TAMPA — RuPaul’s Drag Race: Werq the World Tour will visit the Tampa Bay area Sunday, July 10, 8 p.m., in the Hard Rock Event Center at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 5223 Orient Road, Tampa.

LARGO — Buckcherry will perform Friday, July 8, 8 p.m., at Central Park Performing Arts Center, 105 Central Park Drive, Largo. 

LARGO — The Copper Piano will present its Dueling Piano Show Saturday, July 9, 8 p.m., at Central Park Performing Arts Center, 105 Central Park Drive, Largo. 

LARGO — Creative Pinellas will host a series of artist workshops presented by Pamela Joy Trow, a life-long artist with an award-winning career in design, illustration, and creative direction. The workshop series is called “Getting Your Art into Retail Environments” and will contain three ind…

In the 1970s, WTOG channel 44 in the Tampa Bay area routinely broadcast comedy classics in a Sunday morning block, introducing Gen X kids to legendary comedy acts from the vaudeville era such as Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, and Burns and Allen. Generally, the relationship between t…

ST. PETERSBURG — Aestheticized will present the Mountain Goats Monday, July 11, 7 p.m., in Hough Hall at the Palladium at St. Petersburg College, 253 Fifth Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 

A number of new movies and limited television series will debut this week, including the following titles opening in theaters or premiering via video on demand on various streaming platforms:

ST. PETERSBURG — Celeste Barber will take the stage Thursday, July 14, 7 p.m., at the Duke Energy Center for the Arts — Mahaffey Theater, 400 First St. S., St. Petersburg. 

ST. PETERSBURG — Canadian electronic pop band Purity Ring will perform Sunday, July 10, at Jannus Live, 200 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 

ST. PETERSBURG — Kash’d Out, Seranation and Joe Samba will take the stage Saturday, July 9, at Jannus Live, 200 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 

Tampa Bay area residents will mark Independence Day 2022 with a variety of celebrations. 

ST. PETERSBURG — The Florida Orchestra will kick off its 2022-23 Hough Family Foundation Masterworks series in October with Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” conducted by music director Michael Francis in venues throughout the Tampa Bay area.

ST. PETERSBURG — Professor Pennygoode’s Mighty Flea Circus will perform Saturday, June 25, 8 p.m., at the Palladium at St. Petersburg College, 253 Fifth Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 

TAMPA — The Steve Miller Band will perform Thursday, June 30, 8 p.m., in the Hard Rock Event Center at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 5223 Orient Road, Tampa. 

TAMPA — Premier Productions is sponsoring the “Dude Perfect That’s Happy” 2022 summer tour. The tour will include a show Friday, July 1, 7 p.m., at Amalie Arena, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa. 

On Father’s Day, Anne Serling posted a grainy snapshot of herself and her famous father, Rod Serling. The photograph was accompanied by a cordial message acknowledging “all the dads out there” including “the ones we miss.” The posting appears on her professional Facebook page, from which she…

A number of new movies and limited television series will debut this week, including the following titles opening in theaters or premiering via video on demand on various streaming platforms:

Angie Rey to perform at First Friday Seminole

CLEARWATER — As if anyone needed a reminder that the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t gone away, Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band announced that two members of the band have tested positive for COVID.

TAMPA — Rupi Kaur will perform Saturday, June 26, 8 p.m., in Carol Morsani Hall at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa. 

TAMPA — Selwyn Birchwood will perform Friday, June 24, 8 p.m., at Skipper’s Smokehouse, 910 Skipper Road, Tampa.

TAMPA — The Connells will perform Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m., at Skipper’s Smokehouse, 910 Skipper Road, Tampa. 

A number of new movies will be released this week, including the following films opening in theaters or debuting via video on demand on various streaming platforms:

TAMPA — Grammy Award-winning band Train will perform Saturday, June 25, 6:30 p.m., at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds, 4802 U.S. 301 N., Tampa. 

TAMPA — Chicago and Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, along with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin, are on the road for a co-headlining 25-city tour across the United States. The tour — which got underway June 7 in Phoenix, Arizona — will swing by the Tampa Bay area for one performanc…

ST. PETERSBURG — Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Leann Rimes will perform Friday, June 24, 8 p.m., at the Duke Energy Center for the Arts — Mahaffey Theater, 400 First St. S., St. Petersburg.

ST. PETERSBURG — Wheeler Walker Jr. is on the road in support of his new album “Sex, Drugs & Country Music.” The tour will bring him to the Tampa Bay area Sunday, June 26, for a concert at Jannus Live, 200 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 

ST. PETERSBURG — Collie Buddz and Iya Terra will perform Thursday, June 23, at Jannus Live, 200 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 

Creative Pinellas Artist Laureate Jake-ann Jones to host talk series

DUNEDIN — American Craft Endeavors invites everyone to enjoy a leisurely stroll through the 19th annual Downtown Dunedin Craft Festival, set for Saturday and Sunday, June 25-26, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Main Street in downtown Dunedin. 

ST. PETERSBURG — To close out the 2021-2022 season, American Stage will present the groundbreaking play “Dutchman,” running June 29 through July 31, at the Raymond James Theatre, 163 Third St. N., St. Petersburg. 

Before excavating the bones of the “Jurassic Park” franchise and dissecting “Jurassic World Dominion,” let’s start with a quiz:

TAMPA — Keith Urban will perform Friday, June 17, 7 p.m., at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds, 4802 U.S. 301 N., Tampa.

A number of new movies and limited television series will debut this week, including the following titles opening in theaters or premiering via video on demand on various streaming platforms:

TAMPA — REO Speedwagon are on tour with Styx and Loverboy this summer. The “Live & UnZoomed 2022 Tour” got underway May 31 and includes a performance Saturday, June 18, 6:45 p.m., at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds, 4802 U.S. 301 N., Tampa.

TAMPA — The Backstreet Boys, one of the best-selling bands of all time, will perform Tuesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m., at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds, 4802 U.S. 301 N., Tampa.

When one thinks about Walt Disney Studios’ creative output, films that generate billion-dollar box office figures are bound to be the first titles that come to mind. Disney dominated the box office in 2019 — the last year of normalcy, before the pandemic changed the way we view movies. “Aven…

TAMPA — Ann Wilson of Heart will perform Thursday, June 16, 8 p.m., in the Hard Rock Event Center at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 5223 Orient Road, Tampa. 

ST. PETERSBURG — Genre defining American punk rock band Dead Kennedys will perform Saturday, June 18, at Jannus Live, 200 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg. 

USF Contemporary Art Museum to open new exhibit

DUNEDIN — This summer, the Dunedin Fine Art Center seems to have been inspired by a song from The Who’s 1969 “Tommy,” borrowing from the refrain for its theme of “See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me.” The theme signals a special multi-media experience, bristling with powerful and provocative works of art.

A number of new movies will be released this week, including the following films opening in theaters or debuting via video on demand on various streaming platforms:

CLEARWATER — Saxophonist Kyle Schroeder will perform Friday, June 10, 7:30 p.m., at the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, 405 Cleveland St., Clearwater.

ST. PETERSBURG — Florida CraftArt will present “Beyond Words: Celebrating Books as Art,” running June 10 through July 30, at 501 Central Ave., St. Petersburg.