Photos of every person who stepped into the photo booth at the 2025 edition of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s annual Best of the Bay party where the community comes together to celebrate the very best people, artists, events and businesses in Tampa Bay.

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Photos: Every beautiful person who stepped into the Best of the Bay 2025 photo booth

Photos: Everyone we saw partying at the Hard Rock for Best of the Bay 2025

Photos: Joe Perry brings star-studded solo project to Tampa’s Hard Rock Event Center

Puerto Rican pop icon Ednita Nazario comes to Tampa on Sunday

Interview: Ahead of Tampa show, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry says ‘I’m not done yet’

Photos: In Tampa, a snarky David Lee Roth skips the solo cuts, salutes Van Halen

Interview: At Tampa show, Palestinian stand-up comic Mo Amer promises to address the ‘elephant in the room’

After losing his voice, Darius Rucker is back onstage and in Tampa this weekend

Dionne Warwick plays her first Tampa date in eight years on Wednesday

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is doing a book talk in Tampa this weekend

Richard Clayderman brings his famous movie medley to Hard Rock Tampa

Sting is bringing his ‘3.0’ tour to Tampa this fall

Gary Clark Jr. returns to Tampa this week for his first Bay area show since 2019

Photos: Rod Stewart reunites with Tampa fans at Hard Rock Event Center

‘Suavemente’ hitmaker Elvis Crespo has just one Florida stop on his US tour—and it’s in Tampa

Fresh off FireAid, Rod Stewart makes now annual return to Tampa this month

San Francisco producer Gryffin gets Hard Rock Tampa’s new pool party season going this weekend

Robin Zander is home for the holidays and playing an intimate Tampa show with Cheap Trick

Jingle Y’all rounds up pop-country newcomers for Hard Rock Tampa concert

R&B hitmaker Babyface plays Tampa concert on Wednesday