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  1. Hurricane Ian closes aquariums, zoo, cancels Tampa Bay area events this week
    Yesterday• Hurricane
    The Florida Aquarium and its administrative offices will be closed effective at 3 p.m. Monday because of Hurricane Ian. Administrators have not decided when it will reopen.
  2. Meet Tampa’s new celebrity: a giant airport flamingo
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Phil Garrett takes a photo of his girlfriend, Julie Marie Fischer, beside the new sculpture, "Home," by artist Matthew Mazzotta. The 21-foot floor-to-ceiling sculpture of a flamingo has been a popular stop for guests boarding and arriving at Tampa International Airport.
  3. Highlander’s Adrian Paul to teach swordplay in Tampa this weekend
    Sep. 21• Things To Do
    'Highlander' actor Adrian Paul, left, will be bringing his traveling swordplay course, 'The Sword Experience', right, to Tampa on Saturday.
  5. Florida’s ‘real’ tourist attraction is rocket launches
    Sep. 21• Narratives
    The Space Launch System rocket sits on the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B as spectators wait across the water at Rotary Riverfront Park in Titusville, hoping to see NASA's Artemis I mission launch.
  6. Top 15 Tampa Bay area events for the week of Sept. 19-25
    Sep. 19• Things To Do
    The Clearwater Offshore Nationals, pictured in 2009, returns to the Gulf of Mexico this weekend.
  7. ‘Avenue Q’ at Tampa’s Straz is not your kid’s puppet show
    Sep. 19• Stage
    From left to right, puppeteers, Ryan Sturm, Ashley Lord, Spencer Meyers and Julia Rifino, perform with their puppets during a rehearsal performance at the Jaeb Theater at The Straz on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, in Tampa. The adults-only musical features actors and puppets. It tells the story of a recent college grad named Princeton, who moves into a shabby New York apartment on Avenue Q.
  8. 35 ways to celebrate Oktoberfest in the Tampa Bay area
    Sep. 16• Things To Do
    Oktoberfest 2019 at the German American Club of the Palm Beaches. This year's Oktoberfest festivities start cranking up this week in the Tampa Bay area.
  9. Monday is Talk Like a Pirate Day, ye scurvy dogs
    Sep. 15• Things To Do
    Sept. 19 has for more than 20 years been declared Talk Like a Pirate Day, making it easy on David Jones of Tampa, shown in January's Gasparilla Parade of Pirates as part of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla.
  10. Spice and smoke rule at Flaming Mountain, a new Chinese restaurant in Tampa
    Sep. 14• Food
    Mapo tofu is served at Flaming Mountain, a new Chinese restaurant and skewer bar in Tampa.
  11. Saturday is Free Museum Day at art, history spots across Tampa Bay
    Sep. 14• Kids & Family
    A Joseph Mozier marble statue on display during free museum day at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg was a part of the annual Arts Alive! event in St. Petersburg in 2013, which annually coincides with the Smithsonian's Free Museum Day. It will be held this year on Sept. 17.
  12. A look at the Halloween events, parties and haunted houses coming to Central Florida
    Sep. 14• Things To Do
    After a scary couple of years dealing with a pandemic, Central Florida is back in the horror business for the 2022 Halloween season.
  13. A quick guide to 2022 Halloween attractions coming to Tampa Bay
    Sep. 13• Things To Do
    Sir Henry himself, owner Zach Glaros, poses near one of his custom-made haunted houses in 2019. There are three outdoor haunted mazes to choose from at the Plant City attraction.
  14. Inside the Weeknd haunted house at Universal Halloween Horror Nights
    Sep. 13• Things to Do
    The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare house features the music of the musician and goes inside his dark mind at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights.
  15. Hispanic Heritage Month: Where to celebrate in Tampa Bay
    Sep. 13• News
    Flags representing man Hispanic countries fly above the field at The Lake House in Hernando County. Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated Sept. 15-Oct. 15.
  16. Tampa Bay’s most underrated item: the inflatable kayak
    Sep. 13• Outdoors
    Times staff writer Gabrielle Calise takes her inflatable kayak to the mangrove-lined waters of Upper Tampa Bay Park.
  17. Top 15 Tampa Bay area events for the week of Sept. 12-18
    Sep. 12• Life & Culture
    Ringo Starr performs along with his All-Starr Band at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater.
  18. Busch Gardens adds new Spooktacular for kids, new scare zones for 2022 Howl-O-Scream
    Sep. 12• Theme Parks
    Howl-O-Scream opens at Busch Gardens Sept. 9 with five haunted houses and seven scare zones scattered throughout the Tampa park.
  19. Free cruise to the Bahamas for teachers, first responders, military
    Sep. 12• Travel
    Margaritaville at Sea cruise line's first ship, The Paradise, launched in May.
  20. Queen’s death prompts Straz Center to cancel ‘The Crown’ parody
    Sep. 9• Stage
    The death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted Tampa’s Straz Center for the Performing Arts to cancel next month’s production of “The Crown — Live!”, a parody of the hit Netflix show about British royalty.
  21. Scream-A-Geddon returns to Dade City for backwoods scares
    Sep. 9• Things To Do
    Actors emerge from a simulated farmhouse at the center of the Infected haunted house at Scream-A-Geddon in Dade City in 2019. The scare park returns for its eighth year with five haunted houses and Zombie Paintball Assault from Sept. 9-Oct. 31.
  22. Tampa’s J.B. Ball taping a comedy special here after work with Kevin Hart
    Sep. 9• Things To Do
    Tampa native J.B. Ball, who has worked with Kevin Hart nearly a dozen times, will film his first standup comedy special on Sept. 24 at the University of Tampa.
  23. 13 Tampa Bay events memorializing Sept. 11, 2001
    Sep. 7• Things To Do
    A New York City firefighter honors one of the people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
  24. Free and cheap things to do in the Tampa Bay area: Bucs Beach Bash, fun run
    Sep. 7• Shopping
    A juvenile alligator shows off its teeth while it rests along the banks of Lake Maggiore at the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in St. Petersburg. Healthy St. Pete offers a fun run along the preserve trails every second Saturday for free with a fitness instructor.
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