{"id":72791,"date":"2025-12-05T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:05:08","slug":"documenting-tampas-remaining-cigar-factories-and-talking-open-primaries-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72791\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenting Tampa\u2019s remaining cigar factories, and talking open primaries, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Zack-Wittman-Photo-by-Ray-Roa-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-250257 size-250257 wp-post-image\" alt=\"A close-up studio portrait of an individual with curly hair and glasses, wearing large over-ear headphones while speaking into a professional Shure microphone. The subject is wearing a denim jacket over a beige shirt, and the background is sound-dampening blue acoustic foam panels.\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZack Wittman at WMNF in Tampa, Florida on Dec. 5, 2025. \/\/ Photo by Ray Roa<\/p>\n<p>In Tampa, where cigars are akin to wine in Napa Valley, there used to be more than 200 cigar factories\u2014now there are just 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new book of photography by Zack Wittman\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcnewman.com\/product\/cigar-city-book\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCigar City: The Legacy of Tampa\u2019s Founding Industry\u201d<\/a>\u2014is out now and captures not just those remaining factories, but the communities and scenes both inside and outside their walls.<\/p>\n<p>Wittman, together with his co-author, Drew Newman of J.C. Newman Cigar Co., joined The Skinny on WMNF to discuss the book, Tampa\u2019s cigar heritage, and more.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half of the show WMNF was joined in-studio by John Marvin from Florida Open Primaries, who spoke about his movement, and Lenny Guckenheimer, who\u2019s holding a discussion on voting issues in Gulfport on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the show via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-skinny\/id1668204078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Apple Music<\/a>,\u00a0TuneIn, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2bCOo5zopGEEATUDSqFlM6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zack Wittman at WMNF in Tampa, Florida on Dec. 5, 2025. \/\/ Photo by Ray Roa In Tampa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41730,41731,135,41732,137,136,36054],"class_list":["post-72791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-drew-newman","tag-j-c-newman-cigar-co","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-cigar-factories","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-zack-wittman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}