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  1. For women working in Tampa Bay’s craft beer industry, there’s progress amid struggle
    Nov. 28• Food
    Paloma Mejia, 34, adds hops into the whirlpool while brewing Jai Alai IPA at Cigar City Brewing in Tampa. The local craft beer industry — still a heavily male-dominated field — is attracting more women to the profession.
  2. Laundromat speakeasy Dirty Laundry opens in St. Petersburg with cocktails and Cuban flair
    Nov. 19• Food News
    This photo collage (left to right) shows the Cuban sandwich on the menu at Dirty Laundry in St. Petersburg, the payphone where guests get a password and outdoor seating.
  3. Tampa’s Andrew McNamara is a wine expert, like only 14 others on the planet
    Oct. 30• Food
    Master Sommelier Andrew McNamara at Cru Cellars in Tampa.
  5. Stormy Daniels and her haunted doll looked for ghosts at a Safety Harbor restaurant
    Oct. 14• Food
    Stormy Daniels and Justin Loupe, stars of the Spooky Babe Show, visit Safety Harbor eatery and movie theater Gigglewaters in September.
  6. ‘Cuban’ beer is being sold in Miami. Is it a communist invasion or clever capitalismo?
    Sep. 20• Florida
    Cuban-themed beer Palma is photographed next to Cuban beer Cristal on Wednesday, September 1, 2021.
  7. Oktoberfest season has arrived in the Tampa Bay area
    Sep. 16• Things To Do
    Oktoberfest celebrations start this week in the Tampa Bay area.
  8. Tampa cereal bar says it’s haunted. Do the ghost stories match history?
    Sep. 16• History
    The Afterholic Speakeasy's “Haunted Tavern” in Ybor City.
  9. Dive bar bathrooms around Tampa Bay are the subject of a new photo exhibit
    Aug. 19• Visual Arts
    The Hub in downtown Tampa is part of a photo exhibit featuring area dive bar bathrooms.
  10. West Tampa cigar factory with iconic clock tower will be a winery and bar
    Aug. 18• History
    West Tampa's Y. Pendas y Alvarez Cigar Factory, which the Boscaino family plans to restore into a winery and wine bar.
  11. Pizzeria to replace Fermented Reality Biergarten in Tampa’s Sparkman Wharf
    Aug. 12• Business
    Fermented Reality Biergarten sits in the middle of Sparkman Wharf on December 5, 2018 in Tampa.
  12. Bike ride from Tampa Bay to Nashville supports music industry
    Aug. 12• Music
    Kevin Lilly, 40, is the co-founder of Ride for Music and will be doing a 1,411 mile bike ride from Tampa Bay to Nashville for a charity event for band road crews.
  13. Newly reopened, Skipper’s Smokehouse closing this weekend for deep coronavirus cleaning
    Aug. 6• Music
    People check out Impulse on the dance floor at Skipper's Smokehouse in 2012. The venue, which opened in 1980 and closed in 2020, has officially reopened in Tampa.
  14. Skipper’s Smokehouse in Tampa officially reopening today
    Jul. 15• Music
    People check out Impulse on the dancefloor at Skipper's Smokehouse in 2012. The venue, which opened in 1980 and closed in 2020, has officially reopened in Tampa.
  15. Tampa’s Pepin Distribuing will sell to Maryland investment firm
    Jul. 14• Business
    A forklift passes through the warehouse at Pepin Distributing in Tampa in 2013. After 50 years in Florida, the beer distribution company has reached a deal to be sold to a Maryland private equity firm.
  16. Coors Light brewed beer using ice the Lightning played on
    Jul. 8• Lightning
    Coors Light Champions Ice was brewed using ice shavings scraped up by Tampa Bay Lightning players during Game 1.
  17. Staycation? Tampa Bay hotel pools and cabanas are open for locals
    Jun. 24• Things to Do
    Austin Valde of Gulfport, a worker for Sand Dunes Beach Services, sets up cabanas on Upham Beach in March 2020. You can get two lounge chairs and an umbrella or cabana for $25-$30 all day.
  18. Food costs are way up, and Tampa Bay restaurants are feeling the crunch
    Jun. 19• Food
    Mee ae Wolney poses in front of her restaurant Anju in St. Petersburg where Korean-fried chicken wings are the speciality. Wolney said the price for chicken — and chicken wings in particular — has more than doubled since last year, forcing her to raise some of her prices at the restaurant. It's a familiar conundrum many restaurant owners are facing right now: raise their costs for customers or sweat the margin crunch.
  19. Comedians coming to Tampa Bay: Patton Oswalt, Hasan Minhaj, Randy Rainbow and Taylor Tomlinson
    Jun. 8• Things To Do
    Patton Oswalt, shown in his Netflix special "Patton Oswalt: Annihilation," will perform at the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre in Clearwater on Dec. 30.
  20. St. Petersburg woman turned 1962 Airstream into a wine party business
    Jun. 6• Bars & Breweries
    Melody Maria launched Wine on Wheels in late 2018. The base of the business is a 1962 Airstream trailer.
  21. Where to find a crawfish boil in Tampa Bay
    May 5• Food
    Chef Rick "Ricky P" Parsons serves up a Louisiana feast during his monthly crawfish boil at the Big Catch at Salt Creek In St. Petersburg. It's crawfish season and a number of Tampa Bay restaurants and chefs are celebrating the tradition with weekly boils.
  22. Big Storm Brewing to open taproom in Centro Ybor
    May 3• Life & Culture
    Big Storm Brewing Co. plans to open an 11,000-square-foot taproom and restaurant in the Centro Ybor building by the end of the year.
  23. 30 Tampa Bay restaurants offering deals for Mother’s Day
    Apr. 29• Food News
    Chocolate and raspberries make French toast even more of a treat for Mother's Day. Here are 30 suggestions on where to find a no-cook meal for mom.
  24. At 22 South, a new kind of food hall takes shape in St. Petersburg
    Apr. 22• Food
    22 South, the new food hall inside the newly renovated historic Manhattan Casino in St. Petersburg, opens April 30.
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