During Super Bowl weekend, tens of thousands of revelers descended on the Channelside Bay Plaza entertainment complex. They ate in the restaurants and drank in the bars, meandered through the red-brick piazza and danced until dawn in nightclubs. ...more

February 8, 2009

Three people accused of hitting police horses were rounded up by mounted patrol officers Saturday night in Ybor City. ...more

February 2, 2009

Three people accused of hitting police horses were rounded up by mounted patrol officers Saturday night in Ybor City. ...more

February 1, 2009

"I love Florida weather!" shouted Al Roker to more than 200 cheering spectators gathered in Centro Ybor this morning for a chance to meet him and get a few seconds of face time the "Today" show. Roker, in town as part of NBC's Super Bowl XLIII coverage, got a taste of Ybor City during several live reports from in front of a cigar store on Seventh Avenue. ...more

January 29, 2009

NBC's "Today" is getting ready for a Super Bowl visit to Tampa that includes a special two-hour edition on Sunday morning with Meredith Vieira, Al Roker and Ann Curry live from Raymond James Stadium, and Matt Lauer at the White House. ...more

January 27, 2009

Florida has a new Miss Gay Florida USofA as Natasha Braxton of Miami took the over-sized, gem-studded crown. ...more

January 19, 2009

Ybor City's Seventh Avenue will continue to be known as "La Setima." On Thursday, the city's Community Redevelopment Agency, composed of the seven-member city council, voted 4-2 against sending a request to Mayor Pam Iorio to remove the Spanish wording from street signs along Ybor's main thoroughfare. ...more

January 16, 2009

Ybor City's Seventh Avenue will continue to be known as "La Setima." The city's Community Redevelopment Agency, comprised of the seven-member city council, voted 4 to 2 against sending a request to Mayor Pam Iorio to remove the Spanish wording from street signs along Ybor's main thoroughfare today. ...more

January 15, 2009

For several years, a war of words has been raging in Ybor City. Spanish-speaking visitors have questioned why the signs on Seventh Avenue, the historic district's main thoroughfare, misspelled the word for "seventh." ...more

January 15, 2009

For several years, a war of words has been raging in Ybor City. ...more

January 14, 2009