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  1. Lanny Poffo, former WWE star and longtime Tampa Bay resident, has died
    Yesterday• Pro Wrestling
    Lanny Poffo, left, and brother Randy Poffo - better known as Randy Savage - kiss their mom Judy Poffo.
  2. On a faith-based streaming service, this Tampa Bay series is the most watched
    Yesterday• Movies
    Ethan Rich and Nicole Abisinio in a scene for streaming series "The Advocate" that was filmed throughout Tampa Bay.
  3. Art Keeble made a home for art in Tampa
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Art Keeble was the executive director of the Arts Council of Hillsborough County for more than 30 years. "If you look around Hillsborough County, anything and every related to the arts, most likely it’s because of this man," said friend and Ybor City Market director Lynn Kroesen.
  5. Book Talk: St. Petersburg authors speak at Studio@620
    Yesterday• Books
    Paul Wilborn will talk about his novel "Florida Hustle" at the Studio@620 on Feb. 7.
  6. Bruce Springsteen shows Tampa who’s the boss
    Yesterday• Music
    Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform the first concert of their 2023 tour at Amalie Arena on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 in Tampa.
  7. Jim Gaffigan talks about his Tampa TV special, Disney with kids
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Comedian Jim Gaffigan will brin "The Dark Pale Tour" to Tampa's Straz Center Feb. 9-11 for four shows that will be filmed for his next TV special. Photo courtesy Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
  8. A Tampa mobster was supposedly killed by a hitman. His son now says it was faked.
    Yesterday• History
    Convicted drug smuggler Angelo Bedami holds a photograph of his father Joe Bedami Sr., a mobster and alleged Santo Trafficante hitman.
  9. Torchy’s Tacos opens in St. Petersburg
    Feb. 1• Life & Culture
    Texas-based taco chain Torchy's Tacos opened Wednesday in St. Petersburg.
  10. Tampa’s Glazer Children’s Museum unboxes giant dinosaur skull for upcoming exhibit
    Feb. 1• Life & Culture
    Fossil restorers Elia Smaniotto, of Trieste, Italy, left, and Tomas Stark, of Sezana, Slovenia, remove the skull of Big John from a crate on Wednesday at the Glazer Children's Museum in Tampa. The complete triceratops skeleton will be the center of an exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend.
  11. Check out Heiress, St. Petersburg’s newest contemporary gallery
    Feb. 1• Arts
    Heiress owners Erica Luedtke and Finn Schult are pictured during the St. Petersburg gallery's opening of "An Ouroboros of Looking" on Jan. 13, 2023.
  12. Celebrate Black History Month with these Tampa Bay events
    Feb. 1• Things To Do
    Festivals, talks and other celebrations take place across the Tampa Bay area during February to honor Black History Month..
  13. Bruce Springsteen brings new tour to Tampa tonight; here’s a look back
    Feb. 1• Music
    Bruce Springsteen performed during Super Bowl XLIII, held at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium in 2009. He performs in Tampa tonight.
  14. Salman Rushdie triumphs with ‘Victory City’
    Feb. 1• Books
    Salman Rushdie is the author of "Victory City."
  15. Beyoncé will bring her Renaissance World Tour to Tampa this summer
    Feb. 1• Music News
    Beyonce performs in concert at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa during the Formation World Tour in 2016.
  16. Death Cab for Cutie triumphantly returns to Tampa Bay after 19 years away
    Feb. 1• Music Reviews
    Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard performs in front of a sold out crowd in St. Petersburg at Jannus Live on Tuesday, January 31, 2023.
  17. What readers think of Pinellas schools’ attack on ‘The Bluest Eye’
    Feb. 1• Opinion
    A copy of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" inside a Little Free Library in Crystal Beach on Jan. 26.
  18. Fall Out Boy to headline Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre this summer
    Jan. 31• Music
    Fall Out Boy is coming to Tampa.
  19. Pinellas death row prisoner, focus of Netflix’s ‘Girl in the Picture,’ dies
    Jan. 31• 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.
  20. At a gallery in Largo, artificial intelligence helps create images of Blackness
    Jan. 31• 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.
  21. ‘Laverne & Shirley’ actor Cindy Williams dies at 75
    Jan. 31• 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.
  22. Tampa Bay area pets available for adoption
    Jan. 30• Pets
    Butterfinger and Marcus are two of many animals hoping to find "fur"ever homes.
  23. Tampa loses control of historic Black cemetery. A property flipper now owns it.
    Jan. 30• History
    Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa is seen in 2021. The cemetery opened in 1919.
  24. Hillsborough County hotels hit $1 billion in annual taxable revenue
    Jan. 30• 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.
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