The Tampa Audubon Society will have a presentation about the Frog Listening Network at its Aug. 29 meeting. ...more

August 20, 2008

•"Goodfellas" (1990) Tampa is featured in one of the best gangster movies. The mobsters played by Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro are sent from New York to get money from a man in Tampa. The short segment begins with the pair beating the man in a car, then taking him to the "Tampa City Zoo" and holding him over the lion cages. "They must really feed each other to the lions down there, because the guy gave the money right up," says Liotta. ...more

August 6, 2008

Bright lights and enhanced ceilings are planned for Charles J. Fendig Public Library, part of an ongoing effort to spruce up the 48-year-old library. ...more

August 6, 2008

I was feeling for Santiago Corrada. The mayor's administrator for neighborhoods was trying to spread out those oversize construction-site plans for a park on the hood of the mayor's mean green hybrid Toyota about the same time angry dark clouds began blowing across the channel into Cotanchobee Park. And the rain began to spit. ...more

August 4, 2008

PALMA CEIA WEST - With the aim to replace the ceiling and light fixtures, the Charles J. Fendig Library, 3909 W. Neptune St., will partially close beginning today. ...more

July 24, 2008

Who knew Tampa would flip over Red Bull Flugtag? But flip it did, with more than 100,000 people crowding into downtown to watch competitors launch homemade aircraft off a ramp into the Hillsborough River near the Convention Center. ...more

July 22, 2008

Gasparilla swamped downtown Tampa with a seaborne invasion and thousands flocked to MacDill Air Force Base for the crowd-pleasing AirFest. ...more

July 18, 2008

Tens of thousands are expected to flood the downtown area to watch the homemade flying machines take off from a raised platform and splash into the water. ...more

July 17, 2008

An accident on Interstate 275 at Ashley Drive, in downtown Tampa, is slowing down commuters this morning. ...more

July 9, 2008

It's 4:50 p.m., and traffic is backing up to the hump on the Kennedy Boulevard Bridge approaching Ashley Drive. ...more

June 30, 2008