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This week, CRUSH Happy Hour will give away 4 COMPLIMENTARY tickets to the Wines of Italy event presented by Festa Italiana. To receive your COMPLIMENTARY ticket* for the Wines of Italy event, be one of the first to email crushhappyhour@gmail.com to request a table reservation for your party of 10. Your reservation will also include a reserved table for you and your guests.
Visit the CRUSH Happy Hour FB page to like us & view photos from last week’s CRUSH event!
We look forward to CRUSHING IT with you & your friends this Friday!
By popular request, CRUSH Happy Hour is proud to announce that the food menu for this Friday, March 18, will offer items inspired by the traditional fare of the St. Josephs Feast. Our special menu will include Pasta con le Sarde & Finocchio. We will also feature other delicious Italian dishes. Invite your friends for a special experience to enjoy traditional fare at the Italian Club.
CONVERSATION – COCKTAILS – CRUSH
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NEW at Metro Wellness & Community Centers
Metro’s Health Center – Primary Care/PrEP/nPEP/HRT/STI Testing and Treatment
Now accepting Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Our list is growing! We also accept Aetna, Cigna, Medicare, and more. Contact us today for an appointment.
- David Lyter, MD
- Meredith Gray, MD
HIV and Hepatitis C Medical Care 
Offered through our CAN partners at Metro’s St. Pete and Tampa locations. Call for an appointment to come visit one of our providers:
- Michael Dunn, MD
- Brian W. Elliott, MD
- Douglas A. Walsh Sr., DO
- Edward Braun, MD
- Christina Burke, PA
NEW: Pharmacy Now Open at Our St. Pete Location
Monday: 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Tuesday – Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
New Trans Groups Starting this Month
Trans Parent Support Group Every 3rd Wednesday of the month at the LGBT Welcome Center. This is an opportunity for parents and family members of LGBTQA youth to meet other parents in the area and find support.
Trans S/O Support Every 4th Wednesday of the month at the LGBT Welcome Center. This is a support group for trans individuals and their significant others to meet and discuss topics with other trans couples.
SPCA Tampa Bay “Starting from Sit” Series
Thursdays in March, 6:30-7:30pm at the St. Pete Center. SPCA Tampa Bay Behavior and Training Manager, Meagan Montmeny will offer a 4-week training at Metro during the month of March. Total cost of series is $105. To register please visit http://spcatampabay.org/dog-training-classes/. Contact lgbt@metrotampabay.org for more info.
Yellowish Blue and Pink – 2 shows
March 12th 7:30pm Tampa and March 13th 2pm St. Pete.
YELLOWISH BLUE & PINK follows the story of a, up until this point, rule-abiding painter who dares to make and accept the color green in a world where the Society of Life Art only supports paintings that are soley blue and pink. It is a direct commentary on the biblical arguments that are made against gay rights as well as a comical glimpse into the courtship of the colors blue and yellow. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the doors. Contact Toli at tolig@metrotampabay.org for more information.
Coming March 21 Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project (SATP)
will present a staged play reading of Michael Cristofer’s THE SHADOW BOX benefitting Metro Charities HIV/AIDS Programs. This one night production will take place at The Studio@620, St. Petersburg on Monday,March 21st. Sugested donation is $10.00. To reserve a ticket call 727−895−6620. “You get tired keeping it all inside, but it’s like nobody wants to hear about it” In this compelling Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages in a California Hospice. THE SHADOW BOX offers new, more aggressive openness in dealing with death and illness. Directed by Garry Allan Breul, the company includes Larry Alexander, Chris Crawford, Stephanie, Brian Shea, Becca McCoy, Nick Hoop, Susan Mills, Maggie Mularz and Roxanne Fay. Contact James at jamesk@metrotampabay.org for more info.
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Hillsborough Community College Ybor City
Subject: Courageous Conversations 3-22
On behalf of College Wide Diversity Council and the Office of Title IX , we are sponsoring our 4th Courageous Conversation Series this year. We are pleased to announce a “conversation” about issues facing the life of a trans gender woman in America. Personally, I recently heard her presentation at a Title IX conference at USF and the Diversity Council unanimously agreed to provide this presentation at HCC. Please mark your calendar to attend this thought provoking event on Ybor’s campus.
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This Saturday
Creative Loafing and local breweries to celebrate the release of CL’s annual Drinking Issue at Meet the Brewers
(Feb. 23, 2016 – Tampa, Fla.) — Join Creative Loafing and local breweries on Sat., Feb. 27th, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. to celebrate the release of CL’s annual Drinking Issue at Meet the Brewers, where 20 of Tampa Bay’s very own brewers will be on-site mingling with an intimate crowd—a unique opportunity to sample your favorite local brews and rub elbows with the brewers behind them!
With more than 40 beers being poured, Meet The Brewers will offer something for everyone: light and refreshing pilsners and wheats, hoppy IPAs and pale ales, malty reds and brown ales, fruity blues and ciders, boozy quads and trippels, tart sours and saisons, and more.
The intimate nature of this event will give attendees access to brewers from each participating brewery to ask questions and learn more about their favorite or up-and-coming local brews. In addition, both full pours and sample-size pours will be offered at the event, allowing attendees to enjoy the beer selection at their convenience without long lines.
Participating breweries & beer being poured include:
Big Storm Brewing Co. – Wavemaker Amber Ale & Helicity Pilsner
Tampa Bay Brewing Company – Old Man Olde Ale & Reef Donkey
Six Ten Brewing – OWC & CBGB
3 Daughters Brewing – A Wake Coffee Blonde Ale & 4 Redemption Bourbon Barrel Aged Quad
Brew Bus Brewing – You’re My Boy, Blue! & Rollin’ Dirty Irish Red Ale
Saint Somewhere Brewing Company – Eté San Fin & Cheval
Brewers’ Tasting Room – Bad Badger Hefeweizen & Bad Badger Imperial Oatmeal Stout
Motorworks Brewing – V-Twin Lager & Midnight Espresso
Rock Brothers Brewing – High Road Ale & Nare Sugar Brown
Darwin Brewing Company – Circa 1926 Tangerine Wheat & Pirata Pils
Mastry’s Brewing Co. – Sun Salted Ale & Rainy Season Saison
Crooked Thumb Brewery – Florida Grapefruit Gose & Abbey of the South Trippel
Rapp Brewing Company – Gose & Ginger Beer
Big Top Brewing Company – Ashley Gang Imperial IPA & Okefenokee Imperial Stout
Cigar City Cider & Mead – Wise Prick Cider & Peach Habanero Cider
Pair O’ Dice Brewing Co. – Clearwater Honey Cream & Hop Bet Red IPA
Marker 48 Brewing – Pine Island IPA, Mermaids Milk Stout, & Nurse Rachet Cherry Sour
Coppertail Brewing Co. – Free Dive & Purple Drank
Mad Beach Brewing – Kalypso Key Lime Cider & Halletoren Quad
Brew Hub – Key Billy & Diver Down
General Admission is $35 in advance and $40 at the door. VIP is $80 in advance and $85 at the door. This event has sold out in the past. Creative Loafing is encouraging folks to purchase their tickets in advance to guarantee admission.
General Admission includes 16 beer sampling tickets, each good for a 3-ounce taste. Four beer sampling tickets get a full 12-ounce pour. VIP includes a VIP-only hour from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. where attendees can enjoy unlimited beer sampling (unlimited sampling available during VIP hour), 20 beer sampling tickets to use after VIP hour, and complimentary pizza and pork bomb with chips by New World Brewery.
Additional drink tickets will be available for purchase for $1 each.
Tickets can be purchased at cltampa.xorbia.com/meetthebrewers. For more information on Meet The Brewers 2016 and to view photos and videos from previous years, visit cltampa.com/meetthebrewers.
Please use the following hashtag for all digital promotions: #CLBrewers
About Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing is an award-winning alternative, weekly newspaper and website committed to providing Tampa Bay with an independent perspective, up-to-the-minute local news, and a comprehensive listing of local happenings. Creative Loafing offers readers’ unique monthly events and CL Deals, a locally focused platform featuring dining and event experiences at half-off their regular price. For more information about Creative Loafing, visit cltampa.com and cldeals.com.
About Southcomm, Inc.
Formed in 2007, Southcomm Inc. is the nation’s second-largest publisher of alternative weeklies, one of the largest publishing companies serving chambers of commerce, and with the Cygnus Business Media purchase in 2014, a significant player in the B2B publishing world. The Nashville-based company now owns more than 30 titles reaching millions of B2B professionals and consumers annually, via its diverse suite of print, digital, online and live-event products. The company has offices in Nashville, Tenn.; Fort Atkinson, Wis.; Atlanta; Washington, D.C.; Louisville, Ky.; Kansas City, Mo.; Cincinnati; Tampa, Fla.; Arlington Heights, Ill.; and Florence, Ky. For more information, visit southcomm.com.
From The MC Film News Bag
2016 Industry Summit
CAMLS
February 23, 2016
Business by the Bay
The RITZ Ybor
March 15, 2016
Hospitality Partner Meeting
The Florida Aquarium
February 25, 2016
Tee Off for Tourism
Saddlebrook Resort
April 1, 2016
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Gulfport Fresh Market Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary
Contact: Chris Spencer 727-902-2326 or chris@chrisnsteve.com
GULFPORT, FL: February marks the ten-year anniversary of the Gulfport Tuesday Fresh Market. The Market was established in February 2006 by the Gulfport Merchants Association and has grown from a small handful of vendors on one block of scenic Beach Blvd. to its present roster of over 70 vendors assembled across several blocks. Customer traffic has also steadily increased over the years, and the Market now routinely has several hundred visitors on a typical day, numbering up to 3,000 visitors on high season days.
The focus of the Market is on unique and artisan goods, including as many locally-produced products as possible. A wide variety of foods is available, including locally-grown and organic produce, breads, cheese, nuts, desserts, candy, jams, sauces, local honey, olives, prepared foods and much more. Hand-made bath and body products, flowers and pet products are another mainstay. Local authors are often on hand. A master knife and tool sharpener on site will work on your knives as you shop. Artists and craftspersons, many working as you watch, are always on hand to display and sell their hand-made work, including painting, jewelry, pottery, textiles, wood, photography and more. Local musicians in two locations keep market-goers entertained with styles from rock and pop to jazz, island, and blues.
A current roster of weekly and occasional vendors is posted on the Fresh Market’s website at www.gulfportma.com or visit the Market’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/gulfportfreshmarket.
The Fresh Market also gives back to the community. A food and personal needs collection basket for the Gulfport Senior Center Pantry is located at the Merchants Association tent each week. Space is offered free of charge each week to non-profit groups to raise funds and awareness for their causes. On the second Tuesday of each month, the Fresh Market sponsors a popular clothing swap to benefit CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse). Participants bring in donated garments, and can select some to exchange. Extra clothing and donations are contributed to CASA.
The Gulfport Tuesday Fresh Market is open year-round. Hours are 9am to 3pm every Tuesday (9am to 2pm during summer). The Market is located in Gulfport’s historic Waterfront District on Beach Boulevard below 28th Avenue South which also offers a variety of independent shops, boutiques, galleries, its own beach and a large cluster of restaurants, all within easy walking distance. The Fresh Market offers visitors the opportunity for a relaxing day trip in a small town full of “Old Florida” charms. Parking in the village is free.
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Metro Wellness & Community Centers will be at this years Localtopia. Here are more details….
Keep Saint Petersburg Local is proud to bring back Localtopia to Williams Park for its 3rd year! This FREE* family-friendly “Community Celebration of All Things Local” also commemorates KSPL’s 4-Year Anniversary! * $5 Suggested (Minimum) Donation *
☛ LOCALTOPIA WEBSITE: keepsaintpetersburglocal.o
*** Mazzaro’s Italian Market returns *for the 3rd year in a row* as the Presenting Sponsor
*** C1 Bank returns *for the 2nd year in a row* as the Platinum Sponsor
*** NEW Silver Sponsors: Kahwa Coffee | Tampa Bay Rowdies | Station House St. Pete
*** NEW Bronze Sponsors: Calling All Dogs, Dog Walking*Pet Sitting |FoodNow Restaurant Delivery Service | Friends of Strays Animal Shelter |Harmony Eco Spa
*** Design Services: Dog Days Creative
*** Print Sponsor: Bayprint
☛ LOCALTOPIA WEBSITE: keepsaintpetersburglocal.o
*** Mazzaro’s Italian Market returns *for the 3rd year in a row* as the Presenting Sponsor
*** C1 Bank returns *for the 2nd year in a row* as the Platinum Sponsor
*** NEW Silver Sponsors: Kahwa Coffee | Tampa Bay Rowdies | Station House St. Pete
*** NEW Bronze Sponsors: Calling All Dogs, Dog Walking*Pet Sitting |FoodNow Restaurant Delivery Service | Friends of Strays Animal Shelter |Harmony Eco Spa
*** Design Services: Dog Days Creative
*** Print Sponsor: Bayprint
We’re honored that I Love the Burg St. Pete declared LOCALTOPIA, “The Event of the Year,” and that our Mayor’s Chief of Staff referred to it as the “most St. Pete-esque event a resident or visitor can attend.” It means so much to us that many have called it *the* best event ever in St. Pete!
Every year we try to make LOCALTOPIA even better than the previous year. For 2016, we are closing down 3rd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues and adding a second stage. This will allow us to continue to grow the event at/around Williams Park + include more vendors and performers. Food vendors will be placed on the street so there is less crowding on the paths in the park.
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☛☛☛ PLEASE NOTE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING (and we thank you for your understanding!): ☚☚☚
• As much as we love our city’s doggies, the event can no longer remain pet-friendly. We had nearly 20,000 people attend this year. As more are expected next year, it becomes a safety issue.
• This is a FREE community event and we’d like it to remain a FREE event; however, it costs us a lot to put on LOCALTOPIA. Because of our commitment to local at all levels, we cannot request/receive sponsorship from national companies/larger entities. We also don’t /won’t charge our vendors high fees for participation.
*** PLEASE CONSIDER A (MINIMUM) $5 DONATION UPON ARRIVAL. “DONATION POINTS” WILL BE LOCATED AT ALL ENTRANCES. ***
• Open spaces in the park are for attendees to use to spread out. We will not allow for individuals/groups to simply turn up to perform, host an activity and/or attempt to vend/distribute materials if they are not a vendor/participant. If anyone is found doing this, they will be asked to leave the event.
PLEASE READ ALL THE INFO FOR ATTENDEES HERE: http://
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EVENT FEATURES:
• Nearly 200 vendors/participants from St. Pete’s favorite independent businesses & community organizations (arts & culture, shopping, eating & drinking, health & wellness, service providers and non-profits)
VENDOR LIST: ☛ http://bit.ly/
:::::::::: VILLAGES: ::::::::::
• ARTS VILLAGE with engaging experiences & the “Wishes for Williams Park” Tree
• FAMILY VILLAGE with the Tampa Bay Rowdies + special arts & crafts activities, bounce houses and rest area (rest area sponsored by Thank You Mama)
• St. Pete Indie Market VILLAGE
• SKATE VILLAGE with skate ramp (tricks contest & demos) sponsored by School of Skatin (http://
:::::::::: EAT & DRINK LOCAL ON 3RD STREET: ::::::::::
☛ 3rd Street will be closed between 1st & 2nd Avenues ☚
• “Drink Like A Local” draft beer truck featuring beer from our local breweries
• Newly-opened/soon-to-open breweries pouring their new brews
• Local restaurants & food trucks serving up some of St. Pete’s tastiest eats
• Sweet treats & beverages vendors + new “Thirst Stations” (selling canned beer, water & wine) dotted around the Park
:::::::::: LIVE LOCAL MUSIC ON WILLIAMS PARK BANDSTAND
+ NEW SECOND STAGE ::::::::::
***Stage Sponsor: The Hideaway Cafe***
MC: Will Kuncz of the Homemade Broadcast | HMBradio | Radio St. Pete
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BANDSTAND Stage
10:15–10:45 Deserie & Jim
11:00–11:30 Lounge Cat
11:45–12:15 Christie Lenée
12:30–1:00 Ari and the Alibis
1:15–1:45 Rebekah Pulley & The Reluctant Prophets
2:00–2:45 The Hummingbirds
3:00–3:45 Dan Orlando
4:00–5:00 Betty Fox Band (Betty Fox BRASS Band)
FIELD Stage
10:45–11:00 Jun純 Bustamante
11:30–11:45 Rebecca Zapen & LaRue Nickelson
12:15–12:30 Mountain Holler
1:00–1:15 Justin Vilardi
1:45–2:00 Simply.Abigail
2:45–3:00 Michael J Weiss Music
3:45–4:00 Danielle DeCosmo
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• Live screen printing of Keep Saint Petersburg Local / Localtopiacommemorative T-shirts by Extra Medium Shirts
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• Raffle prizes, photo ops and more surprises!
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Williams Park was our city’s first park and we want to help bring it back to what it used to be! Put 2.6.16 down as an UN-MISSABLE day in St. Pete!
*** Localtopia is a City of St. Petersburg, Florida USA co-sponsored event
*** MEDIA SPONSORS:
97X | Creative Loafing Tampa | I Love the Burg St. Pete | tbt* Newspaper |WMNF Community radio | Yelp / Yelp Tampa Bay ***
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☛☛ ☛ PARKING LOTS (Wheelchair Accessible):
~ First United Methodist Church – 212 3rd Street North (next to Park) – will have parking available for $10 (fundraiser for preschool)
~ Sundial St. Pete Garage *Entrance to Parking Garage is at 117 2nd Street North, 33701
FREE BIKE VALET PROVIDED BY St. Pete Bike Co-Op ☚ ☚
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Mayor Buckhorn greets crowds at the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade last week kicking off the 2016 parade season
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This sad positing below was on the V.M Ybor facebook page this week. https://www.facebook.com/groups/vmybor/
Terrible tragedy on Palm Avenue today. Just passed & saw code enforcement officer outside. Collapsed from termites. Shame on Tampa. RIP😔 1928