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People packed the streets of Ybor City for Tampa Pride on Saturday.

The Tampa Pride Diversity Parade on Saturday featured a colorful procession that wound its way from Nuccio Parkway and East Seventh Avenue to North 20th Street in Ybor City. The event followed a street festival that included food, crafts and music. These were some of the highlights. ©2024 Tampa Bay Times. Visit tampabay.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

TAMPA — Established in Ybor City, Silver Ring Café has been slinging Cuban sandwiches and Latin cuisine to Tampa Bay patrons for 77 years but, until last week, had not had a presence in Tampa since 2008. “It was time to bring it back,” said Nelson Valdes, 64. Valdes opened a Silver Ring Café inside Westshore Plaza’s food court, doing so with Tim Booth, whose family has owned the rights to the ...

James Beard Award winner Adrian Miller is bringing a lesson in history and culture to three Bay Area speaking appearances for the annual Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival.

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The Tampa City Council voted to scrap a proposed citywide youth curfew Thursday, heeding community concerns that the restriction would do nothing to address the root causes of gun violence and could risk exacerbating tensions between police and residents. Mayor Jane Castor called for a curfew last fall, days after two young people, including a 14-year-old, were killed in Tampa’s historic Ybor ...

Kress Collective: Open House Exhibition Head to the historic Kress building on Ybor City’s Seventh Avenue for a weekend of complimentary visual, literary, and performing arts entertainment Jan. 25-27. The First Annual Open House Exhibition features art made by more than a dozen resident Kress artists, including Jenny Carey, Ashley Cantero, Carlos Pons, and Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr. But that’s far from all there is to see and do at Kress that weekend.

An ordinance that would create a citywide juvenile curfew will be presented for first reading consideration to the Tampa City Council on Thursday.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man who was accused of being involved in a Halloween weekend mass shooting in Ybor City was ordered by a judge Friday to remain in jail until trial. Dwayne Tillman Jr, 21, was charged with second-degree murder and attempted aggravated battery with a firearm, officials said. The State Attorney’s Office […]

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 20-year-old during a Halloween weekend mass shooting that left two people dead...