See what happens when you piss off a multi-millionaire… Rick Scott is responding to attacks on his record as CEO of Columbia/HCA by airing what one can only assume are hundreds of thousands of dollars in television ads, backed up by a comprehensive website http://www.truthaboutrickscott.com/ Rick Scott is campaigning on holding Florida’s government accountable to [...]

Saying he was fed up with a life of elected office and government, Charlie Crist shocked the political world today when he announced that he was abandoning his campaign for the US Senate and joining a biker gang. Pictures reflecting Crist’s decision first surfaced Monday evening after reporter Gary Fineout posted them on his Twitter account. [...]

Of course it was George Riley who turned me on to a new Facebook page: Bald Guys for Bill McCollum.  From their page: Historically, the bald man has faced near-insurmountable social challenges at every turn. To the common man, whose perception has been bent by unfair stereotypes, we are the evil geniuses, the dangerous onlookers, the [...]

This 2 minute global film was shot by multi-award winning director Adam Berg over four weeks in Brazil, France, London and India. Every location is real and they remain transformed by a palette consisting of 120 different colours. The people in the film are not actors, they are real people who rolled up their sleeves [...]

Republican Attorney General candidate Holly Benson came to Creative Loafing’s offices in Ybor City last Wednesday, May 27, and sat down and spoke with them for about 20 minutes.  During the interview Benson reaffirmed her opposition to gay adoption: CL: We asked you last week about Florida’s policy on gay adoption, where we’re the only [...]

From the Florida Tribune: Gov. Charlie Crist’s running battle with the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature appears unlikely to end anytime soon — although the governor is now backing off plans to call lawmakers back to town in the next month. Crist, who was in Panama City on Monday to celebrate Memorial Day, told the Florida Tribune [...]

If you are Kendrick Meek, that’s not pretty. And Gov. Charlie Crist has deftly (if cynically) moved left to stake out the left of center in his indy bid in this three-way race. In the past few weeks alone, he has vetoed a GOP attempt to break the teacher’s union in Florida, decided to oppose [...]

Sen. Arthenia L. Joyner – Sen. Charlie Justice – Rep. Bill Heller Rep. Rick Kriseman – Rep. Janet Long – Rep. Darryl Rouson School Board Member Nina Hayden – School Board Member Linda Learner Mayor Pat Gerard – Councilor Steve Kornell Councilor Wengay “Newt” Newton – Councilor Karl Nurse City Com. Joseph Barkley – City [...]

“Burying my head in the sand, “hiding behind a tree” and becoming “just an amateur”: These are the various ways Dave Matthews describes his taking a year off in 2011. In a conference call promoting the forthcoming Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in June, the Dave Matthews Band namesake further explained his public announcement that [...]