Gasparilla season is ready to kick off this weekend, with the Gasparilla Children's Parade, which organizers said on Friday will be bigger and better than ever.

In the quiet, sandy streets near Jacksonville Beach, a towering 10-foot-wide house stands as a bold middle finger to the neighborhood. Conservatives erupted Tuesday on social media following an exchange between Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth and freshman Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., regarding gender identity.

The Children’s Gasparilla Parade brings family-friendly pirate revelry to Tampa on Saturday, Jan. 18, a G-rated counterpart to the bacchanal that will take over Tampa the following weekend. The alcohol-free version will have a day full of fun,

First, let’s go over the parade route. The Children’s Gasparilla Parade runs along Bayshore Boulevard, stepping off at Bay to Bay and ending at Edison Ave. It’s shorter than the Gasparilla Parade of Pirates which is the following weekend.

The city of Tampa has an interactive parking map that displays neighborhood parking for Children's Gasparilla. According to the city, "No Parking" and "Parking By Permit Only" signs will be posted and enforced Friday and Saturday beginning Jan. 17 at 12:01 a.m. - Jan. 18, and at this time, illegally parked vehicles may be ticketed and/or towed.

The city of Tampa is ready to kick off the week of Gasparilla with the Children's Parade. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said statements in President Biden’s farewell speech came much too late in a Thursday statement,