TAMPA CELEBRATES ASIAN CULTURE

I want to like Asia Fest… I really do… but after spending a few hours braving the chaos, the elbow-to-nose crowds compacted within an area the size of my apartment, and cooking myself alive in the scalding heat, I’m tempted to skip Tampa’s next attempt at being Asian and cross I-4 to the Orlando version….

WE DARED TO URBAN DARE

“Your list of clues can be found in the park just a block left of here… now GO!” the director yelled. Mild pause, the calm before a storm as it dawned on the crowd the race had begun. 600 people ran! The 1st Tampa Bay Hunger Games had officially begun! The last person living would…

FEEL LIKE ROYALTY AND X-MEN ALL AT ONCE

The Plant Museum: if the inside is as beautiful as the outside… Ah, Downtown Tampa— tall building, tall building, ghetto and clean, old factories… and a palace? I’ve often passed the curiosity of a building– large, red-ish and topped with domes and minarets– and just thought of it as the Plant Museum– part of the…