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How to survive FCAT: Tips for parents and kids

The FCAT is here, that magical standardized test that spreads stress around like frat boys spread venereal warts. Educators, students, and parents have to deal with pressures that could make soldiers...

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Then and now: What I'm learning from my kids' new school

My sons have been in sixth grade for over two months. They left a small, private Jewish elementary school to attend a slightly larger public middle school located in eastern Hillsborough County,...

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Occupy This: Why the Tea Party and Occupy movements are not alike

I hear some crazy shit. I mingle with friends, coworkers, and relatives who sometimes quote pundits on Fox News and it always makes me smile.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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"Take off that bra, you're only 8 years old"

Children have always been curious about adult roles. When I was young, my sister and I often played a game called “GrownUp.” We would dress in our mother’s clothes, say the rosary, and use words like...

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Paterno, priests and Rene Portland

My family is from Pennsylvania, and includes several Penn State graduates. When I first heard that former Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys, and the abuse...

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Shopping with care for the holidays

I’ve never been a big holiday shopper, but with Occupy Movements and income inequality still making headlines, I’m even less reluctant to spend money on goods made overseas or by large, multi-national...

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Top 10 things to remember next December

Human beings don’t have the best collective memory — we tend to look back on our history and remember only the good times. We are not inclined to dwell on or think about the cruelty and...

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Ask Dream Momma: A hairy situation

“Dear Dream Momma, In my dream I feel a hair in my mouth, and I begin to remove it, but it turns into a never-ending cord of hair. There are usually between maybe ten strands and, oh, two dozen of...

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Localtopia, St. Petersburg’s big ol’ homegrown celebration of local makers,...

Billed as “St. Pete’s celebration of all things local,” this Best of the Bay-winning makers market returns this weekend for another year of showcasing small businesses in The ‘Burg. The 11th annual...

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The 2024 Florida Strawberry Festival kicks off this month in Plant City

In 2023, more than 600,000 people filed in and out of the Florida Strawberry Festival, and the 2024 edition kicks off in Plant City next week. Livestock contests (lamb show, anyone?), a carnival...

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Heartbreakers drummer Steve Ferrone is doing a Tom Petty tribute in St. Pete...

Steve Ferrone may have drummed for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the last 25-or-so years of the band’s existence, but the 73-year-old British-born drummer has endless stories to tell about...

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Rodney Crowell brings ‘Chicago Sessions’ songs to Clearwater on Wednesday

Rodney Crowell (once the son-in-law of Johnny Cash) recruited Jeff Tweedy of Wilco to produce his latest album The Chicago Sessions, featuring nine new originals (and one Townes Van Zandt cover)...

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St. Petersburg’s Planet Retro Records hosts free concert and punk-rock market...

One of St. Pete’s finest, sometimes overlooked, vinyl spots, Planet Retro Records, is holding an old-fashioned parking lot punk gig the afternoon after an off-the-chain night in Tampa Bay live music....

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Local nonprofit Green Book of Tampa Bay hosts a Black Art Gala this weekend

The Green Book of Tampa Bay hosts its second annual art showcase and gala as 2024’s Black History Month comes to an end, and its attendees can enjoy hand-picked works from 30-plus African American...

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Scotty Wright Quintet plays jazz in the garden this weekend in St. Petersburg

Jazz vocalist Scotty Wright recently collaborated with St. Pete trio La Lucha for an Ybor City matinee concert, but he’s in The ‘Burg when the Al Downing Jazz Association stages its own matinee Black...

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Punk supergroup Codefendants returns to Tampa Bay on Sunday

Codefendants is something of a supergroup consisting of Ceschi Ramos, Sam King from Get Dead, plus Fat Mike from NOFX, who only plays on the record and random shows. The Zeta is the live backing band,...

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Globetrotting Tampa rap duo They Hate Change plays free Ybor City concert on...

It’s been almost three years since Tampa Bay area rap duo They Hate Change signed to famed indie-imprint Jagjaguwar, and there haven’t been many chances to catch the group live at home in between...

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A downtown coworking space is hosting EDM producer Niko The Kid this weekend

Downtown Tampa cowork space Sorry, Not Public has been wading in the live event waters, and goes full house music party with Atlanta producer Niko the Kid, who’s worked on songs by Young Thug, Gucci...

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Pasco Pride brings drag queens, LGBTQ+ services and more to Land O' Lakes...

Unity and acceptance are the central themes of Pasco’s Pride celebration, which in recent years has moved out of New Port Richey to Land O Lakes. Organizers in the northern Bay area have lined up...

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Band of Heathens brings Tom Petty vibes to Tampa’s Skipper’s Smokehouse

Band of Heathens has a new album out, and it could easily be a retrospective tribute to Tom Petty’s career, in terms of its instrumentation. On Simple Things (the Texas-based roots-rock outfit ’s...

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