Googlemap user johnray2 created a map of Plant City Places of Interest. View Larger Map Now you can easily find your way to Dinosaur World, the 1914 Community Center, the Whistle Stop Cafe, the Plant City Skate Park, and Knott’s Hardware Store.
Crime in Drew Park? That’s how it goes. Crime in Suitcase City? What do you expect? Crime in Ybor City? Such is life. Crime in South Tampa? OMG! This is horrible! Send in more cops! Raise my taxes! Tampa Tribune Community Columnist Buzz Kelly writes an opinion piece that is sure to be well-received outside of Palma Ceia. Buzzy [...]
Dr. Beach came out with his top beaches for this year, and the Tampa Bay area can once again claim the best beach in the United States. Fort DeSoto was named the top beach in the US for 2005, and this year Caladesi Island ranks as America’s Best Beach. Caladesi Island is just off the [...]
If you’re looking for something a bit different to do over the next week, I highly recommend taking in the Young Dramatists’ Project at the Gorilla Theatre. It consists of five short plays written by local teenagers and directed by some of the area’s best local theater professionals, including David O’Hara, Ami Sallee Corley and [...]
Tomorrow Matters! is working hard to get thousands of people to participate in the public phase of One Bay’s regional visioning project (“VoiceIt”), which will be kicked off at 5 locations simultaneously on June 2, then continued at smaller meetings and in an online survey throughout the next 6 weeks. Because I’ve been working with [...]
You might remember reading about One Bay’s Reality Check exercises, in which 300 hand-picked invitees, rushing against a 90-minute time limit, hurriedly heaped Legos on maps to depict their ideas for the 7-county region’s development over the next 50 years. When selecting the participants, One Bay had set an artificial ratio of 1/3 citizens to [...]
Didn’t we see this in every sitcom over the past 3 decades? A couple of kids room together, but can’t get along, so they paint a line across, splitting the bedroom in two. Neither kid can cross the line to their brother’s side. The Tampa Sports Authority has come up with a plan to paint a [...]
The Tribune editorial board makes some pretty good points with Wednesday’s editorial about St. Pete Beach’s voter-clogged growth approval process. St. Pete Beach has become a living laboratory to study the statewide consequences of a proposed constitutional amendment called Hometown Democracy. But regardless of how the town decides it wants to grow, the issues are bewildering. In [...]
The Tampa Bay Derby Darlins are at it again. Having captured the inaugural Florida State Championship in February, the Switchblade Sisters, Vicegrip Vixens and Cigar City Mafia have begun their regular season schedule for the 2008-09 season. I’ve talked about my love for the roller derby and the Darlins before, but it bears repeating that [...]
