TAMPA The Outback Steakhouse in Palma Ceia is closed for a few hours while the restaurant does safety checks after a fire outside evacuated the building during lunch, a manager said. Tampa Fire Rescue District Chief Toby Hart said that what appears to have been a trash fire started about 12:41 p.m. in the alleyway between the restaurant at 3403 Henderson Blvd. and another building. ...more

December 8, 2008

Business owners and consumers connected last week at the Carrollwood Area Business Association's Fall Business Expo. ...more

November 19, 2008

Outback Steakhouse's parent company posted a $46 million loss during its summer quarter, as the company scrambled to lower prices and get consumers to start eating out again. ...more

November 15, 2008

Instead of driving all over Carrollwood, patrons can sample what nearby businesses have to offer under one roof. ...more

November 5, 2008

Instead of driving all over Carrollwood, patrons can sample what nearby businesses have to offer under one roof. ...more

November 5, 2008

A central figure who helped forge a much-criticized relationship between Lowry Park Zoo and its CEO's for-profit exotic-animal park has resigned from the zoo's board of directors. ...more

October 18, 2008

TAMPA - A central figure who helped forge a much-criticized relationship between Lowry Park Zoo and its CEO's for-profit exotic-animal park has resigned from the zoo's board of directors. ...more

October 17, 2008

Today Are You A Poet? Workshop's For You If you like to write poetry, and want to meet with others who share your interest, plan on being at Bruton Memorial Library at 6:30 p.m. Plans call for poetry workshops to be held the third Wednesdays monthly at the library, 302 W. McLendon St., Plant City. ...more

October 15, 2008

SAY YAH TO DA U.P., EH!: I was lost. Not horribly lost, but lost nonetheless. Instead of heading west toward Lutz on State Road 54, I drove my truck east toward Zephyrhills. Gotta love my GPS. ...more

October 12, 2008

Tampa has an overcrowded pack of steak restaurants, ranging from passable to fantastic to fantastically overrated. ...more

September 25, 2008