St. Petersburg

Petition Started to Support Florida Boy Who Was Asked to Remove Makeup at School

Fourteen-year-old Chris Martin is probably cooler than you. He wears anarchy symbol shirts to school (because fuck the crumbling system, right?). He doesn't label his sexuality (because labels are limiting anyway). And he wears makeup to school (because gender roles are outdated and oppressive socia ... More >>

Acropolis Greek Taverna to Host Grand OPA-ning Party: Free Food and Drink

Walk into Acropolis Greek Taverna and you might swear you've just become an extra in the comedy favorite "My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The small Tampa-based restaurant chain, which has locations in New Tampa; Ybor City; Riverview; and St. Petersburg, has just opened in Coconut Grove, serving a dose of ... More >>

Smoke Pot Now, Tallahassee

Sweat Records' Sweatstock 2013 Lineup, Raising Money via Indiegogo

Record Store Day 2013 Ambassador Jack White said it best: "We need to re-educate ourselves about human interaction and the difference between downloading a track on a computer and talking to other people in person and getting turned onto music that you can hold in your hands and share with others." ... More >>

Rat Bastard's International Noise Conference: Insane 135-Act Lineup, Celebrates 10 Years

According to the Internet, a ten year anniversary is to be celebrated with diamonds. Because "a marriage that lasts ten years is as durable and beautiful as a diamond."Now, "durable" and "beautiful" may not be the first words one associates with Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra's annual International N ... More >>

Florida Lawyer Asks Off Murder Trial To Compete In Key West's Hemingway Look-Alike UPDATE

Judges postpone trials across Florida every day for all kinds of reasons -- delayed depositions, conflicts with other cases, motions from attorneys, illnesses in the family. (Just ask Carlos Bertonatti -- two and half years later, still no trial.)But there's at least one reason that won't stick: Wan ... More >>

Trayvon Martin's Legacy: Maybe Blacks Will Start Voting

Trayvon Martin Tragedy Should Inspire Black Voters to Go to the Polls

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for. This week, Luke says African-Americans need to march to the polls on Election Day.For more than two weeks, tens of thousands of African-Americans have been ... More >>

Jelsomino Russian Karaoke Lounge Coming to South Beach (Video)

​For years Short Order has been saying the only thing that stands between South Beach and paradise was a really good karaoke lounge..possibly one that had live backup singers.Well, South Beach is closer to perfection because word has it that Russian-based Ginza Project is bringing its karaoke loun ... More >>

Ballet the Classical Way

Miami Hit Harder By Recession Than Almost Any Other City On Earth

​Next time someone tells you, "Eh, this recession hasn't sucked that much in Miami," whip out this interactive economic graphic report that the Brookings Institute just published. The think tank's conclusions are stunning: Of 200 global cities they analyzed, Miami's economy was harder hit by the r ... More >>

No Loves' Jim Putney Talks Stiff Pole Records, Rock 'N' Roll America and Churchill's Pub

​We may not have known it then. But Florida in the 1990s was a bonafide punk rock factory. Down in South Florida, labels like Starcrunch, 4 and Half Finger Records, and Far Out were pressing soon-to-be classics by the Stun Guns, Chickenhead, and the Crumbs. Our not-too-distant neighbors in Tampa ... More >>

New Year, More Sparks

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 >>

De La Soul Soviet Jazz = TenDJiz's De La Soulviet Mashup Revolution

​The mashup is a decadent, triumphant symbol of the digital age's too-deep pool of influences. Before the internet, you had to save your pennies and hunt down sounds (and information about them) like a bounty hunter. Before electricity, you straight up had to wait until someone with an instrume ... More >>

Baggy Pants Save Teen from Alligator Attack, but Politicians are Trying to Ban Them in Schools

​Florida legislators are hard at work trying to pass a law that would ban students from wearing baggy pants in the classroom, but baggy pants have actually saved a teenager life -- well, sorta. Seventeen-year-old St. Petersburg resident Kendrick Williams escaped an alligator attack because the rep ... More >>

Wines at Vizcaya Are Fruity and Whimsical

via Vizcaya Café & Shop​At Vizcaya, the historical mansion on Biscayne Bay in Coconut Grove, you can get some crazy wine.At a recent tasting in the under-construction café, I quaffed the Hurricane Class 5 Florida white sangria. It's a delicious mix of pineapple, watermelon, passion fruit, ke ... More >>

Florida Marlins Hot Dog Recipe from The Hot Dog King Himself

Louie DiRaimondo​​Today is opening day for the Florida Marlins, and lots of folks at the stadium will be celebrating in traditional manner -- by which we mean eating hot dogs. According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council's 2010 survey of hot dog and sausage consumption at major league b ... More >>

Miami-Dade Plummets in "Most Dangerous Cities" Rankings

​Miami-Dade County and most of its cities have dropped in the rankings on CQ Press's "Most Dangerous Cities" list, which is considerably good news. Last year, Miami-Dade was ranked the fourth most dangerous metro area in America. This year, it's only number 16, and no it's not just because ot ... More >>

Poop Bandits Arrested For Defiling St. Pete's Finest Swimming Pool

via Pinellas County Sheriff's DepartmentAndrew Harris and Michael Cline: Your smarmy mug shots will live in poop-related infamy.​Two teens in St. Petersburg, Florida evidently decided to while away their fading halcyon days of youth with a time-honored American tradition: Sneaking into the fancies ... More >>

Marco Rubio, Tea Party pretty boy

Smashing Pumpkins

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 >>

Crist to Declare an Independent Run for Senate at 5 p.m. Tomorrow, Fox Says

Update: Fox News reports Charlie Crist will announce he's running for Senate as an independent. ​Crist will make the announcement at 5 p.m. tomorrow in St. Petersburg's Straub Park. He'll drop out of the Republican primary and jump into the race as an independent. Chris Cillizza at the W ... More >>

Concert Review: Dooms De Pop, Astari Nite, and Confused as Ever at Artserve Fort Lauderdale, July 24

via myspace.com/confusedaseverrocksFort Lauderdale quartet Confused As Ever​Redeye '09With Dooms De Pop, Astari Nite, and Confused as EverArtserve Fort LauderdaleFriday, July 24, 2009Better Than: Guy Harvey paintings and seashell collectionsThe Review: Fort Lauderdale is perhaps better known for ... More >>

Hall Hoover Breaks Florida Hot Dog Eating Record, Gets Ready for Coney Island

A new Florida record was set this year in the competitive eating-hot dog circuit. Hall Hoover, as in Hall "Hoover" Hunt, from Jacksonville ate 33 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the qualifiers for the Nathan's Fourth Of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, New York.The qualifi ... More >>

All That Teacher-Student Sex in Florida Gets National Shout Out

Via Gina, Flickr CCTime Magazine has a burning question: What's up with all the horny female teachers in Florida? The publication ran a story a couple days ago, inspired by Maria Guzman Hernandez. You know, the 32-year-old Hialeah teacher who was arrested for allegedly seducing a 15-year-old boy las ... More >>

Random Sort-of-Florida-Band Album Review: WAUMISS, WAUMISS

WAUMISSWAUMISS (Little Ramona Records)The Carrboro, North Carolina-based duo WAUMISS traces its roots back to Florida, to a series of early-Nineties Tampa and St. Petersburg bedrooms that produced many beautifully skewed pop songs. The musicians who comprise WAUMISS became two of many who wandered b ... More >>

Amazing, Someone is Actually Protesting The Crist Wedding

Riptide works on a self imposed quota system, and in order to meet our goals we have to make at least one "Charlie Crist is gay" joke a week. So it was only natural when reporting on Charlie Crist's upcoming nuptials to lay it on thick, especially while we were still fuming from the travesty of Amen ... More >>

Miami Book Fair Preview: Q&A with Dennis Lehane

Miami Herald Owner in Danger of Bankruptcy

Layoffs, partnerships, and the Net conspire to kill South Florida's dailies.

Interview: Motion City Soundtrack

Russian Rhythms

Feel DJ Boris’s bass go boom, boom, boom

Brute Farce

West Miami-Dade County offers some art that's worth the trip

Treehouse Rock

Borscht Belt on the Beach

In Moscow by the Trump, get ready to pass the sour cream

Raw Metal

Old rockers offer soundtracks for sleaze

Doggy Style

Caravan Stage Barge

Riptide

Equal-opportunity aficionado

Kulchur

Getting an earful

Dressed to Excess

Scharf Among the Surrealists

Bad to the Bone

It's sad when a manatee dies because of a careless boater. What took place on Watson Island went beyond sad.

The Envelope Please...

Sum of a Beach