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Tampa’s Gasparilla Music Festival can’t use Kiley Garden, but remains...
Gasparilla Music Festival (GMF) will have one less green space to utilize for its 2023 edition. Today, Axios said that Kiley Gardens is unavailable due to structural issues.
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Tampa’s first Peach Cobbler Factory opens, The Mill closes St. Pete location,...
Openings Common Dialect After months of construction-related delays, craft brewery Common Dialect is finally ready to open its doors.
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DeSantis appoints conservative activist to move Sarasota's New College away...
Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed conservative activist Christopher Rufo and five others to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees in his continuing move to eliminate “political ideology” from...
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Florida lawmakers move to take more control of Disney's 'Reedy Creek' district
Lawmakers are moving forward with plans that would give the state more control over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted last year after the Walt Disney Co....
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Brady sets records, Bucs peek at the future, in meaningless loss to Atlanta
This game was essentially a pre-playoff (instead of preseason? No?) game for the Bucs, since Tampa Bay had the No. 4 seed and division title locked in going into Sunday afternoon’s matchup with the...
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Tampa councilman’s paycheck garnished for unpaid business debt
Court documents show that a bank is garnishing the wage of Tampa’s city council chairman for unpaid loans used for his personal business. As of August 2022, Councilman Joe Citro owed $20,035 to Bank...
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Tampa's Sunset Music Festival announces phase one 2023 lineup, including...
Tampa Bay's decade-long love affair with Sunset Music Festival (SMF) just got a status update. SMF recently announced that Slander, Audien, Hannah Wants and Zomboy are among the more than 30 DJs and...
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The soul of St. Pete is on the line, and only one Tropicana Field developer's...
Which is worse: the flagrant injustice committed in a prior century's ignorance or continued inequity today, softened by the healing language of acknowledgement and repair? How does a city manage to...
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Q&A: Before Clearwater show, Eddie Perez details more than 30 years of The...
Referring to The Mavericks as just a country music band is a grave injustice; the band, which originated in Miami in the late 1980s, is known for its versatility and its ability to tackle rockabilly,...
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Federal judge revives lawsuit over Florida transgender athlete law
After an appeals court upheld a school-board policy that prevented a transgender male student from using boys’ bathrooms, a federal judge has reopened a legal battle about a 2021 Florida law that bars...
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Meet 'M3gan,' your cute, sassy and killer new best friend
Coming off a holiday season spent with family, where I had the opportunity to watch my 11-year-old niece wax poetic on fashion, makeup and other topics of paramount prepubescent concern, I realize now...
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Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz denies that Florida is now a red...
Two months after the Florida Democratic Party suffered one of its worst elections in modern history, Party Chair Manny Diaz announced on Monday that he was resigning from office. “After much...
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22 new live shows coming to Tampa Bay, including Cheap Trick's Seminole Hard...
New concerts are getting announced every day, here's the latest roundup of new concerts coming to Tampa Bay, including Cheap Tricks's March show happening at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino...
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Multicultural Chinese New Year celebration heads to Tampa’s Water Works park...
Although most people rang 2023 a few weeks ago, a local nonprofit gets ready for its annual Chinese New Year celebration with a full slate of cultural performances, a wide range of Asian food and...
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Common Dialect owners Mike and Kendra Conze talk Seminole Heights, craft beer...
Mike and Kendra Conze were part of Seminole Heights long before award-winning restaurants, hip shops and swanky bars started popping up. After a decade or so of living in the cozy Tampa...
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Florida judge will consider whether to toss out a lawsuit over Gov. DeSantis'...
A Leon County circuit judge will hear arguments Friday about whether he should toss out a lawsuit filed by a South Florida state senator after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration flew about 50 migrants...
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Florida’s ‘intellectual freedom’ college surveys are ‘highly problematic,’...
A federal judge on Monday began hearing testimony in a trial over the constitutionality of a 2021 state law requiring colleges and universities to survey students and staff members about “intellectual...
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Dru Hill will headline Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival this weekend
The 22-year old Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival is tapping a ‘90s R&B mainstay to headline its party happening this weekend in downtown Tampa. Dru Hill, famous for its 1996 self-titled debut,...
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The Hello Kitty Cafe Truck returns to Tampa Bay this weekend
Kicking off its 2023 east coast tour, the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck will be rolling back into Tampa this week. The truck will be in town this Saturday from 10 a.m to 7 p.m. inside of the Westshore Plaza...
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Florida Gov. DeSantis outlines plan to spend $3.5 billion on environment...
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans Tuesday to spend $3.5 billion in his second term on environmental projects such as restoring the Everglades and addressing water-quality problems. “This may be a...
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