Archives for February 2014
The helmet is brighter and the flag is bigger. The red pops more, the skull is meaner and pretty soon it will be plastered on hats, T-shirts and jerseys that will all be for sale. Thursday night the Tampa Bay Buccaneers introduced their new helmet with an updated logo design. Hall-of-Famer Warren Sapp and current
John Gold, a local musician from Land O’ Lakes, recently released his fifth album, Arthur Unknown. The album was written during a two-year period, then recorded, mixed, matched and self-produced in Gold’s home. He labels his genre as experimental, but it could be called indie-folk. The Crow’s Nest spoke with Gold recently about his musical
At the end of February, USF St. Petersburg will be considered for a $500,000 grant from Duke Energy to install an array of solar panels on campus. This is the third year that USFSP will participate in the SunSense competition among Florida’s colleges, universities and technical schools, and the last year Duke is offering the
In its second year, Whigfest Music and Arts Festival, put on by St. Petersburg record label Attic Records over President’s Day weekend, effectively channeled the energy of our country’s early rebels to revolutionize the local festival scene. Anchored in the courtyard at Jannus Live, the festival opened up to three surrounding venues, MacDinton’s, Mandarin Hide
A wrong-way collision in Tampa on Feb. 9 resulted in the death of five men, including four USF fraternity brothers. At 2:12 a.m., Jobin Joy Kuriakose, 21, Ankeet Harshad Patel, 22, Dammie Yesudhas, 21, and Imtiyaz “Jim” Ilias, 20, were struck head-on by a Ford Expedition going the wrong way on Interstate 275. Kuriakose’s 2010
While the Oval Office-ship may be very “hard work” and involve “working hard,” as George W. Bush said in one of his many famous sentences, there’s still plenty of room for White House hooligan-ry. Here’s a rundown of a few unusual facts about the list of (mostly) old white men that we’ve all had to
Outer space has served as a universal source of inspiration for artists of all kinds. Stars, the moon and aliens have made their mark on everything from Florence and the Machine tunes to Lisa Frank backpacks. Listen to these star-crossed songs for a playlist that is truly out of this world. “Spaceman” by the
Students strutted down a catwalk as fast-talking auctioneer Thomas Boyd read their biographies, asking for higher bids. Each of the 35 participants in Love-a-Bull, a Student Government sponsored charity auction, did all they could to garner the highest bid. Those in the crowd yelled their bids and threw their bidding cards in the air as
Jordan Palavra, president of USF St. Petersburg’s Black Student Association, slouched in his chair at the front of the room. The 19-year-old’s mouth formed a thin, nervous-looking line as he tells the one person in attendance they might be alone for this week’s discussion. The group’s latest success was a forum about twerking, a popular
Kadi rolls and Indian flatbread, along with cottage cheese and potatoes, are some of the foods Radhika Dang, president of USF St. Petersburg’s South Asian Association, has in mind for the club’s Indian food night. The menu “depends on how many people can take spicy food,” Dang said. “Slumdog Millionaire” was the most requested for
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