Sometimes dumb rumors lead to great truths. Such was the bizarre faux news report late last year that the shrimp boat used by Forrest Gump in his Hollywood movie was to be “cut in half” — one part going to Planet Hollywood in New York City, the other to Planet Hollywood in Los Angeles. The […]
Gibsonton, Florida may soon be home to one massive marble boot, which is being created to honor the memory of a beloved character in the town’s history: 8-foot 4-inch giant Al Tomaini, who, with his petite and legless wife Jeanie, founded the famous freak-and-fishing-friendly resort Giant’s Camp.
The mascot of Florida’s Hillsborough Community College is the hawk. The campus newspaper, sports teams, e-mail accounts, all have “hawk” somewhere in their titles. It seemed reasonable that the college would want a hawk statue, and it recently spent a reported $28,000 to erect a large one outside of the library on its Plant City […]
It’s taken two years of legal battles, but Florida’s Airstream Ranch is now officially not a bad thing. But it’s not officially art, either. Three judges from the civil appellate division of the Hillsborough circuit court have ruled that Airstream Ranch can stay, overturning a 2008 decision by the county Code Enforcement Board that ordered […]
The news fell on Florida like a ton of tiny plastic bricks. Cypress Gardens, known for its water ski shows and Southern Belles, will be turned into Legoland Florida in 2011.
