Photos: Hutterites photographer Tim Smith speaks at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts

Nearly 2,000 miles separate Manitoba and Tampa, but one of the most boring names in Canadian photography (Tim Smith) made it all…

By Ray Roa, Dave Decker

Tim Smith at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Ybor City, Florida on June 21, 2025.
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Campeones: Tampa Bay Sun FC wins inaugural USL Super League Championship in front of sold-out Riverfront Stadium [PHOTOS]

In November of 2023, Denise Schilte-Brown checked in from Scotland with an update on her efforts to recruit the players from every…

By Ray Roa, Ryan Kern

Tampa Bay Sun FC forward Cecilie Fløe after her go-ahead, game-winning goal against Fort Lauderdale United FC at Blake High School in Tampa, Florida on June 14, 2025.
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Photos: Everyone we saw cheering Tampa Bay Sun FC to a 2-1 victory in the USL Super League semifinal

Tampa Bay Sun FC will play in the USL Super League final after the team's come from behind victory over Dallas last…

By Ray Roa, Ryan Kern

Members of the Tampa Bay Sun FC supporters group, Heatwave, at Blake High School in Tampa, Florida on June 7, 2025.
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Tampa Fringe Festival 2025: A guide to some of the freaky, funny, and even family-friendly shows coming to Ybor City this month

Tampa Fringe is keeping the Bay area weird this month with dozens of shows at its annual festival. Here's a lot of…

By Ray Roa, Selene San Felice, Marleigh Brown, Jani Burden

Tampa Fringe Festival 2025 is in Ybor City, Florida from June 11-22, 2025.
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Pinellas' 'Magic Mike' mansion hits market for $12M for first time since its film feature

Thirteen years after Channing Tatum graced its grounds, the sprawling Florida mansion featured in the movie "Magic Mike" has hit the market.…

By Chloe Greenberg

Image: 'Magic Mike' mansion in Pinellas County hits market for $12M for first time since its film feature
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Photos: Shine muralists celebrate the opening of Dalí's Murals exhibit

Shine Mural Festival celebrated a decade of covering St. Pete in rainbows last year and is now collaborating with another local art…

By Selene San Felice

Image: Everyone we saw at the opening of Dalí's Murals exhibit
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20 crazy road trip stops between Tampa Bay and Orlando to visit

Florida has weirdness sprinkled throughout the state, but one of the quirkiest stretches just might be between Orlando and Tampa. Whether you're…

By Chloe Greenberg

Reptile World Serpentarium 5705 E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, St. Cloud If you're willing to take the long route for your Orlando-to-Tampa (or vice versa) travels, Reptile World is a must-do. This reptile zoo features more than 75 species of snakes, lizards, crocodiles, alligators and more. It's operated by herpetologist George Van Horn, who also puts on venom-milking shows with the park's resident snakes.
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The Dalí Museum's new immersive mural exhibit is now open in St. Petersburg

A play about Salvador Dalí’s possible gay lover closes this weekend in Tampa, but across the bridge, one artist continues to explore…

By Ray Roa

There's a tribute to another woman in the mural by St. Pete artist Nicole Salgar, who, like Mize, visited the Dalí Museum as a child.
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See the 'RuPaul's Drag Race' stars coming to Tampa Bay for Pride 2025

Tampa Bay is about to be filled with charisma uniqueness nerve and talent for the 2025 Pride season. "Ru Paul's Drag Race"…

By Selene San Felice

DawnThe Season 16 queen was just announced as a fellow headliner on the Cocked 'n Loaded Mainstage. Hopefully she brings the bodyodyody and those weird witchy hand movements.
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Photos: All the fancy footwork we saw at Tampa’s 5th Annual New Heights Dance Festival

Across from Tampa Heights’ New Heights Dance Academy last Saturday, hundreds gathered on the lawn of Exciting Central Tampa Baptist Church for…

By Ray Roa, Dave Decker

Image: Photos: All the fancy footwork we saw at Tampa’s 5th Annual New Heights Dance Festival
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Photos: Everyone we saw in Ybor City for Kress Contemporary’s Third Thursday party

Artists across the Tampa Bay area have reserved the third Thursday of every month for a solid hang in Ybor City. It…

By Ray Roa, Dave Decker

Alé Salamán (L) and Honey Gallery owner Effren Denson at Kress Contemporary in Ybor City, Florida on May 15, 2025.
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Japanese textiles are having a moment, thanks to galleries in St. Pete and Ybor City [PHOTOS]

Japanese textiles are having a moment in Tampa Bay. At St. Petersburg’s Museum of Fine Arts, more than 150 garments celebrate craft…

By Ray Roa

'Weave A Tale' at OXH Gallery in Ybor City, Florida.
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Dalí's possible lover wrote a play, 'Butterfly's Evil Spell,' that's showing in Tampa right now [PHOTOS]

This English-language adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play, “El Maleficio de la Mariposa,” is a poetic, mystical exploration of love, nature…

By Selene San Felice

The ensemble of Jobsite Theater's "The Butterfly's Evil Spell," running through June 1, 2025 in Tampa, Florida.
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Tampa Bay’s Distinguished Gentleman’s motorcycle ride returns this month

Getting on a motorcycle has always been a crotch-rattling experience, and nearly 80,000 people worldwide are going to dress all dapper (usually…

By Ray Roa

Tai Truong of Ronin Vintage
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Tampa’s new mural-making festival, Guava City Paint Jam, is happening right now [PHOTOS]

If you’ve ever wondered what a grassroots street art paint jam is, now’s the time to find out. Tampa’s inaugural Guava City…

By Jennifer Ring

Quinn Cale at Grassroots Kava House in Tampa, Florida on May 3, 2025.
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Photos: All the stems we saw at Tampa’s Blue House Florals

On not-so-good days, Kali Rabaut sees her flowers as inventory, or product, instead of living beings. “When I notice that, I know…

By Ray Roa

Kali Rabaut at Blue House Florals in Tampa, Florida on April 29, 2025.
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USF Graphicstudio offers once-a-year deals on rare prints and sculptures this weekend

As one of only three professional university-based print ateliers, the University of South Florida’s Graphicstudio has become a popular stopover in many…

By Selene San Felice

James Rosenquist, My Mind is an Empty Glass, 1994. 4-run, 6-color photo-lithograph; 34 x 34 inches. Edition: 42.
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Tampa City Ballet's 'La Septima' takes Ybor back to the roaring 20s

Tampa City Ballet’s Inaugural Gala Fundraiser had folks looking spiffy with its 1920's theme last Saturday. The night at the Tampa Bay…

By Dave Decker

Image: Tampa City Ballet's 'La Septima' takes Ybor back to the roaring 20s
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Meet four Tampa Bay drag performers worth seeing off screen

Tampa drag queen Jewels Sparkles made the Bay proud last week when she placed second in the season 17 finale of “RuPaul’s…

By Selene San Felice

Sixx Black covers Creative Loafing's April 24, 2025 issue.
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Photos: Everyone we saw at Amalie Arena before the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2025 playoff kickoff

The Bolts lost their opening round playoff game last Tuesday, going down 0-1 against defending Stanley Cup Champions the Florida Panthers—but at…

By Ray Roa, Caitlin Carter

Image: Photos: Everyone we saw at Amalie Arena before the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2025 playoff kickoff
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Everyone we saw at Cocktail's Easter biblical pool party [PHOTOS]

Cocktail St. Pete partied like it was AD33 last Sunday with an Easter pool party at its Wet Spot. Sister Juana Reaction from…

By Selene San Felice

A Hunky Jesus at Cocktail's Easter pool party on April 20, 2025 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Sugar Sand Festival's dino theme takes Clearwater Beach back to the sand before time [PHOTOS]

The gold sand-ard of beach festivals started last weekend, but now the pesky spring breakers are out of the way. Seventeen pro…

By Selene San Felice

Image: Sugar Sand Festival's dino theme takes Clearwater Beach back to the sand before time [PHOTOS]
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‘For Closure!,’ a new comedy at St. Pete’s freeFall Theatre, dives into the wackiness of small-town Florida

There’s no issue in Florida that’s closer to, um, home than real estate—and none is more ripe for satire. That’s what playwright…

By David Warner

For the role of Camille Chevalier Milk, Matthew McGee channels camp icons like comic Dom Deluise, Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado, and the bewigged and ever caftan-ated Rip Taylor.
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Photos: UConn women win 12th national basketball title in Tampa

The University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team is top of the heap after last Sunday following its 82-59 win over the University…

By Ray Roa, Sofía García Vargas

UConn celebrates winning the NCAA Women's Final Four at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on April 6, 2025.
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Photos: John Travolta among stars at Tampa’s Gasparilla International Film Festival 2025

John Travolta didn’t hit the red carpet at last weekend’s Gasparilla International Film Festival (GIFF), but he did sneak through the back…

By Ray Roa, Ryan Kern

Image: Photos: John Travolta among stars at Tampa’s Gasparilla International Film Festival 2025
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New exhibit shows how Spanish immigrants transformed the sleepy fishing village of Tampa [PHOTOS]

Tampa Bay History Center, alongside Spanish nonprofit Fundación Consejo España – EE.UU., celebrated the opening of a new exhibition last Saturday, becoming…

By Grace Stoler

Image: New exhibit shows how Spanish immigrants transformed the sleepy fishing village of Tampa [PHOTOS]
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Photos: All the local artists, and special guests, we saw at Tampa's 55th annual Gasparilla Festival of the Arts

The Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts returned to Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park last weekend, March 1-2, with more than…

By Jennifer Ring

Image: Photos: All the local artists, and special guests, we saw at Tampa's 55th annual Gasparilla Festival of the Arts
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Photos: St. Pete’s Winter Pride closes with celebratory street festival

Fresh off the racetrack, Winter Pride rolled back onto Central Avenue last Sunday for a closing street festival that included performances from…

By Ray Roa

Image: Photos: St. Pete’s Winter Pride closes with celebratory street festival
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Photos: All the hot rods we saw at St. Pete’s first-ever Winter Pride drag race

It was a busy weekend at FloridaRama (stylized “FloridaRAMA”). After hosting Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s Highball competition the night before, the venue…

By Ray Roa

Image: Photos: All the hot rods we saw at St. Pete’s first-ever Winter Pride drag race
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Photos: 50th anniversary gala launches Dunedin Fine Arts Center into next half-century

Last Saturday at a star-studded black tie event, supporters and donors of Dunedin Fine Art Center (DFAC) gathered at the site of…

By Ray Roa

(L-R) Irwin and Syd Entel, and Susan Benjamin at Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin, Florida on Feb. 15, 2025.
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