The e-mail all week and the comments on the blog have continued to focus on the recent column on the young woman lying in a hospital bed, the victim of a horrific beating and rape outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. The event itself was awful enough, but I think it is that sense of abandonment - true or untrue - that has stirred so many of you. Here are just a few of your thoughts. ...more

June 16, 2008

The local showmen's club and the University of South Florida Library have teamed up to preserve the colorful history of the carnival industry. ...more

February 20, 2008

The local showmen's club and the University of South Florida Library have teamed up to preserve the colorful history of the carnival industry. ...more

February 14, 2008

With Valentine's Day upon us, the time is up to do something about it. ...more

February 14, 2008

With Valentine's Day tomorrow, today really is the last day to do something about it. So we sought out a resident expert in the field of romance and, ahem, erotica: Gaetan Brulotte, a professor of French and Francophone literature at the University of South Florida's world languages department. ...more

February 13, 2008