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Tampa Monitor: Council takes another step towards increasing multi-modal impact fees
The fees have not been increased since they were adopted in 1989.
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Mötley Crüe brings ‘Carnival of Sins’ revival tour to Tampa this summer
Knock ‘em dead, kids.
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Prog-metal giant Queensrÿche returns to downtown St. Pete in December
Anybody listening?
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Tampa Bay’s best live music happening Nov. 21-27
Including Suncoast Jazz Festival, St. Pete Country Fest, and more.
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Suncoast Jazz Festival’s 35th anniversary happens on Sand Key this weekend
The holiday tradition runs Friday-Sunday at the Sheraton.
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor says people ‘are going to be angry’ about Trump’s plan to drill for oil off Florida coastline
Castor says loopholes and the nation’s reliance on fracked gas lead to higher electric costs for Floridians.
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Muslim USF students speak out after recorded video shows them being harassed during prayer
A livestream, posted by Warriors for Christ, shows men using anti-Muslim slurs and waving bacon at students praying.
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Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial candidates commit to appointing scientists or conservationists to wildlife commission
Five out of seven current commissioners have ties to the development industry.
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Fresh off ‘Physical Graffiti’ anniversary, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening heads to Tampa
James Dylan, Jimmy Sakurai and Dorian Heartsong join him at the Hard Rock.
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Tribal Style’s Sunday concert is a benefit for hurricane-ravaged Jamaica
Tribal Style is one of Tampa’s longest-running roots-reggae acts and saw their families on the border of Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth lose everything but their own lives in the category five storm.
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Ukulele-wielding Hawaiian composer Taimane plays Tampa on Sunday
She recently played with the San Francisco Symphony.
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Coko from SWV plays ‘Rhapsody Suite’ anniversary in Ybor City
She’s at 7th+Grove on Sunday.
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Fresh off Grammy nomination, Mega Ran plays Tampa Heights on Saturday
A past Grammy-nominee (New Orleans’ Alfred Banks) opens alongside Croc Gang Tampa rapper Swell Rell and homegrown sad boy Lord Xzae.
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Kids get in free when Florida Orchestra plays Mozart and Handel this weekend
TFO plays Centro Asturiano Saturday night and does a Sunday matinee in St. Petersburg.
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Miami sludge-metal band Bleeth plays Tampa brewery concert this weekend
FFO Swervedriver, Unsane, and Hum.
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St. Pete’s first niche fragrance shop, Super Memory, opens this weekend
Eau la la.
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Tension drives Opera Tampa’s ‘Turn Of the Screw’
Tampa Bay Arts Passport dives deep into Britten’s masterpiece, showing twice this weekend.
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Opera Tampa’s 2025-26 mainstage season kicks off this weekend
‘Turn Of the Screw’ is first in line for a season focused on the supernatural.
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At USF Tampa, Christian supremacist content creators mock, spit, and wave bacon at praying Muslim students
In Florida, maliciously disturbing a religious gathering is a first-degree misdemeanor, or a third-degree felony with hate crime enhancement.