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Coachman Park in downtown Clearwater becomes a three-day Asian night market this August, when Mega Night Market brings its Asian Summer Food & Music Festival on the Water to the waterfront August 21-23. It’s free to attend, with free parking available — a rarity for an event of this scale. Mega Night Market has built … Read more
The centerpiece of The Rollin’ Mullet isn’t a bar top — it’s a 1971 Airstream trailer, converted into the beer and wine station at the middle of an open-air lawn in Seminole Heights. Everything else grew up around it: a huge grass yard filled with bocce ball, cornhole, ring toss, and Connect Four, a covered … Read more
Photo by Franksgiving, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Al Lang Stadium has been standing on the St. Petersburg waterfront since 1947, and after a serious detour, it’s back to doing what it does best: hosting one of the more genuinely fun nights out in Tampa Bay. Hurricane storm surge sent more than … Read more
Photo courtesy of ZooTampa Media Relations, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Sixty-three acres and more than 1,300 animals make ZooTampa at Lowry Park one of the biggest family draws in the city, and it’s earned the reputation to match — the zoo has picked up TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Award repeatedly and USA … Read more
Photo by Evan Nichols, licensed under CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Tampa Bay doesn’t have to settle for a decent local beach — it has one that Tripadvisor ranked the No. 2 best beach in the entire United States for 2026, and No. 1 in Florida. Clearwater Beach sits at the west end of … Read more
Historic West Tampa has a real, functioning artist community operating out of a single building at 1715 N Howard Ave, and it’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. Art Lofts Tampa offers private studio space to local creatives — not a gallery that displays finished work, but a place where the work … Read more
Five real things worth building an August weekend around in Tampa Bay — a LEGO expo big enough to fill the fairgrounds, a free riverside car show, a reggae-and-hip-hop festival on the water, and two restaurants worth planning dinner around. Tap any card below to read the full story. Things To Do Brick Fan Event … Read more
At 1208 S. Howard Ave., on a block that once held a grocery store, a barber shop, and a dime store, Bern’s Steak House has spent seven decades building one of the most singular dining experiences in the country. Bern and Gert Laxer moved to Tampa from Manhattan in the early 1950s and opened a … Read more
Seminole Heights has become Tampa’s most concentrated pocket of serious food talent, and Rooster & the Till, tucked at 6500 N. Florida Ave., is a big reason why. The dining room holds just 37 seats, built around a bar that wraps an open kitchen — counter seats get the best view of the action. Michelin … Read more
St. Pete Pier turns into a one-day music festival on Friday, August 28, when On High Florida takes over Spa Beach with a lineup built around reggae, hip-hop, and everything that lives in between. Produced by Rise Up Selects — the team behind the Reggae Rise Up festivals that tour cities from Florida to Utah … Read more