{"id":59418,"date":"2025-11-24T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59418\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:58:11","slug":"shopapalooza-returns-with-local-artisans-and-skunk-petting-in-st-pete-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59418\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopapalooza returns with local artisans and skunk petting in St. Pete this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" data-attachment-id=\"348094\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/arts\/shopapalooza-returns-with-local-artisans-and-skunk-petting-in-st-pete-this-weekend\/attachment\/shopapalooza\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shopapalooza.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1363\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Rob Moorman       moormanphoto.com&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shopapalooza\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shopapalooza.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shopapalooza.jpg?fit=780%2C519&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shopapalooza.jpg\" alt=\"A sunny outdoor festival scene in a park featuring a lounge area with modern, white, rounded furniture and tall, ribbed lamp structures set up on the grass. A crowd of attendees sits and relaxes on the chairs and sofas, while others walk through the event. In the background, rows of white vendor tents are visible under a clear blue sky, and a few dogs can be seen accompanying their owners.\" class=\"wp-image-348094\" style=\"width:810px;height:auto\"  \/>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shopapalooza\/photos\/pb.100064767994173.-2207520000\/5483728838340072\/?type=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shopapalooza\/Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to support local businesses more than billionaires and big box stores, now\u2019s your best chance to cross everything off your holiday shopping list. <\/p>\n<p>Shopapalooza is back for its 15th year to celebrate all things local. Held in Vinoy Park, the festival features more than 350 local businesses selling a wide range of handmade trinkets. <\/p>\n<p>The two-day affair includes tons of food, live music and activities\u2014including \u201cKiddoPalooza,\u201d a community paint by number, a pet fashion show, and of course, cuddly skunks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/shopapalooza-festival-15th-anniversary-20020299\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There is no cover for Shopapalooza, happening Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 29-30 in St. Petersburg.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meet_me_banner.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/nov-20-26-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nov. 20 \u2013 26, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Shopapalooza\/Facebook If you want to support local businesses more than billionaires and big box stores, now\u2019s your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[35883,36131,202,204,203,199,201,200,36132],"class_list":["post-59418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-shopapalooza","tag-shopapalooza-st-pete","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-things-to-do-in-tampa-bay-this-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}