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Tuesday, March 23rd, Plan B Expo will hold Lean, Green and Mean Business at the Conmy Center at Our Lady of Lourdes in Dunedin. The focus of the expo will be health and wellness, green and safe products, financially beneficial goods and services, and business opportunities. The event will feature over 120 vendors and exhibitors, representing businesses from sole proprietors to major corporations.

The Florida State Fair, which is always in Tampa and always in February, offers a wide variety of entertainment, offering something for everyone.

The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. World Tour will stop at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa on Wednesday, February 10th at 7:30 p.m. The tour has been described as “the ultimate Black Eyed Peas experience,” and will “replicate the party vibe of a hot dance club.”

The pirate invasion of The City of Tampa by pirate Jose Gaspar and his men will be celebrated for the 106th consecutive year on January 30th with the Gasparilla Pirate Festival.

On January 23rd, the Children’s Gasparilla Extravaganza will provide alcohol-free family friendly entertainment and celebrate the return of Gasparilla in Tampa Bay. The event will take place on Bayshore Blvd. in Tampa the week before the Gasparilla Pirate Fest, held in the same location on January 31st.

John Mayer will stop by the St. Pete Times Forum on Friday, February 5th for the second concert of Mayer’s North American tour. Mayer’s Tour. which kicks off on February 4th in Sunrise, FL, will feature special guest Michael Franti & Spearhead.

On a cold Sunday night following New Years day, 120 people gathered in the lobby of St. Petersburg's American Stage, many of them standing in the back or sitting on the floor, to watch Gavin Hawk and Ricky Wayne perform as The Dumb Show, improvising 60 minutes of comedy from the simple audience suggestion of a dumb New Year’s resolution: “loose weight.”

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus is in town, with a show of such grandeur it brings to mind the popular image of an awe-struck child pining to run away and join the circus. If half the kids in Tampa go missing, you will know where they went. 

Nearly 300 teenagers from Tampa Bay Technical High School made the pledge not to text and drive this morning.  Students left their thumb print on a 16 foot banner traveling across the country on a 30 city tour.  The event is part of X the TXT, Allstate’s public awareness campaign which is aimed at minimizing one of the most dangerous distractions facing teens today, texting. 

The Chicago Bliss will play against the Tampa Breeze in the Lingerie Football League’s (LFL) Friday Night Football at the St. Pete Times Forum on December 4th. The kick-off is at 9:00 p.m. “The LFL will deliver the ultimate fan experience being on-top of the action in a Friday night party setting, delivering the truest form of Fantasy Football,” according to an LFL press release.