Tampa Bay Journalism Project
The Tampa Bay Journalism Project (TBJP), a nascent Creative Loafing Tampa Bay effort supported by grants and a coalition of donors who make specific contributions via the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation. If you are a non-paywalled Bay area publication interested in TBJP, please email rroa@ctampa.com.
Posted inNews & Views
Pinellas congressional candidate Brandt Robinson says he’ll use ICE funds to hire and train more teachers
Robinson also believes the U.S. needs a new Voting Rights Act.
Posted inNews & Views
Army vet and Pinellas Congressional candidate Earle Forde says trickle-down economics is a ‘hoax’
But he’s not thinking about Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, and instead ‘laser-focused’ on voters.
Posted inFood & Drink
Tampa’s Food from the Soul Festival returns to Carrollwood this month
Nearly a dozen vendors are already confirmed, with more on the way.
Posted inNews & Views
Despite ‘escape clause’ concerns, lawmakers’ budgets defund ‘Florida Forever’ in favor of rural lands program
Florida Tax Watch says an ‘escape clause’ allows landowners to develop protected land.
Posted inNews & Views
St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch comes out against anti-DEI bills
House Bill 1001 and Senate Bill 1134 ban counties and municipalities from funding and promoting anything relating to DEI.
Posted inNews & Views
Tampa will once again dye the Hillsborough River green, despite concerns from environmentalists
Tampa’s annual River O’Green Fest returns Saturday, March 14, but not everyone is looking forward to it.
Posted inMusic
Reggae Rise Up brings four-day, heady, spring break to St. Pete
Sublime, 311, De al Soul and more are at Vinoy Park March 12-15.
Posted inMusic
Charley Crockett, country star unafraid to criticize MAGA, plays Tampa on Tuesday
Life’s a casino, and he’s at the Hard Rock.
Posted inMusic
All-star Women’s Day concert comes to Ybor City this weekend
Curated by Betty Dawl, the lineup includes Purple Gurl guitarist and drummer Shevonne and Natalie Depergola.
Posted inMusic
Tampa Jazz Club gets Billy Joel horn player Carl Fischer for Sunday matinee
He also spent more than a dozen years playing with famed horn player Maynard Ferguson.
Posted inMusic
‘I try to find things that I really enjoy doing’: ’80s hitmaker Gary Numan says his St. Pete show will be mostly newer music
He may also do a song with his daughter, Raven.
Posted inMusic
Orlando garage-soul favorite The Sh-Booms brings new EP to Tampa
The band is at Crowbar on Saturday.
Posted inNews & Views
Three Tampa Bay organizations building networks to support immigrants
As ICE presence grows, long-time Tampa organizers are protecting local immigrants by building networks of support and resistance.
Posted inMusic
Shovels & Rope come to Skipper’s Smokehouse on Friday
Mechanical River brings ‘Parts Work’ to open the show.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Tampa photographer turns backyard spring into underwater portrait studio
At her private Seminole Heights spring, Jen Naugle captures the beauty of women in transition.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Concert and comedy roast of MAGA happens tonight in Ybor City
Proceeds will benefit the Immigrant Defense Project.
