There’s no shortage of holiday theater in Tampa Bay in 2024
There’s something under the theatrical tree for everyone.
Carollwood Cultural Center’s ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ features four kid actors
Director Jaime Giangrande-Holcom will have young people helping with sound effects, too.
A sleighful of Tampa Bay theater stars come together for an update of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ radio play
The playwright has given Tampa Rep the rights to set the radio show ‘completely in 2024.’
Stageworks’ white trash ‘Christmas Carol’ opens in Tampa this weekend
‘The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical’ runs Nov. 29-Dec. 22.
St. Pete’s Off-Central presents a one-woman show about a grown-up Cindy Lou
‘Who’s Holiday’ runs Dec. 12-22.
Here are three of the best immersive holiday attractions in Tampa Bay this year
FloridaRama, American Stage and Ruth Eckerd Hall are all in on the action.
From Cirque to ‘Elf’ in concert, there’s plenty of Merry miscellany in Tampa Bay’s holiday entertainment calendar
Two Cirque shows round out December, with plenty of music and dancing with a star, too.
Tampa Bay’s holiday theater season includes Scrooges galore
At least five companies stage renditions of ‘A Christmas Carol’ in December.
St. Petersburg Ciity Theater stages ‘White Christmas’ starting December 13
It’s on stage on select nights through Dec. 22.
Tampa Bay’s holiday theater menu includes lots of ‘Nutcracker’—and tucked nuts, too
The season of ballet and drag queens runs Dec. 6-28.
Chemtrails, condo loopholes, and more: Florida lawmakers are already filing bills for the 2025 legislative session
House and Senate committees will meet in parts of December, January and February.
Dave Koz’s Christmas Tour is just one of more than a dozen great Tampa Bay holiday concerts
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Creole Christmas, Studio@620’s Soulstice, and Nate Najar’s Jazz Holiday, too.
Florida says it will award 22 new medical marijuana licenses
Once the decision is final it will bring to 47 the number of medical marijuana licenses in the state.
Elections be damned, Tampa Bay Abortion Fund will continue to help people
‘These politicians are never coming to save us.’
Organizer for Pinellas’ Democratic Socialists of America says membership is up 13 percent since the election
The party helped elect an openly socialist St. Pete councilmember in 2021.
Tampa Bay’s Refugee and Migrant Women Initiative deepens the meaning of community
Florida is home to 21% of the country’s immigrant population, according to U.S. Census data.
Tampa’s ‘Affordable Christmas’ helps working-class families buy new gifts at a fraction of the cost
Current Initiatives can only make it happen with help from donors and volunteers.
Fresh off its seventh anniversary WellBuilt Bikes continues working to keep Tampa moving
In a community where public transportation is criminally under-funded, a bike can go a long way.
In two years, St. Pete’s Queer Expression has created a fiercely safe place to be nonbinary
Its substance-free HQ hosts events for all ages.
Tampa Bay’s best live music happening November 29-December 5
Including Kacey Musgraves, the Mountain Goats, and more.
After 2023’s last-minute cancellation, the Mountain Goats are finally playing St. Petersburg
A bus breakdown derailed the Goats’ 2023 show.
Bad Brains frontman HR is finally coming to St. Petersburg
Raging Nathans opens on Wednesday.
Songwriter and author David Dondero plays intimate St. Pete show at Jack Kerouac’s house
He’s got a new album and book.
Tampa’s Contemporary Art Music Project brings experimental ‘Water Dust’ show to USF
Works by Patrick Chin Ting Chan and Earle Brown will be played by CAMP musicians.
Jingle Y’all rounds up pop-country newcomers for Hard Rock Tampa concert
Riley Green, Zach Top, John Morgan, and Ashley Cooke
Klassika brings classical-pop crossover covers to New Tampa
The group’s sole, eponymous album features operatic versions of tracks from Simon and Garfunkel, Aerosmith, and yes, Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman.
Homegrown world-pop favorite The Hip Abduction brings ‘Friendsgiving’ to Pinellas Park
Big Something and ukulele-weilding songwriter Vana Liya open.
Barclay Crenshaw, FKA Claude VonStroke, brings latest EDM exploration to St. Pete
The revered producer is taking a break from dubstep and EDM to explore the process of blending other genres together.
Before Emo Night Tampa show, Big Sad shares new video for ‘Torture On 3’
‘It’s a cute little ditty about overpopulation and endless consumerism…’
Blues rocker Albert Castiglia plays two Tampa Bay shows in a week
This Saturday, and Dec. 7 in Safety Harbor and Brooksville.
The Abortion Twins play abortion fund benefit concert in Tampa this weekend
Psychedelic quartet Moonthing and St. Pete thrash band Human Error are on the bill, too.
O.A.R. keyboardist MikelParis plays solo show in Safety Harbor on Friday
It’s been less than a month since the band played Clearwater
Canadian techno producer Kenny Glasgow gets his ‘Mind Under Control’ for St. Pete
The Art Department co-founder is at Floridian Social this weekend.
Tampa Bay markets like Indie Flea are ready for all your holiday gift-giving needs
Plus Christmasween, Shopapalooza and more.
Tampeña and former Washington Post features writer Sadie Dingfelder holds prosopagnosia book talk on Tuesday
The rare neurological disorder is also known as faceblindness.
Gwansgiving, featuring Tampa collective with globetrotting sound, returns to Ybor City on Saturday
With Jinx, supporting a brand new album, in tow.
Horny holiday legend Krampus comes to Tampa and Pinellas Park in December
Seminole Heights has ‘Krampusnacht’ while the German American Society hosts a Krampus market.
Inmates at Florida private prison were deprived water, says advocates
“Temporary water shutoffs for routine plumbing repairs should not result in prisoners being left without reliable access to water for days at a time.”
Tampa Democrat Kathy Castor is concerned about ‘chaos’ in coming Trump presidency
Castor was recently re-elected for a 10th term representing constituents in both Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.
Florida drivers should expect gas prices to spike over Thanksgiving holiday, says AAA
AAA projects that 4.5 million Floridians will travel over 50 miles for Thanksgiving, and the vast majority of travelers will be driving.
Florida wraps up another above average hurricane season, with 18 named storms
For Floridians, three hurricanes — Debby, Helene and Milton — were particularly memorable.
Review: Bonnie Raitt and James Hunter stage masterful double-bill in Clearwater
Raitt’s knack for tempering the flow of her performances is almost as fascinating as her musical chops.
Conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism, and more: Florida’s Surgeon General and Robert F. Kennedy Jr have a lot in common
Including vaccine skepticism, conspiracy theories, and challenges to public health norms.
Florida’s surgeon general now advises against adding fluoride to drinking water
It was the latest in a long list of public health recommendations from Ladapo criticized by associations that represent the people providing the care.
Florida braces for record travel during Thanksgiving holiday
Nationally, four of the top six Thanksgiving travel destinations this year — including Miami and Orlando — are in Florida.
New movie theater Sun-Ray Cinema opening at Tampa’s University Mall
The new theater is moving into the recently closed Look Dine-In Cinema space.
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Tampa’s Pegasus Lounge closes, a big list of Thanksgiving options, and more local restaurant news
Plus, Tampa Bay Burger Week is here, Bern’s gets some national love, vegan ‘Friendsgiving’ heads to Ybor and more.
Citizens, Florida’s state-backed property insurance, defends high rate of closed claims without payment
Despite the board members’ claims the reports weren’t factual, none of them disputed that Citizens closed 50.4% of claims without payment last year.
Here’s what Trump’s ‘mass deportations’ would look like, according to Florida lawmakers and activists
“The concept of having these mass deportations is going to be significant, and they’re going to have to re-work a lot of things to make it happen.”
Florida Gov. DeSantis is upset over newly confirmed ‘leftist judge’
Kidd has been a magistrate judge in the federal Middle District of Florida in Orlando since 2019.
Trump taps former Hillsborough County prosecutor Pam Pondi for U.S. attorney general
“Americans dodged a bullet with Gaetz’s withdrawal but Trump’s second choice for attorney general is no better.”
Black Radish Bodega hosts Ybor City’s vegan ‘Friendsgiving’ next week
Attendees will get a first glance of Lara, an upcoming apothecary-inspired bar and restaurant.
Willie Nelson is coming to Clearwater, and five other Florida cities, in 2025
Randall King opens at the BayCare Sound.
Florida Democrat wants state to clarifying medical exceptions in six-week abortion law
“I am not optimistic, but I am focusing purely on medical exceptions. Because we don’t want women in Florida dying.”
Florida parents could face consequences if their kids threaten schools
“Parents need to understand that all threats will be taken seriously and will result in severe consequences, including for parents.”
State of Florida agrees to pay $725K in legal fees after losing lawsuit over ‘Stop Woke’ act
The underlying lawsuit involved a challenge to part of the law that placed restrictions on addressing race-related issues in workplace training
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