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Monday, May 11, 2026

Arts & Life

Urban Brew and BBQ smokes the competition

Urban Brew and BBQ effectively pairs two of the Sunshine State’s favorite edible offerings — craft beer and delicious barbecue. With an impressive selection of food and 20 craft beers on tap, it’s all too easy to wind up having a quick lunch stop turn into a two-hour event. First to land on the table

Review: Spiritual Independence

Italian black-mass metal maestros Mortuary Drape have awakened with Spiritual Independence, their first album in 10 years. Whereas previous album Buried in Time left many fans yearning for the ritualistic magic of old, Independence elevates the Drape’s command of the dark arts. Gone is the mechanical, metalcore-esque sound of Time. Instead, the Drape has re-invoked

Review: Painting with a Twist

Fun art, not fine art — this the motto at Painting with a Twist in St. Petersburg.  Painting with a Twist consists of two hours of fun painting; the twist being wine. Drinking wine and painting on a canvas — what could sound more entertaining? They provide the canvas, paint, paintbrushes, napkins, cups and corkscrews.

Margin

I’m addicted. I’ve been playing on the app Trivia Crack for two days, and I can’t get enough.  When my friend first told me about the game, I laughed at the name. “Crack.” How funny.  It was more accurate than I realized. The game may not be an illicit drug, but it sure is addicting.

The science behind Interstellar

This article contains spoilers. Oscar nominated science fiction film Interstellar goes where no man has gone before: On a journey through a wormhole to a foreign galaxy. The characters search for a planet habitable for human life after Earth dries and is no longer sustainable. The three planet candidates exist in a solar system orbiting

Food fight: Froyo vs. ice cream

As a college student, going out for a frozen treat can be expensive. So we decided to compare two places within walking distance of campus, located on Beach Drive. We reviewed Kilwins, an ice cream and sweets shop and My Yogurt Cafe (MYC), a business that sells frozen yogurt. To some, the debate over flavor

Margin

I am not a techy person. I try to keep up with modern technology—the latest gadgets, apps, whatever, but I feel like a prisoner to my computer, trapped in the portal of doom I call Windows 8. There’s always something new, something to make life more convenient or social media more accessible. I’m still amazed

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