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SSA Marine says it will conserve Rattlesnake Key—but it’s also been dinged by environmental protection agencies and been in lawsuits against waterkeeper organizations. www.cltampa.com/news/ssa-mar...
The company proposing a new cruise port in Tampa Bay has a history of violating environmental laws
SSA terminal in port of Seattle on March 12, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. A well known marine developer says it will conserve Rattlesnake Key. Court
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February 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM
SSA Marine says it will conserve Rattlesnake Key—but it’s also been dinged by environmental protection agencies and been in lawsuits against waterkeeper organizations. www.cltampa.com/news/ssa-mar...
Make no mistake, the centennial for Black History Month is a major deal. www.cltampa.com/news/you-can...
'You can't erase truth': Black History Month events around Tampa Bay
The celebration marks its 100th anniversary this year.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Make no mistake, the centennial for Black History Month is a major deal. www.cltampa.com/news/you-can...
The bill featured a triumvirate of Tampa Bay punk, too, thanks to Pet Lizard, Wolf-Face, and Spanish Bombs. www.cltampa.com/music-2/phot...
Photos: Sex Mex brings Texas flavor to Bradenton
Sex Mex plays Oscura in Bradenton, Florida on Feb. 6, 2026. It got nice and spicy in Bradenton last Friday when Nathan Gray brought his Texas rock band
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February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The bill featured a triumvirate of Tampa Bay punk, too, thanks to Pet Lizard, Wolf-Face, and Spanish Bombs. www.cltampa.com/music-2/phot...
It got nice and spicy in Bradenton last Friday when Nathan Gray brought his Texas rock band Sex Mex to Oscura. The bill featured a triumvirate of Tampa Bay punk, too, thanks to Pet Lizard, Wolf-Face, and Spanish Bombs. www.cltampa.com/music-2/phot...
Photos: Sex Mex brings Texas flavor to Bradenton
Sex Mex plays Oscura in Bradenton, Florida on Feb. 6, 2026. It got nice and spicy in Bradenton last Friday when Nathan Gray brought his Texas rock band
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February 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
It got nice and spicy in Bradenton last Friday when Nathan Gray brought his Texas rock band Sex Mex to Oscura. The bill featured a triumvirate of Tampa Bay punk, too, thanks to Pet Lizard, Wolf-Face, and Spanish Bombs. www.cltampa.com/music-2/phot...
"The name refers to aggregate or communal breeding. ...They are, to my knowledge, the only species in nature named for how they fuck." www.cltampa.com/news/theres-...
There's a lot to love about Jupiter, Florida Aquarium's goliath grouper
Jupiter the Grouper in his tank at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Florida on Feb. 7, 2026—eyes like glazed over blueberries. I have a crush on a fish.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"The name refers to aggregate or communal breeding. ...They are, to my knowledge, the only species in nature named for how they fuck." www.cltampa.com/news/theres-...
The 64-year-old has two Tampa performances this weekend: A Friday comedy cabaret at the Commodore, and an appearance before the screening of the documentary ‘Who Is Vermin Supreme’ happening at Sun-Ray Cinema. www.cltampa.com/news/intervi...
Interview: Before two Tampa shows, Vermin Supreme talks origins, fighting fascism, and more
Vermin Supreme outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016. I first met Vermin Supreme after we were both released
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February 9, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The 64-year-old has two Tampa performances this weekend: A Friday comedy cabaret at the Commodore, and an appearance before the screening of the documentary ‘Who Is Vermin Supreme’ happening at Sun-Ray Cinema. www.cltampa.com/news/intervi...
Guys, I'm so fucking old. www.cltampa.com/music-2/inte...
Interview: Ahead of St. Pete show, Joey Valence & Brae talk Crocs, writing, and getting older
Joey Valence & Brae Before diving into more serious questions about their career and music, hip-hop duo Joey Valence & Brae (which often goes by
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February 6, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Guys, I'm so fucking old. www.cltampa.com/music-2/inte...
Pop music fans not living under Kid Rock-sized fedora know full well that Puerto Rican music is having a moment. www.cltampa.com/music-2/chuw...
Chuwi, the secret sauce on ‘Weltita’ by Bad Bunny, will play a Tampa concert this summer
Chuwi Pop music fans not living under Kid Rock-sized fedora know full well that Puerto Rican music is having a moment. Ahead of this weekend’s Super Bowl
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February 6, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Pop music fans not living under Kid Rock-sized fedora know full well that Puerto Rican music is having a moment. www.cltampa.com/music-2/chuw...
The Florida cold couldn’t keep the emo kids away from Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park last Thursday when Emo Night Tampa staged a takeover of downtown’s 15-years-running live music series. www.cltampa.com/news/photos-...
Photos: Bad, Bad Things and Emo Night Tampa rip Rock the Park
Bill. was forced off the bill due to illness.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
The Florida cold couldn’t keep the emo kids away from Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park last Thursday when Emo Night Tampa staged a takeover of downtown’s 15-years-running live music series. www.cltampa.com/news/photos-...
Including Emo Night Tampa’s Rock the Park takeover, a J Dilla memorial, Digable Planets, and more. www.cltampa.com/news/tampa-b...
Tampa Bay's best live music happening Feb. 5-12
Alix Herard of Bill. (stylized "bill.") That groundhog saw his shadow this week, but thankfully that has nothing to do with how much live music Tampa Bay
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February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Including Emo Night Tampa’s Rock the Park takeover, a J Dilla memorial, Digable Planets, and more. www.cltampa.com/news/tampa-b...
Digable Planets‘ mainstream success stopped on the Grammys stage. Collecting two awards in the 1994 ceremony, the emcee trio from Philly—used their speeches to call out hypocrisy in the music industry. www.cltampa.com/music-2/righ...
Righteous '90s hip-hop legend Digable Planets brings 'Blowout Comb' reunion to St. Pete
Digable Planets at Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on Feb. 17, 2024. Digable Planets' mainstream success stopped on the Grammys stage.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Digable Planets‘ mainstream success stopped on the Grammys stage. Collecting two awards in the 1994 ceremony, the emcee trio from Philly—used their speeches to call out hypocrisy in the music industry. www.cltampa.com/music-2/righ...
Doom and death metal often features a lot of growling. Not so much in the Insomniac camp. www.cltampa.com/music-2/geor...
Georgia band Insomniac brings meditative metal to Tampa on Wednesday
Insomniac c. 2025 (L-R) Alex Avedissian, Amos Rifkin, Juan Garcia, Van Bassman Doom and death metal often features a lot of growling. Not so much in the
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February 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Doom and death metal often features a lot of growling. Not so much in the Insomniac camp. www.cltampa.com/music-2/geor...
Madeline Jackson (who fronts the band, with Theremin at the ready) conducts an ensemble that sounds kind of like what might happen if David Byrne was a crusty Dadaist that ran the DIY space down the street. www.cltampa.com/news/theremi...
Theremin-wielding Ohio punk band Dana plays no-cover St. Pete show on Wednesday
Dana Permanent Makeup has long been St. Petersburg’s premier purveyor of angular, face-crunching art-punk, and it warms the crowd up ahead of Dana, an
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February 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Madeline Jackson (who fronts the band, with Theremin at the ready) conducts an ensemble that sounds kind of like what might happen if David Byrne was a crusty Dadaist that ran the DIY space down the street. www.cltampa.com/news/theremi...
Heads will coalesce in Ybor City where DJs Kelan and Dfaz play a B2B set of classics and exclusives by the legendary maestro. www.cltampa.com/music-2/tamp...
Tampa producers to honor J Dilla on the 20th anniversary of his death
J Dilla James Dewitt Yancey would have been 52 years old this month. In 1997 the Detroit producer, who died on Feb. 10, 2006, made a choice that would
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February 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Heads will coalesce in Ybor City where DJs Kelan and Dfaz play a B2B set of classics and exclusives by the legendary maestro. www.cltampa.com/music-2/tamp...
A gig well worth the short road trip from Tampa or St. Pete.
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Jay Reatard-channeling Texas band Sex Mex comes to Bradenton on Friday
A crop from the cover Sex Mex's 'Down In the Dump Trucks' EP Tennessee songwriter James Lee Lindsey Jr. has been gone for 16 years, but the spirit of his
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February 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
A gig well worth the short road trip from Tampa or St. Pete.
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Put on Aubrey Hainey’s 1997 classic Doin’ My Time, some Michael Cleveland, or Tim Crouch during your pre-game. www.cltampa.com/music-2/bron...
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, former fiddler for Molly Tuttle, brings solo project to St. Pete this weekend
Bluegrass fans should know Bronwyn Keith-Hynes well. The 33-year-old put her first vocal solo record out about two years ago and started piecing her band
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February 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Put on Aubrey Hainey’s 1997 classic Doin’ My Time, some Michael Cleveland, or Tim Crouch during your pre-game. www.cltampa.com/music-2/bron...
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Miami New Times is living rent-free in Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago's head.
In a speech punctuated by the sound of apparent cue cards, which we imagine a staffer dutifully placed in order and shuffled for the mayor, he aired his grievances with the paper.
In a speech punctuated by the sound of apparent cue cards, which we imagine a staffer dutifully placed in order and shuffled for the mayor, he aired his grievances with the paper.
Still Salty Coral Gables Mayor Targets New Times with Scathing PSA
Mayor Vince Lago is so unbothered by New Times that he keeps talking about the alt-weekly.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Miami New Times is living rent-free in Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago's head.
In a speech punctuated by the sound of apparent cue cards, which we imagine a staffer dutifully placed in order and shuffled for the mayor, he aired his grievances with the paper.
In a speech punctuated by the sound of apparent cue cards, which we imagine a staffer dutifully placed in order and shuffled for the mayor, he aired his grievances with the paper.
Jef Bjarnson is a house show staple in Nashville, and he brings his dream-pop project Inner View on the road for this short run through the South. www.cltampa.com/music-2/nash...
Nashville songwriter Jef Bjarnson brings Inner View project to Tampa on Thursday
Inner View Jef Bjarnson is a house show staple in Nashville, and he brings his dream-pop project Inner View on the road for this short run through the
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February 4, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Jef Bjarnson is a house show staple in Nashville, and he brings his dream-pop project Inner View on the road for this short run through the South. www.cltampa.com/music-2/nash...
For an album with so many LAN cables attached to it, Wimmer feels infinitely more human than the increasingly AI-assisted music hitting streaming services every day. www.cltampa.com/music-2/bill...
Bill., a Tampa band of indie-rock lifers, releases loud, unforgiving debut LP
bill. Bill.’s new album is not a casual listen. Simultaneously dense and expansive, the seven-track outing clocks in at just under 27 minutes, but it’s
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February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
For an album with so many LAN cables attached to it, Wimmer feels infinitely more human than the increasingly AI-assisted music hitting streaming services every day. www.cltampa.com/music-2/bill...
Dump Duke was joined by Faith in Florida, Suncoast Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch, St. Petersburg City Council Vice Chair Richie Floyd, and the Pinellas chapter of Democratic Socialists of America. www.cltampa.com/news/dump-du...
Dump Duke says public power is cheaper, more reliable, than what St. Pete is getting now
Marley Price at the Dump Duke press conference in St. Petersburg, Florida on Jan. 28, 2026. Dump Duke held a press conference last Wednesday supporting a
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February 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Dump Duke was joined by Faith in Florida, Suncoast Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch, St. Petersburg City Council Vice Chair Richie Floyd, and the Pinellas chapter of Democratic Socialists of America. www.cltampa.com/news/dump-du...
@cltampabay.bsky.social asked Duke Energy representatives if they fund, communicate with, or created Pinellas Energy Alliance. They did not respond to repeated requests for comment via call, text or email. www.cltampa.com/news/in-pine...
In Pinellas, a dark money-funded ‘Energy Alliance’ is working against the push for publicly-owned electricity
Logos for the St. Pete and Clearwater 'Energy Alliance.' Pinellas Energy Alliance is spending tens of thousands of dollars on ads, consultants and
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February 4, 2026 at 2:58 PM
@cltampabay.bsky.social asked Duke Energy representatives if they fund, communicate with, or created Pinellas Energy Alliance. They did not respond to repeated requests for comment via call, text or email. www.cltampa.com/news/in-pine...
Trump ousted him from his position shortly after the U.S. Senate acquitted the president in that impeachment trial. www.cltampa.com/news/army-ve...
Army vet who blew the whistle on Trump joins race to run against Tampa's Sen. Ashley Moody
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who played a central role in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, announced
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February 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Trump ousted him from his position shortly after the U.S. Senate acquitted the president in that impeachment trial. www.cltampa.com/news/army-ve...
And it says that an individual who makes a false complaint against a law enforcement or corrections officer commits perjury, which is punishable as a third degree felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. www.cltampa.com/news/propose...
Proposed Florida law would require corroboration to make anonymous complaints against cops
A St. Petersburg Police Department car on Sept. 12, 2027. Last year, a GOP lawmaker attempted to pass a bill that would have banned anonymous complaints
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February 3, 2026 at 11:57 PM
And it says that an individual who makes a false complaint against a law enforcement or corrections officer commits perjury, which is punishable as a third degree felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. www.cltampa.com/news/propose...
Now a Bay area resident, Canadian songwriter Kathleen Edwards plays a hometown show under the Skipperdome supporting a new album, Billionaire, released last summer. www.cltampa.com/music-2/amer...
Americana star Kathleen Edwards, now living in the Tampa Bay area, plays hometown show on Thursday
Kathleen Edwards Now a Bay area resident, Canadian songwriter Kathleen Edwards plays a hometown show under the Skipperdome supporting a new album,
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February 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Now a Bay area resident, Canadian songwriter Kathleen Edwards plays a hometown show under the Skipperdome supporting a new album, Billionaire, released last summer. www.cltampa.com/music-2/amer...
MarineQuest, the one day each year the public can explore FWC laboratories, research vessels, scientific collections, and meet the staff working to conserve Florida’s fish and wildlife. www.cltampa.com/arts/st-pete...
St. Pete Science Festival, Marinequest, happens this weekend
St. Petersburg Science Festival on Feb. 18, 2023. Tampa Bay’s biggest science events of the year geared to kids of all ages are scheduled for Saturday,
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February 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
MarineQuest, the one day each year the public can explore FWC laboratories, research vessels, scientific collections, and meet the staff working to conserve Florida’s fish and wildlife. www.cltampa.com/arts/st-pete...