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Synapse names Spanx CEO Sara Blakely as keynote for 2020 Summit

Spanx founder and CEO Sara Blakely will be the featured keynote speaker at Synapse Summit 2020, a two-day conference to highlight innovation in Florida and in the Tampa-St. Pete area.

StPete2050, a ‘gift to the future,’ opens with a packed house

About 300 people used markers, maps, labels and their imaginations to begin creating a vision for what St. Petersburg will be like 30 years from now.

St. Pete alters approach to Commerce Park development

St. Petersburg officials now are working with two groups interested in development in Commerce Park, an economically challenged area of south St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg Foodies Podcast Episode 60: Grassroots Kava House

Our featured interview today is with Kenn Hoyumpa & Jeff Connelly from Grassroots Kava House. Before opening Grassroots, Kenn was actually part of the very first Kava bar in North America, and he travelled to Vanuatu where Kava originated.

Eric Whitacre takes TFO, Chorale into Hubble’s ‘Deep Field’

In a Straz Center dressing room, Eric Whitacre is talking about his choral work Lux Aurumque, commissioned by the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay in 2000, and first performed here...

The Shuffle

Cheryl Holly
Freedom Bank

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The Hustle

James Spencer (Crescent Womb)

Sometimes, innovation comes out of necessity. In 2014, as a 22-year old soon-to-be father and business student at St. Pete College, James Spencer took every parenting class he could, studying up on his new role.

Community Voices: Our Green Bench

"Family members of mine were persecuted so that I could enter through the front door of any restaurant and freely sit on whatever bench I chose. I decided that my bench would be green; that I would sit, lie, climb, and stand on what others could not..."