Legendary Tampa punk band The Tim Version is calling it quits after this weekend
Nearly 30 years after its founding, Tampa punk band The Tim Version says the time has come to hang it up. The band, formed in 1999, emerged alongside other Sunshine State punk icons like Hot Water Music and Less Than Jake, released records on ADD and No Idea, then faded away due to life. The…
Hanson has been added to Busch Gardens’ Food, Wine & Garden Festival concert lineup
When Busch Gardens Tampa Bay released the 2026 lineup for its Food, Wine and Garden Festival concerts, one slot remained open for a surprise artist. We now know who that band is, and its name rhymes with “MMMbop.” The Hanson brothers—Isaac, Taylor, and Zac—play the theme park on the same weekend as ‘90s pop-punk band…
Brazilian psych-rock giant Boogarins returns to Tampa Bay this weekend
Boogarins recently celebrated a milestone anniversary for its 2013 debut, As Plantas Que Curam. Throughout its career, the Brazilian psych-rock band has been known for how it taps into its influences (early Pink Floyd, more of the mind-bending Beatles stuff) and marries them with the energy of a sweaty basement jam session plus textures of…
Speed camera company’s $10K donation to Chad Chronister PAC prompts call for independent review
A local judicial officer is calling for an independent review of Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister, after a speed camera company donated $10,000 to his political committee shortly after receiving a large government contract. On Nov. 19, 2024, Chronister announced a new initiative that would see thousands of speed cameras installed in schools across Hillsborough…
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay readers respond to Trump vs. Pope and DeSantis’ flip flop for Rays stadium
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay keeps reaching into the mailbag, and treading carefully into the comments section.
Fast-casual Italian restaurant Dalmoros returns to St. Pete with new location
Dalmoro’s Fresh Italian (formerly Dalmoro’s Fresh Pasta To-Go) moves to the Jannus Block at 204 1st Ave. N on May 1. The name change reflects its new menu, including new sauces, salads—and what owner David Caruso called in a press release—”a major focus” on paninos.
Jay Collins insists he isn’t dropping out of Florida governor race, accuses Byron Donalds of selling ‘drugs’ to kids
Trailing badly in the race for the GOP nomination for governor, Lt. Gov. Jay Collins unloaded on U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds Monday, claiming he has been found “wanting” in his decision-making, performance in office, and moral clarity. Speaking at a St. Petersburg brewing company just days after he took to social media to deny he was about to…
Eight things to know about WMNF Tropical Heatwave, coming to Ybor City this weekend
Tropical Heatwave returns to Ybor City this weekend, continuing community radio station WMNF-Tampa’s now more than 40-year tradition of bringing an eclectic slate of music to the historic district. As the radio station’s loyal following gears up for the party at the Cuban Club, here are eight things a Tropical Heatwave newb might want to…
Florida gas prices dip below $4-a-gallon, but experts say it probably won’t last
Pump prices in Florida eased below the $4-a-gallon average on Monday as oil tumbled on the global market with a tentative ceasefire in force and fuel expected to flow again through the Strait of Hormuz. But doubts arose regarding the slow decline of gas prices after the U.S. seized an Iranian cargo ship. Patrick De…
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs law allowing tax dollars to fund flying car infrastructure
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday evening putting state dollars behind private efforts to eventually offer some commuters a short, aerial alternative to highway traffic. The measure (HB 1093) allows the Florida Department of Transportation to fund 100 percent of the project costs for a public vertiport if federal funds are unavailable. If federal funds…
St. Pete’s busy Earth Day weekend includes Green Thumb Festival and youth farm day
Most folks have adopted the idea that Earth Day is now an entire month, and the acknowledgement of our mother continues this weekend in Pinellas when the St. Pete Youth Farm hosts a full morning of growth. The message is built around sustainability and environmental awareness. There’s a free fruit tree giveaway along with farm…
J.C. Newman Founder’s Day Cuban sandwich eating competition brings Nathan’s champ Miki Sudo to Ybor City
The building housing J.C. Newman Co.’s cigar factory has been a fixture in V.M. Ybor for over a century, and the family behind it is still hard at work sprucing up the block. Its Cigar Workers Park opened in 2024, and the Newmans are busy restoring the historic Sanchez y Haya building across the street.…
Real life ‘Hot Wheels’ cars come to Pinellas Park this weekend
In its ninth year, Mattel’s “Hot Wheels” Legends Tour kicks off in the Tampa Bay area before hitting just nine other American cities in between international stops in Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and more. The company’s Formula 1 car, a ride from the “Fast & Furious” movies, and the “Bone Shaker” Skeletor car…
A mock draft featuring the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ worst picks of all-time
We know what most people offer in terms of football analysis this time of year: Mock drafts. Locals are all looking at One Buc Place and thinking: Who are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers going to pick when the draft kicks off Thursday night? What are their biggest needs? How fast does that guy from that…
Temple Terrace is probably getting an Aldi
Roughly two years ago, Aldi purchased hundreds of Florida Winn-Dixie locations, and has since been in the process of converting them into the popular German discount grocer. Now, it appears a Temple Terrace location in Winn Dixie is next to get the Aldi makeover According to a listing on the commercial real estate website Loopnet,…
After environmentalists push back, ‘A Land Remembered’ will no longer be filmed at Ft. DeSoto Park
A TV series based on the book ‘A Land Remembered’ will no longer film at Fort DeSoto Park in Pinellas County. The decision comes after the plans faced an outcry from environmental advocates. According to Axios, producers say they will no longer pursue a permit to film at the park. Beth Forys is the President of…
Tampa Pig Jig, a big ass concert and BBQ to fight rare kidney disease, announces Thomas Rhett as 2026 headliner
Tampa Pig Jig started as a backyard barbecue to help a buddy fight his rare kidney disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). A decade-and-a-half later, the nonprofit has raised over $15 million for other nonprofits like Nephcure—which has worked tirelessly for a cure—and finds itself celebrating after the FDA approved a new drug, sparsentan (Filspari, stylized…
Photos: Everyone we saw when ‘Premier League Mornings Live’ took over Tampa last weekend
Footie fans get up bright and early most every weekend, but did more than roll out of bed last weekend. That’s because “Premier League Mornings Live” brought its 12th-ever fan festival to Tampa for two-days of live broadcasts that kicked off at 7 a.m. A household staple for English Premier League diehards, the program is…
Photos: In front of Tampa Tiger Bay Club, Uthmeier draws mix of boos and cheers for comments about LGBTQ community
TAMPA — For a man who’s been in his job for 14 months, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has had the uncanny ability to generate an inordinate amount of headlines, sometimes for some quite controversial decisions. While that could help his name recognition as he goes before the voters for the first time in his life…
Ron Desantis ‘flip-flop’ on pro sports tax subsidies divides Republicans
In 2022, Gov. Ron DeSantis was blunt and concise about using tax dollars for professional sports. “I don’t support giving taxpayer dollars to sports stadiums, period,” he said to enthusiastic applause at a news conference in Orlando. DeSantis had been asked about his veto of a $35 million appropriation by the Florida legislature for a Tampa Bay Rays…
Bucs Super Bowl champ Devin White is selling his massive Tampa area compound
Super Bowl LV champ and former Tampa Bay Bucs linebacker Devin White is selling his massive Odessa property, and it comes with a horse farm. Located at 11410 Trotting Down Dr. within the Citrus Green community, the home was purchased by White in late May of 2021 for $2.6 million, according to property records. Built…
‘Climate cartel’: Florida AG subpoenas environmental nonprofit for alleged trade law violations
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena Thursday to an environmental nonprofit and one of its programs as part of an investigation under the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The subpoena, served to the Environmental Law Institute and its Climate Judiciary Project, demands the group disclose its funding sources, communications with Florida judges,…
Florida among states to win in fight against Live Nation-Ticketmaster
States red and blue, including Florida, won over a federal jury that has declared Live Nation and Ticketmaster constitute an illegal monopoly. The ticket companies stood accused of breaking antitrust laws by controlling concert promotion and venue operations and blocking out potential competitors. The jury agreed, ruling certain tickets had been overcharged by approximately $1.72…
Florida wants to ban undocumented immigrants from state colleges
Undocumented immigrants would be barred from admission to state colleges under a proposed rule by the Florida Department of Education. The rule would also give schools the discretion to consider students’ past misconduct in making admission decisions. Under the proposal each board of trustees in the Florida College System would be require to “ensure that…
Tampa conference is a ‘gathering of union busters,’ according to local labor leaders
A three-day ‘positive employee relations’ conference is coming to Tampa this weekend, hosted by an organization that goes by the seemingly-innocuous acronym “CUE.” But the gathering is drawing criticism from local labor leaders who are calling it a “gathering of union busters.” The focus of the semiannual conference is publicly touted as “strengthening positive employee…
Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills asked to resign amid sexual misconduct investigation
Bale Dalton, the Democrat running in Florida’s 7th Congressional District in north Central Florida against GOP incumbent Cory Mills, is calling on Mills to resign. Mills has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee since November regarding allegations of sexual misconduct, dating violence, campaign finance violations, and misuse of congressional resources. “Cory Mills is clearly unfit…
Tampa Bay’s best live music happening April 16-23
Tampa Bay’s live music weekend is here, and it’s got Bill Murray (and his Blood Brothers) and Goose (pictured) in it. Breakaway festival is also bringing lots of EDM to Raymond James, while Busch Gardens welcomes Flo Rida and others to its Food and Wine Festival. Also on the agenda: Chewy Hemphill’s concert complete with…
Before Tampa gig, Chameleons’ Vox reveals the album that changed his life
Following a nearly two-decade long hiatus, founding Chameleons Mark “Vox” Burgess and Reg Smithies revived the Britpop outfit to record a post-COVID live album, Edge Sessions (Live from the Edge). Backing them were members of ChameleonsVox, a semi-eponymous project that saw Vox perform his old band’s catalog. Something seemed to click, because ever since, Vox…
USF jazz professors will play Miles Davis’ ‘Birth of the Cool’ this weekend in Ybor City
Miles Davis, the coolest man in music would’ve turned 100 years old this year, so it’s only fitting that the Tampa Jazz Club would stage a tribute. The University of South Florida’s faculty jazztet drives this Miles Davis tribute recreating the 1957 album Birth of the Cool, where the famed trumpeter first connected with pianist…
St. Pete man wants to buy long-shuttered Haslam’s bookstore, and he’s selling 500,000 t-shirts to do it
Local artist Filipe Bergson wants to sell enough t-shirts to bring back Haslam’s Bookstore in St. Petersburg. The iconic indie bookstore closed its doors back in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and since then the 30,000-square-foot building has sat vacant at 2025 Central Ave.—along with the nearly 300,000 new and used books still sitting inside. …
Donations will be tripled during Jobsite Theater’s ‘Hedwig’ concert fundraiser in Tampa
For some, the only thing better than live “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” is getting it on a breezy patio with a bottle of wine. Jobsite Theater gives Tampa that this weekend for a fundraiser at Independent Bar & Cafe. En plein air this weekend will be “original cast members Spencer Meyers and Amy E.…
Bananas has a killer Record Store Day concert for St. Pete
Fresh off sets at Gasparilla Music Festival and Gainesville’s Big: Culture & Arts Festival, Bay area band Little Giver is back onstage, this time for Record Store Day at Bananas Records in St. Pete. The folk-pop outfit’s gem of a debut LP is a quiet and irresistible self-titled for fans of Faye Webster, Phoebe Bridgers…
DJ Three is doing a four-hour, all-vinyl, birthday set in St. Pete this weekend
“Respect your elders” usually suggests that a person has reached the end of their run, but DJ Three continues to be as influential as he was in the early-’90s when Trip Magazeen was the heartbeat of a local electronic music scene. The DJ and producer is back in the booth with longtime scene staple Brian…
Looking to dig in the crates? Here are all the record stores in Tampa Bay
Here’s our 2026 update to a list of record stores across the Tampa Bay area. Some are home to extensive collections of different genres, and others offer a smaller, curated inventory—including used and older records for the vintage lover. What did we miss here? Help us refine this listing and keep it updated for the…
PHOTOS: Everyone we saw at Mac Sabbath’s supersized Orpheum Tampa set
Part standup, part Black Sabbath tribute, the LA-based band’s show centers around McDonalds bits and fast food puns.
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Adam Friedland, ‘The Meeting’ and all the best Tampa Bay events [April 16-23]
There’s a ton of stuff to do in Tampa Bay this week, including Adam Friedland in Tampa, Stageworks’ “The Meeting” and Premier League Live at Armature Works.
Tarpon Springs Book Festival leads Indie Bookstore Day events
Book lovers can participate by collecting a passport at their local shop and gathering stamps at any of the participating stores up to the day on April 25. The crawl concludes with a myriad of events hosted at each shop, where stamped passports can be turned in to enter a giveaway for literary-themed prizes. See…
New Port Richey reelects Mayor Chopper Davis
Davis won 43% of the vote, according to the Pasco County Supervisor of Elections. The incumbent earned 640 votes in a four-way nonpartisan race that included Marlowe Jones, Daisy Thomas, and Kelly Mothershead Timmons.
Guy Fieri, two ‘Taste’ parties and more Tampa Bay food news
This week in Tampa Bay food news, Guy Fieri—AKA the Mayor of Flavortown—was spotted outside Tampa’s Supernatural Food & Wine.
