Four college students walk into a smoky restaurant, sit at a table under a blaring TV and order their class work for the day - two slabs of dripping spare ribs. ...more

February 14, 2009

A Tampa man's new book shows how his family's business defined the city's look in the '50s and '60s. ...more

February 13, 2009

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

As buildings go, 511 N. Franklin St. hasn't presented its best face in some time. A makeover for Lerner Shops, which operated there from the 1930s to the 1970s, saw the upstairs windows covered by cement blocks. ...more

June 14, 2008

John Russo cuts business deals in a dimly lit warehouse behind a pawn shop on Brandon Boulevard. His customers, many of them regulars, park in an alley outside the shop and enter the building through doors covered with elaborate graffiti. ...more

September 17, 2007