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Tampa Bay Instances reporter Gabrielle Calise walks readers down reminiscence lane

For the previous few years, most of Gabrielle Calise’s tales for the Tampa Bay Instances have been steeped in nostalgia or oddities. There was her 2019 story on the thong-clad ladies who as soon as made tons of cash promoting sizzling canines on the facet of busy roads in Tampa Bay. She’s written a few spaceship atop a Tampa strip membership, an annual custom of presidential candidate cookies and, most lately, wooden storks.

Calise first started culling via previous newspaper clippings and searching into landmarks as a Instances intern. Her curiosity led to a treasure trove of tales, which she

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College of Tampa music professor says taking part in the organ is a magical expertise

Instances Correspondent

Ryan Hebert is affiliate professor of music and division chairman on the College of Tampa, the place he teaches organ efficiency and is director of choral research. He’s additionally director of music and organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Tampa, and he composes music for the organ.

“The organ discovered me, I didn’t discover it,’’ he says. “Lots of people spend a lifetime looking for the factor that they’re enthusiastic about, and I used to be one of many fortunate ones.”

Hebert (pronounced a-bear), 47, who’s a Physician of Musical Arts from Louisiana State College, talked with

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Gasparilla Music Competition Takes Over Downtown Tampa This Weekend! | Information

Clinton Boyter

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Gasparilla Music Competition (“GMF”) introduced by Coppertail Brewing Co returns this weekend with dozens of bands alongside Tampa’s Riverwalk. The competition, which usually takes place within the spring, is celebrating its tenth yr and can run Friday October 1 by Sunday October 3.

The non-profit competition has been known as a “competition on a mission” and proceeds from the weekend go to offering devices and different assist to music school rooms in Title 1 elementary faculties.

Lineup

The competition headliners that may acting on the JW Marriott Stage in Curtis

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Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. does not personal Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Clinton Boyter

The declare: Tampa Bay Buccaneers proprietor paid for newspaper advert criticizing Biden’s dealing with of Afghanistan 

A full-page commercial important of President Joe Biden’s dealing with of Afghanistan has led to a case of mistaken identification on Fb.

“Mr. President, Individuals deserve higher,” reads the advert’s temporary message, signed by Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. “Your impulsive actions, bias and indecision in your disaster in Afghanistan have brought about Individuals everlasting disgrace.”

The total-page advert ran Aug. 26 within the Wall Avenue Journal and New York Submit. A photograph of the advert was shared over 20,000 occasions on Fb in lower

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