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Katie Crutchfield came riding into St. Petersburg on a high yesterday. Two nights beforehand, her band Waxahatchee played Nashville’s Ryman Theater where Lucinda Williams joined in onstage. Waxahatchee’s last two albums have a musical address on the same gravel roads as work by the Americana legend, and Crutchfield was still glowing from the experience as she walked down the spiral stairs at Jannus Live.

While campus police made Florida State University students take down tents last week, it would appear Florida’s first police arrests related to the pro-Palestine solidarity protests happened in Tampa this afternoon.

Last Thursday, about a dozen students at Tampa’s University of South Florida continued to voice support for a movement that, in part, asks the school to divest from all companies and defense contractors, which activists say support the Israeli government's indiscriminate bombardments.

As he began a hunger strike last week, University of South Florida student Will Mleczko told fellow activists that he would continue the action until the school divests from all companies and defense contractors, which Mleczko’s fellow strikers say support the Israeli government's indiscriminate bombardments.

You only get one first time to do anything. Whataboutmomma and Gasparilla Music Festival (GMF) are about to experience that together in a big way.