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HIGH FIVE: CL’s skeleton crew at our second story event space above Hall on Franklin.
Hold tight
As reopening ramps up, a reminder to slow down. By Ray Roa
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andra Döhnert Bourne’s byline is usually on a CL gallery of concert photos, but like so many of us, the St. Petersburg photographer found herself restless as local safer-at-home orders went on. “Over a month and a half ago, when all the talk about the COVID-19 started to gain momentum, my husband, our child and I went out for a bike ride for what we were considering our ‘last hurrah,’ a family picnic at Northshore Park,” Döhnert Bourne explained. “There, I mentioned how I would miss seeing our community the way it was—vibrant, with tons of things to do and places to visit, lots of new small businesses opening, and most of all, the people that make St. Petersburg my favorite place I’ve ever lived.” So she reached out, and came back with “I Miss Us, St. Pete: A social distance photo essay from afar.” The more than three-dozen photos are heartwarming and heartwrenching at the same time. They remind us of the lives we had. They make us look forward to whenever—and however—we safely emerge from all of this. And while most of the shots are of St. Petersburg-ers, Döhnert asked if she could come take socially distant snaps of CL’s staff. My initial reaction to that inquiry was, “Man, does this skeleton crew have enough time to get together
to do that?,” but as the Q&As starting on p. 25 point out, the answer is a resounding “yes.” It turns out that our tired bones needed it—and needed Döhnert Bourne's essay. As the governor eyes slowly opening the state—while others, like the Gadsden flag-waving crowd on p. 9, rush to get back to work in the name of “freedom”—right now is the best time to remember what it’s been like to slow down, look at your loved ones in the eye or long for the embrace of your friends who live just down the street. There is time to learn with your kids (using the help of St. Pete-based Wee Gallery, which designed this week’s cover). You should take that hour to write music and get better at your instrument (like JudyAnne Jackson on p. 31), and there’s always a moment to ask your friends and neighbors about how they’re doing. Make an extra minute or two to really listen to the people in front of you—and don’t be afraid to reach out for help (p. 11). Most families CL talked to in this issue were afraid that the world would forget what these weeks were like and go back to old habits like driving too fast and too much, rushing through grocery queues, and having a calendar so busy that we couldn’t actually live. As shitty as this all is, there are bright spots to try and hold onto. Döhnert’s photos remind us of that. Creative Loafing Tampa Bay is gratefully running Döhnert Bourne’s photos in print and online, and reaching out to many of the subjects as the weeks go on. Keep visiting cltampa.com and our photos section for more, then head to sandrasonik.com to read Sandra’s own conversations with her neighbors and yours.
“Make an extra minute or two to really listen to the people in front of you.”
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Who sent you?
An anti-vaxx group organized last weekend’s reopen rally in Tampa.
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hey showed up last Sunday in Tampa led by a Hummer with a DJ stationed on the roof, hordes of MAGA signs, Gadsden (“Don’t tread on me”) flags, and even anti-abortion posters. Tampa, along with a handful of other Florida cities, witnessed its first protest calling for Florida to reopen immediately despite statewide shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic. While the event, which involved hundreds of people gathering shoulder-to-shoulder along Kennedy Boulevard, was widely covered by local news outlets, not a single one mentioned who actually organized it. Why does this matter? Well, despite how it appeared, the event wasn’t an entirely organic gathering of angry citizens. Sure, some may have just randomly showed up with signs and flags, but the event was actually hosted and organized by a local chapter of The Freedom Keepers, an anti-vaccine group that formed in 2015 in response to a California bill that removed “personal beliefs” as a reason to not vaccinate your kid before sending them to school. Unlike the founding group in California, the Tampa chapter has tried to separate itself from its roots, claiming they are in fact not an antivaccine group. But under the Tampa Freedom Keepers’ “Five Foundational Pillars,” which are listed on the Tampa website, the group says it’s dedicated to “sharing vaccine injury stories.” In the days leading up to the event, the group shared flyers on its site promoting the upcoming Tampa protest and had members create the actual Facebook event page. For reasons unknown, none of this was reported by local outlets, including WFLA and Spectrum Bay News 9. Instead, those outlets gave free platforms to protesters on how the virus is a hoax, vaccines are bad, and, most importantly, a direct message to Gov. Ron DeSantis that Florida residents want the state to reopen. This couldn’t be further from the truth. A poll released last week by Quinnipiac found that 72% of Florida residents actually
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BLEACH BOYS: That’s one way to ward off the contagion. prefer the state keeps social distancing rules in place after the original executive order expires on May 1. It’s also incredibly problematic and, almost unheard of, for a news organization to not mention who organized a protest. Whether it’s the Women’s March, a Black Lives Matter rally, or fucking Earth Day, it’s near impossible to read any article about any organized protest without a single reference to who or what made it all happen. So, when an anti-vaxx group is hosting a large scale protest on one of the busiest streets in Tampa, it seems like this wouldn’t be an exception to the rule. Obviously, covering a protest is fine and something every outlet should do. But it makes
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no sense to leave this key piece of information out. Most importantly, it just gives these fringe groups a free pass to spread misinformation and mobilize followers. But Tampa TV news stations weren’t alone. Outlets in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale also failed to mention a single word on who was behind their protests last weekend. This is unfortunate, since Orlando’s protest was partially organized by the far right extremist group The Proud Boys. Not to mention, many of these reopen protests around the country have direct links to right wing group militias, and gun rights groups. As CL reported last week, Facebook claims it is cracking down and removing event pages
that encourage people to violate state laws on social distancing (like what happened in Tampa last weekend). But so far, this announcement has mostly been symbolic. Most of Florida’s shutdown protests are posted and promoted on the “Reopen Florida” Facebook page, which currently has over 8,400 members. Unsurprisingly, this group, and the events posted there, have yet to be removed or banned. As of Monday, the Florida Department of Health said the state had 1,088 coronavirusrelated deaths, and 32,138 confirmed cases. See more photos from the Tampa rally via photos.cltampa.com.
“The event wasn’t an entirely organic gathering of angry citizens.”
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No kidding
How to help kids and teens with COVID-19 concerns. By Ray Roa
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n an April 16 webinar with the Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Rick Weinberg—a licensed psychologist, diplomat in clinical psychology and clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the University of South Florida—focused on three parts of the amazing human brain, which has evolved over the last 200,000 years. One of those cogs was the amygdala, an almond-shaped mass that’s part of what’s commonly referred to as our “reptilian” or “primitive” brain. “It’s the part of our brain that detects threat. Whenever there is something that we believe to be dangerous out there, our amygdala goes off like Fourth of July fireworks,” Dr. Weinberg said. “It works 24-7, even when we’re sleeping. If we should smell smoke, God forbid, we wake up right away because it’s saying, ‘Look out, there’s something going on.’” In spite of our best efforts to recognize its power, the amygdala can also lead to a flood of emotion, leaving us feeling overwhelmed. Kids, obviously, have an amygdala, too, and it can get activated in the context of the coronavirus no matter how emotionally intelligent they are (the brain’s prefrontal cortex works in tandem with the amygdala to help control anxiety). Clara Reynolds is President and CEO of the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, which runs the Bay area’s 2-1-1 catch all help line. Professionals answering the phones there are trained to speak with callers and connect them to the resources they need, be it related to mental health, food, shelter, domestic abuse and more. Last week, Reynolds told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that 2-1-1 was still receiving a high volume of calls pertaining to COVID-19—630, to be exact. She said the nature of the calls remained the same (financial resources, unemployment, emotional support and food), but later added that the Crisis Center does get calls from both kids and parents or guardians who don’t know how to talk to children about the pandemic. “We actually encourage teens who are struggling to call. We can provide emotional support and information about specific programs for teens,” she told CL. “The specialist can [also] provide some tips to the adult to help facilitate the conversation.” Dr. Shea Quraishi is a former elementary school teacher and Chief Academic Officer at Frameworks of Tampa Bay, a nonprofit that empowers educators, youth services
COVID QUESTIONS? Don’t forget to check on your little ones during the pandemic. professionals and parents and guardians with training, coaching and research-based resources to equip students of all ages with social and emotional skills. On the Chamber webinar, Quraishi outlined how parents and guardians might help children navigate this moment of upheaval and teach social and emotional tools that won’t just help them succeed in school, but in their adult lives, too. “These skills require reinforcement and practice,” Quraishi said. “In other words they take a minute to teach but a lifetime to learn.” Healthy development and school readiness traits like stress-management, self-regulation, social awareness and self-awareness have to be in place before a child can start to learn a sense of belonging or self-efficacy, but Quraishi noted that in the context of COVID-19, kids not headed to school or daycare have lost their foundational sense of attachment and structure. They’re also dealing with parents’ stress, plus their own new stresses like learning how to use Zoom. “And they’re practicing self-regulation, because we’re asking them to handle all of this change somewhat independently,”Quraishi said,
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adding that adults are working from home and pressing forward with their own applications. “So before we expect kids to be resilient, we have to acknowledge the magnitude of what they’re experiencing right now, add a foundational level and make them feel seen and heard.” All the details of the steps Quraishi offers for starting to help our kids cope and learn won’t fit on this printed page (thank Jebus for YouTube and cltampa.com/news), but they include talking about emotions (they’re not “good” or “bad,” but “comfortable” and “uncomfortable”), different calming strategies, schedules for your kids (co-create it, don’t be militant), and less structured items (hugging and cuddling). Quraishi added that even though they don’t always show it, kids do feel these changes acutely. Reynolds told CL that guardians should look for overall changes in behavior (sleep, eating, mood) and that kids and teens may also start asking questions about COVID19 or wondering if people they love will be OK. “It’s a good idea to just be open with them. Ask them how they are feeling and reiterate that everyone is doing their part to help them be
safe,” Reynolds said.“Keep it simple. Reinforce that all the changes going on are temporary and are there to keep everyone safe and healthy.” While she didn’t have a one size all recommendation, Reynolds did say that limiting media exposure—especially news coverage—helps. “This is going to be different for each person,” Reynolds said. “We definitely don’t think running CNN or Fox News 16-hours per day is good for the emotional health of anyone right now.” The Crisis Center has even built in mechanisms for its own staff to practice self-care after repeated and extended crisis conversations. And at the end of the day, Dr. Quraishi breaks down a simple approach to facing the day with your kid or teenager. “Take the time to hug your child. Say ‘I love you’ several times a day. Sometimes when we are so stressed or busy it’s easy to forget how important this is,” Quraishi said. “And finally I would encourage you to remember that even during normal times, there is no such thing as perfect parenting. That’s certainly true now as well, so please show yourself some grace.”
“We have to acknowledge the magnitude of what kids are experiencing.”
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Getting people killed to own the libs. By Jeffrey C. Billman
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t 6:41 a.m. on Tuesday, an ornery Donald Trump hopped on Twitter to hate on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and beat his chest about how much Republicans love him and how that proved how well he was handling the coronavirus pandemic, how he got great ratings on “Monday Night Football” and “The Bachelor,” and, most of all, how mean journalists are to him. “It is amazing that I became President of the United States with such a totally corrupt and dishonest Lamestream Media going after me all day, and all night,” he whined, as if 50,000 Americans hadn’t died in six weeks. I will grant him this: It does, in fact, amaze me that Donald Trump became president, even three-and-a half years after it happened. It amazes me that someone so small holds the same title as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Barack Obama—hell, as Benjamin Harrison and Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon. It amazes me that a man who will soon rack up a body count that exceeds the whole of the Vietnam War and an unemployment rate that tops the Great Depression has the gall to boast about his news conference ratings. (For that matter, it amazes me that thumb-sucking news executives broadcast these self-serving shitshows.) It amazes me that an imbecile who managed to bankrupt casinos will, despite evidence of his own failures, demand that governors reopen their states even if doing so endangers their citizens; if they refuse, he’ll sic his lackey attorney general on them. And it amazes me that, nearly 1,200 days into this cesspool of corruption—did you know the Trump Organization’s looking for bailouts from the Trump administration?—Democrats are still so risibly feckless. An example: On Tuesday night, the Senate passed a $484 billion package that funnels $310 billion into the exhausted Paycheck Protection Program. It also provides billions for hospitals and a federal plan for COVID-19 testing— things that, astoundingly, Democrats won as concessions. What’s not in the bill? Money to help states and cities whose budgets have been wrecked by the economic slowdown. Unlike the feds, state
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and local governments generally can’t run deficits, so without federal help, they’ll face huge tax hikes and/or sweeping service cuts that invariably harm the poor—things that turn bad economic situations into human misery. Democrats wanted $150 billion in aid. Republicans blocked it. Democrats, who control the House of Representatives and could have forced the issue, rolled over like cowering puppies when Republicans pinky-swore that they’d take up local aid in the next relief package. Then, as soon as the Senate passed the bill, Mitch McConnell got that old-time fiscal responsibility religion. Maybe we can’t afford more relief packages, he said. Womp, womp. It’s not like Republicans hadn’t telegraphed the play. Look no further than the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, that direct conduit to the Italian-suited plutocrat crowd that runs GOP fiscal policy: “But the White House and Trump administration have been holding out because, in part, they believe if Congress keeps cutting checks for state and local governments, they will be disincentivized to open up their economies,” it opined on Friday. Recall that the central tenet of the Trump presidency is the buck stops elsewhere. He gets credit for everything that goes right; someone else gets blamed for anything that goes wrong. By pushing them to reopen now—before there’s anything like the expanded testing, contact tracing, and isolation regime experts say we need—Trump can claim credit for regrowing an economy that shed 26 million jobs in a month. If governors resist and their economies founder, that’s on them. If they reopen and there’s an outbreak, that’s on them, too. It’s not Trump’s fault they weren’t prepared. He told them testing was their responsibility. That brings us to the ostensibly grassroots ReOpen movement, which, let’s be real, is about as grassroots as the Tea Party was a decade ago. As with the Tea Party, the long tentacles of the libertarian svengali Koch network are present here, too, through an initiative called the Convention of States, funded by billionaire Robert Mercer and managed by a longtime Koch associate. And as with the Tea Party, the goal is to further the interests of wealthy elites by fomenting outrage and passing off organized stupidity as a populist rebellion. It’s like we haven’t seen this play before. It amazes me to see reporters mainstreaming fringe characters alongside epidemiologists and economists without contextualizing how fringe they actually are. Only 12% of Americans think stay-at-home orders are too restrictive; fewer than a third are worried they’ll be kept in place too long. Just because a belligerent freak show offers a colorful break from the quotidian drudgery of coronavirus reporting, that
GRIN AND BEAR IT: Trump lackeys sure are the best at faking happiness. doesn’t mean we should pretend a molehill is a mountain. More than anything, it amazes me that we’re not calling out the ReOpen movement for what it obviously is: This isn’t about the best practices for reopening schools and businesses or even defending our First Amendment right to spread infectious diseases in the name of Jesus Christ and Almighty Capitalism. This is a political campaign. This is about getting your base pissed and turning the other guy into an enemy. This is how the game is played now. It’s no coincidence these efforts popped up in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina, swing states with Democratic governors who are all much more popular than Donald Trump. They emerged elsewhere, too, of course: Ohio, Minnesota, Kentucky, New York, Texas. Regardless, the goal is to galvanize right-wing factions—religious fundamentalists, gun rights enthusiasts, anti-government types—with a common purpose and a common foe headed into the election. North Carolina offers a good case study.
Governor Roy Cooper is crushing Republican Dan Forest, a corporeal dunce cap who’s gone all-in on ReOpenNC as his last best hope to become relevant again. ReOpenNC held its second weekly rally in downtown Raleigh on Tuesday. A thousand people showed up. Few had masks. Fewer bothered with social distancing. The political overtones were unmistakable. There were Trump flags and Dan Forest T-shirts. There was lieutenant governor candidate (and homophobic conspiracy theorist) Mark Keith Robinson maskless and ungloved, shaking hands. There was Congressman Dan Bishop, who—now that Mark Meadows has become Trump’s chief of staff—is vying to become the state delegation’s biggest embarrassment, carrying a Constitution he said he was going to deliver to Cooper “because he’s forgotten what it’s about.” There were posters equating social distancing with tyranny and signs denouncing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert. There were anti-vaxxers and 5G paranoids and QAnon basement-dwellers. There were proud
“It amazes me that Democrats are still so risibly feckless.”
however, it could only be transmitted by the very sick. You could easily identify the people who had it, quarantine them, then trace where they got it from. Consequently, the global outbreak, which started in February 2003, was contained by July. About 8,000 people were infected, and fewer than 800 died. The U.S. had about two dozen confirmed and probable cases and no deaths. “Here, that’s not necessarily the case,” says McClellan, now director of the DukeMargolis Center for Health Policy. A new study indicates that a large proportion of COVID19 infections—as much as 43%—are asymptomatic, meaning the carriers have no idea they’re sick. On the other hand, if this bears out, it would seem like welcome news. The initial fatality and hospitalization rates for the disease would have been wildly overblown. COVID-19 is much less dangerous than we thought. Not really, though.
As Andy Slavitt, the former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, explains: “The picture of a large number of asymptomatic hosts is a chilling one. One asymptomatic spreader can spread Covid-19 to 9,537 patients in 40 days. … If 40% of those people have no symptoms, the impetus for them to continue to stay home is lower.” Forty percent have no symptoms, but the other 60% do. And for whatever reason—maybe age or underlying conditions, maybe bad luck—some of them become critically ill. Some die. Meanwhile, the 40% without symptoms are passing along the virus to a new generation, and the cycle repeats. “This is a fundamental feature we need to address in doing containment from here on out,” McClellan says. That’s why it’s “very important for people even with mild symptoms to stay home and get tested and to be able to initiate the contact tracing.” Asymptomatic transmission also underlines
“This is about getting your base pissed and turning the other guy into an enemy.”
the need for strict monitoring and rigid enforcement of basic precautions like sanitation and hygiene, as well as ramping up testing and contact tracing. Right now, the U.S. is conducting about a million coronavirus tests a week. That’s an improvement from a month ago, McClellan says, and while the U.S. is well behind where it needs to be, it’s catching up. “I think we can get there with the testing capacity that will be there in the next few weeks,” McClellan says. The White House wants to double the amount of tests per week to 2 million. Health experts say that, without a vaccine, keeping the country open will require between 4 million-30 million tests per week. Even then, there would be logistical hurdles to overcome, including billions of dollars of lab equipment to buy and wide-scale national coordination. The latter has never been the administration’s strong suit. These two statements are true: 1) The Great Lockdown has been devastating, and we can’t wait a year for a vaccine—or even six weeks—to reopen the economy. 2) Reopening too quickly and carelessly will get people killed.
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displays of scientific and economic illiteracy. There was palpable anger. And there were very, very few people of color. Not coincidentally, COVID-19 has disproportionately killed African Americans both in North Carolina and across the country. Perhaps it’s easy to be indifferent to consequences that predominantly fall on someone else. Two days later, Cooper obliged Republicans’ increasingly vehement demands for more details about how he envisioned reopening the state, laying out a cautious three-part plan that stretches into June (at the earliest) while extending his stay-at-home order at least a week, through May 8. The words had barely left his mouth before the emails poured in: “One-size-fits-all policy does not work for North Carolina,” the influential Civitas Institute proclaimed. “The people of North Carolina will suffer needless health and economic harm if the State continues to treat its diverse population with a one-size-fits-all approach,” the Republican commissioners of the rural Union County wrote in a letter. “Gov. Cooper’s one-size-fits-all approach for reopening is not necessary for a state as large as North Carolina,” Dan Forest said in a statement. Weird how that phrase kept popping up. It’s not a coincidence, of course. Only 16% of North Carolina voters think the state should relax social distancing guidelines. They’re not going to make much headway with a frontal assault. Instead, they’re playing into the state’s rural-urban divide (the former being often white, generally Republican; the latter, diverse, Democratic), to make Cooper appear unreasonable and indifferent to your needs while he protects, you know, other people. On the surface, it makes sense that, say, Transylvania County, with just two reported coronavirus cases, or Avery County, which has none, shouldn’t be bound by the same restrictions as the rest of the state. But Transylvania County borders Henderson County, which has 123 cases as of April 23, and Avery County borders Burke County, which has 74. Viruses don’t know borders, and, well, cars exist. It’s true that viruses spread more easily in dense population centers, but people in small towns and rural communities still gather together in churches and restaurants. It only takes one infected person to start an outbreak, and hospitals might not be equipped to handle it. Then there’s this: “Epidemic or pandemic control in the world very much depends on the weak links,” Olga Jones, a senior fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute, told Vox. “The whole system is as good as its weakest links.” Mark McClellan was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration during the SARS outbreak in 2003. Like COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, was caused by a then-novel coronavirus. Unlike COVID-19,
GOLF WANG: It takes a special kind of wiener to protest his right to whack balls around.
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HELL-FOR-LEATHER: Even Trump distanced himself from Kemp’s harebrained notions. Reconciling them will require making difficult tradeoffs with life-and-death ramifications. They should be approached cautiously, with the best available information, listening to people who know what they’re talking about—and not, say, a certain Very Stable Genius who thinks chugging Clorox might cure what ails you (and then lies by saying he was being “sarcastic”). In Georgia, hell-for-leather Governor Brian Kemp wants almost everything up and running by Monday, though his state has three times as many cases and four times as many deaths as the go-it-slower North Carolina. Even Trump distanced himself from that harebrained notion. That’s not to say that Trump’s been a model of dispassioned sobriety. After all, he spent last weekend egging on extremists, tweeting at them to LIBERATE their states from oppressive governors. Trump’s tweetstorm took place after a Fox News segment about an obscure Facebook event called Liberate Minnesota, which is the way this stuff works. These protests were small affairs until Fox News personalities and other Trump-friendly pundits—and then the president himself—elevated them. Trump’s defaults are politics by agitation and confident assertions utterly detached from reality, so leaning into a faux-populist revolt that imagines it can disappear a pandemic by throwing a temper tantrum is pretty much par for the course.
Besides, a slow-and-steady restart doesn’t suit his agenda. His case for reelection was rooted in a robust economy. And come hell or high water, he needs to get things rolling again. If need be, your life is a risk he’s willing to take. As much as it amazes me that a charlatan like Trump is president, it amazes me more—and frightens me—how simultaneously intellectually vapid and politically powerful MAGA conservatism is: a cult of personality built around an amoral grifter whose foremost skill is convincing his followers not to see what’s in front of their own eyes. But it shouldn’t be surprising. Over the last decade, a wide body of research has shown that right-wing populists—Trump’s base, in other words—are motivated by fear, making them susceptible to demagoguery and conspiracy theories. The people marching on state capitols—waving Gadsden flags and screaming about tyranny and denouncing scientists—are marks in Trump’s con, pawns in a game they don’t realize is being played. That’s not to say they don’t believe that business should reopen or that the government shouldn’t dictate when and for what reason they leave their homes. (Although, with a pandemic, your freedom of movement doesn’t just affect you.) But that doesn’t mean they’re not being manipulated. And their ignorance doesn’t make them less dangerous. @jeffreybillman
“If need be, your life is a risk he’s willing to take.”
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lorida Sen. Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for Fox News that decried the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, implying that the country’s millions of laid off workers would rather collect benefits than go back to work. “Don’t incentivize workers to stay on government-run, taxpayer-funded programs when this crisis has ended and we need them to go back to work. That’s not complicated,” Scott wrote. The first qualm that Scott mentions in his article is that the CARES Act didn’t set a limit on unemployment insurance benefits at the employee’s previous salary. “This means that workers could make more money by not working than they would make if they had a job,” Scott wrote. The former governor added that he and three other senators tried to amend the bill to put a cap on unemployment insurance benefits, but the amendment was shot down by Senate Democrats who, according to Scott, intentionally wrote the “drafting error.” “So 48 U.S. senators voted for a government program that incentivizes people to not work, and no one batted an eye,” Scott wrote. “And don’t blame or judge the workers. After all, what would you do if you were struggling to make ends meet, to pay rent, to provide for your loved ones?” Scott also mentioned in a campaign fundraising email to supporters that Americans would rather stay home then go back to work, reported the Tampa Bay Times. “Businesses looking to reopen are telling us their employees don’t want to come back to work because they collect more on unemployment,” Scott‘s email said. “And who can blame them?” Meanwhile, Florida’s unemployment claims website was last weekend while only 22% of the claimants had been paid, according to Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity. “Why is Florida in particular having such a difficult time now processing so many claims? It’s because it never intended to process so many,” Susan Houseman, the director of research for the Michigan-based Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, told the Associated Press.
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BLAME GAME: Florida is less prepared to handle the onslaught than other states because of Scott. “In fact, it was scaling back in recent years. So Florida is even less prepared to handle the onslaught than other states.” Scott was largely responsible for gutting the system in an attempt to cut taxes and appeal to the state’s big business. He also criticized the Paycheck Protection Program, arguing that a lack of requirements resulted in funds being allocated to big businesses, instead of “your local coffee shop, florist, hairdresser or mom-and-pop hardware store.” “Much of the funding was necessary and will help those struggling during this crisis, unfortunately, many programs are riddled with waste,” he wrote. “These federal programs are “erring” a lot, and many of the beneficiaries aren’t hard-working families. It’s big businesses, wellconnected industries, wealthy property owners and, in some cases, dead people.”
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“Scott was largely responsible for gutting the unemployment system.”
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RAY ROA
FREE TIMES: A new metered paywall means TBT’s new coronavirus stories are only free for a day.
Build that wall
Times gets CARES act money, puts up new metered paywall. By Ray Roa
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he economic fallout has been a full-on kick in the jeans for newspapers across the country. This alt-weekly—which laid off seven full-time staffers in addition to three part-time freelancers—is not exempt, and neither is the local paper of record. Late last month (AKA 1,000 weeks ago), the Tampa Bay Times put staff from its production, distribution and sales staff on an eight-week furlough and cut its print edition to twice a week in response to dropping advertising revenue. After the announcement, Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that, “I do not remember another time when we ever suspended publication in print even for a day.” But last week, Tash announced that the paper and its related companies received a loan of $8.5 million as part of the Paycheck Protection Program through the Small Business Administration. The federal government money came via the paper’s bank, Hancock Whitney Bank, and will “cover only half of the sharp decline in advertising revenue.” A post from Tash explained why the paper took the loan (“These are extraordinary times… During Easter week, our advertising sales hit a new low.”), if the money means a restoration of printing (nah), plus what it means for the Times’ coverage of the federal government (“The loan does not compromise our independence…”).
A few employees were also recalled from furlough thanks to the loan, and the Times made plans to restore its staff’s temporary 10% pay cut, which was supposed to expire in June. “This loan gives us more time to ride out the crisis before we have to make even more changes,” Tash said, adding that the company will use the money to preserve operations at their current level and wait longer for the economy to improve. The amount of time the paper has, however, is unknown. In the past, the Tampa Bay Times received loans of $12 million and $3 million from private investors in 2017 and 2019. Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik is among those investors. On Friday, Tash told CL that the amount of time the loan gives the paper all depends on when and how the economy rebounds. “My crystal ball isn’t so clear these days,” Tash added, echoing a sentiment he shared with CL after announcing the reduction in print. Tash also spoke to a new metered paywall that changes the way non-subscribers can consume the Times’ coronavirus coverage. He said that new coronavirus-related stories on the website are available to read, for free, for the first 24 hours they’re online. After that, access will only be granted to subscribers. “We had to make a decision that spoke to the safety and wellbeing of our readers, and one that also looks out for the business interests of the paper,” Tash told CL. He also added that he’s been reading the e-edition of the paper but always looks forward to the Wednesday and Sunday deliveries of the paper. “I don’t think I ever did, but I’ll never take that for granted again,” he said.
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“We had to make a decision… that looks out for the business interests of the paper.”
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Shit Happened Both St. Pete and Tampa Pride celebrations get postponed until the fall and next spring, respectively. That sad, angry bigot with the megaphone laments having nothing to yell about anymore and joins the reopen movement instead.
A new drone delivery service from CVS and UPS is coming to The Villages, Florida’s largest retirement community. Now if we could get old folks in The Villages to just socially distance.
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A new Fox News poll shows Joe Biden with a slim lead over Donald Trump when it comes to Florida voters. Don’t worry, the GOP’s suppress the vote tactics will take care of that.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis eyes investigation of failed unemployment website that cost the state $77 million. Rick Scott pets his Mr. Burns doll in the background.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announces plans to meet Trump in the Oval office on April 29. The event was not livestreamed on PornHub.
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groups of friends to stay sane. As disorienting at this new paradigm is, at least no one is dropping bombs. Apart from bartering for toilet paper, most of us are not yet imperiled. But the ripples await. As you’ve seen from his weekly editor’s notes, Ray Roa, Publisher James Howard, Digital Editor Colin Wolf, plus Marketing and t was another beautiful, clear Florida day. I’d Sales Senior Staffers Alexis Chamberlain and just put a visiting friend on the plane back to Anthony Carbone along with a small team of conNew York and headed out for my weekly restau- tributors, are doing everything in their power to rant tasting. There was talk of a new virus, so we keep CL thriving. Our connection to the Tampa were extra careful about washing our hands and Bay community is deep and wide. We need you, what surfaces we touched at the restaurant. Very and you’ve shown that you value us. So until I’m soon thereafter, the bottom fell out of the world. able to report back again on a new restaurant, Editor’s note: It’s kind of cruel to review take- I’ll be sending in periodic reports from the field out food right now, so CL’s food critic is catching on just how some of our comrades in arms are up with local restaurateurs and theater people in coping; you’ve already heard from Rooster & the Till’s Ferrell Alvarez and Karla Hartley at the meantime. The COVID-19 pandemic quickly shut down Stageworks. the two sectors that anchored my life for decades, After my Top 50 Restaurants of 2019 list restaurants and the arts, especially theater. appeared in December, it became clear that my Nearly everyone I knew was out of work or hav- infatuation with an 18-seater in Dunedin never ing to reinvent themselves. The human urge waned. From my first visit, Jason and Cricket to gather together to share food and drink or Borajkiewicz’s captivating and ever-changing to engage in a comsmall plates at The munal storytelling Restorative filled my experience to touch dreams. As a small “The Temporary” your heart is as old restaurant with just 420 Patricia Ave., Dunedin as civilization. That two employees, could Wed.-Sat. 727-223-1705. restorativerestaurant.com fact alone tells you they be nimble enough just how essential to our emotional health these to survive this storm? experiences are. And now, they’re all gone, and Jason says they saw the shutdown coma date for their return is uncertain. Even spring ing and anticipated the move to takeout, even training at the Blue Jays’ splendid new stadium though that meant cancelling some eat-in was cut short, and all sports—save for profes- reservations. sional wrestling in Florida—are now on hold. “To change our model and pivot quickly So, I sit alone in my Dunedin condo—extra wasn’t that difficult. Our sales have dropped, grateful for the view and the magnificent birds but so have our costs.” Luckily they’ve built up that soar past my window oblivious to the con- a loyal following on Instagram and email. “The tagion that has shut us down. I FaceTime with first couple of weeks our regulars definitely family and friends and bake cookies when I feel came in and really supported us, but honestly energized. But I know the pain that surrounds me. we’re seeing a lot of new faces since switching My enthusiastic young food editor has been laid to takeout. It’s surprising.” off as Creative Loafing Tampa Bay figures out a They’re now over a month into their reinway to survive. Newly unemployed friends with vention as “The Temporary,” with a limited young children worry how they’ll pay the bills. menu that just changes weekly. The takeout The days turn into weeks. And, if the projec- experiment began as an Italian theme, quickly tions are correct, we’re facing months of physical followed up by weeks of Japanese, French, and distancing to assure that we remain safe. But, as comfort food. The Borajkiewiczs had to let go we keep our physical distance—one meme sug- of their teenage dishwasher, but sous chef Tom gests the length of a Florida gator—we’re lucky Cochrane, who was apprenticed upon the birth that technology binds us. We can rejoice in Zoom of their son (Ezra) last July, is going strong. He’s to connect offices able to work from home or just prepping for tonight’s menu while young Ezra
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JUMPING IN: Cricket Borajkiewicz, pictured at in 2017, quickly transitioned into takeout at The Restorative. naps in the office. The Borajkiewicz’s operation they’re lucky to have each other and worry about is a well-oiled machine and they’ve even been the future for all their culinary friends forced able to retain their babysitter who watches over to shut down and lay-off huge staffs; the change Ezra at their nearby home just before takeout to takeout for larger operations isn’t as easy in begins. When they realize that they’re seeing the face of an unknown future. the same number of people a week, they decide “We don’t want anyone to lose their business. to consolidate them into a four-day period from It’s a very hard decision to make,” Jason adds. Wed.-Sat. “You can only be closed for so long.” “I’m not gonna lie, a As I’m writing, I four day work week is kind hear a news report of nice,” Jason says. that the James Beard “Our once-a-week peoFoundation claims only ple tend to get the whole one restaurant in five menu” says Cricket. There are not lots of restau- will survive. “Top Chef” Tom Colicchio worries rants with their lights on in Dunedin. aloud about losing the 20 million jobs connected “People are just happy that we’re open,” she to restaurants and farmers. “The question isn’t adds with a sigh. “Our regulars just want us to when we can open up, the question is when the make it through.” public feels safe enough to gather in great numIt’s not all smooth sailing, though. It’s get- bers again,” Colicchio says. "And that’s when we ting harder to find supplies; their local produce get a vaccine.” market closed and there’s a niggling thought that I share these worries about the region’s reswhen the pandemic is behind us, that the new- taurants, but I know the road is even rockier found patrons who helped carry them through for the nonprofit professional theaters. Pivoting might miss the new status quo. to takeout isn’t an option. Next, I’ll check in on “How much backlash will we get from not the theatre side of the equation. Stay tuned. doing takeout?,” Jason ponders. They realize
“We’re seeing a lot of new faces since switching to takeout.”
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Parlor House Bistro Chef Ryan Steffensmeier’s new French restaurant is a cozy addition to the Dunedin scene. Entrees deliver classic bistro dishes in fine form. The super tender filet mignon has a perfectly-charred crust plus delightful green peppercorn cognac cream sauce with Lyonnaise potatoes and surprisingly full-flavored confit carrots with grill marks 1757 Main St., Dunedin. parlorhousebistro.com
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Counter Culture James Beard-nominated chef Jeannie Pierola has outdone herself with her latest concept, Counter Culture, in Tampa. Our critic gushes over the menu and decor, while marveling at Pierola’s attention to detail. According to JPC, you’re safe ordering anything, but make sure to start with the tuna tartare appetizer, which he says is simply perfection. 2909 W. Bay to Bay no. 100, Tampa. cc-tampa.com
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Olivia Chef Chris Ponte’s latest venture (pictured below) is an upscale Italian trattoria in South Tampa showing the care and thoughtfulness of a chef at the top of his game. An all-star on the menu is the Bucatini, which leads your tastes buds on an tangled adventure filled with smoked guanciale nuggets from tender pork cheeks, and plenty of sharp black pepper for pungency to balance the creamy carbonara sauce. Be prepared for a wait, even with a reservation. 3601 W. Swann Ave., Tampa. oliviatampa.com
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Rox Rooftop Bar The most sweeping panoramic view of Tampa Bay of any watering hole in the region comes with carefully crafted cocktails at this indoor-outdoor bar. Along with the unparalleled views and splendid sips, the food matches the high standard with eats like a citrus grilled achiote shrimp taco topped with shreds of cabbage and pickled kohlrabi, plus some heat from jalapeño, and minced cilantro make for a flavorful combo. You’d need to be a pelican or
osprey to get a better view. Current Hotel, 2545 N. Rocky Point Dr., Tampa. thecurrenthotel.com
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Old School Bar and Grill Stocked with TVs, giant Jenga and live music, this South Tampa restaurant serves classic bar food. If you’re a corndog fan, go for the six hand-dipped miniwagyu beef corn dogs the size of fat skewered golf balls. The juicy dogs have layered beefy flavor highlighted by corn batter that’s not at all grainy. 2202 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. oldschoolbars.com
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Barterhouse Ybor City’s new show-stopper has a seasonal menu that focuses on approachable but elevated fare. The Fresh Florida fish (black grouper) wows, constructed of a luscious filet sitting on creamy cauliflower purée topped with shaved crisp Brussels sprouts and bacon surrounded by herb vinaigrette. A perfect quenelle of golden caper pistou with citrus adds a scrumptious grace note. 1811 N. 15th St., Suite A, Ybor City. barterhouseybor.com
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Psomi The Greek restaurant aims to please from menu offerings to decor. Psomi’s burger is terrific. A short rib-sirloin mix with some Greek spices sits on crisp butter lettuce atop a brioche bun. It’s bathed in piquant kefalograviera cheese béchamel which drips down the sides onto the plate. Don’t leave without sliding by the droolworthy display of stunning Greek pastries. 701 N. Howard Ave., Tampa. eatpsomi.com
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Jon Palmer Claridge is the Bay area’s longest running food critic and dines anonymously when reviewing. Visit cltampa.com/food to see an explanation of his rating system, his Top 50 Tampa restaurants of 2019 and read his new book, “Drink. More. Wine!”
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No matter where you are in the Bay area, you’re not far from unique, locally handcrafted brews. We'd call, however, to see about offerings during the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s our ever-evolving list of Bay area brewers—support them during this difficult time! 3 DAUGHTERS BREWING One of the Warehouse Arts District’s most popular hangouts, and a beautiful facility in which to drink some great brews. 222 22nd St. S., St. Petersburg. 727-495-6002, 3dbrewing.com 3 KEYS BREWING South-of-the-Skyway restaurant and brewery specializing in small batches. 2505 Manatee Ave. E., Bradenton. 951-218-0396, 3keysbrewing.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 Tampa beer, open TuesdaySunday. 6401 N. Florida Ave., Seminole Heights. 813-238-1122, angrychairbrewing.com ANTIBREWERY Dunedin’s secret Sundays-only nano. 1367 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Dunedin ARKANE ALEWORKS A wide variety of styles and flavors from the second brewery to open in Largo. 2480 E. Bay Dr., #23, Largo. 727-270-7117, arkanebeer.com AVID BREWING This Grand Central brewing supply shop added a taproom for its beers crafted in-house. 1745 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-388-6756, avidbrew.com BARRIEHAUS BEER CO. Lager-specific brewery, carrying on an over 150 year brewing legacy. 1403 E 5th Ave., Ybor City. barriehaus.com BAY CANNON BEER CO. West Tampa's first craft brewery, offering a variety of ever evolving beers, beer slushies and wine that pair perfectly with appetizers and entrées from the kitchen. 813-442-5615, baycannon.com BIG STORM BREWING CO. Stop by this Pasco brewery’s Storm Room for a flight, or visit their taproom on 49th Street in Clearwater, too. 2330 Success Dr., Odessa. 727-807-7998, bigstormbrewery.com BIG TOP BREWING Perhaps Sarasota’s premier purveyor of locally crafted beer, Big Top’s reputation has spread far beyond the region. 6111 Porter Way, Sarasota. 941-371-2939, bigtopbrewing.com BOOTLEGGERS BREWING CO. This Brandon taproom from Bootleggers Beer & Wine Home Brewing Supplies offers house-made suds and guest beers. 652 Oakfield Dr., Brandon. 813-643-9463, bootleggersbrewco.com BRASSERIE ST. SOMEWHERE Award-winning Belgian farmhouse ales from veteran Bay area brewer Bob Sylvester. 1441 Savannah Ave., Tarpon Springs. 813-503-6181, saintsomewherebrewing.com BREW BUS BREWING BB brews its own suds, boasts 20 taps and offers food at its Eatery, too. 4101 N. Florida Ave., Tampa. 813-990-7310, brewbususa.com BREW HUB Some of the area’s best beers are produced here along with suds for their own label. 3900 Frontage Rd. S., Lakeland. 863-698-7600, brewhub.com BREW LIFE BREWING Ultra-small batches, and a lot of ‘em. 5765 S. Beneva Rd., Sarasota. 941-952-3831, brewlifebrewing.com BULLFROG CREEK BREWING CO. A multitude of styles from former garage brewers is on tap in Valrico. 3632 Lithia Pinecrest Rd., Valrico. 813-703-8835, bullfrogcreekbrewing. com CAGE BREWING Custom brews in the Grand Central District from one of the ‘Burg’s newest. 2001 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-201-4278 CALEDONIA BREWING Great in-house beers in the historic Dunedin Times building. 587 Main St., Dunedin. 727351-5105, caledoniabrewing.com CALUSA BREWING Family owned and operated, opened Tuesday to 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, STE 23, Tampa. 813-969-2337
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., Tampa. 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 or LoL’s craft brewing guild. 4624 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’ Lakes. 813-575-8440. facebook.com/ CraftLifeBrewing CROOKED THUMB BREWERY Safety Harbor’s first brewery boasts homegrown flavor and local guest taps. 555 10th Ave. S., Safety Harbor. 727-724-5953, crookedthumbbrew.com CUENI BREWING CO. Located off the Pinellas Trail in Dunedin. 945 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. 727-266-4102, cuenibrewing.com CYCLE BREWING One of St. Pete’s favorites. 534 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. 727-320-7954. cyclebrewing.com DARWIN BREWING CO. Unique beers crafted with South American influence. 803 17th Ave. W., Bradenton. 941-7471970, darwinbrewingco.com DE BINE BREWING CO. This addition bolsters the Northern Pinellas craft beer scene. 933 Florida Ave., Palm Harbor. 727-233-7964. DISSENT BREWING CO. Unique flavors and adventurous style outside downtown St. Pete. 5518 Haines Rd. N., St. Petersburg. 727-342-0255. DUNEDIN BREWERY Florida’s oldest. Beer, eats and live music. 937 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. 727-7360606, dunedinbrewery.com DUNEDIN HOUSE OF BEER This beer stop brews its own, and also has 40 guest taps. 927 Broadway, Dunedin. 727 216-6318, dunedinhob.com ESCAPE BREWING CO. Another very worthy Odessa/Trinity destination. 9945 Trinity Blvd., Suite 108, Trinity. 727-807-6092, escapebrewingcompany.com FIVE BRANCHES Veteran-owned brewery, small batches from IPAs to stouts. Serving up brews and a clear view of the Tarpon Bayou. 531 Athens St., Tarpon Springs. fivebranchesbrewing.com FLYING BOAT BREWING COMPANY St. Pete aviation history and tasty homegrown suds. 1776 11th Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-800-2999, flyingboatbrewing.com FOUR STACKS BREWING An always-changing lineup of local and regional guest suds, along with trivia, live music and more. 5469 N. US HWY 41, Apollo Beach. 813-641-2036, fourstacksbrewing.com GREEN BENCH BREWING COMPANY A space worthy of the adventurous beers it produces. 1133 Baum Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-800-9836, greenbenchbrewing.com GOOD LIQUID BREWING CO. Thirty taps and food (and a coffee roaster!) from a husband-and-wife duo. 4824 14th St. W., Bradenton. 941-896-6381, thegoodliquidbrewing.co
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
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
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. 727201-4484, ifibrewedtheworld.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
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. 813-9979189, intheloopbrewingcompany.com
SARASOTA BREWING COMPANY House-crafted brews, pizza, and sports out toward beautiful Siesta Key. 6607 Gateway Ave., Sarasota. 941-925 -2337, sarasotabrewing.com
INFUSION BREWING CO. Another great location in the good-beer-packed Trinity/New Port Richey area. 7813 Mitchell Blvd. Ste 103, Trinity. 727-312-4512.
SILVERKING BREWING CO. This space in Tarpon Springs complements a label that’s been around since 2012. 325 East Lemon St., Tarpon Springs. 727- 4227598, silverkingbrewing.com
INOCULUM ALE WORKS These folks are crazy for sours, and know how to craft ‘em. 554 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. inoculumaleworks.com JDUB’S BREWING COMPANY You know ‘em, you love ‘em. A favorite statewide phenomenon. 1215 Mango Ave., Sarasota. 941-955-2739, jdubsbrewing.com LAGERHAUS BREWERY & GRILL A Palm Harbor bar and eatery that offers seasonal brews to complement their regulars. 3438 East Lake Business, Palm Harbor. 727-216-9682, lagerhausbrewery.com LATE START BREWING 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 Boulevard, Madeira Beach. 727-3620008, madbeachbrewing.com MARKER 48 Hernando’s first production craft brewery, with its own tasting room and beer garden 12147 Cortez Blvd, Weeki Wachee. 352-6062509, marker48.com MASTRY’S BREWING CO. From CD Roma’s restaurant to sweet new digs on St. Pete Beach. 7701 Blind Pass Rd., St. Pete Beach. 727-202-8045 mastrysbrewingco.com MOTORWORKS BREWING A taproom and beer garden featuring full liquor and wine as well as 30 taps. 1014 9th Street West, Bradenton. 941-567-6218, motorworksbrewing.com MR. DUNDERBAK’S The longtime restaurant, biergarten and homebrewers’ hangout is serving up its own beers. 14929 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa. 813-977-4104, 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, facebook.com/ overflowbrewingco PEPPER BREWING The Angry Pepper Taphouse’s inhouse label, available “on a limited basis.” 9366 Oakhurst Rd., Seminole. 727-596-5766, angrypeppertaphouse.com
GRINDHAUS BREW LAB Small batches and no extracts. 1650 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater. 727-240-0804, grindhausbrewlab.com
PESKY PELICAN BREW PUB This beachy restaurant also offers up its own beers thanks to an in-house nano system. 923 72nd. St. N., St. Petersburg. 727-302-9600, peskypelicanbrewpub.com
GULFPORT BREWERY + EATERY Small batches with an artisanal food menu. 3007 Beach Blvd., Tampa. facebook. com/GulfportBrewery
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
HIDDEN SPRINGS ALE WORKS This Tampa Heights brewery features a rotating tap selection. 1631 N. Franklin St., Tampa, 813-226-2739, hiddenspringsaleworks.com
RAPP BREWING COMPANY Greg Rapp’s award-winning styles are carefully crafted and delicious. 10930 Endeavor Way, Seminole. 727-544-1752, rappbrewing.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 COMPANY 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 US 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. 115 W. Pine St., Lakeland. 863-703- 0472, swanbrewing.com TBBC Formerly Tampa Bay Brewing Co., local favorite for nearly two decades. 1600 E. 8th Ave., Ybor City/13933 Monroe’s Business Park, Westchase. 813-247-1422, tbbc. beer TAMPA BEER WORKS At the former site of ESB Brewing, TBW focuses on American craft styles. 333 N. Falkenburg Rd., Suite D407 Tampa. 813-685-1909, tampabeerworks.com TIDAL BREWING COMPANY Small batches in Spring Hill. 14311 Spring Hill Dr., Spring Hill. 352-701-1602,tidalbrewingfl.com TWO FROGS BREWING COMPANY Tarpon Springs’ latest brewery and taproom focuses on American ale styles. 151 E. Tarpon Ave., Tarpon Springs. 727-940-6077, facebook.com/twofrogsbrewing 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 COMPANY Traditional German styles in downtown Dunedin. 985 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. 727-238-8717, facebook.com/ woodwrightbrewing ZEPHYRHILLS BREWING COMPANY East Paco’s first microbrewery. 38530 5th Ave., Zephyrhills. 813715 -2683, zbcbeer.com ZYDECO BREW WERKS Craft brews in Ybor thanks to an award-winning brewmaster, as well as full bars and NOLA-influenced cuisine. 1902 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City. 813-252- 4541, facebook.com/ Zydecobrewwerks
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MOVIES
THEATER
ART
CULTURE
Fwee your mind
A St. Petersburg learning company has freebies for pandemic parents. By Ray Roa
COURTESY SURYA SAJNANI
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aving to care for kids—and develop their brains through schoolwork all while explaining the coronavirus and COVID-19—is not a black-and-white affair. One St. Petersburg company, however, can make it a little more accessible for those tasked with taking care of little ones, from newborns to five year olds, during this difficult time. “I am a worrier at heart, and the last six weeks has given me plenty of time to ponder over things,” Surya Sajnani told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay in an email.”Seeing my kids weather this in their own unique ways has given me a sense of comfort in their resilience.” One of those kids is her son, Sid, who turned 18 this month. Thanks to the coronavirus, his big birthday consisted of a homemade scavenger hunt with his parents. “He’s a good sport though, and we felt lucky to have him to ourselves,” Sajnani, the founder and owner of St. Petersburg-based Wee Gallery said. “Like most seniors, he’s unsure of what’s coming, but trying his best to keep his spirits cautiously optimistic, and prepare for whatever scenario ends up playing out.” The new adult is also probably better equipped for change thanks to the visual brain games his parents painted on his childhood wall in the form of black-and-white murals. Surya—an art-loving science major who parlayed her knack for graphic design into a career as a visualizer at an advertising agency— and her husband, Dave Pinto, turned those paintings into six simple study cards featuring black-and-white pictures of animals and repeating patterns. That was in 2002. Today, their company is a survivor of the 2008 recession that employs four full-timers and ships product—the cards, plus books, wall art, custom prints, throw pillows, nesting dolls, stroller covers, backpacks, pottery and more—across the globe. So far, sales have held steady during the pandemic, so Wee is pulling an old rabbit out of its hat to give back to parents cooped up and staring at a long, sequestered summer. “We actually created our first ‘Download to Donate’ campaign when Hurricane Irma hit.
WEE THANK YOU: Wee Gallery owner and founder Surya Sajnani gives design projects away to help during quarantine. We designed a coloring page to download, and donated $1 to the hurricane relief fund for every page that was downloaded,” Surya said, adding that her customers felt good about being able to do something in the face of tragedy. Wee created a similar campaign for the fires in the Amazon rainforest and did it again, most recently, for the fires that ravaged Australia. “We reached our goal of 500 downloads in a few hours [during the Australia campaign], so when we were suddenly in the position of having to quarantine, we were already in a good place to continue the downloads,” she added. This time, however, Wee decided to offer the downloads for free. Educational “Freebies” on Wee’s website include “Baby Animals” and “Birds” coloring sets, plus kits to make finger puppets, folk art eggs, pinwheels, fortune cookies, paper huggers, holiday cards, napkin holders and more. All of it is drawn in Wee’s signature, brainmassaging black-and-white. “We found that babies had a connection with the animals past the black and white stage,
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perhaps because of their familiarity from the early days,” Surya said. Wee even found that its black-and-white art cards were still useful for developing other skills like depth perception and motor skills, once the vision milestones were reached. Offering free material during the lockdown was a no-brainer. “We knew parents would be having to constantly find resources to entertain their kids while sheltering at home,” Surya explained, adding that she’s enjoyed seeing all the pictures families are sharing with Wee. “We will continue to offer craft projects and free educational materials to parents as long as the quarantine continues.” The freebies are a simple thing Wee can do during a time filled with uncertainty. “It’s important that we stay positive and support the constructive efforts of so many around us. With clean hands and clear minds, let’s weather this together,” Surya said, admitting to some worry about a workforce that will have
a hard time getting back on its feet if and when this all clears. “I feel like we as citizens along with leaders must really get creative and think of ways to support the most vulnerable members of our community.” Still, Surya and her family miss hanging out with their friends. To combat the coopedup feeling, she and Dave go on a long bike ride every day; it’s a habit she hopes to bring into her post-coronavirus days. And while this complicated chapter in our lives is far from a blackand-white situation, it has hammered home the notion that, sometimes, you need to strip life back to survive mentally and physically. “[The quarantine] has forced us to slow down,” Surya said. "It's shown that we can exist happily with so much less.”
“The quarantine has shown that we can exist happily with so much less.”
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I miss us
BOURNE AGAIN: Scott Bourne and Sandra Döhnert Bourne.
A Bay area photographer searches for what makes St. Pete so special. By Sandra Döhnert Bourne
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ike so many other kids whose birthdays fall on this new COVID-19 part of the calendar, Scott and Sandra Döhnert Bourne’s little one had her party canceled. But the St. Petersburg-based couple was honest with their
child. “We have had to explain what is going on, why we can’t go to the playground, preschool, shops, see friends and family in a way that she knows that we are all in this together,”
PHOTO ESSAY
Scott—husband of photographer and CL contributor Sandra, wrote. “Children are more understanding than many adults think.” Like the rest of us, the Bournes miss friends and enjoying the vibrant epicenters of culture that our neighborhoods have become. They’re also exercising more, eating at the dinner table together and finishing home improvements projects. They’re also worried about the mental and emotional health of a world under quarantine. But unlike most of us, Sandra went out to capture
images of her neighbors during these extraordinary times. What follows are Q&As with local families—including the Bournes, Dr. Kanika Tomalin’s and more—who talked to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay about what life under lockdown is like for them. The portraits themselves are part of Sandra’s “I Miss Us, St. Pete: A social distance photo essay from afar.” See the full photo essay via photos.cltampa.com and visit cltampa.com to read all the res of the family Q&As we couldn’t fit in print. —Ray Roa
“Children are more understanding than many adults think.”
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ST. PETE STRONG: St. Pete’s Deputy Mayor, Dr. Kanika Tomalin, with her children Kai and Nia.
St. Petersburg Deputy Mayor Dr. Kanika Tomalin How have the last five or six weeks changed you as a parent? Living through the challenges of social distancing and other restrictions related to the coronavirus is the most significant transition my children and I have had to make since suddenly losing my husband, their father, four years ago. It’s the first major threat from which I’ve had to protect them as a single parent. My son had to return home from college with only a few day’s notice and my daughter left her high school for spring break, unknowingly walking into the end of her sophomore year. Both had plans for the end of school and summer that slipped away overnight. I’m proud of the way they’ve rolled with the unexpected. They are resisting the urge to feel frustrated, dismissing disappointment—and are instead focused on how they can help others who are burdened with severe impacts and challenges. And, I’m proud that I am prepared to fearlessly lead my family through this uncertain time, stepping up to the challenges that unfold every day with confidence and strength. This newfound resilience is hard-earned and borne of serious trials, but those dark days of the past have grown me into a better mom than I’ve ever been.
attend competitive, high-performance schools that have maintained unflinching expectations for their academic performance. Although both schools have offered amazing support, the initial transition was tough. But we created a routine and structure helps them stick to a plan that moves them successfully through their days. They wake at the same time every morning, work from a designated space, keep set schedules and review what they’ve accomplished when I get home. These standards help them self-assess and have made a huge difference in their performance. They are wrapping up their final weeks of school and are happy with what they’ve been able to accomplish. How are you talking to your kids about the coronavirus? In my position as Deputy Mayor of St. Pete I am working nonstop to help our city navigate this public health crisis. I’m talking to my kids about this work in the same frame we discuss any of the disasters or disruptions that threaten our city. We discuss what it is, why our response is so critical, and how it impacts life for vulnerable people in our city. My son is studying global security and foreign policy so we’ve spent significant time discussing the geopolitical implications of coronavirus and its subsequent impact on everything from the economy to diplomatic relations.
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How’s e-learning going? My children are wrapping up freshman year in college and sophomore year in high school. They
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What do you miss the most from the “before” time? We most miss being out and about in our beautiful city! St. Pete is such a vibrant and inclusive community, filled with so many adventures and discoveries. We can’t wait to get back into all of it again. Any new good habits or practices that you hope to carry into the post-coronavirus world? I’ve become particularly mindful about meals. Preparing more meals at home and going to the grocery store less has forced me to commit to intentional planning for every trip. We talk about what we’d like to eat for all three meals, over the course of at least a week, paying attention to every detail and ingredient. The result: delicious meals that are healthy, fun to create and even more exciting to enjoy. It’s the one new addition to my life that I’m most passionately driven to keep up.
What worries you the most about our lives going forward? I hope that we are able to re-acclimatize in a way that is sustainable and does not require repeat disruption and distancing requirements in the near future. It is important that we find a balance that provides for optimal public health while allowing for the full embrace of the freedoms and experiences that define quality of life. Fortunately, this is not left to luck or chance. Our responsible choices and leaderful decisions will have a huge influence on our community’s ability to successfully navigate a full return to life as we knew it in the pre-COVID world.
“It’s the first major threat from which I’ve had to protect them as a single parent.”
Is there any silver lining to being quarantined? This unprecedented time at home with both my children is the amazing benefit of this trying time. Social distancing has brought my family together in ways we would probably have never elected on our own. We are spending uninterrupted, special quality time together and getting to know each other in ways that we’ll treasure for the rest of our lives.
Do you have a message for kids, parents and the greater Tampa Bay area? Stay strong! We can do this. Ours is a resilient community that is defined by beautiful people who make our world better by taking great care of each other. Our love for each other and this beautiful piece of paradise that we call home will carry us forward. It won’t be easy, but we will make it through. Social distancing forces us to be separate, but we are never apart. This portrait is part of Sandra Döhnert Bourne’s “I Miss Us, St. Pete: A social distance photo essay from afar.” See the full photo essay via photos. cltampa.com, and read full Q&A via cltampa.com.
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PLEASE STAY: The Giuffre family has a simple message for us (L-R; Carina, Dante, Chris and Jen).
Chris Giuffre, owner of Galileo Studios How have the last five or six weeks changed you as a parent? I don’t think it’s changed us in any dramatic sense. Jen works in the school system and has summers off, and my work is freelance, so we’re used to having lots of time away from traditional work obligations, and all being together. Moreover, when he was a toddler, our son was diagnosed with a rare cancer that required extensive and intensive treatment (he’s fully recovered and well, BTW), that consumed our attention for over a year. So you could say we’ve had some experience with the dread and anxiety of not knowing what’s next. Our daughter was a newborn at the time, so we really had our hands full. In all I feel like we’ve had some experiences in the past that have enabled us to manage the fears and anxieties that come with this, as well as the downtime, and being together. It doesn’t mean it’s all rainbows and sunshine over here—it’s still tough, and requires empathy, and patience, but overall I don’t think we’ve had to dramatically change our approach, or our outlook as parents.
activities and homework, without much time to slow down and “just be”, before having to wind down to bed. It’s nice now, to have a little breathing room, but we’ve found that without the regimen of being in school, and class, with peers and teachers, it’s just as easy to fall behind if they don’t stay on top of it. It’s just for different reasons. However, we are now able to more authentically check in daily with our kids. So, we just try to stay as engaged with them as much possible, often to their annoyance, but I think they get it. We have a couple mandatory physical activity breaks during the day, where we walk around the block, and work in the yard. I think that helps. I suppose in retrospect, it’s not all that different from having toddlers, but it’s less a matter of keeping them engaged, than it is keeping them focused, and making sure they get as much “IRL” time as possible. Jen feels we’ve learned more about our children as learners. “We all take for granted the scaffolding done by teachers and how much students learn from other children in class—asking questions, discussions of content, and the energy of who is understanding and who isn’t. Home education takes more discipline to stay organized and self-directed. Lists help.” Carina suggests writing down all your assignments, and don’t allow yourself to be distracted by other things. Dante appreciates being able to turn homework in at midnight.
“My results came back positive.”
Any tips or questions about being more effective homeschool parents? Ha! Now this is the $64,000 question, isn’t it?! So, the kids are teens now, and both are in magnet programs with relatively heavy workloads. Our typical school days were a whirlwind of
How are you talking to your kids about the coronavirus? I was in New York City the first two weeks of March, installing art at the Armory Show. When it was time to return I wasn’t sick, but I had a feeling I had been exposed, I mean, how could I not, right? So, from the moment I got home we re-instituted certain protocols that we employed when Dante had zero immune system after his cancer treatments (at that time, we made ourselves a bit of a nuisance to his doctors and nurses, because information was the only power we had.) I spoke with the kids directly, and openly about what was happening. I’ve been transparent with them from the beginning about how serious this is, and that there’s a good chance one of us, possibly all of us, could get sick, but that it was unlikely that they would get very sick. I came down with what felt like the flu three days later. It was relatively mild, and passed quickly in four days, but then the cough came… It was just like the one I get from my seasonal allergies, but at this point I was like, “Fuck this, I’m getting a test”. So I did. It took 12 days to get results. Even though I was feeling fine at that point, we kept up with isolation protocols as best we could. I slept alone, Jen on the lower bunk in the girl’s room. I had my own bathroom. Stayed out of the kitchen as much as possible. Cleaned everything twice. Things we had done years ago to keep the boy healthy and safe were coming back like old habits. My results came back positive. I think we were fortunate—my case was mild, and no
one else in the family got sick. But perhaps the most silver of linings was that our experience was removed from hype. It was direct, and happening in real time. What worries you the most about our lives going forward? This is an interesting question, and we’ve all expressed similar anxieties: Jen says she’s hopeful that people will emerge from this having learned more about themselves, or their communities, and not return to self-serving habits they may have had prior. Dante is worried that “the amount of people tired of sitting in their homes will overwhelm the public. People are already crowding up parks and streets more than they did before all of this. If that keeps happening, it will only extend the quarantine longer.” Carina says, “Something that worries me the most is how we will adjust to going back to “normal life”. since we have been inside our houses for so long I’m worried that the adjustment won’t be as easy as some think it will be.” For me, whether we, as a people, will have the courage and strength to come together, and demand real leadership, and real change.
I MISS US
This portrait is part of Sandra Döhnert Bourne’s “I Miss Us, St. Pete: A social distance photo essay from afar.” See the full photo essay via photos. cltampa.com, and read full Q&A via cltampa.com.
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Tai Swank, Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride
How's e-learning going? My kids are one and three. The three-year-old Atlas, we try to plan out activities throughout the day. It’s so easy to throw an iPad in front of them and let them be for eight hours. But, we read and there’s an hour for arts, trampoline, chasing our dogs around and gardening. Alastair is one, I’m still having to change his diapers so that’s a handful in itself. They’ve got a nice play area that he spends time in. Blocks, books, and educational toys.
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Have the last five or six weeks changed you as a parent? Honestly, it made me think that I was a shittier parent before the pandemic. Here we are, I am quarantined with them, and I’m thinking how I was not more involved emotionally in their lives before.
How are you talking to your kids about the coronavirus? Atlas is speaking now and we can hold full conversations. Sometimes her answers are “why” and “chocolate ice cream.” The park was a big part of our life before. She knows it’s not safe because people are getting sick. What do you miss the most from the “before” time? Being quarantined with two kids, I’ve missed face-to-face conversations with adults. Their mom wanted us fully locked down, so I didn’t get to see anyone often. Did you pick up any new good habits or practices that you hope to carry into the post-coronavirus world we’re about to enter? You’ve got to keep moving forward and progressing. I finished off a laundry room and kitchen project that were four years in the making. Make time for your families and loved ones. Drink less, and do more.
RIDERS ON THE STORM: Tai Swank (L) and Atlas. Do you have a message for kids, parents and the greater Tampa Bay area? Is there any silver lining to being quarantined? I don’t think we have had to deal with uncer- What do you miss the most from the “before” Being able to spend time at home and spend time tainty before. It’s a scary feeling. When the time? with my family has been unbelievably healing. pandemic started I looked at my bank account, I miss not being afraid of people. I miss going I’ve been so humbled by being able to continue and was like, “I wish that to the park and running into the store if I for- working and keeping as normal as possible. $5,500 tax return was still got an ingredient. I miss not being able to have there.” We have been coasting play dates with other kiddos and being able to What worries you the most about our lives by stuck in our daily routines, hug my friends and family. going forward? and we—as well as everyone on earth—got I worry that the human race, as a whole, won’t quick kicked in the nuts by COVID-19. The Did you pick up any new good habits or practices learn its lesson. The world needs to slow down worst thing to come out of this that I’ve seen is that you hope to carry into the post-coronavi- and clean itself up. I fear that people will dive misinformation being spread when dealt with rus world we’re about into old habits, and fear. If you don’t understand something, wait to enter? we will fall right back until you share that Bill Gates conspiracy link. I’ve been exercising into the position we’re Unfortunately we didn’t have the right leader to more. I’ve been more in, and a third chance pick up the U.S.A., throw us over his shoulder mindful about spendmay not be an option. and carry us home. ing. I’ve been more mindful about making meals and preparing Do you have a message for kids, parents and things to share with other people. I’ve been the greater Tampa Bay area? baking almost daily and it gives me so much Stay strong and positive and take a moment to joy to share with friends and family, even if it’s be thankful that you’re with your family. Rely How have the last five or six weeks changed a quick front porch drop off. I hope to continue on your friends and family, and ask for help. you as a parent? the slower life and sharing moving forward. I And slow down, get dirty! Do something new! I’ve been able to watch my daughter grow and have also been gardening (which started preblossom and see milestones that I normally COVID) but I have been able to hone in on it This portrait is part of Sandra Döhnert Bourne’s wouldn’t have since I work full time outside of and really LEARN the processes. “I Miss Us, St. Pete: A social distance photo essay the home. I’ve learned to be more patient and to from afar.” See the full photo essay via photos. get muddy and dirty with her rather than focus cltampa.com, and read full Q&A via cltampa. on the clean up after. com.
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Is there any silver lining to being quarantined? With all the sadness and uncertainty, I always had hope. Hope in humanity and that everything will be OK. What worries you the most about our lives going forward? The local economy concerns me. So many friends are in the hospitality industry as owners or workers. What is the new normal going to be? Unless a cure is found, I don’t see it going away anytime soon. Will we have to wear masks out in public? That’s going to make first dates a problem.
“With all the sadness and uncertainty, I always had hope.”
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Not sorry, Ms. Jackson How one Tampa songwriter adjusted to her life on lockdown. By Ray Roa
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udyAnne Jackson’s favorite songwriters include Taylor Swift and Maren Morris, but there’s another one who really impresses the young Tampa talent. The sixth grader at the Academy of Holy Names is one of countless singer-songwriters working the Tampa Bay scene, and she’s already shared a bill with that hero of hers. “Brandi Carlile,” Jackson, 12, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “She’s just amazing.” That gig happened in early March, at Gasparilla Music Festival (GMF), a festival Jackson already played, solo, as a fourth grader in 2017. She wasn’t expecting to be on the big stage at Kiley Gardens this year, during what ended up being Tampa Bay’s last music festival before concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 effectively shut down live music. “One of the band’s flights got delayed, and they weren’t equipped to be there, so GMF called me, and they’re like, ‘Can you be here in 10 minutes?,’” Jackson explained matter-of-factly. “So it was fun, I got to do a 30 minute set.” You can practically hear Jackson—who’s taking a few minutes to talk to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay after finishing schoolwork and before an online guitar lesson—smiling through the phone as she explains the set. Her quick response to that evolving situation is just one way Jackson is pivoting in the face of change. On April 11, Jackson released a video for “Stuck In the Clouds,” her first original song, written when she was nine-years-old and polished up with local producer Anthony Little. The nearly three-minute cut—a midtempo ballad with a singalong chorus—is still one of her favorites. “I did kind of tweak it to make it the way it is now, and while I didn’t write it during quarantine, I think people can still relate to it now,” Jackson said, explaining how she sees life changing around her and how hard that can be. “There’s also a line in the beginning that I
think is important, too. ‘Sometimes people don’t understand how hard it is to grow up,’” Jackson said. “I think that’s a big part of it, because a lot of kids—and not even just kids, college aged people, so many different people— they’re missing out on so much right now. I think we just have to adjust and look to the future. We can’t go back, so I think that’s a big part of it.” And while Jackson’s focused on the big picture—she hopes to release a full EP as her next project—knocking out the little things is helping her get through the pandemic and over the fact that she can only see her friends on a screen. “I miss being able to interact and hangout. I miss seeing my teachers,” Jackson said. So she gets her schoolwork done, takes a break, then takes either an online guitar , piano or voice lesson depending on the day of the week. Like everyone else dealing with life on lockdown, there are snacks in Jackson’s itinerary, but she’s also relishing her free moments in between the minutiae that makes up her day. “It’s actually kind of nice to have a little bit of time to be able to have some time to sit and write songs and work on my music,” she said of her quarantine lifestyle. “I’ve been jamming and practicing on Zoom. It’s actually working out pretty well, and it’s great that we have this technology now because if this happened in the past, it would have been a lot harder to do this stuff—so I’m really grateful for that.” Like any songwriter navigating the new state of “live music,” Jackson does sessions on Instagram to stay in touch with her audience. All the electronic interaction, however, still doesn’t hold a candle to the real thing for Jackson. “It is kind of hard not being able to be able to hang out with your friends, but when I feel the weight of being stuck here, I normally go to like my parents,” she said. “They just talk to me about it, and I think that really helps keep me grounded, and it keeps me moving and being productive with my day.” So when this starts to blow over, Jackson looks forward to going to summer camps for songwriting and playing some actual gigs. “Being able to be in front of people is one of the most fun things to do because you get to interact. You are kind of interacting on Instagram Live, but it’s not really exactly the same. You don’t get to see people’s faces,” Jackson said. “When I play, I really like to make people smile. I love seeing reactions, people smiling—it really makes me feel good.”
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Where the vinyl is: a list of Bay area record stores
It’s no secret that locally-owned and operated businesses are taking a hit from coronavirus closures and curfews. Some Tampa Bay record stores have adapted by offering curbside pickup, free shipping and private shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stock up on some quarantine vinyl, and spend that money you were saving for the now postponed Record Store Day 2020. Just make sure to call ahead of time to see what’s up at the shop. —Kyla Fields ArtPool Records (2030 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-433-5195, artpoolrules. com
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
Asylum Sights and Sounds (6566 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-384-1221
Disc Exchange (6712 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-343-5845, thediscexchange. com
Kingfish Records (Flea Market) (180 Race Track Rd., Tampa) 727-455-9923, kingfishrecords.com
Sound Exchange Pinellas Park (66th Street N and 86th Avenue N., Pinellas Park) 727-545-0042, soundexchangetampabay.com
Dunedin Records & Audio (757 Main St., Dunedin) 727-423-4108, dunedinrecords.com
Microgroove (906 N. Florida Ave., Tampa) 813-667-7089, microgroovetampa.co
St. Pete Records (6648 Central Ave., St. Petersburg) 727-490-8861, stpeterecords.com
Mojo Books & Records (2540 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa) 813-971-9717, mojotampa.com
Steelworker Records (708 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Tampa) 813-666-4933, steelworkerrecords.com
Bananas Records (2887 22nd Ave N., St. Petersburg) 727-327-4616 ext. 1, bananasrecords.com
Bananas Records Warehouse (2226 16th Dustin’s Vinyl Shop (180 Race Track Rd., Ave. N., St. Petersburg) 727 327-4616 ext. 2, Booth F25 W, Oldsmar) 727-678-6829, facebook.com/pg/dustinsvinylshop bananasrecords.com Green Shift Music & Comics (5713 N. Blue Moon Antiques, Books & Music (1413 Cleveland St., Clearwater) 727-443-7444 Nebraska Ave., Tampa) 813-238-4177, greenshiftmusicandcomics.com The Clearwater Record Shop (1610 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater) 727-755-1201, Hello Darlin’ Records (Roving VW Camper) clearwaterrecordshow.com 727-479-6783, hellodarlinrecords.com
Patrick’s Book and Record Store (15215 US Hwy.19 C, Hudson) 727-868-3168, patricksbooksandre.wixsite.com/patricks Planet Retro Records (226 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N., St. Petersburg) 727-2187434, planetretrorecords.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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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is there an area of your life where you would like a do-over? A chance to cancel the past and erase lingering messiness and clear a path for who-knows-what new possibility? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to prepare—not to actually take the leap, but rather make yourself ready for the leap. You will have God and fate and warm fuzzy vibes on your side as you dare to dream and scheme about a fresh start. Any mistakes you committed once upon a time could become irrelevant as you fantasize practically about a future breakthrough. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1855, Geminiborn Walt Whitman published his book of poetry *Leaves of Grass*. A literary critic named Rufus Wilmot Griswold did not approve. In a review, he derided the work that would eventually be regarded as one of America’s literary masterpieces. “It is impossible to imagine how any man’s fancy could have conceived such a mass of stupid filth,” Griswold wrote, adding that Whitman had a “degrading, beastly sensuality” driven by “the vilest imaginings.” Whitman’s crafty Gemini intelligence responded ingeniously to the criticism. In the next edition of *Leaves of Grass*, the author printed Griswold’s full review. It helped sell even more books! I invite you to consider comparable twists and tricks. CANCER (June 21-July 22): In your efforts to develop a vibrant community and foster a vital network of connections, you have an advantage. Your emotionally rich, nurturing spirit instills trust in people. They’re drawn to you because they sense you will treat them with care and sensitivity. On the other hand, these fine attributes of yours may sometimes cause problems. Extraneedy, manipulative folks may interpret your softness as weakness. They might try to exploit your kindness to take advantage of you. So the challenge for you is to be your generous, welcoming self without allowing anyone to violate your boundaries or rip you off. Everything I just said will be helpful to meditate on in the coming weeks, as you reinvent yourself for the future time when the coronavirus crisis will have lost much of its power to disrupt our lives.
cause that transcends your narrow self-interest? Are there ways you’ve been less than fully fair and honest in your dealings with people? Is it possible you have sometimes failed to give your best? I’m not saying that you are guilty of any of those sins. But most of us are indeed guilty of them, at least now and then. And if you are, Leo, now is your special time to check in with yourself—and make a n y necessary adjustments and corrections.
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(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I predict that you will have more flying dreams than usual in the coming weeks—as well as more dreams in which you’re traveling around the world in the company of rebel angels and dreams in which you’re leading revolutionary uprisings of oppressed people against tyrannical overlords and dreams of enjoying eight-course gourmet feasts with sexy geniuses in the year 2022. You may also, even while not asleep, well up with outlandish fantasies and exotic desires. I don’t regard any of these likelihoods as problematical. In fact, I applaud them and encourage them. They’re healthy for you! Bonus: All the wild action transpiring in your psyche may prompt you to generate good ideas about fun adventures you could embark on once the coronavirus crisis has ebbed.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s time to work your way below the surface level of things, Libra; to dig and dive into the lower reaches where the mysteries are darker and richer; to marshal your courage as you go By Rob Brezsny LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): in quest of the rest of the Now is an excellent time to take inventory story. Are you willing to suspend some of your of your integrity. You’re likely to get crucial assumptions about the way things work so as to insights if you evaluate the state of your eth- become fully alert for hidden agendas and dorics, your authenticity, and your compassion. mant potentials? Here’s a piece of advice: Your Is it time to boost your commitment to a noble fine analytical intelligence won’t be enough to
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guide you through this enigmatic terrain. If you hope to get face to face with the core source, you’ll have to call on your deeper intuition and non-rational hunches. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When was the last time you researched the intricacies of what you don’t like and don’t desire and don’t want to become? Now is a favorable time to take a thorough inventory. You’ll generate good fortune for yourself by naming the following truths: 1. goals and dreams that are distractions f r om
your primary mission; 2. attitudes and approaches that aren’t suitable for your temperament and that don’t contribute to your maximum health; 3. people and influences that are not in alignment with your highest good. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky believed that the cleverest people are those who regularly ca ll them-
selves fools. In other words, they feel humble amusement as they acknowledge their failings and ignorance—thereby paving the way for creative growth. They steadily renew their commitment to avoid being know-it-alls, celebrating the curiosity that such blessed innocence enables them to nurture. They give themselves permission to ask dumb questions! Now is a favorable time for you to employ these strategies. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What wonderful improvements and beautiful influences would you love to be basking in by May 1, 2021? What masterpieces would you love to have as key elements of your life by then? I invite you to have fun brainstorming about these possibilities in
the next two weeks. If an exciting idea bubbles up into your awareness, formulate a plan that outlines the details you’ll need to put in place so as to bring it to fruition when the time is right. I hereby authorize you to describe yourself with these terms: begetter; originator; maker; designer; founder; producer; framer; generator. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If I asked you to hug and kiss yourself regularly, would you think I was being too cute? If I encouraged you to gaze into a mirror once a day and tell yourself how beautiful a n d interesting you are, would you say, “ T h at ’s too woowoo for me.” I hope you will respond more favorably than that, Aquarius. In fact, I will be praying for you to ascend to new heights of self-love between now and May 25. I will be rooting for you to be unabashed as you treat yourself with more compassionate tenderness than you have ever dared to before. And I do mean EVER! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming weeks, I’d love to see you get excited about refining and upgrading the ways you communicate. I don’t mean to imply that you’re a poor communicator now; it’s just that you’re in a phase when you’re especially empowered to enhance the clarity and candor with which you express yourself. You’ll have an uncanny knack for knowing the right thing to say at the right moment. You’ll generate blessings for yourself as you fine-tune your listening skills. Much of this may have to happen online and over the phone, of course. But you can still accomplish a lot! ARIES (March 21-April 19): I always hesitate to advise Aries people to slow down, be more deliberate, and pay closer attention to boring details. The Rams to whom I provide such counsel may be rebelliously annoyed with me—so much so that they move even faster, and with less attention to the details. Nevertheless, I’ll risk offering you this advisory right now. Here’s my reasoning, which I hope will make the prospect more appealing: If you commit to a phase in which you temporarily invoke more prudence, discretion, and watchfulness than usual, it will ultimately reward you with a specific opportunity to make rapid progress.
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Aroused state By Dan Savage
I’m a 31-year-old female. Last week I suddenly started to experience an overwhelming, compulsive, and near-constant state of physical arousal. I’ve masturbated so much looking for relief that my entire lower region is super sore and swollen and still, it’s like my whole body is pulsating with this electric arousal telling me to ignore the pain and do it again. I have no idea if it’s normal to suddenly have a spike in libido, and I know a lot of people will say they wish they had this problem but it’s interfering with my daily activities because I can’t focus on anything else. My college classes are suffering because of it. I’ve even had to remove my clitoral hood piercing, which I’ve had for over 10 years! I feel like I have all of the reasons—high anxiety related to the pandemic, being stuck with an alcoholic boyfriend in the house, tons of homework, finances are low—to warrant a lack of arousal, so why am I drowning in it? Everything I’m learning in class states that sexual desire lowers throughout the lifespan so why am I literally pulsating with it? I really don’t want to call my doctor if I don’t have to. Any insight would be appreciated. —Chronically Aroused “There’s a general belief that sexual arousal is always wanted—and the more the better,” said Robyn Jackowich. “But in reality, persistent and unwanted sexual arousal can be very distressing.” Jackowich is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, where she works under the supervision of Dr. Caroline Pukall in the Sexual Health Research Lab. Jackowich has published numerous studies on Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD), a condition characterized by a constant or frequently recurring state of genital arousal—sensations, sensitivity, swelling—in the absence of sexual desire. “In other words, there is a disconnect between what is happening in one’s body and mind,” said Jackowich, “and this can be both distressing and distracting.” And while you would think stress would tank your libido—and preliminary research shows that the pandemic is tanking more libidos than it’s not—stress and anxiety can actually be triggers for PGAD. As you’ve learned, CA, you can’t masturbate your way out of this. So what do you do? Unfortunately, it’s the thing you’d really rather not do: call your doctor. “It’s important to meet with a knowledgeable healthcare provider to ensure there is not another concern present that may be responsible for the symptoms and to access treatment,”
said Jackowich. “Research on treatments for PGAD is relatively new, so it can be helpful to meet with a team of different healthcare providers to find what treatments would be most effective for you specifically. This could include a gynaecologist, urologist, pelvic floor physical therapist, neurologist, and/or psychologist with expertise in sex therapy.” Talking with your doctor about this may be embarrassing, I realize, and it doesn’t help that many doctors are unfamiliar with PGAD. Jackowich actually recommends bringing printouts of information pages and research papers about the condition to your appointment and sharing them with your physician. And if your doc doesn’t take your distress seriously and/or refuses to refer you to the specialists you need to see, CA, then you’ll have to get yourself a new doctor. (You can find those information pages and research papers at sexlab.ca/pgad, where you can also learn about currently available treatments and join support groups for sufferers.) “More awareness of PGAD and research on this condition is needed to help understand the symptoms and develop effective treatments,” said Jackowich. “If you experience these symptoms and would like to contribute to ongoing research efforts, the Queen’s University Sexual Health Research Lab is seeking participants for an online study.” To take part in that online survey, go to sexlab.ca/pgad, click on “participate,” and scroll down to the “OLIVE Study.” I’ve rekindled a romance with an ex from a decade ago. We are long distance right now, but getting very close. We have one recurring problem though. She does not like that I am friends with another ex. That ex has actually been a close friend for a very long time and our friendship means a lot to me. Our romantic relationship only lasted a few months. But since we did have a romantic relationship once, my current girlfriend sees my ex as a threat. I have reassured her several times that the relationship is in the past and we are now only friends. But my girlfriend doesn’t want me to communicate with her at all. She wants me to unfriend her on Facebook and un-follow her Instagram, and at least once a week she asks if we have been in contact. It is hard for me to throw a friend away in order to be in a relationship. Even though I don’t talk to my ex/friend all that regularly, I would like the option to at least check in every once in a while. Cutting her out of my life completely feels like a kind of death. I wish there was some way I could find a compromise, but this seems to be one of those “all or nothing” things. I also don’t like this feeling of not being trusted and fear it could lead to other problems down the line. —Unhappy Girlfriend Has Sensitivities
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I can see why your current girlfriend might feel threatened by your relationship with an ex, UGHS, seeing as she—your current girlfriend—was until very recently just another one of your exes. Since you got back together with her, the green-eyed monster whispers in her ear, what’s to stop you from getting back together with your other ex? What the greeneyed monster doesn’t say, of course, is that you had every opportunity to get back together with your ex and didn’t. And cutting off your ex now doesn’t mean you can’t get back together with her later. And what’s to stop you from getting together with one of the 3.5 billion women you haven’t already dated? You have to take a hard line on this. Tell your current you’re happy to provide her with a little reassurance when she’s feeling insecure about your ex, but you’re not going to unfriend, or un-follow her, or anyone else. You can make an appeal to reason—you wouldn’t be with your current girlfriend if you were the sort of person who cut off contact with his exes—but if your current girlfriend is the irrationally jealous type… well, an appeal to reason won’t help. Irrationally jealous people are by definition incapable of seeing reason, UGHS, which is why they must be shown doors. This isn’t a sexy question, but you are wise and I am confused. I have been friends with a woman for about 16 years. She’s very funny, creative, loves to have a good time. She’s also intense, not very bright, and my family and friends do not like her around. Now that we’re grown, we do not see
each other often, but I’ve been glad to maintain a friendship with her and get together now and again. Enter: my wedding. At the reception she made a fool of herself (and me) by going on some strange, racist rant. The racist thing really surprised and disappointed me, and when I asked her about it she shrugged it off like, “Oh, just add that to the list of dumb things I do when I’m drunk.” Other things she’d done when she’s drunk: two DUIs, waking up in jail with an assault charge, having sex with strangers, etc. It’s been about seven months since my wedding and I’ve basically been ignoring her while trying to decide what to do. I love my friend, but I do not want her hurting anyone else on my watch. Do I call her up and end it? See her once a year when no ones around? Ignore her until she dies? —Loyal To A Fault Tell your racist friend to give you a call after she gets sober and confront her about her racism then—you know, when she’s actually capable of remembering the conversation, reflecting on what you had to say, and perhaps changing for the better. If she can’t get both sober and better, LTAF, make sure she isn’t registered to vote and then ignore her until she dies. On savagelovecast.com: Dan chats with our epidemiologist pal about the state of the pandemic, and also with the founder of the Badass Army—a group working to fight for victims of revenge porn. Contact mail@savagelove.net, follow @ FakeDanSavage on Twitter and visit savagelove. net.
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