A new performing arts center would further establish Sarasota as a cultural powerhouse and produce long-term economic benefits.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa's resident live music freak. He started freelancing with the paper in 2020 at the age ...

Sixty-five years ago, a group of courageous young African American students in Tampa embarked on a journey that would forever change the city. Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch ...

Tampa's civil rights history will return to center stage as Stageworks Theatre re-mounts 'When the Righteous Triumph,' now ...

The foundation of late Tampa philanthropist David A. Straz Jr. claims Northern Trust was motivated by animosity related to ...

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in ...

Look for Food Network host and chef Alton Brown to be tweeting and eating when he rolls into town Wednesday for his variety show at the Straz Center, called “The Last Bite.” On a previous visit, Brown ...

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When she’s not dreaming up her next road trip, you can find her training for a 5K or half-marathon, attending a performing arts show ... for the Tampa Bay region has some positives and negatives. The ...

Tampa playwright Mark Leib’s play about the Civil Rights sit-ins in Tampa in 1960 is scheduled at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts on March 6-9. The play, “When the Righteous Triumph,” was ...

ZooTampa gives a nod to ancient history with a limited-time immersive exhibit of 15 life-sized dinosaurs. Storied beasts include the 40-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex, a Dilophosaurus and the feathered ...

When the Righteous Triumph” is being revived for a March 6-9 run at the Straz Center. It tells the story of Tampa’s F.W.