Hemp could become the state’s next big industry, according to Nikki Fried, Commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
There is no full-service grocery store within a 42-block area of south St. Petersburg. From 4th Avenue South to 45th Avenue South, and 34th St. to downtown there are six “dollar” stores, but none of them sell fresh produce.
“Jazz Theory,” which Alex Jones is mounting Friday and Saturday at thestudio@620, is an “event,” he insists. It’s not a “show,” nor is it a “performance.”
Melissa Nichols is using her childhood growing up in a strict religious community in rural Florida as fodder for her very first stand-up comedy special, "Girls Can't Be Pastors."
Before Clearwater Beach native Sara Blakely hit it big with women’s shapewear company Spanx, she spent seven years off and on cold calling for Danka, a St. Petersburg office imaging company.
JP Morgan Chase has awarded Tampa Bay Wave and Embarc Collective a $500,000 grant to launch a new program exclusively for women tech entrepreneurs in Tampa Bay.
