If the click and shuffle of Lego bricks makes you say “Awesome!” like a character in “The LEGO Movie,” head to the Florida State Fairgrounds for a world of wonder this weekend. For the second year, the fan-based expo Brickworld…
Mural festival casts spotlight on St. Petersburg’s street art
The outside of a building isn’t just a canvas to artist Chad Mize but an opportunity to transform and energize the urban landscape. Mize painted a mural of ’60s icon Twiggy with stars in her eyes behind his former gallery…
13 low-cost ways to keep kids occupied in Tampa this summer
Right about now, two weeks after school let out for the summer in Hillsborough County, August seems awfully far away. Even with play dates and enjoyably lazy days, odds are, your youngster has proclaimed, “I’m bored.” We’re blessed with a…
Tampa Bay Internet Cat Video Festival could be catnip to animal lovers
The watch-and-share phenomenon of online cat videos comes to a live audience on Saturday in an event that aims to be the cat’s pajamas for animal lovers. The inaugural Tampa Bay Internet Cat Video Festival debuts on Saturday…
Snow effects, snow queen ready for Disney on Ice’s ‘Frozen’
Becky Bereswill has seen “Frozen” dozens of times and thrills to reenact Queen Elsa building her ice palace during the signature song “Let It Go.” She knows lots of young fans count on it. Bereswill, 24, portrays Elsa in “Disney…
MOSI Festival of Chocolate lets visitors go cocoa crazy
The Festival of Chocolate returns to MOSI this weekend, turning the whole museum into a feast for the senses. From chocolate-inspired fashions to chocolate muffins, gelato, barbecue sauce, brownies and the Chocolate Irish Car Bomb, there’s plenty to tantalize the…
Going Scottish
I had a bit of what the Scots call Guid Luck when interviewing Alan T. McHale, president of the organizing committee for this weekend’s Highland Games and Festival in Dunedin. McHale was on the go, so I interviewed him through an…
Get glowing at “Zoominations,” a Chinese lantern festival
A 30-foot-tall Chinese gate at the Lowry Park Zoo entrance here in Tampa acts as a red-and-gold threshold to wondrous sights: illuminated displays of giant temples, dragons, lotus flowers, even pandas in a bamboo forest. Zoominations is the official name…
Shiver Your Timbers at Tampa’s Gasparilla Fest
The 100th Gasparilla Pirate Fest invades the city on Saturday with bedecked buccaneers, booze and a bounty of beads to share with a projected crowd of hundreds of thousands — but it won’t be like the bacchanal of years past.…