9:31 p.m.: The Good Luck Café in Ybor City mimicked a church – just for a moment – as partiers offered a minute of silence in honor of Barack Obama. ...more

November 4, 2008

8:30 p.m. Obama supporters continue to pour in the open doors of the Good Luck Café in Ybor City, joining about 85 partiers noshing on free chicken wings and meatballs, ready to cheer on their man. ...more

November 4, 2008

4:31 p.m.: The Obama campaign in Florida says a text message is being sent out in the state, mostly to college students, falsely telling them the election has been extended until Wednesday because of high voter turnout. ...more

November 4, 2008

Back in 1966 when James Brown sang "This is a man's world," there was no manlier of domains than the corner barbershop. ...more

November 2, 2008

It is probably a sign that things are hardly going gangbusters for your presidential campaign when your police escort is larger than the crowd of supporters who show up to cheer you on. ...more

November 1, 2008

Hughley Finds A Different Experience In Daily Grind At the start of his stand-up set in the 2000 film "The Original Kings of Comedy," D.L. Hughley mocked audience members who had to suffer the rigors of a daily grind. Now he's getting his comeuppance. ...more

October 26, 2008

NEW YORK - Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary who angered old colleagues with a tell-all book earlier this year, said Thursday he is backing Barack Obama for president. McClellan is the second former administration official to back the Democratic candidate this week. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell came out Sunday for Obama. ...more

October 24, 2008

Barack Obama is galloping away with the presidential race. Or maybe he has a modest lead. Or maybe he and John McCain are neck and neck. ...more

October 24, 2008

Light up an unfiltered Camel cigarette, pour a glass of Scotch and pop a Swanson's frozen Salisbury steak dinner into the oven. ...more

October 23, 2008

I am a confirmed ghost story/horror fanatic. I've seen and read so many hellacious tales, I've become desensitized to just about every spook out there. But once in a while, the Bogeyman catches me unaware and sets my heart racing. Such was the case with the Gorilla Theatre's production of "The Woman in Black," Stephen Mallatratt's adaptation of the 1983 novel by Susan Hill. ...more

October 23, 2008