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Elase Med Spa Grand Opening - Westchase

Thu., May 16, 5-8 p.m.

Elase Med Spa Westchase

11663 Countryway Blvd, Westchase North Hillsborough

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Free

Food & Drink

Elase is Your New Ally in Aesthetics. Join Us for a Fun Evening to Celebrate Our New Med Spa Grand Opening! Experience: *Live Demos: Witness cutting-edge spa treatments and rejuvenation techniques. *Cocktails, Bites, & Music: Indulge in signature drinks and enjoy live music and appetizers with friends. *Exclusive Offers: Enter to win $5K+ in giveaways and access event-only promotions. *Meet Our Team: Connect with our expert providers. We can't wait to celebrate with you! RSVP for a chance to win a $500 gift card. (801) 890-6405
Margarita Wars

Fri., May 17

The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art

150 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$65

Festivals, Food & Drink

1 tequila. 2 tequila. 3 tequila... Fri., May 17th, 2024 The James Museum of Western Art 150 Central Ave., St. Pete, FL Your favorite tequila battle is back! Margarita Wars is a unique opportunity to sample margaritas created by over 21 of the Tampa Bay area's best mixologists and try your hand at tipsy judging as YOU help award Tampa Bay’s Ultimate Margarita! Plus, live entertainment, Mexican-inspired hors d'oeuvres, and other fun surprises. Ticket perk alert! New this year, all VIP & DD ticket holders will get to view the beautiful James Museum of Western Art's galleries from 6:00pm to… 727-892-4200
Tampa Riverfest 2024

Fri., May 3 and Sat., May 4

Multiple Locations

Free

Festivals, Live Music, Family and Kid Events, Market, Food & Drink

Mike Mullis (Vagabond) A lotta things to do Ask any hip-hop head in Milwaukee, and they’ll tell you that Todd Thomas knows a lot about community. Better known as Speech, the 55-year-old founder of Arrested Development put his stamp on the 414 not just through his band’s positive, soulful, Afrocentric brand of rap, but how he moved through his community. “It was not just, ‘OK, I rapped with him’ or ‘He produced a song for me,’” DJ Bizzon told Radio Milwaukee… “they knew him, they worked with him, they met with him, they just knew where he lived. He was… (813) 274-8615
Spanish Love Songs w/Oso Oso/Sydney Sprague/Worry Club

Fri., May 3, 6 p.m.

Orpheum

14802 N Nebraska Ave., Tampa Tampa

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$24

Live Music

Spanish Love Songs makes pop-punk that is just perfect for singing away the sadness.
Indigo Girls w/Kristy Lee

Fri., May 3, 6:30 p.m.

Ruth Eckerd Hall

1111 McMullen Booth Rd., Clearwater Clearwater

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$39.25-$84.25

Live Music

Amy Ray and Emily Sailers are having a pretty big year in terms of appearing on the silver screen. The folk-rock duo's catalog is the center of “Glitter and Doom,” a jukebox musical-slash-queer rom-com about two performers on different ends of the entertainment industry trying to make it as musicians. 727-791-7400
Waxahatchee w/Good Morning

Fri., May 3, 7 p.m.

Jannus Live

200 1st Ave. N, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$27 & up

Live Music

Waxahatchee’s new album, Tigers Blood, is due March 22, and is the follow up to the band’s acclaimed 2020 album, Saint Cloud, which was released at the height of the pandemic and became something of a warm blanket for a country forced to stay away from their community. (727) 565-0550
Levitation Room

Fri., May 3, 8 p.m.

Hooch and Hive

1001 W Cass St., Tampa Tampa

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$17-$20

Live Music

St. Petersburg instrumental trio Soft Cuff (FFO: Daptone Records) and bedroom bop maker Peli Gene open. (813) 251-1234
A Night of Drum & Bass: Vixen Stylee and Subcult w/Jungle Rivers/Anodnb/more

Fri., May 3, 9 p.m.

Deviant Libation

3800 N Nebraska Ave., Tampa Tampa

$10

DJ & Dance

Ybor Heights brewery has found footing as a space for hardcore shows, but puts its EDM hat on this weekend with help from OGs of the drum and bass scene. Guests from Orlando (Vixen Stylee, Subcult) and Albuquerque (Jungle Rivers) join local legends like Footsouljash and Thee Joker on the bill. (727) 379-4677
Live & Local on the Tampa Riverwalk

First Friday of every month

Riverwalk stage at David A. Straz Center

1010 N Macinnes Pl., Tampa Tampa

Free

Live Music

Weather permitting, one of downtown Tampa's best curated free live, local music series, happening outside the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
Our Town

Fridays, 8 p.m., Saturdays, 3 p.m., Sundays, 3 p.m. and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Continues through May 11

Stageworks Theatre

1120 E Kennedy Blvd., Suite 151, Tampa Tampa

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$45

Theater

Downtown Tampa turns into Grover’s Corners when Stageworks performs a multicultural, multilingual (with supertitles) version of Thornton Wilder’s iconic, 1930s Pulitzer-winning three-act play about life in small-town America. 813-374-2416
'The Skinny' on WMNF 88.5-FM

Fridays, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Free

Civics

A nhour-long news radio show airing Fridays from 11 .m.-noon on WMNF Tampa 88.5-FM. Florida Phoenix reporter Mich Perry will be joined weekly by author and journalist Ben Montgomery plus CL’s Ray Roa, with appearances from guests who’ll discuss the news of the week.
Movies at Screen Door Microcinema

Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Sundays, 3:30 p.m. and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.

Screen Door Microcinema

1624 E 7th Ave., Tampa Ybor City

$8

Film

The 800-square-foot microcinema holds 38 seats, has theater quality sound and screen, Super 8-mm, 35-mm, and 16-mm projectors, and a vast collection of films. A large bulk of the cinema’s equipment was graciously loaned by the University of Tampa’s Department of Film, Animation, and New Media (FMX). Visit the website to see the schedule.
Commencement Weekend!

Fri., May 3, 5-11:59 p.m. & 12 a.m.-11:59 p.m. and Sat., May 4, 12-3 a.m.

Grove .Soho

406 South Howard Avenue, Tampa Hillsborough County

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Free

Food & Drink

Commencement Weekend! 813-895-5379
History in a Bottle- Bourbon in the Burg!

Fri., May 3, 6-8 p.m.

St. Petersburg Museum of History

335 2nd Ave. NE, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$65-$420

Food & Drink, Museums

Sample a variety of bourbons and bourbon drinks paired with exquisite catering from The Lay Low Château Hospitality. Traditionally a southern drink, learn how bourbon has become America’s favorite barrel-aged whiskey. Distilled since the 18th century, it even received a nod from U.S. Congress in 1964 as a distinct American product! Seating is Limited! Produced by Events by the Glass! Reservations are required, and seating is limited! 7278941052
MacGrad Fest Weekend!

Fri., May 3, 6-11:59 p.m. & 12 a.m.-11:59 p.m. and Sat., May 4, 12-3 a.m.

MacDinton's Irish Pub

405 South Howard Avenue, Tampa Tampa

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Free

Live Music, Food & Drink, Performance

MacGrad Fest Weekend! (813) 251-8999
Evening with the Chefs: Food & Fashion

Fri., May 3, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Sheraton Sand Key Resort

1160 Gulf Blvd., Clearwater Beach Clearwater Beach

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$160

Food & Drink, Learn

Eat, Drink and Support the Future of Hospitality! The Ryan Wells Foundation is making dreams come true, turning Pinellas County culinary students into local celebrity chefs at the 19th Annual Evening with the Chefs, considered one of the top culinary tasting events in Tampa Bay. Evening with the Chefs will also feature wine, spirits, craft beers, music and a live and silent auction. Since 2005, The Ryan Wells Foundation has awarded $1,267,000 in scholarships, all in support of fulfilling the dreams of deserving students and honoring the life of Ryan Wells. 877-665-4630
New World Tampa Presents: Hope Darling, Henleys, and American Souvenir

Fri., May 3, 7 p.m.

New World Brewery

810 E Skagway Ave., Tampa Tampa

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$10

Live Music

813-304-0460
A Still Small Voice: International Cinema Series at Eckerd College

Fri., May 3, 7-9 p.m.

Miller Auditorium, Eckerd College

4200 54th Avenue S, St Petersburg St. Pete

Free

Film

Directed, shot, edited and co-produced by Luke Lorentzen (English, 93 minutes, 2023). This vérité-style documentary presents an immersive view of the everyday world of hospital chaplains at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai hospital during the later days of COVID. As the film follows Mati, a chaplain-in-training and her mentor, the audience is asked to consider who comforts those who comfort others and the power of grief to exhaust but also to uplift. A Still Small Voice won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. 7278671166
Terrapin

Fri., May 3, 7-11 p.m.

Oscura

816 Manatee Avenue East, Bradenton Manatee County

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$5 ADV / $10 DOS

Live Music

Terrapin returns to Oscura for another round of synth grooves and analog / digital soundscapes alongside Matthew Hatfield, Uhlectronic, and Doom Modem! 941-201-4950
Jazz with Jim presents Sinatra and Martin with vocalist Paul Vincent

Fri., May 3, 7:30-9 p.m.

Carrollwood Cultural Center

4537 Lowell Rd., Tampa North Hillsborough

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USD 18.00 - USD 20.00

Live Music

It's more than a jazz concert. It's time with friends. Jazz with Jim is an ongoing concert series at the Center hosted by Jim Burge (saxophone/flute/clarinet), Ron Delp (keyboard), Jeff Henson (drums), and Todd Jeferies (bass) - together, they are The Jazz Directions. Each concert is unique as The Jazz Directions share stories and some of their favorite musical selections apropos for the evening's theme. Prices: Reserved VIP Seating: USD 20.00, General Seating: USD 18.00 Artists: The Jazz Directions, Paul Vincent 813-922-8167
NEW TAMPA DANCE THEATRE : Spring Production 2024

Fri., May 3, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., May 4, 7:30 p.m.

Yuengling Center

4202 East Fowler Ave, Tampa Tampa

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$34

Performance

(813) 974-3111
Rocket Party with Live Guitar

Fri., May 3, 7:45-9:15 p.m.

The Body Electric Yoga Company

3015 7th St. North, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$25

Sports & Recreation

Date: Friday, May 3 Time: 7:45pm-9:15pm Cost: $25 Enjoy a playful 90-minute Rocket 3 Master Class led by Jessica Mihm. The live jams played by guitarist Luke Bonner will keep the energy flowing and the vibes high. Rooted in Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, the Rocket 3 series combines the Rocket 1 standing and seated sequences with the Rocket 2 floor sequence for a one-of-a-kind mind-body practice. All modifications and progressions are encouraged! Fun fact: Did you know that the Rocket yoga series was originally designed for the Grateful Dead by their private yoga instructor, Larry Schultz?! 727-490-9361
Tampa Bay Nightlife TV's First Friday Night Dance Party featuring The Shakes Society

Fri., May 3, 8-11 p.m.

OCC Roadhouse

10575 49th St N, Clearwater Clearwater

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$10

Live Music

Join us for Tampa Bay's Biggest Dance Party with special guest The Shakes Society, the most fun band on the planet will be on stage to rock the house and pack the dance floor. Enjoy lots of free parking, great food, full bar and rain or shine the party goes on.. So come out and dance the night away with Tampa Bay Nightlife TV at OCC Road House. Midnight Music DJs start at 6pm Shakes Society hits the stage at 8pm $10 cover - VIP Tables available at OCCRoadHouse.com 727-231-1510
The HeadTones w/Mad Moon

Fri., May 3, 8 p.m.

Dunedin Brewery

937 Douglas Ave., Dunedin Pinellas County

Free

Live Music

The Headtones have been described as a sextet that fuses electronica sounds with horns and funk. The St. Pete-based reggae outfit latest single "Best of You Too" extends into hip-hop territory, and while we're still holding out hope for the band to finally appear at next year's Reggae Rise Up (they've opened for The Wailers at Jannus before, so it's way past time), it's not uncalled for to want to hear the new experiment live.—Josh Bradley (727) 736-0606
Noan Partly

Fri., May 3, 9 p.m.

Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe

5119 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa Seminole Heights

Free

Live Music

A recent profile from WMNF Tampa 88.5-FM explains why songwriter Noan Partly doesn’t like to put her music in a box. “People want to name things to feel like they understand it, and that kind of just causes more division,” she told the Bay area community radio station. Partly, who studied jazz in college, also shared plans to release a debut album before the fall, and you might get a taste of it when she plays this free show in Seminole Heights. (813) 234-1000
Cinco De Mayo Festival!

Fri., May 3, 12-11:59 p.m. & 12 a.m.-11:59 p.m. and Sat., May 4, 12 a.m.-11 p.m.

Mad Beach Cantina

13205 Gulf Blvd, Madeira Beach Tampa

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Free

Live Music, Food & Drink, Festivals

Cinco De Mayo Festival! (727) 284-3990
HCC Dance Placement Audition

Fri., May 3, 12:30-3:30 p.m., Fri., July 19, 12:30-3:30 p.m. and Fri., Aug. 9, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

HCC Dance Studio

1505 E Palm Avenue 2nd Floor, Tampa Tampa

FREE

Learn

Want to dance with us next semester? Various options available: Credit or audit, Degree or non-degree, Beginner to Professional, Home school & dual enrollment, Professional development 813-253-7623
Our Town

Fridays-Sundays. Continues through May 5

Stageworks Theatre

1120 E Kennedy Blvd., Suite 151, Tampa Tampa

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$25-45

Performance

Written by Thornton Wilder Translations by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin April 26 – May 12 Thornton Wilder’s iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning play is reimagined for the 21st century. With new layers of language and culture, Our Town expands to encompass everyone in a quintessentially American – and human – story. Our Town explores the relationship between two young Grover’s Corners neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. (813) 374-2416
Dome Night: Dalí Alive 360°

Fri., May 3, 6-8 p.m. and Fri., June 7, 6-8 p.m.

The Dalí Museum

1 Dali Blvd., St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$15 - $20

Museums, Visual Art

Join The Dalí on the first Friday of each month of exclusive evening Dalí Alive 360° showings in The Dalí Dome. Guests will have the opportunity to experience the 35-minute 360-display of Salvador Dalí’s life and work without purchasing a Gallery Admission ticket. 727-823-3767
Peter Pan

Fri., May 3, 8 p.m., Sat., May 4, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun., May 5, 2 & 8 p.m.

David A. Straz Center - Carol Morsani Hall

1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, Tampa Tampa

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