The 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Festival invades Tampa this Saturday with pro wrestling legend "Nature Boy" Ric Flair as grand marshal of the Parade of Pirates.

Tampa's newly launched Green Team program and Pinellas County's Adopt-a-Drain initiative are two examples of local governments in Tampa Bay turning to the community for help with environmental stewardship.

Tampa's Stageworks Theatre now owns its theater space thanks to a donation from Grand Central at Kennedy developer Mercury Advisors. 

The Tampa Hillsborough Express Way Authority (THEA) has an online survey up through January 27th to get public input on ideas for a future park at the Bay to Bay Boulevard underpass of the Selmon Expressway.

Since opening near downtown in 2021, the University of Tampa's Ferman Center for the Arts has emerged as an artistic hub for students, faculty and arts lovers. 

The Tampa Bay History Center's Florida Conversations series featured retired Judge Emiliano Jose “E.J.” Salcines, Jr. talking about Cuban revolutionary José Martí's time in Tampa in January and anthropologist Lisa Armstrong's talk on the historic Black Tampa communities of Carver City and Lincoln Gardens in February.

Health tech innovation event Disrupt the Bay returns for a fourth year on February 4th at the Tampa Marriott Water Street.

The January arts scene in Tampa Bay has exhibits at Tempus Projects' new location in the Ybor City Kress Building, a photography exhibit on the history of poverty in the U.S. at the USF Contemporary Art Museum, a new theater company debuting in Bradenton and much more.

Gary Wishnatzki celebrates his family's history and the 100-year anniversary of the family berry business in Plant City in "Generations of Sweetness: Stories That Shaped My Family and the Journey to Wish Farms."