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Guest post by Jordan Smith about Gasparilla Music Festival.

Landscape architect Dan Kiley is being honored at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts for his epic landscaping that spans across the country, including Kiley Garden in downtown Tampa, which a group of residents is working to restore.

Activists want to restore Tampa’s Kiley Garden, once a landscape marvel Years ago, its pools were filled with gravel, the water for the fountains and runnels shut off, and the canal and trees removed.   Updated May 3 TAMPA — It wasn’t a hot afternoon. It was in the low 80s with a breeze. But it felt hotter on the cloudless day in downtown Tampa’s shadeless Kiley Garden. “Anyone who lives in Tampa knows we need shade,” Jessie Stehlik said as she walked Coco, her American Eskimo dog, through Kiley Garden. A downtown resident and photographer who uses Kiley Garde...

Tampa leaves homeless in cold as city parties for Super Bowl Police aren’t pushing people off downtown streets, but there have been no plans for assistance or temporary shelters, either.     Homeless advocate David Tyler pulls up in his pickup truck to deliver blankets, sweatpants and Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies to homeless people sleeping along North Franklin Avenue, within sight of the downtown Super Bowl celebrations. [ ANASTASIA DAWSON | Times ] Updated Feb. 5 Tampa’s mild, breezy nights took a sudden turn towards cold and bitter as Big Mike lay down in his usual sp...