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What you need to know about Florida today
› How are Tampa restaurants snagging Michelin stars when St. Petersburg has none?
For the third year in a row, Tampa restaurants have the chance to snag a coveted Michelin star. On Thursday night, the esteemed guide will award its 2024 picks at a ceremony in Tampa, the culmination of a contract between tourism boards and the international restaurant rankings system that brought Michelin to Florida.
› Miami’s oldest indie record store on music history and how to snag an Olivia Rodrigo rarity
The most coveted Record Store Day exclusives in the country may be culled from inside a cramped music shop accessed by a narrow cement stairway sandwiched between an Asian Spa and a storefront travel agency and perched above a pharmacy. The pounding heartbeat of South Florida’s oldest independent record store, Yesterday & Today Records, the one that has been the lifeblood for serious record collectors since 1981, is tucked here on the second-floor of a 1960s-era strip shopping plaza.
› SRQ breaks airport's passenger record in March
The Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport broke its passenger record in March, when it saw more than half a million passengers during a single month for the second time in its history. In March 553,521 passengers traveled through the airport, according to a statement from SRQ, the airport’s call letters. The first time the airport saw more than 500,000 passengers fly through was also in March – in 2023.
› 'Food, Inc 2' looks at a Florida farmworkers' rights group — and its Palm Beach fast food foe
The sequel to an Oscar-nominated documentary that scrutinized corporate farming in America is bringing international attention to a Florida-based farmworkers' rights organization — and their battle against an infamous Palm Beach-based fast food boss. Food, Inc. 2, which premiered last week in West Palm Beach, features farming experts and lawmakers probing the nation's "efficient yet vulnerable food system,” according to the film’s synopsis.
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