A performance photograph by Stephen Splane showing jazz trumpeter James Suggs performing live at the Sarasota Jazz Festival inside the Hyatt Regency Sarasota in Sarasota, Florida, on March 6, 2019. Captured in a close-up shot under dramatic blue stage lighting, Suggs plays a brass trumpet angled toward the left, wearing a blue suit jacket, a white collared shirt with a dark tie, dark-framed eyeglasses, and a wristwatch on his left wrist.

Music

Tampa Jazz Club celebrates Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s 100th birthdays this weekend

Jame Suggs and Jeremy Carter channel the icons on Sunday.

by Ray Roa August 21, 2026August 21, 2026

A wide exterior photograph showing the historic Tampa Theatre building on a brick-paved street in downtown Tampa, Florida, on August 20, 2026. Captured from across the street at a low angle, the mid-rise building features a tall vertical neon sign spelling "TAMPA" mounted along its side and an illuminated marquee marquee above the entrance overhang displaying featured movie titles. Green trees flank the street on both sides, with brick pavers curving through the foreground under an overcast sky.

Arts & Entertainment

As it wraps centennial renovations, Tampa Theatre shares details on its fall reopening

Downtown’s iconic movie house has been under renovation since March and hosts a week of parties this October.

by Leif Helland August 20, 2026August 22, 2026

Music

Tampa Beat Weekend includes a set from Lil’ Fancy

Saturday’s takeover at The Bricks also features a beat battle and other Florida emcees.

by Ray Roa August 20, 2026August 20, 2026

Music

Slide guitar wizard Roosevelt Collier returns to Dunedin this weekend

His power trio plays The Moon Tower.

by Ray Roa August 20, 2026August 20, 2026

A photograph by Emma Hintz showing Tampa Bay area DJ and artist Delaney Staack lying down on a green grassy lawn. Captured in a top-down, high-angle portrait, Staack rests her chin in her right hand, revealing a small tattoo on her forearm, and looks toward the camera. She features auburn hair with bangs, light eyes, dangling statement earrings, and wears a black strapless top, lit by warm, angled sunlight.

Music

Small Talks Mag to release 70-page tribute to Crowbar in Ybor City on Friday

Delaney Staack plays selector at a release party happening Friday at La Sétima Club.

by Ray Roa August 20, 2026August 20, 2026

A high-resolution photograph showing the "Le Cubain" sandwich at Bar Terroir. Served on a white oval plate resting in a rich, dark sauce, the pressed sandwich features visible layers of melted cheese and sliced meats between toasted bread topped with finely chopped chives, sea salt, a whole cornichon pickle on a toothpick, and a small French flag.

Food & Drink

Sunday is National Cuban Sandwich Day, and people are bound to argue about this South Tampa French restaurant’s take on the classic

The holiday is part of this listing of the best food & drink events happening across Tampa Bay Aug. 20-27.

by Ray Roa August 20, 2026August 20, 2026

A photograph showing the interior of an aquaponics greenhouse at the Rosebud Continuum Education Center in Land O' Lakes, Florida. Set beneath an arched clear poly-film dome with white shade cloth accents, the ground is covered in black landscape fabric with a central pathway. Along the left and right sides, vertical growing racks, PVC piping, IBC tote tanks, and raised hydroponic plant beds are cultivated with green crops, illuminated by natural sunlight filtering through the frame.

Arts & Entertainment

Land O’ Lakes’ Rosebud Continuum hosts seed, plant, and book swap this weekend

Get out of town on Saturday.

by Ray Roa August 19, 2026August 19, 2026

A wide interior photograph showing young children and families playing inside the main exhibit hall at Great Explorations Children's Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the center, a multi-story climbing structure wrapped in netting features stacked blue platforms extending toward a high ceiling with exposed metal trusses and track lighting. In the foreground, large blue foam building blocks scattered across a carpeted floor allow children to build structures, alongside a yellow slide and interactive play stations illuminated by bright overhead lights.

Arts & Entertainment

St. Pete’s Great Explorations kid’s museum hosts free science festival on Saturday

At Ignite!, little ones can try their hands at robotics, art, demos and engineering challenges.

by Ray Roa August 19, 2026August 19, 2026

A wide-angle interior photograph by Dave Decker showing a crowded luncheon event hosted by the Tampa Tiger Bay Club at the historic Cuban Club in Ybor City, Florida, on April 17, 2026. Set inside a large ballroom with teal ceilings and chandelier lighting, numerous tables are filled with attendees seated for lunch while facing a stage adorned with orange backdrop banners at the far end of the room. A photographer stands on the left framing the crowd, while a speaker or guest in a bright pink jacket walks down the right aisle toward the stage.

News & Views

Tampa Tiger Bay Club hosts Hillsborough County Commission forum on Friday

All candidates who qualified for the November election are invited.

by Ray Roa August 19, 2026August 19, 2026

News & Views

In runoff for Hillsborough school board, Daniela Simic will face Brittany Lyssy

School board races are non-partisan, but Lyssy is a former president of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans.

by Ray Roa August 19, 2026August 21, 2026

A photograph showing political candidate Gary Hartfield sitting outdoors on a concrete bench at Kiley Garden in Tampa, Florida. Captured in a medium three-quarter shot, Hartfield sits with his hands clasped together in his lap, looking directly forward toward the camera. He wears a grey plaid suit with a white dress shirt and dark blue tie. Behind him, the open-air plaza features green lawn strips, a white concrete wall, metal railings, and the distant rooftops and spires of downtown Tampa under a partly cloudy sky.

News & Views

Tampa mayoral candidate Gary Hartfield hosts campaign launch event on Thursday

The 55-year-old filed to run last March.

by Ray Roa August 19, 2026August 19, 2026

A photograph by Dave Decker showing Hillsborough County Commissioner Gwen Myers on the left and Aileen Rodriguez in the center seated at a panel table at the C. Blythe Andrews Jr. Public Library in Tampa, Florida, on July 9, 2026. Captured in a wide shot, Myers speaks into a microphone while wearing a turquoise cardigan with black trim and dark-rimmed glasses. Seated next to her, Rodriguez wears a bright magenta pink blazer and cat-eye glasses, listening intently alongside a third panelist seated on the right in a dark jacket.

News & Views

Democrats Gwen Myers, Aileen Rodriguez, earn landslide victories in Hillsborough County Commission primaries

In the District 7 primary, Republican incumbent Donna Cameron Cepeda lost to Stacy Hanh.

by Ray Roa August 19, 2026August 19, 2026

A wide interior photograph showing a preview of "The Art of Banksy" exhibition staged inside Morsani Hall at the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida, on July 30, 2026. Set under low ambient gallery lighting, the stage of the dark, multi-tiered auditorium is transformed into a walk-through art gallery. In the foreground, glass display cases hold authenticated Banksy artifacts, flanked by illuminated wall-mounted artworks including a glowing central piece, framed prints, and informative black text panels along the gallery walls, while a visitor stands observing the installation.

Arts & Entertainment

Tampa’s Banksy art show is a conversation-starting tango of tension

It’s literally onstage at the Straz Center through Sept. 27.

by SK West August 19, 2026August 19, 2026

News & Views

St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch will defend his seat in November runoff against Charlie Crist

Crist earned 35% of the vote Tuesday night, with Welch bringing in 20.5%,

by Ray Roa August 19, 2026August 19, 2026

A close-up studio portrait of Tampa photographer Jesi Cason. Set against a vibrant solid green background with bold gel lighting in shades of pink, purple, and red, Cason looks slightly off-camera to the right with an expressive, open-mouthed look of surprise or curiosity. Cason features dark shaggy hair with bangs, light eyes, a septum nose ring, and a labret piercing below the lower lip.

Arts & Entertainment

FloridaRama ‘LitFest’ book festival among best things to do in Tampa Bay [August 20-26]

Plus, Mega Water Lantern Food & Music Festival, Wearable Art 20: Platinum in Dunedin and more.

by Ray Roa and Josh Bradley August 18, 2026August 21, 2026

A cropped close-up photograph by Dave Decker showing a detail of model Nova Cane in a Vanessa Froehling design at the Wearable Art 19 fashion show at the Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin, Florida, on August 23, 2025. Set against a dark background, the cropped shot focuses tightly on the upper headpiece, showing the model's dark curly hair paired with an intricate, bright orange perforated mesh structure embellished with metal hardware and bolts.

Arts & Entertainment

‘Wearable Art’ celebrates 20 years of transcending fashion in Dunedin

The Bay area tradition returns this weekend.

by David Warner August 17, 2026August 17, 2026

Music

Face Dancer, an agro grunge band from Duval County, plays St. Pete arcade show this month

Tampa’s Meatwound and Gainesville sex-Mex Future Forms support at Potion Portal.

by Ray Roa August 17, 2026August 17, 2026

A concert photograph showing band members of Devo—(L-R) Gerald Casale, Josh Hager, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Bob Mothersbaugh—performing live at the Eventim Apollo in London, England, on August 19, 2023. Captured in a wide shot from within the crowd, the four musicians stand on stage wearing their signature bright yellow radiation-style protective suits with "DEVO" printed across the chest, dark glasses, and black shoulder straps. Mark Mothersbaugh sings into a microphone at center stage while Bob Mothersbaugh plays a sunburst electric guitar on the right, as audience members hold up smartphone screens in silhouette in the foreground under bright stage backlighting.

Music

Interview: Devo’s Gerald Casale talks Tampa fronton gig, farewell tours, before Clearwater debut

The band plays BayCare Sound on Aug. 27.

by Gabe Echazabal August 17, 2026August 17, 2026

A concert photograph by Antonio Scorza showing lead vocalist and guitarist Chad Kroeger of the rock band Nickelback performing live during the Rock in Rio 2013 festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 20, 2013. Captured in a full-length shot against a dark stage illuminated by white overhead spotlights, Kroeger smiles toward the audience while playing a custom graphic-printed single-cutaway electric guitar. He wears a black t-shirt, black pants, and

Music

Nickelback, Jason Aldean, coming to Tampa for February’s ‘Hondo Rodeo’

Plus more new concerts coming to Tampa Bay.

by Ray Roa and Josh Bradley August 17, 2026August 17, 2026

A wide-angle interior photograph showing the empty St. Petersburg City Council Chambers in St. Petersburg, Florida, on November 18, 2014. Captured from behind a curved, polished wooden dais lined with dark leather executive chairs, microphones, and computer monitors, the room features carpeted flooring and rows of grey spectator chairs facing a central presentation screen on the back wall. Coffer-style wooden ceiling panels with warm lighting fixtures overhead and a framed tropical landscape painting on the left wall illuminate the municipal assembly room.

News & Views

St. Pete City Council rejects proposal to buy paper products made using prison labor

A rep said inmates working for PRI Enterprises make 30 cents to $1.05 an hour.

by Sebastián González de León y León and San Pedro Gazette August 17, 2026August 17, 2026

Best of the bay 2026 is here. Check out the Winners And FinalistS!

Tampa Bay Journalism Project

Tampa Jazz Club celebrates Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s 100th birthdays this weekend

As it wraps centennial renovations, Tampa Theatre shares details on its fall reopening

Tampa Beat Weekend includes a set from Lil’ Fancy

Slide guitar wizard Roosevelt Collier returns to Dunedin this weekend

Small Talks Mag to release 70-page tribute to Crowbar in Ybor City on Friday

Sunday is National Cuban Sandwich Day, and people are bound to argue about this South Tampa French restaurant’s take on the classic

Land O’ Lakes’ Rosebud Continuum hosts seed, plant, and book swap this weekend

St. Pete’s Great Explorations kid’s museum hosts free science festival on Saturday

Tampa Tiger Bay Club hosts Hillsborough County Commission forum on Friday

In runoff for Hillsborough school board, Daniela Simic will face Brittany Lyssy

Tampa mayoral candidate Gary Hartfield hosts campaign launch event on Thursday

Democrats Gwen Myers, Aileen Rodriguez, earn landslide victories in Hillsborough County Commission primaries

Tampa’s Banksy art show is a conversation-starting tango of tension

St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch will defend his seat in November runoff against Charlie Crist

FloridaRama ‘LitFest’ book festival among best things to do in Tampa Bay [August 20-26]

‘Wearable Art’ celebrates 20 years of transcending fashion in Dunedin

Face Dancer, an agro grunge band from Duval County, plays St. Pete arcade show this month

Interview: Devo’s Gerald Casale talks Tampa fronton gig, farewell tours, before Clearwater debut

Nickelback, Jason Aldean, coming to Tampa for February’s ‘Hondo Rodeo’

St. Pete City Council rejects proposal to buy paper products made using prison labor