Rays respond to county’s financial information request

Pinellas County Commissioners want the Tampa Bay Rays to prove they completed several planning and funding requirements before authorizing a stadium bond sale. The team has acquiesced.

While the Rays have until March 31 - the bond sale's deadline - to meet the requirements, proof of the team's commitment to a now tenuous deal was a sticking point at a Dec. 12 commission workshop. Home Runs Matter, a group opposed to plans for a new $1.37 billion stadium in downtown St. Petersburg, subsequently urged local media members to “ask the Rays to show us the money.”

Catalyze 2025: Shawn and Jeanna Damkoehler	400 Central developer closes on new St. Pete property

Patti LaBelle: ‘I was actually terrified of going solo’

Exactly 50 years have passed since the funky, French-infused Bourbon Street raveup “Lady Marmalade,” by the R&B trio Labelle, topped the Billboard pop charts. Although the group had scored a number of minor hits in an earlier incarnation, the BlueBelles, it wasn’t until “Lady Marmalade” and its oh-so-suggestive hook line - “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?” – that the world at large got an earful of Patti LaBelle’s stratospheric vocal range and powerful delivery.

Fifty years and 50 million in record sales later, Patti LaBelle is one of the most respected (and imitated) divas in all of popular music. She returns to St. Pete’s Mahaffey Theater Wednesday with the 8065 tour (“Celebrating 80 years and 65 years in the biz”).

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