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“It should be the community coming together to agree upon oversight of this public agency.” POLITICS ISSUES OPINION
Waiting game
Decision on independent Tampa police review board delayed until February. By McKenna Schueler The motion to restructure Tampa’s 11-member Citizen Review Board was first put forth by City Council Member Orlando Gudes, a former TPD officer himself, in June, in response to this summer’s resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests. Mayor Jane Castor followed up on that motion by presenting a number of proposed changes, which earned a lukewarm response from police reform activists. Of note is that in 2019, Miami officials weren’t all that happy with Castor’s performance as Miami Police Department’s federal oversight monitor. Groups such as Tampa for Justice, the ACLU, and the NAACP have been working with the
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Since its creation, however, it’s largely remained “toothless” due to its limited powers, according to local activist-journalist (and CL contributor) Kelly Benjamin of Tampa for Justice, a local police reform group that initially pushed for the creation of the board back in 2015. Benjamin, who’s contributed to recent efforts to revamp the CRB, expressed concern and frustration to CL about the Tampa police union’s opposition to board reforms. “I think it’s really dangerous when law enforcement tries to paint a picture [that] having a voice and having some accountability is somehow akin to being on opposite sides of things,” he said. Benjamin argues that increasing the board’s power, for the broader purpose of strengthening community relations with law enforcement, shouldn’t be controversial. “We have a pattern of behavior from the police department that requires some oversight. There has to be an ability to hold law enforcement continued on page 11
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ampa’s Citizen Review Board—a mechanism for allowing limited civilian oversight of the Tampa Police Department and its operations—could potentially undergo several changes in the near future that would increase the board’s power to oversee issues of concern in the community, according to police reform activists and organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Or it might not—depending on what the Tampa Police Benevolent Association (i.e. the Tampa Police union) has to say about it. According to a screenshot shared by Equality Florida Executive Director Nadine Smith on social media, the union is attempting to mobilize “active, retired, and reserved officers” and their friends and family to show up to a [Nov. 19] City Council meeting to dissuade the City Council from approving changes to the board. In this call-to-action, the Tampa Police union asks for volunteers “to support the PBA fighting against the ACLU, who are trying to advance the Citizen Review Board and want to give them more police officers and their discipline. City Council needs to know our officers are against this! John Dingfelder and the ACLU are pushing for subpoena powers and their own investigation board to discipline officers the way Miami already does.” James Shaw Jr., a local volunteer attorney with the Greater Tampa Chapter of the ACLU, disputed the union’s fear-mongering.“The CRB would not be able to impose discipline. It can’t,” Shaw told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay on Nov. 17. “The law enforcement officers’ Bill of Rights is clear about that. All it would be able to do is be a voice of the citizens and say, on behalf of the citizens, this is what we the citizens think. And then, law enforcement would be able to listen to that or not listen to that.” Shaw also addressed the dig at Miami’s oversight process. The city of Miami has a Civilian Investigative Panel, but like our own CRB, it doesn’t have the power to impose officer discipline. CL reached out to Tampa PBA Vice President Darla Portman to confirm that the contents of the screenshot shared to social media came from Tampa PBA. As of publication, she has not returned our request for comment.
City Council since June to strengthen proposed changes to the board, after some argued that those originally proposed by Mayor Castor fell short of the kind of reforms they believe are needed. Proposed changes to the board—which include the power to conduct investigations into both closed and open cases with subpoena power, the ability to have an independent attorney, and to allow the majority of board appointments be made by the City Council (as opposed to Mayor Castor), among others—were discussed in that City Council meeting on Nov. 19. The Tampa Citizen Review Board was first created by executive order in 2015 by then-Mayor Bob Buckhorn, largely in response to three incidents: the deaths of Arthur Green Jr. and Jason Westcott at the hands of TPD officers, and the “Biking while Black” scandal first investigated and reported by the Tampa Bay Times. All three incidents occurred while current-Mayor Jane Castor served as Tampa’s Chief of Police.
TAKE COVER: Tampa police on Dale Mabry Highway on July 4, 2020.
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DR. PEPPER: Tampa police pepper spray protesters on June 4, 2020. continued from page 9 accountable for the way that they police these communities, and that’s really been the thrust of this from the get-go.” Last month, the Citizens Review Board held a meeting in which it heard from a number of community members, who showed up to demand accountability for the officer killing of Dominique Mulkey (more on p. 13), and to speak on their
support for increasing powers of the Citizen Review Board to conduct independent investigations of police infractions. Like Benjamin, attorney Shaw expressed concern about the adversarial way in which proposed changes to the CRB were framed by the Tampa Police Union’s latest message. "I don’t like how it presents the [CRB] as adversarial, that it’s us against the ACLU and John
Dingfelder, or that it’s somehow pro-police to shield them from the consequences of misconduct.” “It should be the community coming together to agree upon oversight of this public agency,” Shaw says. “And the way that this presents— it’s adversarial, that it’s ‘us’ against ‘them’...it’s not the right message, especially not right now.” City of Tampa spokesperson Ashley Bauman told the Tampa Bay Times that the city government has been working with both the local ACLU chapter and the Tampa PBA on finding ways to reform the existing civilian board. Both Shaw and Benjamin expressed some wariness about the willingness of the city to approve more robust reforms to the CRB. As it is, the CRB isn’t able to investigate open cases of alleged police misconduct, and that’s still not really on the table. “The way [proposed changes are] currently written, the CRB wouldn’t even be involved until everything is already said and done,” said Shaw. “So as it is drafted right now, it [the CRB] would only be able to review closed investigations, where discipline has already been decided, and then the CRB could weigh in on whether it likes what was done or not.” Shaw, Benjamin, and others involved in the local coalition to demand robust reforms for Tampa’s Citizen Review Board plan to keep working with the city to increase transparency
and accountability in issues pertaining to alleged police misconduct. City Councilman John Dingfelder told CL on Nov. 17 that he welcomes the input of all community members—including police officers and their families—in discussions concerning reforms to the Citizen Review Board. “I’m supportive of that in the same way that I’m supportive of everybody who wants to participate. I think the more participation, the better,” Dingfelder said. However, he also maintained that it’s reasonable and “healthy” for the community to push for a stronger and more meaningful board that has some teeth to it. “We need to be prepared with a board, you know, that has some oversight authority...and then that way the community can feel like they’re involved.” The City Council met at the Tampa Convention Center on Nov. 19, but despite a marathon meeting, with numerous citizens chiming in about the CRB, the latest draft ordinance proposal from Castor was pulled from the City Council agenda Thursday. What’s more is that the council won’t review it again until February 2021. On one hand the delay shows that the pressure from groups like the ACLU and Tampa for Justice is working, but activists are also rightfully concerned that the extra time gives reps from the PBA more room to lobby for less independent oversight of Tampa police officers.
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Longer look
State Attorney to review FDLE investigation on killing of Dominique Mulkey. By Ray Roa and McKenna Schueler
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n Thursday, the Tampa Police Department received a copy of The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s investigation regarding the death of Dominique Mulkey, a 26-yearold Black man who was shot and killed by two Tampa police officers on Oct. 20. A release says that TPD’s “Internal Affairs investigation continues,” but added that the FDLE also presented its findings to State Attorney Andrew Warren (SAO13). On Friday, the office for Warren told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that more than 15 senior Assistant State Attorneys attended the “thorough and extensive” presentation, along with members of the SAO13 leadership team. Because of COVID-19 precautions, additional team members attended remotely. Warren’s office said FDLE investigators responded to the scene immediately after the shooting, and laid out the case “based on their interviews with civilian and law enforcement witnesses; numerous video recordings, audio recordings, and photos from the crime scene and autopsy; and a wide range of forensic reports. “ “Our office’s staff asked dozens of probing questions about the facts and circumstances of
the case, challenging assumptions and working to understand exactly what took place and why,” Warren’s office told CL. Citing guidelines released in the State Attorney’s recently announced Action Steps for Fairness and Engagement, Warren’s office added that it intends “to release our findings within one week of a decision.” “As is typical, following a presentation from law enforcement, our staff is further reviewing the information and evidence to determine whether any additional investigation is needed before rendering such an important decision,” Warren’s office explained. “Along with a detailed explanation of our findings, we will release a number of initial materials—such as video, audio, photos, and reports—within a week of completing our review.” Gretchen Cothron, a volunteer attorney with the Greater Tampa Chapter of the ACLU told CL that those watching the case should allow the investigators to work the crime scene and allow the medical examiner to do their and work the death. Cothron studied forensic science, criminology and law at Saint Petersburg College and the University of Tampa. In 2010, she also founded
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screamingforsunshine, a nonprofit that fought wrongful convictions. Most recently, she and Ben Crump have worked on behalf of Tampa activist Jae Passmore. “We shouldn’t jump to conclusions and blame,” Cothron said in a text message. “From a forensic standpoint I must say at this point we need to trust the experience and expertise of the forensic scientists that work for FDLE and the retired professionals that now work as investigators for the State Attorney’s Office." “Incidents like this are heartbreaking, as is every death. But, just as we trust investigators to solve deaths by unknown perpetrators, we must also trust investigators to solve deaths such as this one.” On Oct. 20, minutes before he was shot to death, Mulkey had been identified as an armed suspect from a Dollar General robbery at 3110 N. 50th St. in the Highland Pines neighborhood. The officers, one of whom was wearing an activated body camera, encountered Mulkey five blocks away from the store, on 50th Street. Video footage from the Dollar General, acquired and shared by the TPD, shows Mulkey stuffing a black trash bag with store merchandise, later identified as various snack items. When store clerks took the bag away from Mulkey, he pulled out a handgun.
The store clerks called 911, and Mulkey fled the store on foot with the bag of snacks. When asked about the shooting, Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan said, at the time, there was no indication that Mulkey fired at officers and that it was not clear how many times officers fired. Some witnesses saw more than 30 markers indicating where bullet casings had been found by investigators. At a vigil five blocks from the Dollar General, Mulkey’s stepfather, Robert Smith, spoke at the site where his stepson was shot and pointed towards bullet holes, and towards the homes behind them, which laid the backdrop of where the fatal shooting occurred, saying, “Kids could have been out here. Anybody could have been out here.” At an Oct. 23 press conference outside TPD’s third precinct, Mulkey’s mother explained that Mulkey had been in foster care, and that if she knew he was hungry there, she would have taken him out of the home immediately. Mulkey’s family also told local reporters that Mulkey was hard of hearing, and may not have heard the officers shouting at him. His family also confirmed that Mulkey had a history of mental health issues, which the police officers were not aware of when responding to the initial 911 call.
“ ...I must say at this point we need to trust the experience and expertise of the forensic scientists.”
HOLES TO FILL: Bullet damage near the spot Tampa police shot and killed a 26-year-old Black man.
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Make racists resign again
PCSO deputy said he doesn’t ‘want any more Black females’ in division. By Thomas Holton and CL Staff
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Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office detention sergeant resigned Wednesday after racist and sexist comments came to light. The Sheriff ’s Office says 53-year-old Richard Nascimento Jr. was talking with a supervisor about choosing deputies for the Training Division on Aug. 17. During the conversation, Nascimento mentioned how he didn’t “want any more black females” in his division to his supervisor. As he was speaking, the only black female deputy assigned to the Training Division walked into the office. The comment went unreported until Oct. 29, when an internal review was conducted. Nascimento was then removed from his position and placed on administrative leave. While the case was set to be reviewed on Nov. 19, Nascimento resigned the day before, says the agency. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said that Nascimento, who’s been with the office since 1999, would’ve been fired had he not resigned. “It is the policy of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office that all members shall enjoy a work environment free of all forms of discrimination based on, but not limited it, a member’s race and gender,” said the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office in a press release. Nascimento’s resignation is just the most recent incident involving a racist officers at Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Last June, Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into Deputy Jay Dugmore, who allegedly posted to Facebook “MOST die at the hands of cops because they deserved it.” Dugmore was also sued in federal
court after allegations he struck a Black inmate and used racial slurs. And, in 2017, corporal Shawn Pappas resigned in disgrace after racist and pornographic images were found on his phone, including a meme showing a white child next to a monkey that reads “Stop Racism, black children and white children are the same.”
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More racism, unfortunately Spring Hill Japanese restaurant Fuji Hibachi Express took to Facebook this month to address targeted racist phone calls and behavior from locals. “We don’t sell ‘Corona Virus’ it’s not right at all when you call and try to make fun of us,” the Facebook post read. “We’ve got told to go back to our country. Shown a middle finger in the middle of the road when we’re driving with an open window. Please stop the racism!” This is not an isolated incident, according to the restaurant, located at 14257 Powell Rd. But in news that’s somewhat of a relief, the initial Facebook post garnered a lot of local support in the form of almost 200 comments denouncing the behavior of the callers. “I’m so sorry to read that you have been subjected to this behavior,” one commenter wrote. “Please know that they are the exception and not the rule.” The next week, the restaurant posted a thank you to all of its supporters on Facebook. “It really made us feel a lot better when we saw all the comments in that post,” it read. “We wanted to say thank you to every single one of them who stand up for us.” CL staff contributed to these reports.
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SHINE A LIGHT: A PSCO detention sergeant resigned after racist and sexist comments.
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DON’T STORM THE CASTLE: TGH has been on the forefront of COVID-19 research, and it will dutifully administer any COVID-19 vaccine. ADOBE
Hold strong
A COVID-19 vaccine is headed to Tampa Bay, but distribution is still unclear. By Ray Roa and News Service of Florida
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ultiple reports say that Tampa General Hospital and Advent Health will be some of the first in Florida to administer COVID-19 vaccines in Tampa Bay. South Florida Sun Sentinel says the first vaccines are supposed to arrive in mid-December, with another shipment coming in January. The vaccine is not yet approved for use, but the Sentinel wrote that “ The vaccine stored by hospitals will be whichever the government approves first, possibly Pfizer’s.” In a statement, Orlando’a AdventHealth wrote, “Many details will be worked out in the weeks and months ahead…” As expected, the Sentinel said that administration of whichever vaccine arrives will entail a phased approach that creates groups based on priority. “During the first phase, the vaccine will be available for front-line health care workers in hospitals, long-term-care staff and residents, and first responders,” Lidia Amoretti, spokeswoman for Jackson Health System, told the newspaper.
“We don’t have an exact time but we do have a call set up with the Surgeon General today and we’re going to learn a lot more about it as we move forward,” Dr. Seetha Lakshmi—Medical Director, Global Emerging Diseases Institute at USF Health and TGH Infectious Disease, said in a video from the hospital. “Health care workers on the frontlines are going to be the priority number one so that’s the phase one and anybody who’s at risk for contracting COVID-19 because of their job,” Lakshmi said, adding that how much vaccine will be delivered is the “magic question.” “We don’t we don’t know yet how much vaccine we’re going to get, but again you know we have the call set up [Nov. 19]. And we’re really hoping to learn a lot more about it,” she said. On Nov. 18—the day before this vaccine announcement—Florida added 7,925 cases and cruised past 900,000 total coronavirus infections since the beginning of the pandemic (88 new deaths were also reported, bringing the total to just under 18,000).
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In Tampa Bay on Nov. 18, 26 deaths were reported along with 1,286 new coronavirus cases (positivity rates in Hillsborough and Pinellas are at 7% and 6%, respectively). Unsurprisingly, the state’s positivity rate is at 9%, and on Nov. 18, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman joined other Florida Mayors in begging Gov. Ron DeSantis to do something substantial to help curb the spread (the World Health Organization’s recommended level is 5%). In a five-minute video released Nov. 19, Gov. Ron DeSantis said his goal is to make yet-tobe-approved COVID-19 vaccines available to Florida residents who voluntarily agree to get inoculated and that he hopes the vaccines will be available in the next three to six weeks. Pfizer and Moderna have announced development of vaccines with 90% efficacy rates in clinical trials. The federal government has secured 40 million doses of the vaccines from two companies—25 million from Pfizer and 15 million from Moderna. Because two doses will be required, that would provide vaccines for 20 million people across the country. Once approved by the Food and Drug Administration, DeSantis said the Pfizer vaccine will be distributed to five Florida hospital systems that have the capability to keep the vaccine stored at negative 70 degrees.
The Moderna vaccine does not require such cold storage. DeSantis’ office released the video two days after the governor met with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield and other federal officials. In addition to using the video to tout the vaccines, DeSantis also spoke about a new therapeutic drug developed by Eli Lilly that the federal government authorized for emergency use and said more than 3,000 doses have been sent to Florida. The therapeutic is administered intravenously and is targeted for people who are at high risk of severe complications from COVID-19. “I do believe that these breakthroughs represent probably the greatest rays of hope that we have seen since the pandemic began,” DeSantis said of the vaccines and new therapeutics. “They offer the prospect of saving thousands and thousands of lives, and to potentially bring this pandemic to an end.” DeSantis issued the video instead of holding a news conference. A close ally of President Donald Trump, DeSantis has avoided reporters following remarks on Fox News calling for the Pennsylvania legislature to consider overriding voters and selecting its own presidential electors.
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Lock the motherfucker up There is no healing without justice.
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or all the nefarious crap Florida Republicans pulled in 2000—there was plenty, beginning with a racist purge of the state’s voter rolls— at least that was a legitimately close election. A 537-vote difference, capping a 500,000-vote national margin, is a rounding error. That wasn’t the case this year. Joe Biden won enough states to claim 306 electoral votes. When California and New York finish counting, he’ll beat Donald Trump by a 4.5-point margin, securing the largest share of the electorate of any presidential challenger since FDR. It wasn’t a blowout, but it was decisive. Yet here we are, almost three weeks later, the president refusing to concede despite having been laughed out of court after court, his lawyers reduced to spinning ridiculous yarns about vast conspiracies to erase millions of votes and/or conduct fraud in big (Black) cities such as Detroit and Philadelphia. The freakshow reached a delusional peak at a press conference Thursday, when Trump lawyer Sidney Powell—who also ginned up deep-state nonsense while defending Michael Flynn—told the nation about her acid trip: “I want the American public to know right now that we will not be intimidated. American patriots are fed up with the corruption at the local level to the highest level of our government. We are going to take this country back. We are not going to be intimidated. We are not going to back down. We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it.” To reiterate, the guy she says “won by a landslide” will lose by nearly 7 million votes. The issue isn’t that bottom-barrel lawyers are willing to humiliate themselves for Donald Trump by saying stupid things. Elect a clown, get a circus, after all. No, the issue is that this paranoid quackery is no longer confined to the sad internet message boards and psychiatric wards where it belongs. It’s gone mainstream, elevated not just by Trump and his usual Fox News lackeys but also by ascendant propaganda networks like Newsmax and OANN, which are dueling to see who can stick their heads furthest up the president’s ass. And it’s being promoted by the Republican National Committee—the party once home to Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt that’s now completing a generationlong descent into madness.
More importantly, these incoherent ramblings also form the basis of the president’s overt ploy to subvert the election by convincing Republican legislatures to ignore their states’ voters and certify their own slates of electors. In other words, Trump is plotting a coup. And the Republican Party endorsed it. That this effort was both predictable and is almost certain to fail doesn’t matter. Nor does it matter if some Republicans are indulging his fantasies because to placate his base. What matters is that Trump has cracked open the door to an authoritarian takeover and found millions willing to embrace it—and a craven political party too weak to get in the way. This is a crime against democracy. It cannot go unanswered. In his fits of pique and petulance, however, Trump is also committing crimes against humanity. Within weeks, the U.S. will be notching 200,000 new COVID cases and 2,000 COVID deaths per day. The president is AWOL. Worse, actually. He’s actively blocking the next administration from vaccine-distribution plans. People will die as a result. This, too, demands retribution. As the second wave explodes, 12 million Americans will soon lose federal unemployment assistance, setting up an economic catastrophe. Neither Trump nor Senate Republicans have lifted a finger to help. Worse, again, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin ended the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending programs over the objections of the Fed and the Chamber of Commerce, which complained that the decision “unnecessarily ties the hands of the incoming administration.” You think? The same motive applies to Trump’s lastminute foreign policy moves, including (whatever the merits) an abrupt troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq and a massive arms sale in the Middle East. A senior adviser told CNN that—in CNN’s words—the “goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out.” If Trump can’t have it, he wants to watch it burn. Herein lies Joe Biden’s dilemma. As former New Jersey attorney general Anne Milgram told The New York Times Magazine, “This whole presidency has been about someone who thought he was above the law. If he isn’t
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“There can be no justice so long as Trump escapes the consequences of his actions.”
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By Jeffrey C. Billman
FREAKSHOW: Trump delivers an update on coronavirus vaccine development on Nov. 13, 2020. held accountable for possible crimes, then he literally was above the law.” Putting aside his sedition and the wanton destruction of democratic norms that characterized his term, there is ample if not incontrovertible evidence that Trump obstructed justice, solicited foreign election interference, and committed federal campaign fraud—crimes that would have led to charges were he not president. He routed millions of inaugural and taxpayer dollars to his private business. And he’s very likely committed tax fraud. But if Biden’s Department of Justice prosecutes him—even if the State of New York prosecutes him, as seems increasingly possible—Trump will consume and define his presidency. From Biden’s perspective, making Trump a martyr will end any chance he has of healing the country and probably derail his agenda, too. It would also set a precedent that future presidents would inevitably exploit
regardless of justification. The president-elect, an adviser told NBC News, “just wants to move on.” In a way, it’s hard to blame him. But there are some things you can’t move on from. There are some poisons that must be sucked from the body politic before they kill us. Donald Trump and the movement he inspired—a movement that has consumed and enslaved the Republican Party—won’t be wished away. There can be no common ground with a party that embraces delusion and undermines democracy. It must be crushed into powder. What Trump did throughout his presidency was despicable. What Trump has done since losing the election is unforgivable. There will be no healing without justice. And there can be no justice so long as Donald Trump escapes the consequences of his actions. What I’m trying to say is this: Lock the motherfucker up.
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Gasparilla parades get pushed back to April, and the Gasparilla International Film Fest is postponed until May. What’s more is that the city has no plans to hold Mayor Jane Castor’s NYE ‘Booty Drop’ which basically translates to: “Stay your ass at home for the holidays, assholes.”
A report says that with a lack of out-of-state visitors, Florida tourism was down 30% last quarter, which totally explains the fact that there seem to be less bad drivers on the road these days.
PSTA launches a new free, autonomous shuttle that hits the road in St. Pete. The autonomous vehicle will travel up and down Bayshore Drive from the Dali Museum to the Vinoy Renaissance for the next three months—and you thought the waterfront couldn’t get more bougie. Does shit sleep over the Thanksgiving holiday? Find out via cltampa.com/news.
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Brass Tap The elevated prototype location is now up and running in Midtown Tampa. Considered Brass Tap 3.0, guests can expect accordion-style doors leading out to a huge covered outdoor patio, an expanded food menu and a selection of over 150 brews. The joint is located next to chicken spot, and fellow FSC Franchise Co. establishment, The Hatchery. 203 N. Dale Mabry Hwy., Tampa. brasstapbeerbar.com Hotel Haya The boutique hotel launched in Ybor City with three food and drink concepts: Café Quiquiriqui, upscale restaurant Flor Fina and Haya Pool Bar. No need to be a guest to slide in and dine or grab a drink from the full bar. The cafe offers espresso drinks, eats like Cuban sandos and other grab-and-go options. Flor Fina has a rotating menu of ceviche alongside elevated dishes for date night. The pool bar, which is closed until further notice, will someday pour up seasonal cocktails and boozy ice pops. 1412 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City. hotelhaya.com
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Openings Bastet The brewery features a taproom and plenty of original small-batch brews, like “How Now Brown Cow,” an imperial milk stout, “Hot Tub Time Machine,” an imperial India pale ale and “Aw Shucks,” a cream ale. The name for the brewery, Bastet, pays homage to the importance of beer in ancient Egyptian societies. “The story of Bastet is a story of how beer saved the world. History has again and again shown that beer has changed the world in significant ways.” 1951 E. Adamo Dr. Suite B, Palmetto Beach. bastetbrewing.com —Nora O’Neill
Reopening District Tavern The neighborhood bar welcomes new Executive Chef Cody Tiner to the roster. Tiner’s first initiative was to revamp
the gastropub’s brunch menu with dishes like mini-pancake cereal with mini pancakes, peanut butter whipped cream, maple syrup, and almond granola. Brunch is served 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. each weekend. 116 N. 12th St., Tampa. districttaverntampa.com Coming soon Buddy Brew Coffee The local java titan is launching another location in St. Petersburg. Up until the announcement of the ‘Burg location, St. Pete’s coffee lovers have had to secure the beans at various locations in Tampa (or the lone location in Sarasota). More details to come as an opening date is announced. Buddy Brew is also looking to open its Bay to Bay Boulevard location within the next few weeks. Buckle up, bean heads. 2424 4th St. N., St. Petersburg. buddybrew.com The Chelsea St. Pete Early next year, St. Pete’s Warehouse Arts District is welcoming the a new coffee bar. The Chelsea plans on offering coffee, tea, beer, wine, and bites. The space also plans on hosting a variety of decor, art, and home accessories for sale. 2462 5th Ave. S., St. Petersburg. thechelseastpete.com Hot Wax Coffee Shop A product of Hot Wax Smoke Shop, the coffee house is set to open its doors next month offering regular drip coffee, espresso, lattes, and cappuccinos. Local coffee brands like espresso brand Café Perez will be featured on the menu alongside a wide range of food like pastries, sandwiches, kava and kratom teas, beer and wine. CBD products will be sold, too. 1522 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City. @hotwaxcoffeeshop on Instagram. —Alexandria Jones
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In the wake of concerns about the novel coronavirus, it’s best to call or visit the websites of these breweries to check on their offerings. 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 Tuesday-Sunday. 6401 N. Florida Ave., Seminole Heights. 813-238-1122, angrychairbrewing.com ANTIBREWERY Dunedin’s secret Sundays-only nano. 1367 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Dunedin
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
HOB BREWING CO. Rotating taps; some of the beers are brewed on-site and alongside a combination of local breweries plus local and international craft beer makers. 931 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. hob.beer IF I BREWED THE WORLD This self-described “mixtape of breweries” offers a bit of everything from the classic to the fun and outrageous. 2200 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-201-4484, ifibrewedtheworld. com IN THE LOOP BREWING Family-friendly Land O’ Lakes brewery with a lot of community support and plenty of events. 3338 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’ Lakes. 813-997-9189, intheloopbrewingcompany.com INFUSION BREWING CO. Another great location in the good-beer-packed Trinity/New Port Richey area. 7813 Mitchell Blvd. Ste 103, Trinity. 727-312-4512. INOCULUM ALE WORKS These folks are crazy for sours, and know how to craft ‘em. 554 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. inoculumaleworks.com JDUB’S BREWING COMPANY You know ‘em, you love ‘em. A favorite statewide phenomenon. 1215 Mango Ave., Sarasota. 941-955-2739, jdubsbrewing.com
brewing its own in early 2018. 2244 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. 727-360-0766, stpetearcadebar.com ROCK BROTHERS BREWING Brews named for national and local bands have a home in Ybor City. 1901 N. 15th St., Ybor City. 813-241-0110, rockbrothersbrewing.com SARASOTA BREWING COMPANY House-crafted brews, pizza, and sports out toward beautiful Siesta Key. 6607 Gateway Ave., Sarasota. 941-925-2337, sarasotabrewing.com SILVERKING BREWING CO. This space in Tarpon Springs complements a label that’s been around since 2012. 325 East Lemon St., Tarpon Springs. 727-4227598, silverkingbrewing.com SIX TEN BREWING A wide variety and a real passion for the craft-brew community. 7052 Benjamin Rd., Tampa. 813-886-0610, sixtenbrewing.com SOGGY BOTTOM BREWING More Dunedin goodness, including some truly original flavors and inventive brews. 660 Main St., Dunedin. 727-601-1698, soggybottombrewing.com
CUENI BREWING CO. Located off the Pinellas Trail in Dunedin. 945 Huntley Ave., Dunedin. 727-266-4102, cuenibrewing.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
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
CYCLE BREWING One of St. Pete’s favorites. 534 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. 727-320-7954. cyclebrewing.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
ST. PETE BREWING COMPANY Beers crafted specifically for the climate. 544 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-692-8809, stpetebrewingcompany.com
BARRIEHAUS BEER CO. Lager-specific brewery, carrying on an over 150 year brewing legacy. 1403 E 5th Ave., Ybor City. barriehaus.com
DARWIN BREWING CO. Unique beers crafted with South American influence. 803 17th Ave. W., Bradenton. 941-747-1970, darwinbrewingco.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
DE BINE BREWING CO. This addition bolsters the Northern Pinellas craft beer scene. 933 Florida Ave., Palm Harbor. 727-233-7964.
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
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
MAD BEACH CRAFT BREWING Brews, ciders, and meads by the beach. 12945 Village Boulevard, Madeira Beach. 727-362-0008, madbeachbrewing.com
SWAN BREWING Nearly 4 decades of combined brewing experience go into the offerings at this petfriendly joint. 115 W. Pine St., Lakeland. 863-703-0472, swanbrewing.com
MARKER 48 Hernando’s first production craft brewery, with its own tasting room and beer garden 12147 Cortez Blvd, Weeki Wachee. 352-606-2509, marker48.com
TBBC Formerly Tampa Bay Brewing Co., local favorite for nearly two decades. 1600 E. 8th Ave., Ybor City/13933 Monroe’s Business Park, Westchase. 813247-1422, tbbc.beer
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
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
DISSENT BREWING CO. Unique flavors and adventurous style outside downtown St. Pete. 5518 Haines Rd. N., St. Petersburg. 727-342-0255.
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DUNEDIN BREWERY Florida’s oldest. Beer, eats and live music. 937 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. 727-736-0606, dunedinbrewery.com DUNEDIN HOUSE OF BEER This beer stop brews its own, and also has 40 guest taps. 927 Broadway, Dunedin. 727 216-6318, dunedinhob.com
ESCAPE BREWING CO. Another very worthy Odessa/Trinity destination. 9945 Trinity Blvd., Suite 108, Trinity. 727-807-6092, escapebrewingcompany.com FIVE BRANCHES Veteran-owned brewery, small batches from IPAs to stouts. Serving up brews and a clear view of the Tarpon Bayou. 531 Athens St., Tarpon Springs. fivebranchesbrewing.com FLYING BOAT BREWING COMPANY St. Pete aviation history and tasty homegrown suds. 1776 11th Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-800-2999, flyingboatbrewing.com
BREW LIFE BREWING Ultra-small batches, and a lot of ‘em. 5765 S. Beneva Rd., Sarasota. 941-952-3831, brewlifebrewing.com
FOUR STACKS BREWING An always-changing lineup of local and regional guest suds, along with trivia, live music and more. 5469 N. US HWY 41, Apollo Beach. 813-641-2036, fourstacksbrewing.com
BULLFROG CREEK BREWING CO. A multitude of styles from former garage brewers is on tap in Valrico. 3632 Lithia Pinecrest Rd., Valrico. 813-703-8835, bullfrogcreekbrewing.com
GREEN BENCH BREWING COMPANY A space worthy of the adventurous beers it produces. 1133 Baum Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-800-9836, greenbenchbrewing.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
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
CALEDONIA BREWING Great in-house beers in the historic Dunedin Times building. 587 Main St., Dunedin. 727-351-5105, caledoniabrewing.com CALUSA BREWING Family owned and operated, opened Tuesday to Sunday. 5701 Derek Ave., Sarasota. 941-922-8150, 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
GRINDHAUS BREW LAB Small batches and no extracts. 1650 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater. 727-2400804, grindhausbrewlab.com GULFPORT BREWERY + EATERY Small batches with an artisanal food menu. 3007 Beach Blvd., Tampa. facebook.com/GulfportBrewery HIDDEN SPRINGS ALE WORKS This Tampa Heights brewery features a rotating tap selection. 1631 N. Franklin St., Tampa, 813-226-2739, hiddenspringsaleworks.com
MASTRY’S BREWING CO. From CD Roma’s restaurant to sweet new digs on St. Pete Beach. 7701 Blind Pass Rd., St. Pete Beach. 727-202-8045 mastrysbrewingco.com MOTORWORKS BREWING A taproom and beer garden featuring full liquor and wine as well as 30 taps. 1014 9th Street West, Bradenton. 941-567-6218, motorworksbrewing.com MR. DUNDERBAK’S The longtime restaurant, biergarten and homebrewers’ hangout is serving up its own beers. 14929 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa. 813-9774104, dunderbaks.com NAUGHTY MONK BREWERY Naughty Monk brings a love of Belgian styles to Manatee County. 2507 Lakewood Ranch Blvd., Bradenton. 941-708-2966, naughtymonkbrewery.com OVERFLOW BREWING St. Pete’s newest, courtesy of local Rapp head brewer Troy Bledsoe and company. 770 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 727-914-0665, facebook.com/overflowbrewingco PEPPER BREWING The Angry Pepper Taphouse’s in-house label, available “on a limited basis.” 9366 Oakhurst Rd., Seminole. 727-596-5766, angrypeppertaphouse.com 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. 727-3029600, peskypelicanbrewpub.com PINELLAS ALE WORKS PAW offers a dog-friendly environment in addition to tasty brews. 1962 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg. 727-235-0970, pawbeer.com RAPP BREWING COMPANY Greg Rapp’s awardwinning styles are carefully crafted and delicious. 10930 Endeavor Way, Seminole. 727-544-1752, rappbrewing.com RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER This video gamecentric Grand Central District craft beer bar started
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. 813-4755995, 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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Creative Pinellas’ Arts Annual takes strides towards making Tampa Bay an arts destination. By Jennifer Ring immediately started looking for ways to leverage Pinellas County’s arts and cultural scene to attract tourism dollars. She spent 2017 in conversation with Pinellas County artists and arts organizations, seeking ways to increase the appeal of our local art scene to artists, locals, and visitors. In 2018, the Creative Pinellas team came together to find ways to implement all the wonderful things it talked about the previous year. In 2019, the fun really started. Creative Pinellas is now in the implementation stage. As St. Clair describes it, they made a plan and they’re actually following it. And though it’s not easy to do this in a pandemic, the arts agency is blossoming before our eyes. Under St. Clair’s guidance, Creative Pinellas grew its partnership with Visit St. Pete Clearwater and hired Leigh Davis to liaison between our artists and arts organizations and the tourism and hospitality industry. They created a glossy arts and culture guide for Pinellas County and delivered it to the region’s visitor centers, hotels, and airports. You can request a copy online via creativepinellas.org. They started a quarterly art and tourism newsletter. And they created Arts Annual in 2018, hoping
painters Steven Kenny, Elizabeth Barenis, and Daniel Barojas; Clearwater dancer Marquis Floyd; choreographer Paula Kramer; sculptors Christina Bertsos and Don Gialanella; composer Tom Sivak; jazz musicians David Manson and Mark Feinman; poets Gloria Munoz and Gregory Byrd; photographer Linda Costa Cheranichit; and independent filmmaker Victoria Jorgensen. Leigh Davis lights up when she talks about the event. “It’s unusual to have visual and performing artists having a show together with this many participating artists,” she told CL. In previous years, the event consisted of a gallery show and an opening reception featuring live performances. This year the gallery show, curated by Danny Olda, remains, but with some added precautions. “It’s a very large gallery, so it’s pretty easy to maintain social distancing in it,” says St. Clair. “We had the emerging artist show in the gallery, and it worked beautifully, so we’re very confident that we can invite the public to a safe and wonderful experience in the gallery.” In 2019, the group added an exciting new element to Arts Annual for Pinellas County’s visitors. Beyond the Walls, which returns in 2020, brings the art directly to tourists by placing it at the hotels they stay in. “Bringing the art to the hotel directly not only tells the story of our incredibly talented community, but it also offers more accessibility to people to experience it,” says Davis. “Also, we fully believe that artists should widen the different types of places their art is [shown]… continued on page 29
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hat makes a great art destination? If you ask Creative Pinellas CEO Barbara St. Clair, she’ll tell you it’s a combination of having great cultural institutions and good energy. She uses Cleveland and Austin to make her case. “Cleveland has, arguably, the best art museum in the whole world,” says St. Clair. “If it’s not the best, then it’s one of the top three. They have one of the best symphony orchestras and symphony halls. They have these amazing cultural institutions. But people don’t come to Cleveland because Cleveland is an arts and culture mecca, even though it’s got these fabulous institutions. Then you look at Austin. Austin really doesn’t have these kinds of institutions, but people go to Austin for the arts and culture and the energy of an arts community.” By these standards, Pinellas County is already a great arts destination, but not everyone realizes this. “We have those cultural institutions with the Florida Orchestra, the Dali, the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art up in Tarpon, the Chihuly Collection. You can just go down the list,” St. Clair tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “But we also have the hip vibe and the local galleries and the art fairs and the music in the park.” So how do we get people outside of Tampa Bay to notice our fantastic arts and culture scene? “That’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it?” says St. Clair. “Some of it’s marketing, but a lot of it is building relationships.” Creative Pinellas is working hard on both. About five years ago, Pinellas County’s Board of County Commissioners noticed art’s ability to attract tourism dollars and decided to fund efforts to make Pinellas County’s art scene even better. After some discussion, they chose to channel these funds through Creative Pinellas, with St. Clair at the helm. St. Clair came to Creative Pinellas from the corporate world, where she’d worked to provide shareholder value for companies for 30 years. In 2016, she started using this same skill set at Creative Pinellas to build value for her community instead. She recognized the arts as the economic driver that it is in Pinellas County, and
that one day it would draw arts and culture tourists to Pinellas County like Art Basel does for Miami Beach. “The Arts Annual program is a direct outgrowth of realizing that there was so much that could be built and so many creative things that could happen, if we could really make that connection between the tourist industry and the arts community,” St. Clair told CL. “Everybody was willing. Everyone recognized that there was a need and that the opportunities for fabulous outcomes were there.” Arts Annual is an annual festival of the arts in Largo that combines both the visual and the performing arts under one roof. Each year about 30 Pinellas County artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and actors participate in the event. The event launched Sunday, Nov. 15, with a two-hour long virtual festival streamed live on YouTube. Those who tuned in saw an assemblage of pre-recorded studio tours, poetry readings, musical performances, mini-documentaries and short films featuring Pinellas County artists. The variety of performances really stood out. Pinellas County is a place where great writers live and work, creating poetry, plays, and musicals; jazz musicians gather in dive bars, performance venues and parks; people dance in the streets and on stages; independent filmmakers start their own film festivals; and artists paint, sculpt, and photograph in home studios. This variety is exactly what Creative Pinellas’ Arts Annual showcased that evening with studio tours, short films and pre-recorded performances introducing Pinellas County
HIDE NO MORE: Pinellas County has long had the elements of an arts destination.
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SHOW ME THE WAY: Creative Pinellas CEO Barbara St. Clair has a vision. continued from page 27 There is a place for art in hotels, in lobbies of businesses, in restaurants, in bars, in airports, on trains, on buses, on billboards, on utility boxes…on all types of things.” For Davis, this “art everywhere” quality is part of what makes Pinellas County unique, and she’s thrilled to be able to showcase that at Creative Pinellas and local hotels. Thanks to Creative Pinellas’ Beyond the Walls, Christina Bertsos’ beautiful sculptures are now on display at the Sandpearl Resort and Spring Hill Suites on Clearwater Beach; Nathan Beard’s paintings are at Opal Sands; and work from Mickett/Stackhouse Studio is at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort. Visitors to St. Pete Beach may enjoy Laura Spencer’s work at Alden Suites and Carolina Cleere’s work at Postcard Inn. In downtown St. Pete, Steven Kenny’s surrealist paintings are at the Birchwood, and Hyatt Place has some abstract paintings by Jason Hackenwerth. Elizabeth Barenis
works are at the Belleview Inn in Belleair, Jim Gigurtsis paintings and Sondra Elder ceramics at Bilmar Beach Resort on Treasure Island, Brandie Dziegel prints at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor, and Javier Dones’ copper art is at the Fenway Hotel in Dunedin. You can view the installations and see the artists talk about their work in a series of three-minute-long video clips on Creative Pinellas’ website. “When people ask me how we are doing Arts Annual, I say, ‘every way we can,’ St. Clair told CL. “We’re pursuing every channel available.” It’s not always easy getting Pinellas County artists noticed, despite their many talents, in a state surrounded by water and the best beaches in the world, but I’m glad Creative Pinellas is working on it. Pinellas County’s arts and culture scene has enriched my life in more ways than I can count over the past few years I’ve been writing for CL. It should be celebrated, and Arts Annual is the perfect opportunity to do so.
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Every comedy club in Tampa Bay is finally open again. By Michael Murillo
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omedy clubs are open. We don’t mean some clubs are open. We mean—finally—all comedy clubs are open (for now, anyway. Let’s be positive and enjoy it, shall we?) Side Splitters, Snappers, Tampa Improv and Coconuts all opened their doors for libations and laughter months ago. But last weekend, McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre in Sarasota, a local staple for more than 30 years, opened back up with local favorites Helen Keaney and Carmen Ciricillo. That puts all comedy club stages up and running at the same time, and that hasn’t happened since... well, you know. We spoke with the club’s owner and namesake, Les McCurdy, about opening for business and what he expects at his business—located at 1923 Ringling Blvd. in Sarasota—going forward.
until November, watch the infection numbers and counsel with the other top comedy venues in the U.S. to see how best to open. We always err on the side of safety for our staff and community. How did you spend the downtime? I was very politically active under the radar. Not for any particular party, but for the best way to handle this pandemic challenge. Did some on-line shows, and shows for on-duty hospital staff. I also played golf with great friends, got back into fishing and caught a nice snook on my 65th birthday recently. And I always adore hanging out with (spouse) Pam, and spent a lot of time with my grandson who is our joy!
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You’re the last club in the area to open its doors. Why did you stay closed so long, and why did you choose now to reopen? We saw no reason to open in September or October, as they are normally slow months for us with bad weather. We decided to wait
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You’re making safety-related changes to how you operate (only selling tables, no walkup sales, strict 80-minute showtimes and you installed an air purifier). Once the lights go down and the comedians hit the stage, do you think the stand-up part will be “business as usual?” Yep!
McCurdy’s has been a staple in your community for decades. You’ve had thousands of performers on your stages and dealt with anything that might happen at a show. Then 2020 hit. How did your experience help you navigate something you’ve never encountered before? We lost 25-30% of our business between 2008 to 2014 from the recession, and we’ve always been very conservative with our spending and saving. So we are ready for downtimes which always come, and also ready to take advantage of good times, which also always come. Over the years, you’ve developed strong personal relationships with your performers. Some have graduated from your comedy classes, and others have been regulars for most of their career. Have you kept in touch with some of them during the pandemic? How are they doing, and how do they feel about coming back? Ninety percent are ready to perform. For me and a lot of my peers, we have been performing for more than three decades! This is the first time in 35 years that I have gone eight months without performing. Usually in that time period I’ve done 150 to 200 shows. Most of us are aching to perform.
Aside from the fun and camaraderie in stand-up comedy, running a club is hard work. From a business standpoint, what’s the strategy for making it work when it might take a little time to get totally back to normal? Right now, I really don’t know if we will be filling up three shows at 50% capacity, or adding shows, or canceling shows. Most of the other really top-notch comedy clubs that have opened in the past four to eight weeks are getting enough attendance to justify staying open, so that is hopeful. But we feel strongly that everyone must do what they feel is best for them in this situation, and we respect that. For those who do feel comfortable coming out for a show, we will do everything in our power to provide the safest environment we can while also providing the same first-class comedy entertainment that they expect. That is what we do anyway
“Everyone must do what they feel is best for them in this situation, and we respect that.”
Comedy has been a big part of your life. What have you missed about it the most, and how do you feel about getting back to business? I love doing it. Love hearing the responses of the patrons. Love the community of comedy and laughter. When wonderful artists are able to perform for as many people as desire to gather to enjoy it, we will know we are back again.
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We the South of the South. By Carter Brantley and Ray Roa Leonard leading them to the promised land, defeating the then-defending champion Golden State Warriors. The Raptors are generally expected to repeat the success they had last year, thanks to their two best players, point guard Kyle Lowry and power forward Pascal Siakam (affectionately known as “Spicy P”) but they have a couple questions they need to answer with their roster during the offseason. Serge Ibaka and Fred VanVleet are two starters that may need replacing, as both are free agents that are expected to get paid handsomely for their services. They already have a guy that could fill in for VanVleet on their roster
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There is also some turmoil with one of the Raptors’ talented rookies from last year. Terrence Davis, a member of the 2nd-Team All-Rookie team this past season, was involved in a domestic dispute and was arrested on several charges in October. Neither the Raptors nor the NBA have released any definitive statements regarding Davis or his status for the upcoming season. With all of that being said, get excited Tampa. The Raptors have been one of the most consistent teams in the past decade, making the playoffs every year since the 2013-2014 season and having a top-3 regular season record in the Eastern Conference every year of that time period except the 2014-2015 season. It’s likely they will extend that playoff streak and give Tampa yet another sports team to be happy about. We, for our part, are ecstatic.
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et out your Kyle Lowry jerseys, the Toronto Raptors are officially coming to Tampa for the 2020-2021 NBA season. Several reports and a statement from the team’s president confirm what Tampa Bay basketball fans were hoping to hear: the NBA’s Toronto Raptors will play at least the beginning of the team’s 2020-21 season in Tampa. The decision comes after the Raptors were unable to come to an agreement to play games in Toronto, with Canada’s restrictions on people crossing the border requiring folks to quarantine for 14 days following their entering the country. “Ultimately, the current public health situation facing Canadians, combined with the urgent need to determine where we will play means that we will begin our 2020-21 season in Tampa, Florida,”Masai Ujiri, president of basketball operations for the Raptors wrote in a statement. Ujiri said that despite good conversations with Canadian health officials, playing at home in Toronto would not be in the best interest of Canadians navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. “We commit to continuing our work together, planning for a safe return to play in Toronto,” Ujiri wrote, adding that, “For now, I’ll ask you to cheer for us from afar.” Sports Illustrated confirmed that the Raptors only committed to beginning the season in Tampa and will reassess the COVID-19 situation in the middle of the season. In an email, Tampa Bay Sports Commission Executive Director Rob Higgins told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that his group remained hopeful that the Raptors would be able to play their games at home in Toronto, but expressed excitement about helping the team kick of its season at Amalie Arena, where it’s still unclear whether or not fans will be allowed to watch in-person. “Kudos to our community partners for working quickly to make this happen. Our partnership with the Raptors organization is already off to a strong start and our community is focused on serving as a great interim host to them for the duration of their stay in our hometown,” Higgins wrote. In a statement sent to media following the breaking news, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said, “The Toronto Raptors and their fans will not be disappointed here in Tampa Bay.” The Raptors are coming off a very successful 2019-2020 campaign that saw them advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals, losing to the Boston Celtics in 7 games. The previous year they won it all, with Kawhi
in Norman Powell, but Ibaka may require a trade or a free agent signing. Plus, while he is an upgrade over FVV defensively, Powell is not nearly the scorer VanVleet is. I would expect the Raptors to try to re-sign VanVleet while going to the trade market to replace Ibaka. VanVleet is a talented scorer that plays well with Lowry and in the Raptors system, and he seems to enjoy playing for the Raptors. They could replace Ibaka with the Indiana Pacers’ Myles Turner, as Turner provides the similar shot-blocking and floor spacing that Ibaka provides. But that probably means giving up a couple first-round picks and one of their solid rotation guys, like the aforementioned Powell or former G-League sensation Chris Boucher. Turner is a good bit younger than Ibaka and is one of the more underrated big men in the league.
LOWRY PARK: I mean, there’s already a Tampa neighborhood named for Kyle Lowry, right?
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Bayshore home connected to historic Bay area dynasty on the market. By Colin Wolf other things. Notably, the company encompassed Peoples Gas, which was the largest utility provider in the state until it was bought by TECO for $300 million in 1997. The family is still one of the largest landowners in the United States. Fredericka, who died in 2005, sold the home in 1981 to James A. Bertron, a former Lykes executive and Texas Republican Party chairman. According to property records, in 1991 the home was then bought by lawyer and citrus executive David Kerr and his wife Helen Thompson, who was a granddaughter of one of the original seven Lykes brothers. The home has since changed multiple times over the last few decades, but is once again back on the market. The 5,561 square-foot home comes with fivebedrooms and five-bathrooms, it also features the original staircase, a saltwater pool, a basketball court, upstairs and downstairs laundry rooms, and a three car garage. The home is currently asking $4,250,000 and the listing agent is Hughes Shelton of Coldwell Banker Residential. See all the entire home via photos.cltampa.com.
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n iconic home in South Tampa connected to one of the area’s historic dynasty families is back on the market. Located at 4707 Bayshore Blvd., the home was first built in 1937 by Jack Johnston and his wife, Louise Lee Johnston. “Louise was the daughter of a prominent citrus grower and real estate developer, D. C. Lee,” Tampa Bay History Center Director Rodney KitePowell told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “Jack Johnston was also in the citrus and real estate business.” According to a clipping from the Tampa Morning Tribune, the home was then sold in 1941 to Frank C. Caldwell and his wife Helen. There’s a gap in the Hillsborough County property records, but at some point the deed was then passed along to Frederica Lykes Thompson, sister of Charles Parkhill Lykes Sr., the patriarch of one Tampa’s most historically wealthy families. The Lykes family built their fortune on shipping cattle to Cuba in the 1880s, and through multiple generations expanded the Lykes Bros. business to a $1 billion dynasty involving real estate, oil, hot dogs, golf courses, Sunkist Juice and a share of the First Florida Bank, among
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“Lee’s new compositions salute the swamps and bayous of St. Petersburg.” REVIEWS PROFILES MUSIC WEEK
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UF composer perfectly captures the enigmatic essence of Weedon Island. By Josh Bradley speakeasy. The club was originally the home of the island’s namesake, Dr. Leslie Weedon, and in the 1920s, when he sold the land to land speculator Eugene Elliott, he turned her home into a speakeasy to attract “prospective buyers.” Though the old club wasn’t the safest place (occasional shootings, plus it eventually burned down one night), you can’t help but wonder what it would have evolved into. Perhaps it would have brought in musicians. Tommy Dorsey in the ‘30s, Sinatra in the ‘40s, maybe Donna Summer in the ‘70s. Boom: Music evolution at its finest. Near the end of the epic composition is the 11-minute strong “Ballad Of Willie Cole.” Within seconds, it goes from a tune up, to a Bond movie chase scene, to the background music of an interrogation segment in a crime flick. Needless to say, those aren’t quite the points that Lee was going for. He was referencing a nearly 95 year-old
help from a White man to commit such a heinous crime),” Lee told CL. To Lee, reading about a Black man being falsely accused, demonized by the media, and then incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit seemed sadly still relevant to the present day, and representative of the systemic injustices that Black Americans face. “And knowing that all of this took place so close to where I grew up that I could swim to the scene of the crime gave it special significance to me. To me ‘The Ballad of Willie Cole’ is the centerpiece of the work, and has an appropriately epic scope,” Lee added. “The cello takes on the persona of Willie Cole, often functioning as a soloist, and his music undergoes a number of trials and tribulations over the course of the movement.” If it’s up to maestro Lee to keep the tales and perplexing history of Weedon Island alive nearly 100 years later, so be it. And with the incredibly solid assistance from Beck, Lacy, and the Jack Quartet, he really couldn’t ask for more of a professional lineup.
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cott Lee, an Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Florida School of Music, will turn 32 next month, but he’s already done things that musicians accomplish over the course of their entire lives. Countless degrees, work experience with some of America’s finest orchestras and artists, and praise from the likes of the Philadelphia Inquirer are all on his resume. And his latest effort is no less extravagant than the said life he has led so far. Through The Mangrove Tunnels was recorded back in 2018 with the critically acclaimed Jack Quartet (stylized “JACK”), along with Steinway pianist Steven Beck and fellow music educator Russell Lacy on percussion. Running about 45 minutes, Lee’s new compositions salute the swamps and bayous of St. Petersburg he grew up exploring, mainly the mysterious Weedon Island. Lee—who grew up on a canal that leads out to Riviera Bay, which borders Weedon Island— volunteered there in middle and high school, leading canoe trips with a naturalist in the summer for kids’ summer camps and on weekends for adult community members. Occasionally, he and other volunteers would also clear lowhanging branches from the trails to make sure the signs were visible. “I spent a lot of time listening to the naturalist describe both the history of the island and its wildlife,” Lee told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. His proximity to Rivera Bay also allowed him to explore the island outside of that context, and he often ran on the trails on the island and boating around the waterways surrounding it. “Despite the island’s long history of encounters with humans, to the newcomer it appears to be a pristine natural landscape,” Lee writes in the album’s liner notes. Some historic encounters include an axe murder, speakeasies burning down, and a failed movie studio. The title track, err, movement, is mainly made up of Beck’s jazzy piano backed up by the wails of a single violin. Lee had his middle school volunteer experience at the island in mind, as well as a focus on summoning flashbacks of the island’s history to reminisce about, though he wasn’t even present for most of it. The third movement, “Narvaez Dance Club,” captures the modernization of a long-gone
murder story from Weedon Island. Willie Cole was a Black man who lived in Riviera Bay; he was initially believed to have murdered a Boston friend of Eugene Elliott’s by burning down a shed he was living in, and then swinging an axe. Cole, being Black in 1920s America, was the first person the local sheriff arrested, and he was later found guilty of the murder he had nothing to do with. After a retrial from the Florida Supreme Court, Cole finally walked free after two and a half years imprisoned (see p. 29 of “The Weedon Island Story,” which led Lee to Cole’s story). The gruesome details of the alleged crime—the burnt-down shack, the axe murder, the severed fingers found in the water nearby, the blasting caps, etc.—was interesting to Lee, but he also started reading old newspaper articles about Cole. “I found that at the time the case became quite a big news story throughout the region, and elicited horrifically racist commentary that was sometimes contradictory (for example painting Cole as a criminal mastermind, while also claiming that a Black man would have needed
THREE SHEETS: Speakeasies and the falsely accused are just a two topics covered on Scott Lee’s latest.
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Tampa bars buck DeSantis, irresponsible venues, by starting new coalition. by Ray Roa
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ampa music fans, and those crazy enough to fly back home over the Thanksgiving holiday, have some new “Safe & Sound” live music options this weekend thanks to seven venues that have banded together and committed to keeping concertgoers safe. The establishments—Crowbar, The Hub, Shuffle, New World Brewery, Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Hooch & Hive and the Independent Bar & Café—are spread across Tampa neighborhoods like Sulphur Springs, Seminole and Tampa Heights, downtown, the West River District and Ybor City, but their message is the same: You’re safer here. The venues back that up that by continuing to seat and ticket at limited capacities while also strictly enforcing mask usage and social distancing. That’s all despite Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ September move to phase three of reopening, which rolled back almost every measure the state enacted to combat the spread of the coronavirus. DeSantis’ executive order did not address fines incurred by businesses, but it did suspend fees and penalties for individuals who violate COVID-19 restrictions, effectively removing local enforcement mechanisms that require masks when inside public areas. “I begged the city for months for a similar program. We wanna try to keep it positive but the leadership from our elected officials has been pathetic locally, statewide, nationally,” Tom DeGeorge, owner and co-founder of Crowbar said in a release. Bars and music venues were the first to close when the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdowns took hold all the way back in March. Since the spring, DeGeorge has warned that
venues like his would wither away without federal assistance. Over the summer, the National Independent Venue Association, a group formed to lobby D.C. legislators that’ll hopefully pass a bill providing help to music venues, named DeGeorge its Florida captain. DeGeorge admits that because of the COVID19 numbers—and being personally affected by coronavirus—it’s still hard for him to let people into his business, even with the strict protocols. “Even if it looks like 50 people, I see dead people,” he recently told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “I think of kids in school. I think of the nursing homes, and the prisons and all of our healthcare workers. Throwing these last eight months out the window by reopening irresponsibly. I’m sorry if this pisses you off, but the irresponsibility breaks my heart.” But Crowbar staffers need to feed their families, and DeGeorge wants people who feel a need to see a concert to have a safe option. “Especially over the holiday, we want to create the feeling of safety and back it up with our practices. We need solid business owners who’re doing reopening the right way to speak up because our elected officials have not,” DeGeorge added. “This group is trying to make some sense out of what is going on.” Others can to join, too. DeGeorge wouldn’t throw businesses that would not—or could not— join “Safe & Sound” under the bus, but he wants more venues committed to reopening and presenting live music safely to join the coalition. “Together we can make a difference, a greater impact,” he said. “We have to say, ‘We want to help other businesses do better. We’re going to get through this,’ and if we don’t, this is not going to get better, more people are going to die.”
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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
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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
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A sexless relationship may be fine for your boyfriend—it may be what he wants—but it’s not fine for you, PRISONS, and it’s not what you want. And a guy who’s too insecure about his own attractiveness to get it up for a guy who’s attracted to him is unlikely to be secure enough for an open relationship, which means staying with him and getting sex elsewhere isn’t a workable option. So unless you’re prepared to spend the next 50 years of your life in a sexless relationship to avoid hurting your boyfriend’s feelings, PRISONS, you’re going to have to end it. But instead of saying, “It’s over because I’m not attracted to you anymore,” say, “It’s over because we clearly aren’t attracted to each other.” He might claim he’s still attracted to you, PRISONS, and that might even be true, but if he’s too insecure to have sex with you—if his insecurities are such huge stumbling blocks— then he’s not in good enough working order to be in a sexually exclusive relationship. You should, of course, be as considerate as possible about his insecurities when you end things, PRISONS, but you don’t have an obligation to stay with him
I’m sorry your friend was harassed by some asshole with a phone, SHUTUPP, but the counterstrike you’re considering could backfire on your friend. I mean, let’s say you got this asshole to change his number—let’s say your campaign of targeted non-sexual harassment was a success—then what happens? Well, then the asshole gets a new number. He’ll still be an asshole with a phone, most likely the same phone, just with a different phone number. And since his new number won’t be the one your friend blocked, SHUTUPP, and since he’ll still have your friend’s phone number, he’ll be able to resume harassing your friend and any other woman who’d blocked his old number. As unsatisfying as it might seem, your friend’s best course of action here is the one she already took—blocking the fuck out of this asshole—and your best course of action would be to express sympathy and solidarity without doing anything that might make things worse. My marriage of 10 years recently fell apart. My ex, who is a piece of shit, told me she would have
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to leave, or I would have to leave. I moved out but continued to pay her bills and rent for a year on top of my own expenses. We both agreed not to see other people until we either reconciled or divorced. On more than one occasion she convinced me that we might be close to reconciling. She basically led me on. Unfortunately, she was shacking up with a “Dom” who was old enough to be her father, and this was going on long before we separated. When I confronted her, she told me she did it because you said sometimes cheating can save a relationship. She tried to get me to agree to having poly relationship with them, but the trust was gone. I know she was just saying things to cover her ass and I moved on. Now I am looking for your advice on what steps to take, please. —Your Fan The Quiet Mouse I’ve said cheating is sometimes “the least worst option” for all involved. But to say something isn’t always the worst option isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement. And I’ve said it’s foolish to define cheating as unforgivable considering how common cheating is. But to say something is forgivable is not to say it isn’t wrong. Quite the opposite, in fact, as non-wrongs do not require forgiveness. And, yes, I’ve said that cheating can sometimes save a relationship. For example, a person in an otherwise loving, low-conflict relationship that has become sexless might, after exhausting all other options (difficult conversations, couples counseling, etc.), cheat in order to “stay married and stay sane.” It’s not ideal, of course, but it may make it possible for the cheater to remain in a relationship that neither the cheater nor the cheatee
wants to end. That’s not what your wife did. She lied, she cheated, and only floated the idea of an ethically non-monogamous relationship after she got caught being non-ethically non-monogamous. While this has been known to work—there are couples out there that were able to create functional and healthy open relationships in the wake of messy and painful affairs—it’s not the kind of cheating that typically saves relationships. This kind of cheating, the kind your wife engaged in, more often than not destroys relationships. Sorry—I’m issuing clarifications, not answering your question. You asked about next steps. I don’t have to tell you to give yourself permission to be angry, as you sound pretty in touch with your anger, so I’ll just tell you to feel the shit out of your feelings. Ask your friends to let you freely vent for the next few months. After three months they’re allowed to gently change the subject when you start in on your ex; after six months they’re allowed to insist you talk about something else; after a year they’re allowed to block your calls if you can’t get through a conversation without rehashing your divorce for the millionth time. You should also eat a lot of ice cream while getting enough exercise to neutralize its effects, YFTQM, and remind yourself every day that an ex who treated you like shit is no excuse for treating your next like shit. Contact mail@savagelove.net, follow @ FakeDanSavage on Twitter and hear Elle Chase talk dating for large ladies on savagelovecast. com.
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