St. Petersburg’s City Council members are welcoming new technology created by rideshare companies such as Uber and Lyft. Uber is a crowd-sourced taxi service, where customers and drivers use a smartphone app to arrange rides. Once the driver has turned on the app, their private vehicle becomes commercial and is protected under Uber’s insurance. On

Chocolate fountains flowed as single students gathered in hopes of finding a date for Valentine’s Day. Auctioneer Thomas Boyd fast-talked the catwalk once again at the second annual Love-A-Bull, a charity-date auction hosted by student government on Feb. 8. Franklin Alves said the event raised almost $2,000. Proceeds went to one of three charities of

Drunken debauchery is just one of the highlights of Gasparilla, or maybe it’s become the purpose. Somehow, over the years, this one of the largest pirate festivals has turned into Tampa’s Mardi Gras. This year was my first Gasparilla, and there are only two things I was told about Gasparilla before going: Get Drunk. Get

“It’s just amazing. I’ve never heard anything like it,” said musician Scott Perez as he played the first Gibson Les Paul American Rosewood Guitar. The Grind Coffee Bar and Café in Tampa hosted “Guitars and Coffee” on Jan. 30, with special guests of Viable Lumber. Owner of Viable Lumber, Pete Richardson, takes one man’s trash

As I scraped the dog poop off the deep grooves of my Dr. Martens, I can hear my roommate in my head. “You agreed to this,” she says. I agreed to living with the dirty mutt, yes. But having my backyard turned into a gigantic litter box? No. The poop was still fresh, and the

This article contains spoilers. Oscar nominated science fiction film Interstellar goes where no man has gone before: On a journey through a wormhole to a foreign galaxy. The characters search for a planet habitable for human life after Earth dries and is no longer sustainable. The three planet candidates exist in a solar system orbiting

I am not a techy person. I try to keep up with modern technology—the latest gadgets, apps, whatever, but I feel like a prisoner to my computer, trapped in the portal of doom I call Windows 8. There’s always something new, something to make life more convenient or social media more accessible. I’m still amazed

So the holidays are over, and school is back in session, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to end. The Tampa Bay area is a place worth exploring, whether you are new to the area or you have lived here your whole life. Not only does the Tampa Bay area have local scene of