Years ago, my future boss took me to Ybor's Big City Tavern to interview me for a job at the Tribune. He picked a grand place. High ceilings, tall windows overlooking the action of Seventh Avenue, Sinatra-style music and a spectacular bar that stretched off into the distance with wood and mirrors. ...more

December 26, 2008

In some ways, little has changed. You could walk through the new Teatro and hardly notice that Big City Tavern ever left. ...more

December 24, 2008

A man who has felt like a part of the place since its beginnings is welcoming the changes. ...more

October 10, 2008

In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels penned their Communist Manifesto - "a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of communism" - in a cabaret overlooking Brussels' spectacular Grand-Place. ...more

September 21, 2008