Tampa Bay area shelters noticing rise in homeless seniors

The face of homelessness is constantly changing and some shelters are now seeing a growing senior population. A recent study by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says those 50 and older are the fastest growing age group experiencing homelessness and that those 55 and older make up nearly 20% of the sheltered homeless.....Read More

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Stewed Chicken

With Rice and Cabbage

$6.49 Lunch Special 

Hines Caribbean Cuisine

3313 N. Nebraska Ave, Ybor Heights

Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!

Tampa business owners urgent plea to city leaders to help businesses impacted by ongoing construction

Tampa Hoods: Ybor City

4th Ave

Matt Gaetz Runs to Trump (Again)

Brush to canvas: News from the visual art world

All eyes this week are on the Florida CraftArt gallery, 501 Central Ave., where the Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Drepung Gomang Monastery are in residence through Sunday, creating an intricate mandala – a brilliant, colorful design made, by hand, from individual grains of sand. The mandala “represents the enlightened mind and the ideal world.”....Read More

Enjoy some quiet time and beautiful scenery at this Gem of Tampa Bay

If you have been in need of some peace and quiet, make sure to check out the flowers and birds at the historic Sunken Gardens.

This Gem of Tampa Bay is located on busy 4th Street North in St. Pete and has been a popular roadside attraction for several decades.

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Ybor Paparazzi

Lexii and Glen

Vlogger Ava Being at The Cumbia

How to watch CNN’s Republican presidential debate in Iowa

Republican presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are set to go head-to-head Wednesday in the next Republican presidential primary debate, just days before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.....Read More

FCC warns millions of households could lose broadband discounts without additional funding

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warned lawmakers Monday that it will have to begin winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program that provides broadband discounts to millions of American households if it does not receive additional funding from Congress.....Read More

Plans for lunar landing scrapped after spacecraft fuel leak

Plans for a spacecraft’s lunar landing have been scrapped due to a fuel leak, according to an American aerospace company.....Read More

Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Music Fest 2024

Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival

Music Fest 2024

Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park

600 N Ashley Drive, Tampa

Saturday, Jan. 13 ▪ 1PM - 9PM

Sunday, Jan. 14 ▪ 1PM - 9PM

Gates open at 12PM both days

Lineup and Tickets HERE

Breadcoin meal token program

There’s a new kind of coin circulating downtown Tampa called Breadcoin. These pay for breakfast, lunch, and coffee at participating restaurants at no cost to food vendors. The nonprofit program is funded by recurring donations and corporate gifts. The coins are given out instead of cash by folks who work with the homeless. Each coin is worth $2.50, with no change given. About 5,000 coins are currently in circulation.

Learn More about Breadcoin in Tampa and Find Participating Vendors HERE

Another Perspective: What is Hamas, why does it fight Israel and why do so many Palestinians support it?

WATCH: Trump Makes Bonkers Off-Script Claim About Magnets

Former president Donald Trump claimed that magnets don't work underwater at an Iowa rally. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

National Gun Violence Survivors Week: CommUNITY Growth Changemakers

National Gun Violence Survivors

CommUNITY Growth Changemakers

National Virtual Event

Wednesday, January 24 ▪ 8pm ET

This year, National Gun Violence Survivors Week will be highlighting the role of gun violence survivors as changemakers who are leading efforts to end gun violence by building, strengthening and unifying their communities. Throughout the week, we’ll be uplifting the work of survivors across the country and lived experiences with gun violence to highlight the ripple effect of trauma caused by gun violence and the collective action these changemakers are taking to fortify their communities and move towards healing.

We invite you to join us for a virtual panel conversation with our five 2024 changemakers on Zoom on Wednesday, January 24th at 8pm ET/ 7pm CT/ 6pm MT/ 5pm PT. We’ll hear from them about how they are affecting change in their community.

● Abbey Clements, Executive Director & Co-Founder, Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence

● Drew Crecente, Founder, Jennifer Ann’s Group

● LaTanya Black, Founder, Mothers Against Community Gun Violence

● Gabriella Rodriguez, Executive Director, QLatinx & The Center

● Vincent Pierce, Director, OPEN Doors

Register HERE

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Meat Lovers Pizza

With Cannoli's

NY NY Pizza - Ybor City

Hillsborough state attorney ousted by DeSantis won’t seek reelection

Andrew Warren for governor?

Tampa Hoods: Ybor City

7th Ave

Florida Republicans oust state party chairman facing rape allegations in critical election year

Your ultimate guide to Children’s Gasparilla 2024

In two weeks, on January 20th, a swarm of small pirates will invade the streets of downtown Tampa at the annual Children’s Gasparilla.

A staple of Tampa’s Gasparilla festivities since 1947, Ye Mystic Krewe’s annual Children’s Gasparilla Parade sees more than 100 costumed krewes, marching bands and dance groups march up Bayshore Boulevard.

Events schedule and more HERE

Parade Route (click to enlarge)

US successfully launches first moon landing mission in decades

The U.S. is headed back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. NASA and the United Launch Alliance launched its first-ever Vulcan rocket Monday morning, sending a private lunar lander into space.....Read More

Tampa Hoods: Ybor City

4th Ave

DeSantis Group SINKS Campaign As Devastating Scheme Unravels

Ybor City Homeless

Jeff

Biden Admin WON'T DENY Florida Dems SUPPRESSED VOTERS By Effectively Cancelling Dem Primary: Rising

Tampa Locavore

Wayne at NYNY Pizza in Ybor City

The Rotation is Back in Ybor City

Will South Africa’s Genocide Petition Against Israel Save Gaza?

In the latest episode of “True Talk,” we hosted human rights attorney and activist Huwaida Arraf. Co-hosts Samar and Ahmed talked with Huwaida about South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel, accusing it of genocide, and its implications at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The episode focused on the complaint, which Israel has promised to defend against at The Hague, and the potential for it to lead to a permanent ceasefire and accountability for Israel.

Listen to the show HERE

Supreme Court’s looming mifepristone decision leaves abortion rights in spotlight

The Supreme Court’s expected decision this summer on whether to restrict access to medication abortion promises to keep the issue front and center of the 2024 election.

Justices will hear a case weighing federal approval of the common abortion pill mifepristone, with a likely ruling in June — five months before voters decide who will go to the White House and Congress, and almost exactly two years after the high court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.

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