Credit: Photo via Adobe Images

Credit: Photo via Adobe Images
Your worst nightmares are coming true, people. Santa is sticking his sleigh — along with all the annoying melodies of Christmas music — into the mainstream, and it all starts at Westshore Plaza on Friday when (spoiler alert) a man in a big red suit arrives at the mall. Your boy is pulling up at 6 p.m., and he’ll be there until 8 p.m. For real though, it’s cool to see kids who have to eventually grow up in the cruel world have a little joy, so let ‘em have it.

Fri. Nov.16. 6 p.m. Free. Westshore Plaza, Tampa.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...