Friday night, I checked out the Creative Native Gallery on the east side of Tampa. The gallery, a converted and restored home on the outskirts of town, is home to the "Spotlight Tampa!" collection. This collection features artists from all over Tampa Bay and their artwork, a mixed medium collection in many disciplines............more
Curiousabout a couple of the seemingly underestimated candidates for St. Petersburg mayor, I stopped by recent receptions for Deveron Gibbons and Scott Wagman. Both were asked about the future of the Pier, and they gave strikingly different responses...........more
She’s living now in Arizona, a long way from Largo where her transgender revelation as Steve Stanton cost her a longtime job as city manager, but Susan Stanton has a shot at returning to the Sunshine State..........more
There are widespread reports of the big blowout in the Senate yesterday, featuring the freakishly evilRonda Storms and newcomer Chris Smith...........more
Speaking of friends and enemies, the following day I was in the car and turned on the radio to catch True Talk on WMNF. Host Ahmed Bedier uses this forum to discuss Muslim issues and events...........more
The St. Petersburg Times' Amy Scherzer shares some fun photos from Celebrity Dancing in Tampa Bay, the third annual $1-per-vote benefit for the Spring of Tampa Bay held March 12 at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center...........here
Tampa Bay area recording artist and motivational speaker, Terez, creates a “One Song for America” Challenge to help stimulate the economy with her new song entitled “These Times – New American Dream”..............here
In the Tampa Bay area to take in some spring training games, Olbermann dinged Dellegatto for "putting in global warming denial propaganda into the local freaking weather forecast of the local freaking Fox station."........here
The 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment Rough Riders will host their annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Ybor City this Saturday, March 14, 2009. The parade will begin at 8:00 pm...........here
Today, Tampa Mayor, Pam Iorio announced the members of a citizen's task force that will work with the City of Tampa and TECO Energy to develop energy conservation policies for our community.............here
Former Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair’s lawsuit against Kevin Beckner, who beat him in 2008 at the polls, reeks of sore loser rather than a principled stand for the truth..........more
Ridership continues to grow on Amtrak's Silver Star serving Tampa on its New York-Miami route, bucking nationwide projections of lower ridership because of the recession and a decline in gasoline prices..............more
Saying not enough is being done to preserve Tampa's crumbling architectural legacy, a councilwoman wants the Iorio administration to get tougher with private property owners who allow historical buildings to deteriorate..........more
Beat a 2-year-old girl unconscious, causing her to stop breathing. He was arrested about 12:10 p.m. Sunday on one count of aggravated child abuse. Sometime between midnight and 5 a.m. Sunday, Lopez wrapped a white towel around the girl's arms and torso and also wrapped her in a blanket. He then struck her repeatedly..................here
South Tampa residents are crying about Gasparilla. Over 30 people showed up at a meeting to complain about the day long invasion and parade..........here
Fresh from their release of No Line on the Horizon and a week performing on Letterman, U2 has announced a world tour of stadium shows. U2tours.com says the band will play Tampa's Raymond James Stadium on Oct. 9.........here
If Rick Baker is playing coy about political future, he wasn't too shy today when he met with Kathleen Shanahan, an uber-connected former chief of staff to Jeb Bush and Dick Cheney. Unsure of what the meeting was about, but Baker met with Shanahan at Atwater's, the popular restaurant in the heart of St. Pete's Midtown.........more
Tampa Artist Inc. is a Fine Art Non-Profit organization that is dedicated to assisting and promoting local area artists through exhibitions/events and linking local Tampa artists to other artists in the Tampa and St. Pete community...........here http://www.cristinafernandez.us/
Tampa Electric today announced that it has signed a contract to purchase solar power supplied by Energy 5.0’s Florida Solar I facility, a proposed 25-megawatt solar PV electric generating station, for a 25-year period beginning in 2011...........more