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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · 1d

'Voodoo' taught me how to love music. I am gutted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor Freedman and I have been going back and forth just trying to get together for a general interview. Figured I'd ask her what she thought.

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Michael Bishop @michaelbishop.me · 1d

I've avoided commenting on this story because there's just been too much speculation and ugliness in the FB posts around it but @rayroa.bsky.social does a good job of pulling some details together. Love the shade former Mayor Freedman throws at Castor for not having a comment.

Former Tampa City Council candidate flashes gun at forum, stealing attention from otherwise successful debate

Elvis Piggott, a former candidate for Tampa City Council, flashed his gun at an Oct. 9 forum.

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · 7d

Never thought I'd get to work with Dewey Saunders, but here we are ...

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay @cltampabay.bsky.social · 7d

Jeff Weiss finally comes to Florida's Gulf Coast to talk Britney, American media, and more www.cltampa.com/arts/intervi...

Jeff Weiss finally comes to Florida's Gulf Coast to talk Britney, American media, and more - Creative Loafing Tampa

Los Angeles author Jeff Weiss brings his new Britney Spears book to St. Petersburg on Oct. 15, 2025.

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · 12d

Talking opioids, heroin, and Pam Bondi with ‘The Florida Shuffle’ author Dave Aronberg www.wmnf.org/talking-opio...

Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · 16d

Assata Shakur Dies at 78 in Cuba; Listen to Her 1998 Message to Pope www.democracynow.org/2025/9/29/de...

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 19d

Tampa Bay's best restaurants, food and drink of 2025, according to the real experts, Creative Loafing readers via @rayroa.bsky.social @cltampabay.bsky.social www.cltampa.com/food-drink/t...

Tampa Bay's best restaurants, food and drink of 2025, according to our readers - Creative Loafing Tampa

Food & Drink winners and finalists for Creative Loafing Best of the Bay 2025.

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · 18d

An AI fail as I was trying to get alt text for a photo of myself. The response is creepy, I think. And yes, I used the AI again to create alt text for these screenshots

Screenshot of an AI response identifying a man in a photo as "Chef Paolo M. Peñamora" and the owner of a restaurant named "Tamapa" in St. Petersburg, Florida. The response also describes his cooking style.

Screenshot of a user correcting the AI for providing a fabricated response to a photo. The AI's response admits to a "significant error" and apologizes for making up the name of a chef and a restaurant.

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · 28d

Appreciate the @cltampabay.bsky.social hat tip from Kristen Hare at @poynterinstitute.bsky.social mailchi.mp/poynter/cx9k...

This is a screenshot of a write-up praising Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. It highlights the paper’s mix of informative and delightful coverage

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · 28d

NBA Reporter Fired After Accurately Describing Charlie Kirk’s Beliefs - defector.com/nba-reporter...

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 12

Florida Sen. Shevrin Jones talks Charlie Kirk, taxes, and more www.wmnf.org/florida-sen-...

Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 12

New from Noah Bookstein. Barbara Petersen, Executive Director of Florida Center for Government Accountability (FLCGA), told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “I think it’s unenforceable because it’s unconstitutional.”

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay @cltampabay.bsky.social · Sep 12

FWC is limiting social media comments, raising First Amendment concerns www.cltampa.com/news/fwc-flo...

FWC is limiting social media comments, raising First Amendment concerns

FWC Chairman Rodney Barreto at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida on May 1, 2025. At a time when Florida’s wildlife agency is

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 10

Scott and Young headed for runoff in Tampa City Council race www.cltampa.com/news/scott-a...

Scott and Young headed for runoff in Tampa City Council race

Thomas Scott and Naya Young both captured at a Tiger Bay candidate forum on Aug. 15, 2025. And then there were two. Tampa’s special election for the

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 9

“It’s shaping up to be our biggest event yet, and it’s rooted in everything we believe in—community, creativity, connection (and great beer, obviously),” Vergnaud-McKinnon told @cltampabay.bsky.social . www.cltampa.com/food-drink/s...

Ybor City's Sky Puppy Brewing celebrates first anniversary with day-long party this weekend

Sky Puppy Brewing in Ybor City stages a day-long party to celebrate its first anniversary.

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tampa rap superstar Doechii plays hometown concert this fall. The Yuengling Center concert is the only Florida show on Doechii’s “Live From the Swamp Tour.”
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Tampa rap superstar Doechii plays hometown concert this fall

Doechii, a Blake High School alum, will play a hometown concert in Tampa this fall.

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 8

Leon Bedore, aka Tes One, wants to know if he’s doing the ‘art for tourism’ thing right.
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‘Tourism follows culture. Culture does not follow tourism’: Co-founder of St. Pete’s SHINE festival responds to funding cuts with art and a plea

HINE Mural festival co-founder Leon Bedore aka Tes One has a message for commissioners who defunded Creative Pinellas.

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 5

New Sponatola mixtape today
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Album cover and streaming screen for Chik’n & Bizkits by Sponatola. The illustrated cover shows an angry cartoon chicken wearing a gold chain and holding two smoking pistols, standing in the middle of a record store aisle. The background interface displays the album title, artist name, 15 tracks with a total length of 33:11, and the year 2025.

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 4

How The Wall Street Journal is strategizing for ‘Google zero’ digiday.com/media/how-th...

Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 4

With public media under siege, High Plains Public Radio builds a blueprint to cover more rural news with fewer resources www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...

Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Sep 4

Orlando folk singer Aoife O’Donovan gets intimate at Judson's Live this week. AND I HAD NO CLUE SHE LIVED HERE NOW www.orlandoweekly.com/music/orland...

Orlando folk singer Aoife O’Donovan gets intimate at Judson's Live this week

'A modern, artistic and elegant take on American roots music'

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Daaaaang, it's that Palm Avenue Sandwich Shop mojo (and not mojo pork!)

Tampa Monitor @tampamonitor.com · Aug 28

Naya Young won the Tampa Heights Civic Association D5 candidate forum straw poll with 42% of the vote.

Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Last Friday on @wmnf.org we had a two-hour special featuring 12 of the 14 candidates in Tampa's special election for City Council District 5
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Listen to candidates for Tampa City Council District 5 in this special two-hour forum

There are 13 candidates, and one write-in, on the ballot for the special election for the District 5 Tampa City Council seat. A dozen of them made it into the WMNF Tampa studio last Friday for a speci...

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Aug 20

“Hopefully there’ll be something very interesting on the other side of whatever this life is.”—Rob Lorei

He really did pave the way and create opportunities for so many on both sides of the news. We are really lucky to have his example to follow. www.cltampa.com/news/legenda...

Legendary Tampa Bay newsman Rob Lorei, who opened doors for countless others, is dead at age 70

Giving the community a microphone, and listening, was Lorei's specialty,

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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Aug 18

Stating today off with this from Brain Emoji (Dunedin experimental)
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Ray Roa @rayroa.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think I am gonna start sharing all the new local music I'm listening to. Tampa Bay area artists, please drop me links to stuff you've put out this year. Thank you!

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