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St. Pete's new 'Chef's Table,' a Tampa Starbucks votes to unionize, and more local food news
Openings Chef’s Table Chef’s Table by Lolita’s, a multi-course tasting menu from the owners of St. Pete’s Lolita’s Wine Market, welcomes its first customers this weekend. Inspired by L...
Tampa Bay's best live music happening May 16-23
Tampa Bay's live music weekend is upon us once again, this time featuring Black Joe Lewis, Dave Matthews Band, Chappell Roan and more. This listing of Tampa Bay's best live music happening May 1...
https://www.cltampa.com/music/tampa-bays-best-live-music-happening-may-16-23-17809929
Florida Orchestra's 'Elgar’s Enigma' weekend kicks off Thursday
It’s been a busy 10 days for The Florida Orchestra, which played two shows with Sting and performed a packed public park Mother’s Day show last weekend. Maestro Michael Francis & co. shift b...
https://www.cltampa.com/music/florida-orchestras-elgars-enigma-weekend-kicks-off-thursday-17822005
Doom Flamingo, featuring Umphrey’s McGee bassist Ryan Stasik, plays St. Pete on Friday
Synthwave is an unfair tag for Doom Flamingo. The South Carolina sextet is a festival scene favorite with a lineup that includes Umphrey’s McGee cofounder and bassist Ryan Stasik, Oukuo princi...
Psychobilly OG Reverend Horton Heat plays St. Pete on Friday
You learn a lot about showbiz after playing close to 6,000 concerts. Jim Heath, leader of psychobilly icon Reverend Horton Heat can still make his red Gretsch wail and looks like a country-rock ...
https://www.cltampa.com/music/psychobilly-og-reverend-horton-heat-plays-st-pete-on-friday-17821708
Chef’s Table, a new tasting menu experience from Lolita’s Wine Market, debuts in St. Pete this weekend
Typically, a la carte restaurants and smaller, tasting menu eateries are two separate concepts that have different clientele, but one St. Pete wine bar and restaurant is trying its hand at both ...
Billy Strings-approved banjo virtuoso Victor Furtado plays free Safety Harbor concert on Friday
There aren’t many pickers who can hold their own onstage with Billy Strings. Don’t tell that to Victor Furtado, who had a lengthy sit-in on Strings’ show in Boston last summer.
Federal judge blocks part of Florida law banning noncitizens from helping register voters
A federal judge Wednesday issued a final decision blocking part of a 2023 Florida elections law that placed new restrictions on voter-registration groups, including preventing non-U.S. citizens ...
Cannabis is about to be ‘re-scheduled’ by the feds. What does that mean for Florida's push for recreational pot?
The Biden administration’s announcement last month — that it plans to reclassify cannabis as a lower-risk substance nationwide — is being embraced as a positive development for advocates w...
Gov. Ron DeSantis signs law scrubbing 'climate change' from Florida policy
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a controversial energy bill that includes repealing parts of state law about greenhouse-gas emissions and another measure that calls for ending state invest...
Swedish metal favorite Amon Amarth returns to Tampa this weekend
Oddly enough, Swedish metal outfit Amon Amarth hasn’t been in Tampa since 2019 when it opened for what turned out to not be Slayer’s farewell tour at the ol’ Gary. Cannibal Corpse—featur...
Lollapalooza alum The Beaches play St. Petersburg on Saturday
The Beaches have been riding high off of a new album Blame My Ex. Its lead single “Blame Brett” has gone viral on TikTok since its initial release in spring 2023, and the attention helped t...
https://www.cltampa.com/music/lollapalooza-alum-the-beaches-plays-st-petersburg-on-saturday-17818003
Emo Night Tampa and Farseek team up for album release show in Ybor City
Farseek’s brand-new album Who Can Start The Fires? isn’t a full change of form, but is described as the Georgia-based rock octet’s most confident album. “The project has existed as a ve...
EDM party guy The Polish Ambassador plays St. Petersburg this weekend
Polish diplomats kind of get a pass on search engines, and they have David Sugalski to thank. Known as The Polish Ambassador, the Philadelphia native dominates the search term, and offline is i...
Tom Sandoval from 'Vanderpump Rules' brings his cover band to Clearwater on Saturday
When you get famous on “Vanderpump Rules,” your online life is bound to be spicy, and the internet has not been kind to Tom Sandoval’s band. The 41-year-old’s music—rock and roll cove...
Fresh off Olivia Rodrigo tour, Chappell Roan plays headlining St. Pete show this weekend
Considering her success opening for a good chunk of Olivia Rodrigo’s ongoing, critically-acclaimed guts world tour, it’s shocking that Chappell Roan didn’t have to switch venues due to pop...
Tampa hardcore band Jar celebrates new EP with Ybor Heights concert
Tampa hard-rock band Jar (stylized in all caps) probably didn’t mean to write a gun safety anthem, but the title track on its new EP, Accidental Discharge, is a headbanging reminder that fire...
Jazz trio La Lucha plays 'New Tampa Unplugged' concert on Sunday
New Tampa Performing Arts Center is aiming to host a series of shows that imitate the idea of “MTV Unplugged,” because would it kill some of our locals to go acoustic once in a while? Multi-...
'Weird Al' Yankovic guitarist Jim ‘Kimo’ West plays 'Scratch My Back' show in Tampa
For the last 27 years, the late Scott “Pinetop” Peterson and his family have been trying to spread the word that pets shouldn’t be left in hot cars. After a pet sitter left his black lab ...
NYC reggae-ska band The Slackers play Tampa this weekend
In a 2023 interview with New Noise Magazine, ska songwriter Vic Ruggiero expressed exhaustion about America’s obsession with guns. “People are afraid and it’s not because of reality—the...
https://www.cltampa.com/music/nyc-reggae-ska-band-the-slackers-play-tampa-this-weekend-17817598
Ahead of 'Promised Land' release, Brazilian producer Vintage Culture plays Tampa pool party
Lukas Rafael Ruiz Hespanhol doesn’t even have a proper album out, but has already played Coachella and Lollapalooza on the way to earning 1.5 billion streams on Spotify alone. The 30-year-old...
Three-part 'Central Ave. Live' music series kicks off in downtown Tampa on Tuesday
Music is a powerful force. This summer in downtown Tampa, it acts as a placemaker and teacher as part of a new live music series launching at the Encore district.
St. Pete producer Bauxmonk headlines Tampa Shuffle's 'Remix' open mic on Tuesday
In its best form, Tampa Shuffle’s Tuesday open mic is an incubator of ideas and cradle for up-and-coming local talent. This week it welcomes St. Petersburg producer Bauxmonk who makes lo-fi b...
World-pop favorite Thievery Corporation returns to St. Petersburg on Tuesday
As it approaches the band’s 30th anniversary, Thievery Corporation remains a live music staple. The D.C. outfit’s take on world music is colored with acid jazz, hip-hop and rock, and can s...
Dave Matthews Band kicks off summer tour in Tampa on Wednesday
It’s hard to believe, but Dave Matthews Band has only released 10 albums in its storied 30-year career. After spending last month in Europe, the group, which was enshrined into the Rock and Ro...