VibeTampa Staff 
Photo: FightingRaven531, licensed CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Art of Banksy exhibit opened in Tampa this week, and if street art is your thing, this is the kind of show that doesn’t sit still for long — the exhibitor’s own site bills it as “limited time only.” It’s staged at the Straz Center … Read more
Update: This event has passed. Dead Set Florida played Jannus Live on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Photo: Kurt Christensen, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (The Flaming Lips performing at the venue, 2007 — not this show) Free live music at one of St. Petersburg’s most storied venues is a good enough pitch on … Read more
Photo: John O’Neill, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons St. Petersburg’s Saturday Morning Market has been running since seven founders started it in November 2002, and it’s still going strong more than two decades later — just in a different spot for the summer. From June through August the market relocates to Williams Park … Read more
Update: This event has passed. Dude Perfect’s Squad Games Tour played Benchmark International Arena on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Photo: Alvesgaspar, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Tampa waterfront skyline including Benchmark International Arena) Dude Perfect built a YouTube empire on trick shots and stunt challenges, and Saturday night they’re bringing that in person … Read more
Update: This event has passed. Freestyle Explosion 2026 played the Yuengling Center on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Photo: TheCustomOfLife, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons If you grew up on freestyle radio in the late ’80s and ’90s, Saturday night is the closest thing the genre gets to a reunion tour. Freestyle Explosion 2026 packs Stevie … Read more
Down on Gasparilla Plaza, three stories of pure childhood logic unfold. A kid operates a pretend grocery register one minute, builds a wooden fort the next, and climbs through a net structure the next — all before asking for juice. This is Glazer Children’s Museum, where the floor plan follows a kid’s impulse to touch … Read more
Update: This event has passed. John Mellencamp played MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre on Monday, August 3, 2026. John Mellencamp hasn’t exactly been resting on those hits since the 1980s, but his new tour is betting Tampa will gladly revisit them anyway. The “Dancing Words Tour — The Greatest Hits” rolls into MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre … Read more
Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte don’t share an obvious sound, but they share a generation of fans who grew up on both at once — one delivering technical metal, the other pop-punk radio hits, both acts now two decades into careers that started around the same moment. Their joint North American tour stops at MIDFLORIDA … Read more
The old house at 5808 North Florida Avenue used to sit quiet in Seminole Heights — now a light pink bungalow with a shaded patio spills people out onto the sidewalk before noon, carrying paper cups and boxes of brioche donuts that turn deep purple with ube or streak green with matcha. The Salty Donut … Read more
The sword swallowers and two-headed snakes come to town first. When Mötley Crüe kicked off “The Return of the Carnival of Sins” tour earlier this summer, they didn’t just roll out a normal rock show — they staged a full theatrical carnival production spanning four decades of hard-rock anthems. The tour hits Tampa on Saturday, … Read more