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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis downplays anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol riot, says...
Of the more than 700 people who have been arrested in the assault on the Capitol, 76 are from Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday downplayed aspects of the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S....
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Flip Crepes and Waffles will open at the former swah-rey location in...
The new dessert cafe will debut in just a few weeks. Ex-patrons of the recently-closed bakery swah-rey might miss its mini cupcake and artisan marshmallows, but there’s another cafe opening in its...
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Activists plan rally, dispute task force findings in police shooting of St....
St. Pete Cop Watch and the PSL Tampa Bay are hosting the rally Friday. As new bodycam footage surfaces showing the shooting of Christopher Deon Tonsel by a St. Pete Police Department (SPPD) officer,...
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Bon Jovi is coming back to Tampa this spring
Tickets start at just $15.75. Bon Jovi spent much of the pandemic recording and releasing new music, and now Bay area fans can hear it in person when the '80s rock band returns to Tampa this spring....
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Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town are coming to Tampa this summer
Tickets go on sale next Friday, Jan. 14. Fire up the little red wagons and get ready to start day drinking because Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town have booked a summertime show in Tampa.…
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Tampa adds lanes to COVID-19 testing site at Al Barnes Park to reduce wait...
The extra lanes have reduced wait times from more than four hours to around 40 minutes, the city said. The City of Tampa, in collaboration with Nomi Health, has added two additional drive-through...
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Hyde Park’s Willa’s Provisions will host a Get Along doughnut pop-up this...
Get your artisan doughnuts before they sell out—and they seriously will. Fans of Get Along’s fresh doughnuts and out-of-this-world flavors have been following this sweet pop-up throughout Tampa for...
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Florida's COVID-19 hospitalizations spike to 8,406
The number of patients with COVID-19 has surged as the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus has raced through the state. More than 8,400 Florida hospital inpatients have COVID-19, as...
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Chicken tender chain Raising Cane's coming to Clearwater
We're officially Tendy Town. Yet another challenger has entered Tampa Bay's ongoing and hotly contested tendy war. According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, Louisiana-based restaurant chain...
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DJ Ekin is the Tampa Bay Bucs’ official DJ, and he wants to help kids...
His Hip-Hop Study Hall is part of Ekin's iCare About Me.“I just want to do shit that matters,” DJ Ekin tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The 43-year-old Tampa-based DJ has made a name for himself in...
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Kodak Black and Hotboii reschedule St. Pete concert for next month
The Trump-pardoned rapper was supposed to appear here last November. Kodak Black, Hotboii and friends, have rescheduled their performance at St. Petersburg’s Ferg’s to Saturday, Feb. 5—the one-year...
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Surviving members of crossover vocal group Il Divo to perform in St. Pete...
Founding member Carlos Marin died of COVID-19 right before Christmas. Multinational crossover vocal quartet Il Divo’s is bringing its greatest hits tour to St. Petersburg’s Mahaffey Theater on Friday,...
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Humane Society’s ‘Bark In the Park’ fundraiser returns to downtown Tampa...
It went virtual last year. After going virtual last year, Humane Society of Tampa Bay’s Bark in the Park is back in-person at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12....
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Neo-soul stars Maxwell, Anthony Hamilton book summer concert in Tampa
Yes, it's getting hot in here. Is it getting hot in here or is Maxwell coming to Tampa? Well, both, actually and tickets for the “Night” tour—coming to Amalie Arena on May 7—are already on sale...
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The Bucs v. Antonio Brown: Both sides have shown they can’t be trusted
All parties are capable of twisting the truth. Sunday was interesting for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and after a few days of deliberation—and for reasons unknown to the public—the Bucs finally released...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is upset NASCAR rejected a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’...
Is NASCAR fronting for the Joe Biden 'regime?' Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday waded into yet another controversy regarding the NASCAR driver who first elicited the infamous “Let’s Go Brandon” chant.…
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Comedian and actor Bob Saget found dead in Orlando hotel room
"Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case." One of America's most memorable sitcom father figures Bob Saget was found dead in an Orlando hotel room Sunday, according to...
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Thing really couldn’t have gone better for the Buccaneers
Tampa Bay closes the regular season on a high note, securing no. 2 seed in the NFC. The Bucs managed to overcome an incredibly sluggish start at Raymond James late Sunday afternoon, and out-scored the...
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Turns out bourbon and fine-dining BBQ mix quite well, and you now have a...
But a nose is a nose, balance is still balance. When Creative Loafing Tampa Bay was first invited to attend the Garrison Brothers Bourbon Dinner as part of the Bern’s restaurant family Whiskey Tampa...
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Tampa rich guys, who benefit from new Rays stadium, sign letter supporting...
If only the combined bank accounts of these forty business leaders and Sternberg added up to a new ballpark. Nothing says a community is fully behind a giant publicly subsidized stadium, than a small...
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