There were hugs, handshakes, laughs and a dramatic on-air revelation about cocaine abuse at Thursday's reunion of morning radio personalities MJ Kelli and BJ Harris on WFLZ, 93.3 FM. ...more

October 23, 2009

About 10 years ago, my Aunt Alice gave me a cookbook called "Neighboring on the Air, Cooking with the KMA Radio Homemakers." Sadly overlooked, it's one of many I'm determined to finally put to use. ...more

April 1, 2009

Joffrey's Coffee Now At Publix Publix Super Markets has begun stocking six types of coffee from Tampa-based Joffrey's Coffee & Tea Co. in all of its stores. Joffrey's secured a deal to stock two types of traditional coffee and four flavors in more than 900 Publix stores across the South. The company already supplies coffee to Sweetbay Supermarket stores in Florida. The new Publix deal will account for about 20 percent of Joffrey's' business, said company president and Chief Executive Officer Ted Abrams. ...more

February 12, 2009

The placid golf community of Sun City Center is where Gary Geers calls home, but it's just a shadow in the limelight of a broadcast career that spanned four decades. ...more

February 11, 2009

It used to be quiet on Sundays at O'Brien's Irish Pub of Tampa. But that was 15 years ago, before the Bay Area Black and Gold Club, one of the largest local Pittsburgh Steelers fan clubs, asked to make the neighborhood pub its official home. "Every Sunday, no matter what their record, regardless if they're 1-14 or 14-1, they're not what you call fair-weather fans. They're loyal fans," owner Bernie O'Brien said. "I'm a Bucs fan, but business is business." ...more

January 26, 2009

To celebrate the showing of "Madagascar" at the IMAX Dome Theater, Jackie's Jammin' Dance Studio will perform, and WKID 96.7 radio personalities will play cool tunes from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Museum of Science & Industry, 4801 E. Fowler Ave. ...more

January 14, 2009

"Hello, Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio," by Anthony Rudel (Harcourt, $26) ...more

October 19, 2008

Sports fans of teams known as perennial nobodies and/or relative newbies to their respective leagues should all be taking detailed, thorough notes right now. The Tampa Bay Rays, a team with a sub-.400 Won-Loss percentage over their first 10 years of existence, have finally found a combination that doesn't resemble a bowel movement and find themselves – as of Friday afternoon – a game and a half behind first-place Boston. ...more

June 21, 2008

"The voice that couldn't be silenced," as the radio promo says, is back. ...more

January 9, 2008

TAMPA - "The voice that couldn't be silenced," as the radio promo says, is back. Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, the shock jock who drew heavy fines from the federal government and was fired by Clear Channel Communications in 2004, strapped on the headphones in Tampa this morning and hosted a morning show on a local FM radio station. ...more

January 8, 2008