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  1. Gasparilla Music Festival 2025 postponed; organizers cite ‘financial strain’
    53 minutes ago• Music
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  2. Steve Martin and Martin Short postpone Clearwater show due to California fires
    Earlier today• Life & Culture
    In this June 8, 2017 file photo, Steve Martin, left, and Martin Short appear at the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to Diane Keaton in Los Angeles. Steve Martin and Martin Short have postponed their Florida tour dates on Jan. 10 and 11 due to the wildfires devastating Southern California.
  3. Tampa Bay’s top home sales of 2024: see the luxury listings
    Yesterday• Real Estate
    104 Ladoga Ave. in Tampa was the most expensive home sold in Tampa Bay in 2024.
  5. For sale in St. Petersburg: pirate ship, gently used
    Yesterday• Bizarre News
    This unnamed pirate captain is part of the ship for sale at 16th Avenue North in St. Petersburg.
  6. Listening better, fighting less and asking more in 2025 | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    This year, here's to quieting down and letting people have the floor.
  7. Shen Yun dance troupe, coming to St. Pete this month, pushes back on investigation
    Jan. 6• Life & Culture
    Shen Yun will return to St. Petersburg's Mahaffey Theater Jan. 16-19.
  8. Days of cold weather ahead for Tampa Bay. Here’s what to know.
    Jan. 6• Weather
    Allisa Anderson, 30, quickly wrapped her 9-year-old daughter, Adrianna Anderson, in a towel after she emerged from the shallows while collecting shells at Sunset Beach in Tarpon Springs during a cold snap in December. A bigger chill is in store for Tampa Bay this week with the longest stretch of cold weather expected since 2022.
  9. Top things to do this week in Tampa Bay: Pink Martini, Steve Martin and Martin Short
    Jan. 6• Life & Culture
    Portland-based Pink Martini draws musical inspiration from the world of pop, jazz, classical and any other music from lands far and near. The group is celebrating its 30th anniversary performing at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts on Jan. 14.
  10. Photos: 2025 Epiphany celebration
    Jan. 6• Photos
    Luc Boillot, 17, of Plantation, retrieves the cross during the 119th Epiphany ceremony at the Spring Bayou on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, in Tarpon Springs.
    20 Images | View Slideshow
  11. Have an extra $4 million? You could buy the ‘Breaking Bad’ house
    Jan. 6• Nation & World
    The "Breaking Bad" house is shown in this 2017 photo.
  12. Mike Rinder, Scientology spokesman turned whistleblower, dies in Pinellas County
    Jan. 6• Clearwater
    Mike Rinder and Leah Remini co-hosted the Emmy-winning television series "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath." In addition to their show, they also worked together on a podcast called "Fair Game."
  13. 7 places to get a bowl meal in Tampa Bay for $15 or less
    Jan. 2• Food
    The “O.G. Bowl” from Pacific Counter, includes tuna, greens, edamame and more. It's been described as "like a California roll and a chimichanga had a baby."
  14. The dill of a lifetime? How the pickle dominated 2024.
    Jan. 1• Food
    Sour pickles sit in a bucket of brine at a stall at Picklesburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. in July. The festival, held just off the city's Market Square each year, brings pickle lovers and permutations of pickles together.
  15. The year in review: Look back on moments that made us happy in 2024
    Jan. 1• Nation & World
    Two-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng and her mother, Jona, are seen at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, on Sept. 19.
  16. ‘Call Anthony’ reviews cuisine from Tampa gas stations and corner stores
    Dec. 31, 2024• Tampa
    Anthony Gilbert, a local food critic, samples the boiled peanuts at Kings Meat Market at 3523 N. 22nd St. on Dec. 9 in Tampa.
  17. Top things to do in Tampa Bay this week: The Temptations and Jim Gaffigan
    Dec. 30, 2024• Life & Culture
    Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations is the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that follows the Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
  18. What’s coming in 2025: A new theme park, huge planetarium and free Disney water parks
    Dec. 30, 2024• Life & Culture
    The Florida Aquarium is in the midst of a $45 million renovation. Coming in the spring of 2025 is a redesigned second floor mezzanine with an expansive touch experience that triples the size of the current exhibit, a new tide pool water feature and aquatic lounge for guests to relax with food and drinks.
  19. The Book Rescuers finds permanent home in Largo
    Dec. 29, 2024• Books
    The Book Rescuers, a used bookstore that also offers magazines, albums, cassette tapes and more, recently moved from Pinellas Park to a new home at 8325 Ulmerton Road in Largo.
  20. Stanley, a very good boy, saves other dogs’ lives as a blood donor
    Dec. 29, 2024• Community News
    Stanley, an American Pit Bull, perks up his ears for a treat after he finishes donating blood at BluePearl Pet Hospital on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Clearwater.
  21. Disney’s Reedy Creek district blurred lines but broke no laws, Florida probe concludes
    Dec. 27, 2024• Politics
    A state probe of Walt Disney World's Reedy Creek Improvement District ended with no findings of criminal wrongdoing.
  22. Hanukkah celebration calls for release of hostages in Gaza
    Dec. 27, 2024• Life & Culture
    A bow-shaped cloud hovers over Clearwater as Tampa Bay Rays mascot Raymond, right, circulates with a battery-powered menorah while attending the Hanukkah celebration Thursday at Coachman Park in Clearwater.
  23. 2 Orlando tourist spots halt drone shows after separate accident that injured boy
    Dec. 27, 2024• Theme Parks
    Guests cool off under a water mist by the globe at Universal Studios City Walk in Orlando on Aug. 5, 2019. The theme park said this week that it is pausing the drone component of its “CineSational: A Symphonic Spectacular” show after an unrelated accident at Lake Eola Park.
  24. This new year, let’s all agree to not ‘improve’ | Column
    Dec. 27, 2024• Opinion
    A new year is upon us. Beware of falling into the self-improvement trap propped up by a $6 trillion wellness industry.
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