Get ready for school. ...more

August 13, 2009

Steve Dickey creates sculptures people seem keen to possess. Last year, someone wrenched the bronze bust he had made of Adela Gonzmart, the Columbia restaurant matriarch, from a pedestal outside the landmark Ybor City restaurant. ...more

April 18, 2009

One of the greatest ideas to come out of punk rock was the notion that a performer was no better than the audience. Performers shouldn't be placed on a pedestal. Hero worship was inherently unhealthy. ...more

March 13, 2009

This time next year, Courier Field should be home to a monument to all veterans surrounded by landscaping and other amenities. ...more

November 19, 2008

An eagle with outstretched wings was selected Tuesday as the favorite design by a committee overseeing a veterans memorial planned for a city park. ...more

November 12, 2008

The last time I had seen Checkpoint Charlie, the best known border crossing between what was then East and West Berlin, was in 1972. ...more

October 22, 2008

Wow, I just finished the opinion piece by Don Walton, and I would like to say it must be very hard for you to breathe up there on that pedestal you're sitting on. I don't know how you can call yourself a Christian and spout the rubbish you do. ...more

October 19, 2008

Ice-cream lovers got a free taste of a 6-foot ice-cream "cone" Tuesday in celebration of National Ice Cream Month. ...more

July 23, 2008