"The Jazz Singer" brought sound to the movies. "Becky Sharp" did the same for color. Now "Monsters vs. Aliens" is accelerating Hollywood's 3-D revolution. The surging popularity of 3-D movies, dramatized recently by the $59.3 million opening of "Monsters vs. Aliens" - the biggest for a 3-D movie - has directors and studio executives reconsidering which, and how many, of their projects can be reworked into the medium. ...more

April 7, 2009

Steven Wagner is ready to be a Floridian and this city's glut of foreclosures is making it possible. ...more

March 18, 2009

Late next month, the U.S. Census Bureau will begin testing applicants to fill more than 1,000 jobs in Bay area for the 2010 census. ...more

February 19, 2009

Late next month, the U.S. Census Bureau will begin testing applicants to fill more than 1,000 jobs around the Tampa Bay area for the 2010 census. ...more

February 18, 2009

Most inhumanities start small, like the beginning of a tsunami, but then build, as they head toward inevitable and unstoppable destruction. ...more

August 2, 2008

Actually in the old Abbott and Costello routine, Who's on first and What's on second. But here I'm editorializing a bit, as in "Who came second?" ...more

July 12, 2008

Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president, something Heintzman never dreamed as a child that she would live to see. ...more

May 18, 2008

With hurricane season winding down today, the public is letting out a collective sigh of relief. ...more

November 29, 2007

Sections of South West Shore Boulevard, lining the waterfront, look like an unfinished facelift. ...more

November 19, 2007