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Sulphur Springs’ history reminds us that sustainability and justice are deeply entwined.

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zoomed-in microscope views of the algae now so familiar in Florida springs. The water below pulses into a circular pool choked with what exploratory divers once described as “fluffy brown detritus” and “free-floating, jelly-like organisms”—which turned out to be pulverized plant matter and mats of hydrogen sulfide-eating bacteria. An old headline flashes through my mind: “Tampa’s Sulphur Springs too far gone, experts say.”

Multiple studies of the spring in the 1980s and 1990s demonstrated that the spring’s

You could say that Sulphur Springs was, in this sense, the victim of progress and its legendary failure to foresee its own consequences: to recognize the reality that nothing we do in this wet sponge of a state stays out of the water table for long. With the spring’s pathways for recharge increasingly choked, paved over, or contaminated, and with less fresh water to push back saltwater flows edging in from below, Sulphur Springs has now changed in ways that would make it extraordinarily complicated and expensive to restore.

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lying up I-275, heading north out of Tampa, it’s impossible to miss: the 200-foot Gothic Revival tower, pale as a ghost, glowering down from the west at the interstate below. It’s the iconic symbol of a leisure empire that had its heyday nearly a century ago: Sulphur Springs.

In the annals of Florida springs attractions, Sulphur Springs occupies a puzzling place. On one hand, it represents the epitome of our state’s celebrated tradition of springs tourism, a genuine Florida tourist trap from the boom years of the 1920s and a local hotspot well into the 1960s. But that history, so easy to see in the countless colorful postcards and photographs that remain, is almost entirely missing from the site itself (giant tower notwithstanding).

Once heralded for the curative properties of its waters, the spring is now deemed unsafe for swimming (though still, during dry spells, tapped for the city’s water supply—after being treated, of course). And despite the fact that a tight knit community of neighbors has rallied around the springs for decades to advocate for its cultural and ecological value, the neighborhood is more often associated with poverty and crime than with its extraordinary contribution to Tampa history.

As I pull into the parking lot of the Sulphur Springs Pool off Nebraska Avenue one warm morning in early fall, lured by the lore of this legendary spring, these opposing images swap back and forth in my mind. What happened to Sulphur Springs? And what does it reflect about our ongoing reckoning with Florida’s water resources?

I head through the entrance gate to the sprawling pool, a chlorinated facility supplied by city water, which replaced its spring-fed counterpart after high bacteria counts shuttered it in 1986. When I tell the attendant that I’d like to bypass the pool and get a look at the spring, her eyebrows raise. “You know you can’t swim in it, right?”

She’s right to be suspicious; it’s hard to keep me out of the water. But the fact is, I couldn’t swim there even if I tried. The boil lies behind a tall chain-link fence, overshadowed by John Gurbacs’s mural depicting various species that can be found along the Hillsborough River.

Outsized manatees and limpkins mingle with

THIS IS NOT OUR FATE: There’s a lot to learn, and not repeat, in the Sulphur Springs story. decline was linked to the degradation of about one dozen seeps and sinkholes in the neighborhood, some as far as two miles from the site, all hydrologically connected to the spring. With very little regulation around storm water management for most of the 20th century, these sites were subjected to decades of ecological abuses, including storm water retention, filling, and dumping. One dive into a sinkhole on Alaska Avenue in 1987 retrieved shopping carts, washing machine parts, furniture, and full bags of garbage—even the proverbial kitchen sink.

But the spring is not the only feature that has fallen off the map here: as I walk upstream along the river, I wind past an old gazebo where white tourists from all over the country—white tourists, because Sulphur Springs, like so many of our famous attractions, was segregated—once sampled the spring’s waters. I pass the bridge where they watched bathers sloshing down an enormous toboggan slide into the luminous blue spring run. Both are now fenced off. And so much more lies flattened under the massive parking lot around me: a host of delights—including a

dance hall, an alligator farm, and a sandy bathing beach (sand trucked in, of course), and even Sulphur Springs’s legendary Arcade, still touted as “America’s first mini-mall.” All traces of these marvels disappeared when the land was sold to the dog track a few blocks north and converted to overflow parking in 1976.

Further on, where I-275 now cuts through the landscape, more stories lie buried. This area was once known as the Bottom, and it was one of the few places along the river where, during the era of Jim Crow, Black residents could enjoy access to the water. While the spring and its amenities were closed to them, says Dr. Antoinette T. Jackson, Director of USF’s Heritage Research Lab, Black residents turned to the river. “For Black people,” she reflects, “the river was their key place. It was an equalizer.

Everyone could swim, fish, boat, and baptize in spite of segregation.”

Now this history, along with the 2-3 block wide strip of homes that the interstate claimed when it was built in the early 1970s, is concealed under a noisy, noxious, endless stream of motorized flow.

Now, at last, standing in the shadow of the River Tower, I can’t help but think that the familiar “march of progress” story does not explain what happened here.

With its major commercial center (the Arcade) demolished, a large section of its neighborhood uprooted by the interstate, and white flight taking many of its more prosperous families to other neighborhoods, the closure of the spring in 1986 struck Sulphur Springs at an already difficult time. In February of 1987, a group of neighborhood leaders known as the Sulphur Springs Action League applied to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to obtain an Outstanding Florida Water designation for the spring, hoping its historical and ecological value might ensure future protection for this community asset. The request was stalled on the grounds that Sulphur Springs was not a pristine natural site and already had substantial pollution problems–not “outstanding” enough in the ways that counted.

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continued from page 9 the new, city-run pool, which fulfilled a major community need, especially in the summer months. Recent scholarship from USF’s Mathews Jackson Wakhungu has shown, however, that some basic needs such as updated sewer lines and effective drainage are still not being met in Sulphur Springs, and many residents drink bottled water out of mistrust for what comes out of the tap. When it comes to the community’s relationship to this most vital of resources, you might say the waters are still troubled.

When it emerged in the early 1980s, the environmental justice movement drew attention to the fact that marginalized communities often pay the highest price for industrial and urban development, while enjoying few of its benefits.

Looked at through this lens, we could understand the loss of the springs as part and parcel of the neglect of an entire community—one whose voice was less often heard in the halls of power and whose unique history was, for too long, considered expendable. As Hillsborough County’s longtime official historian Theodore Lesley put it in 1976, when assessing whether or not to halt demolition of the Arcade: “From the boom time on, Sulphur Springs was nothing but a dive.”

But this is beginning to change. Tucked away on E River Cove Street, in a riverside park just a few blocks from the pool, is the Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center. First conceived in 2006, the museum opened its doors in 2017, after a decade of collaboration between Sulphur Springs Neighborhood Association and USF’s Department of Anthropology. The museum tells the many-voiced story of Sulphur Springs and aims to provide empowerment for the community—especially for its younger residents. “We

want them to be proud of the community in which they live, and also to help take care of the heritage, and to help it grow,” explained co-founder Norma Robinson in a 2017 interview. In addition to its own permanent exhibit on Sulphur Springs, the museum has featured traveling exhibits on the human ecology of water, civil rights in Florida, and, coming soon, the life and times of Frederick Douglass. A recent exhibit which showed the work of USF’s forensic anthropologists feels right in tune with this purpose: telling a fuller story of those people (and places) who have been lost helps us down the long path toward justice.

Behind the Museum is a small park with a lovely view of the Hillsborough. Perched in a small picnic area overlooking the river, it is easy to see how it might be, as Jackson says, a healing force. There’s peace in the steady drift of its tea-colored, tannin-dark waters, abundant life in its waters and in the green tangle of oaks, palmettos, and houseplants-run-wild that spills down its banks.

Even the kayaks and canoes resting on the docks of riverside homes seem to lean out over the water, as if ready to drop in and go with the flow. Everything here tends toward the river.

And maybe that’s another answer to the question of what Sulphur Springs can teach us: the spring is only part of the story. More important is its connection to the river, the river’s connection to the bay, and our human connection to the entire life-sustaining system. Choosing to see those connections, rather than ignoring or denying them, is as fundamental to the work of justice as it is to the work of sustainability, which are, in the end, deeply entwined. And to do the work of sustainability and justice, we need to hear the whole story.

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HISTORY REPEATS: Highway construction destroyed Tampa neighborhoods in the late-’50s.

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new Los Angeles Times story highlights the U.S. Department of Transportation’s ongoing national roadway expansion, which also displaces people of color via interstate construction. Within the story, the tale of Tampa’s interstate project is retold, but from a new perspective.

“The first time Willie Dixon lost a home to a highway was during the freeway construction boom in the early 1960s,” The L.A. Times wrote. “The delivery driver was living in a one-story wooden home in Tampa where he and his wife would host card games for family and friends, cooking feasts of blue crabs.”

The problem Dixon faced was that his home was right in the path of what would become I-275. The interstate plowed through historically Black and Brown neighborhoods in Ybor City, West Tampa and downtown Tampa, displacing thousands, including Dixon.

Dixon moved and started his life again, but in an unfortunate location. His second home was right in the path of what would become known today as malfunction junction. In 2004, he was

removed from his home again for an interstate expansion at the age of 90. He died a year later, according to the L.A. Times.

His story is one of thousands in Tampa, where for decades the story of racist interstate plans have been a source of controversy.

Similar displacements happened in Miami and Jacksonville, where people of color were pushed out of core urban areas and segregated by interstates.

When the L.A. Times asked the Florida Department of Transportation for comment on the project, they repeated a time-tested response to the concerns of racism and segregation.

Highway planners insisted that freeway expansions are not intended to harm communities of color. Building upon existing road corridors that were there at the time I-275 was built in Tampa was less harmful to people and to the environment than creating brand new ones, they claimed.

“The only way to eliminate displacements for the interstate projects in Tampa would be to do nothing and continue to utilize the 1960s interstate system,” Florida Department of

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Transportation spokeswoman Alecia Collins told the LA Times. “At the rate that Florida is growing, that simply isn’t a safe and/or viable option.”

Tampa’s historical documents show that the city saw the area that I-275 would run through as “cancerous.” About six years before I-275 construction would begin plowing through the Black neighborhood between Ybor and Downtown formerly known as “the scrub”, the City of Tampa said of the area, “The reconstruction of the area for improved living and additional commercial and industrial enterprise will remove one of the most insidious and cancerous infections in the city.”

Josh Frank, an urban designer and founder of #blvdtampa—a project study to turn Tampa’s interstate into a more efficient and community-friendly Boulevard that includes public transportation— said that FDOT is going back to the same argument it’s made for about 70 years.

“You won’t find it directly written in any letters or memos, but the creation and further expansion of the interstate system in Tampa has always been discriminatory towards minority neighborhoods,” Frank told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay in an email. “Continuing this impact with a shrug is, as the L.A. Times article clearly demonstrated, is a choice continually made by the Florida Department of Transportation since the 1950s.”

Frank went on to say that there has been progress in that time to reduce impacts or

mitigate them more fairly, however, the end result is still largely an inequitable one.

“And that is the definition of systemic racism,” Frank said.

Governor Ron DeSantis had different feelings about road construction on Tuesday. When a reporter in Spring Hill asked DeSantis about Pete Buttigieg’s infrastructure bill that seeks to address systemic racism in highway design, the Governor largely deflected, but not without taking a swipe at the bill.

“I heard some stuff, some weird stuff from the Secretary of Transportation trying to make this about social issues,” DeSantis said. “To me, a road’s a road.”

DeSantis comments seem to ignore the fact that people build roads, and decide where they go and how they are built. And as the Orlando Sentinel editorial board noted, “Racism in road building isn’t weird, it’s real.”

Sunshine Citizens, a coalition advocating for smarter transportation policy, pointed out that there are options outside of interstates that destroy and divide communities.

“We need transportation equity, to put people first and prioritize funding for transit now,” the group said in an email. “Advance the #blvdtampa project study, funding HART, streetcar expansion, & everything else instead of folding to the continuing highway expansion. The national spotlight is on us.”

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By Justin Garcia and McKenna Schueler website, outsourced through companies like SSP America, list positions with a starting rate of a mere $5.63 per hour for bartenders and servers. Tampa airport CEO Joe Lopano, on the other hand, earned a salary of $509,000 last year, and was recently approved a raise.

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latest $1.2 billion infrastructure bill is directed to the airport’s essential workers.

“This money needs to be directed towards the people who work and run these places. It needs to be directed towards the people that get up and come here every day and make sure that things run smoothly,” said Floyd. “[We want to] make sure that when we’re investing in our infrastructure in America, we’re investing in the workers, because workers are a vital part of that.”

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orkers at the Tampa International Airport (TPA) spoke out last Tuesday against low wages and poor working conditions that could leave their families hungry while others are enjoying their holiday meals. Outside of TPA’s drop-off and pick-up terminal, members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ and their supporters stood around a holiday-decorated table lacking any food as part of a “turkey-less” Thanksgiving dinner.

The visuals were meant to symbolize the poverty the workers face as they keep one of the nation’s busiest airports running.

Gladys Perez, who’s worked at TPA for 18 years and is currently a security officer, stepped up to TV news microphones at the press conference to talk about the struggles she faces.

“My job is very important, I keep the airport safe and secure for employees and passengers,” Perez says. “But I’m not feeling appreciated, we don’t even have enough sick days if we get sick.”

Perez made $9.05 an hour for 18 years until the recent minimum wage increase in Florida.

Now she makes $10.40 an hour, but her struggles persist. Perez says she was told by her employer that if she gets sick for a long period of time, she should apply for unemployment. Perez, 70, said she had heart surgery, and had to use vacation time to recover. Her family depends on her and she doesn’t have enough savings for retirement.

“I hope I can put dinner on the table for next week. But it’s always a struggle, especially around the holidays,” Perez says. “Airlines and their contractors are making billions of dollars profit off of our backs. We need them to step up and ensure we are earning a living.”

Perez spoke as part of the SEIU’s national week of action at airports across the country, where workers are calling attention to poverty wages and a lack of benefits at airports, including Florida airports like TPA and Orlando International, where another worker demonstration with the union was held last week.

The airline industry, which received a $54 billion bailout through the CARES Act, has been scrutinized for record delays, cancellations, massive layoffs, and labor shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, SEIU says that many airlines and their contractors are squeezing workers while refusing to make airport jobs more competitive by offering living wages and even the most basic benefits like paid sick days.

“Unfortunately, Tampa [International] Airport is a modern day sweatshop,” said 32BJ SEIU Florida director Helene O’Brien at Tuesday’s press conference. Some TPA workers, she said, make as little as $7-$10 per hour, plus tips. Some service jobs listed on TPA’s

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay reached out to TPA for a response to SEIU and the worker’s claims.

“The Service Employees International Union does not represent employees who work for the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority, which operates Tampa International Airport,” Emily Nipps, Senior Manager of Communications for TPA told CL in an email. “The Union does represent some employees who work for tenants [companies] that do business at TPA.” People from all walks of life came out to support the workers on Tuesday. Spokespeople from

GOOD ALTITUDE: Most airport workers like their jobs, but the pay isn’t enough to live. baggage handlers, skycaps, and other positions.

These contractors compete vigorously with each other to see who will win the lowest bid contract, which has resulted in plummeting wages and disappearing benefits.

Now, airport workers are fighting back. In other states, they’ve won local living wage standards, benefits, and union recognition for 32,000 airport workers, SEIU says. But because of local politics and Florida’s state preemption laws, airport workers in some states earn living wages and benefits, while others are barely surviving.

gubernatorial candidate Rep. Charlie Crist and Rep. Michele Rayner’s offices, plus Senate candidate Eunic Ortiz, St. Pete City Councilman-elect Richie Floyd, Reverend Andy Oliver of Allendale United Methodist Church, and organizers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Democratic Socialists of America spoke out and stood by in support.

Floyd, who serves as a delegate to the West Central Florida Labor Council for the Pinellas County teachers union, spoke on the need to ensure that money coming into TPA from the

development for airports like TPA over the next five years. Last spring, Tampa International received about $80 million under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Stimulus (CARES) Act. According to the Tampa Bay Times, this was largely used to offset debt and losses. Subsequent COVID-19 relief packages provided millions more to the busy airport hub, which TPA spokesperson Nipps told the Times last December would help them stay current on debt payments, maintain normal operations, and retain airport staff. continued on page 19

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PATHFINDER: Spokespeople at Tampa International more or less passed the buck to airport contractors who employ the SEIU members. continued from page 17 But with some TPA workers making subminimum wages, community allies underscored that low wages and little to no benefits isn’t enough.

“We are experiencing one of the worst housing crises of our times right now here in Tampa Bay, and it’s more expensive in Tampa to get an apartment than it is in other cities like San Francisco, LA and New York,” said Ortiz, a former communications director for SEIU who’s currently running for State Senate in St. Petersburg.

Tampa Bay is reportedly on track to become more rent-burdened than cities like Los Angeles; research shows this burden falls disproportionately on people of color.

“No one that works 40 hours a week should live in poverty. No one should have to choose between putting food on the table and paying their rent and providing for their future for their family,” Ortiz added.

While U.S. Rep. Crist could not make it to the event, a letter read by his Veteran Liaison and Constituent Advocate Jon Rowles said that the pandemic has “painfully revealed” just how important frontline essential workers are to the country and economy.

“Despite this, I know that many of these essential workers still make poverty wages, even as we draw closer to the holiday season, in another likely wave in this pandemic,” Rowles read.

The letter added that Crist still strongly supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, as he’s championed since his first year in office, as a cosponsor of the 2017 Raise the Wage Act. Reverend Oliver, a stalwart supporter of human rights for all in Tampa Bay, closed out

the press conference with a prayer that focused on standing in solidarity with people “made invisible by exploitation.”

“So woe unto you airport executives, when you blame the laborers you have exploited for the inequity you have created,” Oliver prayed.

“Oh God, raise up more prophets like Moses and Dorothy Day, and dismantle capitalistic financial profit that destroys our human family.”

Florida 32BJ SEIU director Helene O’Brien told CL there are over 1,000 low-wage workers at TPA. Several spoke out on Tuesday.

Anthony Sanders, who works full-time as a wheelchair attendant and baggage handler, was one of them.

He’s worked at TPA for three years. Today, he makes $7 per hour as a tipped worker. “The amount I make isn’t enough to get by,” Sanders said Tuesday morning.

With the recent rent spike, he saw his rent go up to $1,500 a month. He was unable to afford this on his own, and he lost his car. Last year, he was laid off for two months.

After moving into a hotel for a brief time, he now lives with a roommate, which helps with Tampa’s cost of living. Still, he’s found himself working through injury. He can’t afford to miss the opportunity to make tips, which are unreliable at best. A former security officer from New York, Sanders hasn’t been a member of a union before. But he was eager to join the Airport Workers United campaign.

“I like my job. I love taking care of passengers, but it’s not fair how low the pay is,” Sanders said. “Passengers depend on us to physically help them and make sure they’re getting to their flight safely. Our work is important so we deserve better.”

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Groups call for local schools to stop using Indigenous mascots.

By Justin Garcia When Hillsborough County Schools made changes to six schools in 2019, it made it clear that the county understood the impact this practice has on people from the Indigenous community.

“The current mascots do not respect every culture and every person in our communities.

Using Native American images and mascots can easily reduce living human beings to the level of a cartoon, caricature or stereotype,” the school district said in a statement to WFLA. “Even when there is no bad intent, these images can carry on and spread some of the symbols of the most painful parts of our great country’s history.”

Yet, Hillsborough Schools continued to allow Chamberlain and East Bay schools to continue the use of Native mascots.

Last month, the Tampa Bay Times reported that Title VI community meetings about the situation with the school board have been stalled.

Superintendent Addison Davis said he postponed the meetings because of COVID-19, many other types of meetings and events still take place, while Durant and others are left to wonder when their voices will be heard.

CL contacted Erin Maloney, Department Manager of Media Outreach at Hillsborough

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and games with Native culture, it was illegal for Native people to practice aspects of their own culture until 1978. “The mascots need to end, now,” he added.

While suffering through the utilization of the Native mascots for generations in Hillsborough, Indigenous people have been denied access to practicing their own culture in Hillsborough Schools.

Durant tells the story of Native children being barred from wearing eagle feathers during school graduations. Eagle feathers are commonly given to children when they are born and then during life’s major events, such as high school graduation.

“There were parents I spoke with whose little girl was at her graduation in Hillsborough, and she had her eagle feather on,” Durant said. “She was told by a school official to remove it and she said no, because she thought that she had permission to wear it from the school.

She was told she was wrong and that she had to remove it. So she’s in tears taking it off, because she didn’t want to get in trouble.”

It wasn’t until 2018 that Hillsborough Schools announced that they had begun allowing students to wear eagle feathers in their graduation caps.

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ast Tuesday, members of Tampa Bay Native American groups spoke at a school board meeting against Native mascots being used in Hillsborough County, an issue that has been a source of controversy in their community for generations.

Six Hillsborough schools changed their names in 2019, citing cultural changes, but mascots and imagery related to the Chamberlain “Chiefs’’ and East Bay “Indians” high schools still harp on Indigenous tropes. Spokespeople from Hillsborough schools have claimed that while the mascots remain in place at those schools, the schools themselves have become more sensitive to cultural issues.

But Native leaders of the Title VI Parent Advisory Committee and the Florida Indigenous Alliance (FIA) say that the schools retaining the mascots is unacceptable. Representatives from the groups have been speaking out at school board meetings for years, including several times in 2021. They spoke yet again during Tuesday’s public comment section of the school board meeting in downtown Tampa.

Durant, chairperson of the Title VI Parents Advisory group told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that the issue is about appropriation of culture, and whitewashing the history of suffering Native people have faced in the United States.

“Chamberlain used to do a whole Native American homecoming, where their homecoming court would dress up as little females in the buckskin dresses, and the boys that were on the homecoming court would dress in buckskin shirts with the war bonnets,” Durant, who is of the west coast’s Mechoopda Tribe said. “And the principal would also dress up in this outfit.”

Photos on social media and from newspaper clippings from the ‘90s show seemingly nonNative people dressing up in Native regalia at Chamberlain throughout the years, practicing the appropriation that Durant mentions.

“They wouldn’t want us creating institutions that degrade their history and culture this way, so why should this be allowed in our schools?”

Durant asks.

The Native American Guardian’s Association—an organization that shares the right-wing group Turning Point U.S.A. videos on their website—has claimed that the imagery honors Natives and wants to protect them.

“Go East Bay Indians and Chamberlain Chiefs,” the group wrote in a Facebook post about the situation. “The tides are turning why be quick to erase Native American identity.

Thank you for all you do.”

County Public Schools for comment about the situation.

“While the Superintendent and board paused the process earlier this year, district staff continues to engage with student groups and members of the community to have this important discussion,” Maloney told CL in an email. “Our district respects and honors diversity and inclusion and looks forward to receiving more input from all stakeholders.”

Sheridan Murphy of the Florida Indigenous Alliance said that it’s time for the U.S. and Hillsborough County to reckon with the practice of celebrating genocide.

“With 7,300 Native babies found in mass graves found at concentration camps called ‘Residential schools’ from Kamloops, British Columbia to Lincoln, Nebraska, maybe it’s time for the United States and the Hillsborough County School Board to acknowledge that Native peoples are human beings,” Murphy told CL. “No other group of human beings have their culture, history and spirituality trivialized, mocked and degraded in a circus-like atmosphere simply for fun and games.”

Murphy said that while alumni, parents and students at East Bay and Chamberlain have fun

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of “Thanks Giving and feasting,” to honor the treacherous massacre of over 700 Pequot and Wampanoag men, women, and children.

According to Winthrop’s journal, colonists attempted to conduct a full scale “ethnic cleansing” of the local Natives by setting fire to the that the Pilgrims invited their Indian friends to sleeping village shortly before dawn. English attend the first Thanksgiving to celebrate their sources estimated that 400–700 people were survival. This is, in fact, a lie.” burned alive or murdered in other ways during FIA says that most people in this country do the attack, but many Natives say the number not realize what the Thanksgiving celebration is was well over 700. The men who committed these about, because the truth has been buried. atrocities “had sufficient light from the word of The first God for our proceedThanksgiving did ings,” Winthrop not occur in 1621 wrote in his journal.

National Day of Mourning when the pilgrim Winthrop also Thursday, Nov. 25, sunrise-sunset survivors of the first encouraged other colColumbus Statue Park, 300 Bayshore Blvd., Tampa winter sat down to onies to do likewise, @floridaindigenousalliance on Instagram dinner with Indians and the news of this in a friendly feast, as many are taught in grade bloodthirsty “Thanksgiving” spread through school. In fact, many brutalities were waged the country. against the Natives, beginning in 1621, includBecause of this tragic history and the events ing beheadings of Native leaders. Their heads that followed, FIA and Natives around the counwere posted at the colonies to show other Natives try are mourning those they have lost. what might happen to them. According to jourThe first official Day of Mourning in recent nals from the time, the colonists received the history took place in 1970, when Wamsutta, severed heads “with joy.” also known as Frank James, was invited to a Then, in 1637, Massachusetts Governor Plymouth, Massachusetts, Thanksgiving celJohn Winthrop proclaimed the first official day ebration that centered around the false narrative

Indigenous group hosts public day of mourning on Thanksgiving.

By Justin Garcia

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hile many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving by gathering with friends and family to eat robust meals, Native Americans around the country and in Tampa Bay will fast and mourn.

The Florida Indigenous Alliance (FIA) and its supporters will acknowledge the day—which marks a tragic massacre of Native people in America—by fasting at Columbus Statue Park in Tampa from sunrise to sunset.

FIA chose the park, located at 300 Bayshore Blvd., because it sees the statue as a, “grotesque monument to genocide and mass murder,” a practice in America that Thanksgiving also celebrates. The group has demonstrated against the monument several times, demanding its removal, so it will mourn there to symbolize Indigenous peoples’ struggles on Thanksgiving.

“The dominant society is taught that Masssasoit and the Wampanoag people welcomed the pilgrims and taught them survival skills,” FIA wrote in a post announcing the Day of Mourning in Tampa. “Americans are also taught

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that the occasion celebrates a great feast between Natives and pilgrims.

According to the educational website Mayflower 400, which seeks to bring to light the “ruthless consequences of colonization,’’ James wrote a scathing indictment of the Pilgrims for the Thanksgiving event. He described how they desecrated Native American graves, stealing food and land, while decimating the population with disease.

The hosts of the event deemed James’ speech inappropriate and inflammatory. They gave him a revised speech, which he refused to read when he arrived at the gathering James vowed that the Wampanoag and other Native peoples would regain their rightful place and was “uninvited” from the event. Supporters followed James to hear him give his original speech on Cole’s Hill, next to the statue of former Wampanoag leader Ousamequin.

This became the first official National Day of Mourning, which is now practiced all over the U.S. As FIA carries on the tradition of the Day of Mourning in Tampa, the group welcomes supporters to stop by Columbus Statue Park on Thanksgiving.

“We ask all who can to join us, even for part of the day, in our sunrise to sunset fast in a Day of Mourning,” FIA wrote.

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By Colin Wolf performing work for the federal government,’” the document said, partially quoting a Biden executive order. “Slowing COVID-19’s spread promotes economy and efficiency because federal procurement --- like any business endeavor --suffers when people contracting with the federal government get sick and miss work.”

The document was filed in opposition to Florida’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the vaccination mandate, which is rooted in Biden’s September executive order. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday is scheduled to hear arguments on the motion Dec. 7.

Florida filed the lawsuit in October, contending, in part, that Biden overstepped his authority with the requirement that workers of federal contractors be vaccinated. Lawyers in Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office also argued that Florida would be injured because state agencies have contracts with the federal government.

“Defendants (Biden and other federal defendants) are already pressuring Florida to modify existing contracts, and Florida understands that failing to do so will exclude Florida from consideration for future opportunities,” the Nov. 2 motion for a preliminary injunction said. “As a matter of Florida law, however, state entities may not require vaccination of state employees. The challenged actions, therefore, require Florida to choose between changing or violating state law on the one hand or losing tens of millions of dollars in federal funds on the other.”

But in the document filed Wednesday, Justice Department attorneys said Florida has “failed to show how it has been harmed” because the vaccination requirement does not apply to existing contracts. It said the requirement applies to new contracts, new solicitations for contracts, extensions or renewals of contracts and the exercising of contract options.

The document said Florida “has presented what is largely a mirage of impending economic calamity. While Florida would have this court believe that (the executive order) portends a summary, across-the-board invalidation of numerous federal contracts worth tens of millions of dollars, the reality bears no resemblance to Florida’s characterization.”

Florida has cited an example of a $12 million contract that the University of Florida received last year from NASA. “Florida’s agencies and other state entities contract with the federal government as a matter of course, and these contracts are worth tens

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Biden Administration asks judge to block Florida’s attempt to prevent vaccination requirements for federal contractors Biden administration attorneys this week urged a judge to reject Florida’s attempt to block a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for federal contractors, saying the state has “presented what is largely a mirage of impending economic calamity.”

In a 41-page document filed Wednesday in federal court in Tampa, U.S. Department of Justice attorneys wrote that Florida has not shown that it will be harmed by the vaccination requirement and argued President Joe Biden has broad authority over federal contracting.

“COVID-19 hobbled the economy for months and continues to disrupt American life. Federal procurement is no exception. The president, as the ultimate manager of federal procurement operations, determined that workplace safeguards aimed at preventing COVID-19’s spread will ‘decrease worker absence, reduce labor costs, and improve the efficiency of contractors and subcontractors at sites where they are

of millions of dollars or more,” the state’s motion for a preliminary injunction said. “For example, last year the University of Florida won a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration worth over $12 million. And Florida’s Department of Education has several contracts with GSA (the federal General Services Administration) to provide vending services at federal buildings, which Florida uses to give employment opportunities to blind individuals.

Florida has pending opportunities to enter into or renew a number of such contracts beginning as early as December.”

But the Justice Department attorneys disputed that the vaccination requirement would affect such things as the NASA contract, which lasts until 2025, “What a new or renewed contract might require in 2025 is a matter of pure speculation. By that time, the government may not even require contractor employees to be vaccinated. Florida’s speculation that it might lose this contract more than three years from now is ‘conjectural’ and ‘hypothetical,’ not ‘actual,’

‘imminent,’ or ‘concrete,’” the federal attorneys wrote, partially quoting legal precedent.

The federal contractor requirement is scheduled to take effect in January and includes limited exemptions for medical or religious reasons.

Florida’s lawsuit is one of three challenges that the state has filed against federal vaccination requirements. Moody’s office Wednesday challenged a vaccination mandate for workers at hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers that take part in the Medicaid and Medicare programs.

Florida and other states, along with businesses, have also challenged a vaccination requirement that would apply to employees of businesses with 100 or more workers. That requirement has been put on hold as the legal battles continue.

The Republican-dominated Legislature this week also held a special session to pass a package of bills aimed at preventing vaccination mandates in the state. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bills Thursday.—Jim Saunders/ News Service of Florida

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espite what you may have heard, Ron DeSantis has balls, and they’re for sale.

Following over 60,000 dead constituents and a special session railing against vaccine mandates, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis released new scrotum-themed re-election campaign merchandise.

Last Wednesday, as the Legislature made a move to pass DeSantis’ wish to ban businesses from requiring vaccines for employees, the governor’s team debuted a new set of golf balls available on his campaign website, that say “Florida’s Governor Has A Pair” on the packaging, along with “Hold The Line.”

“Standing firm and setting an example for the rest of the nation in defending freedom as it comes under assault has become par for the course with Governor DeSantis,” says an email from his campaign.

Ron’s white, dimpley balls cost $19.95, and are actually TaylorMade TP5X Golf Balls.

Surely, nothing says you stood up to the globalist agenda, Big Tech, and the woke media, then letting everyone know your balls are for sale.

This isn’t the first line of dumb DeSantis swag that minimizes the state’s coronavirus catastrophe. Last summer, DeSantis released a beer koozie that read “How can I drink a beer with a mask on?”

WHITE AND DIMPLEY: DeSantis wants you to know his balls are for sale.

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Rick Stroud breaks the news that a former chef who recently had a “falling out” with Antonio Brown over $10,000 of an “uncollected debt” has accused the Bucs wideout of obtaining and using a fake COVID-19 card. Always. Pay. The Chef.

Gulfport’s ‘Rebound’ program has $410,000 for residents to spend at local businesses—unfortunately, your weed dealer does not count as a “local business.”

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THANKS FOR BEING HERE! Shopapalooza Festival started in 2010 with about 40 vendors, and has since grown into the biggest Small Business Saturday (and Sunday!) celebration in the Southeast, perhaps even in the nation.

struggled to stay afloat, but they still went above and beyond, as they often do, to help those less fortunate.

This year’s festival features more than 300 local makers, food trucks, artists, nonprofits, and other small businesses. The festival also helps raise money for local nonprofits through our 501c3 partner, First Party Coalition, which supports other nonprofits that provide advocacy and services to causes that unite us.

Shopapalooza Festival is organized by LocalShops1 (established in 2008!) and co-sponsored by the City of St. Petersburg.

Much thanks to the city’s police and fire departments, Parks & Rec, Marketing, Sanitation and all the other departments that make ’Palooza such a success.

Shopping local always matters. Local businesses add character to our communities, contribute to local causes, and help keep our money right here in Tampa Bay. And this year, shopping local is even more important. Over the past 18 months, many small businesses pivoted and reinvented and

It’s time to pay them back.

And thanks to YOU for supporting local, today and every day, in person and through our marketplace, buylocaltampabay.com.

LocalShops1 runs the marketplace but we don’t take cuts or charge listing fees!

To learn more about why supporting local matters, please go to localshops1.com/join.

— Ester Venouziou, LocalShops1 founder

2021 TOP SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS

Spectrum Pilot Bank NextHome South Pointe SILVER SPONSORS

All American Gutter Protection And Services Forever Sticky Hage Fencing Treehouse Gallery Vision Auto Glass of Florida MEDIA SPONSORS

Creative Loafing MOR Tampa Bay

PHOTO SPONSOR

Moorman Photographics See page 2 for our complete list of sponsors

Helping mothers, children and communities

To see how you can help make a difference visit:

www.AlphaHousePinellas.org

701 Fifth Ave. N., St. Petersburg FL 33701 | 727-822-8190

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Shopapalooza features tons of fun for everyone! And you might even find your new best friend. Several rescues and animal nonprofits are participating, including Limbo Chihuahuas, shown here, Sea Turtle Trackers, Alligator Attraction, Florida Skunk Rescue, Skyway Dachshund Rescue, and SOAR-Suncoast Organized Animal Relief. MOORMAN PHOTOGRAPHICS 8 |

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MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCES NORTH END OF THE PARK, WITH EMCEE PAT LARGO (COMEDIANS UNCORKED) + ARTISTS DIRECT OF TAMPA BAY

SATURDAY

10-11:45 am LEON VINCENT MUSIC

12-1:30 pm REBEKAH PULLEY MUSIC DUO

The 12-year-old singer-songwriter performs his original music on the piano, ukulele and guitar. Leon Vincent has had an intimate connection to music since his early years, writing his first song, “Highway Girl,” when he was just 7. leonvincentmusic.com

With an enviable ability to break your heart and shake your soul with her songs, Rebekah Pulley has earned a living in a diverse setting of house concerts, bars, coffeehouses, and festivals around the globe. Her songwriting taps roots-rock, blues, old-school country & western, jazz, and gospel. rebekahpulley.com

2-5 pm OCEAN ROAD BAND The ORB has been playing around Tampa Bay for two decades, and is known for its entertaining blend of styles. They perform ’70s classic rock and old-time rock ‘n’ roll from the ’50s and ’60, plus Motown, popular hits, and classic country and pop. oceanroadband.com

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MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCES NORTH END OF THE PARK, WITH EMCEE PAT LARGO (COMEDIANS UNCORKED) + ARTISTS DIRECT OF TAMPA BAY

SUNDAY

10-11:45 am LAURA SHEPHERD

12:30-1:45 pm JENNIFER REAL

Born in Paris, Laura Shepherd has traveled from diplomatic circles in Geneva to dirt roads in South America. With her hands in the earth and her gaze on the stars, she knows that “when a root breaks, it makes a certain sound.” Laura listens, and you can hear it in her songs. facebook.com/thelaurashepherdshow

My mission is to connect you to your heart through sound. Sound was my first love. I sat mesmerized by my father’s opera singing.

This inspiration for soulful music continues to motivate me today.

Writing, creating, and sharing my love for music is my passion.

I will sing my heart out for you, and you will feel the love and soul. jenniferreal.live 2-5 pm URBAN GYPSIES OF FLORIDA With smoothly blended harmonies, exciting primal rhythms, and organic bling-like textures, The Urban Gypsies of Florida personify joyous, crazy fun times. Think tribal, disco, gypsy, bluegrass and ’70s rock and folk, combined with some funk. urbangypsiesofflorida.com

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ACTIVITIES + ENTERTAINMENT FUN + SURPRISES FILL UP VINOY PARK FOR A MAGICAL WEEKEND THAT CELEBRATES ALL THINGS LOCAL.

SATURDAY + SUNDAY

Mayor Kriseman spends the day ‘Paloozaing in 2019. Who will you run into this year, when shopping local matters more than ever? MOORMAN PHOTOGRAPHICS

Santa and Mrs. Claus will be there, of course! MAGICAL PARTIES BY GWEN

Throughout the Park

North Zone

South Zone

300+ SMALL BUSINESSES, LOCAL MAKERS AND FOOD TRUCKS Shopapalooza Festival is the biggest Small Business Saturday (and Sunday) celebration you’ve ever seen. You’ll find arts, gifts, clothing, home decor, plants, pet treats and everything in between

MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCES Bring your blanket and enjoy live music including the Urban Gypsies of Florida, Ocean Road Band, Jennifer Real, Leon Vincent, Rebekah Pulley and Laura Shepherd.

Shopapalooza’s emcee is Pat Largo, owner of Comedians Uncorked, and our A/V company is Artists Direct of Tampa Bay. Please see the previous pages for the Main Stage entertainment lineup.

SANTA STATION Santa and Mrs. Claus will be in their sleigh, ready for lots of pictures, as the elves prepare hot cocoa.

Created by Magical Parties by Gwen, and a little bit of holiday magic. magicalpartiesbygwen.com

The event was created by LocalShops1 and is co-sponsored by the City of St. Petersburg.

Hungry? The main food hall is on the north end, but food and drinks will be available throughout the park.

Please see the “Buy Local” and “Eat Local” sections for details.

STREET PERFORMANCES Look for the Dallas & Nick Show’s stations: comedy, daredevil juggling, escape shows and other surprises.

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POP-UP BOOKSHOP The Book Rescuers are bringing more than 8,000 books, each just $1.

Part of the proceeds go to purchase supplies for local school teachers. facebook.com/thebookrescuers PLUS .. street performers and tons of food trucks and vendors, including sponsor MOR TV, giving away swag!

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KIDS ZONE Great Explorations Children’s Museum is bringing out their activity trailer, full of games, crafts and fun. greatex.org GIFT-WRAPPING STATION Donations benefit the Gulfport Kiwanis. facebook.com/gulfportkiwanisclub PLUS .. street performers and tons of food trucks and vendors, including face-painting, caricatures, bear-building, and local rescues!

ACTIVITIES + ENTERTAINMENT FUN + SURPRISES FILL UP VINOY PARK FOR A MAGICAL WEEKEND THAT CELEBRATES ALL THINGS LOCAL.

SATURDAY + SUNDAY Central Zone

CHRISTMAS VILLAGE Stroll through the Gingerbread House and the global-themed Christmas tree display designed by artist Elke Lockert.

LA BUDDE & SONS CHILLOUNGE Relax in our spectacular 10,000 squarefoot seating area, designed by Rainer Scheer, owner of Florida Furniture Rental, Chillounge and Glow Table Dinner. floridafurniturerental.com THAT STEEL DRUM GIRL @ TINY HOME MUSIC DECK Jessica Renaud, aka That Steel Drum Girl, specializes in steel drums, ukulele, piano, and vocals. She will be performing atop the deck of Shorty Robbins’ Victorian Tiny Home, the Nawaka. facebook.com/thatsteeldrumgirl shortystinyhouse.com MOBILE AXE-THROWING The Grover’s Axe mobile axe-throwing trailer features laser-projected targets. groversaxe.com

St. Pete native Jessica Renaud will be performing throughout the weekend.

SHOPAPALOOZA FESTIVAL + LOCALSHOPS1 INFO BOOTH Swing by the LocalShops1 station (look for the Wine on Wheels airstream with the mermaid on top) for directions, to grab free swag (while supplies last), or just to say hi.

PLUS .. street performers and tons of food trucks and vendors, including glam cabana seating, live art shows, live screen printing, photo booths and more.

Relax in the LaBudde & Sons Chillounge, and then get up and shop more! shopapaloozafestival.com + localshops1.com

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Intensity Academy Sauces creator Michele Northrup, shown with husband Atlas Corcero, has participated in every Shopapalooza! Fun fact: Shopapalooza has always been in the 33701, but not always at Vinoy Park! The first one, in 2010, was at what’s now Sundial, the second at the old St. Pete Pier, and the next seven at South Straub Park. In 2019 we outgrew that space and found our new (hopefully forever) home: Vinoy Park, downtown St. Pete. MOORMAN PHOTOGRAPHICS 14

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FULL SERVICE SPIRITUAL BOUTIQUE SPECIALIZING IN HANDMADE SPIRITUAL PRODUCTS, CANDLE MAGICK, AND TAROT READINGS.

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FOOD + DRINK SERVICES FOODIES NETWORK 727 facebook.com/groups/foodienetwork727 Follow Syd Retro on the quest for the best food in the Tampa Bay area!

GREEN SPOON CO. greenspoonco.com Local plant-based meal prep company.

Homemade, fresh, delivered to you.

LOCO TAMPA BAY locotampabay.com Delivering local eats and rewards.

WINE ON WHEELS wine-onwheels.com Vintage 1962 Airstream trailer transformed into a rentable beverage service.

FOOD + DRINKS ALL GOOD allgoodstpete.com A fresh, healthy and delicious food spot.

ALSTON’S CHICKEN facebook.com/alstonschicken All homemade: shrimp, chicken and veggie egg rolls; hand-cut fries; cheesy fries.

BEECH KOMBUCHA beechbucha.com 3100 Freemont Terrace S, St. Pete Locally made small batch “whole fruit, whole root” kombucha.

BIG CRUSH SLUSH COMPANY bigcrushslush.com All-natural craft ginger-inspired beverages.

We craft every batch by hand, locally.

C&S CONCESSIONS Please visit us in the central-zone food court for delicious Greek cuisine.

COTTON KRAZE COTTON CANDY localshops1.com/cotton-krazegourmet-cotton-candy Serving a variety of traditional and gourmet flavors. Catch the “flavor kraze!”

LOVEMONADE lovemonade.com Craft lemonade and iced tea with fruit, mint and basil.

FUNNEL VISION FOOD TRUCK funnelvisionfoodtruck.com Food truck serving up sweet and savory street food creations.

LYNN’S ICE CREAM lynnsicecream.com 2028 Highway 44 W, Inverness Serving homemade ice cream, shaved ice and frappes.

HOGG BATCH hoggbatch.com 2327 Central Ave, St. Pete Premium barrel-aged (non-alcoholic) coffee.

Small batch and fresh roasted.

MAIN STREET BOYS HOMEMADE EMPANADAS facebook.com/mainstreetboys 100% homemade empanadas with fresh ingredients and made-from-scratch dough.

HOKE POKE FOOD TRUCK thehokepokefoodtruck Huge selection of poke bowls, homemade bao buns and boba teas.

MELONHEAD ENTERPRISES facebook.com/allnaturalmelon Fresh frozen slush made from real melons.

PACIUGO GELATO & CAFFE paciugostpete.com 300 Beach Dr NE, Suite 120, St. Pete Delicious housemade gelato, pops and espresso drinks.

HOT PURSUIT CATERING BBQ hotpursuitcateringandbbq.com The best babyback ribs in St. Pete.

ISLAND FLAVORS AND TINGS Shopapalooza Community Sponsor! islandflavorsandtings.com 1411 49th St S, Gulfport + St. Pete Pier, 800 Second Ave NE Authentic Jamaican restaurant, island market and catering company.

PAMZ PIZZA CONEZ facebook.com/pamzpizzaconez Cone made of pizza dough, filled with your favorite toppings, and baked to perfection.

JB’S SWEET ADDICTION jbssweetaddiction.square.site Mobile bakery: custom cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Gluten-free, vegan available.

JIMMY BODEAN’S CONCESSIONS BBQ AND CATERING facebook.com/1stpitboss We use low and slow bbq on grilled cheese sandwiches, tacos, and baked potatoes.

LAVA BURGER facebook.com/lavaburgerfl We specialize on the “juicy lucy,” a Midwest-born burger stuffed with cheese.

PIPO’S THE ORIGINAL CUBAN CAFE pipos1979.com 9531 Bay Pines Blvd, St. Pete Serving diverse flavors and aromas of authentic Cuban cuisine since 1979.

POP GOES THE WAFFLE popgoesthewaffle.com 5004 Tangerine Ave S, Gulfport Pop Goes the Waffle will be serving delicious waffle pops.

SIESTA POPS BY POPCRAFT popcraftpops.com 4515 Northgate Court,Sarasota Handmade gourmet natural popsicles, and hot mini donuts with delicious toppings.

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FOOD + DRINKS continued

PACKAGED GOODS

SKOOPS ITALIAN ICE skoopsallnatural.com Made with real fruit and only natural ingredients. If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.

15 OLIVES 15olives.com 14060 N Florida Ave, Tampa Award-winning 100% domestic extravirgin olive oil and balsamic vinegars.

SLIDER GUYS FOOD TRUCK facebook.com/sliderguysfoodtruck Award-winning vegetarian, chicken and beef sliders with house-made toppings.

SOFTEE THE KING softeeking.com Our ice cream truck brings delicious softserve ice cream, slushies and popsicles.

SWEET ISLAND SNOW facebook.com/sweetislandsnow Fluffy shave ice stuffed with ice cream.

SWEET LIFE CUPCAKES facebook.com/sweetlifecupcakesfl Local home-based bakery in St. Pete.

TASTY DOGZ facebook.com/vegantastydogz Traditional and vegan gourmet hot dogs, cheesesteaks, lemonade and snacks.

THE BEST THAI FOOD find them on Facebook Authentic gourmet cuisine including Pad Thai, Saute’ Thai Chicken and more.

JAY’S SPICE PALETTE jaysspicepalette.com Expanding the spice profile of the average consumer.

JUST CAUSE CHOCOLATES facebook.com/justcausechocolates Decadent dark-chocolate cups.

CJ’S GOURMET MYSTIC MUSTARD cjsgourmetmustard.com Locally produced gourmet-flavored mustards with all natural ingredients.

MUSICALITEA mymusicalitea.com Premium loose herbal teas and accessories.

DIP’N GOOD DIPS Gourmet sweet and savory dips for all occasions.

EMBREW TEA embrew.com Naturally sweetened premium tea bags.

Perfectly balanced cup of tea every time.

EMMY & J GOURMET emmyandjgourmet.com Kentucky bourbon roasted nuts and handmade gourmet dip mixes.

FLORIDA PURE SEA SALT floridapureseasalt.com We make the finest-tasting gourmet sea salts.

PSALMS’ GOURMET BRITTLE psalmsbrittle.com Craft peanut, pecan, and mixed nut brittle.

SMOKIN’ MANGO smokinmango.com Uniquely crafted mango habanero hot sauce.

STANFORD’S JERKY stanfordsjerky.com Four flavors of beef jerky and two flavors of bacon jerky. No nitrates or MSG. THE HONEY COUPLE thehoneycouple.com Family-run business offering raw natural Florida honey and beekeeping services.

FOR PEDRO’S SAKE forpedrossake.com Locally made candied jalapenos and chipotle sauces.

THE LICORICE GUY licoriceguy.com Old-fashioned licorice in traditional and fun flavors.

THE SUNKISSED FOOD TRUCK sunkissedfoodtruck.com Everything is made fresh and ready to take on the go at your convenience.

INTENSITY ACADEMY SAUCES intensityacademy.com Gourmet award-winning sauces, spices and dips. Saucy gifts and baskets.

URBAN FARM

THE TEA JUG facebook.com/theteajug Sweet teas, flavored teas, lemonades and herbal teas, both sweet and unsweet.

IPOP GOURMET POPCORN ipopgourmetpopcorn.com 100+ flavors including classic caramel, maple bacon and loaded baked potato.

THE DONUT MAN facebook.com/thedonutmanllc World-famous Lil Orbitz donuts, funnel cakes, ribbon fries and more.

BRICK STREET FARMS brickstreetfarms.com 2233 Third Ave S, St. Pete Shopapalooza Community Sponsor!

Farmers market and hydroponic, indoor city farm grows greens and herbs year-round.

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This year’s Shopapalooza Festival is the biggest one ever, and possibly the biggest Shop Small holiday festival in the entire country! ’Palooza features more than 300 local makers and small businesses, so you’ll always find tons of locally handcrafted gifts! Shown here, a sign by Made in St. Pete from Shopapalooza 2019! MOORMAN PHOTOGRAPHICS 20

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ARTS + CRAFTS 2GAL-ERY Greeting cards and kitchen microwave cozies, potato sacks and pot holders.

3 GEN PEN COMPANY 3genpens.com Unique artisan writing instruments, pens and accessories.

A GLASS ACT BY SUZY facebook.com/glasssuzy Hand-painted wine glasses and handcrafted team jewelry.

AFTERBURNT shopafterburnt.com Handcrafted locally and customizable on the spot: holiday gifts, home decor, more.

Shopapalooza Info Booth

ALMARIA DESIGNS facebook.com/almariadesigns Family business featuring sewn home items.

After ’Palooza, keep supporting local, in person at your favorite indie restaurants, shops and service providers. And online on buylocaltampabay.com.

LocalShops1 (LocalShops1.com) runs the marketplace, but payments go directly to the local makers and small businesses. We don’t charge listing fees, and we don’t take any cuts. We connect community-minded shoppers with local makers and small businesses online and in person!

AMELIA’S WREATHS OF JOY ameliaswreathsofjoy.etsy.com Custom wreaths, door hangers and decor for all seasons and themes.

ASIAN HOME GIFTS asianhomeproduct.com Original and print Sumi-e paintings, yoga mats, tote bags, towels, pillows and more.

AWKWARD REDHEAD instagram.com/awkwardreadheads Awkward Redhead is an artist collective of fun art by fun people.

Look for festival organizers LocalShops1 in the airstream with the flying mermaid! Thanks to our friends at Wine on Wheels for letting us borrow it!

CANTERBURY CREATIONS craftvillage.com Camping and welcome signs.

CRAFTSEALADY CROCHET & SOAPS localshops1.com/ craftsealady-crochet-soaps Handmade wearable crochet and themed soaps.

FLORIDA OUTDOOR MAT CO. flmatsco Colorful, handwoven mats made from nautical rope. The mats last 10-20 years.

FNP ACCESSORIES bigskinny.net Handmade, breathable seagrass hats; and the world’s thinnest wallets.

BANANACANDY etsy.com/bananacandydesigns Colorful, fun handbags handmade by native Floridian Mandy Candy.

DESIGNS BY MONI designsbymoni.com 2724 Sixth Ave S, St. Pete Watercolor illustrations with loving and timeless characters and positive stories.

FOREST FAE ODDITIES etsy.com/forestfaeoddities Paintings and ceramic art that feed into your whimsy.

BEAARTIDESIGN etsy.com/beaartidesign Merino and eco-printed silk scarves, seashell jewelry and frame art.

FIN PIN SHOP finpinshop.com Advocating for marine life through oceaninspired products, designed with love in FL.

FOX & CROW PAPER CO. foxandcrowart.com Art that brings joy! Greeting cards, art and gifts that will bring a smile to your face.

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ARTS + CRAFTS continued GO TEAM GO AND MORE Sports ornaments and other team items, snowmen, Santas and Country Bear decor.

HANDMADE BY ME Paracord cup/cupholder sets, keychains, cup cradles, bracelets.

HOOLA MONSTERS hoolamonsters.com goodvibedesigns.com Handmade hoops, Hoola-Fit classes and handcrafted boho jewelry for the free spirit.

ID IMAGE AND DESIGN joanneosbornart.com Original art printed on household goods, baby clothes, pajamas and totes.

IN THE SAND GOLF inthesandgolf.com 1628 Dale Mabry Hwy, Suite 105, Lutz Personalized golf gifts made from aerial photos of sand traps.

JACARANDA HILL instagram.com/jacaranda_hill Handcrafted African arts and crafts made with love.

JENECA’S FANTASEA jenecasfantasea.etsy.com 5663 Park Blvd, Pinellas Park Handmade mermaid crowns and mermaid accessories.

JIM SPINX CUSTOM PRODUCTS jimspinx.com Hilarious collection of retro-inspired humor.

JIMENEZ GLASS anitajimenez.com Unique, functional fused-glass artworks.

KAREN C PHOTOGRAPHER karencphotographer.com Original photography and hand-painted pieces.

MOOMO STUDIO moomostudio.com Fun and eclectic hand-printed home decor, accessories and art prints.

KELSEY BRAUER ART kelseybrauerart.com Ocean-inspired art and home decor.

MOON LIGHT STICKER CO moonlightstickerco.com Out-of-this-world stickers: Waterproof, durable vinyl, fade- and scratch-resistant.

KILN FIRED DIFFUSERS kilnfireddiffusers.com Functional pottery and clay essential oil diffusers.

KNOTTYART etsy.com/shop/ellyandash Fiber art works, some utilitarian and others decorative. Face coverings, aprons, more.

LADY GALAXY’S LIVE ART EXPERIENCE facebook.com/creatorofspace Whisking you away from Earth, creating fantasy landscapes right before your eyes.

LOVE ART ST. PETE etsy.com/shop/loveartstpetestore St. Pete artist specializes in acrylic, alcohol ink and resin art with a coastal tropical vibe.

MADE IN ST. PETE instagram.com/madeinst.peteflorida Jewelry and decor handmade in St. Pete.

NOOK & CRANNY DIY DECOR shopnookandcranny.com 10360 US Hwy 19 N, Pinellas Park DIY art studio that offers at-home craft kits and in-person workshops!

PIECES OF MELEE etsy.com/shop/piecesofmelee Tea infusers, tea strainers, fandom art and magnets.

POTDEGA potdega.com Shopapalooza Tree Sponsor!

Up-cycling basketballs into high-fashion home decor.

PRIMITIVE BY NATURE pbnimports.com Unusual Bali imports and glass bowls over driftwood.

MADMAK EXPRESSIONS facebook.com/madmakexpressions Handmade wooden signs and home decor, canvas art, and hand-sewn home decor.

RAISE YOUR SOULS VIBE instagram.com/raiseyoursoulsvibe 5663 Park Blvd., Suite 10, Pinellas Park Crystals and swag made with intention and love. Native American, Reiki 2, crystal healer.

MIGDALIA migdaliapace.com I illustrate and hand-screen print creepy cute dead mermaids and strong female art.

RED’S SHADOW etsy.com/shop/redsshadow Resin art, goddesses, beach souvenirs, keychains, charcuterie trays and more.

MIHALY CERAMICS mihalyceramics.com Our goal is to create handmade, functional and decorative pottery.

SALTWATER COWGIRL CREATIONS linktr.ee/saltwatercowgirl Handmade farmhouse and nautical inspired gifts, from tumblers to home decor.

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ARTS + CRAFTS continued SENTIMENTAL ART sentimentalartflorida.com Custom hand-drawn artwork of homes, people, pets, cars, boats and more.

SHAKEN STITCHES shakenstitches.com Sewn fabric totes, backpacks and home accessories.

SIMPLY CRAFTY simplycraftydiy.com Mobile DIY workshop specializing in wood sign paint parties.

SKETCH INK ARTS facebook.com/sketchinkarts Caricatures by Rick and Qianqian Barrett.

SPIDER’S WEB CROCHET instagram.com/spiderswebcrochet Handmade crocheted plush toys, trendy apparel, and custom orders.

ST PETE IS SUPER COOL stpeteissupercool.com Multimedia business connects consumers with local artists, businesses and events.

SUGAR CREAM CLAY sugarcreamclay.com Feel-good ceramics, made to sweeten up your home.

SURFIN STARFISH facebook.com/ Surfin-Starfish-103280421883894 Resin beach art for your home or office.

THE FEISTY MERMAID thefeistymermaid.com I am a mixed media artist specializing in nautical themes and recycling awareness.

THE HIVE ST PETE thehivestpete.com 559 49th St S, St Pete Pottery studio and sales, local art, garden shop and vintage.

THE MUDDY WALRUS POTTERY themuddywalruspottery.com 2215 Sixth Ave S, St. Pete The Muddy Walrus makes fun, functional pottery.

CBAR CONDITIONER cbarconditioner.com Customizable vegan conditioners for all hair types.

COLOR STREET CONSULTANT LISA TEMPLE colorstreet.com/lisatemple Revolutionary nail polish strips.

Fun, fast and easy.

TIMBER SHACK WOODWORKS facebook.com/timbershackwoodworks Wood-turned functional art and decor.

GULF COAST SOAPWORKS gulfcoastsoapworks.com Organic and natural soaps and body care products.

UNBOUNDED WORLD unboundedworld.com Supporting Indigenous cultures through art, science and sustainable commerce.

LITTLE LIBBY SOAP CO. littlelibbysoapco.com Handmade artisan soaps and bath products.

VINTAGE FOREVER Shop for unique holidays gifts and more.

AUTO SERVICES VISION AUTO GLASS OF FLORIDA Shopapalooza Silver Sponsor!

Automotive glass repair and replacement specialists. Free services to people with comprehensive or full-coverage insurance.

BEAUTY, SOAPS + SKINCARE

LMK NATURALS lmknaturals.com Handcrafted skincare with minimal ingredients, certified organic and fair-trade.

RODAN + FIELDS INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT CHERYL SHARP csharp1.myrandf.com No. 1 premium skincare brand in North America.

SWEET SOAP CONFECTIONS sweetsoapconfections.com Luxury soap, bath bombs and coconut wax candles.

BODY BUTTERS BY DESIGN bodybuttersbydesign.com Natural handcrafted skincare line including organic body butters, oils, bars and more.

THE LATHER LAB thelatherlab.com Soap in a confused, disorganized, contrary, beautiful state.

CANYON LODGE PRODUCTS canyonlodgeproducts.com Natural soy candles with hard-to-find scents. Inspired by the great outdoors.

THE HAIR FLIP thehairflip.com Luxury hair extensions and accessories including eyelashes and headbands.

Independent business is the fabric, man. —DJ Clark Kent 24 |

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BOOKS + MUSIC BOOK + BOTTLE bookandbottlestpete.com 17 Sixth St N, St. Pete A bookstore with wine, a wine bar with books, and coffee too!

LILLY THE LASH BOOKS lillythelash.com A children’s character-building book series.

REVOLUTION RECORDS facebook.com/ revolutionrecords3121 Vinyl records, CDs, vintage equipment, memories galore.

SWEET WATER EDUCATION EVENTS TRAINING sweetwatered.com Children’s nature books and other nature crafts.

THE BOOK RESCUERS facebook.com/thebookrescuers World’s largest popup bookstore, plus art and DVDs. $1 each. Nonprofit provides supplies to local teachers.

BANKING + FINANCIAL PILOT BANK pilotbank.com 2180 Fourth Street N, St. Pete Shopapalooza Christmas Village Sponsor!

Pilot Bank is in the business of community, providing retail and commercial services to individuals, businesses, and institutions in the Tampa Bay and Lakeland areas.

BUSINESS SERVICES FLORIDA FURNITURE RENTAL floridafurniturerental.com Exquisite design ideas for events, by the creators of Chillounge and Glow Table.

CANDLES

LABUDDE & SONS facebook.com/labuddereno Marketing/publishing catering to St. Petersburg’s local businesses.

PINELLAS COUNTY SBDC AND OFFICE OF SUPPLIER DIVERSITY pced.org 13805 58th Street N, Clearwater Shopapalooza Community Sponsor!

Consulting, workshops, financing options and connecting entrepreneurs to resources to promote economic sustainability.

SAIL MARKET STUDIO sailmktg.com 5325 Gulfport Blvd, Gulfport Shopapalooza Tree Sponsor!

Social media management, email marketing, public relations, SEO and more.

THE DEUCES LIVE deuceslive.org 833 22nd Street S, St. Pete Nonprofit 501c3 representing the historic 22nd St S corridor in St. Petersburg.

THE TREASURE ISLAND & MADEIRA BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE timbchamber.org 12601 Gulf Blvd, Treasure Island Voted Florida’s “best beach chamber,” TIMB represents the interests of local businesses.

WOVE PRINT woveprint.co 2036 Central Ave, Studio A, St. Pete Official Shopapalooza T-Shirts!

By focusing on our community, we can “thread the world” one shirt at a time.

CABANA RENTALS THE CABANA CLUB cabanaclubfl.com Luxury beach concierge offers beach umbrellas and cabana rentals.

FLORIDA CANDLE CO. floridacandleco.com Handcrafted soy candles, free of toxins, with sustainably sourced wooden wicks.

PINK ZEBRA, TAMMY MOTT pinkzebrahome.com/tammymott Pink Zebra is a fragrance and home decor company.

THE DUNEDIN CANDLE COMPANY facebook.com/dunedincandleco 1299 Bayshore Blvd, Dunedin Handcrafted soy candles.

CBD CBD AMERICAN SHAMAN advocatecbd.com 7208 Central Ave, St. Pete Full line of high-quality CBD and Delta 8 products.

HEAVEN’S ORGANICS heavensorganics.com Family-owned and operated THC-free CBD wellness products, most vegan and organic.

YOUR CBD STORE ST. PETE stpete.cbdrx4u.com 1219 Dr MLK Jr. Street N, St. Pete CBD for people and pets.

Woman-owned business.

CHILDREN ACTIVITIES

GREAT EXPLORATIONS CHILDREN’S MUSEUM greatex.org 1925 Fourth St N, St. Pete Shopapalooza Kids Zone Great Ex will be providing an interactive area with educational and fun activities, plus membership information and merchandise sales.

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CIGARS

HONEY BUNCH FACE PAINTING honeybunchfacepainting.com Fine artist turned face painter available for birthday parties, festivals and all events.

B&L FINE CIGARS bandlfinecigars.com Family-run mobile cigar company, proudly supporting Tampa’s finest craftsmen.

MAGICAL PARTIES BY GWEN magicalpartiesbygwen.com We bring magic to every party, event and community outing

SMOKEY’S LIFESTYLE CIGARS smokeyslifestylecigar.com Luxury, hand-rolled, high-quality cigars for the best experience at a great price.

TEDDY BEAR MOBILE PINELLAS teddybearmobile.com/pinellas Mobile teddy bear stuffing operation brings the fun to your kids’ events.

CLOTHING, SHOES + ACCESSORIES

CHILDREN CLOTHES, ACCESSORIES + GIFTS BABY BOUTIQUE localshops1.com/baby-boutique Everything for your baby’s nursery: handmade blankets, bibs, hats & more.

BANDZ bandzwear.co Headbands that stay so you can move.

BILLY’S ORIGINAL GRILL SCARF grillscarf.com The most versatile towel around, whether you’re grilling, tailgating or working out.

FINFISH finfish.co A socially and environmentally conscious apparel company.

HAPPIER PLACE happier.place Happier-making outdoor products and inspiration.

HAPPY FEET PLUS happyfeet.com 465 Clearwater Largo Road N, Largo Health and comfort footwear local chain of stores that specialize in quality brands IRISH ANN irishann.com 6373 Suncoast Parkway, Homosassa Fine-quality handmade coats, sweaters, shawls and caps from Ireland and Europe.

JEFFERSON’S PAWTIQUE facebook.com/jeffersonspawtique We sell gifts and apparel for dog lovers. Woof, woof!

DAISY KAYSIE BOUTIQUE facebook.com/daisykaysieboutique Hair accessories for babies to ladies. Bows of all sizes, book accessories and more.

CALI-GIRL CLOTHING cali-girlclothing.com 14369 N Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa Dresses, sweaters, tees, hats, shawls and more.

MAMMA BEARS STUDIO themammabears.com Eco-friendly and sustainable-minded boutique store for mamma bears and cubs.

COVERED BY T coveredbyt.com Handmade crochet apparel, home decor, accessories & resin crafts. Tampa-based.

SIMPLY CREATIONS CO etsy.com/shop/simplycreationssco The original confetti hair clips.

DARK CYCLE CLOTHING darkcycleclothing.com Animals on bikes on shirts.

SUNSHINE CITY COLORS sunshinecitycolors.com Sharing sunshine and color through personalizable crayons.

DEZKACIO dezkacio.com I construct clothing by hand, out of 100% recycled materials.

LULAROE INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT CHRISTA COSTELLO shop.lularoebless.com/christacostello Comfortable and fashionable clothing line, for all body shapes. Sizes XXS-3XL.

THE PLAYTIME PLANNER theplaytimeplanner.com Activity kits for children, including sensory kits and handcrafted play-dough.

ELENISTA Elenista.com Trendy and affordable clothing for the modern gal.

MAC HERMANAS instagram.com/mac_hermanas Unique handmade clothing.

LIVE LOVE ST PETE livelovestpete.org Non-profit organization that sells T-shirts to benefit local schools.

LOVE ST PETE lovestpete.com Love St. Pete with a branded T-shirt, hat and more!

Eat at a local restaurant tonight. — Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef 26 |

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CLOTHING, SHOES + ACCESSORIES continued MERMADE FLORIDA mermadeflorida.com Hand-drawn mermaid and mermen apparel with original designs.

ORANGE GROVE VINTAGE orangegrovevintage.etsy.com Stylish vintage clothing and accessories from the 1960s-90s.

PAMI DESIGNS pamidesigns.com We design the Pamo Pocket neoprene cell phone purses.

PHAT TIE DYE facebook.com/phattiedye Hoodies, T-shirts, tanks, bucket hats and other apparel, tie-dyed, of course.

PIECES OF A DREAM Instagram.com/piecesofadreamgifts 2430 Central Ave, St. Pete Fun and stylish clothing, jewelry and gifts.

SHAPESHIFTER FISH AND FRIENDS ssfishandfriends.com Sun protective wear featuring Tampa Bay marine life, in sizes 2T-2X. SPENNY LANE spennylane.com 2201 First Ave S, St. Pete Reworked secondhand designs — rocker hippie-chic style.

SPOILED ROTTEN BOUTIQUE spoiled-rotten-boutique.com Unique clothing. Edgy and trendy styles at excellent prices.

THERE GOES LO theregoeslo.com Travel boutique with bohemian vibes.

Repurposed vintage denim, luxury jewelry.

TIYS CLOTHING shoptiys.com Island-inspired brand loved for their simple graphics on trendy and luxurious fabric.

TOTALLY WATERPROOF CONTAINERS totallywaterproofcontainers.com Waterproof backpacks bags and gear, plus soft coolers.

TRUNKERS trunkers.com We offer swim trunks and backpack beach towels by Trunkers, a Florida-based brand.

VIVIAN K BOUTIQUE viviankboutique.com Women’s apparel and accessories, gifts and designer pet toys.

BRIDES N BLOOMS DESIGNS bridesnblooms.com Fresh flowers reimagined into dried designs.

THE ROAMING PETAL theroamingpetal.com Flower design workshops brought to you, in person or virtually.

GAMES BEARDY PRODUCTIONS alanjacobson.photography Photographer and creator of Project: First Dates, a dating card game.

STEAMTHEMIND steamthemind.com The 3D wood puzzles are mechanical, so you build them, and then play with them.

COMMUNICATION + TV SPECTRUM spectrum.com Shopapalooza Gold Sponsor!

America’s fastest-growing TV, Internet and voice provider for residential and business customers.

HEALTH + WELLNESS AWAKENING INTO WELLNESS awakeningintowellness.org 2126 First Ave S, St. Pete Holistic studio offers crystal/sound/energy healing and a salt suite/halotherapy.

FAIR TRADE ELEPHANT ISLAND IMPORTS elephantislandimports.com 13067 Park Blvd, Seminole Fair trade and responsibly sourced apparel and accessories.

LATIN AMERICAN BOUTIQUE latinamericanboutique.com Fair trade hippie clothing and accessories.

MACO MADE IN COLOMBIA macomadeincolombia.com Sustainable fashion and home decor handmade in Colombia.

FLOWERS

CARIBBEAN ESCAPE MASSAGE facebook.com/caribbeanemassage20 We bring the massages to you, to the comfort of your home.

FARKAS CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC farkasclinic.com 3200 Fourth Street N, St. Pete Shopapalooza Community Sponsor!

Serving locals for over 43 years. Stop by our booth for a free spinal screening.

Think globally, act locally!

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HEALTH + WELLNESS continued FLORIDA’S NATURAL FARMACY floridasnaturalfarmacy.com 2370 Dr. MLK Jr St N, St. Pete Bringing Western medicine approach to natural alternatives.

NEXUS CHIROPRACTIC nexuschirofl.com 3348 Tyrone Blvd N, St. Pete Holistic chiropractic care incorporating movement and whole food nutrition.

ROOTS & RITUAL rootsandritual.com Bringing balance to your hectic life through daily self-care rituals and ancient remedies.

THEBUTTABAR thebuttabar.com Aromatherapy handcrafted diffuser bracelets, essential oils diffusers.

THE LOVERS CONJURE theloversconjure.com Shopapalooza Community Sponsor!

“Practical magick” for the modern world.

Tarot readings and handmade conjure oils, soaps, candles and cleansing products.

THE NATURAL ATHLETE naturalathlete.net Natural healthcare solutions for empowered living.

TRADITIONS SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES traditionsherbschool.com 2520 Central Ave, St. Pete Clinical programs in herbalism, apothecary, crystals and plants.

VEIN INSTITUTE OF PINELLAS veinsvip.com 5500 Dr MLK Jr. Street N, St. Pete We treat leg vein issues: tired achy legs, cramping, veins that show. Free screening.

HOME MERCH + DECOR 2CANHANG Custom-made deco mesh wreaths made for every season and occasion.

BEAR CREEK CUSTOM TIMBER bearcreekcustomtimber.com Furniture and other one-of-a-kind items made from local fallen and cut trees.

BERRYS VINTAGE BOUTIQUE berrysvintageboutique.com Specializing in beautifully hand-crafted home decor in all sizes.

BEST BAMBOO BEDDING bestbamboobedding.com Cooling and soft bamboo sheets and pillows, from $50-$200.

BLUE COTTAGE bluecottage.net 2435 Central Ave, St. Pete Home decor store with more.

Tasteable treats along with table-top items.

BUSY BEAVER’S WOODWORKS Handcrafted bowls, lamps and decorative boxes to bring natural style into your home.

COSTA BOHEMIA Coastal bohemian decor, clothing and Christmas decor.

CSHELLS BEACH ART cshellsbeachart.com Handmade, beach-inspired art made with shells collected in Florida.

EUROLAZ nessentials.com Best selections of all-natural brooms and brushes from Germany.

FOREVER STICKY Shopapalooza Silver Sponsor! foreversticky.com For all your messes, just roll and go.

The greener cleaning system is guaranteed for life, with no need for refils. Picks up hair/fur, dirt, dust, sand, lint and more.

GOPALI IMPORTS gopaliimports.com 645 Central Ave, St. Pete Hand-crafted, eco-friendly singing bowls, yoga clothes + jewelry from Nepal and Tibet.

LUNA MOORE Unique, handcrafted pieces for the home.

MAKARIOS BY TRACY etsy.com/shop/makariosbytracy Offering tiered tray decor, pillows, candles and holiday ornaments.

MANDALINA mandalina.ecwid.com Give the gift of soft and cozy to those you love, and those you love to cuddle with.

SALTY AIR DESIGNS facebook.com/saltyairdesignsbyrachel Handcrafted creations inspired from the love of ocean waves crashing on the shore.

DAZZILINSEACOWS facebook.com/dazzlinseacows Handmade plaster sealife, clocks, plaques, reusable and foldable straws, and more.

SANS MARKET sansmarket.co 1037 Central Ave, St. Pete A zero waste store SANS plastic, packaging and toxins.

DEVERS DESIGNS facebook.com/tammy deverdesigns Beautiful resin art in all sizes, with coastal, beachy beauty.

SCENTSY, ABBY WILLIS abbyleesimplyme.com Air purifiers, diffusers, oils, wax melts, wickless warmers, cleaning products.

In a world where you can shop anywhere, shop local. —Robyn Liechti, author 28 |

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HOME + MERCH continued SUNNY SOUTH LOVE instagram.com/sunnysouthlove Gifts for all occasions.

Florida and seasonal items.

THE WHITE GREEN CLOTH thewhitegreencloth.com Chemical-free, eco-friendly cloth cleans and polishes all surfaces with just water.

TREEHOUSE GALLERY treehousegallery.com 2835 22nd Ave N, St. Pete Shopapalooza Silver Sponsor!

Shop 20,000 square feet of Tampa Bay’s most unique collection of furnishings, accessories and statement pieces from around the world.

ZAZOO’D zazood.com 531 Central Ave, St. Pete Inspiring seaside memories with vintage and new furnishings, gifts and home decor.

HOME SERVICES ALL AMERICAN GUTTER PROTECTION allamericangutterprotection.com Shopapalooza Silver Sponsor!

The best people plus the best products equal the best gutters for your home.

AND SERVICES AC, SOLAR, PLUMBING andservices.com Shopapalooza Silver Sponsor!

Serving Florida for over 10 years.

AC repair, maintenance and installation; plumbing; solar; and backup generators.

HAGE FENCE REPAIR OF TB hagefencerepair.com 6610 14th St N, St. Pete Shopapalooza Silver Sponsor!

Full-service fence contractor.

We specialize in vinyl, wood, chainlink and aluminum fences.

INSURANCE SERVICES GET COVERED USA getcoveredusa.org 6219 66th St N, Pinellas Park Shopapalooza Tree Sponsor!

Protecting people and businesses against life’s inevitable bumps since 2008.

JEWELRY

CHRISTINE’S CREATIONS facebook.com/ChristinesCreations-512002315829622 Hundreds of beaded/charm earrings, bracelets and pendant sea glass necklaces.

CRAFTING PLANET etsy.com/shop/craftingplanet Beautiful and unique handcrafted accessories and gifts. Great for stocking stuffers.

ABC DEPOT yrialatil.com Jewelry designed and handmade

by Yria Latil.

ANATOLIAN JEWELRY localshops1.com/anatolian-jewelry Mixture of different beading techniques.

Featuring gemstones and pearls.

ARTWARE artware-design.myshopify.com Eclectic hand-crafted jewelry.

GATHERINGS BY ANGEL facebook.com/gatheringsbyangel Handcrafted unique gemstone and pearl jewelry.

GINNY’S UNIQUE & ORIGINAL DESIGNS Handmade jewelry using semi-precious stones, Swarovski crystals & vintage beads.

KC 39 JEWELRY kc39jewelry.com One-of-a-kind handmade sterling silver jewelry.

BADASS BAUBLES AND THINGS etsy.com/shop/badassbaubles Sassy and empowering jewelry and accessory line.

KG JEWELRY instagram.com/kgjewelrysrq Handmade, simple, dainty, hypoallergenic necklaces made with 100% silk cords.

BEACHBU beachbu.com Handcrafted, hypoallergenic jewelry for women and men.

BERYL ODUOR DESIGNS beryloduor.com Handcrafted gemstone items and items made from stainless steel and shells.

C2BIJOUX facebook.com/c2bijoux French-inspired, unique and affordable pieces not sold elsewhere in the U.S. CARRIE FREITAG CREATIONS carriefreitag.square.site Hand-beaded, one-of-a-kind jewelry.

CELESTIAL CLASP celestialclasp.com Makers of fine custom jewelry featuring our patented Cinch Clasp adapter.

KUKUI MACA instagram.com/kukuimaca We promote a comfortable and freespirited bohemian style with our products.

LOVED TO PIECES JEWELRY facebook.com/lovedtopiecesjewelry1 Handmade jewelry from vintage silverware.

LUNARLOVE DESIGN CO lunarlovedesignco.com Plant-inspired jewelry and gifts: Botanical earrings, car hangers, macramé and more.

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MEDIA COMPANIES

MEGAN POWELL JEWELRY etsy.com/shop/meganpowelljewelry Handmade sterling silver jewelry with various gemstones.

CREATIVE LOAFING cltampa.com Shopapalooza Media Sponsor!

Tampa Bay’s free alt weekly for local news, food and drink, music, events, and more.

NEW IMAGE Jewelry for men and women, with prices to please. Sterling silver and genuine stones.

ORIGAMI OWL, JULIE DEREMER origamiowl.com Personalized lockets with charms you pick out, plus earrings and wraps.

PEARLSTONE JEWELRY pearlstone-jewelry.com Unique jewelry you’ll love. Looking forward to seeing you — Lorraine & Rebecca PHOENIXFIRE DESIGNS phoenixfiredesigns.com Handcrafted, designer wire wrap and gemstone jewelry.

MOR TAMPA BAY mor-tv.com Shopapalooza Media Sponsor!

Watch your favorite shows: Digital 32.1 • Spectrum 12 • Frontier 512 • DirecTV 32 UNATION unation.com Shopapalooza Tree Sponsor!

Find fun stuff to do + sell tickets to events.

NONPROFIT 501C3 ORGANIZATIONS

POP TWILIGHT poptwilight.com Kitschy jewelry and accessories.

FLORIDA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION shenyun.com/fl Hosting Shen Yun at Mahaffey 2022.

Experience China before Communism.

REJULED rejuled.com Handmade jewelry made with recycled materials and gemstones.

FLORIDA SKUNK RESCUE floridaskunkrescue.com We rescue, foster and rehome pet skunks.

ROCKSHOP FINE GEMS & JEWELRY rockshopjewelry.com 529 Central Ave, St. Pete Exotic gemstone boutique specializes in diamonds, gemstones and custom design.

KIWANIS CLUB OF GULFPORT facebook.com/gulfportkiwanis Shopapalooza Gift-Wrapping Station!

Proceeds benefit the Kiwanis Gulfport chapter. Kiwanis Club is dedicated to improving the world one community at a time.

STONED AND STERLING stonedandsterling.com Artisanal handcut, handmade sterling and semi-precious stone statement jewelry.

TINA’S VINTAJ & MORE Handcrafted and repurposed pieces in vintage, steampunk and fantasy designs.

LIMBO CHIHUAHUAS — CHIHUAHUA RESCUE limbochihuahuas.org Non-profit, foster-based dog rescue accepts all dogs under 20 lbs.

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SEA TURTLE TRACKERS seaturtletrackers.org We help sea turtles and the local environment.

SKYWAY DACHSHUND RESCUE skywaydachshundrescue.org We are an all-volunteer, foster-based Dachshund rescue.

SOAR-SUNCOAST ORGANIZED ANIMAL RELIEF flsoar.org A lifeline for all rescue animals and rescue organizations.

WORDIER THAN THOU wordierthanthou.com A fun literary arts group that connects Florida book lovers.

PET TREATS, TOYS + SERVICES FOUR SPOILED DOGS etsy.com/shop/fourspoileddogs Beautifully handcrafted collars, leashes and accessories for your spoiled dog.

KIT KATS CATNIP facebook.com/kitkatscatnipmats Catnip-filled play mats for cats.

MAGNI’S MUNCHIES AND MORE magnismunchies.com Unique boutique for pets and their people.

PUPPY NUMS puppynums.com All-natural, homemade dog and cat treats and handmade pet fashions and supplies.

RESCUE ME PET BAKERY facebook.com/rescuemebakerypetbakery Locally sourced natural homemade dog treats, catnip mats, CBD oils and more.

PET TREATS, TOYS + SERVICES continued REVIVEK9 DOG TRAINING facebook.com/revivek9stpete Dog training for both owner and canine.

Bring new life to your whole relationship.

RHYLEY & ROVER PET BOUTIQUE rhyleyandrover.com Bandanas and bow ties for cats and dogs, matching scrunchies for their humans.

PHOTO + VIDEO SERVICES GOLIVE TAMPA BAY golivetampabay.com Creative agency provides video, branding, 3D modeling, photography and design.

OH 4 SUCC’S SAKE localshops1.com/oh-4-succ’s-sake Succulent arrangements for all occasions.

PLANTE LA VIE NURSERY plantelavienursery.com Part walk-in plant shop and mobile greenhouse, Flora is a retro plant-loving camper.

THE TAMPANIAN VINTAGE JUNGLE instagram.com/ thetampanianvintagejungle Retro camper boutique featuring plants and antiques.

REAL ESTATE SERVICES ERIN AARON, REALTOR, EXP REALTY facebook.com/erinaaronrealtor 6680 Gulf Blvd, St. Pete Beach Shopapalooza Tree Sponsor!

A St. Petersburg native, Erin Aaron serves buyers, sellers, and investors.

PLANTS + YARD DECOR

FOREVER FLORIDA REAL ESTATE foreverfloridarealestate.com 505 Pasadena Ave S, St. Pete Full-service, boutique real estate brokerage serving our community and beyond.

JOURNEYMARKERS journeymarkers.com We mark your life’s journey with our mile markers.

MIRROR MIRROR ON THE BALL mirror-mirror-on-the-ball108183.square.site/s/shop Sparkly fun disco ball planters liven up any room.

COMEDIANS UNCORKED comediansuncorked.com Pat Largo (Shopapalooza’s favorite emcee) creates comedy events throughout the Tampa Bay area. “Laugh. You deserve it!”

FIRST NIGHT ST. PETERSBURG firstnightstpete.com Florida’s largest family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration: arts, music and dance.

MOORMAN PHOTOGRAPHICS moormanphoto.com 4075 16th St N, St. Petersburg Shopapalooza Photo Sponsor!

Award-winning photography studio serving the Tampa Bay area since 1995.

ANNIE’S PLANT PALLETTE facebook.com/anniespraguejohnson Specializing in mini-succulents and exotic tropical plants.

ALLIGATOR & WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER kissagator.com 12973 Village Blvd, Madeira Beach Visit 200+ rescues, including alligators, lizards, pigs, snakes, turtles, fish and more.

NEXTHOME SOUTH POINTE nexthomesouthpointe.com 4880 37th St S, St. Pete Shopapalooza Gold Sponsor!

Whether you’re a first-time buyer or an experienced investor, we’ll help you find or sell the right home at the best price.

THINGS TO DO 360 ME RENTALS 360merentals.com Our photo booth is the perfect addition to weddings, parties and corporate events.

GROVER’S AXE groversaxe.com The mobile axe-throwing trailer features laser-projected targets including zombies.

PEDALPUB ST. PETE pedalpubstpete.com/ 1975 Third Ave S, St. Pete A party bus you pedal! Great for birthdays, bachelorette parties, friends on the town.

SCOOT SCOOT RENTALS scootscootrentals.com Rent a scooter, e-bike, slingshot, or golf cart. Experience St. Pete like never before.

YOUR FRIEND WITH A BOAT facebook.com/yourfriendwithaboat Boat rentals for every occasion and budget.

SHOP LOCAL 24/7!!

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“It’s made my home life better. I’ve actually been able to start to look for a hobby again.”

RESTAURANTS

RECIPES

DINING GUIDES

Chop to it

Seminole Heights restaurant finding success with four-day work week.

By McKenna Schueler

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estaurants in Tampa Bay continue to face what some call a labor shortage, or what others describe as workers refusing to return to work for inadequate pay, unsafe working conditions, paltry benefits, and abuse on the job. Some restaurants, desperate for staff, are turning to robots to fill the gaps. That is, laborers who won’t call in sick, demand fair pay, or try to organize their workplace. Other eateries are reducing operational hours, with restaurant workers now quitting the industry in droves.

Here in Tampa, Asian fusion restaurant Chop Chop Shop is joining a growing number of businesses now offering a four-day, 40-hour work week for its full-time kitchen staff, inspired in part by the owners’ own knowledge of what it’s like to work behind the counter.

“Restaurant staffs work in harsh conditions, long hours, and under intense pressure,” co-owner Steve Sera, who works both up front and in the kitchen, wrote in a news release. “We need time to fully rest, recuperate, and tend to our personal lives while doing the work we love, just as anyone should.”

At Chop Chop Shop—located at 4603 N Florida Ave. at the old Nico’s Nicko’s Fine Foods diner—a four-day work week is one of several benefits Steve says he and his wife, Olivia, the other co-owner of the Seminole Heights restaurant, are now offering their kitchen staff to both retain and attract new talent.

For about three months, the restaurant’s eight kitchen staff have been coming in four days a week, in alternating teams of two, Sera told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, with three consecutive days off. Workers still reach a full 40-hour week minimum, Sera confirmed, working two double-shift days—equivalent to 12-and-a-half hours, each—in addition to one 9-hour day, and one 8-and-a-half hour day, with breaks.

In the beginning, it took some time for himself and his staff to adjust, but Sera said it’s working out well. “It’s harder to find people to work in the restaurant industry,” he admitted. But the four-day work week, he said, “makes the industry more attractive to people either coming in or people that have been in it for years.”

And he’s not wrong, John Patterson, one of the restaurant’s new prep cooks told CL. Working four days a week, instead of five or six, was “one of the biggest selling things” for Patterson, a 12-year veteran of the industry who left his old job at another local restaurant in September for his current position at Chop Chop Shop.

“The four-day work week was the change that I needed in my life,” John told CL. “The reduction in responsibility, I needed that

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employees—with the exception of managers— not furloughed last year, as the restaurant shifted to takeout only.

Patterson, and the others who were left, helped cook meals for the furloughed workers.

Three times a week, the restaurant offered carry-out for their furloughed workers. “It was crazy,” he said.

Now, Patterson works just a few miles from his home, in Sulphur Springs—a 10-minute drive, tops. And with competitive pay, at $19.50 per hour, Patterson has welcomed the change.

“It’s made my home life better. I’ve actually been able to start to look for a hobby again,” he said.

The reduced stress, however, is what’s been the biggest game-changer.

Full-time kitchen staff at Chop Chop Shop earn a base pay that ranges from $15-$20-plus

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FAT CHANCE: It’s tough to attract and keep workers without offering competitive pay and schedules. change in my life. Being able to spend more time with my fiance, I needed that change in my life, too.”

Before, Patterson had been working six days a week at Cooper’s Hawk, an upscale restaurant located near Raymond James Stadium. After working there eight years, Patterson said he’d been one of just two hourly

an hour, in addition to their share of tips. Like some other Tampa Bay eateries, the Asian fusion restaurant raised base salaries for their workers over the last year in order to remain competitive and retain their workforce.

Hardly new A push for a four-day work week across various

industries found fertile ground during COVID19—bolstered in part by the success in Japan, New Zealand, Iceland, as well as at companies like Buffer here in the U.S. Buffer, the U.S. company, reported sustained productivity in most areas and reduced stress.

In Iceland, large-scale trials conducted between 2015-2019 showed improved well-being, better work-life balance, and sustained or increased productivity in the workplace. In some work environments—like those in the Iceland trials—a four-day work week means less hours—perhaps 30-35 hours instead of 40 (like the American labor movement first pushed for back in the 1930s).

At Chop Chop Shop, Sera’s kitchen staff are still getting all 40 hours in, and then some. But they have that extra day to reset, which Sera says can make all the difference in the world, at least in his own experience. “Not to sound too corny, but it’s life-changing,” he said.

Keeping restaurants staffed Nationally, restaurant workers are seeing bigger paydays and other incentives to remain on staff.

For the first time, restaurant and supermarket workers were earning an average $15 per hour this summer, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Many of us have seen and heard the phrase “labor shortage” to describe what’s forcing bosses to pay their employees something closer to a livable wage. But others, like former U.S. labor secretary Robert Reich, say it’s really an issue of workers’ labor being undervalued.

“In reality, there’s a living wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage,” Reich wrote in an op-ed for Common Dreams last month. “American workers are demanding an end to all these shortages. Or they won’t return to work.”

Here in Florida, workers know this struggle intimately. In an effort to address the so-called “labor shortage” earlier this year, Florida became one of 26 states that rushed to end emergency federal unemployment benefits of $300 ahead of the federal deadline.

Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis hedged their bets that this cutoff would be an effective measure to boost job growth. It wasn’t. Florida has restored about 80% of the 1.3 million jobs the state lost since March of last year, but unemployment still hovers above pre-pandemic levels. While Florida’s minimum continued on page 62

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TOUGH TRANSITION: Chop Chop Shop co-owner Steve Sera said he’s currently working upwards of 80 hours filling in, as he’s hiring and training new kitchen staff. continued from page 61 wage recently saw its biggest boost in over a decade, this still falls far below what it takes to pay for things like housing, childcare, and a stable, diverse food supply.

John Patterson, the cook at Chop Chop Shop, told CL he doesn’t blame workers in his industry who’ve decided to call it quits.

Prior to his 12 years as a cook, he worked a number of jobs: as a mechanic, in retail, plumbing, and sales. But the pay, he said, wasn’t great. Plus, he genuinely likes cooking.

He knows several cooks in the local hospitality industry who are looking for other forms of employment. They’re “just tired of the hassle,” he said. “The lack of recognition, feeling like you’re always working in the background with none of the glory.”

Three months into their four-day schedule, the restaurant has seen an estimated 30% increase in overall revenue. Sera attributes this in part to the fact that they’ve opened their doors two extra days—from serving five days a week, to all seven days a week (dinner-only on Mondays and Tuesdays, then lunch and dinner all other days).

This change occurred shortly after the implementation of the four-day work week. Opening the restaurant those two days was necessary, said Sera, to ensure his cooks could still get their hours in. The transition hasn’t been entirely smooth. Sera said he’s currently working upwards of 80 hours filling in, as he’s hiring and training new kitchen staff.

At the same time, workers are getting more tips with the new business hours, which has helped boost morale. Because Chop Chop Shop does a tip pool, this increases what both the front of house and kitchen staff are taking home at the end of the day.

At this time, Steve said the four-day work week only applies to the restaurant’s kitchen staff—not the front of house workers. Eventually, however, getting everyone on that fourday work schedule is the goal.

For now, Steve said he’s constantly evaluating the effects of this change, as well as what they can do next to increase the flexibility of the schedule and make sure the schedule is sustainable for workers, particularly on days they’re pulling doubles.

John Patterson, however, isn’t complaining.

“It [the four-day work week] can give everyone a better quality of life,” said John. “You work hard [in the kitchen]...Your body hurts. You need time to recuperate and a four-day work week is just that.”

LOCAL NEWS

It’s more than just getting a day off When Chop Chop Shop began its four-day work week this summer, they doubled their kitchen staff from four to eight. They have two workers up front, and recently acquired self-serve kiosks to assist with customer flow.

They try to keep things lean, Sera told CL. Full-time staff at the restaurant get paid holidays, a tip share, and unchanging schedules. This is untraditional in the restaurant industry, but for Sera, it’s crucial for how he runs business.

“You can’t really plan your life” that way, he says. You might have two days off in a row, or one day off, and then be expected to go into work the next day. Sera confirmed that health benefits are not currently offered for staff, although this has recently popped into their conversations.

“You need time to recuperate and a four-day work week is just that.”

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We are an eclectic bar and restaurant with a nostalgic feel, located in west Tampa. Stepping through our doors, you’ll experience the significance of an era that transformed the role of women in society and the workplace.

Enjoy a scratch-made meal prepared with the freshest ingredients along with your favorite brew or one of our handcrafted cocktails. Here at Riveters we strive to empower everyone from staff to patrons and aim to provide an experience like no other.

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Air Raid Lemonade | $7.95 Taking frozen drinks back to the 1940’s. Rosie’s specialty blend of vodka, liqueurs, and citrus juice.

A perfect refresher for viewing the airshow. Add a Twist and enhance your Flavor. Strawberry, Mango, Peach, Pomegranate or Blackberry Riveter New Fashioned | $12.95 Woodford Reserve Bourbon, Honey, Chocolate & Orange Bitters.

Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better | $8.95 Damrak Gin, Lemon, Sparkling Wine, Violette Liqueur Churchill’s Sidecar | $10.95 Cognac, Blackberry, Lemon, Rose Flower Liqueur Rosie’s Pink G&T | $8.95 Gin Lane Victorian Pink Gin, Rosemary, Tonic Water From Back in Thyme | $10.95 Jack Daniels Rye, Lemon, Apricot, Ginger Beer, Thyme

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Propaganda Poutine Fries | $12.65 Diced rib eye, Wisconsin white cheddar cheese curds, beer gravy, banana peppers, crispy bacon, house pickled red onions, seashore fries.

Hellcat Wings | $12.95 8 Beer brined, dry rubbed, and served with choice of two sauces: Blue Cheese, Ranch, Buffalo, Mango Habanero, or Memphis BBQ. Additional sauce for .50 cents.

Chili Cheese Fries | $7 Seashore fries, house chili, sour cream, shredded cheese, sliced jalapenos, house pickled red onions.

Buffalo Chicken Dip| $9.99 House made Buffalo chicken dip, Panko crust, Tortilla chips and topped with blue cheese crumbles.

FROM THE FIELD

HOUSEMADE DRESSINGS AVAILABLE: RANCH, SPICY RANCH, CREAMY BLUE CHEESE, BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE, 1000 ISLAND, HONEY MUSTARD. Burrata Salad | $11.95 Heirloom tomatoes, mixed greens, burrata cheese, roasted Almonds, balsamic reduction, and extravirgin olive oil drizzle.

Caesar Salad | Small $4.95 | Large $9.95 Romaine heart, croutons and Caesar dressing.

Add Bacon for $1

A Shot of Penicillin | $9.95 Monkey Shoulder Whiskey, Lemon, Ginger Cucumbersome Mule | $10.95 Cucumber mint vodka, lime juice, ginger beer, cucumber bitters Citrus Got Real | $9.95 Lemon vodka, ginger liquor, sour mix.

Whole Latte Love | $10.95 Stoli Vanilla vodka, Khalua, espresso & a splash of Irish cream.

Scrimp n Grits | $12.50 Southern Style Blackened Shrimp, Cajun gravy, with red bell pepper, bacon and scallions, Cheesy Grits.

Giant Pretzel | $10.25 Traditional Bavarian style pretzel with house made beer cheese.

Munition Mussels | $11.95 Beer braised, finished in Vietnamese Lemon Curry sauce, grilled crostini.

Wildcat Shrimp | $12.50 Jumbo grilled shrimp, crusty french bread, Jamaican jerk lemon butter.

French Onion Bombers | $12.95 Prime Rib, Corned Beef, frenched onions, white cheddar tucked in fried wontons. Served with 1000 island.

Steak Salad | $18.95 8oz center-cut sirloin, Blue cheese crumbles, Avocado, Tomato, House Pickled onions with a balsamic glaze drizzle.

HOT DOGS

HANDHELDS

Rosie’s Dog | $9.99 Certified Wagyu All beef 1⁄4 hot dog Char-grilled, topped with beer cheese, sauerkraut, on a poppy seed bun.

The Kram It Prime Rib Sandwich | $14.50 Blackened Prime Rib, French Roll, Au Jus, Horsey Sauce.

Chili Cheese Dog | $9.99 Certified wagyu all beef hot dog, chili, shredded cheese, diced red onions, fresh sliced jalapenos, poppy seed bun.

The Reuben | $10.50 Beer braised corned beef, Bavarian-style kraut, 1000 Island, and Swiss on grilled rye bread.

SERVED WITH YOUR CHOICE OF SIDE.

BBQ Bacon Dog | $10.99 Certified wagyu all beef hot dog, house made BBQ sauce, bourbon bacon jam, fried onion straws, poppy seed bun.

BURGERS

SERVED WITH YOUR CHOICE OF SIDE.

The Riveter Burger | $12.95 8 oz. Certified Wagyu Beef, Brioche Bun, dijonaise, lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion. Choice of cheese.

Bomber Burger | $13.95 Certified wagyu beef, brioche bun, Applewood smoked bacon, cheddar cheese, house made BBQ sauce.

Breakfast Burger | $13.95 Certified wagyu beef, toasted croissant, dijonaise, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, cheddar cheese, bourbon bacon jam, sunny side up egg.

Black and Blue Burger | $13.95 Certified wagyu beef blackened, brioche bun, blue cheese fondue, bourbon bacon jam, balsamic reduction.

Veggie Burger | $13.95 Vegetarian Burger patty, brioche bun, lettuce, tomato pickle and onion.

Burger add-ons $1 each Peppered bacon | house-made bacon jam | Avocado bacon slaw | Mushrooms | caramelized onion | Chili onion straws | egg | beer cheese | extra cheese

SOUPS

Vegetarian French Onion | Cup $5 Bowl $7 Cheese crouton, sherry.

Warhawk Chili | Cup $5 Bowl $7 Beer and whiskey braised ground beef and brisket, 2 beans, topped with cheddar, sour cream, chives.

ADD-ONS

Rosie’s House Salad Small $4.95 |Large $9 | W/Chicken $10.95 Mixed greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, potato sticks.

Burger Patty $6 | Vegan Burger Patty $6 | Bacon $2 Chicken $4 | Fish $MP | Shrimp $6 | Steak $8 Fried Egg $1 | Avocado $2 | Goat Cheese $2

Fried Chicken Salad | $12.95 Crispy fried beer brined chicken breast, sliced avocado, shredded Monterey jack cheese, chopped, bacon, cucumbers, heirloom cherry tomatoes, mixed greens.

French Fries | Roasted Garlic Mashers Steamed Veg O’ Day | White BBQ Bacon Slaw Baked Potato | Sautéed Spinach With Garlic

*CONSUMING RAW OR UNDERCOOKED MEATS, POULTRY, SEAFOOD, SHELLFISH OR EGGS MAY INCREASE YOUR RISK OF FOOD BORNE ILLNESS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE CERTAIN MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

SIDES | $4

SERVED WITH YOUR CHOICE OF SIDE.

Fish Sandwich | MP Grilled, blackened, or fried on a Brioche bun, dijonaise, lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion.

The Warbird Chicken Sandwich | $11.95 Deep-fried Beer brined chicken breast, lettuce, pickles, mayo.

The MacDill Grilled Cheese | $11.95 Cheddar, Swiss, Provolone, Applewood smoked bacon, Brioche, everything bagel seasoning.

Chicken Biscuit Sandwich | $11.95 Crispy fried chicken breast, toasted biscuit, spicy ranch, cheddar cheese, pepper bacon, sunny side up egg.

MAN ATTRACTIONS

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Catalina Chicken | $16.50 Grilled Herb marinated double breast chicken, goat cheese, spinach, capers, sundried tomatoes, lemon butter.

Mustang Steak | $20.95 Pineapple soy marinated 8 oz. Center cut sirloin, chargrilled, topped with garlic butter.

Chargrilled Sirloin | $19.99 8oz of center cut sirloin With Riveters house-made seasoning, grilled to perfection.

Fresh Catch | $22.50 Local caught, fresh fish grilled, blackened, or fried, lemon butter.

Pork Chop | $13.95 Grilled pork chop, mustard mushroom cream.

Thunderbolt Prime Rib | 8oz $19 / 12oz $22 Fri & Sat only after 5:30pm Herb, garlic marinated slow cooked Prime Rib, sliced to order. Served with au jus, horsey sauce.

Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf | $14.50 Pepper bacon wrapped meatloaf, mushroom beer gravy, fried onion straws.

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Foam home

A different way to get drunk at the laundromat.

By Kyla Fields and Stephanie Powers

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tephen Schrutt, owner of Hunger & Thirst Restaurant Group—the same folks behind downtown St. Pete heavy hitters The Avenue, No Vacancy, Park & Rec and Tropicana Field’s BallPark & Rec—has opened a new cafe and speakeasy bay with a kitschy pseudo-laundromat exterior. To get in, pay a visit to the inconspicuous pay phone under the neon “Talk Dirty to Me” sign inside of the laundromat, receive the numerical password, and then punch those numbers on the pay phone keypad. A quick push on a washing machine leads you into St. Pete’s newest speakeasy concept. 1742 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. @dirtylaundrystpete on Instagram

space: restaurant, bar, and cafe. ICYMI, last year, Jeff Gigante—formerly of Ciccio Restaurant Group and co-founder of Hyde Park Village’s Forbici Modern Italian restaurant— created Next Level with real estate exec Andrew Wright and Gigante Hospitality co-CEO Joseph Guggino. The company’s first project announced this year, Union New American, is set to open any day now in the Westshore district.

1001 Water St., Tampa. nxtlevelbrands.com Chill Bros. Scoop Shop Boasting artisan flavors and locally-sourced ingredients, Chill Bros.—opening its third location in Tampa at the Epicurean Hotel on Dec. 3—is known for signature scoops like cafe con leche chunk, guava pastelito and Tampa banana. Fall seasonal flavors include apple pie, oatmeal cookie and fluffer pumpkin (spiced pumpkin ice cream with crispy brown sugar streusel and cinnamon marshmallow fluff), so get them before they phase out. 1207 S Howard Ave., Tampa. chillbros.com The Crane This restaurant will open in the old Wig Villa space by January 2022. Alongside fresh seafood and steak options, The Crane will also have a wide selection of craft cocktails to match its upscale, elegant decor. According to I Love the Burg, like its newly-opened sister

Also open Gallery Chophouse Within the now-closed JC Noodle House, owners of this chophouse have non-steak items (a bacon-stuffed chicken breast, planked salmon, pork tenderloin) to go along with all kinds of meat, plus the infamous $189, 24-karat gold-crusted Tomahawk steak.

14803 N Dale Mabry Hwy., Tampa. @gallerychophouse on Facebook Hoots The new 1,650 square-foot wing joint from the folks behind Hooters is in the Mission Bell Plaza, and is only the fifth Hoots location to exist, and the second Hoots to open in Tampa Bay. Last year, Florida’s first Hoots opened in St. Petersburg. Hoots describes itself as “a little bit Hooters, a little bit its own thing,” which basically means a similar menu as its older, pantyhosebased brother, but the staff, (including men) sport khakis and orange shirts. 12817 N Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa. hootswings.com—Colin Wolf Red Ribbon The Pinellas Park location is the Filipino franchise’s 34th store in the U.S., featuring “shareable” cakes including the deep purple ube overload cake and the mango supreme cake made with Filipino mango. For “snackable” treats, the bakery has a variety of options of sweet and savory pastries like chicken empanadas and a “cheesy mamon” butter sponge cake topped with cheese. 4053 Park Boulevard N, Pinellas Park. redribbonbakeshop.us Tostones Inc The food truck announced new permanent digs this month, and it would appear there’s plenty of outdoor seating, TV screens, and, of course, classic tostones, empanadas, crazy fries, nachos and sliders. 4236 W Waters Ave., Tampa. tostonesinc.com—Colin Wolf Coming soon Boulon Brasserie Next Level Brands’ French bistro-style restaurant will serve Water Street breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a three-in-one

7th Ave.-facing seating to fulfill all of your Ybor people-watching needs.

Mochinut The hybrid dessert franchise already has over 20 U.S. locations, and it’s bringing sticky donuts to Temple Terrace in 2022. If you’re not familiar with this latest dessert trend, a mochinut combines the Japanese rice cake mochi, with a traditional American donut, creating an ultra-chewy, pull apart dessert unlike anything else. Mochinut will also have Korean rice-flour hot dogs (aka corn dogs) and boba on its menu. 11401 N 56th St., Temple Terrace. @ mochinut_tampa on Instagram ICYMI Florida is expected to pay at least $150,000 for Michelin restaurant stars Visit Florida spokeswoman Leslie Pearsall called it “a great opportunity to elevate Florida’s culinary scene and bring a positive economic impact to the state,” but the Miami Herald—which said the figure could be 10 times higher than the $150K first made public— is not being given access to the exact amount despite the money coming from taxpayers.

You can once again dine at Safety Harbor icon Pizzeria Gregario As CL pointed out last October, for the last year owner Greg Seymour has been baking bread and offering takeout to customers to get by during the pandemic. But now Safety Harbor’s artisanal pizza restaurant will let you eat your takeout on the outdoor patio. And yes, you can still get Gregario’s famous “garlic schmoo.” 400 2nd St N, Safety Harbor. @pizzeriagregario on Facebook

VISIT ST. PETE-CLEARWATER

OPENINGS

concept Mangosteen—located at 656 Central Ave.—The Crane will push cuisine that’s Asianinfluenced. 575 Central Ave, St. Petersburg. @thecrane_stpete on Instagram Dave’s Hot Chicken There'll be eight eventual Dave’s Hot Chicken locations serving Tampa Bay. Owners of the California chain said they are eying Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk counties for their first locations, which could open starting as early as next year. daveshotchicken.com King of the Coop This new location— Pinellas’ first KOTC hot chicken hub—will open in late this month or early December, out of the space that formerly housed Westshore Pizza in the Tyrone shopping plaza. 6928 22nd Ave N, St. Petersburg. kingofthecoop.com Portillo’s A Chicagoland favorite is opening its third Tampa Bay location, complete with drive-thru, near Tyrone Square Mall. The Chicago-style weiner and steak sandwich slinging, fast casual concept already has locations in Tampa and Brandon, but this is its first foray into the ‘Burg. 2300 Tyrone Blvd., St. Petersburg. portillos.com—Ray Roa Sterling Cigar Lounge & Bar The infill concept will be sandwiched between 7-Eleven and Ink Spot tattoo parlor in Ybor City. Permitobsessed development website Tampa Tomorrow says the 2,444 square-foot ground floor will be leased to an undetermined restaurant, while the second and third floors—which have identical blueprints—will house 8 short-term Airbnb suites.

Although we don’t know much about the cigar lounge yet, the rooftop bar will definitely have

BUZZ ME IN: This payphone is your ticket to St. Pete’s newest speakeasy.

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‘Rona. It’s still a thing, and you should call or contact these local breweries to learn their COVID-19 protocol.

Email rroa@cltampa.com and stephanie@cltampa.com for any edits and suggestions.

3 DAUGHTERS BREWING One of downtown St. Pete’s 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 3 KEYS BREWING South-of-the-Skyway restaurant and brewery specializing in small batches. 2505 Manatee Ave. E, Bradenton. 951-218-0396, 3keysbrewing.com 5 BRANCHES BREWING Veteran-owned brewery, small batches from IPAs to stouts. Serving brews and a clear view of the Tarpon Bayou. 531 Athens St., Tarpon Springs. fivebranchesbrewing.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.

813-231-5900, 7venthsun.com 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 ANGRY CHAIR Crazy-good Seminole Heights beer, open Tuesday-Sunday. Just don’t park on Fern Street (there’s a lot behind the auto body shop). 6401 N Florida Ave., Tampa. 813-238-1122, angrychairbrewing.com ARKANE ALEWORKS A wide variety of styles and flavors from the second brewery to open in Largo. 2480 E Bay Dr., No. 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 BASTET Named after the Egyptian cat-goddess, the brewery offers seasonal ales, ciders and even the occasional hard ginger beer. 1951 E Adamo Dr. Suite B, Tampa. bastetbrewing.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 BAYBORO BREWING CO. Veteran-owned kid-friendly brewery that has tons of events to go with its creative tap list. 2390 5th Ave. S, St. Petersburg. (727) 767-9666, bayborobrewing.com BIG STORM BREWING CO. Stop by this Pasco brewery’s Storm Room for a flight, or visit its 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 who’s moved tastings inside his brewery.

115 S Ring Ave., Tarpon Springs. 813-503-6181, saintsomewherebrewing.com BREW BUS BREWING BB’s Seminole Heights taproom is moving a few blocks up Florida Ave., but until then sip on the Bus’ offerings at the Wesley Chapel facility. 2029 Arrowgrass Dr., Wesley Chapel. 813-452-6333, brewbususa.com BREW HUB Some of the area’s best beers are produced here along with suds for its own label. 3900 Frontage Rd. S, Lakeland. 863-698-7600, brewhub.com BREW LIFE BREWING Ultra-small batches, and a lot of ‘em. 5765 S Beneva Rd., Sarasota. 941-952-3831, brewlifebrewing.com BRIGHTER DAYS BREW CO. Tarpon Springs spot specializing in music-inspired brews like the “So Fresh n’ So Clean sour” and “All the Single Belgians.” 311 N Safford Ave., Tarpon Springs. 727-940-2350 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 CAGE BREWING Custom brews in the Grand Central District from one of the ‘Burg’s best. 2001 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg. 727-201-4278 CALEDONIA BREWING Great in-house beers in the

historic Dunedin Times building. 587 Main St., Dunedin.

727-351-5105, caledoniabrewing.com CALUSA BREWING Family owned and operated, open Tuesday-Sunday. 5701 Derek Ave., Sarasota. 941-9228150, calusabrewing.com CARROLLWOOD BREWING CO. “Secret” brewing action inside the Carrollwood location of craft-bar chain The Brass Tap. 10047 N Dale Mabry Hwy Suite 23, Tampa. 813-969-2337. brasstapbeerbar.com 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 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., Ybor City. 813-247-1500, coppertailbrewing.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 CRAFT LIFE BREWING Small-batch local brews and a sort of playground for LoL’s craft brewing guild. 4624 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’ Lakes. 813-575-8440. @ craftlifebrewing on Facebook CROOKED THUMB BREWERY Safety Harbor’s first brewery boasts homegrown flavor, local guest taps and a killer Tuesday songwriters session. 555 10th Ave. S, Safety Harbor. 727-724-5953, crookedthumbbrew.com CUENI BREWING CO. Located off the Pinellas Trail in Dunedin. 945 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. 727266-4102, 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.

DEVIANT LIBATION Latest project from local beer god Tim Ogden housed in the upcoming immersive art collective Crab Devil. 3800 N Nebraska Ave., 727379-4677, devitantlibation.com 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. 727-736-0606, 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 OdessaTrinity destination. 9945 Trinity Blvd., Suite 108, Trinity.

727-807-6092, escapebrewingcompany.com FLYING BOAT BREWING COMPANY St. Pete aviation history and tasty homegrown suds. It’s where Tampa fave King State brews its wares. 1776 11th Ave. N, St. Petersburg. 727-800-2999, flyingboatbrewing.com FOUR STACKS BREWING An always-changing lineup of local and regional guest suds, along with trivia, live music and more. 5469 N. U.S. Hwy-41, Apollo Beach.

813-641-2036, fourstacksbrewing.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 GREEN BENCH BREWING CO. A space worthy of the adventurous beers it produces. 1133 Baum Ave. N, St. Petersburg. 727-800-9836, greenbenchbrewing.com GOOD LIQUID BREWING CO. 30 taps and food (and a coffee roaster!) from a husband-and-wife duo. 4824 14th St. W, Bradenton. 941-896-6381, thegoodliquidbrewing.com GRINDHAUS BREW LAB Small batches and no extracts. 1650 N Hercules Ave., Clearwater. 727-240-0804, grindhausbrewlab.com GULFPORT BREWERY + EATERY Small batches with an artisanal food menu. 3007 Beach Blvd., Gulfport. 727954-4109, gulfport-brewing.com

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HOB BREWING CO. Rotating taps; some of the beers are brewed on-site and alongside a combination of local breweries plus local and international craft beer makers. 931 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. hob.beer IF I BREWED THE WORLD This self-described “mixtape of breweries” offers 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 Land O’ Lakes brewery 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. Suite 103, Trinity.

727-312-4512.

JDUB’S BREWING CO. You know ‘em, you love ‘em.

A favorite statewide phenomenon. 1215 Mango Ave., Sarasota. 941-955-2739, jdubsbrewing.com KING STATE Named the No. 8 coffee shop in America

by Food & Wine, King State 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 on-site in limited capacities. 520 E Floribraska Ave., Tampa. 813221-2100, king-state.com LAGERHAUS BREWERY & GRILL A Palm Harbor bar and eatery that offers seasonal brews to complement its regulars. 3438 East Lake Business, Palm Harbor. 727-216-9682, lagerhausbrewery.com LATE START BREWING This 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. 813-677-7023, leavenbrewing.com MAD BEACH CRAFT BREWING Brews, ciders, and meads by the beach. 12945 Village Blvd., Madeira Beach. 727-362-0008, madbeachbrewing.com MAGNANIMOUS BREWING In a warehouse a half-block north of I-275, this addition to Tampa’s beer scene provides a large variety to drink in or to go–curbside pickup available. The brewery also serves Ginger Beard coffee when the tasting room is open including a peanut butter oat draft latte. 1410 Florida Ave., Tampa.

813-415-3671, magnanimousbrewing.com MARKER 48 Hernando’s first production craft brewery, with its own 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 St. W, Bradenton. 941-567-6218, motorworksbrewing.com MR. DUNDERBAK’S The longtime restaurant, biergarten and homebrewers’ hangout is serving its own beers.

14929 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa. 813-977-4104, 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. @overflowbrewingco on Facebook PEPPER BREWING The Angry Pepper Taphouse’s in-house label, available “on a limited basis.” 9366 Oakhurst Rd., Seminole. 727-596-5766, angrypeppertaphouse.com PESKY PELICAN BREW PUB This beachy restaurant also offers its own beers thanks to an in-house nano

system. 923 72nd. St. N, St. Petersburg. 727-302-9600, peskypelicanbrewpub.com PINELLAS ALE WORKS PAW offers a dog-friendly environment in addition to tasty brews. 1962 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg. 727-235-0970, pawbeer.com PYE ROAD MEADWORKS Located in Odessa, Pye Road focuses on mead but also keeps beer and wine in house for naysayers of the fermented honey drink.

8533 Gunn Hwy., Odessa. 813-510-3500, pyeroad.com RAPP BREWING CO. The late Greg Rapp’s awardwinning styles are carefully crafted and delicious. 10930 Endeavor Way, Seminole. 727-544-1752, rappbrewing.com RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER This video game-centric Grand Central District craft beer bar started brewing its own in early 2018. 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 CO. House-crafted brews, pizza, and sports out toward beautiful Siesta Key. 6607 Gateway Ave., Sarasota. 941-925-2337, sarasotabrewing.com SILVERKING BREWING CO. This space in Tarpon Springs complements a label that’s been around since 2012. 325 E Lemon St., Tarpon Springs. 727-422-7598, silverkingbrewing.com SIX TEN BREWING A wide variety and a real passion for the craft-brew community. 7052 Benjamin Rd., Tampa. 813-886-0610, sixtenbrewing.com SOGGY BOTTOM BREWING More Dunedin goodness, including some 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, as well as products and guidance for local homebrewers. 4500 N Nebraska Ave., Tampa. 813-238-7800, southernbrewingwinemaking.com ST. PETE BREWING CO. Beers crafted specifically for the climate. 544 1st Ave. N, St. Petersburg. 727-692-8809, stpetebrewingcompany.com STILT HOUSE BREWERY This friendly Palm Harbor joint specializes in high-ABV ales and other styles you won’t find at other breweries in the area. 625 U.S. Hwy Alt-19, Palm Harbor. 727-270-7373, stilthousebrewery.com SWAN BREWING Nearly 4 decades of combined brewing experience go into the offerings at this pet-friendly joint. Two locations. 2972 Lakeland Highlands Rd./115 W. Pine St., Lakeland. 863-703-0472, swanbrewing.com TBBC Formerly Tampa Bay Brewing Co., local favorite for nearly two decades, with two locations. 1600 E 8th Ave., Ybor City/13933 Monroe’s Business Park, Westchase. 813-247-1422, tbbc.beer TIDAL BREWING COMPANY Small batches in Spring Hill. 14311 Spring Hill Dr., Spring Hill. 352-7011602, tidalbrewingfl.com TWO FROGS BREWING CO. Tarpon Springs’ latest brewery and taproom focuses on American ale styles.

151 E Tarpon Ave., Tarpon Springs. 727-940-6077, @twofrogsbrewing on Facebook 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 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 in Odessa is now a higher-production facility in Westchase. 13921 Lynmar Blvd., Tampa. 813-475-5995, thewildroverbrewery.com WOODWRIGHT BREWING CO. Traditional German styles in downtown Dunedin. 985 Douglas Ave., Dunedin.

727-238-8717, @woodwrightbrewing on Facebook WOVEN WATER BREWING CO. Tampa Heights brewer with a focused menu often using fresh fruit as part of its beers. 456 W Columbus Dr., Tampa. 813-443-9463, wovenwaterbrew.com ZEPHYRHILLS BREWING CO. East Paco’s first microbrewery. 38530 5th Ave., Zephyrhills.

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hristmas palm trees, fake snow, boat parades and a whole lot of twinkly lights. If you’re looking to gaze upon as many strung up lights as possible this year, Tampa Bay has plenty of options—here are some the best you can take family to this weekend.

Boca Ciega Christmas Lighted Boat Parade Hosted by Boca Ciega Yacht Club, this lighted parade starts at 6 p.m. and goes in and out of the Gulfport community canals. The parade is free to watch but the fee to participate is two or more unwrapped Christmas presents or a check written out to “Operation Santa,” Gulfport’s annual toy drive. Saturday, Dec. 11, 6 p.m. Boca Ciega Yacht Club, 4600 Tifton Dr S., Gulfport. sailbcyc.org/christmasboatparade Celebration of Lights at Safety Town Celebration of Lights takes place in Spring Hill’s Safety Town every Friday and Saturday night.

Tickets are $10 per car, as you will be able to drive through a show of bright Christmas decorations plus music you can play on your car stereo.

Bring your own camera for Santa photos ops at the end. Friday and Saturday nights, Dec. 6-21.

15325 Alric Pottberg Rd., Spring Hill Chick-fil-A light display An iconic Tampa tradition, the Chick-fil-A on Waters Ave has

displayed millions of Christmas lights every year for over two decades. It honestly doesn’t feel like Christmas until you experience the drive-thru and grab a lil spicy chicken sandwich on the way out. Ongoing. 6299 W Waters Ave.,Tampa Christmas in the Wild @ ZooTampa In addition to animals and festive goodies, there are six new light zones at ZooTampa’s Christmas in the Wild this year. The event is limited capacity; $5 reserves your date (plus the $29.95 ticket). Nov. 26-Dec. 30. 1101 W Sligh Ave., Tampa. zootampa.org/ christmas-in-the-wild Christmas Town @ Busch Gardens Bring the kids, as Busch Gardens features Christmas Town, which has a Sing-Along Train, millions of lights, and visits from the classic Christmas characters, Santa and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. You do have to pay for a park ticket to get in though (a Fun Card costs $84.99 and gets you in through 2022) plus any money you want to spend for food and drinks. Daily through Jan. 2. 10165 McKinley Dr, Tampa. buschgardens.com Clearwater Holiday Lighted Boat Parade This free and family-friendly event will begin at the Mandalay Channel, with the boats traveling under the Memorial Causeway Bridge turning

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into the Clearwater Marina Channel, then proceed south through the navigable canals to Clearwater Point. The festively decorated boats will pass Coachman Park around 8:30 p.m. Dec. 11, 6 p.m. Clearwater. clearwateryachtclub.org Enchant Christmas @ Tropicana Field Since you didn’t get enough of Tropicana Field during the Rays’ postseason, visit there for Enchant Christmas. Enchant will have a maze and a market, with Christmas lights galore.

Enchant has several options for ticket packages, but the base price is $25 for both adults and kids.

Children 2 and under are free. Nov. 26-Jan. 2.

1 Tropicana Dr., St. Petersburg. enchantchristmas.com/st-petersburg-fl Festival of Lights and Santa’s Village Located at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds in Dover, Wonderland of Lights and Santa’s Village has a drive-thru lights show with a village at the end featuring circus attractions, craft stations, camel rides, and the obligatory photo with Santa. Cost is $25 per car (1-8 people). Nov. 25-Dec. 28. Hillsborough County Fairgrounds, 215 Sydney Washer Rd., Dover. hillsboroughcountyfair.com Florida Botanical Garden This annual “Holiday Lights in the Garden” event has over 1 million lights on display from 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. every night. A donation of $10 for anyone over 10 is suggested. Nov. 26 - Jan. 2. 12520 Ulmerton Rd., Largo. flbgfoundation.org Hillsborough River Holiday Boat Parade Hosted by Sierra Club and Friends of the River, this free event has decked out boats parading

with a free Community Holiday Party at Sulphur Springs pool park during and after. Sunday, Dec. 5, 6 p.m. Lowry Park boat ramp (1204 W Flora St., Tampa) upriver to Sulphur Springs Holiday Lighted Boat Parade @ Tampa Riverwalk Billed as Tampa’s largest boat parade, it starts at the Convention Center, travels up to Armature Works then back to Sparkman Wharf. The event is free to watch, but parking will probably cost you. Saturday, Dec. 18, 6 p.m. Downtown Tampa. thetampariverwalk.com/events-news Largo Central Park Holiday display with two million dazzling LED lights, plus a carousel and seven-story ferris wheel to get an up-high view of the 70-acre park. Entrance is free, rides are $5. Nov. 25-Jan. 2. 101 Central Park Dr., Largo. playlargo.com Lights of Lake Park Estates With over 3 miles of Christmas decorations and lights for the public, The Lights of Lake Park Estates has been going on since 1993. The event is free, but donations will be accepted at the Suncoast Hospice Cart; 100% of the donations will go to Suncoast Hospice, and the event has raised over $1 million since the event started. Dec. 1-31. Lake Park Estates, 109th Ave N, Largo. @ lightsoflakepark on facebook Oakdale Christmas Light Display Halfan-acre in size and about a quarter of a million lights, this walking yard tour includes a small pond, several waterfalls and fountains. An 18-train HO scale railroad, with moving planes continued on page 71

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Check out giant (fake) trees, fake snow, and a and carnival rides. Many animated & lit up fig- crap-ton of lights at Wiregrass mall. They start ures and inflatables, a house covered with lights the light shows (choreographed to the music from and window cabinet displays also live here along- the Trans-Siberian Orchestra) at 6 p.m. and run side bubble machines for the kids. This home is it until 9 p.m. every night. It’s free admission, among the top three finalists on NBC’s “Today too, so you won’t have to break the bank. Every Show,” featured on HGTV’s “All Out Christmas” night through Dec. 31. 28211 Paseo Dr., Wesley special and appeared in People Magazine. Plus Chapel. theshopsatwiregrass.com it’s free. Nov. 26 - Jan. 3. 2719 Oakdale St. S, Tarpon Springs Christmas Parade St. Petersburg. christmasdisplay.org Tarpon Springs hosts a Christmas Parade that Old Fashioned Christmas and Holiday will travel through the downtown area, with an Parade This Old Fashioned Christmas & Holiday annual candy cane hunt also taking place at Parade will take place on Douglas Avenue with Craig Park following the parade. Kids up to 12 a festival on Main Street folyears old can participate in lowing. The parade will kick the hunt. Word is Santa will things off, then it’s time for be making an appearance horse-drawn carriage rides, train rides, a snow around 11:30 a.m. Daytime lights, for people slide, kids crafts, old fashioned games, s’mores, who don’t like night! Dec. 1, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Starts live music featuring “Late Night Brass” enter- at Manatee Plaza and ends at Spring Bayou, tainment, and snow flurries. The event is free, Tarpon Springs. spongedocks.net Treasure Island Holiday Lighted Boat but donations are accepted. Saturday, Dec. 11, 4 p.m. Downtown Dunedin. dunedingov.com Parade and Celebration The boat parade watch Pirate Water Taxi River of Lights The site at Treasure Bay Recreation Facility starts Pirate Taxi will be taking people on a boat tour with a holiday celebration that includes a DJ, a of River of Lights for $20 a pop for the kids and visit by Santa and Mrs. Claus, interactive enter$25 tickets for adults. Kids get to write a let- tainers, and concessions for purchase. Decorated ter to Santa and send it through a “mail buoy” boats launch at 6:20 p.m. Dec. 4, 5 p.m. Treasure to the North Pole. Christmas Carols will be Bay Recreation Facility, 10315 Paradise Blvd., sung, and there’s a Treasure Island. @ pretty nice view of treasurebayTI on Facebook downtown Tampa.

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Winter Beach Boarding and @ St. Pete Pier Departure at Celebrate the holidays at the Tampa Convention Center, 333 S inaugural Winter Franklin St., Beach at St. Pete Tampa. piratewaPier. There’s a holtertaxi.com iday market, snow Redington days, an arcade, Beach and Indian movie nights, Shores Holiday WHAT’S IN THE PIPE? Zoo Tampa hosts one of and ice skating (at Boat Parade The many kid-ready holiday events. $17 per person) on Redington Beach real ice. Check out and Indian Shores Holiday Boat Parade is free, themed nights like 90s, Santa Hat Skate, with two public viewing locations, including the and Pride Night. And, of course, Santa will Indian Shores Town Hall and the County Boat Park. be there. Nov. 20-Jan. 17. 800 2nd Ave NE, Sunday, Dec. 19, 6 p.m. Redington Beach starting St. Petersburg at County Boat Park. townofredingtonbeach.com Winter Village at Curtis Hixon Park Snow @ Sundial Fake snow falls every 30 Ice skating and a lights display are the main minutes from 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m. at the downtown St. attractions at Curtis Hixon Park’s yearly event.

Pete mall (or shopping plaza, whatever you want Skating costs $17, plus whatever treats you to call it). There’s a photo opportunity with Santa, want to buy yourself from the pop-up market. holiday performances, and thousands of twinkling Through Jan. 2. Downtown Tampa. wintervillights. Plus, it’s free to the public. Nov. 29-Dec. 31. lagetampa.com 153 2nd Ave. N, St. Petersburg. sundialstpete.com Wonderland of Lights and Santa’s Sylvan Ramble Lights The Sylvan Ramble Village A mile-long light display leads into a House has become somewhat of a local institution Christmas village with Santa’s Village that has when it comes to holiday lights. The house fea- rides, crafts, food, and pictures with Old St. Nick. tures thousands of lights and displays timed to Don’t worry, the hour drive from Tampa will be music. The shows are every 20 minutes and can worth it. Tickets are by the carload starting at be viewed for free from your car! Ongoing. 4412 W $25 for a vehicle with up to eight people. Nov. Sylvan Ramble St., Tampa. sylvanramblelights.com 25 - Jan. 2. 1052 U.S. Hwy-92, Auburndale.

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UGLY ON THE INSIDE: The blue-striped exterior isn’t going anywhere, but Beach Theatre’s interior needs work.

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or eight years a monumental theater stood vacant on St. Pete Beach, with its doors shut and an echoing farewell message of “Thanks for the Memories” plastered on its marquee.

But the 80 year-old, single-screen Beach Theatre lives on, as a brand new website and social media accounts were recently launched by a team led by new owner Christopher Scott who purchased the historic building at 315 Corey Ave. just a few months ago. Scott Commercial Holdings bought the 4,800 squarefoot theater in August 2021 for $652,000, according to Pinellas county property records.

And it’s no coincidence that the relaunch announcement took place on Nov. 18, 2021—it’s been exactly 8 years since the theater shuttered its doors in 2013, months before the unexpected death of its last owner, screenwriter Michael France.

“The Beach Theatre will be an inclusive space where St. Pete Beach and our neighboring

communities may join together and share in the joy of art in all its forms,” the new website states.

“Newly released independent and international cinema will have a home here, as will carefully curated series of classic, repertory programming.”

A few months ago, Scott asked the St. Pete Beach community for its input on the future of the beloved theater. After opinions were voiced both in-person and through hundreds of emails, St. Pete Catalyst reported that the most common theme amongst the residents was that of wanting a multifaceted performing arts center that focused on independent programming and local events.

The community also urged Scott to create a nonprofit organization to help ensure the historical status of the theater. He definitely took that advice to heart, as Scott recently created The Beach Theatre Community Foundation to further the mission of historical and cultural

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preservation. “We will restore, remodel, and maintain the historic Beach Theatre in a manner consistent with its original design and historical aesthetic,” the nonprofit said.

New Executive Director Shana Nichols and Director of Operations & Programming Joey Hager are both Florida natives who have extensive experience in Tampa Bay’s film and entertainment scene, and will bring an important local touch to the rejuvenated theater. They plan to bring back the once popular “Rocky Horror Picture Show” live performance—one of the many nostalgic programs that will once again see the light of day.

Although the vintage look on the outside of Beach Theatre will be retained and its blue-striped exterior isn’t going anywhere, Scott and his team are giving the inside a serious facelift. They plan to replace 150 seats, expand the lobby, and create some sort of green room behind the screen, according to the Catalyst. These renovations will run from about $400,000-$500,000, and The Beach

Theatre Community Foundation is asking its community for help with the pricey revampment.

Under the “support” tab on the historic new Beach Theatre website, you can help the foundation turn this theater into a thriving community staple once again. First order of business is getting the leaky roof repaired, which will run about $30,000.

Throughout the decades, its various owners have always played up its nostalgic feel, and the nonprofit running this newest version of Beach Theatre is keeping that tradition alive—while simultaneously revamping the parts of it that need major technological upgrades.

But even with all of this reconstruction taking place, the Beach Theatre Community Foundation is confident in a late 2022 grand opening.

Subscribe to the new Beach Theatre newsletter to get the latest news on renovations and the eventual grand opening date— and if you’re interested in volunteering, reach out to hello@ spbeachtheatre.org.

“The community also urged Scott to create a nonprofit organization to help ensure the historical status of the theater.”

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Join us for a dynamic new season of exhibitions and programming at the Rollins Museum of Art!

American Modernisms at the Rollins Museum of Art On view through May 8, 2022

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Gallardo/Budoff: Growth, Breadth, and Terrain

FROM TOP LEFT ACROSS ALL ROWS Carmen Herrera (Cuban, b. 1915), Untitled, 2013 Acrylic on canvas, 72 3/64 x 36 7/32 in., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara ‘68 and Theodore ‘68 Alfond, 2014.1.32. © Carmen Herrera. Image courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, London

On view through December 31, 2021

Rafael Trelles: The Imagined Word On view through December 31, 2021

Leo Amino (American, 1911-1989), Triumphant Warriors, 1951, Mahogany, 47 x 16 x 12 in., The Alfond Collection of Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara ‘68 and Theodore ‘68 Alfond, 2017.15.13, Image courtesy of Julie Amino and Family Nathan Budoff (American, b. 1962), Rising Water, 2020, 5 x 6 ft., Oil, charcoal and shellac ink on canvas, Lent by Anthony J. Murrary and Rosabel Paraliticci © Nathan Budoff Follower of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), The Virgin and Child Adored by Saints, ca. 1630, Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 25 in.

Gift of Marjorie Myers Ginn, Francis B. Myers II, John C. Myers, Jr., and Everett M. Myers in memory of John C. Myers, Sr., 1957.11

Common Ground: Selected Works from the Rollins Book Arts Collection

Nina Chanel Abney (American, b. 1982), Helen with the Drip, Acrylic and spray-paint on canvas, 48 x 36 in., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara ’68 and Theodore ’68 Alfond. 2020.1.25 © Nina Chanel Abney. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Islam Aly, Inception, Cairo, Egypt: Islam Aly, 2019. Edition of 30.

Ben Blount, Racial Activity Coloring Book, Evanston, IL, Open edition, 2018.

On view through December 31, 2021

Rafael Trelles (Puerto Rican b. 1957) Majestad Negra, 2019, Etching ink on Stonehenge paper, 50 x 36 in., Lent by L’ARTBAN © Rafael Trelles

Legends of the Saints

Jeffrey Gibson (American, b. 1972), I Don’t Belong To You, You Don’t Belong To Me, 2016, Glass beads, tin jingles, artificial sinew, acrylic felt, canvas over wood panel, 18 1/4 x 24 x 3 in., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara ‘68 and Theodore ‘68 Alfond, 2017.6.29.

Image courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California.

On view through April 3, 2022

Esphyr Solbodkina (American, 1908-2002), Desert Moon, 1941, Oil on board, The Alfond Collection of Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara ‘68 and Theodore ‘68 Alfond. 2017.15.5. Image courtesy of the Slobodkina Foundation, Northport, New York

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home that once belonged to the president of popular Maas Brothers Department stores, which for decades called itself “Greater Tampa’s Greatest Store,” is now for sale. Located at 4901 New Providence Ave., the estate was completed in 1976, and was first owned by Frank Wendell Harvey and his wife Patricia. Harvey was the president of Maas Brothers and vice president of Allied Corp. until his retirement in 1987, just a few years before the department store giant filed for bankruptcy. Harvey, who passed away in 2012, was also chairman of the Tampa Chamber of Commerce in the early-’80s.

The home has had a few owners since, and has also witnessed a few upgrades. The 4,986-square-foot home comes with five bedrooms and six bathrooms, as well as a grand two-story foyer, deep water canal frontage, and a large pool and spa.

Harvey was at the helm of Maas Brothers during its final chapter. In its heyday, Maas Brothers was a household name, especially on Florida’s west coast. Founded by Abe and Isaac Maas in 1886, at its peak Maas Brothers had over 39 stores, including its flagship location in downtown Tampa at the corner of Zack Street and Tampa Street. This was the company’s largest store, and at the time was

the second largest department store in Florida. It also was home to the state’s first escalator.

Unfortunately, the downtown location was demolished in 2006 for condos that never happened and now all that’s left of this iconic building is a city-owned parking lot. However, you can still see the original downtown Maas Brother’s sign at the Tampa History Center, and there are some great photos of the store, thanks to the Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection.

In 1986, the year Maas Brothers celebrated its 100 year milestone, the store’s ownership, Allied, witnessed its first of a series of corporate takeovers, which eventually turned the company into a shell of its former self. Over the next few years, Maas Brothers was completely liquidated and consolidated into the Burdines department store chain, which eventually became Macy’s in 2005.

While most traces of Maas Brothers are long gone, a few original locations are still standing, like the Macy’s at Westshore Plaza, the Macy’s at Tyrone Square, and the Dillards at University Mall, to name a few.

The Harvey House is currently asking $3.75 million and the listing agent is Mary Kelly of Smith & Associates Real Estate.

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By Gabrielle Reeder how the bands perform and the different songwriting styles and techniques,” Michela said.

Tom Hood & The Tropical Sons—also slated to serenade the audience on both nights—concurs. “So what I tell everybody is, I was a harmonica player and a guitar player for years, and then around 2000 I got my first uke. I actually was playing mandolin, but I thought it was hard to play. Hard to keep in tune and the strings hurt my fingers. I wanted something with a similar voice so I bought a uke off of eBay and fell in love with it,” Hood said, adding that the setlist will encompass a wide range of genres due to the versatility of the instrument.

“You can really play most types of music.

Typically my songs span country, rock, blues and island flavored kind of stuff, so I can do reggae, blues whenever, which makes it fun,” Hood said. “It’s a really social instrument to play with other people. Now guitar players, if you get 30 guitar players in a room, it’s chaos to

two-minute cover of any Muddy Waters song to perform.

Wondering what to wear? Uke It Out does not have a strict dress code, in fact, anything goes according to Flee who coordinates his outfits each year to match the mood of the festival. “[This year] I’ll be going with the grass skirt, Hawaiian shirt and the coconut shell bra,” Flee added that during one of the previous Uke festivals he changed his outfit halfway into the show to introduce a sparkling, allwhite tuxedo. “This year I think just one outfit. Sorry to disappoint.” he said with a rumble of laughter.

Doors open each day and hour before the show starts. Tickets are $17 per person 12 and older when purchased in advance and $20 per person at the door. Kids 12 and under are free. The Tampa Bay Ukulele Society partners with WMNF and considers Uke It Out a fundraiser, therefore all proceeds are going toward WMNF to keep community radio alive. A negative COVID test or proof of vaccination is required for entry.

“If you get 30 guitar players in a room, it’s chaos to get them to play together, but with the ukulele, it’s the opposite.”

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ext weekend, a self-proclaimed failed-drummer-turned-radio-host and a leader of local band Jct 27 will partner up to stage the return of their annual ukulele themed festival, which was postponed last year due to the pandemic.

Hosted by WMNF host and DJ Flee (real name Lee Courtney) together with Jct 27 frontwoman Rebecca Michela, the 6th annual Uke It Out has expanded to two days, in two venues on both sides of the Bay. Music lovers, ecstatic musicians and free-spirits of all ages are welcome.

Performers at New World Brewery in Tampa and St. Pete’s Cage Brewing include AppleButter Express Duo, Jct 27, Rebekah Pulley Twosome, Pineapple Scruffs, Renee and The Rollers and Tom Hood & The Tropical Sons.

“Flee had always wanted to do something with the ukulele in terms of doing a show or festival and I was interested in doing that. So we were talking and at the same time I had the name [for the festival],” Michela told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “I came up with the name Uke It Out, and we just decided to collaborate, work together and create a local ukulele festival to really showcase all the local performers who have fans and play their ukuleles.”

The popular theory says that ukulele originated from the Madeira Island of Portugal. When Portuguese immigrants sailed to Hawaii, they brought their ukuleles, which at that time were known as Portuguese braguinhas or machete de bragas. Legend has it that local Hawaiians witnessed a ship member play a braguinha; his fingers dancing across the frets resembled a jumping flea, so the Hawaiians renamed the instrument "the jumping flea," or ukulele.

Michela’s ukulele roots extend back to her youth, second grade specifically, when she picked up her mom’s Baritone uke thinking it was a guitar. She still gets that same Baritone uke restrung occasionally, and nine years ago she started Jct 27—a quartet featuring a soprano ukulele, a tenor ukulele, a guitalele (a six string instrument the size of a ukulele) a Ubass (ukulele bass) and a percussionist who doubles as a ukulele player. The band, like many of the other Uke It Out acts, is playing both nights of the festival.

“Most people are very surprised when they go and hear the diverseness of the instrument and

get them to play together, but with the ukulele, it’s the opposite. The more people playing that C chord, the cooler it sounds.”

In addition to listening to ukulele bands, Uke It Out prides itself on its opportunities for audience involvement. Audience members are welcome to play along with others during the Tom Petty and Beatles jam. The organizers are providing chord sheets for people to read so even beginners can have a chance to experience the community aspect of the uke, but the most crucial event of the night is the 30 minutes carved out for the open mic.

From the electric elements of Jimi Hendrix to the mellow moods of Bob Marley, Uke It Out themes each year’s contest after a widely-known and recognized style of music that can be played on the uke. Those at Uke It Out duke it out during the open mic trophy contest and this year the contest will strum its way through the bluesy tunes of Muddy Waters. According to Michela, willing participants are asked to arrange a

UNDER THE HOOD: Tom Hood will tell you anything you want to know about the ukulele.

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C Holy Terror w/Navin Ave. Just because you haven’t heard from Navin Ave. in a bit doesn’t mean the Tampa band with a literary streak has gone away. “Navin Ave. never broke up, but we stopped playing entirely because of the pandemic,” front-person Shae Krispinsky told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Sure the band played up its “Southern Gothic 70s-arena indie rock with a pop Americana twist” side when it played as hair-rockers Poison for the Fangsgiving charity show, but this no-cover gig is the group’s first proper Tampa show since February of 2020. Jeff Brawer and Derek Forrester are still playing, but drummer Rodney Smith moved away and has been replaced by Adam Revak. “We finally finished our first album (the pandemic REALLY set us back), which we’re really proud of. I’ve got two more albums planned for the band, so, yes, hopefully we’ll be around for a while,” Krispinsky added.

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C Fourth Friday: Sol Queens feat. Shelby Sol and Queen of Ex Get the stank of a dysfunctional family Thanksgiving out with a free show on the Tampa Riverwalk. This one’s great, too, because there’s no way you’ll be able to argue that ethereal vocalist-songwriter Shelby Sol and powerhouse rapper Queen of Ex aren’t two of the most talented locals in recent scene history. (Riverwalk Stage at Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa)

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Hoops & Hip Hop Festival: Polo G w/G Herbo/Buckwheat/more Polo G’ s Dec. 18 MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre gig got canned, but here’s something of a makeup. It happens when the 22-year-old Chicago rapper takes to the grounds outside Raymond James Stadium for a post-Turkey Day festival that not only includes a concert from Mr. G and another G (Herbo), but basketball-related activities including a sneaker convention, NBA 2K competitions, dance contests, 1-on-1 and more. And no matter what happens, Polo G will walk away with a W as he just dunked on the Miami-Dade State Attorney which dropped two felonies and one misdemeanor against him because it didn’t have enough evidence to prosecute.

(Raymond James Stadium grounds, Tampa) Ja Rule w/DJ Irie Grandma’s stuffing and invasive questions from family members are always exciting, but if you need even more thrills, WTR has you covered with live music on the seashore. Dance-pop artist Sofi Tukker—which just headlined night one of this year’s Gasparilla Music Festival—performs on Wednesday, Nov. 24 alongside EDM artist John Summit (this issue hits stands early, so some of you may be able to catch the show after reading this). Rapper Ja Rule—who recently sold a Fyre Fest NFT for $122,000—headlines on Saturday, alongside Miami-based DJ Irie. (WTR at the Godfrey Hotel, Tampa)—Kyla Fields

C Clang! w/Bill./Work Stress Last weekend saw Permanent Makeup’s Chris Nadeau warm up for this show with a new project Work Stress. Fans of loud and righteous rock should get to Hooch and Hive early this Sunday to see the peace-punk band open this gig headlined by Clang! which is making its live return and still rightfully riding high on its absolutely crushing, messy-clean, Shellac-loving 2019 release Whac-A-Mole. Clang!’s original three members—guitarist Brian Shields, bassist Emily Jones and drummer Andrew Goding—are back and promise to bring friends along for future shows, but will play both Mole material and new stuff written after quarantine at this one. “The new songs are somewhat similar to the old stuff, but more streamlined. More straight to the point,” Shields told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Like many shows in the Bay area these days—and you should be checking before heading out—this one requires a proof of negative COVID-19 test from 72 hours before doors, or proof of vaccination instead. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa) Destroy Boys w/Jigsaw Youth/The Umbrellas While Destroy Boys still fits into its 2015 EP Mom Jeans, the San Francisco band’s been sizing up steadily since Rolling Stone mentioned it in the same breath as Green Day. The profile briefly mentioned how Billie Joe Armstrong connected and found common ground with the “cherubic teenage garage-rock trio,” which is buddy-buddy with the punk megastar. Destroy Boys—built around founding members Violet Mayugba and Alexia Roditis—is out on the road in support of Open Mouth, Open Heart, its month-old third album, out now on Hopeless Records, and one that sounds decidedly less punk than anything else the group’s ever put out. (Crowbar, Ybor City)

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bargoing. “That time change was always rough on the staff.”

I can’t think of too many entertainment industry jobs more stressful than talent buyer at a homegrown, independent music festival, but the team at Gasparilla Music Festival seems up to the task of booking two festivals within five months of each other.

In 2021, GMF required a negative COVID-19 test or proof of vaccination to get in, but Cox told CL that it was still too early to say what 2022’s entry policy and health protocols will be.

“We’re actually pretty far along on the lineup,” David Cox, GMF’s Executive Director told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay after the announcement. “We still have a few bands left to book, but we’ve already got the potential headliners.”

Cox added that unlike 2021—when GMF went all out despite a rescheduled October three-day festival for its 10th anniversary—2022’s Friday programming will feature a full slate of bands and happenings, including the food lineup at Calle Cocina.

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Iron & Wine is playing an intimate Clearwater concert this spring Iron & Wine’s 2018 show at Tampa Theatre already felt like a living room gig, but the band’s spring 2022 set in Clearwater will be even more intimate.

Tickets to see Iron & Wine play Bilheimer Capitol Theatre in Clearwater, Florida on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. are on sale now and start at $34.50

GMF 2022’s move from its usual home of first weekend in March to the last weekend in February also means the nonprofit music festival will happen before Gasparilla Festival of the Arts happening March 5-6 at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park just a short walk down the Riverwalk.

Iron & Wine is the project of songwriter and former University of Miami film & media professor Sam Beam. The 47-yearold is regularly backed by a kickass band buoyed by drummer Beth Goodfellow, but a press release says this Clearwater concert finds Beam “on tour with only his guitar as backing band - taking the show back to basics, putting his song-writing front and center.”

“The move also gets us off that time change where you lose an hour,” Cox said, alluding to the spring-forward time change that always messed up everyone’s post-party

Check back next week for Josh Bradley’s weekly rundown of the latest concert announcements, cancellations and postponements.—Ray Roa

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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

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

Microgroove (906 N. Florida Ave., Tampa) 813-667-7089, microgroovetampa.co

Sound Exchange Pinellas Park (66th Street N and 86th Avenue N., Pinellas Park) 727-545-0042, soundexchangetampabay.com

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

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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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Get out

By Dan Savage

I have a friend who is a trans man. He just got out of a shitty relationship because his ex suddenly lost interest in him and wouldn’t work with him on fixing it. He’s heartbroken. He told me women often reject him once they find out he is trans and he’s tired of endless rejections. We met in the college town where he still lives, but our entire friend circle (including me) has moved away. Even without the trans part, it’s not easy to be a 30-something single man in a liberal college town. He’s convinced he’s doomed to be alone. I don’t want to be dismissive about his experience as a trans person (I’m a cis woman), but I keep trying to walk the fine line of encouraging my friend to reach out, meet people through community events, volunteering, etc. He also mentioned to me that people our age (30s) are more transphobic than younger people, but he doesn’t want to be the kind of 30-something perv who dates people in their 20s. My heart aches for my friend. Do you have any advice for him to make more friends and/or find a new romantic partner?—Friend Really In Extreme Distress

is gonna sting more. But your friend can avoid that kind of rejection by disclosing right away. My friends with HIV who don’t wanna deal with the drama of having to disclose and being rejected for it put it out there right away. Since your friend is eventually going to have to come out to the women he dates, putting the fact that he’s trans on his dating profiles—disclosing it right away—tells women who might have a problem with it to keep moving. In other words, FRIED, your friend has the power to flip the rejection script by essentially saying, “I’m trans and if you’re not open to dating a trans man, please show yourself out.” Instead of waiting to be rejected by cis women who won’t date trans men, he’ll be rejecting those women first.

And finally… If grown-ass adults in their 20s want to date him, your friend should date them. Refusing to date someone due to something they can’t control or change about themselves— their age—seems discriminatory (ageist!), patronizing (people in their 20s are adults!), and in your friend’s case, hypocritical (he doesn’t enjoy being rejected over something he can’t control or change). But my hunch is that your friend is just making excuses. Give him a little more time to wallow, FRIED, keep urging him to do the obvious (get out, go places, do shit, meet people), and in a few months your friend will be introducing you to his new partner—and it’s probably going to be someone in their 20s he met at a community event who later saw his profile on Tinder and swiped right on his openly trans ass.

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You recently posted a letter from a woman who was dating an “age appropriate” man. Could you please define that phrase for me? I am a 65-yearold straight white guy. Twice married, twice divorced. I was once told that a guy could divide his age in half, and then add the number 13 to that number to get the minimum age for a potential partner. I don’t know where those numbers came from but using that formula, I come up with a minimum age of 45. I am open to dating women my age, or older than me. But so far, my contacts with older women have not led anywhere. I guess the bottom line is that these days I find myself attracted to younger women.

That’s all there is to it. So, I am hoping to get some guidance from you on this subject.—Aging Gentleman Enquires Sincerely Oh, wow—one of those rare older men into younger women. Don’t see your kind every day.

I’m a 30-year-old straight, cis woman and I’ve been in a serious relationship with my boyfriend for a year. I love him and the sex is mind-blowing when it happens—which is about twice a week when I’m not spotting. We can only have sex when he initiates, but there’s more. I’m on the pill and I often spot a little from the second week to the

me touching myself when I go down on him, as he finds it distracting. Opening the relationship is not an option for him. It seems to me that anything that does not revolve around his penis penetrating something and coming out perfectly clean is a turnoff for him. While I feel hurt, I also wonder if I’m being abusive by asking him to do things that he doesn’t like to do. When I bring up the topic he insists this is my problem, not his. Is there a way forward?—Frustrated About Intimate Life Under Restrictive Edicts P.S. Is he a product of the patriarchy or am I insane?

There’s no way forward, FAILURE, there’s only a way out: DTMFA. If you’d like to present your soon-to-be exboyfriend with a lovely parting gift, FAILURE, I suggest getting him a toaster and a Fleshlight.

Duct tape them together, leave them on your side of the bed, take your shit and go. Because it’s a warm, silent hole your boyfriend wants for a partner, FAILURE, not a woman with a fully functioning suite of female reproductive organs, to say nothing of a woman with needs, wants, or desires of her own. I strongly suspect your ex-boyfriend won’t miss you or your vagina that bleeds or your ass that poops or your mouth that opens and asks for perfectly reasonable things, FAILURE, and I’m confident that even if you miss him at first, you won’t miss him for long. Because within a week you’ll realize being alone is better than being with a selfish piece of tyrannical shit.

Yeah, yeah: You love him. You’d pretty much have to love him—or you’d have to convince yourself you loved him—to put up with his shit for a week, much less a year. But the longer you stay in this relationship, FAILURE, the greater your frustration and resentment will grow, and a day will inevitably come when you’re no longer in love with him and what’s left of your self-esteem, selfconfidence, and sense of sexual agency will have been destroyed. Don’t wait until the love is gone and the damage is permanent to leave this asshole. Leave him now.

P.S. I don’t know if the patriarchy made your boyfriend the asshole he is, FAILURE, but it’s definitely the patriarchy that has you doubting your own sanity.

P.P.S. Please don’t “work on fixing it” before you dump this asshole—and you aren’t required to get him a parting gift, lovely or otherwise. Get yourself a powerful vibrator instead.

JOE NEWTON

The only thing worse than being dumped by someone who refuses to “work with you on fixing it” is being dumped by someone who already made up their mind to dump you—meaning the relationship was already dead—but then wasted months or years of your life pretending to work on it. So, if your friend’s ex knew it was over, FRIED, they did your friend a favor by refusing to go through the motions of “working on it.”

That would come as cold comfort to your friend, of course, so don’t pass it on to him. But continue to give him the advice you’ve been giving him, which is both standard and excellent. Get out of the house, do shit, go places, meet people— that’s the same advice I would’ve given him and it’s the same advice every other advice columnist on the planet would’ve given him. And, almost without a doubt, it’s the same advice your friend would’ve given or already has given to a friend of his own after a breakup. That your friend hasn’t taken your advice yet—that he’s still wallowing in his grief—doesn’t mean your advice was bad, FRIED, only that he’s not ready to take it.

As for dating while trans… I’ve visited a lot of liberal college towns and they tend to be more welcoming and accepting places for trans people than, say, your average Alaskan fishing village.

And most women—cis or trans—aren’t going to wanna fuck or date with your friend. (And he is open to dating trans women, right?) I’m gay and most men—cis or trans—don’t wanna sleep with me. Now, men who find me attractive don’t reject me once they realize I’m gay, but being rejected by a woman who initially found him attractive after he discloses that he’s trans? That rejection

Fuck, marry, or keep any consenting adult who’ll have you. Be realistic about your prospects (twice divorced and getting up there), AGES, and make a conscientious effort to control for dickful thinking, i.e., the kind of wishful thinking men of all ages engage in when their dicks are hard. Also, don’t be cluelessly coercive.

Straight guys need to bear in mind that women are taught to prioritize men’s needs over their own (that’s the way women are socialized) and to fear male violence (that’s the way women are terrorized). Consequently, many women find it difficult and/or scary to say “no” to a man. So, when a woman gives you an ambiguous answer (“I’m very flattered”), or gently deflects (“I’m very busy”), take that as a “no.”

moment my period comes, a side effect with which I am OK. However, if any blood is present, nothing can happen since he’s disgusted by it. He won’t have anal sex because he’s disgusted by feces. He won’t play with me and a toy when there’s blood present, even a drop, and he won’t go down on me at all, as he doesn’t like it. He also doesn’t want

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