•"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

As a respected NBA referee for the past two decades, Bob Delaney has made plenty of calls on the court. But the Bradenton resident has blown the whistle in a far more dangerous setting. ...more

February 7, 2008

in reality, undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone - and the King's Court bottle club brought Holiday into the public eye. Holiday, more than 1,000 miles from New York City's Mulberry Street, became the temporary home to members of the Bonanno crime family. ...more

October 20, 2007