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  1. Tiki Docks opens in St. Petersburg’s Skyway Marina District
    Yesterday• Food
    A watermelon margarita is served at Tiki Docks, now open in St. Petersburg's Maximo Marina. [HELEN FREUND | Tampa Bay Times]
  2. Family of Tiger King’s Don Lewis files lawsuit against Carole Baskin and others
    Yesterday• Crime
    Jack Smith speaks during a news conference Monday, Aug. 10, 2020 in Tampa. The family of Don Lewis held a news conference on Monday announcing a reward being offered for the information about the disappearance of Don Lewis. [CHRIS URSO | Times]
  3. Busch Gardens, SeaWorld attendance drops 96 percent due to coronavirus
    Yesterday• Health
    Patrons of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay enjoy the 200-foot dive on the SheiKra roller coaster on June 11, 2020, in Tampa. The park, owned and operated by SeaWorld Entertainment, has reopened to the public for the first time in almost 3 months after closing on March 16 because of the coronavirus pandemic. [DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times]
  5. PBS will air special for kids on racism and give Ken Burns a channel
    Yesterday• Entertainment
    Brad, Yesenia and Xavier share adventures in "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" on PBS. The show will play a part in a PBS effort to talk to kids about race and racism that will air in October. [PBS]
  6. Here’s the winner of Charlie Crist’s Pinellas Homemade Mask contest
    Yesterday• Bright Spots
    Janna Kennedy Hyten created a mask that depicts a couple in an opera balcony and entered it in the Pinellas Homemade Mask Contest, put on by the office of Congressman Charlie Crist. [Courtesy of the Office of Congressman Charlie Crist.]
  7. 5 things to do with kids in Tampa Bay this week: Aug. 10-16
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Gatorland alligator handler Donnie Aldarelli shows off Chester, a 14-foot alligator. Photo courtesy Gatorland [Gatorland]
  8. Live events for the week of Aug. 10-16
    Yesterday• Entertainment
    Families can learn how scientists are attempting to protect our oceans from the invasive lionfish. [LARA CERRI | Times]
  9. Virtual events for the week of Aug. 10-16
    Yesterday• Entertainment
    Francis Wilson Playhouse brings us a virtual presentation of Disney on Broadway.
  10. In Tampa, a fountain is all that’s left of a historic hospital. A developer wants to save it.
    Yesterday• History
    The Centro Español Hospital as it looked in 1924. The fountain was one of three on the property. Each was surrounded by a pool filled with goldfish. The other two were located on either side of the building. [Courtesy of Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System]
  11. Sex and wrestling: Mad Maxine shares seedy side of the sport
    Yesterday• History
    Jeannine Mjoseth, who in the 1980s wrestled under the names Mad Maxine and Lady Maxine, was trained and then managed by The Fabulous Moolah. She says she witnessed how Moolah would prostitute other female wrestlers. [Courtesy Jeannine Mjoseth]
  12. Back injury forces Simon Cowell off ‘America’s Got Talent’
    Yesterday• Associated Press
    Simon Cowell broke his back Saturday while testing his new electric bicycle at his home in California. [WILLY SANJUAN | Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP]
  13. Indigenous people gather in Vinoy Park to highlight resilience
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    Cynamon Thomas, 28, gets help from a friend seeing how she looks as she puts finishing touches on her jingle dress, which is a First Nations and Native American women's pow wow regalia during a an event in Vinoy Park marking International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Sunday, August 9, 2020. The dress is used for the jingle dance and includes multiple rows of metal cones made out of tobacco tin lids that make jingling noises as the dancer moves. Thomas identifies as Mescalero Apache and Diné.Ž [JOHN PENDYGRAFT | Times]
  14. Republicans push Kanye 2020. But will it really hurt Biden?
    Aug. 8• Nation & World
    Kanye West makes his first presidential campaign appearance on July 19, in North Charleston, S.C. West filed signatures on Aug. 5 in Ohio, to run for president as an independent candidate in November. [LAUREN PETRACCA IPETRACCA | AP]
  15. ‘Who murdered Don Lewis?’ billboards up in Tampa
    Aug. 8• Crime
    An artist's rendering of a Clear Channel billboard featuring Don Lewis. Four of the billboards went up in Tampa on Aug. 8, 2020. [Courtesy of Jack Smith]
  16. A century of women’s suffrage
    Aug. 8• Life & Culture
    Cassie Yacovazzi focuses on American cultural, religious, and gender history in the nineteenth century. [Photo: Krista Lee Schrock/ University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee.]
  17. James Lee Burke’s ‘A Private Cathedral’ brings myth to mystery
    Aug. 7• Books
    Author James Lee Burke's 40th novel is "A Private Cathedral." [James McDavid]
  18. Dr. Amley dedicated his career of 51 years to oral health and beautiful smiles
    Aug. 7• Life & Culture
    Dr. Ed Amley, a retired St. Petersburg orthodontist, poses at home in St. Petersburg, Monday, July 20, 2020. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
  19. What do a TikTok ban and Instagram Reels mean for Florida video app users?
    Aug. 7• Life & Culture
    Left to right: Screenshots of TikToks made by Florida app users @helloemilyerin, @trashcaulin and @likecherriesinspring. [Screenshots, TikTok]
  20. A Florida cybersecurity expert weighs in on TikTok
    Aug. 7• Life & Culture
    This Feb. 25 photo shows the icon for TikTok in New York. President Donald Trump will order China’s ByteDance to sell its hit video app TikTok because of national-security concerns, according to reports published July 31. “We are looking at TikTok," Trump told reporters Friday at the White House. "We may be banning TikTok.” [AP]
  21. Restaurant employees no longer need coronavirus tests to return to work
    Aug. 6• Food
    People sit outside at Tampa's Meat Market, a restaurant at Hyde Park Village, on June 16. [IVY CEBALLO | Times]
  22. Socially distanced dance series draws to a close in Tampa Bay
    Aug. 6• Stage
    Ethan Barbee carries the movement during "Reverberation," a socially distanced dance performance on the streets of St. Petersburg on June 13. [ALVARO G. GABALDON | Courtesy of Andee Scott]
  23. At Pickford’s Counter, a slice of Tampa history gets a culinary reboot
    Aug. 6• Food
    A customer enters the new Pickford's Counter in Tampa. The classic soda-shop restaurant was once Pickford's Sundries, where people went for pancakes, herbal medicine and perfumes. [DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times]
  24. Tampa Bay filmmakers use Zoom to make a coronavirus-safe movie
    Aug. 6• Movies
    The movie "Confinement" was made using the Zoom app. [Courtesy of Nicole Abisinio]
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