Thousands of people every day see him dressed in a Lady Liberty or Uncle Sam costume, waving a placard for a Bradenton tax service. ...more

February 19, 2008

Is it possible to will your weight off? Hundreds of people in the Tampa Bay area are giving the power of hypnosis a try and melting off the pounds. ...more

February 15, 2008

Gregory Phillips recently drove to Fort Myers to pick up a few pieces of art from Michael Beauchemin, an artist who grew up in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

February 4, 2008

My mother is in her ninth decade. That makes my own age look like a typo when I'm asked to write it on a page and sound like an outright lie when I speak it. ...more

December 23, 2007

One could not define The New England Journal of Medicine as a bastion for tax-and-spend liberals. Harvard folks who provide the publication are a conservative lot who publish, after great scrutiny, health-related studies and editorials. ...more

October 26, 2007

A barrage of Latin beats blasts through the stereo speakers, and Patty Sanchez takes center stage, her body shimmying with what seems like a hundred dance moves. ...more

October 17, 2007