Amy Drew Thompson | Freelance Journalist and Editor

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

As consumer devices evolve, what can we expect from the technology, the regulators and the gadgetry itself?

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

It’s one thing to build a stadium. It’s another thing to bury it.

The vision for young gay people has widened to include children, marriage, military service. And now —football.

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

Welcome to the Tampa Theatre, the grand dame of downtown for 80-plus years and counting.

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

Neither break-ups nor parenting are easy, but few things worth doing are.