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  1. A Tampa Bay Times photographer’s year in photos: Ivy Ceballo
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Reba Bowens, 32, of North Carolina, jumps while playing capoeira at the Florida Center for Capoeira’s first annual belt ceremony known in Portuguese as “Batizado” at Kodawari Studios in Tampa on Saturday, June 12, 2021.
  2. Neighbors want Tampa to preserve Dobyville, a historic Black neighborhood
    Yesterday• History
    Tara Nelan poses for a portrait on the porch of her Tampa home that was formerly owned by Richard Doby, who founded Zion Cemetery and helped build the historically Black neighborhood known as Dobyville.
  3. Tampa man’s lost dance trophy, won in Pearl Harbor 80 years ago, is found
    Yesterday• History
    Tandova Ecenia holds the dance trophy her father, Paul Ecenia, won in a dance contest in October 1941 in Pearl Harbor.
  5. Meet ‘Baby Joe,’ the Tampa mafia’s getaway driver in the 1950s
    Nov. 23• History
    The driving exploits of Joe "Baby Joe" Diez helped gangster Charlie Wall escape this assassination attempt that made headlines in 1944.
  6. Tampa cigar company to restore prohibition bar that could have 10,000 bats
    Nov. 23• History
    Bats can be see leaving the former Sanchez y Haya building.
  7. Laundromat speakeasy Dirty Laundry opens in St. Petersburg with cocktails and Cuban flair
    Nov. 19• Food News
    This photo collage (left to right) shows the Cuban sandwich on the menu at Dirty Laundry in St. Petersburg, the payphone where guests get a password and outdoor seating.
  8. Here’s how to stream ‘Dolphin Tale’ movies
    Nov. 12• Movies
    The original poster for "Dolphin Tale" previewed the movie's release in 2011. It became a hit and spawned a sequel that you can see on streaming services right now.
  9. Man tries crafts in 64 cities. In Tampa, he learned to roll a cigar.
    Nov. 11• Life & Culture
    Daniel Seddiqui learns to roll cigars for his series, A Piece of Your City, at JC Newman Cigar Company in Tampa.
  10. Lighter from Vietnam connects veterans’ stories, 50 years later
    Nov. 11• Military
    A photograph of Christopher Anthony Power, who served in Vietnam, seen on display with a letter his widow received and a lighter that the sender, who is a veteran, said belonged to her late husband during the war, next to his hat, and urn, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021.
  11. A midcentury modern house in Lutz has its original owner back, 50 years later
    Nov. 10• Real Estate
    John Palmer's roughly 1,500-square foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom home has no drywall anywhere in its construction. The curves seem to lead visitors through the home, with a centerpiece round living room, pitched ceiling and large skylights. The swimming pool is a replacement; the original was a “floating pool” that was John Palmer's own invention.
  12. Women had an active role in Tampa’s old bolita lotteries
    Nov. 9• History
    Dorothy Puleo being booked on bolita charges by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in June 1962.
  13. See Old Florida on an airboat ride
    Nov. 4• Travel
    An airboat out of Camp Mack in Lake Wales takes you into the heart of the headwaters to the Everglades.
  14. A historic Tampa home might be razed, but former owners want to stop it
    Nov. 2• History
    The property at 418 Blanca Avenue at Davis Islands in Tampa seen on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.
  15. Florida’s own ‘French Dispatch’: Adventures of foreign correspondents
    Oct. 29• History
    This plaque used to hang in the Paris office staffed by Wilbur Landrey, the then-St. Petersburg Times' chief foreign correspondent who worked abroad in the 1980s and '90s.
  16. Read our favorite Tampa Bay ghost stories — if you dare
    Oct. 28• Entertainment
    Tampa Bay Times reporter Paul Guzzo and actor and filmmaker Joe Davison search for signs of paranormal activity at the Cuban Club on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 in Ybor City. After mysterious sightings and reports from staff the Cuban Club is considered by some to be one of Tampa Bay's most haunted buildings.
  17. Facebook group and Tampa event connect fans with Florida wrestling legends
    Oct. 28• Pro Wrestling
    Barry Rose and retired wrestler Mad Maxine meet at a past CWF Legends Fanfest.
  18. ‘Tampa’s Elliot Ness’ took on the mafia in the mid-20th century
    Oct. 27• History
    In this undated photo possibly taken during prohibition the late-Ellis Clifton, far left, the Hillsborough County law man charged with bringing down the Tampa mafia in the 1950s and 60s, is seen with two unidentified men and several jugs of moonshine. [Photo courtesy of the Hillsborough county Sheriff's Office]
  19. Manatee Viewing Center at Tampa Electric reopens next week
    Oct. 25• Things To Do
    Since the 1970s, visitors have come to see the manatees that gather in the winter at Tampa Electric's Big Bend Power Station. The viewing center, which closed last season because of COVID-19, will reopen Nov. 1.
  20. Florida’s Spook Hill defies gravity. What’s the secret of the thrill?
    Oct. 25• Travel
    Tangela Chipman of Dundee lets her Lexus sedan drift backward in neutral while exploring Spook Hill with her girlfriends, Dal Brown and Edwina Brown, of Wilmington, N.C., on Oct. 12, 2021, in Lake Wales. The attraction is close to the Bok Tower and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  21. Actually, the Cuban sandwich was not ‘invented’ in Tampa, says historian
    Oct. 22• History
    A Cuban sandwich photographed on the banks of the Hillsborough River at the University of Tampa.
  22. 5 questions for John Morgan on law firm’s jingle contest
    Oct. 21• Business
    John Morgan, head of Morgan & Morgan, shown in his offices in downtown Orlando. His career started with the Yellow Pages and billboards in the early ‘80s. Now his firm is offering $100,000 to the winner of an advertising jingle contest.
  23. In Brooksville, May-Stringer House owns its ‘Florida’s most haunted’ title
    Oct. 21• History
    The May-Stringer House, also known as the Hernando Historical Museum at 601 Museum Court in Brooksville, is said to be Florida's most haunted home. The four-story home was built in the 1800s as a two-story, four-room home and was remodeled in the early 1900s to its present seven-gable style.
  24. Tampa photographer documents history of Burgert Brothers Collection
    Oct. 18• History
    The book "Burgert Brothers: Another Look" compares 80 Tampa locations photographed by the Burgert Brothers in the early 1900s with how they look today.
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