Less than a year after being fired by the Lightning, John Tortorella is set to bring his coaching bravado to Broadway. ...more

February 23, 2009

The following is a letter I sent to Congress in regard to Guantanamo Bay and the use of torture. Please support S. 147 and close Guantanamo Bay detention facility and restrict interrogation to the techniques in the Army Field Manual, as well as the other proposed changes, because it goes against what America stands for. ...more

January 14, 2009

Have fun. That was the message Florida's coaching staff continually delivered during the week to QB Tim Tebow. ...more

October 12, 2008

The political season and Halloween are on a collision course, and if ugly were gold, we'd all be rich. ...more

October 12, 2008

It has been four years since the world last heard from the acoustic emcee Everlast. ...more

October 10, 2008

An elderly couple from a rural Southern province in China visit the big city of Beijing for the first time. There, in the Imperial Gardens, they see something they have only heard about: Westerners. ...more

August 2, 2008

THE WACKNESS *½ Like "Definitely, Maybe" from earlier this year, the coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" asks us to dig deep within our nostalgia wells and reminisce about the mid-1990s. ...more

July 31, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG — Though he had had no brushes with the law before a police officer fatally shot him this weekend, Javon Dawson had taken on the persona of a street thug on his MySpace page. On Saturday night, Dawson, 17, was spotted firing a gun into the air outside the Shining Light Masonic Lodge, where there was a graduation party. He got into a confrontation with St. Petersburg police officer Terrence Nemeth, with Nemeth telling him to put down the weapon, and Dawson running off, pointing his gun at Nemeth as he fled before Nemeth fired. ...more

June 10, 2008

Displays of bravado on two wheels are nearly as old as wheels. From Steve McQueen hopping the barbed wire fence in "The Great Escape" to Evel Knievel's long-distance leaps, stunts on bikes have drawn gasps from onlookers. ...more

May 11, 2008

Starting Oct. 1, the anti-motorcycle-wheelie law takes effect. ...more

May 6, 2008