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Ray Roa

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As seen in: Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Art In Your Ear, The Athletic, The Daily Beast, Flipboard, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence, NewsBreak, Detroit Metro Times, Rapid City Journal, San Antonio Current and
Covers:  music, travel & leisure, tampa, art, fod, tampa bay, food, craft beers and microbreweries, spirits and distilleries, sports, recreation
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Ray Roa’s Biography

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Currently: Editor-In-Chief, Creative Loafing Tampa.
Former: Tampa Bay Times/TBT*, Suburban Apologist, Gasparilla Music Festival

College bylines and an obsession with music led to a highly educational run with 24-hour music website [Consequence Of Sound] (http://consequenceofsound.net) before a door opened in the waning months of storied Tampa, Florida music magazine REAX.

Publisher Joel Cook eventually asked me to helm a new project, Suburban Apologist aka [SubAp!] (http://suburbanapologist.co…

Ray Roa’s Journalist Portfolio

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Ray Roa | tampabay.com & Tampa Bay Times

Ray Roa | tampabay.com & Tampa Bay Times

Weekly bylines previewing the best of Tampa Bay's live music calendar.

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It's Tampa Time This Summer

It's Tampa Time This Summer

Heat is an inescapable part of Tampa's essence, and while visitors this summer will sweat profusely, they'll …

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Ray Roa | Creative Loafing Tampa

Ray Roa | Creative Loafing Tampa

Bylines for Creative Loafing, one of the best sources for events in Tampa, Tampa Restaurants, Tampa concerts …

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Cigar City Brewpub, St. Petersburg rock band team up for new beer

Cigar City Brewpub, St. Petersburg rock band team up for new beer

New World Brewery, on any given night, is occupied by musicians entertaining patrons whose taste buds are awa…

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Review / setlist: John Mayer shuts up, lets his guitar and songs do the talking at Tampa's MidFlo...

Review / setlist: John Mayer shuts up, lets his guitar and songs do the talking at Tampa's MidFlo...

Thanks to TMZ, John Mayer may never, ever, be able to live down the things that have escaped his own stupid m…

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CL Music Issue: Hardcore/Punk/DIY

CL Music Issue: Hardcore/Punk/DIY

Consider this: away from the cover charges and security guards, there exists a world where art and music are …

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Articles

American Football, featuring the hottest dads in emo, brings world tour to Tampa this winter

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By Ray Roa 
| Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Anyone with a thing for hot emo dads is getting an early Christmas gift this winter. Yesterday, American Football, forefather of the genre’s second wave, added more dates to their world tour, including four in Florida. The Chicago quartet—featuring Mike Kinsella, his cousin Nate Kinsella, Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos—is on the road supporting its fourth self-titled EP.
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Broadway’s ‘Beetlejuice’ musical returns to Tampa this month

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By Ray Roa 
| Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Based on the 1988 Tim Burton film “Beetlejuice,” the musical of the same name comes back to Tampa this month. The performance—opening at Straz Center next week—brings a different take to the original film. Lydia Deetz, originally played by Winona Ryder, takes the lead in the production as she mourns the death of her mother. The character of Beetlejuice also takes a lead role in the production opposed to the film only giving 20 minutes of screen time for the character.
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As Tampa Theatre restoration continues, the book about its 100-year history gets release date

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By Ray Roa 
| Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Tampa Theatre is in the midst of its centennial restoration, and now a book chronicling 100 years of the historic venue has a release date. University Press of Florida says “Tampa Theatre: A Century of Stories” will hit shelves this fall. It’s the final work from beloved University of South Florida librarian and historian Andy Huse, who died last August.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Editor for The Hawkeye at Hillsborough Community College

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Who hasn't?

How is social media changing news?

Inaccuracies. Vague Twitter messages.

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