Featured Stories
By Chris Kuhn
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Young workers in their 20s and 30s provide much of the energy behind Florida's often vigorous political campaigns as candidates crisscross the state reaching out to as many voters as they can touch in the months leading up to the November election. 83 Degrees offers an inside look at two rising stars behind the candidates. Meet Naomi Berlin and Adam Smith.
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By B.C. Manion
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Residents of the Tampa Bay region don't have to travel far to find Earth-friendly green businesses that cater to every whim. Shops run by dedicated environmentalists and entrepreneurs remain true to Mother Nature and Father Time by engaging in sales and trades designed to ensure our sustainability.
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By Chris Kuhn
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Finding your peeps is never easy in a big place, especially when you're fresh out of college, working in your first or second job and spending much of your day just getting to where you're going on time. With that in mind,
83 Degrees is launching a new series of stories designed to document a day in the life of successful young professionals in the Tampa Bay region. This first
24Hours piece was produced in conjunction with
Next American City, a national magazine created for and by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders.
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By Brad Stager
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
The Urban Charrette, a nonprofit organization created by a small but highly energized group of visionary people, aims to help transform Downtown Tampa into a place to call home for transplants as well as natives while attracting talented new residents. The founders bring a mix of architectural, design, artistic, political and progressive thinking credentials to the task.
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By Marty Clear
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Rather than head off to New York to pursue careers, dancers with Moving Current and other local troupes are increasingly producing and performing their own work at inviting venues like the Ritz Theater and the Hillsborough Community College theater in Ybor City. Another sign of the Tampa Bay region's growing national reputation for dance is Moving Current's ability to attract guest artists from around the country. In recent months, Detroit's Paula Kramer, Miami's Bill Doolin and Nathan Dryden, an internationally renowned aerial choreographer based in Seattle, have presented works in Tampa, often featuring Moving Current dancers.
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By B.C. Manion
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
USF graduate students captured two international design awards for proposals to reclaim and revitalize neighborhoods bordering downtown Tampa that have long thirsted for the creativity, new energy and strategic investments that will be required to make such dynamic dreams become reality.
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By Jeff Berlinicke
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The new Saint Stephen's Episcopal School is among the first publicly registered schools in the Tampa Bay region to seek a LEED Gold certification for environmental awareness. Officials aim to win the prestigious Gold certification by the end of the school year.
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By Brad Stager
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Art of Boba beckons. Sometimes you're thirsty, sometimes you're hungry. A beverage with sweet nuggets of tapioca within will satisfy both needs in one draw of an oversized straw. But people flock to the International Boba House and Internet Cafe in north Tampa for more than a taste of the Far East (boba drinks originated in Taiwan). Music, art and conversation make it sometimes seem as if the cozy boba den is levitating.
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By Jessi Smith
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Clothesline, a hip T-shirt shop in Sarasota, provides artists a unique outlet for their work as prints literally roam the streets on the fronts and backs of teens and other casual dressers looking to make a statement. The shop on South Pineapple in the downtown central business district will soon also begin selling some of the best art supplies on the market.
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By Diane Egner
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
The newly formed Frantzen Tampa Bay Property Fund aims to buy, rent and sell distressed residential property in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties in Florida. The limited partnership was created by Frantzen Capital Management and Lifsey Real Estate & Holdings to take advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis and tight credit markets to put foreclosed homes back in circulation as rentals while returning a profit for investors.
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By B.C. Manion
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
USF's new Motion Analysis Laboratory brings together researchers and students across multiple disciplines to share perspectives that can improve the lives of those with disabilities. In the new lab, researchers will be able to study lower extremity
motions involved in walking up a ramp, climbing stairs, turning a doorknob,
lifting a box, putting away dishes and other everyday activities that
can be daunting for people with disabilities.
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By Jeff Berlinicke
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Most of the vision problems Veterinarian Dr. E. Dan Wolf of Tampa sees involve cataracts. He specializes in a technique that he says is simple and mostly painless to the animal. Basically, he places a lens inside the eye of the animal. It's a relatively common procedure, similar to a human putting in a contact lens; only with an animal, it's permanent.
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By Diane Egner
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
83 Degrees spent the day -- before, during and after the President's Jan. 28 Town Hall meeting in Tampa at the University of Tampa -- listening to what people had to say about high-speed rail and recorded interviews with several participants and observers.
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By Matt Wiley
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
"Look, Mom, Dad! No hands!'' riders of the popular Flowrider at Adrenalina may be tempted to shout just before they wipe out in front of moms, dads and other shoppers. The extreme sports store at International Plaza lures thrill seekers and gawkers alike looking for something different to do at Tampa's hippest shopping mall.
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By Kim Cartlidge
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sir Ken Robinson, author of "Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative," is a key speaker at the 2010 Design Summit, says Larry Thompson, president of the Ringling College of Art and Design, because this year's theme centers upon business and design thinking. "He helps to set the stage about why the creative element is important to business," Thompson says.
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