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St. Petersburg

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Florida Dad Puts Pot in 6-Year-Old's Backpack

    A kindergarten classroom in St. Petersburg had an interesting yet unplanned show and tell recently after a six-year-old student pulled three ounces of marijuana and a scale from their backpack and proclaimed to the classes' teacher, "Look what I got."How'd it get there? Apparently the student's fath ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 3, 2012

    Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks at Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre Through May 20

    A kindergarten classroom in St. Petersburg had an interesting yet unplanned show and tell recently after a six-year-old student pulled three ounces of marijuana and a scale from their backpack and proclaimed to the classes' teacher, "Look what I got."How'd it get there? Apparently the student's fath ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 3, 2012

    Nobody Puts Lily in a Corner

    A kindergarten classroom in St. Petersburg had an interesting yet unplanned show and tell recently after a six-year-old student pulled three ounces of marijuana and a scale from their backpack and proclaimed to the classes' teacher, "Look what I got."How'd it get there? Apparently the student's fath ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Human Fingertip Discovered in Florida Man's Salad

    Here's another reason why you should never order a salad from a pizza place: a Florida man claims that he discovered an employee's fingertip in his salad at a downtown St. Petersburg pizza joint. The kicker: he only discovered it after it had already been in his mouth.

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Florida Legislators Close to Forbidding Pregnant Inmates From Being Handcuffed During Birth

    ​Fresh off their devastatingly progressive move to legalize rabbit-dyeing, the Florida House passed another landmark law for human rights by banning, at last, state prisons from handcuffing pregnant women during live birth. Next on the agenda: Outlawing forced marathons for disabled veterans in ja ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2012

    Ballet the Classical Way

    ​Fresh off their devastatingly progressive move to legalize rabbit-dyeing, the Florida House passed another landmark law for human rights by banning, at last, state prisons from handcuffing pregnant women during live birth. Next on the agenda: Outlawing forced marathons for disabled veterans in ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Breakfast Beer: Not Just For Alcoholics Anymore

    ​The craft beer movement has produced some surprising side effects for the brewery world; suddenly blueberries, cherries and chocolate are considered hops-friendly ingredients, giving beer a whole new aisle in your local liquor store. In fact, beer is so user friendly with food these days, we are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Miami, Tampa and St. Petersburg Among the Top 10 Saddest Cities in America

    ​Calling Florida the "Sunshine State" might seem like a cruel joke after having almost all its major cities ranked by Men's Health magazine as some of the saddest cities in America.It's one thing to have a city as part of this dreaded list, but to include Miami, Tampa, St. Pete and Jacksonville .. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    McKay Scholarship Fraud: Florida Rep. Rick Kriseman Urges Big Changes To Troubled Program

    ​A movement is growing in Tallahassee to reform the fraud and abuse-plagued McKay Scholarship program following a New Times exposé. Yesterday, state representative Rick Kriseman (D-St. Petersburg) took the boldest step yet, recommending specific and widespread changes that would address the progr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    Five Crazy Black Friday Shopping Frenzies

    ​For many Americans, this Thursday will be a day of thankful reflection over a meal the size of which a third-world family has never seen. But according to the National Retail Federation, about 152 million of those folks (that's about half the population) can be expected to line the cold shopping ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Miami's Slashpine Makes the Pilgrimmage to Meet Olympia's Wolves in the Throne Room

    Photo by Chris BeugThese are Wolves in the Throne Room.​Slashpine Travelogue Wolves in the Throne Room The Chop Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, September 23, 2011 It's hard to reckon the episode we experienced in Florida's backwater over the weekend. It was was meant to be a quick detour on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    VooDoo BBQ & Grill Announces Florida Expansion

    VooDoo BBQ & Grill is coming to town.​Louisiana-based VooDoo BBQ & Grill has announced plans to bring its N'awlins "competition style BBQ" to Florida. The fast-casual chain has signed a deal with a local LLC (whose partnership currently includes the management of several Five Guys Burgers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Florida Marlins Not First Baseball Players To Be Spooked By Ghosts At St. Petersburg's Vinoy Hotel

    "That voice just now-- what was it?"​We like the idea that, in his final hours as the Florida Marlins manager, Edwin Rodriguez spent his time comforting relief pitchers who were terrified of ghosts. It'd be fitting for one of the youngest teams in baseball.

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Former Florida First Lady Carole Rome Sells Her $3 Million Fisher Island Apartment

    ​Charlie Crist is still married to an actual lady, and even though he failed to make Carole Rome a D.C. power wife she just sold her apartment on fancy Fisher Island so she can live with Crist in St. Petersburg full time. Rome sold the apartment for $3 million according to The Sun-Sentinel, though ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2011

    Still Moving

    ​Charlie Crist is still married to an actual lady, and even though he failed to make Carole Rome a D.C. power wife she just sold her apartment on fancy Fisher Island so she can live with Crist in St. Petersburg full time. Rome sold the apartment for $3 million according to The Sun-Sentinel, though ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    No, 70 People Were Not Trapped in an Airport Hangar Due to Central Florida's Crazy Weather

    via Bay News 9​It's in the 80s and perfectly sunny here in Miami, but our state-mates in the central part of Florida aren't enjoying the same good weather. An apparent tornado that ripped through Tampa has left many areas in Central Florida in disarray. But a report carried by numerous national me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Former First Lady Carole Crist is Selling Her Fisher Island Condo

    ​Former First Lady of Florida Carole Crist may not be the newest member of the Senate Spouse's club, but she's sticking by her man. In fact, despite plans by the couple to split their time between Miami and Tampa Bay, she's put her fancy Fisher Island condo on the market so she can live with Charl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Sun Life Stadium Should Ban Meat

    Salmonella bacteria​British soccer stadium Forest Green Rovers Football Club recently instituted a ban on burgers and sausages. Its vegan owner first barred the team's players from partaking in red meat for "health and performance reasons," and then extended the policy to patrons as well, reasonin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Miami is One of the Angriest Cities in America

    You wouldn't like us when we're angry. ​Nothing pisses us off more than these statisically-flawed, silly little city rankings lists. Just in the past few weeks we've learned that Miami is one of America's most rude, vain, and miserable cities. Fittingly, Men's Health now tells us that when it come ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Two More Florida Cops Killed While Miami Mourns Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth

    via Pinellas County Sheriff's DepartmentHydra Lacey Jr., the convicted sex offender who killed two St. Petersburg cops today.​A horrible week for Florida's police officers turned even worse this afternoon. While thousands gathered in downtown Miami to remember Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    International Noise Conference Announces Another Bout of Chaos February 10

    Photo by Mike NunnGet yr noise with Clang Quartet.​Hey noiseniks, it's almost time again to put your auditory system through those 72 hours of awesome sonic abuse commonly known as the International Noise Conference. As always, Rat Bastard and Laundry Room Squelchers will be helming the whole th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    "Firstness": Insane Florida Woman Already Camping Out for Black Friday Sales

    ​Oh, you've got your comfiest sneakers ready. You're going to bed at 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving afternoon and planning on waking up 6 hours later. You want to be the first Floridian in line for the annual jubilee of capitalism known as "Black Friday." Too late. Somewhere in a St. Petersburg parking lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Blast From the Past: Gotohells - Six Packs & Race Tracks

    Gotohells Six Packs & Race Tracks (Stiff Pole Records) In honor of Richard "Big Stiff" Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I'll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, Stiff Pole Records, that, i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    UM Student Kelly McConnell, Two Brothers, and Dad Killed by Drunk Driver

    ​Demetrius Jordan, 20, was drinking and smoking pot Saturday night before getting behind the wheel of his Chevy Impala and cruising the streets of St. Petersburg at 80 mph.Kelly McConnell, 19, on summer break from the University of Miami, was riding home from a movie with his father and two older ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Yeasayer in Miami! October 5 at the Fillmore Miami Beach

    photo by Jason Frank Rothenberg​Fun news. Miami has finally scored a proper show by part of the holy triumvirate of Establishment-Accepted Brooklyn Art-Pop: Yeasayer! (MGMT and the Dirty Projectors would round out the trio.... One can continue to dream.) The only bummer is that by the time Yeasaye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Online News Startup The Florida Independent Launches

    ​Print's death rattle has birthed a new online start-up based here in Florida. The Florida Independent launched earlier this week with a focus on original, daily reporting on state and local issues. But what's notable about the start-up is its place in a growing list of news organizations that ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Charlie Crist May Come to Fisher Island to Kick Off Independent Bid

    ​Charlie Crist is rumored to make a big announcement concerning his campaign for Senate this Thursday, and while no one has 100 percent confirmed it, it's anticipated that he'll declare his intentions to run as an independent. That announcement will likely be made in his home town of St. Pete ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Marijuana Report: Florida Legislature Hunts Head Shops

    ​While the rest of the country -- or at least California, Colorado and a few others -- virtually legalize pot, Florida is going retro.Bills making their way through the Florida House and Senate would impose a 25 percent tax on pipes with carburetors. Worse, it argues that these pipes couldn't be s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Shutter Island, New Scorsese-DiCaprio Flick, Based on FIU Grad's Book

    ​Had Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island been released in October as originally planned, perhaps FIU-grad Dennis Lehane would have had a third movie based on one of his novels up for an Academy Award.His novel Mystic River was adapted by Clint Eastwood into a six-time nominated film. Gone, Baby, Gone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Three Weeks Into 2010, It's Going to Be a Very Dumb Year: Behold Your Morons of the Week

    You see it every new year: South Florida's morons resolve to turn over a new leaf. They promise they will keep their names and mug shots out of news articles with the phrases oddly enough or incredibly idiotic in the headlines. But now, during the third week in January, our heroes are suffering from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Miami Still Leads State in Cocaine and Heroin Related Deaths

    via Dean812's flickrDeaths where valium and xanax were found in the body are on the rise. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiners district still leads the state in the number of autopsies where heroine and cocaine were found, but the amount of deaths linked to pharmaceutical abuse remains&nb ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 1, 2009

    Ballooning on the Beach

    With a band from Brooklyn.

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Crist Prepares For His Constitutionally Protected Marriage

    With a band from Brooklyn.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Surprise! GOP Suspected of Sleazy Tactics in Florida

    With a band from Brooklyn.

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Homophobe Media Whizzes Not Doing So Great

    With a band from Brooklyn.

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2008

    Dan Marino Got Wine

    With a band from Brooklyn.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Bike Blog: Shark Valley Ride Tonight, And What's Up With Green Bike Lanes?

    With a band from Brooklyn.

  • Dining

    January 17, 2008

    Bargain Bait

    Bonefish Grill reels in diners with low prices, and keeps them with fine fish.

  • Music

    May 17, 2007

    Truthier Than Thou

    Is honesty the best policy? Just ask the members of Underoath, a fractious hardcore Christian band that lit up the Billboard charts

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2007

    Boat Show Blows into Miami

    Is honesty the best policy? Just ask the members of Underoath, a fractious hardcore Christian band that lit up the Billboard charts

  • Culture

    October 19, 2006

    Ella's Gift

    Cifo is an oasis in a desert of concrete rot

  • Music

    June 8, 2006

    The Metal Crusaders Tour

    Cifo is an oasis in a desert of concrete rot

  • Recreation

    May 12, 2005

    BEST PLACE TO PLAY SHUFFLEBOARD

    North Shore Park and Youth Center

  • Film

    January 2, 2003

    Back to the Future

    Most of this year's best won't be seen until next

  • News

    November 6, 1997

    News of the Weird

    Most of this year's best won't be seen until next

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    Go Directly to Court

    In a high-stakes showdown, Miami hopes to put some muscle on its enfeebled Nuisance Abatement Board

  • Culture

    May 15, 1997

    Scharf Among the Surrealists

    In a high-stakes showdown, Miami hopes to put some muscle on its enfeebled Nuisance Abatement Board

  • News

    September 26, 1996

    By the Pound

    In a high-stakes showdown, Miami hopes to put some muscle on its enfeebled Nuisance Abatement Board

  • News

    October 14, 1992

    The Envelope Please...

    In a high-stakes showdown, Miami hopes to put some muscle on its enfeebled Nuisance Abatement Board

  • Culture

    July 8, 1992

    Female Trouble

    In a high-stakes showdown, Miami hopes to put some muscle on its enfeebled Nuisance Abatement Board

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