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  1. Disney World brings back its first after-hours Boo Bash party
    Yesterday• Theme Parks
    After-hours parties at the Magic Kingdom are popular because they give guests a chance to roam the world’s most popular tourist attraction after it closes to the general public.
  2. Mom swims in Tampa Bay to honor her daughter
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Grace Bunke began swimming after she lost her leg to osteosarcoma. She died in 2018. Her mother, Vicki Bunke is leading a Team Amazing Grace fundraising tour for Swim Across America, a charity that funds cancer research.
  3. Disney, Busch Gardens and other theme parks drop temperature screenings
    Yesterday• Theme Parks
    A guest has her temperature checked before entering SeaWorld as it reopens with new safety measures in place because of the coronavirus pandemic, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. The park had been closed since mid-March to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
  5. App offers free walking tour of 5 Tampa Bay cities
    Yesterday• Travel
    The St. Petersburg Museum of History is the first stop on the St. Petersburg Florida Stories audio tour.
  6. This Mother’s Day, the moms are not all right
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Show her you care with a moment of silence.
  7. Big Cat Rescue’s Carole Baskin announces new cryptocurrency and NFTs. Here’s what that means.
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Founder Carole Baskin walks the property at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Big Cat Rescue is a nonprofit sanctuary committed to humane treatment of rescued anima
  8. Photos: New exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg feature ancient Antioch mosaics and photographic masterworks
    Yesterday• Photos
    Erin Wilson, of St. Petersburg, pauses to examine Torso of a Youth, Antioch, Roman, 2nd Century A.D., where the historic marble statue on loan from the Princeton University Art Museum, is on display on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at the exhibit — Antioch Reclaimed: Ancient Mosaics at the MFA — which features five mosaics that have been cleaned and conserved and the story of their excavation in the 1930s, at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.
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  9. SeaWorld, parent company of Busch Gardens, reports steady improvement in profits
    Yesterday• Business
    SeaWorld Entertainment, the Orlando-based parent company of Busch Gardens, beat Wall Street expectations in its first-quarter earnings report released this week.
  10. Clearwater City Council member Hoyt Hamilton wins $1 million Powerball
    Yesterday• Clearwater
    City Council member Hoyt Hamilton, 61, pictured in the conference room at the Clearwater City Hall on the sixth floor of One Clearwater Tower, 600 Cleveland Street, Thursday, May 6, 2021 in Clearwater. On April 18, Hamilton picked up hot dog buns from Publix, and later learned he got a $1 million Powerball ticket.
  11. Tampa Bay area pets hoping to be adopted
    Yesterday• Pets
    Juju and Phoebe are two of many animals looking for loving homes.
  12. Tampa airport strikes car sharing deal, allowing for peer-to-peer rentals
    Yesterday• Business
    Travelers walk inside Tampa International Airport's Rental Car Center in Tampa, Florida, on March 19, 2021.
  13. Crescent rolls can be so much more
    Yesterday• Food
    Jalapeno Popper Rollups.
  14. 5 things to do with kids in Tampa Bay this week: April 26-May 3
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    The dachshund rescue group that would have put on the wiener dog races for Tampa's Riverfest has decided to go ahead and hold its own event. There will be races, raffles and adoptable dogs on hand for a day of long and low sausage-loving dogs.
  15. Florida stars in new Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings biography
    May 6• Books
    At her home in Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and one of her hunting dogs strike a pose.
  16. The show will go on at New Tampa Performing Arts Center
    May 5• Hillsborough
    A conceptual drawing, by FleischmaGarcia Architecture, of the proposed New Tampa Performing Arts Center on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard across from the main entrance to Hunter's Green. Wednesday, Hillsborough commissioners voted 5-2, for a $7.3 million construction contract to build the center.
  17. Former circus elephants begin to arrive at Florida sanctuary
    May 5• Associated Press
    In this Sept. 2019, photo provided by the White Oak Conservation, Asian elephants, Mable, born April 6, 2006, April, born April 3, 2010, and Kelly Ann, born Jan. 1, 1996, are seen at the Center for Elephant Conservation in Polk City, Fla. The Florida wildlife sanctuary is building a new 2,500-acre home for former circus elephants. The White Oak Conservation Center announced Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, that it's expecting to welcome 30 Asian elephants starting next year.
  18. John Stamos will play with Beach Boys in Clearwater next week
    May 5• Life & Culture
    The Beach Boys perform on stage with special guest John Stamos at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater on Jan. 7, 2015.
  19. Stars Wars Day brought hint of normalcy for Tampa Bay comic fans
    May 5• Entertainment
    Steven Kanyer, of Wesley Chapel, waits in line for the opportunity to meet Ray Park, the actor who portrayed Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, at Emerald City Comics in Clearwater.
  20. From Studio 54 to Water Street: Ian Schrager talks new Tampa Edition hotel
    May 5• Business
    The Tampa Edition hotel and residences (center, with a 'Water Street' banner on the front side) topped out at 26 stories in February. It's slated to open by 2022.
  21. 5 notable shows and concerts coming to Tampa Bay soon
    May 5• Entertainment
    Jimmy Buffett, shown here in Tampa in 2017, will be at Amalie Arena on Dec. 4.
  22. Comedian Iliza Shlesinger returns to stage with Clearwater stop
    May 5• Life & Culture
    Iliza Shlesinger, shown in a still from her 2019 Netflix special "Unveiled," will perform at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater on May 15.
  23. Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry chief to retire
    May 5• Hillsborough
    Julian Mackenzie, chief executive officer, of the Museum of Science and Industry, announced his retirement.
  24. Tips for hosting a crawfish boil at home
    May 5• Cooking
    Throwing your own crawfish boil is easy, if you have the right gear.
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