11/17/1969
Tampa doesn't get the spotlight all too often when it comes to celebrity action so I was somewhat, uh, err prideful to see this recently released on the mugshot section of www.thesmokinggun.com: Janis Joplin was arrested in November 1969 in Florida and charged with disorderly conduct after yelling obscenities at police officers during a Tampa concert. Charges were later dropped after it was ruled that the singer's actions were an exercise of free speech. It's hard t...


