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What really happened that night at the Tampa Marriott Waterside when members of the Progressive National Baptist Convention walked out on their banquet? Eight months later, it's hard to tell who knows. Story
Controversy led to Florida Classic's departure
The incident at the Marriott Waterside was not the first time a prominent African-American group had found Tampa's hospitality wanting.
Sunday Journal: Bathtub poets learn about spring
GULFPORT -- My two boys were talking in the bathtub last night.
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One day in 1997, in a relentless rain, two people were sucked into drain pipes in St. Petersburg. A rock musician heard the news and wrote a song. But whose story does it tell -- theirs or his? Story with audio
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Creating a genre
Cassandra Wilson may reinvent rock, pop and the blues, but she says improvisation is what makes it jazz: "It may be difficult for some people to hear, but it's always there."
Among the ghosts and demons
Though alternative rock band Concrete Blonde has had its trying times, lead singer Johnette Napolitano chats about the joys of performing and the often-helpful spirits that inhabit her house.
Audio and Classical Files
NORAH JONES, COME AWAY WITH ME (BLUE NOTE) Norah Jones, 22, a New Yorker by way of Texas, is the ascendant jazz diva du jour, the latest fresh-faced ingenue seeking to find a place center stage in a business that regularly chews up and spits out her kind by the dozen. Remember, say, Madeleine Peyroux, and her brilliant 1996 debut? Here's hoping Come Away With Me, produced by Arif Mardin (Bee Gees, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin, Hall & Oates), will yield results more lasting than a spate of rave reviews and a splash of commercial attention.
