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Today’s guest on the Arts Alive! podcast is Mark Sforzini, the founder and general director of St. Petersburg Opera Company. The Auburn, Alabama native is also the music director of the all-volunteer Tampa Bay Symphony, and he’ll conduct Sunday afternoon’s Spring Concert in Ferguson Hall, part of Tampa’s Straz Center complex. The program is repeated […]

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A weekly roundup of notable local real estate news. The Sea Breeze Manor Inn, a seven-key, waterfront bed & breakfast located at 5701 Shore Blvd. S., Gulfport, has entered the market with an asking price of $2.8 million. The 3,767 square-foot, two-story Tudor-style structure was built in 1923 and renovated between 2017 and 2024.  On […]

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Note: This guide was last updated in May, 2024. All specials are subject to change. If one of these is no longer valid, or if a good happy hour is […]

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A Houston-based developer plans to transform a commercially zoned plaza in St. Petersburg’s North Kenwood neighborhood into a workforce housing development under the Live Local Act. The Hanover Company intends to build 196 one-bedroom and 108 two-bedroom apartments on the 7.27-acre site at 3100 22nd Ave. N. The development firm will designate all 304 units […]

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Housed in a former auto-repair shop at 4801 Central Ave., Caribbean Café has been rustling up authentic Cuban food in the ‘Burg since 1995. Customers rave about the delicious lunch […]

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Two local children have gone above and beyond to pay it forward in St. Petersburg. Lydia Frederick and Charlotte Waltz, third-grade students at Bay Vista Fundamental Elementary School, took on the task of filling the shelves at the Green Devil Closet and Pantry at St. Petersburg High School (SPHS) as part of a school service-learning […]

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We love celebrating all things local here at I Love the Burg, and that’s a big part of why we’ve been so thrilled to see the success of Gateway Subs. […]

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Tampa and St. Petersburg have evolved into national destinations with vibrant downtowns and thriving economies; two former mayors believe their respective cities are now victims of that success. Former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker, former Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and former Senator Jeff Brandes shared a stage Wednesday afternoon at the 2024 Florida Housing Summit. […]

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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a controversial measure that will bar selling or manufacturing lab-grown meat in Florida and prevent local regulation of electric-vehicle charging stations. DeSantis said the bill (SB 1084), which includes a series of changes related to the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, will protect the state’s cattle industry against “an ideological agenda that wants to finger agriculture as the problem.” “One of the things that these folks want to eliminate is meat production in the United States,” DeSantis said while behind a podium stating “Save Our Beef” at the Hardee County Cattlemen's Arena in Wauchula.

As a Florida law took effect Wednesday preventing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Jacksonville —- another sign of the political importance of abortion issues in the 2024 elections. Florida’s six-week law dramatically restricts access to abortions and aligns with similar laws enacted in Republican-led states throughout the South after a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned the decades-old Roe v. Wade abortion-rights decision.