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Gasparilla Festival of the Arts’ return among best things to do this weekend. By Ray Roa and Sofía García Vargas

hen it comes to local arts events, Gasparilla Festival of the Arts is the biggest deal. Back in downtown Tampa after going virtual in 2021, GFA has tapped Bay area native Janet Echelman (Bending Arc,” St. Pete Pier) to jury the two-day show. Printmaker Betsy Best is GFA 2022's festival image artist, and the show itself features hundreds of artists from around the world—plus local and emerging artist showcases—all looking not just for eyes, but a slice of the nearly $100,000 award pool Saturday-Sunday, March 5-6 (9 a.m., 10 a.m., respectively). Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, 1001 N Blvd., Tampa. Free. gasparillaarts.com

Green Book of Tampa Bay anniversary brunch For three years, the nonprofit organization Green Book of Tampa Bay has added more than 200 Black-owned businesses to its directory. To celebrate, founders will host Harlem Nights Anniversary Brunch with food, music, casino games, a silent auction and raffles with prizes. Back in 2019, Hillary Van Dyke and Josh Bean based this initiative on an infamous travel guide published during the U.S.'s segregation era which listed businesses that would accept Black customers. Saturday, March 5. Noon-3 p.m. $50 & up. Studio@620, 620 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg. @greenbooktb on Instagram

A Clockwork Orange: A Play With Music If you’re familiar with Stanley Kubrick, then don’t worry: Jobsite’s production is based more on Anthony Burgess’ 1962 dystopian novel about free will and moral action (Burgess actually didn’t like the movie). And if you think you’re not ready to see a production built around such a heavy topic, then know that another part of the book is about a person’s capacity for change. Now, if you’re looking to see a young cast interject some dark comedy into a script that tackles some of the toughest themes from the last six decades of human existence, well, then, you’re in the right place. March 4-27, $18 & up. Jobsite Theater at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa. 1010 N Macinnes Pl., Tampa. jobsitetheater.org

Hyde Park Home and Garden Tour 2022 Hyde Park is a pretty good example of a neighborhood that’s preserved some character while also mixing in new development and multi-family housing. Is it perfect? No, and that will all be part of this full day of tours plus an exhibit at the Old Hyde Park Art Center. Significant in 2022 is a 1 p.m. guided tour of Dobyville, once one of Tampa’s prominent Black neighborhoods. Not sure how much you’ve walked between the boundaries of Gray and Horatio Streets and Rome and Willow Avenues, but it looks a lot different than it did in the 1920s, and we’re eager to hear the guide’s take on such a complicated part of the city’s history. Masks required to be properly worn. Saturday, March 5. Hourly, starting at 9 a.m. $25-$35. hhpna.clubexpress.com

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espite having staged a pandemic-version of the festival on short notice last fall, Gasparilla Music Festival (GMF) returned with all the fire of its best years last weekend. The festival started to age down, too, specifically with the additions of Peach Tree Rascals and Grouplove. If GMF can continue to feed Tampa’s growing population, it’s hard to see it not inching closer to selling out each night, every year forward. Staging a festival

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Despite over 100 people pleading for help at city hall, Tampa City Council shoots down rent control. By Justin Garcia

ast Thursday, more than 100 housing rights activists filled Tampa City Hall during city council’s “rent stabilization workshop” and demanded that councilmen address the growing housing crisis. They asked that the city hear the pleas of the poor and working people of Tampa, who are suffering as rents skyrocket and thousands are evicted. While the council members were set to discuss rent stabilization in general during the workshop, many of the activists were demanding council go a step further and declare a housing state of emergency in order to enact rent control and rein in rent. The council didn’t declare an emergency or move toward rent control during the meeting, arguing that it couldn’t work legally. Councilman Bill Carlson instead proposed an ordinance that would require landlords to give six months notice before increasing rent, which will be discussed at a council meeting on April 21. And on May 26, council set another workshop to get other ideas from the community that don’t include rent control. The councilmen also said that $1 million dollars of city rental relief for those in need is coming on March 1; CL reached out to councilmen and city officials for details on the distribution of those funds, but that relief money would still end up in the hands of the landlords that are increasing rent. Members of the Tampa Tenants Union, Florida Rising, Restorative Justice Coalition, Fight for 15, and several other activist and faith groups filled the first and second floors of city hall. Reva Iman of activist group Florida Rising said that rent control is especially important in Black and brown communities. “A lot of times, what we have is that the rent has increased on people who have fixed incomes, getting only seven or eight hundred dollars a month,”Iman told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay during today’s workshop. “When rent goes up, how are they going to pay the other bills that they have?” Several people who are living on fixed income spoke about their struggles, along with teachers, medical professionals and those who

work corporate jobs, saying they can no longer afford rent. Others said they were compelled to speak at council because they can’t bear to see what’s happening to those around them. Michelle B. Patty is a homeowner, but she told council that she’s watching people in her community go homeless. “We’re talking about seniors that are being put out on the street, veterans that are being put out on the street, children being put out on the street,” Patty said. “No more excuses council.”

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housing crisis. He referenced seeing people going homeless in his own city, and the fact that so many people are rising up about the situation. “The people are hungry, they want results,” Gudes said. Councilmember Guido Maniscalco sympathized with the struggle, and urged council to find a solution. “If this isn’t an emergency, then I don’t know what is,” Maniscalco said. “We have people on the verge of homelessness and landlords can do whatever they want.” Councilmen Carlson and Luis Viera argued

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OCCUPY CITY HALL: Just a portion of assembled speakers at Tampa City Hall last week. Patty pointed out that the legal department is subsidized by the citizens, and that they need to be getting creative to protect Tampa’s citizens. “Doing nothing is the coward’s way out,” she added. Councilchair Orlando Gudes said that city council “has got to find a cure” to the

against rent control, saying that it might do more harm than good for the community, echoing the concerns of city attorneys, who have argued that the path to rent stabilization would be a tricky path. But after impassioned public comment, all the council members present, with only

Dingfelder absent, said that rent control wasn’t an option because of legal reasons. City attorneys have cited Florida Statute 166.043 as a challenge to rent control measures. The statute puts limits on a local government’s ability to adopt a rent control ordinance. The city has said that the state law is not completely stopping the City from exploring possibilities, but official recommendations addressing the crisis have have yet to be made. But Alana Greer, lawyer and co-director of Community Justice Project, said that the city’s argument doesn’t add up. “The state does not preempt rent stabilization, it explicitly authorizes it and tells you how to do it,” Greer told CL. “Unfortunately, the state has made it difficult for the long term, I can show you how to go through hoops every year. But the only real obstacle is local political will and elected officials being willing to put this back to the voters.” In order to pass rent control, city council has to declare a housing state of emergency by proving there is an emergency through a study, then put a ballot measure up for vote from the public on whether or not to approve rent control. If the measure were to pass, under current state laws, the city would have to do this every year. Nicole Travis, Tampa’s new director of economic development and opportunity, said that “it’s not the city’s place to be a landlord” but referenced city projects like Rome Yard, which Travis said would have affordable housing sites in the future to address the crisis. The Rome Yard project is projected to be completed in around six years. Meanwhile, the housing crisis rages on for everyday Tampeños. Gayle Rogers, 62, said that the money she makes at McDonald’s isn’t enough to pay her rent. “And other people are going through the same thing that I’m going through,” Rogers said. “I hope that council will acknowledge this crisis and bring this matter to the voters.” But in the end, councilmen decided against rent control, claiming that they couldn’t enact the process because of legal tie-ups. “We tried our best to do what’s right, but sometimes our hands are tied,” Gudes said.

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Evidence slim in case against Pasco BLM protester. By Justin Garcia

n mid-February, Marlowe Jones spoke at a New Port Richey City Council meeting to express the suffering he’s gone through since he was arrested in July of 2020. Since the day New Port Richey Police (NPRPD) charged him with battery on a law enforcement officer and obstruction, Jones has been dealing with sometimes overwhelming depression and anxiety. Even driving to the supermarket with his daughters puts him in fear for their safety. All this, despite prosecutors admitting to a serious lack of evidence that he committed the crimes, which could potentially put him away for six years in prison. “The only thing I wanted to do was protect my city, help my city, let it flourish,” Jones said. “We didn’t do anything destructive.” Jones and other protesters in NPR held all peaceful demonstrations during the George Floyd uprising. They kept the movement nonviolent despite being antagonized by white nationalist groups like the Proud Boys, who prayed with NPR police during one protest. An NPRPD officer also shared intel to an armed right-wing vigilante on where to locate the BLM protesters. Yet still, things remained peaceful, just like they intended. But during a march on July 24, 2020, events took an ugly turn when a man attacked a woman BLM protester. Police intervened, during which time officer Nicholas Rickus claimed Jones refused to comply with his commands and pushed the officers’ hand away. They didn’t arrest Jones that night. Instead, police arrested him a week later during another protest on July 31, 2020, to accuse him of the crime and arrest him. But the Pasco state attorney who is prosecuting Jones made a surprising admission to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay: the only evidence the office of the 6th Judicial Circuit has in its pursuit of the charges against Jones is testimony from Officer Rickus himself and an undisclosed number of his fellow officers. “The videos that have been provided do not capture the battery,” Justin Homburg, the prosecutor for Jone’s case, told CL. Homburg added that officer Rickus claimed he was not wearing a body camera that night, even though it is department policy, and his fellow officers were wearing cameras. “But, you know, prior to any part of filing any felony case, we take sworn testimony to ensure that we’re making the right filing decision,” he said. Jones’ trial date was originally scheduled for Feb. 21. The week before that, it was pushed back

to May 4, after Jones’ defense lawyer Andrew Darling presented five new civilian witnesses who were there that night. When asked how many officer’s testimonies there are besides officer Rickus’, Homburg could not confirm the amount. He did confirm that as of now, the only witness testimony they have are from police officers. This contradicts NPRPD Chief Kim

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Because the state attorney says that the only evidence it has is cop testimony, it is important to note here that time and again, it has been found that officers have been known to lie, and often follow a “Blue Wall of Silence” code in which they practice deceit to protect each other when they do wrong. Jones believes he was targeted by NPR police, because he was seen as one of the leaders of the BLM movement locally. “I’m trying to get people to peacefully protest. I’m not telling people to burn the city down,” Jones said during the public comment portion of the city council meeting. “So why are they taking it out on me and making an example out of me and ruining my life?”

SMALL PART: Marlowe Jones said, ‘The only thing I wanted to do was protect my city, help my city, let it flourish.’ Bogart’s previous claim that it took a week to arrest Jones because the police had to review video evidence and confirm that he committed the crime. “Mr. Jones, first is tapping him on the shoulder, then turns away, pulls up his shirt, and makes this movement like he’s going to reach into his pants for a weapon,” Bogart told WFTS in 2020. “Our officer reaches out, grabs his hand, and that’s when he started to push our officer.”

Jones spoke to council with a familiarity, because he knew them from so many meetings throughout the George Floyd uprising, where he and local social justice groups were trying to find what he called “common sense solutions” to the divide between the community and police in the area. He had even met with Chief Bogart in similar meetings, trying to

find a cure to the problems between police and the Black and brown communities. NPRPD didn’t respond to questions about why they charged Jones a week after they claimed he committed battery on a law enforcement officer. They also didn’t respond to the question of why Chief Bogart claimed there was video evidence, while the state attorney says there is not. NPRPD did tell CL that Officer Rickus voluntarily resigned on Oct. 8, 2021 and was not under any internal affairs investigations. Video from the night NPRPD claimed Jones assaulted them shows officers responding to the scene of the fight. Jones is standing nearby, explaining to officers that the entire incident was on camera, and that the man had attacked the woman protester. Police said the woman protester was legally carrying a concealed firearm and officers were trying to remove it from her. Jones stood nearby. Officers ask each other what happened in one body camera video, while the activists try to explain that the man had attacked the protester. Patrick Oshnock, who had fought with the woman, claimed that he had been attacked by her. Pasco court records show that Oshnock was charged with battery on the protester, and that the case is still open. Two months later, in September, Oshnock received a felony charge for a DUI with bodily and property damage. The court records show that he also fled the scene of the crime. That case is also still open. Jones said he had tried to stop the altercation that night to keep the peace, and was explaining to police that the protesters were not responsible for the violence. At no point did police accuse Jones at the scene of committing the crime. When asked why police would wait several days to arrest someone who assaulted an officer, Homburg said, “I don’t know why they didn’t arrest him, there could be a number of reasons why someone isn’t arrested at the scene.” He directed the question to NPR police, which did not answer. Despite the troubling lack of evidence, impending charges have turned Jones’ life into a struggle. He told CL that for the past year and a half, he’s been dealing with mounting mental health issues as he tries to still get through every day life and support his family. He’s started seeing a therapist, which helps, but he just wishes what feels like a bad dream could be brought to an end. “I’m having nightmares of getting killed by police,” he said. Still, he hasn’t stopped advocating for what he believes in. “This isn’t just about me. This is about finding justice in a system that treats people who stand up for justice this way.”

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Tampa’s Fun-Lan sold for over $11 million. By Justin Garcia

ast December, Tampa’s iconic Fun-Lan Flea Market and Swap Shop suddenly closed as vendors and employees scrambled to find new gigs. Rumors swirled over who purchased the property, for how much, and for what purpose. Now, those questions have been answered. The property was signed over through a General Warranty Deed to Richman Hillsborough Apartments on Feb. 15, a housing developer, for $11.34 million. According to the county, the property is supposed to become multi-family housing. The apartment company paid $5.84 million more than the original purchaser, GFY Trustee Services, which bought the property in December for $5.5 million. Just a little over three months later, GFY doubled its money with their sale to Richman Hillsborough. Richman is known for building luxury apartments, but its website says it has 96 “affordable” units in South Florida for people making 26%-60% of area median income (AMI). Richman has no affordable properties in Tampa, but has opened 1,131 units its its four “signature” local developments. Though GFY purchased the property, last month a partner at the company told CL that they represent a client, but did not disclose who. On Feb. 15, the deed was signed, and later uploaded to the Hillsborough County Clerk of Court’s website. On background, a county official said it looked as if GFY was able to purchase the property for a low price and make a major profit in a short amount of time. Creative Loafing Tampa Bay reached out to GFY Trustee Services for more details about the sale but did not receive a response. Richman

Hillsborough have not respond to an inquiry for details about the upcoming housing on the property. In December, the property was sold to the apartment company by Betty Henn, owner of the Fun-Lan company. According to Hillsborough County Property Appraiser records from the early-’90s, Henn purchased the property for $475,000. In December, Candy Snell—who had worked her way up from fry cook to ticket booth attendant to manager over the five years leading up to Fun-Lan’s closure—told CL that it was hard work making the final preparations for the demise of Fun-Lan, emotionally and physically. Snell had good memories there, but couldn’t recall them at the moment. She had a deep knowledge of the property, the massive projector screens, the hurricanes that destroyed certain screens, along with the history and culture of Fun-Lan. “I would love to go back in time and see this place in its heyday, when this parking lot was full of cars,” she said, envisioning a Fun-Lan past. “When it first opened in the ‘50s, they had a miniature train for the kids that circled the entire lot. It used to be a whole family ordeal to go to the drive-in.” Jennifer Stanford worked as Snell’s secretary for the past two years. Her 18-year-old son Daniel Perez worked there for just two weeks before the news of the closing came down; he helped with the closing of Fun-Lan. Fun-Lan was one of the last of its kind left in the Tampa Bay area. Classic drive-in aesthetics and rock bottom prices for flea market shoppers and vendors are a specialty in Florida, but as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the nation, many such places have fallen to the wayside.

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MISS YOU: The since removed sign at Tampa’s Fun-Lan flea market, swap shop and drive-in.

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ast Tuesday, city staff sent a memo to Tampa City Council saying that Mayor Castor’s administration is backing out of public discussions about its controversial noise ordinance. The ordinance became a matter of contention over the past two months. It originally passed city council in January but is now in the process of repeal after a city council vote this month. Ybor business owners were especially upset about the ordinance, and argued that the rules would hurt business in the party district. A lawyer representing them said that the details of the ordinance may be unconstitutional. The ordinance hasn’t been repealed yet, though, since council still has to hold a second vote on it on March 17. The city was supposed to meet with those concerned Ybor business owners in upcoming meetings, to keep the conversation going. Instead, it sent a memo to council saying that the city would be doing just the opposite. “To avoid further confusion among the public, the upcoming ordinance meetings will be cancelled until City Council provides staff with further direction,” the memo from Nicole B. Travis, Tampa’s new administrator of development and economic opportunity wrote. The memo advised that city council should from here on out answer all public questions related to the ordinance. The initial ordinance sought to ban all amplified sound in Ybor after midnight and allow police to fine businesses with no warning

should they have outdoor music at certain decibel levels. It also restricted decibel levels to conversational volume between 1 a.m.-3 a.m., which is often prime time business hours in Ybor’s historic and entertainment district. The city had fine tuned the details of the ordinance over the past two years, including recently. City attorneys offered changes to the ordinance over the last month, after community outcry came to city’s doorstep. But they still wanted to ban outdoor amplified sound after midnight, which was a sticking point for the councilmen who voted against it last week. Councilchair Orlando Gudes, who voted to repeal the ordinance, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay the public meetings should continue. “I have to make some phone calls,” he said. “They shouldn’t be canceling the meetings.” Councilman Bill Carlson, who voted to keep the ordinance, still thinks that transparency is important in this situation. “Whether or not we keep this ordinance, the public meetings are still important for the community and they should continue,” he told CL. Tom DeGeorge, owner of Crowbar in Ybor and one of the most vocal critics of the ordinance said that the abrupt ending of talks left him feeling dejected. “I thought we were moving toward a situation that would work for all of us,” DeGeorge said. “But now the administration is saying, ‘We’re going to take our ball and go home and put it all on council.’ It’s insane.”

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itch McConnell knows how to win the midterm: Oppose everything Joe Biden does, blame him for anything that goes wrong, but never lay out an agenda that turns the election into a choice rather than a referendum. Last week, however, Sen. Rick Scott—a billionaire Medicare scammer who scammed Floridians into narrowly electing him governor twice and senator once, and who is in charge of electing Republicans to the Senate—threw a wrench into the machine with his “11 Point Plan to Rescue America,” a manifesto that mixes Newt Gingrich’s kick-the-poor ’90s with Trumpian authoritarianism, white Christian nationalism, overt attacks on voting rights, economic and constitutional illiteracy, and a Mack truck full of gaslighting. The 11 points speak for themselves: • Turn schools into patriotism factories where kids are forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance (unconstitutional) and teachers can get fired for making white children uncomfortable (i.e., “critical race theory”). Then again, none of that will matter after they close the Department of Education and implement a voucher program that ghettoizes public schools and routes billions of tax dollars to unregulated religious institutions. • End diversity training “or any woke ideological indoctrination” in the military—“woke” is Scott’s new favorite word—cut off funding for universities that try to diversify their student bodies, and proclaim as a point of fact that the nation is colorblind (the last 400 years never happened). • Impose more draconian sentences for violent and nonviolent crime and expand qualified immunity so that cops can even more easily abuse their authority with impugnity. Blue lives matter, etc. • “We will secure our border, finish building the wall, and name it after President Donald Trump.” • Give the president a line-item veto (not only unconstitutional, but it would render Congress irrelevant), prohibit debt ceiling increases (calamitous), tax poor and retired people (everyone should have “skin in the game”), and whatever “Socialism will be treated as a foreign combatant” means. • Enact term limits for members of Congress and civil servants (unconstitutional and will empower lobbyists), move government agencies

out of Washington and “into the real world” (expensive), and cut IRS funding in half (presumably so Scott’s pals can get away with tax fraud). • Ban same-day and automatic voter registration (because fraud, or whatever), unmanned collection boxes, and public campaign financing (“No serious person would ever favor this,” says the billionaire), and don’t count absentee ballots that arrive after Election Day. But voter ID will be mandatory, of course. • Ban abortion, ban porn, give tax breaks to “nuclear families,” and allow faith-based groups to discriminate against whoever they want. • God says trans people aren’t real, so doctors should be banned from treating trans children and trans men should be banned from women’s sports—which the party that just a few years ago ridiculed Title IX now finds sacred. (Strange, that.) Also, “no government forms will include questions about ‘gender identity’ or ‘sexual preference.’” • Ban Facebook and Twitter from banning users for hate speech or spreading misinformation (unconstitutional), “reject both the roots and the adherents of cancel culture in America,” and “stop investing federal retirement dollars with ‘woke’ fund managers and companies that put left-wing politics ahead of profits” (“woke” means clean energy, I presume). • Stop participating in peacekeeping missions, end imports from China (only $435 billion a year), “take climate change seriously but not hysterically” (i.e., do nothing), and “treat our enemies like enemies.” There is the Republican plan to “rescue” the country, which was humming along fine until Jan. 20, 2021. Most of it isn’t new, per se. What’s new is Scott’s attempt to marry the party’s anti-tax, pro-austerity wing with Trump’s populist, authoritarian wing. On the surface, that seems dubious. To the degree Trump had a policy outlook more sophisticated than “Build the Wall,” it was that he promised everything to everyone—cut taxes and increase spending and cut the deficit—and pretended he never made those promises when they became inconvenient. Scott, however, wants to reframe the oligarchical (read: deeply unpopular) aspects of the GOP agenda as an extension of the culture wars: The “woke” left is sending your money to “undeserving” others; you don’t have to squint

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SAIL AWAY: Rick Scott wants to ‘rescue’ a country that was humming along fine until Jan. 20, 2021. to see the racial subtext. From start to finish, this is an authoritarian document dressed up in the language of freedom. Like all variants of right-wing populism, it focuses the grievances of its target demo (a loss of cultural primacy) at scapegoats (the wokes). Consider how Scott begins his treatise: “The militant left now controls the entire federal government, the news media, academia, Hollywood, and most corporate boardrooms—but they want more. They are redefining America and silencing their opponents.” Put aside the obvious question—how much LSD does a man have to take to think of Joe Biden as the “militant left”?—and allow me to translate from Fox Newsese: Scott’s version of a white, Christian America that idealizes

capitalists (for example, him) has lost favor in the cultural marketplace, and people who espouse racist, misogynistic, or bigoted views now face consequences they didn’t before (which they call censorship). A multicultural society forces their children to learn more than the historical myths on which their purported superiority was constructed (which they call indoctrination). They are victims, forever and always. Scott is promising to avenge their victimhood by imposing their cultural norms on everyone else—in the name of freedom—and maintaining the socioeconomic caste system that has fostered the greatest level of inequality in a century. That is the Republican Party’s 2022 platform. It’s also a gift to Democrats—if they can figure out how to use it.

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Citing reports of a Feb. 11 incident where Pi Kappa Phi fraternity hosted an off-campus bid party in which guests drew on members of the organization’s shirts with inappropriate objects, such as penises and swastikas, the Student Conduct and Ethical Development (SCED) at the University of South Florida has issued an interim suspension of the fraternity. Our best and brightest have definitely made it to college, folks.

FRIDAY 25 Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival says it’s coming back on March 11. Notable on the menu is Flamin’ Hot Cheetos street corn. I feel bad for everyone behind me on the Montu.

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She said those issues have since been squashed and that Bearss doesn’t receive complaints anymore. She wonders why code enforcement is still fining them for their operation. “Personally, I think it’s like they just want the property,” she said. A search of the county’s code enforcement for Bearss Groves passed unanimously, with commissioner Kimberly Overman being absent cases supports Baker’s claim that complaints from the vote. have not been coming in. The most recent Creative Loafing Tampa Bay previously complaint on the county’s site is from 2019, reported that Hagan and ownership at Bearss when Bearss Groves was cited by the county Groves argued that the fees imposed on the pro- for improper use of the area, and “accessory duce stand are unjust, because the stand could structure setbacks” which Baker said refers to possibly be protected from regular county rules the wooden housing that all of the produce sits under two state laws—Florida’s under. The only other citation Greenbelt Law and a nonresion the county’s website is from dential farm buildings statute. 2018, for similar issues including a lack of permitting and Bearss Groves was opened Bearss Groves in 1993, making it almost 30 planning at the site. Farmers Market years old. But there’s an even Community support is 14316 Lake Magdalene Blvd., Tampa. bearssgroves.com older piece of Tampa history on behind them, too. A Bearss Groves Facebook post detailthe property—a massive live oak that management says may be over 400 ing the issues the market has ahead of it already years old. Baker hopes the tree, along with the has close to 400 shares, and over 130 comments. business will be protected from any kind of "We're a local produce stand, and we've been development on the property should ownership serving the area for so long, I don't understand not be able to keep up with fines. why we have to go through this," Baker added. An employee at the market named Isabella Hagan, who frequents the stand regularly, Baker told CL she started working at the mar- said more needs to be done to protect it. ket four years ago, said that the original 2018 “I think every commissioner on this board complaints about fans running in a market has defended independent mom and pop busigreenhouse were made by a person in a neigh- nesses and how we should help protect them and help them prosper,” he said. boring development.

County to explore suspending fines at Tampa’s Bearss Groves market. By Justin Garcia

fter receiving more than 1,000 emails from concerned residents, Hillsborough County Commissioners voted unanimously on Feb. 16 to explore options for suspending fines for Bearss Groves Farmer’s Market. What the commissioners really wanted to do was vote to stop the $200 a day fine, along with suspending $160,000 in back-owed fees. But they were informed during the meeting that it was not within their power to do that. In 2018, a code enforcement special magistrate ruled in favor of code enforcement officer’s claims that the farmer’s market was in code violation. The produce stand has faced mounting fines since then, and last Friday put out a call for help on Facebook, claiming the stand is in danger of shutting down due to the fines. The commissioners were told today by Dexter Barge, assistant administrator for the county, that for anything to be changed, the case would have to come back before the magistrate. When commissioner Ken Hagan asked Barge if the county can look into the code and the ruling to see what can be done about the situation, Barge said, “Absolutely, I have no problem doing that.” Five other commissioners agreed with Hagan and a motion to explore ways to end the fines

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“Even our comprehensive plan identifies incentives and objectives to specifically support and encourage agriculture.” Not one commissioner disagreed with Hagan. All the commissioners present weighed in, calling for troubleshooting in how to protect the stand and end the fees. Pat Kemp acknowledged the community’s concerns and said the stand isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. “I think uniformly people love farmers markets and want to do everything they can to see them thrive,” Kemp said. “That being said, I just want to assure the public that no one is shutting down Bearss Groves. We’re not even anywhere near that.” Commissioner Stacy White lamented the fact that the commission couldn’t vote on the spot to end the fines and move forward. “It’s to me just mind boggling that we, as the elected officials are not the final arbiters on these issue,” he said. In the end, the commissioners voted to explore adjusting county regulations and to contact the county magistrate about the 2018 decision, along with examining ways that Bearss Groves to comply with code enforcement’s demands. But owner Barry Lawrance told CL that he stands by the fact that the charges are unjust. “They’re unjust fees, and that’s why we continue to fight them,” Lawrance said.

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GROVE-Y: It’s not within the power of the commission to suspend $160,000 in back-owed fines, but it’s exploring options.

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Tallahassee brewery is taking over Angry Chair’s Seminole Heights space. By Kyla Fields

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allahassee’s Ology Brewing Co. will give This brewery shuffle has no official timeline, Tampa a taste of its craft brew during sev- and although Walker says there’s no projected eral pop-ups and tap takeovers at Tampa debut date for Tampa’s Ology, beer-lovers can Bay Beer Week—which runs from March 5 to get a taste of its hazy citrus IPAs and fruity 13 on both sides of the bridge (hermits can get Berliners during this month’s TBBW. Although Ology Brewing also dabbles in spirit distilling, it at select package stores like Jug & Bottle). Last year, Florida Beer News reported that coffee roasting and hard seltzer manufacturing, Ology Brewing will move into Angry Chair beer truly reigns supreme, as it offers various Brewing’s current location at the corner of E types of IPAs, lagers, fruited Berliners, barrelFern Street and N Florida Avenue. The five-year- aged sours and wheat ales. old brewery’s first location outside of Tallahassee Ology has already been collaborating with is set to debut sometime this year, with no offi- Tampa Bay breweries for a while now, with beers cial timeline in place. like its “Half N Half” with King State—a traOlogy’s founder and head brewer Nick ditional Czech half-dark lager—and the “Fixed Walker tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Income,” an imperial milk stout that was created with its future neighbors, that he and his team are excited to expand Magnanimous Brewing. into Tampa and continue Walker states that Ology their strong relationships Brewing Co. is relationwith breweries here. ship-driven, and his “We’ve been looking multiple collaborations March 5-13. Various venues tampabaybeerweek.com at Central Florida for a with breweries throughwhile, and there’s such a out the state proves that. vibrant and developed craft market in Tampa,” Ology has also worked with Tampa Heights’ Walker says. “We end up there all the time, visit- Woven Water Brewing and St. Petersburg’s ing friends and working with folks in the scene, Hawthorne Bottle Shop, as a full list of its current brews are available on its website. so it’s definitely a good fit.” And since Angry Chair is still waiting on The Tally-based brewery is making it easy equipment to move into its new location—which for its soon-to-be customers to get a taste of is Brew Bus’ former space at 4101 N Florida its craft beers during Tampa Bay Beer Week, Ave.—Ology is playing the waiting game with several events and tap takeovers at Angry until Angry Chair leaves its current building. Chair Brewing, Tampa’s Independent Bar and According to Walker, he and his team won’t Cafe, Lowry Parcade, Pup’s Pub and Jug & change the Angry Chair space much, besides Bottle. Ology will also be one of the hundreds adding a few more barrels. of businesses slinging their brews at the FL Brew Bus closed in the Brewers Guild Festival on summer of 2021, with plans March 5 and the Brewers to move into a building at Ball Award Ceremony on 4315 N Florida Ave.—just March 6. a few blocks away from Ology will also debut two brand new collaboraits original location. So eventually, Angry Chair, tions—one with Angry Ology Brewing and Brew Chair Brewing and the Bus will all be neighbors in other with Tampa Bay Seminole Heights, alongside other booze-centric Brewing Company—which will be available in businesses like 7th Sun Brewery, Jug & Bottle cans at all of its upcoming TBBW events. The beer with Angry Chair will be a strawberry and 82° West Distilling. Ology’s longtime production manager mojito Berliner with a kitschy Florida-themed Taylor Gant is a Tampa-native and will move name, while its TBBC collaboration is a Hazy back to his hometown to run the upcoming IPA— which seems to be Ology’s speciality. location—set to open sometime in 2022. A Walker debuted Ology Brewing in June Facebook post from Ology Brewing Co. states 2017 after being a home-brewer for about a that Gant was the one who really pushed for a decade, and hasn’t stopped expanding since. Central Florida expansion, adding that, “We After Tampa’s new brewery is up and running, appreciate the welcome everyone in Tampa Walker says that he and his team will take a has already given us, especially the brew- breather after growing so quickly for the past ery community and our new neighborhood in five years. In addition to Tampa’s upcoming brewery, are three Tallahassee-based Ology Seminole Heights.”

SLOW-OLOGY: ‘We’ve been very go-go-go for about five years, and we need to take a little break.’ taprooms. “We’ve been very go-go-go for about five years, and we need to take a little break,” Walker tells CL. “All of us have had at least one kid since starting, and we need to learn how to grow smart.” And if you’ve noticed a certain theme when it comes to Ology’s beers—with names ranging from “Genetic Nurture” to “Sensory Overload”— science is the overarching theme of the brewery, which stems from Walker’s family history. With a degree in nursing and biology himself, Walker was a cardiac nurse for about five years before opening Ology in 2017. Both his father and grandfather were long term scientists that delved into sensory research and psycho-biology at Florida State University. “My grandfather researched the way that smell

and taste impact the ways in which we perceive the world around us—it’s very interesting,” Walker says. Everything down to the name of the brewery itself stems from science, as “ology” is a suffix that denotes a specific field of study. Because the Ology Brewing team is always experimenting with methods, ingredients and flavor combinations, its scientific approach to brewing is prevalent in its various types of products. For the full list of Tampa Bay Beer Week programming visit tampabaybeerweek.com, and for the latest updates on next month’s events and its upcoming Tampa taproom, follow the Ology Brewing Instagram at @ology_brewing_co and Facebook at @ologybrewingco.

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fter 22 years of strikes, the owners of South Tampa’s iconic Pinarama bowling alley are ready to split. The local institution, located at 5008 S Dale Mabry, is now on the market for $4.5 million. Co-owner James “Corky” Herritt tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that he and his business partners—Javier Torrealday and his brother Bobby Herritt—are ready to move on from the bowling business and instead focus on family and other matters. “Javier has two daughters. And they have kids now and he wants to spend time with his family,” says Herritt. “He’s been really great for me, and because of him I’ve had a lot of success. So if he wants to go, then I’m leaving.” Herritt and Torrealday met each other playing jai alai professionally across the street, at Tampa Jai Alai Fronton—where a Home Depot now stands—until the venue closed in 1998. That same year they bought Pinarama, which at the time was a pool hall called Legends. “We used to go in there at like 12:30 in the morning after we got done playing, and I got to know the owner and he said the pool hall wasn’t doing as well as expected. So I said, ‘What do you need to do?’ and he said, ‘We need to put bowling back in here, but we don’t have the money,” explains Herritt. “We didn’t change much, we just put the lanes back in, and because of the history we just kept it retro.” Over the years the 16 , 3 0 4 - squ a re -fo ot building has had many identities. According to Herritt, the space started out as a bowling alley in 1953. The owner then leased it out as a skating rink in the ‘90s, and when that didn’t work out, it was converted into a pool hall in 1994. Herritt says the pandemic wasn’t too hard on the business, though it did close for a couple months in 2020, but bowlers slowly started coming back. “The business is stronger than it’s ever been in the last 22 years, the leagues are back, the weekends are back, it’s really been great,” says Herritt.

Tampa has lost a few iconic spots over the past couple years, including Kojak’s House of Ribs and Q-Zar laser tag, but Herritt is hopeful that whoever purchases the space will continue to keep it as a bowling alley. “I hope it does stay as a bowling center,” says Herritt. “But you know, we can’t stay here just so that happens. You know what I mean? But I do have that hope that someone comes along and wants to continue this success. It might not end up that way, but now we’re moving on to the later parts of our lives with great memories.” Besides a turn-key business with 16 lanes, billiards, an arcade room, and a snack bar, whoever buys it will also acquire a full liquor license because of a state law that says any bowling alley with 12 lanes or more automatically gets a liquor license. Herritt also adds that it’s just nice to have a business that creates great memories for other people. “Some of my fondest memories of this place involve the longtime league bowlers, the employees, and also the people who’ve had their fifth birthday parties here, and then they come here as teens, and then later bring their own kids, and say ‘Hey, remember me?’,” Herritt says. “It’s just great to know that Pinarama had such a big impact on people, and I hope it continues to in the future.”

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“It’s just great to know that Pinarama had such a big impact on people, and I hope it continues to in the future.”

With Ali Marpet retiring, this offseason couldn’t be going any worse for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Pro Bowl guard Ali Marpet announced his retirement over the weekend, and Tampa Bay has already started the tributes. Marpet made his first Pro Bowl this season, and has been a mainstay on this Bucs offensive line that’s been among the best in football the past two years. He joins center Ryan Jensen and guard Alex Cappa—who’re both free agents—as guys the Bucs need to replace up front, along with a seemingly never ending list of other starting spots the Bucs need to fill. The news comes as quite a surprise, as the former Hobart College man is only 28 years

QUIT ALAI-ING: Pinarama owners, who used to play jai alai professional;y across the street, are calling it quits. old. He was also due to make upwards of $20 million over the last two years of his contract. However, clearly many things are bigger than football, and whatever his reasons, Marpet will be fondly remembered as a consistent performer who missed only 12 games over his seven-year career. Looking at the bigger picture, this off-season really couldn’t be going worse for the Bucs. It was common knowledge going into this that the team would have to find creative ways to keep its Super Bowl roster intact, but with Brady’s somewhat unexpected retirement and now this, they’ll have upwards of 12 new guys in their

starting lineup next season. That kind of turnover doesn’t usually breed success when one of those 12 positions is under center. Marpet’s retirement combined with the Bucs’ cap problems makes it a much less attractive destination for quarterbacks like Russell Wilson or Aaron Rodgers. Pipe dreams to begin with, any thoughts of the Bucs being a favored destination for any star quarterbacks potentially looking for a new place to play are looking more and more unrealistic by the day. Oh, well. It was fun, wasn’t it?—Carter Brantley

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Catching up with Rick Wakeman before his Clearwater concert. By Josh Bradley

The story goes that Bowie and Chris Squire contacted you on the same day to join their bands, and of course, you chose Yes. Do you ever think about what life would have been like if you joined the Spiders From Mars instead? Yeah, I would have been out of work after three years, because David changed his band all the time. In fact, David said to me that I made the right choice. He said “you had to go with Yes.” I mean, David Bowie was much bigger at the time than Yes was, but I thought about it logically. Musically, I love David. David was the most influential person I ever worked with.

I love his music. I loved playing on his music, and working with him. But he was The Spiders From Mars. I would have freedom to play, but I would always be playing everything that David wanted. There would be a ceiling of how far I could go. Whereas with Yes, I felt “this is a band where I can have input that doesn’t have a ceiling, and go further with it.” Would I like to have maybe done one show with him just to see what it was like? Absolutely. But at the end of the day, you have to make

me in the least. I do what I want to do, and I did things with Jon [Anderson] and Trevor [Rabin], which we thoroughly enjoyed. And I have a lot of respect for Steve and what he does. I think the tragedy was losing Chris. Chris was such a mainstay of the band. He was the only person who was there throughout. I said at the time, and I still think I’m probably right: The time for the Yes name to be rested was after Chris died, because Chris is irreplaceable in so many ways. It’s not just the way he played, how he played, how he wrote. It was his whole presence as part of Yes that you cannot replace. Because you’re talking…crikey, you’re talking almost 50 years of time, which nobody else can bring in, because they weren’t there. But I must be honest, I’ve not heard The Quest. But you know, I’ve read things

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ick Wakeman doesn’t have any plans to perform with Yes anytime soon, and he’s not distressed about that at all. Whether it’s solo or with the band, he’s been on the road for the majority of the last few years (we don’t count 2020). In 2016, he reunited with Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin to form Yes supergroup Anderson, Rabin, & Wakeman. That group is no more, and since then, he’s used his grumpy old rock star status to travel the world with a grand piano, microphone, and his fucked-up sense of humor. On Tuesday, the 72-year-old keyboard legend is bringing his “Even Grumpier Old Rock Star” tour to Clearwater’s Bilheimer Capitol Theatre. Along with Benmont Tench, Rod Argent, and Gregg Rolie, the 72-year-old keyboard legend is among one of the last standing great classic rock keyboardists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, especially after Dr. John died the summer before COVID-19 hit. I’ll bet that all the youngsters who watched The Beatles: Get Back on Disney+ this winter were bummed to later learn that Billy Preston isn’t around anymore. “I always say when we lose somebody, what wonderful music and heritage he’s left behind, which will never go. That’ll be around long after even I’ve gone,” Wakeman told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay over the phone. We should be so lucky to have the Yes keyboardist still on this earth at all. He had three heart attacks before he turned 25, is diabetic, and was once in a coma due to double pneumonia. And here he is, still touring strong. Read parts of our Q&A below and see the full chat via cltampa.com/music.

take probably another six, seven months off and on to finish off, which I’m pleased with. I think I squeezed in 30 shows over a two-year period, which is not good for me. And I always kept on playing the piano. People said, “Oh, you should do some Zoom concerts.” Why? I’ll wait. I’ll wait until I can walk out and see people. I’m somebody who feeds off of audiences and people, and it’s very hard to do if you’re doing a Zoom concert. And in fact, the majority of people I know who did Zoom concerts weren’t really successful. So, it was difficult for me, and you’re right: I hate not working. And it was just an awful time. So you concentrate on other things. I’ve got some some charities that I’m heavily involved with, which you can work from home with. But overall, ugh!

INTO THE LENS: We’re lucky to have the Yes keyboardist still on this earth at all. decisions sometimes, but hey, listen, what a wonderful choice to have to make. It’s no secret that you hate being out of work. How did you survive the pandemic? With great difficulty! I mean, normally, half my year is taken up doing concerts. That went, of course. I managed to get one album done called The Red Planet, which I really loved doing. I’m in the middle of doing another one, which will

Regarding the current lineup of Yes. What are your thoughts on it releasing The Quest back in October? I’ve not heard it, I’ve got to be brutally honest with you. I mean, Steve [Howe] is a great friend, and Alan [White]. They’re the only two I know. Steve, along with Chris [Squire] at the time, and Alan, they kept that the name and things going, and the different members have come and gone, which is fine. Whatever they want to do doesn’t worry

about animosity and all that kind of thing going around. I know for a fact that my management and the Yes management are great friends and meet up a lot, and talk about what possibilities can happen or what can’t happen. and so if it goes along with the bad Yes, of course I know Steve and I have a lot of respect for that though. But I have a lot of respect for Steve. I don’t know the other guys. But I don’t know them well enough to make any specific comments.

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must have done incredibly well among fans, because Maguire is set to perform alongside KC Wren of Thou, and local favorite Story Mode. Maguire has said that Pile will return to perform some live shows in the fall, but in the meantime, don’t be surprised if he plays the entire album. He must miss the band as much as we do. (Hooch and Hive, Tampa) Zachary Hickerson and Thomas Milovac Last month, Storage Unit Music released its eponymous debut (it sounds like a slightly more instrumental version of “STOMP!”). While the group awaits its first gig, saxophonist Hickerson is teaming up with his friend, Milovac to do a warmup show of sorts. Prolific house concert booking agency Liquid Love Booking is not only putting that show together, but also Storage Unit Music’s first gig later this month. If you can’t catch it, just know that not only is this a new project, but the pair was just at Uncle Lou’s in Orlando, so you likely will not be seeing the last of them. Ironically, this show is not at a storage unit; DM @theinbetweengallery to try and find it. (The In-Between House, Tampa)

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a year after release, Spirit of the Beehive is back together in person, and it’s playing Ybor City next week. Supporting the band will be Philly-based, multi-genre duo Body Meat and recently reunited local indie-rock favorite The Grapes. (Crowbar, Ybor City)

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C Dave Stryker Jazz guitarist Stryker had to postpone his January performance due to a day-of-show flight conflict. But this time around, the 64-year old friend of Jared Gold and Steve Slagle has no plans to put his third appearance at HCC off again. He has a new album out, As We Are, which features a string quartet, and bassist John Patitucci (a longtime friend and bandmate of the late Chick Corea). Stryker’s original HCC show was in a sense, a release party, so this Sunday, just pretend that it’s still January, and it’ll feel like nothing ever happened. (Mainstage Theatre at Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City)

C The Spirit of the Beehive w/Body Meat/The Grapes In recent years, things in The Spirit of the Beehive camp have changed. A new three-piece lineup featuring just Zack Schwartz, Rivka Ravede, and Corey Wichlin released its lockdown masterpiece, Entertainment, Death, and finally received the rave reviews that it deserves from numerous major music outlets. The recording process was a lot less grueling for them, too. The band had seven days of studio time to get its previous album, Hypnic Jerks done, and though they were all together for that one, Entertainment, Death was made thanks to the magic of sending each other emails. Almost

C Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs Tom Petty’s right-hand man for over 40 years doesn’t want you to feel bad for him. In the nearly five years that Campbell’s boss has not been on this earth, the guitarist has taken on a world tour with a Buckingham-free Fleetwood Mac, and resurrected his old side project, The Dirty Knobs. The band originally formed to keep Campbell occupied while Petty and the Heartbreakers were off the road. In 2020, the Knobs scheduled a date at Orpheum to wrap up its tour supporting debut album Wreckless Abandon. Three postponements later, Mike and the boys are now kicking off their debut tour in Ybor City, with two albums to promote. (Orpheum, Tampa)

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