By Marc Topkin
Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA — There are going to be so many adjectives — some more colorful than others — invoked as the Rays embark on a season like no other.

With Tropicana Field, their 27-year downtown St. Petersburg home, damaged heavily by Hurricane Milton, the Rays will be doing several things that seem increasingly unimaginable —

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This week, Disney Auditions put out a casting call searching for musicians to be part of the opening cast aboard the Disney Adventure with online submissions. Specifically, Disney Cruise Line is Continue Reading →

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For many photographers, artificial intelligence is their worst enemy. The evolving power of computers to create images that quickly, credibly and cheaply simulate the work that humans have done with cameras for more than a century threatens their very existence.

It’s not a conspiracy theory to say AI could replace many real photographers, especially those in the commercial realm, in

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Here’s what I tell myself, gearing up, or at least managing expectations — yours and mine — for another one of Disney’s live-action adaptations of an animated Disney favorite: You never know. Hope springs occasional. Also, the musicals among these recycling efforts can pay off in ways the non-musicals cannot.

In a way it’s like managing your expectations about the

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This week, Disney Auditions put out a casting call in search of shipboard performers with a background in improv and sketch comedy. The notice suggests these are for roles on Continue Reading →

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In case you missed it, Starship exploded again.

The state-of-the-art launch vehicle, which SpaceX founder Elon Musk sees as humanity’s ticket to Mars, broke apart minutes into an early March test flight, marking the second Starship explosion this year. For the second time in just three months, debris filled the skies over Florida and the Caribbean.

And yet, amid all

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This weekend the Melon Patch Players will theatrically sink a ship onstage as they present “Titanic: The Musical.” But the mood at the Lake County nonprofit is more buoyant than ever: A deal with the city of Leesburg has given them a new home in the heart of downtown for the next 50 years.

And that deal has lifted the

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By ANDREW DALTON

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” from other songwriters.

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Today, we are sharing a preview of the merchandise offered in Mickey’s Mainsail aboard the Disney Treasure from our recent sailing. Mickey’s Mainsail is located on the port side of Continue Reading →

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The dwarfs. The casting. The politics of the lead actress. And that wig! Is Disney’s live-action remake of the classic film doomed by culture war skirmishes?

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