New Tampa Performing Arts Center’s Fall Festival

New Tampa Performing Arts Center invites the community to celebrate the Tampa Bay arts scene at its inaugural Fall Festival. On Friday, Sept. 8 through Sunday, Sept. 10, the festival will bring diverse Tampa Bay artists together for a weekend-long celebration of the arts all ages can enjoy.

The festival is free and open to the public. Attendees can participate in interactive activities and see performances from artists and performance groups spanning music, theatre, dance, comedy, and more.

New Tampa Performing Arts Center

8550 Hunters Village Rd., Tampa, FL

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Friday, Sept. 8, 5PM - 10:30PM

Saturday, Sept. 9, 9AM - 9:30PM

Sunday, Sept. 10, 12:30PM - 6:30PM

More Info HERE

Summer Art Camp

Register your child for Summer Art Camp at the Tampa Museum of Art. Weekly AM and PM camps are available for children and teens ages 6 to 17.

Tampa Museum of Art

120 Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL

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Monday, Sept. 04, 2023 , 8:00am-5:00pm

Tuesday, Sept. 05, 2023, 8:00am-5:00pm

Wednesday, Sept. 06, 2023, 8:00am-5:00pm

Thursday, Sept. 07, 2023, 8:00am-5:00pm

Thousands of Jimmy Buffett fans gather in Key West

YBOR SATURDAY MARKET

Operating since 2000, the Ybor City Saturday Market is the largest continually operating outdoor market in the Tampa Bay Area. Centered in Tampa’s Historic District, the market is one of the most popular shopping destinations for locally produced items unique to the Tampa Bay Area.

The Ybor City Saturday Market offers a unique opportunity for customers to meet the artist as well as see one of a kind pieces created in the artist’s booth as well as purchase locally produced gourmet foods representing the area.

Every SATURDAY at Centennial Park

Corner of E. 8th Avenue and N. 19th Street

From 9AM to 3PM

The Handshakes in Seminole Heights

SUNDAY - 3 PM

Ella's - Seminole Heights

Idalia storm surge floods downtown Tampa shore

Feminine Ascension Market

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 AT 7 PM

Bula's Kafe - St. Pete

Vlogger Rafael Szczurowski in Ybor City

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Absolution Fest 2023 in Ybor City

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The Governor’s take? Comments like that are just a “lie” designed to “politicize” natural phenomena.

More HERE

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JENerational Change: Hurricane Idalia DEVASTATES, McConnell FREEZES Again & American Airlines Flight Attendants STRIKE

Hosted by Jen Perelman and Peter Hager

Today we are joined by Ryan Grim of The Intercept as we discuss his book, We've Got People.

We'll also be discussing Hurricane Idalia, which has now struck Florida with devastating results.

Plus, the flight attendants of American Airlines are getting ready to strike, Mitch McConnell freezes AGAIN, and is President Biden preparing to decriminalize cannabis??

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National Sheriffs’ Association courts sheriffs around the country who refuse to enforce laws unpopular to the right-wing like election fraud and gun control. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Greek Chicken Salad

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Florida Beach Conditions After HURRICANE IDALIA

Tropical wave near Africa forecast to be tropical storm, possible hurricane, models predict

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GOP lawmakers take aim at LGBTQ+ ‘safe places’ program in Mount Dora

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High-speed rail is a huge opportunity for American workers

High-speed rail is coming to America, and working people should take notice.

The Biden Administration is planning to use funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to construct multiple high-speed rail lines. This is a very big deal for American workers.

More HERE

Fauci defends masking as COVID cases rise: ‘I would hope’ people abide by recommendations

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Ron DeSantis is a tad more diplomatic than George Wallace was

But, like Wallace, he’s using education to keep Black people down

Gov. George Wallace attempts to block integration of the University of Alabama against Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach on June 11, 1963

Despite all those Ohioans and Michiganders moving to The Villages or Margaritaville or other white folks’ play pens, despite the cosmopolitan sheen of the coastal cities and the impossibility of getting decent grits in Miami, when it comes to race, Florida is a Deep South state.

Florida’s plantations were worked by thousands of enslaved people; Florida’s per capita lynching rate was the highest in the South; and from the 1920s to the 1960s we experienced more than our fair share of racist violence.

More HERE

The Hails in Ybor City

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Biden tells Idalia's Florida victims 'your nation has your back'