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Small town, big Pride: Dunedin ignores the haters to celebrate its LGBTQ+ community
The city’s small businesses showed up where big sponsors didn’t.
Sarasota Pride Project celebrates the LGBTQ+ community in spite of conservatives
Project Pride SRQ’s corporate sponsorships scaled back this year. It’s not alone.
Gulfport’s new Vietnamese restaurant is taking over the Golden Dinosaurs location
V-Roll Vietnamese Rolls & Bowls will have plenty for vegans—and omnivores, too.
Tampa Bay’s best LGBTQ+ Pride events happening this season
Everything from bingo and brunch to roller derby and Rock & Roll
Tampa Bay’s best live music happening May 29-June 5
Including the Heaven’s Gate album release, Beat Marauders showcase, Florida Orchestra and more.
Chaunte Wayans and Paris Sashay bring the laughs for St. Pete Pride month
Two studs, no duds
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In St. Pete, y’all means all at The James Museum’s ‘Transtastic’ Pride party
What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?
Q&A: Before Tampa concert, former Eagle Don Felder talks new album and guitar solos
Tales from the vault.
Gulfport Pride is back next week
Our smaller Key West is still kickin’
Seminole Heights Jug & Bottle offers free welcome cocktails and wine tastings at grand reopening
There’ll be plenty of Ichi Koroshi noods and karaage to slurp and munch on this weekend.
Plant City’s furry rescue farm animals are ready for hugs this weekend
Because the only ‘bull’ we need right now is a mini cow.
Get your Tupperware ready for St. Pete’s HAAPI Asian Festival
Chow down and tip well.
How Polk Pride went from a picnic to a week of LGBTQ+ celebrations
In a red county, Polk Pride’s rainbows have only gotten brighter.
Widespread Panic drummer Duane Trucks joins Umphrey’s McGee in St. Pete on Sunday
The band just said goodbye to longtime drummer Kris Myers
The XXL ‘Shrek Rave’ comes to Tampa on Saturday
We know ogres are like onions, it’s hot as hell outside, so please, for the love of Pete, wear deodorant.
Post Malone-approved metal band Nekrogoblikon lands in Tampa this weekend
The band blew up in 2012 when a creative video for ‘No One Survives’ went viral.
St. Pete DJ Austen van der Bleek is back from Detroit and bringing his new records to Bar Mezzo
He plays a free set this weekend.
Pioneer psychobilly band Reverend Horton Heat comes to St. Pete this weekend
It’s been 40 years since Jim Heath picked up his moniker.
Ed Lowery, frontman of Tampa ska legend Magadog, will hit the stage in St. Pete this weekend
The show features The Pilfers and The Brainiacs.
Tampa Bay metal supergroup Heaven’s Gate unleashes ‘Tales From a Blistering Paradise’ at Friday concert
Sunshine State bands with equally-hardcore bonafides open.
Country songwriter Aubrey Wollett comes home for Tarpon Springs concert
The Dunedin High School graduate is at Sponge City Brewing on Friday.
Smashing Tampa pop-punk band Anxiety Attack plays homecoming show this week
The band recently took to iSmash Tampa to film the music video for ‘The 1% Of Germs Lysol Doesn’t Kill.’
Before Tampa show, Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin talks fulfillment and fighting fascists
Georgia Maq and Allie open at Crowbar on June 10.
The state should have audited the $10 million Hope Florida deal—that didn’t happen
The payment was shrouded in secrecy after it was approved last September by several state agencies.
‘We’re a little too complicated’: At Hillsborough discussion, Democrats cope with reality
The discussion was hosted by the Hillsborough County Democratic LGBTQ+ Caucus.
St. Pete Shuffle throws an AARP-level rager for Pride next week
Slap those biscuits.
Byron Donalds, who wants to be governor of Florida, supports repealing the state’s red-flag gun safety law
Byron Donalds says “job one” for him if elected governor of Florida next year would be the repeal two provisions of the gun-safety package passed by the Florida Legislature following the shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. However, so does Ron DeSantis, and the two measures in question — the state’s…
Florida judge considers blocking new law cracking down on ballot initiatives
TALLAHASSEE — “Fear and uncertainty” about a new law targeting the state’s ballot-initiative process has led to a significant drop in people working to collect signatures for 2026 ballot measures, groups challenging the law told a federal judge on Thursday. One of the most-controversial parts of the law, passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature on May…
Tampa Monitor: City council gets an update on the stormwater master plan
The stormwater master plan is designed to address summer thunderstorms, not Milton level rainfall.
No talks on Florida’s budget until after June 2, legislative leaders say
The 60-day regular legislative session was scheduled to end three weeks ago, on May 2.
Without fanfare, DeSantis quietly signs proposal barring golf courses, hotels in state parks
While state officials dropped the plan to build in state parks, DeSantis tried to distance himself from it.
Duff’s opens in Seminole Heights, Caracara closing in Dunedin and more Tampa Bay food news
Elliott Aster is open at The Vinoy, too.
Dunedin rolls into Pride month with a golf cart parade happening May 30
The kickoff week ends with a diva-licous Gayla.
Epic Universe at Universal Orlando is officially open
I-4 traffic is about to get even less epic this week.
Billie Eilish is coming to play Central Florida this fall
While there is no Tampa show, there is an Orlando stop in October.
Visit Florida data shows a first quarter dip in international visitors
Visit Florida showed 1.227 million Canadians traveled to Florida during the first quarter, down about 3.4% from 1.269 million in the same period a year earlier.
‘This is a trophy hunt’: Despite pushback, FWC moves closer to allowing Florida’s first bear hunt since 2015
Commissioners will return for a final vote in August.
DeSantis signs law letting child care employees train to carry guns at work
The law, SB 1470, also revises school door locking requirements.
Damon Moore is working to restore the Manatee River, one oyster reef pot at a time
Oyster reefs are considered critical habitat because a single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water every day.
Before Clearwater concert, Springsteenian songwriter John Cafferty recalls the best gig he ever saw
It was the Boss, but not Springsteen.
League of Cities briefs Tampa Bay officials on new hurricane-response legislation
Pinellas County Republican Sen. Nick DiCeglie sponsored SB 180.
St. Pete’s Daniela Soledade and Nate Najar bring bossa nova to Jack Kerouac’s living room
The intimate concert happens on Friday—but it’s sold-out.
Two-day ‘DIY Fest’ brings some of Tampa’s best bands to Ybor City this weekend
Highlights on the bill include Discord Theory, Pohgoh, Kristopher James and Katara.
The Wonder Years brings string ensemble, and Kevin Devine, to Tampa this weekend
The emo hero is touring behind new acoustic rerecordings.
Toronto livetronic pioneer Keys N Krates returns to Tampa on Sunday
Adam Tune, Greg Dawson, and David Matisse’s time in Tampa goes all the way back to the days when Blue Martini ruled International Plaza. The trio behind Keys N Krates is a livetronic pioneer of sorts and returns to the 813 this time for “Swing Sundays” at the rooftop lounge above Tampa’s Armature Works. The…
Ninja Sex Party brings ‘These Nuts’ to St. Pete concert on Wednesday
The final installment of the ‘Boner’ trilogy comes to Jannus Live.
In Winter Haven, DeSantis lashes out against Hope Florida investigation launched by ‘jackass’ Republican legislator
‘He took documents and he dropped them in a prosecutor’s office…’
