Sarasota-Bradenton ranks No. 2 nationally; Tampa/St. Pete is No. 14. Tampa Bay Business Journal - July 13, 2007 By G. Scott Thomas, Jane Meinhardt and Michael Hinman
Lan Ha, co-owner and partner of Kaleisia Tea Lounge, makes tea and fruit smoothies for lunch-hour customers.
If you’re seeking the ideal place to grow a small business, Florida […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, May 28th, 2007

CreativeTampaBay is partnering with the Tampa Bay Film Commission and Film Florida to host the Tampa Bay Film Forum. Held in conjunction with the Film Florida Annual Meeting June 5-7, the forum will bring local industry members together on topic including funding, pitching and the latest technology. The […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, May 21st, 2007

In collaboration with the Tampa Bay Film Commission and Film Florida, the Forum on June 6 includes lessons on Fundraising, Pitch Your Project and info on the latest technology. Registration required.

The trees are creative works intended to spark awareness of good urban planning and the importance of green […]

Each spring around graduation time, I am often cornered by anxious parents with highly creative kids. Their innovative offspring are graduating from high school, college, or art school, and simply don’t have a clue about jobs, career prospects, who to talk to, or what to do next.
 
Generally, the inventive young folks seem pretty relaxed about […]

By JANET ZINK, St. Pete TimesPublished May 18, 2007
  

A year ago, city staffers armed with chain saws entered a park and hacked down more than 100 trees.
On Sunday, a group of artists plan to return some trees to once-celebrated Kiley Gardens. None of these, though, will spread roots.
 
The trees are creative works intended to spark […]

For the Week Beginning Monday, April 30th, 2007

Christina Rexrode, St. Petersburg TimesPublished April 29
"Creative Class" advocate Richard Florida landed in Tampa Bay and started a revolution to make the metro area more appealing to talented young people and the businesses that want to hire them. Is it working? St. Pete Times reporter Christina Rexrode explores […]

Have
you ever attended a concert of earsplitting, atonal, avant-garde music,
strolled into a museum gallery filled with deeply disturbing surreal paintings,
or inadvertently clicked onto a gruesome surgical operation while surfing cable
channels?
 
You
might have been genuinely shocked by–but at the same time strongly attracted
to–the subject matter.
 
That
was what I felt as I wended my way through “What is […]

Have you ever attended a concert of earsplitting, atonal, avant-garde music, strolled into a museum gallery filled with deeply disturbing surreal paintings, or inadvertently clicked onto a gruesome surgical operation while surfing cable channels?
You might have been genuinely shocked by–but at the same time strongly attracted to–the subject matter.
That was what I felt as […]

Have
you ever attended a concert of earsplitting, atonal, avant-garde music,
strolled into a museum gallery filled with deeply disturbing surreal paintings,
or inadvertently clicked onto a gruesome surgical operation while surfing cable
channels?
 
You
might have been genuinely shocked by–but at the same time strongly attracted
to–the subject matter.
 
That
was what I felt as I wended my way through “What is […]

Michael Phillips is a maverick, even by the wildly iconoclastic standards of the San Francisco Bay Area.
 
He was one of the principal founders of MasterCard in 1966. This innovation ushered in a revolution of consumer credit and debt that our society is still trying to digest 40 years later.

Phillips is also a staunch conservative in […]