How many 25-year-olds would love a five-day birthday party featuring more than 35 bands, 15 locations, great food and drinks, and tons of friends and family?

That's how Creative Loafing celebrated its 25th year.

Starting last Wednesday, events throughout the Bay area celebrated the history of the paper and its local connections to the arts, politics, architecture, music and lots more. It was attended by current and former staff members, hundreds of friends made over the years, artists, art critics and aficionados, politicians, pundits and partiers.

Even Mayor Buckhorn showed up for the party to wish Creative Loafing a happy birthday and to proclaim April 20 as Creative Loafing Tampa Day. Here the mayor reads the proclamation that was accepted by editor-in-chief David Warner.