About Creative Loafing

As a free weekly publication, website, content marketing, and event company, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay has served the Tampa Bay area for more than 33 years with its cultural and news coverage.

We do more than inform the community. We're a part of the community — we're advocates, consumers, influencers, and entertainers as well as reporters and promoters, invested and involved in every aspect of local and regional life in both professional and personal roles.

Our news desk's mission has always been the same: To further create a more informed public and contribute to the formation of a just community by offering a consistent and free medium that is critical, fair, and focused on highlighting underserved and underreported voices and opinions.

Readers in our music, food, arts and entertainment sections trust us to share the best Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and beyond have to offer, and we strive to create meaningful conversations and relationships to the benefit of all.

Ways to support Creative Loafing Tampa Bay:

Follow us on Apple News, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter

Subscribe to our newsletters

Advertise with Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Support local businesses and our advertisers.

About Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

  • or

Join Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Newsletters

Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox.

Photos: Everyone we saw getting ready for the big guy at Tampa’s Santa Fest and tree lighting

The City of Tampa loves a parade, so it had one last Saturday in honor of the trees lighting up in Curtis…

By Ray Roa

(L-R) Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, Ana Cruz, and Paola Suro at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa, Florida on Dec. 7, 2024.
160 slides

Photos: St. Pete speakeasy The Saint kicks off ‘Christmas Mass’ weekends

The Ball is soon to come on St. Petersburg’s First Block, but not before some yuletide sinning at The Saint. Last Friday,…

By Ray Roa

Image: Photos: St. Pete speakeasy The Saint kicks off ‘Christmas Mass’ weekends
35 slides

A house designed to look exactly like a medieval castle is now for sale in Florida

Hear ye! Hear ye! A near prefect castle home has hit the market in Orlando with plenty of land and medieval design…

By Chloe Greenberg

Image: A house designed to look exactly like a medieval castle is now for sale in Florida
27 slides

Photos: Florida Museum of Photographic Arts closes members art show in Ybor City

Now at its new home in Ybor City, Tampa’s Florida Museum of Photographic Arts continued its now 16-year tradition of hosting a…

By Ray Roa

Mahu Kamal at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Ybor City, Florida on Dec. 6, 2024.
29 slides

December 5, 2024

View more issues