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His suicide broke the heart of a generation, spurring public fear of copycats, makeshift shrines and masses of flannel-clad youth hugging through their tears and wondering, “Why?”
Orlando, Fla. -- An international search is on to find some of the rarest blood in the world to help save the life of a 2-year-old South Florida girl. Zainab has neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer. More than 1,000 local and national donations have been tested to match her blood; but of those, only three people have her rare blood type.
Summer is never better than when you're a kid. Those three months of sleeping late, swimming, playing, family vacations, and intermittent boredom due to lack of structure - those were the jam. Now we're bill-paying adults with time constraints. Yet we still want some of those good-time summer feels.
That’s because these services are performed by students nearing graduation. They need your trust and, more importantly, your physical body before they can get licensed.
I spend what is probably an unhealthy amount of time worrying about death - both my own, and those of the ones I love.
Our longtime bartenders give us so much more than cold beers and cocktails.
For diehard music fans, what makes a great concert or gig poster is often in the details.
The boys of summer can be little jerks.
Childhood Halloween was cool and all, but for me, it's been infinitely more fun as an adult.
Last July Sridhar Sundaram, D.B.A., took the reigns as Dean of the Kate Tiedemann College of Business (KTCOB) at USF in St. Petersburg. This January the college opened its new building, Lynn Pippenger Hall, a modern, light and airy four-story building created with the goals of incorporating the best technology with community engagement to maximize the educational experience of USFSP's business students.
As summer nears and families head outdoors for fun and frolic, it's a good time to review what more you can do to protect children from drowning. Have you taught the kids to swim or taken them for lessons? Have you secured your pool?
On some human level we can still see eye to eye on certain indisputable things. One of those things: the innate creepiness of the white van.
The Green Rush is coming. Voters in the November 8 election made it clear that the long standing marijuana laws are crumbling.
Just around the corner from St. Petersburg hotspots 3 Daughters Brewing and Brocante Vintage Market, Carl Estes is quietly running a social enterprise. At Louise Graham Regeneration Center in Midtown St. Pete, intellectually disabled adults, often marginalized or ignored by mainstream society, are finding purpose through work while building self-esteem via positive social interaction.
October 24, 2016 For one night a year, on Halloween, we escape our usual personas. We embrace our collective fears and superstitions, and turn them on their heads by becoming them. In your face, Grim Reaper! Halloween is a must in my world, but so are the winter holidays that follow, and all those celebrations add up.
For many nonprofits, the struggle for a steady flow of income is all too real. That's why the Nonprofit Leadership Center in partnership with the Children's Board of Hillsborough County sponsors a business plan competition in an effort to help organizations develop and sustain a double bottom line.
Three little girls sit in the grass, fully immersed at the task of painting their pumpkins. It doesn't matter if they get paint on their pale yellow tutus or matching Halloween t-shirts. No one is telling them to position their bodies in a certain way, or to hold a smile.
Trick-or-treating can be a tricky business. While safety and neighborhood participation are intrinsic to having a great time, other factors may also make trick-or-treating a subjective experience, such as the age of your kids, the level of Halloween scariness they can handle, local traffic, and how much of a crowd mom and dad want to deal with.
Dear Florida Water, Please, let us explain. It's not you. It's us. We say we love you - that you're the best thing about our state. We wax poetic about your beauty and how being near you is one of the loveliest things in our lives.
People love to confess their secrets anonymously, and have long done so with the time-honored tradition of vandalism.
As I sit writing this, my grandmother lies on her deathbed.
2016 has unleashed some unbelievably tough blows on all of us, so the opportunity to swaddle myself in Bob's color-mixing, fan-brushing, buttery-voiced calm is a welcome one.
White men's hearts really are in the right place sometimes.
Of the 99 things I worry about as a parent, teenage erectile dysfunction due to unfettered internet porn access ain't one. But maybe it should be.
This has blossomed into something that could be a landmark case for how it applies to the First Amendment, and news outlets’ rights to publish versus celebrities’ rights to privacy.
Looking so forlorn and discarded, you just gotta wonder about the circumstance that led to the fallen hair soldier that ends up laying in a stagnant puddle alongside floating cigarette butts and a baby doll leg.
Ever just wanna break some shit? Like, with a crowbar? And there be no repercussions?
The efforts to keep ourselves and our families fed is just downright exhausting. It's relentless. Every damn day, three times they say.
It's a 'getting to know you' kind of thing.
Remembering the best parts of Tampa from my childhood.
Many of us have wished there was some magic pill that would melt away the pounds. But what if that magic pill contained freeze-dried poop? Still interested? If so, you may be in luck.
Nothing says the holidays like new gossip fodder inspired by the family shitshow.
Know what the cool kids are doing these days? They're aging.
Yeah, it's just a TV show, but Downton Abbey is classic soap opera goodness.
Should tipping be a custom of the past? Nope, it should not.
Generally when we see the words "Florida Man" in the headlines, they're followed by fantastically absurd sentences like, "Eats Homeless Man's Face Off." These types of headlines have pegged Florida Man as batshit-bananas.
In the latest study about how yummy and fun things we consume are going to end up killing us, we learned that processed meats, including bacon, ham, and sausage are the new culprits - but not for the usual reason.
I call myself a feminist, but there I was, joyfully singing the words, "if I catch you, momma, down in the heart of town, I'm gonna grab me a brick and tear your can on down."
Another swing and a miss for named storms that could have come to the Tampa Bay Area.
Narcissism and vanity had a love child, they'd name her Selfie.
A new fad is in high gear that promises to relieve our anxieties and put us in a calm state of mind, and it's not even Xanax.
Growing up in Tampa, Cuban culture was always in the peripheral.
The current measure of cool is to give absolutely no fucks. It seems like no one has a fuck to spare anymore.
Octopus vs. Crab Fisherman vs. Stone Crab, and octopus are so winning.
Florida is a lovely place to call home, but it's not without its discomforts. We are intimately familiar with swamp ass and sweaty underboob.
The most offensive part of summer is the increase of those creepy, lurking, giant-ass cockroaches.
The 1980s have come and gone twice already. Once in reality, and again in a nostalgic comeback several years ago, when we Gen X-ers were starting to relate more to the show Thirtysomething than we did to Facts of Life. But, you take the good, you take the bad ...
With so much effort going into trying to look cool on the dance floor, one area that seems overlooked is our dancing face.
The thing that hangovers have in common with childbirth is that they're worth it. They must be, because who among us gorgeous bastards hasn't sworn off the drink after a particularly soul-crushing hangover, and yet eventually gone back for more.
All of my life, I have grappled with an irrational fear of sharks and my unabashed love for being in the Gulf of Mexico.