Long-form essays, neighborhood guides, and dispatches from the road. Hidden gems, weekend trips, and local roundups across every corner of Florida.
Hard Rock Stadium sits in Miami Gardens, twenty miles north of South Beach and surrounded by strip malls and logistics warehouses — a fact that still surprises anyone who assumed the name implied something oceanfront. What makes the place genuinely interesting is not the building
Doak Campbell Stadium holds nearly 80,000 people, making it one of the largest on-campus stadiums in the country. On a home Saturday — especially a night game under the Florida heat — the surrounding blocks of Tallahassee transform in ways that no campus map quite prepares you fo
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium holds somewhere north of 88,000 people, but the number that matters more is this: Gainesville's permanent population sits around 140,000. On a home football Saturday, the city swells by more than half again. Traffic backs up on I-75 before most people hav
Tampa doesn't treat football casually. The Buccaneers have two Super Bowl banners hanging from the rafters at Raymond James Stadium, and on game days the city organizes itself around the broadcast window with a seriousness you don't find everywhere. By 11 a.m. on a Sunday in Octo
Florida has 1,350 miles of tidal shoreline — more than any state except Alaska — and most visitors end up at the same ten beaches every time. That says more about the power of search rankings than it does about the actual geography. The two coasts run parallel to each other for m
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium holds 88,548 people and was designed, partly by accident and partly by intention, to trap crowd noise inside a bowl. When the visiting team lines up under center on third down and the upper deck is full, the snap count becomes a negotiation. Steve Spurrie
EverBank Stadium holds more than 60,000 seats and, for eleven months of the year, its surrounding blocks look like what they are: parking infrastructure waiting for a purpose. On Sundays from September through January, those same blocks become one of the louder tailgate cultures
There are maybe a dozen cities in America where you can watch an NFL game from an open-air rooftop with the Atlantic breeze cutting through and downtown glittering in the background. Miami is one of them. That particular circumstance shapes what game day looks like here — it is l
The coral-rock pillars at the entrances to Coral Gables — those rough, oolitic-limestone gateways at Granada, Douglas, and Alhambra — were quarried from the same ground that became the Venetian Pool. George Merrick had them built in the 1920s as part of a master plan that treated
Walk south on Howard Avenue around seven on a Thursday and you can read the entire social calendar of South Tampa off the sidewalk chalkboards. A wine bar two doors down from a Cuban sandwich counter, a tattoo parlor next to a pilates studio, a line of valet cones blooming at dus
The first thing you notice in Brickell is the wind. It rolls in off Biscayne Bay, threads between the glass towers along Brickell Avenue, and turns every street corner into a small weather system. The second thing you notice is that almost no one walks with their head down. Peopl
The lions don't roar. They sit, weathered green and a little uneven, at the center of a fountain that's seen nearly a century of Jacksonville weddings, prom photos, and Sunday afternoons. Cast from the same Florentine molds as their relatives in Loggia dei Lanzi, the three bronze