About Creative Loafing

As a free weekly publication, website, content marketing, and event company, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay has served the Tampa Bay area for more than 33 years with its cultural and news coverage.

We do more than inform the community. We're a part of the community — we're advocates, consumers, influencers, and entertainers as well as reporters and promoters, invested and involved in every aspect of local and regional life in both professional and personal roles.

Our news desk's mission has always been the same: To further create a more informed public and contribute to the formation of a just community by offering a consistent and free medium that is critical, fair, and focused on highlighting underserved and underreported voices and opinions.

Readers in our music, food, arts and entertainment sections trust us to share the best Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and beyond have to offer, and we strive to create meaningful conversations and relationships to the benefit of all.

Ways to support Creative Loafing Tampa Bay:

Follow us on Apple News, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter

Subscribe to our newsletters

Advertise with Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Support local businesses and our advertisers.

About Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

  • or

Join Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Newsletters

Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox.

Lou Dobbs is selling his Florida mansion for $3.1 million

Lou Dobbs, a conservative pundit whose shows were dropped from both CNN and Fox News after continuously pushing debunked conspiracies theories, is now…

By Colin Wolf

Lou Dobbs is selling his Florida mansion
70 slides

Photos: Everyone we saw rocking with Social Distortion and Bad Religion at Clearwater’s BayCare sound

Mike Ness was in town last Sunday playing Social Distortion’s Mommy’s Little Monster in full at the BayCare Sound in Clearwater. Also…

By Ray Roa

Social Distortion plays The BayCare Sound in Clearwater, Florida on April 28, 2024.
95 slides

Photos: Titus O’Neil gives Tampa students a Family Wellness Day

WWE superstar Titus O’Neil is a giant man, but his heart for Tampa Bay area schoolkids is even bigger. The 47-year-old born…

By Ray Roa

Titus O’Neil at Sligh Middle Magnet School in Tampa, Florida on April 27, 2024.
74 slides

Interview: Arrested Development's Speech talks parenting ahead of free Tampa Riverfest concert

I cried the first time I heard Arrested Development’s banger “Never Had Your Back” while on a road trip with my daughter…

By Kelly Benjamin

Speech of Arrested Development, which plays Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa, Florida on May 4, 2024.
51 slides

May 2, 2024

View more issues