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THIS THING IS ON: An article about Dixie Hollins High School led to a flooded inbox.

Dixie Hollins principal, namesake’s great-granddaughter and more react to petition to change school’s name. By Jenna Rimensnyder ast week, my article about renaming Dixie Hollins’ High School and its mascot outlined the history of racial injustice, race wars that plagued the school during desegregation and the years of reform that followed. While the school’s symbolism changed from a Confederate soldier on horseback to a grey haired plantation owner in a blue suit to simply the letter “R” for Rebels, the stench of the Confederacy didn’t go away. As the piece went live, Dixie Hollins Students started a petition calling for change. On July 9, it was updated to read: “We’ve received an email from the principal! To quote, he will be ‘convening with a group of student leaders shortly, to start the conversation.’ His response acknowledged the history and showed that he was open-minded when it came to finding a way to make the change.” I was also contacted by Dixie Hollins’ greatgranddaughter, Jen Cox, who was eager to help. She provided the following statement: “Dixie Hollins was my great-grandfather. I had planned to approach the school and school board myself about making a change to the name, when I read that organizers had already begun that process, thanks to your article! The petition organizers’ goal is the same as mine—to preserve my grandfather’s name and contribution by changing the school’s name to ‘Hollins High School.’ But, what’s most important, is the removal of anything that is correlated with hatred and racism, be it the fight song, the mascot, or the name ‘Dixie.’

It is my strong belief that we honor the necessary cultural changes we are facing, highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement, as they relate to changing institutional names associated with racism. Whether we like it or not, words are assigned meaning, and they matter—a lot. The word “Dixie” is associated with the Confederacy, and it is past time to stop glorifying what it stood for. The pain that word causes our society is much more important than preserving a name. The fact that Dixie Hollins advocated for access to a better education for Black students back in the early 20th century underscores the irony that his first name is a word associated with racism. My family has an opportunity to show support for the changes needed in our culture, and I hope that support will help further this process. I enthusiastically applaud the organizers for calling for change!” Cox also made it clear that although her family has given their blessing for the name and mascot change, the organizers don’t need their permission to do what is right. “I feel emotional and honored that they care enough to keep his last name and we hope to provide more history to the school,” Cox said in a phone call with CL. “This school deserves to have the opportunity to rebrand—they’re working so hard to be an inclusive school and they’ve done so much work toward that.” Cox connected with Principal Florio hoping to form a partnership, allowing the Hollins family to provide history to the students and the school on the progressive triumphs of her great-grandfather.

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Cox also told CL that she is working on a letter on her family’s behalf for Florio to present to organizers. Hollins’ family has given their blessing, the student body is crying out. There are over 400 signatures on the petition. We can’t change the school’s past, but we can add its name to the list of schools on the right side of history and ready to move forward in the fight for equality. Other letters to the editor I’m a 1965 graduate of Dixie Hollins and I found Jenna Rimensynder’s article insulting. She would have served the public better had she done more thorough research for her article before branding our school “steeped in racial injustice” for the last six decades. In the year 1971, Lou Brown hardly qualifies to be cited as “one of the “first African-Americans bused to Dixie” since that happened at least six years earlier. My yearbooks only go back as far as 1964 but Dixie had Black students at that time and, I believe, even earlier. It would have been nice to include those very first experiences from a White and Black perspective from those early times. I honestly can’t remember witnessing any of the racial incidents she pointed out during my years there. Yes, there will always be incidents of hatred and racism in every setting in our imperfect world, but it comes from a place far deeper than any flag or school mascot. Why not worry about the innocent young Black children being shot down today for no other reason than to push a political agenda, Ms. Rimensnyder? Just quickly going through the yearbooks, I established these students [in a list passed on by this letter writer] were active participants in a variety of extracurricular activities. Please be sure to let Ms. Rimensnyder know this info was all available just by taking the time to do a little more research before smearing our school’s

name which, even she admitted, was based on an individual who was an important figure in Pinellas County history and not based on a racist time in history. —Janice DeMeza The National Christian League of Councils is requesting the Pinellas County School Board to change the name of Dixie Hollins High School and discontinue all symbolisms used by the school connected to honoring the Confederacy, specifically, the school’s mascot, song and flag, states Sevell Brown, III, NCLC’s National Director. Since 1964, African American students have been forced to accept these symbolisms of the Confederacy—a Confederacy guilty of treason against America costing 675,000 lives in a Civil War. The Confederate States of America killed American soldiers, and assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Further, on behalf of African American students who attended Dixie Hollins High School before and after desegregation, which shamefully did not happen until 1971 in Pinellas County, we formally request our voice now be heard. Brown emphasized, to the Pinellas County School Board members “We demand the immediate cease and desist of honoring of all symbols of the Confederacy in Pinellas County, Florida.” “As we watch in other counties and in other States that were part of the Confederacy, there is, finally, unanimous admission these are also symbols of hate against the African American community. They have no place in our county, and now is the time to address a long-neglected slight to our citizens”, states Darryl L. Brown, Sr., NCLC’s Direct Actions Coordinator. Thusly, the NCLC has requested to be placed on the next Agenda for the Pinellas County School Board. —Sevell C. Brown, III, NCLC National Director

“The pain that word causes is more important than preserving a name.”

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Justice for Josiah Photos by Dave Decker

ver the weekend, friends, family and activists gathered in Ybor City to call for justice for Josiah Pinner, a 15-year-old who was killed after being struck by undercover Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputy Philip Montesi on January 21. Montesi was responding to a non-emergency call and going 21 miles per hour over the speed limit in a residential area; the deputy received a five-day suspension and was forced to take a driving class. Dave Decker went to the rally outside the sheriffs office and has these photos to share—see the rest and more via photos.cltampa.com. —Ray Roa

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CRASS CHRIS: The statue has been a source of controversy for Native American people

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TPD is still guarding Bayshore’s controversial Christopher Columbus statue. By Justin Garcia and Colin Wolf

fter weeks of reports of excessive force used on Black Lives Matter protesters and a refusal to pursue drivers who plowed through Black and Indigenous people, the Tampa Police Department has decided to use its resources to defend a controversial Christopher Columbus statue. The statue stands within “Columbus Statue Park,” at the intersection of Bayshore Boulevard and Platt Street Bridge in affluent South Tampa. It depicts Columbus with a sword in one hand and an oar in the other. “The statue is of him pleading his case to the Spanish court,” said Rodney Kite-Powell, curator at the Tampa Bay History Center to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “It’s a very common, standard statue pose.” The construction was sponsored by the Ybor City Rotary Club and erected there on Columbus Day, October 12, 1953. “It was designed by a Cuban artist named Alberto Sabas,” says Kite-Powell. “At the time it was seen as a unifying symbol between Spain, Cuba and the U.S., and the dedication brought quite a few dignitaries and local and state celebrities, including Cuban and Italian ambassadors to the U.S.”

For decades, the statue has been a source of controversy for Native American people. Columbus statues are a major target in America, with multiple being beheaded and torn down. On the Fourth of July a Columbus statue was pulled down and rolled into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. In Buffalo, New York, the city removed a Columbus statue out of anticipation that protesters might do it themselves. For at least the last couple weeks, TPD vehicles have been seen parked near the statue, at all hours of the day. The move comes as monuments to colonization and genocide are being destroyed by protesters across the world; it wasn’t surprising that late last month someone stamped Black Lives Matter symbols on it. A public information officer for TPD told CL that the department is constantly doing speed limit enforcement in that area, and that it’s “Taken a proactive approach to protecting all monuments and statues throughout the city during protests.” Sheridan Gosta-Murphy, long time American Indian Movement and Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality activist, has made attempts to get the Tampa Columbus statue removed since 1991.

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“In Florida, you have statues to Columbus, Ponce De Leon, Hernando DeSoto, all these mass murderers,” Murphy told CL, “and essentially their contribution to society was that they were slaughtering African and Native people.” Murphy said that demands to remove the statue through demonstrations and calling on public officials have been met with “crickets” from the City of Tampa over the past 29 years. He wondered what kind of message it sends that TPD uses its resources to defend a statue while violent criminals are allowed to go free. Murphy is a close friend and Native relative of Jason Stuart Flores, an Indigenous man who was observing a moment of silence for Black lives at the end of a march in Hyde Park, when a car moved through the crowd and pushed Flores onto the hood. Flores stood in front of the car to protect people after the driver had endangered several protesters. He was hit along with another person who rolled off the hood, and was taken on a dangerous ride for a half mile, only to be arrested by TPD and charged with three misdemeanors and one felony. The white male driver was immediately released with no investigation. TPD accused Flores of smashing the driver’s windshield, and charged him with felony criminal mischief on June 27. But another protester told WMNF he smashed the windshield in self-defense before the car got to Flores; the WMNF article includes video showing that

Flores was peacefully holding an eagle feather and an abalone shell used for prayer when he was pushed onto the car. Another video shows Flores’ non-violent stance, which was created by Last Real Indians. TPD’s arrest report does not even identify the correct street that the incident occurred on. Flores’ arrest led to a night of rage at Orient Road Jail, where protesters demanded his release. He made bail, but still faces charges while TPD refuses to pursue the person who drove into him. Nor have they used their resources to investigate the incident with evidence widely available online, and realize their arrest report and charges are riddled with errors. The week before Flores was hit, a car sped through a protest in Hyde Park that demanded the firing of Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan, due to TPD’s excessive use of force and Dugan’s lies to the media. The driver struck and injured activist Jae Passmore. In that case, the police also refused to pursue the driver who hit the Black woman protester, even though the license plate was documented and shared on social media. Yet, the TPD has the resources to guard a statue day and night which glorifies a man who was lost, stumbled upon the Caribbean (he did not discover America), and mercilessly ravaged the peaceful Arawak tribe who lived there. “When your Highnesses so command, they could all be carried off to Castile or be held

“For decades, the statue has been a source of controversy for Native American people.”

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captive in the island itself,” Columbus wrote about the Arawak in his journal, “Because with 50 men they could all be subjugated and compelled to do anything one wishes.” Detailed evidence of Christopher Columbus’ bloodthirsty campaign can be found in the journal of a witness to his atrocities, Father Bartolomé de Las Casas. Murphy says that the statue being guarded, while charges are pursued against Flores, symbolize TPD’s and Mayor Jane Castor’s disdain for Indigenous lives and history. Sports teams are shedding their racist names and imagery while cities around the country are removing statues and changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. Besides the genocidal background shrouding the statue, it’s important to note that its placement is incredibly odd. For one, it’s easy to miss. Whether you’re driving from either direction on Bayshore, the park is just a split second in your daily commute and is dwarfed by the looming Jose Gasparilla, which is anchored just a few feet away. On a recent visit, the park’s only occupant was a homeless person sleeping on a bench. The area was also littered with waxed curbs, suggesting that before the recent presence by Tampa Police squad cars, Columbus Statue Park was probably a safe spot for skateboards to practice without fear of a trespassing violation. In his comments to CL, Kite-Powell explained that in the early ‘50s, Bayshore was undergoing a major beautification process. KitePowell admittedly doesn’t have a good answer on why the statue is located in the park in the first place. “It was always a nice road, but at that time they were doing a lot of landscaping,” Kite-Powell

siad. “Originally, you had to leave Bayshore to get downtown, and I think around that time they completed what was called Little Bayhore, and it was tied to that beautification effort. But a lot of the money was raised by residents of Ybor City for the statue, so it is strange that it wasn’t put in Ybor. It would’ve made more sense.” Kite-Powell added that he doesn’t have any suggestions offhand for a better replacement, but said that the City of Tampa should at the very least place a marker at the park “with more context on the incredible death brought by Columbus.” Plus, Tampa has already shown that the city is not above fixing problematic landmarks and righting historical wrongs. For starters, the Riverwalk in downtown Tampa includes numerous monuments to Native Americans. In 2017, a Confederate statue at the Hillsborough County Courthouse was removed and relocated to a cemetery in Brandon. In the 1920s, South Tampa had an entire neighborhood called Swastika until Adolf Hitler came around and the city was forced to rename it. And, in 1986, the City of Tampa renamed Buffalo Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue (though we still have a Columbus Drive that should also be changed). Meanwhile, Tampa city officials stand firm in their defense of Columbus and violent white drivers who barrel through crowds of people of color. Murphy says that the current uprising against police violence towards people of color, and the United States’ honoring of genocidal figures are connected. “The dominant society has to recognize the original sins of America,” Murphy says. “Before we can heal and get to the real issues of today.”

“The dominant society has to recognize the original sins of America.”

JUSTIN GARCIA

COP WATCH: TPD says it’s watching for speeders and potential statue attackers.

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COP TALK: Tampa Mayor Jane Castor speaks with a BLM demonstrator outside city hall on June 2, 2020. Castor’s recommendations for CRB member- media should be able to attend press confership criteria ences. What constitutes a member of the press?” • The disqualification of anyone who has been During the question and answer period of arrested by TPD or who is currently suing TPD the conference, Castor said that her task force • Two additional CRB members, with the rec- on policing will continue to meet either virtually ommendation that one be a member from the or in-person depending on the status of coronaNAACP, and the other be from the University virus cases in the city. Some participants left By Ray Roa of South Florida or the University of Tampa the first meeting on June 27, which press was n June 16, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor to see a list of new complaints and the status of criminology department not allowed to cover, skeptical. The next meetannounced recommended changes to the pending investigations Castor’s recommended administrative changes ing was on Saturday, July 18—press was not city’s largely toothless police Citizen Review • The CRB coordinator and the CRB chair for the CRB allowed to attend. Board (CRB), but City Council will have to vote should also review complaints on a weekly basis • The creation of a CRB website where meetings “We are making changes here to the CRB on them before they are enacted. Castor— through a separate email chain can be announced and agendas can be shared right now; if there are additional changes that flanked by Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan • The CRB be responsible for obtaining public • CRB meetings should be held throughout come up as a result of our task force, if there are and current CRB chair Rasheed Ali Aquil— feedback survey every three years regarding the city, rotating through each council district any other suggestions that would enhance the made the announcement during a virtual press the police department’s policies and procedures to ensure community-wide participation, with CRB, then certainly we can implement those conference where media was asked to submit Castor’s recommendations regarding addi- each of the meetings containing an educational as well,” Castor said. “We just felt that there questions by text message. Castor’s announce- tional duties for CRB coordinator component plus a discussion about a policy, pro- was a call for some immediate action, so we’ve ments come after nearly two months of non-stop • The CRB coordinator should post workshops to cedure, program or issue of interest between the tried to take that action as quickly as possible.” protests from activists who demand to have a train the board bi-annually or more frequently residents in the police In a post-press say in how the CRB is on topics including, department conference phone call reimagined. but not limited to: • Livestreamed meetwith Creative Loafing Among the notable standards or policies ings with a ticker Tampa Bay, Tampa recommendations related to the use of that allows citizens to City Council Chair made by Castor force, law enforcement ethics, pursuits, griev- express concerns, comGuido Maniscalco said • The police hiring process will be reviewed ances, public records, hiring processes and plaints or positive feedback he was relieved to hear that the council would with, and by the CRB moving forward procedures, and body worn camera policies The Tampa Bay Times reported that a dozen have to approve of any changes to the CRB. • The CRB will also participate in a newly formed and procedures protesters had gathered outside the mayor’s He was also glad that one of Castor’s recomTPD interview panel made up of retired and • The CRB coordinator should also be respon- office on Thursday and demanded to be let into mendations was that the CRB have a chance to active TPD officers, along with CRB members sible for notifying the CRB about new use of Castor’s virtual press conference. Jae Passmore, review closed cases and provide feedback to the • The CRB should be able to review cases once force policies or changes who sustained injuries after being struck by a chief of police before they decide on disciplinthey’re closed, but prior to the disciplinary deci- • During the annual report to city council the car during a late-June protest in South Tampa, ary actions. sions so that the CRB may provide feedback for CRB coordinator should also include information told the Times’ Charlie Frago (who was the only “The CRB meetings are public,” Maniscalco the chief of police and statistics for any recommended changes to member of the press allowed to attend the press told CL. “I hope the public reviews the agenda • That the CRB be authorized to review monthly the CRB ordinance conference in-person), “It’s completely unfair to and the cases being discussed and then shows up notifications from the complaint tracking system be able to pick and choose what members of the ready to make their opinions known to the CRB.”

Tampa City Council will have to vote on any changes to Citizen Review Board.

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Maniscalco also understood Castor’s suggestion that someone who is suing TPD should not serve on the CRB, but he hopes that council could address the mayor’s suggestion that anyone who’s been arrested by TPD be disqualified from serving on the CRB. Many of the protesters demanding changes to policing in the city of Tampa have been arrested. On June 15, State Attorney Andrew Warren said his office would not prosecute 67 people arrested on allegations of unlawful assembly, saying, “Prosecuting people for exercising their First Amendment rights doesn’t solve problems, it creates them.” Maniscalco, for his part, said he believes in forgiveness and second chances. He knows people who’ve been arrested and had charges dropped. He also knows people who’ve been convicted on petty marijuana charges. “People make mistakes, we’re human. A lot of these people who got arrested didn’t hurt anyone. Why punish people forever?,” Maniscalco said. “The CRB disqualifying someone just because they got arrested needs to be brought up and explored.” And when it comes to appointing members of the CRB, Maniscalco would—at the very least—want each of the seven members of Tampa City Council to be able to appoint one member of the CRB. As it stands, the mayor appoints a majority of the 11-person CRB. Adding two seats—as the mayor suggested in her Thursday conference—and giving each council member the authority to appoint one member (which Castor did not mention) would mean that council members are selecting a majority of the CRB members (seven out of 13 seats). “If the mayor wants seven appointments, and council gets seven appointments, plus an alternate, that would make it equal. I understand that we have a strong mayor form of government, but no one person or entity—like the mayor or the council—should be able to stack the CRB with their slate of appointments on a board that’s supposed to be unbiased and fair,” Maniscalco told CL. But in a July 16 press release, Tampa For Justice (a group which CL contributor and activist-journalist Kelly Benjamin is a member) said that Castor not relinquishing control of the CRB “perpetuates the sham” of the board. Benjamin’s group has called for the CRB to have independent investigatory power. Attached to Tampa For Justice’s release was an eight-page proposed ordinance presented to Tampa City Council by the NAACAP and ACLU. And it’s no secret that the CRB created under Mayor Bob Buckhorn is widely seen as a toothless entity without the authority to truly hold TPD accountable. But Tampa didn’t have to live with the hapless CRB it has today.

The onus for the CRB came in the wake of a 2015 Tampa Bay Times investigation which found that for three years under then chief Jane Castor, Tampa police wrote 2,504 bike tickets—80% of the tickets went to Black people. In response to the investigation, Tampa For Justice called for a Citizen Review Board of the Tampa Police Department. Tampa For Justice spent months collecting stories of residents from all walks of life, telling their experiences with Tampa Police. The coalition researched policing practices in other cities and reviewed the results of the Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing. The information was presented to city officials along with recommendations that would promote building trust and respect between Tampa neighborhoods and the police, ensuring transparency and accountability of the police, and creating a citizen-led board that could review and oversee Tampa’s policing policies Just as it looked like the CRB matter would be voted on and passed by City Council, then Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn—who, at that point, had been highly dismissive of the idea of a CRB—stepped in and announced he would create his own CRB and that he alone would appoint the members. In a phone call with CL before Castor’s press conference, City Council Chair Maniscalco said that on Wednesday, council—along with some council attorneys and Castor’s Chief of Staff—virtually reviewed the agenda of a July 16 council meeting that was canceled due to coronavirus concerns. A purely informational staff report regarding changes to the CRB was discussed, but Maniscalco said “there was no indication that the mayor was going to move forward with recommendations from the report or take the CRB under her authority.” Maniscalco had no clue about Castor’s intentions to have an announcement about proposed changes to the CRB until activistjournalist Benjamin told him about the mayor’s plan. Maniscalco was unsure of what Castor’s announcement will bring, but he assumed Castor would read off what was read to council during the aforementioned virtual agenda review. He hoped that any changes to the CRB will involve real citizen input, and a back and forth between the mayor and city council. “I hope today is informational, you know, “This is what the administration is suggesting, these are some recommendations,’ and then we go from there,” Maniscalco said. CL called the office of City Councilman Orlando Gudes, who made a motion during a June 4 meeting to give the current review board more teeth—the mailbox was full, but Gudes is recovering from coronavirus.

“No one person or entity should be able to stack the CRB.”

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Activists, local lawyer react to Castor’s proposed CRB changes.

n overhaul of the Tampa Police Department has been on the hearts and minds of protesters, activists and many on the city payroll since the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis Police officer. A lot’s happened on the streets—and in other American city halls—in the eight weeks since May 25, but those looking for an aggressive reimagining of TPD are still looking for something to be happy about. And that’s why so many cop watchers tuned into a surprise July 16 press conference from Tampa Mayor Jane Castor who took to her podium to announce her proposed changes to a controversial and toothless Citizen Review Board (CRB) created in 2015. Castor made no less than a dozen suggestions regarding the CRB, its membership, the duties of its coordinator and administrative duties. In comments following Castor’s surprise presser, Tampa City Council Chair Guido Maniscalco—who was relieved to learn that council would have to approve changes— called Creative Loafing Tampa Bay to say which suggestions he liked, and which ones he thought deserved to be re-examined (you can turn to p. 15 to read more about that). But in its own July 16 press release, Tampa For Justice (TFJ, a group which CL contributor and activist-journalist Kelly Benjamin is a member) said that Castor not relinquishing control of the CRB “perpetuates the sham” of the board. Attached to the TFJ release was an eight-page proposed ordinance presented to Tampa City Council by the NAACP and ACLU. Jamie Klapholz is an attorney who assisted with drafting the proposed ordinance submitted on behalf of the ACLU, NAACP, and Tampa for Justice. She does not speak for any organizations specifically, but she looked at Castor’s proposed changes and compared them to the proposed ordinance and TFJ’s bulleted list of demands. A protracted back and forth between the mayor’s office and city council, could be in store, but here’s what Klapholz thought (TFJ’s bullets in bold, Klapholz’s reactions in regular typeset): • The ability of the CRB to take complaints from the public about TPD and voting on whether to investigate each complaint: While the mayor’s proposal provides for establishment of a citizen review board (CRB) email address where “Complaints concerning allegations of police officer misconduct may be submitted[,]” there is no mention of the CRB’s authority to conduct its own investigation of any complaint. There is also no mention of how the

CRB email address would be publicized. • Receiving a report any time a TPD officer’s firearm is discharged and voting on whether to investigate each report: The mayor’s proposal does not include this demand. However, the mayor’s proposal does provide that the CRB would get a redacted list of all new complaints received by TPD on a monthly basis, and presumably that would include any complaint concerning discharge of an officer’s firearm. Under the mayor’s proposal, the CRB would have no authority to conduct investigations of any kind. • Discretion to investigate other matters involving TPD: The mayor’s proposal does not include this demand. While the mayor’s proposal does authorize the CRB to “review matters of importance or interest,” it does not specify whether such a “review” would include the ability to independently collect information by subpoena or otherwise. • Investigatory powers including ability to to order discovery, hold evidentiary hearings, and issue subpoenas for documents and witness testimony under oath: The mayor’s proposal does not include this demand. This is the primary difference between our proposal and the mayor’s proposal. The mayor’s proposal does not provide the CRB with any investigatory powers at all. • Issue recommendations to TPD and/or the mayor at the conclusion of each investigation: While the mayor’s proposal does not provide authority for the CRB to conduct investigations, it does state that the CRB may report findings and make recommendations to the mayor and chief of police. • The mayor and/or TPD Chief would be required to adopt or respond to each recommendation: Under the mayor’s proposal, “When the Board submits a written recommendation to the Chief of Police concerning department policies and procedures, the Chief of Police must respond to the CRB recommendation in writing within thirty (30) days and indicate whether the recommendation has been accepted and implemented or indicate the reasons why the recommendation was not accepted or implemented.” There is no similar provision regarding recommendations to the mayor or other types of recommendations to the chief of police. • Staffed by an independent attorney, independent investigators, administrative staff: The mayor’s proposal does not provide for the CRB to have any independent staff. Instead, the mayor proposes that the CRB be staffed with

DAVE DECKER

By Ray Roa

PROTESTS

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SAY IT LOUDER: Black Lives Matter activists march in South Tampa on June 13, 2020. a coordinator designated by the chief of police. This is a major concern because the CRB is currently staffed by a TPD designee who exercises control over the meeting agendas and all information that the CRB receives. • Sufficient funding in the city’s budget to carry out its duties and exercise its powers: The mayor’s proposal does not provide for any CRB funding at all. Klapholz isn’t the only one who thinks Castor’s proposed changes fall short. In a text message to CL, Emadi Okwuosa, a leader within the Tampa protest movement, said the CRB was only introduced as a way for politicians to save face once they’ve messed up, citing how it was only created in the wake of a

2015 investigation which found that over a three year period, Castor’s police force issued 2,504 bike tickets, 80% of which went to Black people. He also agreed with Council Chair Maniscalco’s reservations about barring anyone who’s been arrested from serving on the CRB. “[It’s] a backhanded way to silence the community. I can speak from first hand experience that TPD is targeting organizers and leaders among the community,” Okwuosa said “By arresting them and turning them into felons they are systematically stripping us of our rights and voice of change. They’ve arrested multiple powerful Tampa advocates and those are multiple voices who won’t be heard in this CRB.”

“It’s a backhanded way to silence the community.”

DAVE DECKER

#TELLTHEWHOLESORY: A new video refutes TPD’s narrative about what led to this scene.

Alternate view

New video shows TPD attacking peaceful protesters on July 4. By Colin Wolf

new video shows an unprovoked attack from Tampa Police officers against non-violent protesters at a demonstration held on July 4. The video, which was posted to Facebook by GR Goodwin on July 19, shows a crowd of about 100 people peacefully and non-violently blocking traffic on N. Dale Mabry Highway, as they headed north past Spruce Street. “Here come the popes, oh shit,” says Goodwin in the video. At the 36-second mark in the clip, officers can be seen rushing into the crowd on bikes and violently pushing over at least one protester. A thrown object is visible at the 1:07 mark, but this happens more than 30 seconds after officers are seen fighting with protesters, and after an officer let off a single burst of pepper spray. It’s important to note that while blocking traffic is illegal, it’s also a common, non-violent form of civil disobedience, and an action that should warrant a non-violent response from law enforcement. On July 4, the Tampa Police Department released a statement to the Tampa Bay Times, saying that TPD targeted “organizers and leaders of the protest,” after several warnings to disperse. “While attempting to lawfully arrest one subject, officers were surrounded and a large group began to close in on the arresting officers and the officers who were working to provide security,” the department said. “Members of the group began pushing against bike officers, who deployed two short bursts of O.C. (pepper) spray to push the group back.” One protester, 21-year-old J’Khari Wilson, who the Times said “faces a felony charge of criminal mischief resulting in damage of $1,000 or more and misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest without violence and violating city

ordinance 14-41,” disputed TPD’s version of events and said there’s video evidence to back up his claim. “There’s video evidence that shows that never, ever happening.“I got charged by the officer while I was backing up and fearing for my life. He pushed me into the car and video evidence shows that,” said Wilson to the Times. When Creative Loafing Tampa Bay reached out to TPD for further comment, a spokesperson said “We’ve already released a statement on this event.” CL followed up by asking, “Does TPD have comment on what specific instance caused officers to rush into the crowd in the manner that officers did at the 36-second mark, before the ‘lawful arrest’ of the one protester?” TPD has yet to respond. Three CL photographers—Chandler Culotta, Dave Decker and Ashley Dieudonne—were also there covering the protest that day, and documented the scuffle. In a series of photos, officers can be seen on the ground struggling with protesters, as well as firing pepper spray (the photo above is not of J’Khari Wilson). Since the protests began last March after the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police officers, TPD has also been embroiled in accusations of excessive force, specifically against Black Lives Matter demonstrators. According to a 2019 Response to Resistance internal report obtained by CL, use of force during arrests by TPD has jumped by 24% under Chief Brian Dugan, and a closer look at the report shows that 15 out of the 25 categories that track use of force techniques by officers saw a significant increase. However, the biggest jump was with chemical agents. Under Dugan, TPD’s use of pepper spray and tear gas has grown by 223%.

PROTESTS

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Trump’s little green men

If you think what’s happening in Portland is OK, spare us your John Lewis tributes.

y Saturday afternoon, even those whose lives are anathema to everything John Lewis fought for were tweeting his praises—or trying to. Republican senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Dan Sullivan of Alaska earned the internet’s mockery by posting photos of themselves with Elijah Cummings, a different recently deceased Black congressman. Less embarrassing but more cynical was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s tweet that he “will never forget joining hands with John as Congress sang We Shall Overcome at a 2008 ceremony honoring his friend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Last year, the House passed a bill to modernize the Voting Rights Act, restoring a requirement, struck down by the Supreme Court in 2013, that states with histories of racial discrimination receive preclearance from a federal judge before changing their voting or election laws. Securing the right to vote was a central cause of Lewis’s life. For more than 200 days, however, McConnell has refused to so much as bring the bill Lewis and his colleagues passed to the Senate floor. We shall overcome, indeed. President Trump tweeted that he was “saddened” by the death of a “civil rights hero,” though just before his inauguration, Trump had huffed that Lewis should “spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested). … All talk, talk, talk — no action or results.” In retrospect, Donald Trump calling John Lewis—one of the 13 original Freedom Riders, and a man savagely beaten by state troopers in Selma in 1965—of being all talk, while dogwhistling about his “crime infested” district, probably foreshadowed Trump’s first term better than any of us imagined. That brings us to the most tone-deaf response to Lewis’s passing, from Chad Wolf, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security. Wolf’s tweet was, in itself, anodyne, two sentences of platitudinous nothings: “Let us always honor the legacy of Rep. John Lewis. America is a more just place because of his sacrifices.” What’s galling is the context. Wolf praises the “sacrifices” of a man whose skull was bashed in by racist cops even as he’s dispatched secret paramilitary police to snatch Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland.

Soon, any other progressive city where a president losing his re-election by double-digits wants to beat his chest about “law and order.” Make no mistake: This is happening. And you should be alarmed. Last week—as part of President Trump’s new initiative to use federal troops to protect Confederate monuments and federal buildings from protesters—DHS officers in green battle fatigues swarmed Portland, the site of mostly peaceful BLM demonstrations over the last two months, over the protests of local officials. The officers wore nothing indicating what agency they were with or what their names were. They grabbed protesters off the street, threw them into unmarked vans, and hauled them to the federal courthouse, for reasons that weren’t always clear. They shot and severely wounded a young protester in the face with less-lethal bullets. They’ve deployed tear gas to disrupt protests despite a state law forbidding local agencies from doing so for anything short of a riot. Wolf has justified it by saying that Portland “has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city. Each night, lawless anarchists destroy and desecrate property, including the federal courthouse, and attack the brave law enforcement officers protecting it.” His officers, he added, had been “assaulted” with “lasers and frozen water bottles.” As proof of property desecration, he tweeted photos of graffiti. His agency “will never surrender to violent extremists on my watch,” he promised. This is only the beginning, acting DHS deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli confirmed to NPR: “This is a posture we intend to continue not just in Portland but in any of the facilities that we’re responsible for around the country.” It’s helpful to imagine how you’d think about this situation if it were happening in another country: A flailing regime has sent unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles to an opposition region to kidnap, detain, and interrogate demonstrators it has unilaterally deemed “violent extremists” and “anarchists.” It has done so without warrants, in violation of civil liberties, and over the objections of local officials. And it now wants to expand this “posture” into other opposition regions ahead of the election.

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INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE

By Jeffrey C. Billman

SHEEP’S CLOTHING: Chad Wolf’s DHS snatches protesters off the street under vague pretexts. This comes after the regime tried to declare the opposition movement antifa a domestic terrorist organization—though the nebulous antifa isn’t an organization, and the regime lacks the authority to make such a designation even if it was—conflated those protesting police violence and systemic racism with “violent mobs,” and called “Black Lives Matter” a “symbol of hate.” Does this sound more like a healthy democracy or an authoritarian regime test-driving the suppression of dissent through intimidation, brute force, and by marginalizing communities? Or is it a president desperate to paint his opponents as agents of chaos hellbent on upending traditional American culture, and him as the only thing standing between order and upheaval?

Secret police in unmarked vehicles. Declaring opponents “violent anarchists” and enemies of order. Snatching them off the street under vague pretexts. Escalating conflicts and provoking violence. This is the obscenity that Chad Wolf directed while praising John Lewis’s contributions to a more just country, as if Lewis’s life did not stand in stark opposition to Trump’s goon-squad tactics in Portland. If Wolf really wanted to honor John Lewis’s legacy, he’d resign. Of course, anyone who gave a damn about honoring John Lewis’s legacy would never have taken a job working for Donald Trump in the first place. Get more Informed Dissent by visiting billman.substack.com.

“The president is desperate to paint his opponents as agents of chaos.”

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Following public backlash, Winn-Dixie says face masks will now be required. Turns out the beef people aren’t meatheads after all. A multi-institutional team of researchers is set to embark on a year-long exploration of a 450foot “blue hole” in Florida waters next month. No word if we’ll know about how suitable it is for human-life in time for the November election results.

Florida Gov. DeSantis won’t close gyms because he says people who workout are less likely to get COVID-19. Guess you’re lazy ass is screwed.

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A National Low Income Housing Coalition study finds that Tampa Bay renters earning minimum wage need to work 92 hours a week to afford a basic apartment without being rent burdened. Think about that next time you’re upset about not having enough shows to binge on Hulu.

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Parkshore Grill to-go is thumbs-up pandemic-ready comfort eating.

uman perception under duress is a funny thing. It’s hard to believe that it’s merely four months since we were safely gathering to laugh and nosh together—deciding how many appetizers to share, what our wine strategy was going to be, and longingly trying to be moderate with the dessert menu. Those were our choices, made without a care save knowing our budget limitations. Now, regardless of income, privilege, or even geography, we’re all in similar boats. Sadly, in some sectors, science is arguing with politics, but in that battle, Darwin reigns. For COVID19 has only one job, which it does with great efficiency—transmit itself from one person to another. This is mostly bad news, except for chocolate and wine sales. Not all restaurant operations are suited to the demands of safe pandemic operation. We now have entered the “low touch” economy. Luckily, this gives me a chance to visit restaurants that I wouldn’t normally review, since CL focuses on what’s new to the market. A friend mentions Beach Drive’s Parkshore Grill and we’re off to the races. Executive Chef Tyson Grant’s menu is wholesome Americana. It’s not pushing boundaries, but if you want a perfectly grilled filet with efficient curbside service you can’t go wrong. The team really put a lot of thought into what works best to be transported is its handsome recycled brown cardboard boxes. For the most part, the grilled fare is textbook. The juicy Parkshore burger sits on a toasted brioche bun and is smothered in a seductive mix of sweet caramelized onions, crisp bacon, and tangy blue cheese. The accompanying hand cut Parmesan fries are nicely done, although they suffer a bit by being transported. The crispy buttermilk chicken sandwich features the same brioche bun and fries, but is elevated by a tangy pickle remoulade which adds a nice contrasting pop on the palate. A large meaty piece of roasted organic Scottish salmon has plenty of flavor even without the yummy shallot-tarragon butter and the

bright green jumbo asparagus are delightfully al dente. So often, this veggie ends up mushy and unpalatable even in restaurants, so this is a welcome takeout surprise. The Creekstone pork chop is a mixed bag. The bone-in chop itself just doesn’t travel well, and the grain mustard sauce is dry by the time it reaches home. However, the ethereal sweet potato purée is simply divine. It’s light, creamy and totally winning; not to be missed really. Unfortunately, in our attempt to scoop it up in one motion, we mix it with the bacon Brussels sprouts. This is definitely a two scoop dish, although sprout fans will be well-pleased. As one might expect, the steaks are highlights. Whomever is working the line there turns out steaks at the right temperature every time. The Proper Ranch prime rib eye is a full 16 oz. and is your choice for flavor. If texture is your goal, the filet is notably tender and the demiglacé adds a delightful accent to the beef. We added a side of buttermilk mashed potatoes which provides just the right amount of creamy tang. Every order comes with a container of hot French rolls and whipped butter. Carbs are not something you cut out during the pandemic; every opportunity for emotional comfort must be exploited. If you want a break from the grill, the lobster pasta is divine. In the takeout version, the ample angel hair pasta is separate from the chunks of Maine lobster. There’s a huge container of ultra rich sauce with fresh tomato plus hints of tarragon and vodka cream. The overwhelming taste, though, is lobster; I was slurping up all the sauce that pooled on my plate after everything else was gone. I’m not assigning stars for takeout reviews, but Parkshore earns an enthusiastic thumbs up. Meanwhile, turning to the struggle facing the performing arts, freeFall Theatre visionary, Eric Davis, is busy conjuring. As usual he’s working on a unique concept designed to thrill. Until he’s ready to share with the world, though, I’ll be back to reporting on how some restaurant stalwarts have morphed for the low touch economy. Sadly, it seems that the contagion is not yet ready

TAKEOUT

PARKSHORE GRILL

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Oh yeah . . . flatten the curve. Our path back is a wishful three word mantra: mask, distance, sanitize. Parkshore Grill is located at 300 Beach Dr. NE No. 104 in St. Petersburg. Contact the restaurant at 727-8969643 or via parkshoregrill.com.

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CODE, READ? The City of Tampa sent a letter to warn bars about violating local ordinances—but will they comply?

Bad actors

Restaurants acting like bars and violating COVID-19 rules face fines, loss of liquor license. By Ray Roa t the end of the July 15 edition of her afternoon Facebook Live talk show, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor issued a warning to “bad actor” restaurants violating mask and social distancing orders. “Restaurants that are acting as bars, they’re going to be sent a warning, they’re going to be inspected and they will be fined. It is a misdemeanor, and you can lose your liquor license, as well,” Castor said in a response to a question from Creative Loafing Tampa regarding restaurants that are hosting concerts and DJs. “So we’re letting them be warned and also letting them know that we know who you are,” Castor added. “You may be getting that short term profit, but you’re doing long term harm to our entire community.” Castor added that restaurant owners should know the difference between a bar and a restaurant and that Tampa “crafted a letter through our city attorney’s office” to put restaurants on notice. In that letter, City Attorney Gina Grimes wrote that, “It has come to the attention of the city of Tampa that several restaurants that are licensed to sell alcohol have been operating and functioning as bars, with blatant violations.” The letter goes on to detail how business owners and operators face seconddegree misdemeanors, and an up to $500 fine plus 60 days in jail, if violations are found during those inspections. Grimes added that the city will also forward reports to the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation which may drop a suspension of alcohol licenses. It’ll be interesting to see the enforcement of the latest warning unfold. Many businesses designated as restaurants have long acted like bars or nightclubs, even before the coronavirus arrived.

A concern now, as the number of COVID19 cases makes Florida global epicenter for the virus, is extended socialization, which is happening at some restaurants where DJs and live bands play. The spirit of relaxing of coronavirus regulations was supposed to allow for folks to enjoy and support their local restaurants in person and in the dining room—not to give them a place to do the electric slide during brunch. The latter happened at Ducky’s on July 12, and on June 19, Ybor City restaurant 7th+Grove came under scrutiny after videos of unmasked partygoers surfaced online. Ducky’s went on WFTS and apologized for its actions; a rep for 7th+Grove told CL that the restaurant is “taking direct action with our security team and internal staff to ensure they feel empowered to enforce mandatory mask requirements…” “7th + Grove prioritizes the health and safety of our staff and patrons at all times. We are currently operating at a 50% capacity rate within our lounge and dining room. Masks are required to enter and temperature checks are done for all staff and guests upon entry,” 7th + Grove Hospitality Group wrote in a statement to CL. “Over the past few weeks we have reconfigured our dining room and lounge to include clear partitions, increased our deep cleaning sanitation services and our staff makes announcements in intervals for patrons to wear their masks when away from their dining table and engaging throughout the facility.” ER physician Dr. Jason Wilson, recently told the Hillsborough EPG that the known science of coronavirus “is really starting to coalesce around the idea of us being together in close proximity in a normal social type environment where there might be touching a lot of talking... intimacy, all those kinds of things I think are the things that are becoming the real way the virus spreads around.”

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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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Tempus Projects tested out an in-person art show last weekend.

f you read our Tempus 10th anniversary feature, then you already know that Tempus Projects’ founder, Tracy Midulla, is a sociable person. “It’s always been very important to me that Tempus is a place where people can gather, share ideas, see artwork,” Midulla told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay back in December. Of course, that quote was pre-pandemic. Now it’s not safe to gather in large numbers anywhere. I’ve missed seeing pre-pandemic Midulla dancing around the old Tempus Projects space, waiting for guests to arrive at her popular monthly opening receptions. Maybe you have, too. Well, if the title of Tempus Projects’ latest show is any indication, Midulla has missed us as well. “It’s been so lonely without you here” features work from 10 artists whose work Tempus Projects showed regularly pre-pandemic: George Anderton, Janine Awai, Neil Bender, Catalina Cheng, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, William Downs, Sharon Norwood, Selina Roman, Mario Schambon, and Jake Troyli. “The whole summer we’ve mostly worked with artists we already had a strong relationship with,” says Midulla. The process afforded Midulla the opportunity to get in touch with old friends and find out what they’ve been working on during this period of relative isolation. Up until now, these summer shows have all been virtual—momentarily guest-hosted wherever space allowed. “All these exhibitions have been installed in weird little nooks and crannies just to be able to not expose people in the process,” Midulla adds. Tempus hangs the artwork, photographs it, and then takes it right back down. “Because if there are no guests coming, there’s no need to leave it there,” says Midulla.

“These virtual exhibitions have done really well,” says Midulla. “We’ve actually made some sales so some of the artists who are without jobs are at least making a little bit of money on art sales.” But people keep asking Midulla if they can come see the artwork in person. Tempus Projects is now located at 3600 N. Nebraska Ave. in Ybor Heights after its lease went up in Seminole Heights on January 31. Deviant Libation brewery is also moving in along with Crab Devil—a new artist collective made up of members of Tempus Projects, LiveWork Studios, as well as other local artists, investors, and philanthropists. Together they're create what Midulla called “Tampa’s first ever large-scale, permanent, immersive arts experience.” “We will be working together to combine the creative energies found in Tampa’s vibrant art and beer scenes to create a destination unique to this area,” Midulla added. The large scale project means that there are a lot of moving pieces involved, but Midulla said that the community should start seeing the beginning of the collaboration by early next year. Last month, Company Officer Devon Brady told CL that Crab Devil was eying an early 2021 opening. It even put out a call to artists. And other aspect of the Tempus/Crab Devil compound will be Peninsularium, which is described as “cooler than a museum, smarter than a theme park, weirder than a carnival.” And it will be weird. With an entrance disguised as a typical Florida roadside bait shop, this large-scale collaborative, experiential arts project will act as a love letter to both Florida and Tampa’s “kitsch” history and culture, featuring immersive art spaces housed inside repurposed shipping containers, as an homage to both Tampa’s history in maritime commerce and travelling circuses of the early 1900s.

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LOOK, NO TOUCH: A new Tempus exhibit is online only after an initial in-person showing.

Still, Tempus hasn’t had a physical exhibi“So we are making a point of asking the arttion since they bid farewell to their old space ists if they are willing to donate a portion of their in December. proceeds to Black Lives Matter,” Midulla told CL. Until now. “I think everybody is contributing something. As a compromise, Midulla’s allowed people Due to COVID, not everybody is in a position to see “It’s been so lonely without you here” at to donate, so we just asked each artist to let us LiveWork Studios— know the percentage “It’s been so lonely without you here.” located at 6405 N. that they’re willing to Virtual visits available through July 31 via @tempus_ Florida Ave. in Old give.” projects on Instagram and tempus-projects.com. Seminole Heights—in Midulla described person, last weekend, the show as an opporin groups of four or less, wearing masks, social tunity for Tempus to see some people who want distancing, and by appointment only. to get out. It also marks the kick-off of Tempus’ The exhibition continues, virtually, via annual membership drive. Instagram (and Facebook) through the end of “A lot of the people [making] appointments July. The show features 14 works of art in black are renewing their memberships,” says Midulla. and white, including photos, paintings, and “They want to pick up their swag.” drawings. “I think the work is beautiful,” says Midulla, “It’s been so lonely without you here” doesn’t who’s a big fan of black and white work in genhave a theme, per se, but “you can’t ignore cur- eral. But, she says, the real highlight for her was rent politics right now,” says Midulla. seeing people she hasn’t seen since March.

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Leo

The lion. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “How can I communicate to wild bunnies that I am their ally?” asked a Twitter blogger named Ghost Girl. That question is a good place to start my oracle for you. In the coming weeks, I think you’ll be wise to meditate on how to enhance your relationship with all kinds of wild things: animals, people, weather, landscapes, and your own exotic thoughts and fantasies. In my opinion, you will upgrade your intelligence and well-being by increasing your access to influences that don’t necessarily play by conventional rules and that draw their energy from primal sources. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s never too late to have a rebellious adolescence—hopefully bigger and better and smarter than any you’ve had before. And according to my analysis, now would be a favorable time to get started. Is there any stuffy authority you’d be wise to flout? Any dumb and oppressive conventions you would benefit from breaking? Any stale old traditions you’re primed to ignore so you can create some lively new traditions? In my estimation, you will generate good fortune for yourself if you try some benevolent mischief and creative experiments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The soul should always stand ajar,” wrote Sagittarian poet Emily Dickinson, “That if the heaven inquire, / He will not be obliged to wait, / Or shy of troubling her.” I’m confident that this will be a fertile meditation for you in the coming weeks. So what does it mean? By “heaven,” I assume Dickinson meant marvelous interventions, sacred revelations, and lucky accidents—and maybe also soulful invitations, out-of-the-blue opportunities, and supernatural breakthroughs. What do you think, Sagittarius? What can you do to make your soul ajar for phenomena like those? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “ Ever y thing i s complicated,” wrote poet Wallace

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll be extra sensitive to stimuli in the coming weeks. Every little event will touch you more intensely than usual. Every perception will flow into you with an unusually strong potential to move you and influence you. That’s why I think you should be vigilantly self-protective. Erect a psychic shield around yourself. Make sure your boundaries are firm and clear. Affirm your unshakable commitment to deflecting vibes that aren’t of use to you and welcoming vibes that will enhance your well-being. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Actress Gwyneth Paltrow founded Goop, a commarkets exotic, p a n y that expensive health treat-

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your word of power for the coming weeks is “ubuntu,” a Zulu term meaning “I am because we are” or “the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.” Nobel Prizewinning theologian Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes, “A person with “ubuntu” is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished.” I hope that between now and August 25, Libra, you will put “ubuntu” at the center of everything you do. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them,” says Scorpio-born Liberian politician Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” I trust you’ve arrived at this realization on your own in the past few weeks. And I hope you have audaciously expanded and supercharged your dreams so that they do indeed surpass your current ability to accomplish them. If you have not yet done this daring work, please attend to it now. If you have done it, move on to the next step: making definite plans to acquire the power and resources necessary to achieve your new, improved dreams.

food, for starters, along with fun exercise, time in nature, enjoyable meditation sessions, and tender expressions of love. ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.” Aries playwright Samuel Beckett made that observation, and now I’m passing it on to you as you glide into an extra-creative phase of your astrological cycle. I hope you will regard Beckett’s idea as an open-ended encouragement to improvise and experiment. May it rouse you to brainstorm about novel possibilities. May it inspire you to explore fresh trends you could launch. May it mobilize you to imagine the new worlds you might “Big Bang” into existence. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Diane Ackerman tells us, “So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself.” That’s the kind of loneliness I worry you may be susceptible to right now, Taurus. You’re a bit out of touch with aspects of your psyche that are crucial for you to include in your total sense of self. You’ve been neglecting to nurture certain soulful qualities that keep you healthy and wise. Please note: It won’t be useful to try to find those parts of you in other people; you will have to locate them in your own depths. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Someone ought to do it, but why should I?” Author and activist Annie Besant identified that sentence as the motto of people who are moral cowards: those who know about an injustice but do nothing to address it. Very few of us have completely avoided that behavior. Most of us, including me, have now and then chosen to serve our need for comfort instead of standing up against corruption or unfairness. But I think it’s more important than usual that you Geminis don’t engage in such moral cowardice now. More depends on your integrity and bravery than you realize.

Stevens. “If that ments. She were not so, life and poetry a n d claims that far-infrared gemstone everything else would be a bore.” I agree! And therapy and crystal-based sound-healing baths therefore, I conclude, you should shed any resent- will dissolve your negativity. Allowing bees ment you might feel for the fact that our world to sting your scars will supposedly cause the is a crazy tangle of mystifying and interesting scars to fade. Drinking “sex juice,” a blend of stories. Drop any wish that life will stop being watermelon and alkaline water, will enhance so fascinatingly messy and your libido. The “collagen confusingly intriguing. martini,” which is a mix Instead, why not celebrate of vodka, vermouth, olive the deep riddles? And revel juice, and collagen pepin the intriguing complextides, will smooth your By Rob Brezsny ity? And give holy thanks skin’s wrinkles. I’m favorfor the paradoxical beauty? Everything I just ably disposed to you taking strong actions to said should prepare you well for the next four improve your well-being in the coming weeks, weeks. Pisces, but I recommend that you try cheaper, more reliable modalities than those Paltrow recommends. Like what? Ample sleep and good

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Born in 1936, Cancerian author and activist June Jordan was a black feminist bisexual born to Jamaican immigrant parents. When she was growing up, her father beat her and her mother committed suicide. Later, she raised her child alone as a single mother. Despite the challenges she faced, she published 28 books, won numerous awards, and wielded significant influence. How did she do it? She was a highly evolved Cancerian in the sense that she put a priority on treating herself well. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect,” she testified. I’d like to make that your keynote for the rest of 2020. Your task is to achieve June Jordanlevels of self-care.

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Is it terrible to believe you can still have a truly monogamous and loving relationship with one partner after 20 years? Or can we walk into a relationship knowing that within those decades of being together that situations like infidelity or being attracted to another is completely unavoidable? And if we acknowledge that in some cases it’s truly unavoidable, should we mentally prepare ourselves for this possibility during our “monogamous” stage? Early on in dating? —Hopelessly Optimistic Person Enquiries Be prepared. Knowing what we do about infidelity and how common it is over the course of long-term relationships, HOPE, it’s a good idea to have a conversation early in a relationship about what you will do if and/or when one and/ or the other and/or both of you should cheat years or decades later. It’s best for this convo to happen at the tail end of the infatuation stage but before you’ve made any sort of formal commitment—you know, after you’ve had your first fight but still at that stage when the thought of ever wanting to fuck someone else seems ridiculous. Committing at that point to at least trying to work through an infidelity doesn’t guarantee the relationship will survive and it doesn’t obligate you to remain in the relationship. But it ups the chances the relationship will survive an infidelity that it could and perhaps should survive. Because remember… when it comes to cheating… some types are worse than others. There are differences in degree. If you found out your husband fucked your sister on your wedding night, well, that’s probably not something you’ll be able to forgive. But an instantly regretted one-off on a business trip (remember those?) or prolonged affair after 20 years and two kids and both partners long ago started taking their sexual connection for granted and both allowed it to wither? That’s something you can work past and are likelier to work past if you agreed to at least try to work past it before the kids and the taking for granted and the business trips. Zooming out for a moment… culture encourages us to see cheating as a relationship-extinction-level event—an unforgivable betrayal, something no relationship can survive. Which seems nuts when you pause to consider just how common cheating is. Defining cheating as always unforgivable sets up for failure otherwise good and loving relationships that might be able to survive an infidelity. If instead of telling us that no relationship could ever survive an infidelity the culture told us that cheating in monogamous or non-monogamous is

always serious betrayal—it’s not at all trivial— but it’s something a relationship can survive, HOPE, then more relationships that should survive infidelities would—I hope you’re sitting down—actually wind up surviving infidelities. The truth is, many relationships don’t just survive infidelities but actually wind up thriving in the wake of the disclosure or exposure of an affair because the healing process brings the couple closer together. (This is not a good reason to have an affair, of course, nor is it the reason why anyone has ever had an affair.) Reinforcing the idea that affairs always destroy relationships: Couples who remain together after after an affair usually don’t talk openly about the cheating while couples who separate or divorce after an affair can hardly bring themselves to talk about anything else. Now to quickly answer your first questions… Yes, it is possible for two people to remain monogamous for 20 years. It can be done—of course it can—but there are lots of people out there who think they’ve done it but are mistaken. Some people think they’ve been in successfully monogamous relationships for 20 years have been cheated on—or they themselves have done something their partners might regard as cheating—and the one-off infidelity or the ongoing affair or the happy endings were never exposed or disclosed. And your partner is going to find other people attractive—and not in 20 years. Today, right now, your partner is going to lay eyes on someone else they find attractive, HOPE, just as you will probably lay eyes—but only eyes—on someone else you find attractive. Making a monogamous commitment doesn’t mean you don’t wanna fuck other people, it means you will refrain from fucking other people. If the lie we’re told about love and attraction was true—if being in love with someone left you incapable of finding someone else attractive—we wouldn’t need to make monogamous commitments. We wouldn’t need to promise to not fuck anyone or extract that promise from someone else if being in left rendered us incapable of even noticing how hot your barista is.

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What is the etiquette for breaking up with an escort you’ve been seeing regularly? A little background: I’m married and have been seeing an escort for the past three years about twice a month. The sex is amazing. We’ve developed a friendship and get along very well. The issue is that I’ve gotten emotionally attached. I constantly think of her and she’s always on my mind. It’s negatively affected my marriage and I need to break

it off. I don’t want to hurt her as I have genuine affection but I need to stop seeing her. Do I send a note with an explanation? Or do I ghost and stop sending her text messages? I’m the one who initiates contact. She never reaches out to me first. Thanks for your advice. —It’s Me Not You Don’t thank me, IMNY, thank all the nice sex workers and sex workers’ rights advocates who were kind enough to share their thoughts after I tweeted out your question and asked #SexWorkTwitter to weigh in. The general consensus was for you to send a brief note letting this woman know you won’t be booking her again. A short selection from the responses… Kalee D. (@GoddessKaleeLA): “I’ve had this happen a few times before and the couple that wrote me a note with honesty were so deeply appreciated. The others, I always wondered what I did wrong or if they died in some freak accident.” Maya Midnight (@MsMayaMidnight): “I’d be worried if a longtime regular disappeared during a pandemic! Send a quick text or email saying you’re taking a break but you’ve enjoyed your time together. No need for more detail about why. A parting gift would be a nice gesture.” SoftSandalwood (@SoftSandalwood): “Pro Domme here. Definitely let her know what’s going on, so she doesn’t wonder if you’re OK, if she did something wrong, etc. It’s the job of a pro to understand and respect boundaries. Thanks for a thoughtful question.” Daddy Lance (@LanceNavarro): “Agreed 100%. The majority of us are deeply empathetic and

prefer closure over mystery.” A final thought from me: Sex workers value trustworthy regular clients and FOSTA/SESTA and the coronavirus pandemic have made it incredibly difficult for sex workers to find new regular clients. Sending this woman a generous final tip—perhaps the price of a session, if you can swing it—would soften the blow of losing you as a regular client and would tide her over until she can replace you.

That was great advice you gave to “Virgin” in last week’s column. I was a 39-year-old virgin and started seeing sex workers. I found one that had the kind of qualities mentioned by the sex worker you quoted in your column. She was a kind, caring, and compassionate person that I saw regularly for a year. Being with her gave me confidence in my sexual abilities and allowed me to experience physical affection. A little while later I met my future wife. I was even able to tell her about my experiences with sex workers and she wasn’t offended and didn’t shame me. She was actually intrigued. I hope VIRGIN takes your advice. If he finds the right sex worker, like I did, it will change his life. —One Grateful Client Thanks for sharing, OGC!

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