Amy Drew Thompson | Freelance Journalist and Editor

Beaches smeaches. How about a side of this glittering city you never knew existed?

It’s Friday night in St. Petersburg, and in a parking lot off 49th Street folks are drinking beer and talking cars.

Miami’s C. Madeleine: A fashion Utopia where superstars, and the pros paid to dress them, get their retro on.

Oh, but for the days when losing a few pounds was the most challenging of our new-year objectives.

No holosuites. No replicators. (Not yet, anyway.) But this visionary developer’s project is a nanobot shy of shovel-readiness.

There’s no mellower way to enjoy natural Florida than from the smooth, snug confines of an inner tube.

They can. They should. And they do. Get over it.

Two hours or so paddling the river and I was relieved to find that I had, indeed, married the right person.

Family-friendly Orlando, perennial city of “sugar and spice and everything nice,” has a deliciously demented dark side.