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Feature Story Retired General Frank McKenzie, the former head of Central Command and current executive director of USF's Global and National Security Institute, talks life, leadership and his new memoir

Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie talks life, leadership and his new book

Pamela VarkonyWednesday, September 18, 2024
For Good Revisit "Tony Pizzo's Tampa" with an upcoming event in Ybor City and a digitized collection of the late Tampa historian's television show available online.

Step back in time with "Tony Pizzo's Tampa"

Philip MorganWednesday, September 11, 2024
Feature Story The expanded, four-day New Tampa Performing Arts Center Fall Festival is September 12th through 15th.

September arts: New Tampa Performing Arts Center Fall Festival, Free Museum Day in St. Pete, more

Christopher CurrySunday, September 1, 2024
Development News Approximately 80,000 bricks were used during the Ybor City Seventh Avenue rebricking project's first phase, which covered the two blocks from 15th to 17th streets.

Transportation tidbits: New SunRunner station, Tampa e-bike vouchers, Ybor brick project

Christopher CurryWednesday, August 21, 2024
Feature Story A table read for “Play On!” the St. Petersburg City Theatre's first play of the 20224-25 season. The theater turns 100 during the upcoming season.

St. Petersburg City Theatre celebrates 100 years

Philip MorganWednesday, August 21, 2024
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Masthead gallery: Historic Kenwood

Carole DevillersWednesday, August 14, 2024
For Good A newly-acquired rare and historic map commissioned by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1524 is the centerpiece of the Tampa Bay History Center exhibit "Mapping the American Sea: A Cartographic History of the Gulf of Mexico."

Mapping the American Sea: Tampa Bay History Center exhibit features rare 1524 map of Gulf

Philip MorganThursday, August 1, 2024
Development News Work is underway to return Ybor City's Seventh Avenue to a brick road.

Back to brick for Ybor's Seventh Avenue

Philip MorganWednesday, July 31, 2024
Innovation News The Ybor City Food Tour is the latest offering from Max Herman and The Official Tampa Bay Tour Co., the family-owned company behind the popular history and ghost tours of the Ybor historic district.

Take a taste of Ybor on new food tour

Christopher CurryWednesday, July 31, 2024
Feature Story The improv act Camera performs during the 2023 Countdown Improv Festival. This year's festival returns to the HCC Ybor campus Performing Arts Building from August 7th through 11th.

August arts roundup: Countdown Improv returns

Christopher CurryWednesday, July 31, 2024
Feature Story Nonprofit Centro Asturiano de Tampa works to preserve the legacy of Spanish immigrants in Ybor City and to restore and preserve the club's historic circa 1914 building on Nebrask Avenue.

Preserving Ybor's Centro Asturiano, Tampa's Spanish immigrant legacy

Tashie TierneyTuesday, July 30, 2024
Feature Story "Ybor Photos: Then and Now" at the FMoPA features historic photos, like this 1917 shot of the Burgert Brothers studio on the 1500 block of Seventh Avenue, alongside contemporary pictures in the same location, like this 2020 shot of La Faraona Cigars.

July arts: "Photo Ybor: Then and Now" at FMoPA, new exhibits on both sides of the Bay

Christopher CurryWednesday, July 3, 2024
Feature Story "When the Righteous Triumph," which tells the story of Tampa's civil rights lunch counter sit-ins, originally ran at Stageworks Theatre in March 2023. A community effort is raising money to restage the play at the Straz Center's Jaeb Theater.

Community effort will restage play about Tampa's civil rights lunch counter protests

Philip MorganWednesday, June 26, 2024
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Masthead gallery: Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks

Carole DevillersWednesday, June 19, 2024
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