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  1. Pride month events in Tampa Bay: parties, parades, concerts and more
    May 31• Life & Culture
    The quarter-mile-long rainbow flag being rolled up at the end of the Pride in Paradise Parade, with hundreds of people carrying the flag down the street in 2022.
  2. Tampa’s Sunset Music Festival heats up Memorial Day Weekend
    May 28• Music
    Electronic music fans dance in front of the main stage during the Sunset Music Festival on Saturday, May 27, 2023 in Tampa.
  3. 25-ish Tampa Bay spots for breakups, hangovers and feeling alive
    May 25• Opinion
    Tampa Bay Times reporters Gabrielle Calise and Helen Freund feel alive at Lassing Park in St. Petersburg.
  5. Tina Turner, ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ whose career made her world-famous, dies at 83
    May 24• Music News
    Tina Turner performs in a concert in Cologne, Germany on Jan. 14, 2009. Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer, died Tuesday, after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager. She was 83.
  6. St. Pete Pride: Idina Menzel headlining Friday concert ahead of 2023 parade
    May 23• Entertainment
    Broadway star Idina Menzel will perform at the St. Pete Pride Friday night concert, the day before the big parade.
  7. Big hammock hangout returns to St. Pete Pier in June
    May 22• St. Petersburg
    In October, the St. Pete Pier event attempted to break the world record for the largest hammock hangout. The Hammock Festival returns June 10.
  8. Review: Ed Sheeran explores grief in Clearwater during Subtract Tour kickoff
    May 20• Music Reviews
    Ed Sheeran performs during his Subtract Tour at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater on Friday, May 19, 2023. On May 20, he will headline a show at Raymond James Stadium, a concert he said has already broken the tour's ticket record.
  9. Meet Mike Twitty: Pinellas elected official by day, rock star by night
    May 19• Music Interviews
    Pinellas County property appraiser Mike Twitty performs on stage with band Code Red at the Oldsmar Days festival on March 26. “He’s a straight up rockstar when he’s on stage,” said Twitty’s son and band mate, Sam.
  10. Tampa Pig Jig will bring Brad Paisley and Riley Green as headliners
    May 15• Life & Culture
    The crowd at a previous Tampa Pig Jig, which featured headliner Darius Rucker.
  11. 100 gecs brings its futuristic pop to a sold-out St. Petersburg crowd
    May 10• Music
    Laura Les of 100 gecs performs on stage to a sold-out crowd at Jannus Live on Tuesday in St. Petersburg. The duo's most recent album, "10000 gecs," came out in March.
  12. What’s with the candlelight concerts around Tampa and St. Petersburg?
    May 9• Arts
    Pianist Sergei Kossenko and violinist Olga Ferroni perform as a duet during the Candlelight: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac concert on Friday, May 5, 2023, at First Baptist Church of St. Petersburg.
  13. Top Tampa Bay area events for the week of May 8-14
    May 8• Things To Do
    Horror film fans won't want to miss the inaugural Sunshine City Scare horror convention at St. Petersburg's Coliseum this weekend.
  14. Live Nation offers $25 tickets for loads of Tampa Bay concerts
    May 4• Music News
    The crowd filled up from the pit to the lawn during the Next Big Thing at Tampa's MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in 2021. Many concerts at the venue will go on sale for $25 May 10-16.
  15. Ed Sheeran didn’t copy Marvin Gaye classic in hit song, jury finds
    May 4• News
    Recording artist Ed Sheeran prepares to speak to the media outside New York Federal Court after he won his copyright infringement trial Thursday in New York. A federal jury concluded that Sheeran didn't steal key components of Marvin Gaye’s classic 1970s tune “Let’s Get It On” when he created his hit song “Thinking Out Loud.”
  16. 50 years ago in Tampa, a sold-out Led Zeppelin show beat the Beatles
    May 4• History
    Left: Robert Plant contorts his face as he sings to a sold-out crowd at Tampa Stadium on May 5, 1973. Right: An original flyer advertising the Led Zeppelin show that broke records.
  17. How your favorite TV shows, movies will be affected by Hollywood writers strike
    May 2• Life & Culture
    The scene outside Paramount Studios on Melrose Avenue after the Writer's Guild of America brought members out with picket signs in front of studios across Los Angeles
  18. Riverfest returns to Tampa Riverwalk with music, balloon glow, lantern parade
    May 2• Life & Culture
    A balloon glow will cap the night at 8:30 Friday and Saturday, like it did here in 2017, at Tampa's Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park for Riverfest. The event returns May 5-6.
  19. Legendary folk singer Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84
    May 2• Music News
    Gordon Lightfoot performs during the evening ceremonies of Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation, in Ottawa, Ontario, on July 1, 2017. The legendary folk singer-songwriter, whose hits including “Early Morning Rain,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported worldwide, died on Monday.
  20. Taylor Swift Tampa shows may have made $5M for Raymond James Stadium
    May 1• Tampa
    Taylor Swift performs “The Man” during the first of her three sold-out Tampa shows on the Eras tour at Raymond James Stadium on April 13.
  21. Ed Sheeran coming to Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall just ahead of Tampa show
    April 28• Music News
    Recording artist Ed Sheeran performs on stage at the 2021 NFL Kickoff Experience at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in 2021 in Tampa. He's performing at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater on May 19 and at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium on May 20, 2023.
  22. Savannah Bananas come to Tampa, bringing baseball antics this weekend
    April 27• Life & Culture
    The TikTok stars known as the Savannah Bananas baseball squad has two sold out appearances at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa April 28-29.
  23. 3 questions with Flipturn ahead of Gasparilla Music Festival
    April 27• Music Interviews
    North Florida indie rock band Flipturn is playing Saturday, April 29 at Gasparilla Music Festival in Cutis Hixon Waterfront Park.
  24. Singer Harry Belafonte has died at 96
    April 25• Life & Culture
    Harry Belafonte speaks at the official awarding ceremony of the 45th Rose d'Or festival at the Culture and Congresscenter (KKL) in Lucerne, Switerland, Saturday evening, May 7, 2005.
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