Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Tampa’s Legends Guitars reopens under new ownership, 15 years after closing

Legends Guitars in Tampa, Florida. There can never be enough guitar stores in a town, and when one door closes, and another ...
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Florida sheriffs begin dropping license plate readers as DeSantis warns against ‘surveillance state’

Gov. Ron DeSantis Ron DeSantis insists no Florida governor has given law enforcement more tools to fight crime than he has, ...
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DeSantis Administration bans Flock cameras from state highways

A Flock license plate reader Amid a growing backlash to license plate reader (LPR) cameras and citing concerns over privacy, ...
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Tampa City Council’s 4-3 vote to approve Rays stadium funding is just the first of many steps

An interior rendering of a proposed Tampa Bay Rays stadium in Tampa, Florida. Tampa City Council, on a 4-3 vote with Council ...
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New Florida law to protect consumers from data center costs faces its first test

A new state law seeks to ensure that ratepayers at large aren’t handed the tab for utilities’ data centers required to serve the boom in artificial ...
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This year’s Florida bear hunt will allow hunters to kill more bears

Florida black bear Hunters in Florida will have a chance to kill more bears later this year than in the 2025 hunt, and once ...
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Chromeo headlines Water Street Tampa’s fall ‘Beats on the Street’ music festival

Chromeo plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida on Sept. 24, 2024. After watching Chromeo get rained out during ...
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‘Dark Knight Rises’ actor Tom Hardy has a rap album, and there’s an Ybor City nod

Tom Hardy in his Frankie Pultizer mask. English actor Tom Hardy is a rapper now, and his new album with hip-hop supergroup ...
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‘This is money laundering’: David Jolly says Casey DeSantis, Hope Florida were ‘used’ in a ‘sinister plan’

Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly ripped into Republicans again Friday over the grand jury report on Hope ...
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Kate Payne

One of the country’s largest energy holding companies is probing just how closely Florida will regulate data centers and the ...
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Scott Elliott, Tampa artist and WMNF DJ, has died at age 66

Scott Elliott (L) and Stephen Gaudette c. 2012. Scott Elliott, singer, performer, DJ, vinyl enthusiast (putting it mildly), ...