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Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa is seen in 2021. The cemetery opened in 1919.
Tampa loses control of historic Black cemetery. A property flipper now owns it.
Memorial Park Cemetery was established in 1919. It was abandoned a century later.
Top Tampa Bay area events for the week of Jan. 30-Feb. 5
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band, pictured during a 2012 show in Tampa, will play Amalie Arena in Tampa on Wednesday.
Find out what it’s like to camp in vans in Dade City, or feel the percussive reverberations of Blue Man Group in Clearwater.
At a gallery in Largo, artificial intelligence helps create images of Blackness
“Family Trinity” is displayed in the “Imagine Blackness” exhibition by artist McArthur Freeman II and sociologist Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman at Creative Pinellas on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Largo.
Afro-futurism meets artificial intelligence in this Creative Pinellas exhibit running through Feb. 26.
Dreams become ‘reality’ at The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg
The Dalí's "Dream Tapestry" is an interactive experience powered by OpenAI’s DALL·E. It transforms peoples' dreams into individual art pieces and combines them with six other dreams to form a collective tapestry.
“The Shape of Dreams” features an interactive artificial intelligence experience called the Dream Tapestry.

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  1. Fall Out Boy to headline Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre this summer
    5 hours ago• Music
    Fall Out Boy is coming to Tampa.
  2. Pinellas death row prisoner, focus of Netflix’s ‘Girl in the Picture,’ dies
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    A poster assembled by St. Petersburg police shows Franklin Delano Floyd and several aliases he is known to have used. Floyd died last week after 20 years on Florida's death row.
  3. At a gallery in Largo, artificial intelligence helps create images of Blackness
    Yesterday• Visual Arts
    “Family Trinity” is displayed in the “Imagine Blackness” exhibition by artist McArthur Freeman II and sociologist Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman at Creative Pinellas on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Largo.
  5. ‘Laverne & Shirley’ actor Cindy Williams dies at 75
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Penny Marshal, left, and Cindy Williams from the comedy series "Laverne & Shirley" appear at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 9, 1979. Williams, who played Shirley opposite Marshall's Laverne on the popular sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," died Wednesday, her family said on Monday.
  6. Tampa Bay area pets available for adoption
    Yesterday• Pets
    Butterfinger and Marcus are two of many animals hoping to find "fur"ever homes.
  7. Tampa loses control of historic Black cemetery. A property flipper now owns it.
    Yesterday• History
    Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa is seen in 2021. The cemetery opened in 1919.
  8. Hillsborough County hotels hit $1 billion in annual taxable revenue
    Yesterday• Business
    The downtown Tampa skyline is visible through a swimming pool cabana at the Tampa Edition hotel, which opened in October. Visit Tampa Bay reported that Hillsborough County hotels saw more than $1 billion in taxable revenue during 2022, a record.
  9. Top Tampa Bay area events for the week of Jan. 30-Feb. 5
    Yesterday• Things To Do
    Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band, pictured during a 2012 show in Tampa, will play Amalie Arena in Tampa on Wednesday.
  10. What to know about Tampa Bay’s first Raising Cane’s opening
    Yesterday• Business
    Raising Cane's has hired more than 130 people to staff the Clearwater location, according to the company.
  11. Lisa Marie Presley’s will contested in court by mother Priscilla Presley
    Jan. 29• Life & Culture
    Priscilla Presley, left, listens to her daughter Lisa Marie Presley speak during a media day for the "Graceland Presents Elvis: The Exhibition - The Show - The Experience" at the Westgate Las Vegas casino-hotel in Las Vegas in 2015. Priscilla Presley is contesting the will of Lisa Marie, who died earlier this month.
  12. Tom Verlaine, co-founder of early punks Television, dies at 73
    Jan. 29• Music
    Founder and guitarist Tom Verlaine of the band Television performing live in 2013 in Austin, Texas.
  13. Photos: ARRRRRRGH! Pirates invade Tampa for Gasparilla
    Jan. 28• Life & Culture
    Skyla Carter, 24, of Tampa, waves during the 2023 Gasparilla Parade of Pirates.
    26 Images | View Slideshow
  14. Gasparilla victory parade turns into a pirate party along the Riverwalk
    Jan. 28• Life & Culture
    Skyla Carter, 24, of Tampa, waves during the 2023 Gasparilla Parade of Pirates.
  15. Jury finds Tampa rapper not guilty in fatal double shooting
    Jan. 27• Crime
    Billy Adams III testifies Thursday during his trial for the shootings of Trevon Albury and Daniel Thompson in a Lutz recording studio. Adams said he killed the pair after Albury pulled a gun in an attempt to rob the studio engineer.
  16. Gasparilla weather: Chilly morning leads to quick warmup
    Jan. 27• Local Weather
    Pirates with Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla disembark from the Jose Gasparilla pirate ship at the Tampa Convention Center to begin the Gasparilla invasion in January 2022. This year, early morning temperatures on Saturday will be in the upper 40s along the Gasparilla parade route but will climb to the 70s by the time the day's festivities kick off.
  17. Parents will have to accompany minors at Florida State Fair after 6 p.m.
    Jan. 27• Entertainment
    Patrons walk through the Midway during opening night at the Florida State Fair on Feb. 10, 2022, in Tampa.
  18. ‘The Bluest Eye’ is the latest victim of Florida’s thought police
    Jan. 27• Opinion
    A copy of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" inside a book box in Dunedin on Jan. 26, 2023. Pinellas County school officials have removed the book from all high schools.
  19. Tampa Bay’s indie music scene competes to perform on a bigger stage
    Jan. 26• Music
    Tampa Bay indie band Speak Easy plays on stage at the Destination Okeechobee competition at The Factory in St. Petersburg, Fla., Jan. 21, 2023, for a chance to play at Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival.
  20. Tampa man Troy Meyer keeps winning on ‘Jeopardy!’ Who is he?
    Jan. 26• Arts
    Troy Meyer, of Tampa, is seen in this undated image from YouTube.com.
  21. Book Talk: Peter Kageyama launches his first novel at Tombolo
    Jan. 26• Books
    Peter Kageyama
  22. Philip Bump looks at baby boomers’ impact in ‘The Aftermath’
    Jan. 26• Books
    Journalist Philip Bump's first book is "The Aftermath."
  23. Times arts reporter Maggie Duffy wins MUSE Award
    Jan. 26• Arts
    Maggie Duffy, Tampa Bay Times arts and music reporter, is shown here when she recently took part in the "Dream Tapestry" interactive experience at the Dali Museum. She won this year's MUSE Award for literary arts from the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance.
  24. James Beard nominations skip Tampa Bay restaurants, again
    Jan. 26• Food
    The dining area of Rocca Italian restaurant in Tampa, Florida on Thursday, December 12, 2019.
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