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Review: Casita Taqueria

November 18, 2014 Emily Wehunt

Nuzzled in the bustling city of St. Petersburg are Red Mesa Cantina, Burrito Boarder, Taco Bus and Tijuana Flats # just some of the many places to get your Mexican

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Review: Destroyer Fest brings metal energy to St. Petersburg

November 18, 2014 Stephanie Jensen

On Nov. 15, Destroyer Fest obliterated downtown St. Pete. The bands featured on the line-up crooned a thrash and doom sound which filled State Theater the whole night. Even with

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Review: Picasso/Dali, Dali/Picasso

November 18, 2014 Marla Cooper

Rivals, friends and legends are right here in St. Petersburg. The works of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali are being shown side by side at the Dali Museum. The Picasso/Dali,

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Arts and Life Campus Community

For Black Friday employees, work gets bleaker, earlier

November 18, 2014 Emily Tinti

They endure hours of intense enthusiasm, non-stop work and multiple caffeinated beverages. And when it’s time to leave, they have to get escorted out of the building, battle traffic and

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Breaking Beard: the best of the ‘Burg

November 10, 2014 USFSP Faculty

It’s the time of year when we all become extremely grateful. No, we’re not talking about Thanksgiving. We’re talking about No-Shave November. That time of year when the gentlemen in

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Review: The Burg’s bites and community

November 10, 2014 USFSP Faculty

Undoubtedly, there is a local feel to The Burg. Owner Bill Georgiou can be seen welcoming old and new customers, making people feel at home. The Burg is a small

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Blue Ocean this week in St. Petersburg

November 6, 2014 Samantha Putterman

Make way for the most blue festival to arrival in St. Petersburg. The Blue Ocean Film Festival and Summit Conservation starts this week, spanning Nov. 3-9. This is the festival’s

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Statistics professor seeks end to anxiety disorders

November 6, 2014 Emily Tinti

Anxiety disorders affect millions of people globally. Alessandro De Nadai is committed to a cure. De Nadai is a doctoral candidate at University of South Florida in the clinical psychology

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Pre-Fest sets tone for punk music festival

November 6, 2014 Lenay Ruhl

Two nights in Ybor City, Tampa broke the trend of night clubs and tourist shops with a punk invasion. Two days and nights of Gainesville’s punk party, the Fest, entered

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Psych scares at the Radley Haunted House

October 27, 2014 Caitlin Ashworth

Terror fills the streets and haunts St. Petersburg this October with Dr. Radley’s Nightmare Machine Haunted House. Producer Ricky Brigante and creative director Cody Meacham set up the haunted house

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Social media and protests are some of the main way Social media and protests are some of the main ways that people get involved in activism today. 

However, not everyone does this with selfless intention. 

Performative activism is when one involves themself with a social movement in a way that benefits them but not the movement they claim to support. 

“When it’s performative, it can come off a lot more like self-serving, or it can come off a lot more like you’re just here for the flashiness, but there’s no real work happening after,” said Harrison Lundy, the public policy director for Voices of Florida and a volunteer for 5051 Florida.  

It’s like putting on a mask, Elise Prophete, junior political science and sustainability major and Governor of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg’s student government, told The Crow’s Nest. 

When engaging in performative activism “we’re not allowing ourselves to be vulnerable and be at risk for the things we care about,” Prophete said. “We’re not allowing ourselves to truly care about them.” 
Performative activism has the effect of boosting one’s own social credit while devaluing a social movement.

✍️Story by Julia Birdsall
The poet laureate usually holds their position for The poet laureate usually holds their position for the mayor’s term and Johnson-Greene will join a distinguished body of poets who previously held the role, including Peter Meinke, Helen Wallace, and more recently, Gloria Muñoz.  

His reaction was one of surprise and astonishment.  

“I think I began to babble something like Courage the Cowardly dog,” Johnson-Green told The Crow’s Nest.  

Johnson-Green’s experience with poetry began about eight years ago, but he still considers himself new to it. He stayed away from the art form for a long time because of the sad connotations it carried.  

This changed when he attended a poetry open mic at Studio@620, a local visual and performing arts venue in downtown St. Petersburg.  

“The walls were a passionate red, the seating was cool and raised up like a theatre, and the poets were everyday people; the oldest around sixty-three and the youngest was about seven,” said Johnson-Green.  

✍️Story by Julia Ferrara
February was a month full of fun festivities. Here February was a month full of fun festivities. Here’s a look back at all the great events that happened on and off campus.

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The Nascar Craftsman Truck Series came to the stre The Nascar Craftsman Truck Series came to the streets of St. Petersburg for the first time this weekend and the on-track action did not disappoint. 

Layne Riggs started the race 28th after rain cancelled the practice and qualifying sessions that were scheduled for Friday afternoon. At the end of the first 20-lap stage, he already gained 21 positions and was 7th at the beginning of the second 20-lap stage. At the end, he was first. 

However, it was a three-way battle between Riggs, Ty Majeski, and Ben Rhodes in the closing laps of the race. Riggs wasn’t sure that he’d have enough fuel to even finish the race, let alone defend against Ty Majeski who finished in second. 

Riggs held on and captured his first win of the season. The Nascar Craftsman Trucks Series picks up again on March 20 for the Buckle Up South Carolina 200 in Darlington. 

📸 Photos by Makenna Wozniak and Irena Mesa | The Crow’s Nest.

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Dom and Irena stopped by the GP Party in the park Dom and Irena stopped by the GP Party in the park and asked some questions to the drivers! 

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Day 1 of the St. Petersburg Grand Prix brought pra Day 1 of the St. Petersburg Grand Prix brought practice and qualifying sessions to the downtown street course.

The Crow’s Nest will be covering the event all weekend. More coming soon.

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Hearing Depeche Mode’s “Black Celebration” i Hearing Depeche Mode’s “Black Celebration” in a crowded room was something pre-graphics arts sophomore Kea Shindel never thought she would experience.  

She was raised on goth and industrial music and partakes in the style. 

“It was crazy hearing that with a room full of people that were all liking the same thing,” Schindle said. “Which I’ve never experienced before.” 

It’s an experience that many students from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg can recall — walking into The Castle for the first time and feeling like they belong.  

The Crow’s Nest decided to take students’ word for it.  

✍️ Story by Julia Birdsall
Basketball has been a recreational activity for Un Basketball has been a recreational activity for University of South Florida students at the St. Petersburg campus since 2006. Twenty years later, the courts are more often hosting pickleball.   

Over a hundred USF St. Petersburg students have played the recent phenomenon since the Pickleball Club began in 2024

Club meetings have provided students four extra hours a week to play, while basketball still shares the regular time of 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday with pickleball.   

A few students organized this semester to help USF St. Petersburg basketball reach overtime. Senior business analytics and information systems major and club president, Gabriel Lopez and his friends have considered creating the St. Petersburg Basketball Club since last April. 

We knew that USF [St. Petersburg] needed a basketball club, we wanted the courts a little later, and we want to start building a consistent community with basketball,” Lopez said. 

The club gives basketball its own four additional hours, scheduling meetings every Friday and Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

✍️Story by Dominic Feo
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