For Rina Alvarez, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival probably won’t ever be the same. The Tampa Bay woman grew up attending the annual party named after mythical pirate José Gaspar, who terrorized the ...
A man says he witnessed a Tampa Bay area woman being groped by a pirate in the Gasparilla parade on Saturday. Rina Alvarez grew up in Tampa and has gone to the Gasparilla parade every year. “This year ...
At Tampa's annual Gasparilla festival in January, a member of the elite Ye Mystic Krewe — the powerful men who dress as pirates to "invade" the city and take a traditional swashbuckle down the parade ...