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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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Photos: Dr. Anthony Fauci came to Sarasota, and Florida’s surgeon general spoke to protestors outside

Dr. Anthony Fauci lives rent-free in the minds of many people. Many of them gathered outside Sarasota’s Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall…

By Ray Roa, Dave Decker

Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks to protestors outside Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, Florida on April 14, 2025.
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Everyone we saw rocking New Port Richey for last weekend's Monufest

Another Monufest brought a full day of rock and roll to downtown New Port Richey over the weekend as nearly a dozen…

By Ray Roa, Dave Decker

Image: Everyone we saw rocking New Port Richey for last weekend's Monufest
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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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April 10, 2025

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