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Artists, advocates, buyers and anyone Tampa or Hillsborough residents interested in the local art community are encouraged to come to one or all of the meetings. The first one was on Septy. 1, and you don’t have to be a resident of the specific neighborhood where the meetings’ focus lies. The remaining four meetings are all virtual at 6:30 p.m. with the dates and focus-areas as Tuesday, Sept. 14 (West Tampa), Wednesday, Sept. 29 (North Tampa) and Wednesday, Oct. 6 (East Tampa). The Oct. 13 meeting to discuss Downtown Tampa and Ybor City is tentatively set to meet in person at a location yet to be announced. Local philanthropist Neil Gobioff formed the Tampa Arts Alliance through the Gobioff Foundation, with Tucker/Hall PR, to increase arts awareness in Tampa, attract more funding for the arts, connect artists with local arts organizations, and create a clearer vision for the arts in Tampa.

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“He had a job interview on Thursday but instead had to pack up his belongings at his apartment.”

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at the complex are being evicted, and to get a response to Lord’s claims, but did not receive an answer.

Thousands affected in Tampa Bay, millions across the country Lord said that renters shouldn’t stay quiet about their situations, because thousands of people in Tampa Bay and millions across the country face similar situations. With the moratorium expired, livelihoods are on the line. According to the Hillsborough County Clerk of Courts, as of Friday, there are over 2,500 eviction cases currently pending. Pinellas Courts said that

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ast Thursday, Elijah Lord, 19, was in a state of despair and confusion as he packed up the apartment that he and his three brothers have lived in for two years. The day before, he received a writ of possession from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office, giving them less than 24 hours to leave the property.

They are now facing homelessness for the first time in their lives.

Lord and his brothers don’t have any family in the area to stay with. So now, they are choosing which belongings to leave and which ones they want to try to fit into a car that they might be living in as soon as this weekend.

Despite the dire situation, Lord is holding onto hope. “I keep thinking of the saying, ‘This too shall pass,’” he told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Editor’s note: As this story went to print, Lord and his brothers were being evicted by PCSO. After the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium was shot down by the Supreme Court last week, landlords have rushed to remove tenants in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties, along with the rest of the country, who were previously protected by the rule.

The writ of possession is the final step of the eviction process. It notifies renters that they must leave the property immediately under threat of arrest, and casts people out of their homes during a still-raging COVID-19 pandemic.

From Aug. 1 until Sept. 2, 445 “writs of possession” were served in Hillsborough, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO). The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) told CL that 235 writs have been served since August.

Lord says he had a job interview on Thursday but instead had to pack up his belongings at his apartment in Osprey Pointe. The eviction has upended his attempt to become more stable during the pandemic.

“They say it was because of back rent, but I was very vocal about all the problems going on in our apartment,” Lord told CL. “There was mold, and the air conditioning, dishwasher, and kitchen sink were messed up.”

CL sent emails and left voicemails asking Osprey Pointe management how many people

already gone to the final stage of the eviction court The writs never stopped during the pandemic process and are waiting for writs because the While over a hundred and fifty writs have been courts are likely to acknowledge those cases first. posted on renter’s doors by Hillsborough and Those who are at the writ stage have an option Pinellas County Sheriffs since the moratorium to file a motion with the court to stay or stop expired on Aug. 26, plenty were being issued by the writ, says DiFiore, but judges before that, despite they need a legal reason for the moratorium. that, such as having applied A Hillsborough Courts for rental assistance that document obtained by CL hasn’t come through yet, or shows the moratorium Landlord/Tenant Rights proof that the tenant has slowed eviction filings for Community Training made an attempt to pay the a few months of 2020, but Next Fri., Sept. 17, 2 p.m. Free. landlord but didn’t receive a the writ stage continued in Contact Housing Navigator Cynthia Crosbyresponse.

Hillsborough throughout Craig. 813-558-5212 x 3030; bals.org If a renter doesn’t have the eviction moratorium. a legal reason to stop or stay the writ, DiFiore According to the court’s numbers, in October of says the best thing to do is to get belongings out 2020, writs filed by the court reached 668, the of the property before the landlord puts them high for that year. out on the street.

Judges were making these decisions based “While the supreme court’s judgment is dis- upon whether or not tenants had made declarations of being unable to pay rent under the Center For Disease Control’s Eviction Moratorium. If they didn’t take this step, or if the judges found other reasons why the renter did not qualify for protection, the judges would make the decision to move on to writ.

DOORMAN: A Pinellas County Sheriff evicts Elijah Lord’s family on Sept. 7, 2021. over 1,000 cases are pending for eviction cases filed since January.

“The moratorium essentially stopped the eviction clock at 5 minutes to midnight,” Tom DiFiore, head of the housing unit at Bay Area Legal Services told CL. “With the moratorium expiring, the clock started again, and Tampa Bay renters are facing writ of possession.”

DiFiore says that the renters who are currently at most risk are those whose landlords have

appointing, [Bay Area Legal Services is] focusing efforts on advising renters with questions and looking at cases where rental assistance can help settle the situation,” DiFiore says.

On Sept. 17, DiFiore and Bay Area Legal Services will host a landlord and tenant rights forum at the University Area Community Center—located at 14013 N 22nd St. in Tampa— to address rising evictions.

Renters organize to protect each other Back at Osprey Pointe apartments, nine members of the St. Pete Tenants Union (SPTU) and Tampa Tenants’ union gathered to support Elijah Lord and his brothers on Thursday. They contacted a local legal group, and hope to get a legal “stay of writ,” because of Lord’s attempt to get rental assistance.

“We don’t want to see people living out in the streets or in their cars,” said Karla Correa with SPTU. “It’s a public health issue. We’re calling on Biden and the federal government to stop this process that was enacted by the Supreme Court, an unelected group of people who are siding with the rich and leaving the poor to struggle. We have to challenge this.”

Lord’s writ notice said that the premises needed to be vacated by 9:20 a.m. last Thursday, but by Friday afternoon, he was still preparing while the union members waited to see if PCSO would arrive at the property.

Lord is trying to stay on the bright side, and he plans to talk about his experience on his podcast when things are less hectic for him.

“I’ve been immersed in thought during all of this, but at the same time I’m trying to keep my mind clear,” Lord says. “But I keep thinking that people have to speak up about their situations, and we have to come together as we’re going through these tough times.”

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Strange parallel

Revisiting a 1931 clash between Tampa cigar workers and police.

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n the evening of Nov. 7, 1931, a crowd of police gathered near Ybor’s Labor Temple— now known as the iconic goth club The Castle—to stop Tampa workers from hosting a parade. Cigar workers and the rest of the working class in the city had suffered through hard economic times as a result of the Great Depression, and they wanted to march from Ybor to downtown Tampa to encourage more people to join the communist labor movement.

The Tampa Tribune reported that inside the temple, the communists had red flags and a sign reading, “Black and white, unite and fight!”

They had already demanded eviction protections and more pay to protect workers in Tampa during the Depression, but they wanted to parade through the city to appeal to more community members, who would hopefully join them in their demands. By 6 p.m., police were in Ybor with riot guns and fire-hoses. Fifty men from the American Legion (who were asked to volunteer by the police) showed up as well, ready to stop any sort of communist worker’s parade.

Hundreds of workers arrived at the temple that day, and there was an overflow of people onto the street, according to witnesses accounts shared with The Nation. But police said to reporters that none of the people had begun setting up for a parade.

Regardless, police said they “attempted to disperse the crowd,” telling them there would be no parade. A cigar worker named Felix Marrero told police that there was a telegram from Governor Doyle Carlton saying that a parade was legal, which would defy then Tampa Mayor Robert E. Lee Chancey, who had decided against the parade. Reports from the time and local historians say that Marrero was probably mistaken in his claim that the governor had overruled the mayor.

The police detained Marrero. Reports say he fought back, and witnesses saw him hauled off to jail covered with blood. There is some debate as to who started the fight, but the St. Petersburg Times reported that “Twenty-three policemen rushed the crowd of several hundred and they resisted.”

Bricks were thrown and more blood was drawn.

Local papers did not ask for the worker’s input on the situation. Reporting was often skewed against them, labeling them “Reds.”

But according to police accounts shared with the media, during the fight, a brick hit the head of Police Officer David Wilson and shots were fired from the second story of the temple. A bullet hit Police Officer J. N. Byrd. Some reports say the non-fatal shot hit him in the shoulder, while others say he was shot in the back and a bullet went through his lung.

Police reinforcements pushed people into the Labor Temple and cleared the street. According to The Nation, a boy selling a copy of The Daily Worker, a labor newspaper, was shoved by police.

The boy yelled and was arrested. His mother objected and was also arrested, and a passerby named Jose Campo, a traveling salesman came to the aid of the woman and was arrested, too.

A detachment of police and legionnaires wedged its way into the Temple and made arrests.

Reports are mixed, ranging from 15 to 22 workers being arrested that day. From what can be determined from the reports, charges were brought against 17 of them, of which 15 received harsh sentences.

Editor’s note: This Labor Day story was slated as a web-only, but response was so good that we’ve made part of it available here. Read the entire piece via cltampa.com/magazine.

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Here’s what to expect in the St. Pete general election.

By McKenna Schueler

Important general election dates and deadlines • General Election Day: Nov. 2, 2021 (Note: There is no Early Voting period for St. Pete municipal elections, so get on that mail ballot,) • Last day to register to vote: Oct. 4, 2021 (before 5 p.m.)

• Last day to request a mail ballot: Oct. 23, 2021 (before 5 p.m.)

• Military and overseas voter mailing deadline: Sept. 18, 2021 Many of the most important issues facing St. Pete residents, such as affordable housing, public safety, infrastructure, community health, and economic opportunity for workers and small businesses are influenced by decisions made by local governmental officials. While some things can be better (or must be) addressed on the federal or state levels, there’s a lot that goes down in the halls—and Zoom calls—of our city leaders, including St. Petersburg’s mayor and City Council members.

Because Creative Loafing Tampa Bay is committed to making local news (and information about local elections) accessible for all, we’ve put together a rundown for what will be on the Municipal General Election ballot.

What’s on the ballot This year, voters in St. Pete will elect the city’s next mayor and have the opportunity to vote for City Council members in Districts 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8. Furthermore, the ballot will also contain one referendum question and seven questions regarding city charter amendments. St. Pete’s current mayor, Rick Kriseman, is unable to file for a third term in office, due to term limits. He will be succeeded by one of the two remaining candidates campaigning for mayor: Ken Welch or Robert Blackmon.

City Council Districts 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 have two candidates, each, that will appear on the ballot for all voters in St. Pete. City Council Districts 2 and 6 have incumbents who are seeking reelection. Since each incumbent received only a single challenger, all four candidates (including the two incumbents) automatically advanced to the General. Their names did not appear on the Primary Election ballot. All municipal contests in St. Pete on the General ballot this November will be decided at large—meaning voters citywide will

have the opportunity to cast their vote for mayor and for candidates in all five City Council races.

Who’s running for mayor Of the eight candidates who appeared on the Primary Election ballot, only two candidates—Robert Blackmon and Ken Welch—will be squaring off this November in the general, after securing the highest number of votes on Aug. 24. Welch, a registered Democrat and former Republican, received the largest percentage of votes in the primary— nearly 40% of the vote, equivalent to 21,927 votes citywide. Blackmon, a registered Republican, followed Welch with 15,659 votes, or a little over 28% of the vote. Robert Blackmon is City Council

St. Pete City Council District 2 District 2 incumbent and real estate broker Brandi Gabbard will face candidate Kyle Hall, a small business owner and Marine Corps veteran challenging Gabbard’s bid for a second term in office. There was no primary election for this race.

St. Pete City Council District 4 City Council candidates Lisset Hanewicz and Tom Mullins won the highest number of votes in the August primary. Their names will appear on the General Election ballot for District 4.

In the August primary, Hanewicz—a former prosecutor and community advocate—won nearly 42% of votes cast on a ballot with four other candidates. Mullins—a aymond James investment banker and anti-

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his November, voters in St. Petersburg will decide on their next mayor, and have the opportunity to cast votes for candidates running in several City Council races. All municipal races in St. Pete are non-partisan, but here are some basic dates and ballot info to get familiar with now.

VOTES4ALL: John Gascot and James Hartzell’s ‘Diversity in Democracy’ mural. member in District 1, a real estate developer with Blackmon Properties (of “we nearly evicted three tenants during a pandemic” fame).

St. Pete City Council District 1 Out of four candidates vying for the District 1 seat in August, City Council candidates Bobbie Shay Lee and Copley Gerdes have advanced to the General Election, Lee—a former nonprofit director, former TECO lobbyist, breast cancer advocat—got 33.76% of the vote, while Gerdes—a financial advisor, son of former City Council member Charlie Gerdes—received 33.81% of the vote. Needless to say, it was a close tie for the No. 1 spot. District 1 is up for election in 2021 due to the resignation of Blackmon of District 1, who is currently running for Mayor. Blackmon’s

“woke” candidate—trailed behind Hanewicz with about 24% of the vote.

St. Pete City Council District 6 District 6 incumbent Gina Driscoll will face District 6 City Council candidate Mhariel Summers on the General Election ballot.

Summers—a former District Secretary for State Rep. Michele Rayner (D-70), former campaign staffer for Charlie Crist (for Congress) and Phillip Levine (for Governor)—is challenging Driscoll’s bid for a second term in office. There was no primary election for this race.

St. Pete City Council District 8 From the August primary, City Council candidates Richie Floyd and former City Council

member Jeff Danner became the top two contenders for District 8, advancing to the General Election. Floyd—a middle school teacher, community activist, and political organizer—led the August primary vote by a mile, earning 51.81% of the total vote in District 8, equivalent to 3,087 votes. Danner, who came in second, received about 27% of the vote, or 1,605 votes.

St. Pete general election ballot questions One city of St. Petersburg referendum and seven charter amendments will appear on the 2021 St. Pete Municipal General Election ballot. Read the full descriptions of these ballot questions via votepinellas.org.

Referendum question: Providing City Council with the Authority to Grant Economic Development Ad Valorem Tax Exemptions If passed, this charter amendment would allow City Council to authorize property tax exemptions to new businesses and expansions of existing businesses that are expected to create new, full-time jobs in St. Pete, pursuant to the Article VII of the State Constitution.

No. 1 Charter Amendment: Limiting City Council Elections to Voters in the Applicable Council District and Making Related Changes Would amend the city charter to limit City Council elections to their respective districts for both the Primary and General Elections. It would also allow candidates who receive more than 50% of the vote in the Primary to be elected (Note: currently the top two in the primary advance to the General), and “make other clarifying changes”.

No. 2 Charter Amendment: Establishing New Process for Drawing District Boundaries for Election of City Council Members This charter amendment would create a new process for drawing City Council District boundaries, which occurs every 10 years. The amendment contains additional recommendations for how this process would occur (e.g. requiring comprehensive standards for drawing equitable district boundaries).

No. 3 Charter Amendment: Establishing an Equity Framework and Chief Equity Officer for City Government This charter amendment would establish an “equity framework” for addressing equity gaps on the basis of characteristics such as race and ethnicity. This would also require the creation of an equity action plan, which would be regularly assessed. A Chief Equity Officer position for the city would also be created, in order to head this initiative.

No. 4 Charter Amendment: Establishing a Requirement for Charter-Protected Equity Funding What this is: Require that the city designate “Charter-protected equity funding” to address equity gaps on the basis of characteristics such as race and ethnicity, and prevent the protected funding from being used for other purposes. continued on page 19

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RICK ROLLS: St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman is term-limited. continued from page 17 No. 5 Charter Amendment: Establishing New Requirements Related to City Administrator, City Clerk, and City Council Administrative Officer A charter amendment that would 1) require the City Administrator be a resident of St. Pete 2) clarify that the City Clerk works for both the Mayor and City Council, which would require the consent of both for the removal of the City Clerk 3) amend City Council Administrative Officer duties 4) make “related changes” No. 6 Charter Amendment A charter amendment proposed to resolve a scheduling conflict that currently exists with the Charter-review process and the process for redrawing district boundaries, both of which occur nearly simultaneously every ten years. Plus, “make other changes” to ensure the integrity of the Charter-review process.

No. 7 Charter Amendment: Adding a Preamble to Describe the Spirit of the Charter and the City’s Governing Philosophy Add a preamble to the city charter that would contain a “concise statement” describing the City’s governing philosophy (e.g. goals, vision, values).

registration via votepinellas.org or by calling the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections office to confirm.

What if I need to change my address?

Update your address online or mail in a new voter registration application with your updated address. Visit this votepinellas.org for instructions on both. To update your address online, you’ll need a Florida driver’s license or other Florida identification (ID) card, as well as the issued date of that card and your Social Security Number (SSN4).

Are municipal races partisan? Not officially, no. Some candidates running for office may refer to their political affiliation in their campaigning, but St. Pete’s municipal races are non-partisan.

How do I know which district I’m in?

The City of St. Petersburg website has an interactive City Council Districts & Maps page. You can also find your district by visiting the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office’s Find Your Precinct and Polling Place page, or by calling the office directly at (727) 464-8683.

How do I request a mail ballot? Visit votepinellas.org and proceeding with the interactive application. If you experience difficulty requesting your mail ballot online, you can also call the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office at (727) 464-8683 to request a mail ballot.

How often do these elections occur? City Council members and the Mayor serve for fouryear terms. This year, the Mayor’s office and five out of eight City Council seats (*1, 2, 4, 6, 8) are up for election.

In the upcoming weeks and months prior to Election Day on Nov. 2, CL will be working on additional coverage of the St. Pete Municipal races. Got tips? Suggestions for what you’d like to see CL cover as it relates to the upcoming general election? Contact CL contributor McKenna Schueler at mckenna@cltampa.com and CL editor-in-chief Ray Roa at rroa@cltampa.com.

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If you’re having difficulty with any of these options, call the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections office (Vote Pinellas) at (727) 464-VOTE (8683) for further assistance.

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Get ready, the most radical Supreme Court in U.S. history just announced its intentions.

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abortions can’t be sued, they have no standing to sue, either.

The entirety of Texas’s case was a juvenile taunt: We found a loophole, nanny-nanny-booboo. And that was good enough.

“The Court’s order is stunning,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a fiery dissent. “Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand.”

“Taken together, the Act is a breathtaking act of defiance—of the Constitution, of this Court’s precedents, and of the rights of women seeking abortions throughout Texas,” she continued. “… Today, the Court finally

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n May, when the Supreme Court agreed to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, it was clear Roe v. Wade’s days were numbered.

Mississippi had banned most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. Its law was obviously unconstitutional, at least insofar as the court has interpreted the Constitution since 1973. But the state asked the court to ignore stare decisis based on its purported concern for “the health of the maternal patient, the dignity of the unborn child, and the integrity of the medical profession.”

At least four justices thought this argument was worth considering, a portentous sign for reproductive freedom. At minimum, the court’s ultraconservatives appeared likely to allow abortion restrictions before Roe’s fetal-viability threshold, about 24 weeks.

Before the court got to Dobbes, however, Texas offered Roe’s head on a silver platter. In a oneparagraph ruling issued around midnight on Sept. 2, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brent Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett accepted.

The majority’s unsigned opinion sidestepped its “serious questions” about SB 8’s constitutionality and lazily avoided the real-world implications of letting the law take effect, framing the decision as narrow and technical. It was neither.

Faced with a frontal assault on a long-established precedent, the ultraconservatives hid behind a technicality transparently designed to flout the Constitution and created a roadmap for states to circumvent civil rights protections.

About 54,000 women received abortions in Texas in 2020, nearly three-quarters of whom were women of color, according to the state’s department of health. In a court filing, abortion providers said that at least 85% of Texas abortions took place after six weeks, the point at which fetal cardiac activity is usually detected but before many women know they’re pregnant.

That’s when SB 8 bans abortion.

Other states passed so-called heartbeat bills, but federal judges laughed them out of court. So Texas devised a sort of Rube Goldberg enforcement mechanism. Instead of having police and health inspectors enforce its unconstitutional law, it would de-facto deputize random zealots and busybodies to act as Uterus Cops, awarding them bounties to sue abortion providers, nonprofits, insurance companies, and anyone else who helped a woman access an “illegal” procedure.

Because state officials weren’t involved, Texas argued, abortion providers had no one to sue in federal court, so a federal judge couldn’t strike down the law. And because women seeking

parents, internet stalkers, fundamentalist creeps, antiabortion vigilantes. (Providers must likewise document a negative “heartbeat” test.) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act doesn’t prevent the disclosure of records relevant to litigation.

There’s no penalty for frivolous, fake, or vindictive claims. In fact, abortion opponents have every incentive to file lawsuits by the truckload.

If they win, they collect “not less than $10,000 for each abortion that the defendant performed or induced [or] aided and abetted.” What’s more, judges must award “injunctive relief sufficient to prevent the defendant from violating” the law again—i.e., possibly closing a facility, even if abortion is one of many services it provides.

If they lose, they still win. Defendants must pay plaintiffs’ costs and attorneys’ fees if a judge finds that they provided or aided an illegal abortion, but judges are prohibited from ordering plaintiffs to pay up if their case gets tossed.

SB 8 is designed to be abusive. Whether or not abortion clinics adhere to the law, they’ll be buried by legal fees and subpoenas and compelled to betray confidences to people who wish

VULVA VOOM: To call Texas’ SB 8 extreme doesn’t do the word justice. tells the Nation that it declined to act because, in short, [Texas’s] gambit worked.”

Since you’ll soon see Texas’s law replicated in every Republican state—Florida’s Senate is already working on it—its particulars are worth digging into. To call SB 8 extreme doesn’t do the word justice.

Let’s begin with the fact that it contains no exceptions for rape or incest. While a rapist can’t sue a provider for aborting the product of his assault, anyone else can—the rapist’s frat brother, for instance.

And while the law makes exceptions for “medical emergencies,” providers must detail the emergency in the patient’s medical records, which the providers must then turn over in discovery to whoever filed lawsuits: jealous exes, abusive

their patients ill. Women who seek abortions will expose their friends to financial liability.

Abortion providers have already begun canceling procedures.

Those with means will travel to obtain abortions; clinics in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and New Mexico have been inundated with calls from Texas. Those without will either be forced to give birth in a state with one of the worst child-welfare rankings in the country or try to handle things themselves. (Right now, 90,000 grown-ups are ingesting horse dewormers to cure a viral infection because of something they saw on Facebook. How well do you think desperate teenagers Googling for DIY-abortion tips will work out?)

The court’s ruling holds open the possibility

of revisiting SB 8 once providers have targets to sue, and maybe that will happen. But the justices showed their hand. They weren’t hoodwinked by Texas’s cleverness. They believe women have no right to make their own reproductive choices.

Everything else is window dressing.

Indeed, the decision brought into sharp relief that support for abortion rights and opposition to expanding the Supreme Court are mutually exclusive. So far, however, President Biden and other Democratic leaders haven’t squared that circle.

Maybe they should follow the majority’s reasoning to its natural (and terrifying) conclusion.

Under the justices’ logic, there’s nothing now stopping Texas or any other legislature from—as Sotomayor put it—“outsourcing the enforcement of unconstitutional laws” to ban pharmacies from selling birth control, prohibit companies from advertising in newspapers that criticize politicians, or bar contractors from building mosques.

The ruling goes exactly—and only—as far as the justices’ political beliefs, not the law or the Constitution, will take it. Think about it from the other direction.

As Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern writes, “If California outlawed handguns by allowing strangers to sue anyone who ‘aids and abets’ their purchase, does anyone seriously believe the ultraconservative justices … would shrug and say ‘too bad, there’s absolutely nothing SCOTUS can do!’”

In one paragraph, the court’s majority— secured by Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, but the culmination of a generation-long conservative project to overtake the federal judiciary—left no doubt that it will be a political creature, functioning as an arm of a far-right movement driven by cultural grievances and dismissive of democratic norms.

Nine months ago, congressional Republicans tried to overturn a presidential election based on obvious lies that sparked a deadly riot.

Republican legislatures have since turned those lies into widespread restrictions on voting rights, while also passing laws targeting the right to protest and demanding that schools whitewash racial history. Now women’s autonomy is on the chopping block.

The Supreme Court won’t serve as a bulwark against this rising authoritarian tide; if anything, it will encourage it.

This is the game now. Democrats need to start playing.

To be fair to Biden, selling his party’s moderates on court-packing will be a sisyphean task.

But that doesn’t mean it’s not a fight worth having. The court’s actions demand an acknowledgment that preserving institutional traditions matters less than protecting the rights the institution is trampling.

This is no time to meet extremism with timidity.

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ICYMI World of Beer will buy Tampa a pint if the Bucs win Super Bowl LVI With Tom Brady and most of the gang back, the Bucs are in a good spot to win another Super Bowl, and apparently World of Beer thinks so, too. Last week, the Tampa-based craft beer chain announced that they will give away a free pint of beer if the Bucs win Super Bowl 56. “When (not if) Tampa Bay wins the championship in February 2022, everyone drinks free at World of Beer Bar & Kitchen!” said the company in a press release.

“Once the Bucs and the G.O.A.T. clinch that 56th championship game victory, on the day of the championship parade, everyone visiting will receive a pint of one of World of Beer’s famous Secret Llama brews on the house!” Secret Llama is WOB’s proprietary line of beer, and is brewed at Brew Hub in Lakeland, Florida. Of course, the offer is only valid on the day of the team’s championship boat parade, and only at the Tampa locations. worldofbeer.com—Colin Wolf Tampa chef wins Guy Fieri’s ‘Grocery Games’ show After waiting three years to compete, Tampa chef Jada Vidal finally got her shot to compete on Guy Fieri’s Food Network show “Guy’s Grocery Games,” according to WFLA. And it looks like the time she had to prepare paid off.

Vidal walked away with a win and $20,000 in her grocery cart. @thejadavidal on Instagram New Haunted Tavern pop-up cocktail experience coming to Tampa next month The four-part 90-minute immersive cocktail experience takes place in the chillingly scary basement underneath the cereal-themed CerealHolic.

Thursday-Sunday throughout October. $55.

Various times. 1909 N 15th St., Ybor City. feverup.com—Stephanie Powers

Coming soon Chill Bros. Scoop Shop If you haven’t noticed, summer 2021 has been very good for Chill Bros.

Scoop Shop. Last month, the ice cream shop with locations in Ybor City and South Tampa announced a forthcoming location at Water Street. And now, a fourth Chill Bros. Scoop Shop is looking at a fall opening on the ground level of South Tampa’s Epicurean Hotel.

will open a second Chuck Lager America’s Tavern location, this time in the Marina Landings town center at Westshore Marina District. In partnership with BTI Partners, the 4,000-square-foot will have the same menu as the Wesley Chapel location, featuring everything from “Gourmet Burgers and flatbreads to exquisite pasta dishes such as Shrimp Diablo Pappardelle and entrees like ‘Chuck’s’ Citrus Salmon,’” says a press release. Though there’s currently no exact opening date, the restaurant is set to open early next year. 4900 Bridge St., Tampa. chucklager. com—Colin Wolf Colony Grill Good news, pizza lovers. Colony Grill is headed down from Connecticut and to the 600 Block of downtown St. Petersburg where it’ll open its flagship Florida location.

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Last week, the Tampa Bay Bucs announced that the team has partnered with Coppertail to brew a different beer, the “Florida Special Lager,” available at RayJay in limited-edition, commemorative 16 oz. creamsicle cans complete with the Bucco Bruce logo. Select 12-packs of the American style lager will also be available at restaurants and retailers like Publix. Fans can get the beer at Coppertail’s new stadium bar in the east concourse of the stadium and throughout the venue, but that’s not all that’s new on the menu for Bucs fans.

Other additions to the stadium platter include items from Outback’s Aussie Grill, Little Caesars, Winghouse and Vizzy.—Ray Roa

stuff is lactose-free and made from ingredients like goat’s milk and dehydrated tripe (freezedried meat). It doesn’t have any additives, and its ingredients are more suitable for your pet’s digestive system than the regular vanilla you might’ve given them before. 362 Main St., Dunedin. saltypawsdunedin.com

BUC YEA: Coppertail’s new Bucs beer is available in-stores, too.

Open Cake Drip After hoping for a summer opening, the dessert boutique is now open in downtown St. Pete’s Edge District for afternoon high tea, DIY cake decorating or a chocolate tasting flight.

1104 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. @cakedrip on Facebook Salty Paws It was only a matter of time before pups got a scoop shop of their own. Florida’s first ice cream shop strictly for the dogs quietly opened back in July and has been serving ice cream and baked goods ever since. The shop’s

A PR rep told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that the new shop is moving into the same parcel that used to be home to the Bern’s-affiliated Little Midway ice cream concept (don’t worry, a Bern’s rep said you can still get macadamia nut pints to go at Haven, just a few blocks away). The hotel will also house their production facility, where all ice cream is frozen, mixed, and packed on-site.

1207 S Howard Ave., Tampa. chillbros.com— Alexandria Jones Chuck Lager Tampa Bay is getting another Chuck. Celebrity chef Fabio Viviani announced he

The original pizza place in Stamford, Connecticut was a few decades old when it was bought out in 2010 by Chris Drury, Ken Martin, Paul Coniglio and Cody Lee—all 1989 Little League World Series winning teammates. The menu is simple: pizza and drinks, nothing else besides the 12 toppings that accompany the New England-style pies (no crust, just cheese up to the end). The most popular of those topping is Colony’s signature hot oil.

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3 DAUGHTERS BREWING One of the Warehouse Arts District’s most popular hangouts, and a beautiful facility in which to drink some great brews. 222 22nd St. S., St. Petersburg. 727-495-6002, 3dbrewing.com

CLEARWATER BREWING CO. Community-oriented and socially and environmentally conscious. 1700 N. Fort Harrison Ave., Clearwater. clearwaterbrewingcompany.com COPPERTAIL BREWING CO. Some of Tampa’s best beer, in one of its best tasting rooms. 2601 E. 2nd Ave., Tampa. 813-247-1500, coppertailbrewing.com

3 KEYS BREWING South-of-the-Skyway restaurant and brewery specializing in small batches. 2505 Manatee Ave. E., Bradenton. 951-218-0396, 3keysbrewing.com

COTEE RIVER BREWING Craft beer in the heart of historic downtown New Port Richey. 5760 Main St., New Port Richey. 727-807-6806, coteeriverbrewing.com

7VENTH SUN BREWING Some of the best sours, IPAs and collabs going. Two locations. 1012 Broadway, Dunedin.

727-733-3013/6809 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa. 813-2315900, 7venthsun.com

CRAFT LIFE BREWING Small-batch local brews and a sort of playground or LoL’s craft brewing guild. 4624 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’ Lakes. 813-575-8440. facebook. com/CraftLifeBrewing

81BAY BREWING CO. South Tampa’s first craft brewery boasts a wide variety of styles. 4465 W. Gandy Blvd., Tampa. 813-837-BREW, 81baybrewco.com

CROOKED THUMB BREWERY Safety Harbor’s first brewery boasts homegrown flavor and local guest taps. 555 10th Ave. S., Safety Harbor. 727-724-5953, crookedthumbbrew.com

ANGRY CHAIR Crazy-good Tampa beer, open Tuesday-Sunday. 6401 N. Florida Ave., Seminole Heights.

813-238-1122, angrychairbrewing.com ANTIBREWERY Dunedin’s secret Sundays-only nano.

1367 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Dunedin 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 AVID BREWING This Grand Central brewing supply shop added a taproom for its beers crafted in-house. 1745 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-388-6756, avidbrew.com BARRIEHAUS BEER CO. Lager-specific brewery, carrying on an over 150 year brewing legacy. 1403 E 5th Ave., Ybor City. barriehaus.com BAY CANNON BEER CO. West Tampa's first craft brewery, offering a variety of ever evolving beers, beer slushies and wine that pair perfectly with appetizers and entrées from the kitchen. 813-442-5615, baycannon.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 BIG TOP BREWING Perhaps Sarasota’s premier purveyor of locally crafted beer, Big Top’s reputation has spread far beyond the region. 6111 Porter Way, Sarasota.

941-371-2939, bigtopbrewing.com BOOTLEGGERS BREWING CO. This Brandon taproom from Bootleggers Beer & Wine Home Brewing Supplies offers house-made suds and guest beers. 652 Oakfield Dr., Brandon. 813-643-9463, bootleggersbrewco.com BRASSERIE ST. SOMEWHERE Award-winning Belgian farmhouse ales from veteran Bay area brewer Bob Sylvester. 115 S Ring Ave., Tarpon Springs. 813-503-6181, saintsomewherebrewing.com BREW BUS BREWING BB brews its own suds, boasts 20 taps and offers food at its Eatery, too. 4101 N. Florida Ave., Tampa. 813-990-7310, brewbususa.com BREW HUB Some of the area’s best beers are produced here along with suds for their own label. 3900 Frontage Rd. S., Lakeland. 863-698-7600, brewhub.com

CUENI BREWING CO. Located off the Pinellas Trail in Dunedin. 945 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. 727-266-4102, cuenibrewing.com CYCLE BREWING One of St. Pete’s favorites. 534 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. 727-320-7954. cyclebrewing.com DARWIN BREWING CO. Unique beers crafted with South American influence. 803 17th Ave. W., Bradenton. 941-747-1970, darwinbrewingco.com DE BINE BREWING CO. This addition bolsters the Northern Pinellas craft beer scene. 933 Florida Ave., Palm Harbor. 727-233-7964.

DISSENT BREWING CO. Unique flavors and adventurous style outside downtown St. Pete. 5518 Haines Rd. N., St. Petersburg. 727-342-0255.

DUNEDIN BREWERY Florida’s oldest. Beer, eats and live music.

937 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. 727736-0606, dunedinbrewery.com DUNEDIN HOUSE OF BEER This beer stop brews its own, and also has 40 guest taps. 927 Broadway, Dunedin. 727 216-6318, dunedinhob.com ESCAPE BREWING CO. Another very worthy Odessa/Trinity destination. 9945 Trinity Blvd., Suite 108, Trinity. 727-807-6092, escapebrewingcompany.com FIVE BRANCHES Veteran-owned brewery, small batches from IPAs to stouts. Serving up brews and a clear view of the Tarpon Bayou. 531 Athens St., Tarpon Springs. fivebranchesbrewing.com FLYING BOAT BREWING COMPANY St. Pete aviation history and tasty homegrown suds. 1776 11th Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-800-2999, flyingboatbrewing.com

BREW LIFE BREWING Ultra-small batches, and a lot of ‘em. 5765 S. Beneva Rd., Sarasota. 941-952-3831, brewlifebrewing.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. 813641-2036, fourstacksbrewing.com

BULLFROG CREEK BREWING CO. A multitude of styles from former garage brewers is on tap in Valrico.

3632 Lithia Pinecrest Rd., Valrico. 813-703-8835, bullfrogcreekbrewing.com

GRAND CENTRAL BREWHOUSE 10,270 square-foot brewery, taproom, beer garden, and event venue with a lager-focused tap list. 2340 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, 727-202-6071, grandcentralbrew.com

CAGE BREWING Custom brews in the Grand Central District from one of the ‘Burg’s newest. 2001 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-201-4278

GREEN BENCH BREWING COMPANY A space worthy of the adventurous beers it produces. 1133 Baum Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-800-9836, greenbenchbrewing.com

CALEDONIA BREWING Great in-house beers in the historic Dunedin Times building. 587 Main St., Dunedin.

727-351-5105, caledoniabrewing.com

GOOD LIQUID BREWING CO. Thirty taps and food (and a coffee roaster!) from a husband-and-wife duo. 4824 14th St. W., Bradenton. 941-896-6381, thegoodliquidbrewing.com

CALUSA BREWING Family owned and operated, opened Tuesday to Sunday. 5701 Derek Ave., Sarasota.

941-922-8150, calusabrewing.com

GRINDHAUS BREW LAB Small batches and no extracts. 1650 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater. 727-2400804, grindhausbrewlab.com

CARROLLWOOD BREWING CO. “Secret” brewing action inside the Carrollwood location of craft-bar chain The Brass Tap. 10047 N. Dale Mabry HWY, STE 23, Tampa. 813-969-2337

GULFPORT BREWERY + EATERY Small batches with an artisanal food menu. 3007 Beach Blvd., Tampa. facebook.com/GulfportBrewery

CIGAR CITY BREWING Tampa’s most famous craft brewery. There’s also a taproom at Amalie Arena. 3924 W. Spruce St., Tampa. 813-348-6363, cigarcitybrewing.com

HIDDEN SPRINGS ALE WORKS This Tampa Heights brewery features a rotating tap selection. 1631 N. Franklin St., Tampa, 813-226-2739, hiddenspringsaleworks.com

HOB BREWING CO. Rotating taps, with some brewed on-site and alongside a combination of local breweries plus local and international craft beer makers. 931 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. hob.beer

PESKY PELICAN BREW PUB This beachy restaurant also offers up its own beers thanks to an in-house nano system. 923 72nd. St. N., St. Petersburg. 727-302-9600, peskypelicanbrewpub.com

KEEL FARMS AGRARIAN ALE + CIDER Tasty brews from the folks behind Keel & Curley winery. 5210 W. Thonotosassa Rd., Plant City. 813-752-9100, keelandcurleywinery.com

PINELLAS ALE WORKS Dog-friendly environment in addition to tasty brews. 1962 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg.

727-235-0970, pawbeer.com

IF I BREWED THE WORLD A self-described “mixtape of breweries” with a bit of everything from the classic to the fun and outrageous. 2200 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg.

727-201-4484, ifibrewedtheworld.com IN THE LOOP BREWING Family-friendly with a lot of community support and plenty of events. 3338 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’ Lakes. 813-997-9189, intheloopbrewingcompany.com INFUSION BREWING CO. Another great location in the good-beer-packed Trinity/New Port Richey area. 7813 Mitchell Blvd. Ste 103, Trinity. 727-312-4512.

INOCULUM ALE WORKS These folks are crazy for sours, and know how to craft ‘em. 554 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. inoculumaleworks.com JDUB’S BREWING COMPANY You know ‘em, you love ‘em. A statewide phenomenon. 1215 Mango Ave., Sarasota. 941-955-2739, jdubsbrewing.com KING STATE Food & Wine's No. 8 coffee shop in the U.S. is also home to brewer and Flying Boat Brewing Co. alum Aric Parker, who’s making some of the cleanest core beers plus a dynamic offering of rotating taps and bomber options available onsite in limited capacities. 520 E Floribraska Ave., Tampa. 813-2212100, king-state.com LAGERHAUS BREWERY & GRILL A Palm Harbor bar and eatery that offers seasonal brews to complement their regulars.

3438 East Lake Business, Palm Harbor. 727-216-9682, lagerhausbrewery.com LATE START BREWING Beloved Tampa label does its thing inside the Pour House. 1208 E. Kennedy Blvd. #112, Tampa. 813-402-2923, latestartbrewing.com LEAVEN BREWING Riverview’s first brewery is run by folks who’ve got experience brewing big and small.

11238 Boyette Rd., Riverview. 813-6777023, leavenbrewing.com MAD BEACH CRAFT BREWING Brews, ciders, and meads by the beach. 12945 Village Boulevard, Madeira Beach. 727-362-0008, madbeachbrewing.com MARKER 48 Hernando production craft brewery with tasting room and beer garden 12147 Cortez Blvd, Weeki Wachee. 352-606-2509, marker48.com MASTRY’S BREWING CO. From CD Roma’s restaurant to sweet new digs on St. Pete Beach. 7701 Blind Pass Rd., St. Pete Beach. 727-202-8045 mastrysbrewingco.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 MR. DUNDERBAK’S The longtime restaurant, biergarten and homebrewers’ hangout is serving up its own beers. 14929 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa. 813-9774104, dunderbaks.com NAUGHTY MONK BREWERY Naughty Monk brings a love of Belgian styles to Manatee County. 2507 Lakewood Ranch Blvd., Bradenton. 941-708-2966, naughtymonkbrewery.com OVERFLOW BREWING St. Pete’s newest, courtesy of local Rapp head brewer Troy Bledsoe and company. 770 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-914-0665, facebook.com/overflowbrewingco PEPPER BREWING The Angry Pepper Taphouse’s in-house label, available “on a limited basis.”

9366 Oakhurst Rd., Seminole. 727-596-5766, angrypeppertaphouse.com

RAPP BREWING COMPANY The late Greg Rapp’s award-winning styles carefully crafted. 10930 Endeavor Way, Seminole. 727-544-1752, rappbrewing.com RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER Video game-centric Grand Central District craft beer spot. 2244 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. 727-360-0766, stpetearcadebar.com ROCK BROTHERS BREWING Brews named for national and local bands have a home in Ybor City. 1901 N. 15th St., Ybor City. 813-241-0110, rockbrothersbrewing.com SARASOTA BREWING COMPANY House-crafted brews, pizza, and sports out toward beautiful Siesta Key. 6607 Gateway Ave., Sarasota. 941-925-2337, sarasotabrewing.com SILVERKING BREWING CO. This spacevcomplements a label that’s been around since 2012. 325 E Lemon St., Tarpon Springs. 727-422-7598, silverkingbrewing.com SIX TEN BREWING Wide variety and a real passion for the craft-brew community. 7052 Benjamin Rd., Tampa.

813-886-0610, sixtenbrewing.com SOGGY BOTTOM BREWING Truly original flavors and inventive brews. 660 Main St., Dunedin. 727-601-1698, soggybottombrewing.com SOUTHERN BREWING & WINEMAKING Multiple brews only available in its tasting room, plus products and guidance for homebrewers. 4500 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa. 813-238-7800, southernbrewingwinemaking.com ST. PETE BREWING COMPANY Beers crafted specifically for the climate. 544 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg.

727-692-8809, stpetebrewingcompany.com STILT HOUSE BREWERY Friendly joint specializes in high-ABV ales and other styles you won’t find elsewhere.

625 U.S. Hwy Alt. 19, Palm Harbor. 727-270-7373, stilthousebrewery.com SWAN BREWING Nearly four decades of combined brewing experience go into the offerings at this petfriendly joint. 115 W. Pine St., Lakeland. 863-703-0472, swanbrewing.com TBBC Formerly Tampa Bay Brewing Co., local favorite for nearly two decades. 1600 E. 8th Ave., Ybor City/13933 Monroe’s Business Park, Westchase. 813247-1422, tbbc.beer TAMPA BEER WORKS At the former site of ESB Brewing, TBW focuses on American craft styles. 333 N. Falkenburg Rd., Suite D407 Tampa. 813-685-1909, tampabeerworks.com TIDAL BREWING COMPANY Small batches in Spring Hill. 14311 Spring Hill Dr., Spring Hill. 352-7011602, tidalbrewingfl.com TWO FROGS BREWING COMPANY Tarpon Springs’ latest focuses on American ale styles. 151 E. Tarpon Ave., Tarpon Springs. 727-940-6077, facebook.com/ twofrogsbrewing TWO LIONS WINERY & PALM HARBOR BREWERY Wine and beer brewed in-house. 1022 Georgia Ave., Palm Harbor. 727-786-8039, twolionswinery.com ULELE SPRING BREWERY Beer crafted in accordance with traditional Bavarian purity laws. 1810 N. Highland Ave., Tampa. 813-999-4952, ulele.com THE WILD ROVER BREWERY What started as an English pub is now a higher-production facility. 13921 Lynmar Blvd., Tampa. 813-475-5995, thewildroverbrewery.com WOODWRIGHT BREWING COMPANY Traditional German styles. 985 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. 727-2388717, facebook.com/woodwrightbrewing ZEPHYRHILLS BREWING COMPANY East Paco’s first microbrewery. 38530 5th Ave., Zephyrhills.

813-715-2683, zbcbeer.com ZYDECO BREW WERKS Craft brews in Ybor thanks to an award-winning brewmaster, as well as full bars and NOLA-influenced cuisine. 1902 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City.

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write a lot about the type of art seen in into the home likely comes from her mother, Tampa Bay’s art museums. You know the an interior designer by trade. Growing up, kind—gorgeous, big and ready to deliver you Ford spent her weekends with mom redecostraight into the artist’s heart and mind. Art rating rooms in their home. Her mother often that takes up entire walls. Art that makes a brought bright colors and metallics into the real statement. Art I could never afford to home, an aesthetic that later found its way bring into my home. into Ford’s artwork.

The art I buy is quite different from the Though Ford was always creative growing art I enjoy seeing in museums. It tends to be up, her father discouraged her from getting a smaller and more cartoonish. I love how fig- formal education in art. Instead, she majored ures, like Auraileus Artist’s in economics at Dickinson Bob the Robot, can convey College and dreamed of profound thoughts and emostarting her own business tions using a minimalist one day. That business combination of bold lines ended up being art.

Britt Ford Pop-Up Gallery and bright colors. Unlike In 2020, Ford moved most gallery art, this type of Opens Sept. 15 (Grand opening Sept. 24, to Tampa Bay and opened 5 p.m.). 734 S Village Circle, Tampa. art works great on a smaller a studio/gallery space in brittford.us scale and as prints, so I can Seminole Heights.

“I got it all ready and then COVID hapactually afford to buy it now and then. This is the type of art popping up in Hyde Park pened, and it hasn’t been the same since,” this month courtesy of self-taught artist and Ford told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “And entrepreneur Britt Ford. it’s not a huge foot traffic area either, so it’s Ford creates custom wall art using a craft become more my studio. Then if a client wants technique called thermographic embossing. to come in and see it, they can schedule an While others draw with pens and pencils, Ford appointment.” draws with glue. She then adds gold embossing After she’d been living in Tampa Bay for powder and applies heat to create the raised about a year, Ford noticed all the vacant storemetallic lines that outline her flora and fauna, fronts in Hyde Park Village. So she emailed city streets and buildings. Her biggest sellers Hyde Park Village to find out if they host popare her flamingos, hydrangeas, poppies, maps ups. She’s arranged to pop up in the former and home portraits.

Candle Pour space next to Color Me Mine for Ford started working this way after see- six months, from September 2021-February ing a slew of flat mass-produced New York 2022. The timing is perfect for Ford, who does City posters decorating her best business during her friends’ apartments. the holiday season.

You remember the cheap While the Seminole shit we all decorated our Heights space has become places with when we were Ford’s studio, the Hyde in our 20s. Ford knew Park Village location will there had to be something be a true gallery. Sort of. cooler that young people Although the primary could actually afford. But goal is to show and sell she didn’t see much on the market, so she her artwork here, Ford plans to create a laidset out to fill the void with her own artwork. back shop vibe within her temporary Hyde Thermographic embossing wound up being the Park space. perfect tool for the project, allowing Ford to “Galleries scare people a lot because they’re bring unique textured art into people’s homes usually very stuffy,” Ford told CL. “I want you at a good price point. to feel like you’re at home and it’s a shop with Ford’s fascination with bringing beauty other gifts and home décor pieces there.”

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A cut above

‘Edward Scissorhands’ House in Lutz is now a free museum.

By Colin Wolf

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ore than 30 years after Tim Burton shot his goth classic “Edward Scissorhands” in Tampa Bay, the fictional Bogg Family house in Lutz has been transformed into a museum. “Google sends people straight from Disney here, I mean it’s crazy,” Joey Licalzi, who bought the home for $230,000 with his wife Sharon almost a year ago, tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Located at 1774 Tinsmith Cir., the Licalzis say it was fate that they ended up winning the bid, especially after they recently lost out on a house across the street, and the fact that Joey worked on the set of the film as a dishwasher. “After TMZ wrote about it, we went up against probably 200 bids on the house,” says Licalzi, who also owns a drum manufacturing company. “When you battle the whole planet for the house, you can’t Airbnb it like everybody thinks you can, so we turned it into a free museum. Now everybody has access to come on the property.”

Licalzi says some people make appointments, but a lot of times they just come and knock on the door. As of now, Licalzi estimates that he gets about 30 families a week coming to visit his museum, which he and his wife also live

in. “Yeah, we live in the Edward Scissorhands Museum. It is totally bizarre,” he jokes.

The museum features original props from the film like Kim Bogg’s purse, original wallpaper, and the scissors Edward used to trim the dinosaur hedge.

Currently there are six exhibits, and Licalzi says he plans to expand, eventually turning his garage into the top floor of the castle featured in the film. “It’s crazy,’’ says Licalzi. “We bought a running theme park with a worldwide following for $230,000.”

So far, most of Licalzi’s neighbors seem to appreciate the new attraction, but not everyone is on board. “You know, a majority of them, they come up here and they come on the property and they shake my hand and says ‘thank you, thank you, thank you,’” says Licalzi. “ Licalzi says he hasn’t heard from Tim Burton or Johnny Depp, but actor Robert Oliveri, who played Kevin Boggs in the film, did reach out to say congratulations.

“It’s only going to get bigger,” says Licalzi.

“We do tours day and night, and in the wintertime you can come and watch the movie on the property and it’s free.” See more photos of the home via cltampa.com/magazine.

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he Tampa Bay Bucs take on the Dallas Cowboys Thursday at Raymond James Stadium for the NFL’s first game of the 2021-2022 regular season. While the Bucs are at full-strength (and at the ever-important 100% vaccination rate), the Cowboys will be without All-Pro right guard Zack Martin, who tested positive for the coronavirus and is on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

Martin is vaccinated, so he is able to return to play five days after testing negative twice and showing no symptoms over the five days, but because of when his positive test came in it won’t be in time for Thursday’s game.

What does this mean for the Bucs defensively?

A much easier time stopping the run.

Martin is the best guard in the NFL, and he blocks for one of the most explosive running backs in the NFL, Ezekiel Elliott, but without Martin leading the way, the Bucs and their number one rush defense will have a much easier time containing the former Ohio State Buckeye. Plus, without Martin anchoring the interior line, perhaps Vita Vea and Ndamokung Suh can even get in on the pass rushing fun usually reserved for JPP and Shaq Barrett.

As for the other side of the ball, the Bucs should have an easy time offensively. It is the first game of the regular season, so don’t be shocked if they get off to a slow start, but with how inexperienced and weak the Cowboys are at every level defensively, Brady should have no problem picking apart Dallas’ secondary.

The Bucs should win this game fairly easily, 35-24. They have the offensive firepower to score a lot against the Cowboys, and their defense should be able to hold up enough to pull this one out.

With all of that being said, this is still the NFL, and anything can happen (“any given Sunday” and all that shit). The Bucs could very easily lose this game, because as bad as the Cowboys are defensively, they’re just as good offensively. They, too, have three elite receivers in Amari Cooper, CeeDee Lamb and Michael Gallup, as well as a good offensive line (even without Martin) and Elliott taking handoffs from Dak Prescott, who’s out to prove he’s deserving of that huge contract extension he received this offseason.

So don’t be disappointed if the Bucs lose. It’s just one game in what will be a very long, very up-and-down season.

Strap in, and hold on tight for this Super Bowl precision, too.

The Bucs will go back to the Super Bowl. It will be a rematch between them and the Kansas City Chiefs. They will unfortunately lose to the Chiefs. Now, I predicted the Bucs would lose to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl last year, too, and they proved me very wrong (as they thankfully did many times during the course of last season), but this year’s Chiefs team is a little different than last year’s.

Kansas City traded for former Ravens tackle Orlando Brown, Jr. Brown is considered by most to be one of the most talented young tackles in the NFL, and to add to what was a quietly productive offseason, the Chiefs had a very underrated draft, snagging some depth for their O-line in center Creed Humphrey and adding the talented linebacker Nick Bolton out of Missouri to help shore up the second level of that defense.

However, injuries happen, so I could be eating my words come Feb. 13 when we could watch Tom Brady lift his 8th Lombardi Trophy.

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Kimmi Bitter Nashville’s Kimmi Bitter swings through Florida this week with a pre-weekend stop where the alt-country singer-songwriter brings back the Patsy Cline and Hank Williams (Senior!) days with “western twang, sultry 12-bar blues, and old fashioned rock n’ roll.” Bitter is touring the Sunshine State, so if you miss the Thursday night show catch her at St. Pete’s Cage Brewing on Friday and back in Tampa at New World Brewery on Friday, Sept. 24. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa) C Lauris Vidal w/Andy Zipf Jacksonville singer-songwriter Andy Zipf (pronounced "Ziff") is a gentle yet emotional force. Just check out the Paste premiere of his March 2020 single “There is No Virus on the Moon,” a beautiful diorama-filled video, made with the help of his son, which proves there is beauty in almost anything, even a worldwide pandemic. Zipf’s new record How to Make a Paper Airplane drops any day now, but u until then see the critically-acclaimed artist with his buddy and cohort Lauris Vidal for free in St. Pete. This isn’t going to be just a “background music while you check out whatever new brews Green Bench has on tap,” kind of show—it’s a “you’re going to want to keep quiet during this patio show” kind of gig.

(Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg)

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C Cassidy w/Perception/The Villianz/ Vern Senior/Zae Ewing/Jinx/K.III Another week in Tampa Bay and, no surprise, there’s another killer hip-hop show—this time with Philly rapper Cassidy headlining alongside a slew of local talent. You probably know the battle-rapper turned chart-topper from his mega hits “I’m a Hustla” and “My Drink N’ My Two Step.” (We’ll brush his first single “Hotel” featuring problematic pedo R. Kelly under the rug.) The show starts with a two-hour "Tampa Vibez’’ pre-party showcasing the area’s hottest including Perception, OG Tampa duo The Villianz, Vern Senior, Zae Ewing, Jinx, and K.III. Cassidy’s show officially starts at 9 p.m., but stay tuned to the event page for information on a private meet and greet with the condom spokesman.

(Hooch and Hive, Tampa) Justin Martin w/Best Budz/Vinsolo Tampa Bay never has a shortage of EDM shows, and this weekend is no exception. Friday night has San Francisco DJ and Dirtybird Records OG Justin Martin at SoHo hotspot The Kennedy with locals Best Budz and Vinsolo. The Ritz continues the #Pound Friday and Sunset Saturday series

with PhaseOne and Croatian DJ Matroda, respectively (guest list is free before 11 a.m., but there’s “guaranteed entry” open for $10 bucks if you are habitually late). A block from The Ritz, Venezualuan DJs Sergio Munoz and Israel Sunshine, aka Fur Coat, make their Tampa debut on Friday with a three-hour set at The Attic where Tampa’s Austin Pettit and Matt Seider support in front of a crowd that being encouraged to mask up. (Various venues, Tampa)

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Phantoms w/Nick Hogan/Herb/Butler Electronic artist Phantoms hits the “Rosé All Day” party at this poolside Causeway venue, which goes until sunset. The Los Angelesbased duo—made up of former teen stars Kyle Kaplan (“Hannah Montana”) and Vinnie Pergola (“That’s So Raven”)—are probably best known for a collaboration with other former child-celeb Vanessa Hudgens (“Lay With Me”). The party starts at noon with Nick Hogan, aka Hulk’s son, plus Herb and Butler opening. No refunds are given, no matter how the weather shapes up, so you might want to ask Denis Phillips before you commit.

(WTR Pool & Grill, Tampa) KBong If you guessed that a musician named KBong plays reggae-beach jams about “Livin’ Easy,” you’re right. The San Diego multi-instrumentalist also plays keys with reggae-dub band Stick Figure and just released his third solo album Let Love Lead, which will definitely make you want to hit the beach and get fuzzy. Back on the road after some canceled dates because of a recent bout with COVID-19, KBong is feeling better and hoping nothing else gets between him and St. Pete. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) C Between the Buried and Me Progmetal band Between the Buried and Me’s 20th anniversary show, rescheduled from 2020, is sold-out, but keep an eye on the event page—you might get lucky with someone trying to sell tix at the last minute. The North Carolina act is playing two sets, a bestof which probably includes songs from the July release Colors II, and a second set with the entirety of the band’s 2009 fifth album The Great Misdirect—a 6-track, hour-long epic metal jam. (Orpheum, Ybor City) C WMNF Birthday Bash: Dylan LeBlanc w/Rebekah Pulley WMNF may be without a general manager and still reeling from the drama-filled firing of its founding news director, but that’s not stopping the nonprofit community radio station from celebrating its 42rd birthday responsibly. Anyone who wants to see songwriter Dylan LeBlanc work through Renegade, his best album to date, must wear a mask, be two-weeks fully-vaccinated before the show, or provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test 72 hours before the gig. If that’s all just too much for you to do,

WMNF is streaming the entire gig for free on its HD2 channel. (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg)—Ray Roa The Lewd Dudes w/Gary Lazer Eyes/ Resonance Party rock is in the house Saturday night, or at least in New World’s Music Hall, thanks to Austin good-time rock band The Lewd Dudes. It’s the 5-piece’s first national tour, in support of a new album Habitable Zone, which includes soon-tobe classics like “Bong Song.” The band is self-described as “punk rock Springsteenmeets-Zappa,” so maybe there’s a little bit of serious musicianship under all that kegging.

Orlando’s debaucherous Gary Lazer Eyes and Tampa indie-rocker Resonance start the pre-party. (Music hall at New World Brewery, Tampa) C Rod Wave w/No Cap/Rubi Rose/ OMN Twee/DJ Five Venoms Last year, 21-year-old rapper Rod Wave told Billboard that his first gigs were $500 guarantees for school night strip club shows 20 minutes away from his home in St. Petersburg. All his friends showed up and sang every word, so the promoter booked him over and again.

By spring 2020, Wave, whose real name is Rodarius Marcell Green, was supposed to wrap his 22-date U.S. tour at Jannus Live, a 4.5-mile drive from his old stomping grounds at Lakewood High School. That concert was postponed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that’s brought the touring industry to its knees, but Wave keeps rising and is headlining the biggest venue in Tampa Bay. (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)

the pain of losing his brother in the midst of a global pandemic, Gat$ was a Tampeño rapper who occasionally built live shows around the bravado you normally find in the pro wrestling scene. For Gat$aMania 3, he goes toe-to-toe with Sweet Baby Kushed God, Harlem rapper Smoke DZA. A stacked bill leads up to the main event, which is followed

by Ybor City’s best patio party, Ol’ Dirty Sundays. (Crowbar, Ybor City)—Ray Roa Keegan Matthews Matthews, keyboardist for Orlando band Leisure Chief, teams up with Juna Serita on electric bass and drummer Derek Engstrom for some original jazzy-funk, plus covers of Thundercat, Herbie Hancock, and Prince during Ella’s usually tasty Soul Food Sunday. Though the show is free, make a reservation and order massive amounts of smoked meats. If you’re a fan of the soul-fusion Leisure Chief brings over from Orange County, the whole band is playing the vagina-forward Tampa Height’s bar Shuffle on Saturday, Sept. 18 with the jazz trio La Lucha.

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Summer Salt w/Covey/Breakup Shoes Texas indie-pop band Summer Salt—which parted ways with bassist Phil Baier in 208 following allegations of sexual misconduct by several women on social media—makes an intriguing argument to go out on a weekday. The duo has a sound close to Whitney (the band, not Houston) thanks to dreamy falsettos on top of a sweet, happy-go-lucky-

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let’s-dance-in-a-field-of-daisies sound.

Plus you’ve got Brooklyn band Covey and Arizona’s Breakup Shoes on the bill, definitely making it a good reason to get off your couch and mask up for a Hump Day show.

(Orpheum, Ybor City)

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The annual festival, which is held Oct. 1-3 at Tampa’s Curtis Hixon Park, made the announcement last week via social media, adding that it will provide more details about the policy in the coming days.

“Everyone will be required to provide a negative COVID-19 test result to enter the

Cormac Kavanagh Thursday, Sept. 16. 7 p.m. Free. Hooch and Hive, Tampa Camille Trust (Album Release) Friday, Sept. 24. 8 p.m. $10. Floridian Social Club, St. Petersburg Selwyn Birchwood Saturday, Sept. 25. 8 p.m. $20. LKLD Live, Lakeland Chad Montana Band w/Angie Rey Band/ Shot Of Courage Band Friday, Oct. 1. 6 p.m.

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festival,” said the post. “If you are vaccinated, you may provide proof of vaccination instead of a negative test.”

The announcement comes after Live Nation made a similar policy change for the upcoming Harry Styles’ show on Oct. 10 at Amalie Arena.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order bans “vaccine passports,” but there are a few loopholes that businesses can use without defying the order. See more of Josh Bradley’s weekly new concert roundup below.—Colin Wolf

The Yellowjackets Sunday, Oct. 3. 7 p.m. $34.50-$49.50. Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo Stephen Marley w/J Boog/Kash’d Out/ Reefers Thursday, Oct. 21. 6 p.m. $50 & up. Reggae Rise Up Music Festival at Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg Hell On Heels Live Cast Friday, Oct. 29. 11 p.m. $5. Floridian Social Club, St. Petersburg John Fogerty w/Lauren Alaina Saturday, Nov. 20. 7 p.m. $75.25 & up. Yuengling Center, Tampa Tyler Henry Friday, Jan 7. 8 p.m. $45-$95.

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The Pauses w/Palomino Blond/HIDES Saturday, Oct. 2. 8 p.m. $7-$10. Hooch and Hive, Tampa

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Charles Irwin's 'On The Floor' Release Party w/They Hate Change/Story Mode/bill. Sunday, Oct. 3. 7 p.m. $12-$25.

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Where the vinyl is: a list of Bay area record stores

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) mid-2019 revenue report said streaming music accounted for 80% of total industry revenues, which rose 18% to $5.4 billion.

Vinyl album revenue grew 13% to $224 million, but the RIAA also pointed out that sales of wax still only accounted for 4% of total revenues. Rough translation: Yeah, people are buying more records, but your local shop still needs you more than ever. If you’re reading this page, then you probably already know this, but you need your local shop, too. So many of the spaces listed to the right are so much more than stores. They’re community centers for ArtPool Records (2030 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-433-5195, artpoolrules.com Asylum Sights and Sounds (6566 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-384-1221 Bananas Records (2887 22nd Ave N., St. Petersburg) 727-327-4616 ext. 1, bananasrecords.com Bananas Records Warehouse (2226 16th Ave. N., St. Petersburg) 727 327-4616 ext. 2, bananasrecords.com Blue Moon Antiques, Books & Music (1413 Cleveland St., Clearwater) 727-443-7444 The Clearwater Record Shop (1610 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater) 727-755-1201, clearwaterrecordshow.com

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music lovers. Some of them are venues for local bands. The staff at most of these shops have more musical knowledge in their left ear than you’ll ever have in your entire life; they’re willing to share it with a smile on their face, too. Patronize these brick and mortars… frequently.

Make friends with your neighbor behind the counter. Your wallet might be a little lighter, but your mind will be happy in return. You don’t have to stop streaming — let’s face it, no one will — but opening an app will never live up to the feeling of opening the door at your local record store. —Ray Roa

Daddy Kool Records (2430 Terminal Dr. S., Side B, St. Petersburg) 727-822-5665, daddykool.com

Kingfish Records (Main Store) (26024-B US Highway 19 N., Clearwater) 727-351-5177, kingfishrecords.com

Sound Exchange Tampa (14246 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa) 813-978-9316, soundexchangetampabay.com

Disc Exchange (6712 Central Ave., aSt. Petersburg) 727-343-5845, thediscexchange.com

Kingfish Records (Flea Market) (180 Race Track Rd., Tampa) 727-455-9923, kingfishrecords.com

Dunedin Records & Audio (757 Main St., Dunedin) 727-423-4108, dunedinrecords.com

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Dustin’s Vinyl Shop (180 Race Track Rd., Booth F25 W, Oldsmar) 727-678-6829, facebook.com/pg/dustinsvinylshop

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

Green Shift Music & Comics (5713 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa) 813-238-4177, greenshiftmusicandcomics.com Hello Darlin’ Records (Roving VW Camper) 727-479-6783, hellodarlinrecords.com

Patrick’s Book and Record Store (15215 US Hwy.19 C, Hudson) 727-868-3168, patricksbooksandre.wixsite.com/patricks Planet Retro Records (226 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N., St. Petersburg) 727-218-7434, planetretrorecords.com

St. Pete Records (6648 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-490-8861, stpeterecords.com Steelworker Records (708 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Tampa) 813-666-4933, steelworkerrecords.com Unique Music & Collectables (123 Main St., Dunedin) 727-240-0757 Vintage Vinyl (38874 U.S. 19 N., Tarpon Springs) 727-940-8301, vintagevinyl.biz

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A new dawn

By Caroline DeBruhl

Dear Oracle, I am caught between worlds at the moment, waiting to find out what my future will hold, and it all rests on the shoulders of some arbitrary decisions made by arbitrary people. In what ways can I maintain confidence and faith without being super let down in case things don’t work out?—Monkey in the Middle Cards: The Seeker, The Full Moon, The King of Wands reversed Dear Monkey, in my deck (Pagan Otherworlds

by Uusi), there is a new Major Arcana card: The Seeker. The image is based on the Flammarion engraving and shows a seeker with a torch breaking through the veil of earth and emerging into the cosmos—literally caught between two worlds. But it’s in this liminal space that we’re able to see the light of spiritual knowledge. This is a card for encountering The Divine, however you define it.

With The Seeker and The Full Moon (clarity, energy, being fully present), I think you can maintain your faith and your confidence by mindfully tending to your soul. In Gnosticism, there’s a sensation called “pneuma,” which is a holy sensation of connecting to The Divine through knowledge.

It’s a fleeting moment, but it’s probably one you’ve felt before.

It’s that feeling when you read something, and it describes something you’ve always known without knowing, or when you listen to a piece of music and everything in the world sort of clicks into place, and you feel sublime. It’s a tiny, temporary moment of transcendence, and it makes you feel fully alive.

So what makes you feel alive as a person?

What brings joy and calm and a feeling of being connected? Is it taking a bike ride at dawn?

Getting lost in playing music? Sex? Make a list, a literal list, of these things and refer to it when these arbitrary bastards are getting you down.

The King of Wands is a natural leader with a great internal compass. You know what rings your bell. Regardless of what decisions these people make, you can still follow your path. It might be more twisty than you imagined, but you’ve got to have faith in the process. You know where you are going.

very often. Am I overreacting? Can I really see red flags in texts? Should I pursue this friendship?—The Sound of One Red Flag Flapping Cards: Four of Cups, Four of Pentacles, Eight of Wands Dear Red, You know what? Maybe take some time with this friendship. The Eight of Wands can feel like something getting very serious, very fast, and I don’t think this friendship needs to be that thing. As adults, we can be emotionally slutty with new friends, which can hurt us if they turn out to be a frenemy.

So vet this new friend as close as someone you’d lend money to.

The Four of Cups can be disillusionment, while the Four of Pentacles is a conservative card. Combined, these suggest you’re a bit more cynical with friendships and risk-averse. While it might protect, it could also hold you back, so evaluate your risks. Does Morgan just want to get coffee? Do they want you to be their therapist? What red flags are you seeing, and how are you feeling in your gut?

Remember: you don’t really know Morgan, and you don’t owe them friendship. So if they cross a line, it’s OK to tap out.

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Dear Oracle, I met “Morgan” through a friend at a party a couple of months ago, and we’re starting to become friends. They have a lot of similar interests as me, and they’re pretty funny and smart. However, they’ve said some things that have given me pause. In the past, I’ve had some unhealthy friendships that were hard for me to break from. I worry it might be the same with Morgan, but it’s hard to tell because we mostly talk over text and don’t see each other in person

Dear Oracle, the past two weeks have been filled with anxiety and depression, and the future is looking incredibly uncertain. My plan in undergrad was to pursue scientific research, but life keeps pointing me toward humanities (education, abortion access, art), and I’m getting no bites with research. So should I try going to grad school for something besides research? Like environmental policy/ law?—Crackerjack Adrift Cards: Justice reversed, The Fool reversed, Ace of Wands Dear CJ, now is the perfect time to gather your thoughts. The Ace of Wands is your card for the present moment, and it’s a wonderfully generative card, a creative powerhouse that’s great for brainstorming. It’s figuring out the beginning of something and seeing the potential in all ideas.

What would it look like if you were a research scientist? What would it look like if you were a lawyer? An educator? How do those things make you feel? Is there anything surprising coming up? What’s the best-case scenario for these jobs?

The worst-case? The boring middle?

You have two Major Arcana cards here: The Fool and Justice, both reversed. You have some time before this path starts, but it’s an exciting one to be on. The Fool is a beautiful card of new beginnings, of potential to the max. It’s a new dawn, a new day, baby. Justice is a card of balance and

fairness—and, yes, potentially law school—but it could be any program where you’re seeking Truth.

However, I do want to stress that graduate school is a difficult thing. It requires many sacrifices—money, time, sleep—and those might not feel worth it if you aren’t 100% into the program. So, again, use this time to gather your

thoughts and research what kind of career you could see for yourself.

Also, regardless of your chosen profession, if you’re an artist, you’re an artist. That’s your vocation. You aren’t less of an artist if you have a day job. All it means is you have to be more creative with scheduling. You got this!

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On the down blow

By Dan Savage

So, your husband insists you honor the commitment you made to him (not to have other sex partners) but he’s released himself from the commitment he made to you (to be your sex partner) and invited you to divorce him if you didn’t like it. And you didn’t divorce him. You stayed. Not because you wanna stay in this marriage, and not because you’re obligated to stay in this marriage to affirm his sexual identity, but because he’s unemployed and you don’t wanna turn him out on the street during a pandemic.

OK. You don’t need to feel bad about this—you don’t need to feel bad about the dick you’re eating at work—and if you’ve been reading my column for longer than a week, CHOKED, you knew I was gonna say that. So, you wanted a permission slip and you’ve got it, signed and notarized. And now if you stop giving those hot non-recip blowjobs to the bisexual guy at the office, I’m gonna be pissed at you for wasting my time. So don’t let me down here, CHOKED. Keep eating that dick.

Of course, eating that dick isn’t a long-term solution to your problem, CHOKED, but that dick will make your life more bearable in the near-term. (It sounds like it has already.) But ultimately, CHOKED, you’re gonna have to counter your husband’s ridiculous ultimatum with a perfectly reasonable ultimatum of your

own: he doesn’t have to be sexual with you—he never has to eat your dick ever again—but he can’t expect you to live a sexless life. Tell him you’re gonna seek dick elsewhere, CHOKED, and if he doesn’t like it, then he can leave.

Just wanted to commend you for your advice to “Having A Realistic Discussion On Needs” in last week’s column. I say this as someone who recently went through a similar—though blessedly temporary—situation with my girlfriend. The first time I lost my erection before I came, I was a little bummed, but my attitude was basically, “Dang, well, at least I made her come.”

My girlfriend, however, had a mild-to-moderate freak-out: Was everything OK? Was she doing something wrong? Was I not attracted to her anymore? Like HARDON’s partner, I also “got in my own head,” and the same thing kept happening. It got to the point where I

Thanks for sharing, PENIS. And while I sometimes feel like I should say, “Everybody doesn’t always need to come during sex,” I worry about some straight guys reading that and then giving even less of a shit about getting their female partners off than they already do. I don’t want to accidentally widen the orgasm gap: while more than 95% of straight men self-report that they always come during sex, according to the Archives of Sexual Behavior, only 65% of straight women said the

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I’m a gay man. After a decade together and 5 years of marriage, my husband informed me he wasn’t really interested in sex anymore. That was a year ago and we haven’t had sex since. He told me I should leave him, if regular sex was “really that important” to me, but if I chose to stay, I had to remain “faithful.” To him that means me not having sex with anyone else. I’m 35, he’s 38, and he doesn’t see his unilateral decision to end our sex life as him breaking faith with me. There’s also the issue of financial dependence. I am NOT dependent on him, he is dependent on ME. I didn’t want to abandon him during a pandemic while he’s unemployed, so I stayed. Now he tells me he’s asexual and accuses me of being unsupportive of his sexual identity if I so much as mention missing sex. To make a long story short, three months ago I met a guy at work. We’re the only people on our floor currently coming into the office and we got to talking and it turned out he’s bisexual and married but open. I’ve been blowing him a couple of times a week for the last two months.

He’s close to my age, and I really need this. We aren’t in the same department, so I don’t report to him, and he doesn’t report to me. He doesn’t reciprocate, but I don’t care. I wasn’t on Grindr and didn’t go looking for this. Do I need to feel bad about it?—Cheating Homo On Knees Eating Dick

being who we are, nothing sets our deep-seated insecurities ablaze like being pestered about our dick problems, no matter how well-meaning and sincere the pesterer is. We’re kind of like toddlers who suffer a minor boo-boo: If we see you frantically running toward us waving your hands and asking what’s wrong, we’re going to flip out. But if you don’t make a big deal out of it, we won’t either. Just wanted to share my straight-dude perspective and thank you for your level-headed response.—Please End Needless Interrogations Speedily

was avoiding sex because I didn’t want to deal with the crisis-counseling session that would inevitably ensue if I couldn’t come again. After a few weeks of this I was finally able to get through to her that talking and obsessing about it was only making it worse. She backed off, I got to a point where I could relax again, and it wasn’t long before our happy, healthy, way-hotter-than-you’dexpect-from-a-couple-of-divorced-40-year-olds sex life picked up where it left off.

As you implied to HARDON, sometimes you just need to STFU and hope for the best. Guys

same. We should all want our partners to get off and should make a good-faith effort to get them off, but we shouldn’t make a huge deal out of it if our partner, every once in a while, for whatever reason, doesn’t get off.

I just read your reply to HARDON and I think you missed something. (I know, I know! Who am I to tell you anything?!?) I’m a mature woman who had a younger male lover for a while. Same scenario in that he was super fit, had stamina, was eager, etc. All was good—except that he had

to finish himself off with a hard and furious handjob every time. I suggested that he go on a masturbation diet: stop jerking off every day and when he did masturbate, use props, e.g., wrap a cloth around his hand, grind against pillows, Fleshlight, whatever he could think of because I had the idea that the intense and hard hold he used when masturbating was the culprit. And I was vindicated! It took a few patient tries, but he got there!—Someone In Toronto Thank you for sharing, SIT, and I would’ve addressed the issue you raised—the issue you successfully addressed with your hot young man—if HARDON had mentioned something similar, i.e. her boyfriend using what I’ve long called the “death grip” to finish himself off. Dive into the Savage Love archives, SIT, and you’ll find tons of advice for guys who used the death grip during masturbation and then couldn’t get off during partnered sex because the inside of a vagina, a mouth, or a butt doesn’t feel like the inside of a bony clenched fist. My advice for guys who suffer from death grip syndrome is the same as yours: stop jacking off like that, use a lighter touch, get some lube and maybe a Fleshlight, and retrain the dick. It doesn’t work in all cases— some guys can’t come back, for other guys that’s just what their dick needs—but I’ve heard from plenty of men over the years who successfully retrained their dicks.

TO MY READERS: I had to file this column early due to the Labor Day holiday. But I want you to know that I’m furious about what happened in Texas last week (a law banning abortion went into effect) and what didn’t happen in the Supreme Court (the Trump-packed court didn’t block that law from going into effect, essentially nullifying Roe v. Wade). Texas’s new anti-abortion law empowers individual citizens to sue anyone they suspect of having helped a woman get an abortion—doctors, clinic staffers, parents, anyone. Lend a friend some money to pay for an abortion? You could be sued. Drive a friend to a clinic? You could be sued. If a lawsuit brought against you is successful, you could be ordered to pay the person who sued you $10,000 and reimburse their legal expenses; if you prevail in court, you get nothing—no damages, none of your legal expenses reimbursed. Women still have a constitutional right to an abortion in the United States, but abortion is effectively illegal now in Texas and will be soon in other states, as GOP legislators and governors drive a truck through the hole the Supreme Court just ripped open in Roe v. Wade. My advice to women and men in Texas: stock up on morning after pills—available over the counter (for now)—and vote every last GOP motherfucker out of office.

Contact mail@savagelove.net, follow @ FakeDanSavage on Twitter, and bookmark savagelovecast.com.

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