

Texas indie-pop band Summer Salt returns to Tampa for midweek concert at Orpheum
The band fired members following sexual assault allegations in 2018.
Leisure Chief keyboardist Keegan Matthews leads trio in no cover jazz-funk set in Seminole Heights on Sunday
He’s back in Tampa with the band next weekend.
Harlem rapper Smoke DZA enters the ring for ‘Gat$aMania 3’ in Ybor City this weekend
Stay afterwards for Ol’ Dirty Sundays.
Texas party-rock band Lewd Dudes plays Tampa concert on Saturday
‘Bong Song’ anyone?
WMNF celebrates 42nd anniversary this weekend with mask-required Dylan LeBlanc concert in St. Pete
The concert will also air on WMNF’s HD2 channel if you can’t come out.
Saturday’s ‘Great Misdirect’ Tampa concert from Between the Buried and Me is sold-out
Maybe scalp some tickets outside.
Stick Figure’s KBong plays solo concert in St. Petersburg this weekend
He brings his new LP, ‘Let Love Lead’ to Jannus Live.
After Pushaw request, media finds that that Florida’s recent COVID-19 surge was worse than any Democratic-led state
And no Democrat-led state saw hospitals burdened nearly as much with COVID-19 patients as Florida.
USF Tampa students announce Thursday rally to defund campus police
The rally is part of Students for a Democratic Society’s national day of action.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis loses another court battle over school mask mandate ban
A Leon County circuit judge on Wednesday again blocked Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order that seeks to bar school mask mandates.
‘Hannah Montana’ and ‘That’s So Raven’ actors bring EDM project to WTR Tampa this weekend
Nick Hogan opens for Phantoms on Saturday.
Philadelphia rapper Cassidy joined by Tampa Bay’s best local MCs for Friday concert
The Villanz return to the stage at Hooch and Hive.
There is no shortage of EDM concerts in Tampa Bay this weekend
From Justin Martin to Fur Coat from Venezuela, the untz is everywhere.
‘There is No Virus on the Moon’ songwriter Andy Zipf plays free concert in St. Pete
He’s at Green Bench Brewing Co. with Lauris Vidal on Thursday.
Nashville songwriter Kimmi Bitter plays three shows across Tampa Bay starting this week
She’s at Hooch and Hive, Cage Brewing and New World Brewery.
Blind Tiger Cafe is opening a new location in downtown Tampa
It’ll have biodynamic wine, too.
Darden Rice endorses Ken Welch in St. Petersburg mayoral race
‘His endorsements look like the community, his experience will work for the community, and together we can uplift St. Pete for generations to come.’
Despite recent fundraising trips, DeSantis says White House speculation is ‘nonsense’
Speculation has swirled recently about the possibility of Trump making a political comeback in 2024 and what that might mean for DeSantis and other potential Republican candidates.
Florida Democrats will once again try to ditch the Electoral College system
Republican Donald Trump won Florida and its 29 electoral votes in 2016 and 2020.
The largest spicy food festival in Florida returns to Largo this month
Try your hand at the Spicy Lolly Lick-A-Thon or the pepper eating contest if your stomach can handle the heat.
Florida affordable housing initiative tops 62,000 signatures
It would require that the trust funds receive at least 25 percent of the revenue from documentary-stamp taxes.
New Haunted Tavern pop-up cocktail experience coming to Tampa this October
The four-part 90-minute guided event, at 1909 N 15th Street, takes place in the chillingly scary basement underneath the cereal-themed spot
Stephen Marley joins St. Pete’s Reggae Rise Up festival line-up
Like most fun things in 2020, last year’s dates were cancelled.
Appeal by Gov. DeSantis spurs new round in legal fight over school masks in Florida
As is common, the notice of appeal did not outline arguments that the DeSantis administration will make at the Tallahassee-based appeals court.
St. Pete’s Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement finally opens next week
The 4-year wait is almost over.
St. Pete’s Mycology Society hosts a fungus art show this weekend
The Wayward Goose hosts.
The Dalí holds a fashion photography workshop this weekend in St. Pete
Beth Reynolds leads the session.
Cuban sandwich festival returns to Ybor City this weekend
Nearly two dozen competitors are on the menu this Sunday.
Florida’s jobless claims climb, as unemployment-aid programs end
The two programs that will expire Monday offer up to $275 a week to people ineligible for state unemployment compensation.
The number of Florida children hospitalized with COVID has increased over tenfold since schools re-opened
“We see as we open the school year, it was truly what I call the perfect storm.”
Emo Night Tampa returns with free Saturday concert featuring Charles Irwin
Sum of Our Failures makes its live debut at Crowbar, too.
Country superstar Thomas Rhett is finally playing his Tampa concert this weekend
It’s at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on Saturday.
Alter Bridge and former Slash vocalist Myles Kennedy come to St. Petersburg next week
Honestly, he sounds better than Axl Rose at this point.
Ohio hardcore export Beartooth brings monstrous new album to St. Pete on Wednesday
Like most people from Ohio, the band has a connection to Tampa Bay.
Coppertail teams up with Tampa Bay Bucs to release new beer in creamsicle tallboys
‘Florida Special Lager’ will be available at home games and at select restaurants and retailers.
Fang, one of Kurt Cobain’s favorite bands, is playing a Tampa concert on Thursday
The show’s at the Brass Mug.
Connecticut’s Colony Grill will bring its famous thin-crust pizza to downtown St. Petersburg
The concept eyes an October opening.
‘Top Chef’ star Fabio Viviani will open a new Chuck Lager location in South Tampa
Though there’s currently no exact opening date, the restaurant is set to open early next year.
Tampa chef Jada Vidal wins Guy Fieri’s ‘Grocery Games’ Food Network game show
And she’s bringing her version of Flavortown to a Tampa Heights popup dinner on Sept. 4.
12 live music concerts and events happening in Tampa Bay this week
Including the 10-year anniversary of Ol’ Dirty Sundays.
Savage Love: My wife came out as lesbian, and our therapists keep telling us to get divorced
And what do I do with this younger man I want to control?
Spaddy’s launches new ‘Mocktails, Milkshakes & Funk’ night in Seminole Heights
AJ Hall is on the ones and twos every Thursday in September.
Florida residents are taking horse dewormer to treat COVID-19, and now it’s sold out
It’s a problem for animals that need the drug — and for people who likely don’t.
Journalists, students and friends across Tampa Bay will never forget the George Meyer Laugh
The AP writer, USF assistant professor and friend to many died Aug. 17 at the age of 74.
The new Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl LV license plates are here
The Buccaneers tag ranks 10th in sales among specialty plates, with 47,621 registrations as of July 1.
‘It’s going to be a real challenge’: Amid soaring COVID cases, Florida begins search for new surgeon general
Florida has been a hotbed for COVID-19 in recent weeks as the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus has spread.
Tampa Bay Lightning’s Bolts Brew Fest happens next month at Amalie Arena
Sept. 17 to be exact.
St. Pete Italian staple BellaBrava has officially opened its Midtown Tampa location
You no longer have to drive across the bridge for the St. Pete staple.
Tampa’s Milk Crate Challenge Olympics brings joy and pain to Copeland Park
Over 60 people gathered for Tampas’ painful yet joyous ‘Crate Olympics.’
Ciccio Group’s health-minded Mood Bake Bar opens in South Tampa next month
Sept. 2 to be exact.
‘Try to get charges on somebody if you can’: Video shows Tampa police targeting BLM protesters
“They deliberately escalated the situation and started the fight with the protesters.”
Run the Jewels teams up with St. Pete’s Green Bench Brewing for limited edition lager
Only three cities can get their mouths on ‘Never Look Back.’
In Tampa protester trial, judge delays decision on state’s motion to ban discussion of free speech
Citing new evidence, the argument about the motion is pushed to next month.
A Tampa protester marched for Black lives last year and now faces up to 5 years in prison
“I feel like the police and the politicians of our city just wanted us to shut up, and our community hasn’t seen substantial change over the past year.”
Ahead of trial for Tampa BLM activists, state aims to ban discussion of free speech and police conduct at protests
The document also seeks to restrict Creative Loafing Tampa Bay photojournalists who were there that day from participating in the trial as witnesses.






