Steve Dickey creates sculptures people seem keen to possess. Last year, someone wrenched the bronze bust he had made of Adela Gonzmart, the Columbia restaurant matriarch, from a pedestal outside the landmark Ybor City restaurant. ...more

April 18, 2009

William R. Davis, the custodian at Springhead Elementary School in Plant City, was honored Tuesday as Hillsborough County's instructional support employee of the year. ...more

April 1, 2009

William R. Davis, the custodian at Springhead Elementary School in Plant City, is Hillsborough County's instructional support employee of the year. ...more

March 31, 2009

New York pop artist Charles Fazzino will return to the Tampa Bay area to present his colorful and frenetic vision of Super Bowl XLIII. ...more

January 21, 2009

Tampa Fire Rescue will have another way to see through smoke and darkness, thanks to a grant from two insurance companies. ...more

December 3, 2008

Five games into the season and one of Tampa Bay's free agent summer boons has been a bust. ...more

October 19, 2008

The Progress Energy Art Gallery has placed a call to movie producers for its inaugural Horror Shorts Film Festival. ...more

September 20, 2008

In a setback for the animal-rights movement, a U.S. appeals court struck down on free-speech grounds Friday a federal law that made it a crime to sell videos of dogs fighting and other acts of animal cruelty. ...more

July 19, 2008

in the era of erectile-dysfunction television commercials or teenage girls extolling the latest in cardboard-applicator tampons - we still don't quite know how to advertise something as simple as toilet paper. That whole area remains the great conundrum of Madison Avenue, which is how we wound up with singing toilets that just got superscrubbed and the Ty-D-Bol man and the depiction of any and all bodily fluids as being bright blue. All sorts of anthropomorphic creatures populate the throne room in lieu of frank talk. For a long time, to demonstrate how wonderful toilet paper is, people in commercials rubbed it against their ... faces. ...more

November 23, 2007

Whenever Seffner resident Roxanne Tobaison thinks about Temple Terrace, she envisions a setting of white iris, spoonbills and great blue herons along the Hillsborough River shore. ...more

November 7, 2007