A minivan rolls through the streets of St. Petersburg. In it, your scribe and Violet, his 3-year-old daughter, listen to the "Madagascar 2" soundtrack without incident until Track 11, "More Than a Feeling," by Boston. ...more

November 6, 2008

Shades Of H.G. Wells Methinks Patrick Miketinac has to set the dial in his time machine to 2008 and come to visit us here in the real world. No matter how much you wring your hands or pull at your silver locks, we aren't anytime soon going back on the gold standard. Let's be realistic. I never said we could drill our way out of this, though I'm pretty sure we "not-drilled" our way into it. What would the Middle East look like today had we not been pouring our national wealth in their pockets for more than 30 years? Did you ever see "Lawrence of Arabia?" Now that's nostalgia! ...more

July 25, 2008

Bring Back The Trains James Howard Kunstler's commentary "Driving Toward Disaster" (Other Views, May 28) struck a chord with me. When I read it, I had just returned from a weekend visit in Venice with my 85-year-old mother, whose wisdom, intellect and insight often surprise the entire college-educated family. ...more

June 14, 2008

To the students of East Bay High School, it sometimes seemed as if tragedy were picking them off this year in ways both randomly cruel and crazily unfair. ...more

June 8, 2008

TAMPA-- Podía ser tarde o temprano, pero el cantautor boricua Tommy Torres llegó a tiempo. Estaba de visita en Tampa para promover Tarde o Temprano, su tercer disco, del sello Warner Music Latina, en el cual fusiona ritmos de la música puertorriqueña. ...more

May 12, 2008

As midlife revelations go, Nicole Rogers had a tasty one. Sitting on a beach in Greece, she and her boyfriend, Doug Longo, got to talking about how cupcake stores were showing up all across the United States. ...more

February 19, 2008

TAMPA -- A José González, de 23 años, le preocupaba no poder vender sus sandías ese viernes. Los clientes no se acercaban al lugar donde tenía colocadas sus cajas, en el mercado al aire libre de la 30 St y E Hillsborough Ave. ...more

December 21, 2007

Katherine Troklus called earlier this month from Zephyrhills, asking if a chicken fricassee recipe was going to be published any time soon. ...more

December 12, 2007

Katherine Troklus called earlier this month from Zephyrhills, asking if a chicken fricassee recipe was going to be published any time soon. ...more

December 11, 2007

It's holiday shopping time, and you're once again scurrying about looking for something besides the usual earrings, ties, shirts or sweaters. ...more

November 24, 2007