Gayle Guyardo, who for 14 years has co-anchored WFLA's television coverage of the Gasparilla parade, went on with the show Saturday even though she said she had the flu and a fever. ...more

January 27, 2008

It all comes down to finding your inner pirate. Thousands of Tampa Bay area residents found their personal Jose Gaspars on Saturday, ...more

January 27, 2008

TAMPA - Gayle Guyardo, who for 14 years has co-anchored WFLA's television coverage of the Gasparilla parade, went on with the show Saturday even though she said she had the flu and a fever. ...more

January 26, 2008

As the city gears up for Gasparilla, a dispute continues between Tampa police and a woman who said she was raped - then was arrested - during last year's festivities. ...more

January 26, 2008

Avast! For the 104th time, the pirate invasion is upon us. On Saturday, a flotilla led by mythical pirate Jose Gaspar aboard the Jose Gasparilla will dock at the Tampa Convention Center after attacking the city with cannon blasts. The mayor will hand over the keys to the city and the pirates then will have brunch before parading along Bayshore Boulevard toward downtown while landlubbers joyfully fight for their beaded bounty. ...more

January 25, 2008

Pirates will rule the Gasparilla parade on Saturday, but so will gypsies, riverboat gamblers and Greek goddesses. The themes of Tampa krewes formed in recent years aren't all based on marauding buccaneers. ...more

January 24, 2008

As Tampa gears up for Gasparilla, a dispute continues between city police and a woman who said she was raped — then arrested — during last year's festivities. ...more

January 22, 2008

Of all the disappointed people heading home from Saturday's canceled Children's Gasparilla Parade, maybe the biggest frown was on the face of Darrell Stefany, the event's organizer. ...more

January 22, 2008

There were a lot of sad little faces at Saturday's Children's Gasparilla Parade when fierce storms forced officials to halt the event a half-hour after it started. It was the right call to make. ...more

January 22, 2008

For the 17 years that Darrell Stefany, who works with EventMakers Corp., has staged some of the massive Gasparilla goings-on, including the children's parade and fireworks show, he never has seen it canceled after it started. ...more

January 21, 2008