Axios Tampa Bay

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Start off with a reminder about the queer people of color who struggled so we could celebrate (Creative Loafing), then check out all of the activities in our area (Tampa Bay Times).

A 21-year-old man, Cameron Herrin, given 24 years in prison for killing a mother and daughter while street racing on Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard in 2018, is appealing that sentence. (WFLA)

🌊 Get a play-by-play of all of the steps officials have taken to contain the Piney Point spill — and what hiccups might still loom. (Bradenton Herald)

⚖️ A Citrus County man will spend five years in prison for what a judge called "ghastly" neglect that led to the death of a chihuahua named Bennie last year. (Citrus County Chronicle)

🎶🚨 Tampa's Sunset Music Festival was back in full force this weekend after last year's pandemic postponement, and eight people were arrested there on felony narcotics charges Saturday. (Tampa Bay Times)

🍾 A Pasco County man went on a burglary spree early Sunday in Zephyrhills that unfortunately featured him entering a seafood restaurant's freezer and throwing "all the White Claw alcoholic beverages and beers into a retention pond" behind it. (WFLA)

⚾️ The Rays remain hot, like the hottest-team-in-baseball-while-setting-team-records-hot, after beating the Yankees 3-1 yesterday.

• They've won 16 of their last 17, something that's never happened before in their history. And 41-year-old pitcher Rich Hill, the oldest player on the team, is putting up absolutely historic numbers for someone his age. (ESPN)

🏒 The Lightning emerged victorious from the first game of their second-round playoff matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes.

• The Tampa Bay Times' Frank Pastor doled out a scorecard full of A's after the performance, saying there's "no opening too narrow" for the team to exploit right now.

We love it when the national press gets a whiff of a really good story from our area, and that happened in a big way over the weekend.

Flashback: You might remember how Creative Loafing reported that a St. Pete concert promoter was charging $18 a ticket for vaccinated folks and $999.99 per ticket for unvaccinated folks for a punk rock show later this month.

• We noted it in The Pulp the next day, but it seems like the rest of the country just noticed: NBC News, The Hill, and the Washington Post all ran stories on it over the long weekend.

Why you'll hear about this again: Gov. Ron DeSantis' office joined the fray, likening the scheme to a vaccine passport when it told the Post that it "unfairly discriminates against people who have enumerated rights under Florida law."