in the spotlight, including the Hightailing Jalisco Mule (Don Julio Reposado Tequila, Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao, organic agave nectar and Hellfire Bitters) and Spicy Mia-Rita (Don Julio Reposado, St-Germain, simple syrup, jalapeño, strawberry and soda). 3 p.m.-midnight. 725 S. Harbour Island Blvd., Tampa, 813-229-5038, westintampaharbourisland.com.
The Pint and Brew Cinco de Derby tappings of four Lexington, Kentucky, bourbon barrel-aged brews await, in addition to $5 chicken fajita grilled cheese and $3 chips and salsa. Noon-midnight. 3261 Tampa Road, Palm Harbor, 727-515-9946.
c.1949 Get down with the Florida beer emporium’s donation-only taco bar, which benefits the Humane Society of Tampa Bay. Wash down the food with $1-off deals on sangria and brews of Latin decent. Acho Brother provides the evening’s tunes with his acoustic Latin-inflected guitar. 7:30-10:30 p.m. 6905 N. Orleans Ave., Tampa, 813990-8883, c1949.com.
Pour House A Mexican brunch from LOKO Cuisine accompanies beer from Mexico’s Compañía Cervecera Hércules. Tampa-based Late Start Brewery recently traveled to brew a collaboration Vienna lager with Hércules’s Josh Brengle, a former brewer for Cigar City Brewing. Their collab is planned on tap, alongside some other brewed goodness. $21.40. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 1208 E. Kennedy Blvd. #112, Tampa, 813-402-2923, pourhousetampa. com.
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Caledonia Brewing The brewery features a new release, El Diablo Caliente (its popular Mexican lager spiced with chile de árbol), while the Gizzy’s food cart supplies the Mexican-inspired menu. Noonmidnight. 587 Main St., Dunedin, 727-351-5105, caledoniabrewing.com. Casa Tina A 26th annual celebration featuring the downtown mainstay’s beloved food, arts and crafts, face painting, and a huuuge street party. From the showcase on the pavement — which kicks off at 4 p.m. — attendees can expect live performances, complimentary salsa lessons and the Mojiganga Parade, spotlighting giant papier-mâché puppets. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. 365 Main St., Dunedin, 727-734-9226, casatinas.com. Dough Datz’s sweet sibling observes a hybrid holiday, Cinco de Derby, with mint julep margarita sorbet (bourbon, triple sec, lime and black salt) by the scoop. Priced between $2.50 and $5.10, the sorbet is available now until May 6. In addition, there are $4 mint julep margarita cupcakes (bourbon-peppermint ‘cakes with key lime frosting) up for grabs — starting two weeks before May 5 through May 6. 2602 S. MacDill Ave., Tampa, 813-902-1979, bestdoughnuts.com. Franklin Manor Corona Premier, the iconic brand’s first new beer in almost 30 years, hosts its official Tampa launch party on Cinco. Marg specials, street tacos, nachos, live music and DJs accompany the Corona Premier open bar. The open bar lasts from noon to 2 p.m. No cover. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. 912 N. Franklin St., Tampa, 813-487-9990, thefranklinmanor.com.
Red Mesa Cantina Cinco de Burgo brings major tequila brands with samples and swag, plus cold beer and live tunes, to the downtown favorite’s three floors, alley and six bars. No cover. 2 p.m.-2 a.m. 128 Third St. S., St. Petersburg, 727-8968226, redmesacantina.com. Rocco’s Tacos & Tequila Bar For the first time, International Plaza gets to experience the epic fiesta that is Rocco’s on Cinco de Mayo. Not only does tequila expert and bar-top-dancing restaurateur Rocco Mangel (and his team) pour free tequila for guests, but drink deals, live entertainment, DJs and prize giveaways are anticipated as well. Noon. 2223 N. Westshore Blvd. #203, Tampa, 813-800-8226, roccostacos.com.
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Ichicoro Ane Complement your yuzu mimosa or brothless B.E.C. (bacon, egg and cheese ramen) with local culture during the Cinco edition of Brunchuru. With a DJ providing the day’s soundtrack, seven large mural pop-up walls from Bloom Collective get painted — live — by area muralists: Sebastian Coolidge, Derek Donnelly, John Jairo Suarez, James Oleson, Jerry Cahill, ZuluPainter and Cheeta Art. A small village of artists on the patio is in on the fun, too. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 260 First Ave. S., St. Petersburg, 727-300-0281, ichicoroane.com.
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Fuzzy’s Taco Shop Now in its third year, this celebration from the fast-casual franchise offers Baja-style Mexican fare, live music and tons of booze — bigass margs and shots included. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. 2874 Providence Lakes Blvd., Brandon, 813-324-7177, fuzzystacoshop.com.
Locale Market The First Friday celebration, Cuatro de Mayo, highlights pozole, mole chicken, ceviche tostadas, chorizo and potato tacos, and tres leches at the gourmet food emporium’s stations. $19.99 in advance, $24.99 day of. May 4, 6-9 p.m. 179 Second Ave. N., St. Petersburg, 727-523-6300, localegourmetmarket.com. Marker 48 Brewing A token system drives the $5 drink specials all day and night. Food trucks and a live performance from Actual Bank Robbers accompany additional seating and tents. Noon. 12147 Cortez Blvd., Brooksville, 352-606-2509, marker48.com.
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WELCOME TO THE FRINGE Welcome to Tampa Fringe 2, our sexiest fringe yet! … No, seriously, we don’t know why there’s so many sexy shows this year… The Tampa International Fringe Festival is a festival of indie performance. From stand up and improv, to theatre and dance, to weird performance art, this festival presents it all to you at prices that will make your heart sing. We are unjuried and uncensored. We don’t select or curate. We give the under-represented a platform. We are the populist option. Tampa Fringe presents ten days of unadulterated fringe performing arts to the Tampa Bay area in venues across historic Ybor City for your delectation!
WHAT IS FRINGE?
Fringe is everything that hasn’t found a home yet on the main stage at the performing arts center. Fringe is your best friend ranting about the rising price of gas. It’s the gospel soloist from the community center. It’s your dealer decked out in UV paint, spinning under the shining light of the full moon. Fringe is you. Anyone with an idea can fringe. That’s all it takes - an idea and the willingness to see it through. Our artists all started with an idea they believed in enough to invest the twenty-five dollar registration fee. They put their money where their mouths were. Afterwards, they were each drawn in our uncensored, unjuried lottery, along with the dozens of shows that didn’t make it into the festival. 24 | MAY 3 - MAY 9, 2018 | cltampa.com
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Finally, they put in the work of building the shows their applications promised. And now, they are presenting those lottery tickets to you. That’s what fringe is - it’s ten days of winning lottery tickets. It’s unbridled creativity. It’s a platform for the irreverent, the unrestricted, the international, and atypical… Anyone can fringe. Why not you?
OUR VOLUNTEERS
We would like to shine a light on our incredible team of volunteers! If you see someone wearing a volunteer badge around the festival, consider buying them a drink or giving them a high five. Our volunteers know where it’s at. They know when it is, and they know how to get there. These are folks who care so much about fringe that they have dedicated themselves to making our festival a success through the goodness of their hearts! So here’s to all of our volunteers - The heroes of the fringe! Do you want to be a hero of the fringe? Contact us at
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SHOWS/PROGRAMS
Want the skinny on all of our show times and venues? Check out our full program at tampafringe.org and see what all the hubbub is about! Or, if you want to take full advantage of the festival on the ground, pick up one of our souvenir programs for just two bucks!
FRINGE FRIENDLY/BUTTONS
Last Year, we required fringe buttons for entry to shows, and a lot of you found that confusing. So, this year, we’ve opted for a festival support fee of three dollars on top of each ticket, and buttons are not required for entry into shows. So why buy a button? Because buttons support the festival. Did you know that we give one hundred percent of the ticket cost directly to the artists who are presenting work? In order to put all of this together; to bring all of these artists, from near and far, to stages in Ybor, and to make the festival happen, we need your help! That’s where buttons come in! For three bucks, you can support the festival and show your fringe pride to the world with a stylish rooster! In return, we are putting up the value of our Ybor community - our Fringe Friendly family of businesses has offered to extend their sweetest discounts to festival patrons wearing fringe buttons throughout the festival! So if you want to take advantage of this incredible deal, just buy a fringe button at fringe central or at any of our box offices, and look out for the Fringe Friendly seal of approval! Wherever you see this symbol, you can expect exclusive discounts just for you! Here’s a list of businesses where you can expect to receive the red carpet treatment! • Dysfunctional Grace Art Co • Kelly Days Firehouse Tavern • The Brass Tap • The Bricks • Lunch Box • The Dirty Shame • Rock Brothers Brewing • Big Easy Bar • Revolve Clothing Exchange 26 | MAY 3 - MAY 9, 2018 | cltampa.com
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FRINGE CENTRAL
This year we are introducing an essential component of fringe: our Fringe Central, at Gaspar’s Grotto! Come to Fringe Central to get your bearings, get show recommendations, or have a much needed drink between shows! Our dedicated volunteer staff will be manning the info desk at Fringe Central throughout the festival, and there will be periodic live entertainment, parties, and our Open Space discussions, where you can add your voice to the conversation of the festival! In addition, we will be making occasional special offers available to our fringe central friends!
SHOUT OUT TO SPONSORS
We would like to take a moment to thank our sponsors. Without them, this festival would not happen. So here’s to all of them! Check out our many sponsors here.
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No matter where you are in the Bay area, you’re not far from unique, locally handcrafted brews made by friends and neighbors with a passion for creating great beer. Here’s our ever-evolving list of Bay area brewers — check back often for updated listings! 3 DAUGHTERS BREWING A beautiful facility in which to drink some great local brews. 222 22nd St. S., St. Petersburg. 727-4956002, 3dbrewing.com.
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.
7VENTH SUN BREWING Some of the best sours, IPAs and collabs going. Two locations. 1012 Broadway, Dunedin. 727-7333013/6809 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa. 813-231-5900, 7venthsun.com.
LAGERHAUS BREWERY & GRILL Seasonal brews complement their regulars. 3438 East Lake Business, Palm Harbor. 727-216-9682, lagerhausbrewery.com.
81BAY BREWING CO. South Tampa’s first brewery has variety. 4465 W. Gandy Blvd., Tampa. 813-837-BREW, 81baybrewco.com. ANGRY CHAIR Crazy-good Tampa beer. 6401 N. Florida Ave., Seminole Heights. 813-238-1122, angrychairbrewing.com.
MAD BEACH CRAFT BREWING Brews, ciders, and meads by the beach. 12945 Village Boulevard, Madeira Beach. 727-362-0008, madbeachbrewing.com.
ARKANE ALEWORKS A wide variety of styles and flavors from the second brewery to open in Largo. 2480 E. Bay Dr., #23, Largo. 727-270-7117, arkanebeer.com.
MARKER 48 Hernando’s first production craft brewery. 12147 Cortez Blvd, Weeki Wachee. 352-606-2509, marker48.com.
BARLEY MOW BREWING COMPANY Lovingly crafted brews in Largo. 518 W. Bay Dr., Largo. 727-584-7772, barleymowbrewingco.com.
MASTRY’S BREWING CO. KIller beers at a killer location near the sea. 7701 Blind Pass Rd., St. Pete Beach. 727-202-8045 mastrysbrewingco.com
BIG STORM BREWING CO. Stop by this Pasco brewery’s Storm Room for a flight, or visit their taproom on 49th Street in Clearwater, too. 2330 Success Dr., Odessa. 727-807-7998, bigstormbrewery.com.
MOTORWORKS BREWING A taproom and beer garden featuring full liquor and wine as well as 30 taps. 1014 9th Street West, Bradenton. 941-567-6218, motorworksbrewing.com.
BIG TOP BREWING Perhaps Sarasota’s premier purveyor of locally crafted beer. 6111 Porter Way, Sarasota. 941-371-2939, bigtopbrewing.com.
MR. DUNDERBAK’S The longtime restaurant, biergarten and homebrewers’ hangout is serving up its own beers. 14929 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa. 813-977-4104, dunderbaks.com.
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PAIR O’ DICE BREWING This Clearwater brewery offers a wide variety of beer styles well worth scheduling a stop. 4400 118th Ave. N., Clearwater. 727-755-3423, pairodicebrewing.com.
SILVERKING BREWING CO. This space in Tarpon Springs complements a label that’s been around since 2012. 325 East Lemon St., Tarpon Springs. 727-422-7598, silverkingbrewing.com. SIX TEN BREWING A wide variety and a real passion for the craft-brew community. 7052 Benjamin Rd., Tampa. 813-886-0610, sixtenbrewing.com.
ST. SOMEWHERE BREWING COMPANY Award-winning Belgian farmhouse ales. 1441 Savannah Ave., Tarpon Springs. 813503-6181, saintsomewherebrewing.com. STILT HOUSE BREWERY High-ABV ales and other styles you won’t find at other breweries in the area. 625 US Hwy Alt. 19, Palm Harbor. 727-270-7373, stilthousebrewery.com.
TAMPA BEER WORKS TBW focuses on American craft styles. 333 N. Falkenburg Rd., Suite D407 Tampa. 813-685-1909, tampabeerworks.com.
DUNEDIN BREWERY Florida’s oldest. Beer, eats and live music. 937 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. 727-736-0606, dunedinbrewery.com.
TWO HENRYS BREWING Tasty brews from the folks behind Keel & Curley winery. 5210 W. Thonotosassa Rd., Plant City. 813752-9100, twohenrysbrewing.com
FOUR STACKS BREWING An always-changing lineup of local and regional guest suds, along with trivia, live music and more. 5469 N. US HWY 41, Apollo Beach. 813-641-2036, fourstacksbrewing.com. GREEN BENCH BREWING COMPANY A space worthy of the adventurous beers it produces. 1133 Baum Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-800-9836, greenbenchbrewing.com.
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ST. PETE BREWING COMPANY Beers crafted specifically for the climate. 544 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-692-8809, stpetebrewingcompany.com.
DISSENT BREWING CO. Unique flavors and adventurous style outside downtown St. Pete. 5518 Haines Rd. N., St. Petersburg. 727-342-0255.
FLYING BOAT BREWING COMPANY St. Pete aviation history and tasty homegrown suds. 1776 11th Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727800-2999, flyingboatbrewing.com.
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TAMPA BAY BREWING COMPANY A local favorite. Great food, too. Two locations. 1600 E. 8th Ave., Ybor City/13937 Monroe's Business Park, Tampa. 813-247-1422 tampabaybrewingcompany. com.
ESCAPE BREWING CO. Another very worthy Odessa/Trinity destination. 9945 Trinity Blvd., Suite 108, Trinity. 727-807-6092, escapebrewingcompany.com.
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DUNEDIN HOUSE OF BEER This beer stop brews its own, and also has 40 guest taps. 927 Broadway, Dunedin. 727 216-6318, dunedinhob.com.
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"It's everyone's opportunity to make this an experience like none other." MOVIES THEATER ART CULTURE
Let's get weird Tampa Fringe returns to Ybor. By Cathy Salustri
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nless you’re really enmeshed in the local New York back to Tampa, and David Jenkins, arts community or an avid reader of Creative Jobsite’s Producing Artistic Director, are the Loafing, odds are last year’s inaugural other two) about the fest, and she gladly took Tampa Fringe Fest flew under your radar. That us a little deeper into the Fringe. was your mistake, and we’re gonna let it slide because you’re here now, right? Why Tampa? It’s a good thing, too, because the secondWilliam, being from Tampa originally, has ever Tampa Fringe has more artsy performancy always been passionate about bringing ideas goodness packed into ten days than you’d believe from his travels back to his hometown. Will and possible. We’re talkin’ 10 days of shows you’re I are also performers on the Fringe circuit, and not going to see anywhere else. Gay uncles, riffs in 2013 we performed at the Orlando Fringe. on McDonald’s, people breaking Across the U.S. and Canada there into a theater to make theater... is a touring circuit for traveling Tampa Fringe looks spectacular artists, and we realized while in this year. Orlando (America’s oldest fringe) Various Ybor City venues. May 3-May 12. tampafringe.org. Performances start Thursday that Tampa is just close enough and run through May 12, and by to add to that, and, with a fanperformance times vary. How can you see tastic performing arts [scene already existing] everything? One, check out the Tampa Fringe perfect for a Fringe addition. schedule. Decide what you must see. Two, get tickets (may we suggest an all-access pass?). What’s the best lesson you learned from last Three, get a button. Last year the fest mandated year? buttons, but this year they aren’t mandatory for We can’t do it alone. Last year we had help entrance. But the button gets you discounts (one from the community, but this year a lot more example we’ll make good use of: 20% off The people are involved, both individuals and with Bricks during Fringe). Four, make use of Fringe help from new sponsors like MOSI, YCDC, and Central — this year, Gaspar’s Grotto will serve more. And in this way we are excited to be as the hub for all things related to Fringe. (So, making this festival even more in the commusort of Fringe on the fringe, but also the center nity’s hands. of the Fringe, if you want to get meta.) Aside from events, it’s info central (weekdays, 5:30- 10 Which show are you most anticipating? p.m.; weekends, 12-9 p.m.). As festival staff we can’t play favorites! But We talked to Trish Parry, the Festival we can say we are excited about some of the more Producer who was one of the three founders well-known acts coming to town, like God is a (William Glenn, who recently moved from Scottish Drag Queen, 2 Ruby Knockers, and this
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MAKING YBOR MCGREAT AGAIN: Ybor welcomes back Tampa Fringe for a second year, and we’re lovin’ it! crazy physical theater show from Japan, Are You Lovin It?. Thrilled also that Ami Sallee is coming back to her hometown with Ruthie in the Shadow, all the LGBT shows coming, and personally, as a nerd, I want to see The Sibyl of Mars. What festival advice would you have for someone who’s never been to a Fringe before? Be a part of it! Don’t just go to one show. Come to the events, come to Fringe Central at Gaspar’s Grotto, get to know artists and staff. Give input. It really is your festival. It’s
not mine. It’s not Will’s. It’s not the artists’. It’s everyone’s opportunity to make this an experience like none other. Is The Flashlight Play the only repeat show? Yes. We were surprised to discover a repeat show [during the lottery drawing, how they picked all shows]. Some festivals don’t allow it; some festivals do. What’s the Rooster’s name? Frankie the Rooster.
Just the tip: A small sampling of what’s in store The best part about Fringe, aside from the community, an excuse to stomp around Ybor and a bunch of fantastic performances you can’t see anywhere else — well, wait, that’s actually all the best parts. But in case you want more, here’s a few quotes from Fringe artists describing their shows. —CS “Like John Waters substituting for Garrison Keillor in a friend’s living room on a $13 budget.” —The Gay Uncle Explains It All To You
“Get the most out of your CraigsList ad!” — Field Guide to the Gays “What makes us working girls, and when do we just become whores? The Early Girl asks you to look beyond the of the sex industry and humanize these people confined in a dehumanizing environment.” —The Early Girl “Escaped psychiatric patient Kevin Haggerty is not pleased about his diagnosis, even less pleased about being detained in hospital and
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why Armstrong wore it (as a young boy, a Jewish family watched out for him, Snitzer says, and they gave him the medallion). “America Never Fails” captures a protest, and it looks not unlike photos from the more recent Women’s Marches. Snitzer did shoot the Women’s March in downtown St. Pete, but this photo is not from that. It’s from a 1961 protest. Other photos, some from past St. Pete Pride parades, show unity and love. Snitzer’s entire life,
He became a photographer because the way photographs show life appealed to him. “It was a whole different way of looking at life, to document it, and I wanted to be part of it,” he says, adding: “Look at the world and decide what it means to be alive and in it.” He still shoots film — he uses a Nikon B90. Digital, he says, is too common. Everyone can do it, or thinks they can. For new photographers who want to bear their own witness, he has some
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erb Snitzer isn’t a local photographer. Although he lives in Lakewood Estates, he bristles at the moniker. Instead, he tells me, he’s a “photographer who happens to live local.” Fair enough. After all, he may live locally, but his life’s work — thus far — reaches farther than Tampa Bay. For most of his life, his work has borne witness to humanity. He remembers taking his first photo in 1955, when he was 22, of a black construction worker leaning against a fence with his wrists crossed over the fence. Snitzer pantomimes the crossed wrists, showing how they could, to the imagination, look manacled. He didn’t keep the photo. “Back then nobody considered photography an art. I did. When I moved to New York, there was one photographic gallery,” he says. If Ansel Adams gave the West visual voice, and Clyde Butcher for Florida, Snitzer did the same for equality. His work has roots in jazz; four years after his first photograph, Snitzer landed work photographing the cover of The Amazing Nina Simone. The two became friends. “When I met her we just fell in love,” he says. “We were the same age, and we were starting out.” To Snitzer, a diminutive man in his early 80s, the struggle for civil rights is inexorably linked to jazz. “I think all jazz is a statement of freedom,” he says. “Jazz music is basically coming out of struggle — the early jazz.” We’re upstairs at the Museum of Fine Arts and, like it or not, we have an audience as we talk — several staff members stay for the interview, and it’s no wonder. Listening to Snitzer talk about his work and his subjects is hypnotic. Robin O’Dell, who curated the upcoming show featuring his work, is one of the witnesses, which is fitting, as she chose the title of the show, Can I Get a Witness. “When I first heard it, I was [like], ‘What, to police brutality?’ Can I get a witness to really, whatever,” he says. “It’s going to arouse a lot of questioning, which is really always good. Even though there’s a period, [not] a question mark, one could fill in...” O’Dell selected the 34 pieces in the exhibit. There’s no question we’re witnessing evolution — we hope. A photograph of three young boys, one Hispanic, one black and one white, illustrate our unity. Another image — this one of Louis Armstrong, looking straight at the lens, holding the stub of a joint — hints at the struggle intrinsic in jazz. Snitzer points out the Star of David around Armstrong’s neck, recalling the story of
PEOPLE WATCHER: "NAACP," taken in 1958, typifies Snitzer’s unblinking way of viewing humanity. it seems, bears witness to struggle, from jazz to the Women’s March. Not everything he witnesses is on public display. He cites a series he shot on obesity, which he chose not to publish because he felt it would too easily lend itself to mocking the subjects. Documenting life, his decision asserts, is not akin to judging it. He says his stature helped his career. “I’m a little guy, so I’m not threatening anybody. If you look at the history of war photographers, they’re all little,” he says.
advice — and some questions. “I mean, why do you want to photograph? I ask young people that. It’s a hard life, unless you want to do fashion, and then it’s even harder. Most young people can’t give me an answer. Well, an answer that has any kind of depth to it,” he says. “That sounds elitist, and I don’t mean it that way.” A look at his life’s work would tell you as much. Contact Cathy Salustri at cathy.salustri@ cltampa.com.
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“I wanted to complicate the familiar.”
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A new Americana
Saying goodbye to Lector artist-in-residence Eli Arbor. By Ray Roa two months at MacDowell during the summer of 2017 and performed “Son of Slaves” a capella at the fundraiser. “He was the only rapper on a list of other equally extraordinary yet commonly featured contemporary artists,” Hooker told CL. “I was so moved by the poetry of his words. When Lector’s residency schedule opened up I reached out and invited Eli down with the caveat that he understand that ours would be pretty modest accommodations, especially compared to The MacDowell Colony.” But powerful prose doesn’t need posh accommodations to make itself heard, and Arbor has spent his time in Tampa putting the finishing touches on his sophomore album, A Place You Can’t Find, which he’ll release on July 17. At surface level, the album, like “Slave,” is an exploration of what it means to be a black American. Place isn’t preachy, and there aren’t many blanket statements worked into its lyrics, but the effort — which is more observational than his introspective 2016 debut, IDols — does build new narratives around situations that are generally familiar to listeners. “Americana” opens with a
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li Arbor is a vagabond in many ways. He is confident, however, about the community he wants to represent. The town of about 1 million residents is tucked between New York City and Toronto. Its horticultural excellence has earned it a the nickname “Flower City,” but Rochester, New York — a municipality 350 miles northwest of Manhattan — doesn’t really have a tried-and-true artistic identity of its own. Arbor, a Stanford grad who has also lived in and out of the San Francisco area since 2011, eventually wants to change the conversation by building a center that’ll allow young artists from his hometown to rent high-quality studio space on the cheap and practice their craft. “I wanna push the people in the city to think more worldwide, show everyone that Rochester got something important to say,” he told CL. He loves the place so much that he got its logo — a five-pointed flower emblem — tattooed on his chest. The devotion is tangible, which is why it’s a treat to have caught up with the 24-yearold rapper as he nears the end of a month-long Tampa residency provided by Lector Social Club. Lector’s community space and natural wine shop were supposed to open in Tampa Heights, but city and state regulations — combined with an extra wrench of bad, since nixed, counsel — led to the venue not being able to secure the approved parking necessary to open in the planned location. For now, Lector founder Michael Hooker is opening a “smaller version of the big vision” in a nook next to downtown Tampa dive bar The Hub. She and operations manager Amy Harnisch want to elevate the Bay area’s interest in natural wine by working with pioneering, “impeccable, conscientious, small producers” who are artists in their own right. The carefully curated selection of natty wine will be paired with various titles, short stories, and poems pulled from the miniLector’s 800-book lending library. On May 8, Arbor is being tasked with breaking Lector in by giving a talk — on “The immediate importance of grounded art” — and performing a song (anyone interested in catching a full set of music from Arbor can do so at Tampa Heights’ Shuffle on May 6). Hooker met Arbor last fall during a fundraiser for The MacDowell Colony, which is the oldest art residency in the United States. The emcee spent
reading of a 19th century American folk song, we’ve shown in the face of such immense pain references a broken nation and hints at Arbor’s [just] to let people know that we are Americans is love of old Chevys — but it also turns tense as staggering — we should be proud of that and we it puts blood in church eaves and contrasts past should stake our claims to what we’ve built here.” conflicts on the backs of buses to the modernAt the very least, Arbor can be proud of the day perils of interacting with police officers and work he’s completed inside of a duplex that sits judges. Tender album highlight “American Girl” near the shadow of the Seabreeze Devil Crab finds Arbor working to center black women as the shack on North Boulevard. It’s a neighborhood archetypal American girl, as opposed to the typi- that’s changing, and Abor says it affected him, too. cal blond-haired, blue-eyed archetype. “[Tampa] rappers are real lyrical, but with“I wanted to complicate the familiar — out sacrificing musicality or that bounce… I got take ‘Shenandoah’ and put to catch Dynasty’s farewell it with some 808s,” Arbor show and Record Store Day,” he said when asked about the said, adding that he was Eli Arbor listening to both American local shows he’s caught durcomposer Aaron Copeland and ing his residency. “Y’all have Tues., May 8. 7:30 p.m. No cover. revered rapper/producer Jay Lector Social Club, 305 E. Polk St., Tampa. some cool bands and singerMore info: local.cltampa.com Electronica while making the songwriters — I really liked album. Arbor wants to remind people that black Vacancy, and that cat Will Quinlan.” people been here the whole time and that they’re Arbor even has plans to pivot toward feeljust as American as anyone else. He also wants to good, still-complex pop songs once A Place... is tell black people that they don’t have to search for out. “Nobody wants to hear sociocultural theory an international identity to be validated. for an hour,” he said, laughing. “We’ve done so much in this country that we He’s right, but the way he’s mixed everyshould be proud of, that we should stand up on,” day themes into the record makes it one worth he said, citing black Americans’ contributions revisiting over and over again — it’s the kind to math, science, tech business, education and of album that teaches you something on every agriculture. “We literally built this place brick- spin. And while it may have been made by a by-brick. We’ve distinguished ourselves in every Rochester boy, A Place... certainly has the power major war, even when we knew we’d come home to reshape our own perceptions of what it means to subpar citizenship. The amount of courage to be home, too.
A LITTLE OUTSIDE ROCHESTER: Eli Arbor is finishing a residency at Tampa's Lector space.
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Finding purpose in pain Joshua Cruz looks beyond the hurt on new EP. By Ray Roa
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here’s a lot to bounce around to on Infinity & instrumental a few times till it was great enough Beyond, but listeners shouldn’t let the vin- for her, she’s a visionary.” tage grooves and dance floor-ready tempos Cruz is a prolific, formidable talent, too. on songs like “Don’t Catch Feelings” and “Honey Infinity is his second release of the last year, and Dip” fool them thinking that the his 2017 effort Black Is Classier landed on CL’s list of best local new release from Joshua Cruz is a happy one. Just listen to “Losing albums on the strength of its popYou,” where the 26-year-old songperfect hooks and melodies. He’s writer locks into a hypnotizing already working on several new wash of bass and synth before throwing all of projects, including a collaborative EP with prothe weight from a relationship gone bad onto ducer Shorne Callahan (aka 2SC). his shoulders. There’s a hurt there, and it’s “I’ve begun the pre-production phase of a almost palpable. joint album with “I hurt myself. the rapper Dabron Kain, an R&B I had a beautiful singer named relationship with Juliana Marie an incredible perand a kid wonder son and through lack of communicaproducer named tion, my pride, ego Brandon Kai. It’s and selfishness I let called The Lost it fall apart,” Cruz Ones,” Cruz said. told CL. “This projNot bad for a kid ect pretty much who says he had navigates the end no formal training of that relationbefore embarking ship, my decisions, on his songwriting faults, sadness and journey. even hope.” “It’s been more Infinity & so a lot of studying Beyond — released incredible songon April 27 after writers, artists, an advance stream producers and hit via cltampa.com records. There’s a — is also another legitimate science reason to feel hopeto writing a great ful about another pop tune and 90 Tampa Bay songpercent of hit writer breaking out records all follow of the area and onto this formula,” Cruz the national scene. HURT LOOKER: Songwriter Joshua Cruz — who is influCruz has written finds catharsis in writing for himself and others. enced by Michael for artists he can’t Jackson, Queen, mention on record and even tapped a few local Kanye West and Prince — explained. favorites to lend their own talents to the EP. “It’s funny, I am not able to always effectively Both Demi Nova and Dynasty (two artists communicate how I feel to another person, but who’ve recently bolted on a record, it comes with for other opportunities ease. All these songs were in new markets) show up written in 30 minutes or along with Queenof Ex, less due to me being able who is one of the most to channel raw emotion so powerful voices in Tampa easily to the music.” hip-hop. Listen to the EP via “QueenofEx has been cltampa.com/music. Bay someone I have been wanting to work with for area musicians can submit EPs, LPs and songs a while, she’s amazing and was my first choice for online premiere consideration via bit.ly/cl_ for the track ‘I’m Not the One,’” he said. “She’s submission (please have private streams and so in tune with music we had to change the hi-res photo assets ready).
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THU 03 C Jamey Johnson His recent cover of Johnny Cash’s “Spirit Rider” is making waves online, but it’s best to catch 11-time Grammy nominee Jamey Johnson in real life. The hirsute, 42-year-old songwriter has been sharing his hair-raising country tunes since the 2002 release of They Call Me Country, and if you call yourself country, then you’re probably going to want to put this concert on your must-see list. In fact, you might want to catch him on all his Florida dates (May 1 and 2 in Tallahassee and Gulf Breeze, respectively), since Johnson is famous for never writing setlists. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) Backtrack w/Mizery/Regulate/Hangman/ Overheat/Six Paths/Head High New Jersey hardcore band Backtrack tops this bill, but expect a heavy contingent of Overheat fans to show up, too. The Orlando-based band is calling it quits after three years, and you can expect every ounce of energy it brought to its BackBooth debut to be on display onstage at the Skatepark of Tampa’s all-ages space. (Transitions Art Gallery at Skatepark of Tampa, Tampa) Rock the Park w/Ashley Smith and The Random Occurrence/Jon Ditty/The Easy Button Ashley Smith’s soulful, soothing vocal should sound nice and crisp when long-running downtown Tampa outdoor music series Rock The Park closes out its May edition with another free, kid and pet-friendly concert that also includes Pinellas emcee Jon Ditty. Tampa rock and roll quintet The Easy Button — whose brand of crunch-pop is perfect for fans of Reliant K, Weezer or Jimmy Eat World — opens the show. (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa)
Tampa Riverfest w/The Revelers Tampa’s Riverfest celebration has always drawn an impressive crowd to The Curt, and this year’s edition (taking place Friday and Saturday) will feel a little Cajun thanks to The Revelers. The Lafayette, Louisiana collective’s music comes from the deep, multicultural roots of Acadian country and will provide a wild, raucous and foot-stomping soundtrack to the celebration. The band plays once on Friday (7 p.m.) and several times on Saturday (starting at 1 p.m.) — more information is available via the tampariverwalk.com. (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa) Tampa Bay Hardcore Presents Punk Rock Karaoke Even punks aren’t too cool for karaoke, and this show is a chance to sing along to some of your favorite tunes while members of an old-school genre favorite (Down By Law, a punk band formed in 1991 by former members of All, Dag Nasty, Chemical People, and Clawhammer) provide the soundtrack live and in-person. (Fubar Downtown, St. Petersburg) Florida Orchestra Masterworks: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 w/ James Ehnes Bradenton resident and violinist James Ehnes joins the Florida Orchestra as he performs a concerto written for him by Oscar-nominated composer James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight, Pretty Woman). TFO musical director James Francis also conducts as the ensemble plays Tchaikovsky as well as works by Michael de Murga (Fanfare for Three Cities) and Rodion Shchedrin (Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, “Naughty Limericks”). St. Pete and Clearwater get similar performances on Saturday (Mahaffey Theater) and Sunday (Ruth Eckerd Hall), respectively. More information is available via floridaorchestra. org. (Carol Morsani Hall at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) C The Accidentals Folk-pop propelled by cellos, guitar, pianos and seemingly any instrument members of The Accidentals can get their hands on. The Michigan trio’s latest — Odyssey, released last year — is adventurous without going over your head, and the band’s pals (like Jenny Conlee from The Decemberists) are all over the effort, which should come to life in a charming fashion at this unique Tampa Bay venue. (Safety Harbor Arts and Music Center, Safety Harbor) C Boston Marriage w/Worst Party Ever/Community Couch/Chaff Boston Marriage is actually from Orlando, but geography isn’t going to matter much once the indie-rock quartet unleashes songs from its 2017 EP (Personal Space). Sarasota’s Worst Party Ever brings songs from its forthcoming album (The Year Of The Manatee, due in two weeks) to the gig after sets by new St. Pete post-punk band Chaff and Community Couch (which is basically BOTB-winning
Willie Jones/Blestian/Temple 5/ Rogerthomas/Matt Walker/Mouth Council/King Complex It’s a little weird to see so many different styles of local music coalescing at St. Pete’s Paper Crane, but things are bound to get trippy when Florida’s own Lost Creations production company stages an immersive experience complete with aerialists and other installations. Expect some folk (Mountain Holler, Geri X, J.T. Brown), experimental sounds (Blestian, Mouth Council), freaky beats (Rogerthomas, Fr33dback) and more, but don’t show up without an advance ticket available via lostcreations.co. (Paper Crane, St. Petersburg)
uke-strummers Stove Johnson backed by a full band). This is an all-ages show. (Lucky You Tattoo, St. Petersburg) Tito Puente Jr. A Mambo King from Magic City is coming to Tampa Bay when six-time Grammy-winning Tito Puente Jr. plays a fundraiser for Sabor Latino 2018. Funds raised by the 46-year-old, New York-born boriqua will go towards helping Puerto Ricans still reeling from the long-lasting effect of Hurricane Maria (yeah, they’re still fucked up down there). (Coliseum, St. Petersburg) C The Lost Ball w/Fr33dback/Mountain Holler/Geri X/J.T. Brown/Alex Borst/
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Tampa Fringe says Hello, Dolly The Tampa International Fringe festival is here (turn to p. 33 for more), and massaged into an impossibly packed 11-day agenda are several music-oriented performances, including one from Orlando singer and actor Theresa SmithLevin, who will work through Save Me, Dolly Parton, a one-woman monologue written by Megan Gogerty. For an hour, Smith-Levin takes the audience on an hilarious, all-tooreal take on the perils of motherhood and uses Dolly Parton like a guiding light to lead the way. CL caught up with her to talk about her own newborn, artist advocacy and the intersection of opera and country music. See highlights below Read our full Q&A — and get more information the shows — via cltampa. com/music. —Ray Roa How similar is your life to the one you’re singing about and reciting in Save Me, Dolly Parton? It’s interesting — the first time I staged this show at Indy Fringe, I hadn’t had my baby yet so at that time, my life was quite a bit different, but now that I have a baby I see many similarities. I think I have more family support locally than the writer, Megan Gogerty, so I’ve successfully been able to avoid the artist-Mama fatigue but I could see how my life without that support could easily slip into much of what Megan describes. And what are the biggest challenges of this role for you as far as the monologue and songs go? I am an opera singer by background and training so the idea of presenting a 50-minute spoken show was quite daunting, but my producer (and acting coach) Beth Marshall never doubted me. And her confidence allowed me to thrive in this role. I haven’t seen the play yet, but some of it is about the discovery of a Dolly Parton cassette tape that gets played over and over again. What tape is it? I use the actual cassette in the show. Prior to taking this role I was not a Dolly fan but now
I sing along to a lot of her hits. You will hear “Jolene” and a few other chart-toppers in my rendition. Can you talk about the way advocating for young artists has changed your life? I honestly can’t name one way that it hasn’t changed my life. I am different on an everyday basis because of my work with young artists. But one particular way is compassion. You’ve said, “What it meant to be a singer 20 years ago is not at all what it means today.” Could you talk a little about some of the non-traditional ways you can make a living being a singer? So, in college as a classical singer, you are sold this life plan that looks like undergraduate, graduate, young artist program, then blossoming opera career, and I can tell you that works out for like one percent of singers, and oftentimes not the most talented but the most connected and lucky. And honestly, I was sick of it. I wanted to change the rules of the game. So I started my company, Central Florida Vocal Arts. Being a successful performer to me today means being versatile. Being an actor and a singer who can move seamlessly through a variety of genres and is willing to work in theme parks, in an opera house or on a musical theater stage.
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SAT 05 C Halftime Festival w/Snoop Dogg/T.I./ Karol G/Baby Rasta y Gringo/Brytiago Organizers are hoping that the inaugural Halftime Festival becomes an annual event, and they’ve booked a formidable lineup to help make the case. Snoop Dogg arrives atop the roster on the heels of the March release of his legitimately good gospel album (Bible of Love), and he’ll be joined by T.I. (“Live Your Life,” “Whatever You Like”), plus reggaeton stars like Colombia’s Karol G, Puerto Rico’s Baby Rasta & Gringo and another boriqua, Brytiago, who in his childhood once casually took a picture with Daddy Yankee not knowing he’d eventually go down the same path. “I never imagined that years later I’d be signed under his music label,” Brytiago recently told Billboard, “it’s one of the biggest blessings I’ve received in my life.” (North Lot of Raymond James Stadium, Tampa) Tampa Bay Symphonic Winds: Trek Wars Sounds from Star Trek and Star Wars will clash at this post-May the Fourth concert with the Tampa Bay Symphonic Winds. It’s a free show (bring your own lawn chair) happening at Water Works Park as part of downtown Tampa’s Riverfest celebration. (Water Works Park, Tampa) C George Clinton & Parliament Funkdelic w/Ms. Velvet & The Blue Wolf/Fall on Purpose/Rival & DJ Skeelow/Anthony Ortiz/Trenchfoot Shinding/more George Clinton released a new single (“I’m Gon Make U Sick O’Me”) in January and has also announced a new, forthcoming album called Medicaid Fraud Dog (which is the follow-up to Parilament’s 1980 album Trombipulation). Parliament-Funkadelic will also probably still groove after George Clinton retires from the road, but you might want to make plans to pay tribute to one of the godfathers of funk. On Friday, Clinton, a 76-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, told Billboard that he would quit the road life in May 2019. “This has been coming a long time,” Clinton said in a statement announcing his retirement. “Anyone who has been to the shows over the past couple of years has noticed that I’ve been out front less and less.” (Coachman Park, Clearwater) Lynyrd Skynyrd w/Blackfoot/Jimmie Vaughan/Bobby Lee Rodgers The only show where it’s actually appropriate to yell, “Freebird!” This one from the legendary and controversial Southern rockers (the Confederate flag is outdated, sorry y’all) is part of Live Nation’s $20 “All-In” ticket special, and you can read more about the discount tickets by visiting cltampa. com/music. (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)
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C Jaialai w/Johnny Mile & The Kilometers Jaialai was without its bassist (or any power or water back home in South Florida) when it played Ybor City last September (blame Irma). On Saturday, we’re hoping to see a rejuvenated and refreshed version of the band play a downtown dive famous for in-your-face shows and makeyou-fall-flat-on-your-face liquor drinks. Check out the band’s dreamy new single — “Broken Satellite,” released a month ago — to get acquainted, and get to The Hub early to see flamboyant Bay area rock ‘n’ roll outfit Johnny Mile & the Kilometers open the show. (The Hub, Tampa) The National w/Big Thief If there was ever a show to travel for, it’s this one featuring a band that never comes to Florida (The National) and one that we hope eventually makes its way down to our neck of the woods (Brooklyn’s Big Thief, whose 2017 album Capacity landed on many year-end best-of lists). It’s less than 200 miles to St. Augustine, and the views at this gem of a venue are worth every minute spent driving to get there. (St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine) C Rockabilly Ruckus Feat. Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho–Devilles w/Toro Jones/ Hot Rod Hornets/Ted Stevens and the Doo Shots/The Intoxicators/Rocket 88/ Sara Rose Band Hotlanta psychobilly makes its way to the Skipperdome when Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-Devilles headline the lucky No. 13 edition of WMNF’s Rockabilly Ruckus. Fort Laudy guitarist Steve Laudicina brings his Toro Jones project to spruce up the bill, which also includes Bay area favorites like Hot Rod Hornets, Sarasota-based Ted Stevens and the Doo Shots and more. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) Orion & Green Haven w/Kerry Courtney/ Spork Drinking at The Bends is surefire way to let quite litty on a Saturday, but mellow and melancholy math-rock band Orion & Green Haven is going to temper the tipsiness with some experimental guitar music for this one. Spork brings the emo, and Kerry Courtney continues giving local fans a glimpse into his post-Goodnight, Neverland
musical adventures. No cover, per usual, and please take sips of water in between tequila shots, K? (The Bends, St. Petersburg) C Streetcar Live w/Lauris Vidal Lauris Vidal has very busy Saturday lined up for himself. The east coast Floridian is bringing his signature one-man band show to Ella’s for an evening Cinco de Mayo/Kentucky Derby show, but he’ll punch a ticket for the TECO streetcar in the afternoon. This rolling nocharge concert on the train tracks can only accommodate 74 people, and this is the last installment before the Streetcar Live series takes a break for the summer. Your best bet to hitch a ride is to be at Ybor City’s Centennial Park Station before the 5 p.m. start time. (The TECO Line Streetcar System, Ybor City) C Donkng w/Story Mode/The Nervous Girls/Charles Irwin A pair of local bands (Story Mode, The Nervous Girls) play support when hyperactive Gainesville punk band Donkng arrives with a new single (the frenetic, bouncy “Automatic Doors”) in tow. The trio’s sound will please fans of Pavement, Parquet Courts, Women, and even Omni. Charles Irwin — yet another ukulele-using Tampa songwriter — opens the show with super-sweet songs like “What You Mean To Me” and “You Call It Romance.” (Mojo Books & Records, Tampa)
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Magic Giant Nathaniel Rateliff’s May show at Jannus has been sold out for weeks now, and you can blame most of that on a new, super-soulful album (Tearing at the Seams), which throws a whole lot of heartache into the rowdy, party-starting Americana the 39-year-old bandleader introduced to mainstream audiences just three years ago (a 2015 single “S.O.B.” is the anthem of happy hours everywhere). Willie Nelson’s son Lukas opens this show. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
SUN 06 Ol’ Dirty Sundays w/Chris Karns It’s high time for Chris Karns’ annual trip to Ybor City, and the Pretty Lights collaborator (and DMC champ) is still riding high thanks in part to his constant quest to always push the boundaries of turntablism. Cinco de Mayo hangovers are real, but we’re willing to bet that the ODS faithful will still be out in full force for what’s become Tampa Bay’s premier Sunday-night party. (Crowbar, Ybor City) C Tribal Style Long-running Bay area rootsreggae outfit Tribal Style is quietly working on new music, and it has booked a low-key show at this 600 Block mainstay to keep its wheels greased. This show is being dubbed “The Sweet Sounds of Jamaica,” so expect selections that represent the best that the island nation has to offer. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) Moneybagg Yo Bread Gang rise up. Demario Dewayne White, Jr. is a Yo Gotti protege with a new single (“Perfect Bitch”) to share with fans who’ll be at this Carrollwood nightclub to party with the 26-year-old Tennessee rapper better known as Moneybagg Yo. Expect to hear a little from his early 2018 album (Moneybagg Yo Presents: NLess Ent x Bread Gang) and a lot from a Valentine’s Day mixtape titled 2 Heartless. (Whiskey North, Tampa) C Emo Night Tampa Presents: Photo Fire w/Snacking/Bendy Straw The Emo Night Tampa crew caps off its exciting weekend with an away show at The Hub. New Jersey indie-rock band Prawn rocked for Emo Night in January, and on Sunday Hunter Walker’s Photo Fire project brings its ambitious new album of electro-indie rock (Over
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WED 09 C Magic Giant w/Young Rising Sons Magic Giant’s hyper-intimate May 10 Safety Harbor show is sold out, so fans of the rising boho-folk outfit will want to head to Skipper’s the night before to say they saw the Los Angeles group before it completely blew up. Magic Giant was on the bill for 97X’s recent “Next Big Thing,” making it the very rare (and perhaps only?) band to ever appeal to middleaged hippies and millennial festival freaks alike. Bonus points since Magic Giant also recorded its new acoustic EP (In The Wind, released last month) at Clearwater’s Clear Track Studios. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) See more of the Bay area concert calendar by visiting cltampa.com/musicweek. Bookmark cltampa.com/music and follow us on Instagram (@cltampabay) and Twitter (@cl_music) to stay up on concert announcements, local tunes and general musical bafoonery (hi Kanye!).
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mayflies are aquatic insects with short lifespans. Many species live less than 24 hours, even though the eggs they lay may take three years to hatch. I suspect this may be somewhat of an apt metaphor for your future, Scorpio. A transitory or short-duration experience could leave a legacy that will ripen for a long time before it hatches. But that’s where the metaphor breaks down. When your legacy has fully ripened, I bet it will last a long time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When a critic at Rolling Stone magazine reviewed the Beatles’ Abbey Road in 1969, he said, “Surely they must have enough talent and intelligence to do better than this.” Years later, however, Rolling Stone altered its opinion, naming it the fourteenth best album of all time. I suspect, Sagittarius, that you’re in a phase with metaphorical resemblances to the earlier assessment. But I’m reasonably sure that this will ultimately evolve into being more like the later valuation — and it won’t take years.
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