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From sidewalk to grimy sidewalk, the longboarders of St. Petersburg will soon have a new place to buy locally made boards and all the parts that go with them. The Local Longboarding Company will officially open a storefront at 659 Central Ave. on March 29 at 10 a.m. Local woodworkers John Stine and Travis
At the end of February, USF St. Petersburg will be considered for a $500,000 grant from Duke Energy to install an array of solar panels on campus. This is the third year that USFSP will participate in the SunSense competition among Florida’s colleges, universities and technical schools, and the last year Duke is offering the
While the Oval Office-ship may be very “hard work” and involve “working hard,” as George W. Bush said in one of his many famous sentences, there’s still plenty of room for White House hooligan-ry. Here’s a rundown of a few unusual facts about the list of (mostly) old white men that we’ve all had to
T-shirts can convey messages about style, politics and allegiances to bands and teams. Sometimes, though, the message can be as simple as an intense love of cats. Rachal Chisholm, a junior at USF St. Petersburg, owns her own graphic tee and shirt making company, which features a whole line of cat-themed T-shirts, and a number
Another year gone. You didn’t lose that weight that you set out to lose last New Year. There was no 2013 apocalypse. In fact, not much of anything happened. Now you’ve got to make sure that nothing never happens again, and 2014 is just the year for the undertaking. Here’s a list of things you MUST do before
Writer, philosopher, ethicist and beer connoisseur
Roughly 82 percent of the energy USF St. Petersburg purchases comes from non-renewable resources, according to a 2013 fuel mix report from Duke Energy. The other 18 percent is attributed to “purchase power,” or energy that Duke purchases from other providers. Renewable energy and biomass fuel are included in this category, though the numbers are
St. Petersburg’s first micro-brewery sits unassumingly between other former warehouse buildings at 1133 Baum Ave., just a street off of Central Avenue. Green Bench Brewing Company, which officially opened a few weeks ago, honors its hometown in its theme and its branding. The name references the benches that were once so numerous on city sidewalks
A chillingly elaborate local haunt.
If you have an evening to spare and some comfortable walking shoes, the St. Petersburg ghost tour is well worth your time. I showed up at the Hooker Tea Company where the tour meets an hour early to order a pot of tea with some friends. We were worried we wouldn’t be able to spot
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