As Frank Loesser's song goes, "Baby, it's cold outside." ...more

January 8, 2010

Hillis Brewer has been sober for 33 years; he's 68 now. He's been a barber nearly all his life - over 48 years spent cutting hair on Sarasota's Main Street, first in Brewer's Family Hair, where his dad worked with him, and later on his own in Hairstyles by Hillis. A little over three years ago, he retired but found he missed cutting hair, and so last spring, he hung a "Hillis is Back" sign in the storefront window of Jack's Barber Shop, an old-school, two-chair setup at 1658 Main, and went back to work. ...more

December 24, 2009

Some sun may poke through the clouds this afternoon, but overcast skies will be more the norm through the workweek with the sun coming out occasionally. ...more

December 7, 2009

We are a nation of numbers. We love surveys and polls. Every week, we check the numbers to see what movies everyone is going to see or how our favorite football teams are ranked compared to the week before. ...more

November 8, 2009

Curtis Stokes, president of the Hillsborough County chapter of the NAACP, has resigned. ...more

September 20, 2009

Whether it was exercising on Bayshore Boulevard or working outside, staying cool was a hard thing to do Monday. And when the humidity is high like this, the "feels-like" temperatures can be almost unbearable. ...more

June 16, 2009

This morning's cold should mark the end of a string of freezing nights that battered the state's farmers and kept residents shivering as far south as the Everglades. ...more

January 23, 2009

Michelle Cuencas takes a vested interest in what her kids do, all 125 of them. ...more

December 15, 2008

This week, we're in the waning of the full-moon lunar cycle, which means the next three days the best time to head out onto the water is at 11 a.m. so you can be ready for the afternoon bite. During the Florida winter season, the waning moon phase can be a very productive phase because of the "weather factor" which always trumps lunar phases. ...more

December 14, 2008

A cold and windy November kept local anglers on the dock for much of the month, and that pattern has continued into December. The good news is that it appears the sudden drop in water temperature last month trapped some cobia in the bay. ...more

December 10, 2008