A woman is dead after being struck by two vehicles early on April 18, while standing in the middle of the road in Wesley Chapel.Continue reading
WC Couple Arrested For Child Neglect
By Matt Wiley
A parking lot is no place for an unclothed and unsupervised toddler to be at night.Continue reading
Freedom grad's 'The Exit Room' is entry in Tribeca Film Fest
By Matt Wiley | NEW TAMPA
Film festivals. Red carpets, celebrities and champagne come to mind. Or, maybe that’s the Oscars. But, for one Freedom High graduate, the Tribeca Film Festival could be a stepping stone to the latter, as he premieres his short film, “The Exit Room,” during the New York City festival to help get his name out there and bring exposure to his work.
Todd Wiseman, Jr., 25, graduated in 2005 from Freedom, where he worked on the school’s morning news. Now, he works on the sixth floor of a building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, the building that his production company, Hayden 5 Media, LLC, calls home.
On April 20, Wiseman was expected to premiere his ten-minute film, a look at the punishment of a captured journalist awaiting execution during a futuristic American revolution, to a theater of festival attendees.
“I had been to (the) Tribeca (festival) before as a guest, and it was a really exciting experience,” Wiseman explains. “(The festival) is really cool because it brings together international filmmakers and local filmmakers. Tribeca has a ‘narrative’ category, so we entered ‘The Exit Room,’ and it got selected, which is a huge honor.”
Wiseman says that the short, which stars Christopher Abbott (HBO’s “Girls” series), already had generated some prefestival “buzz” and that he already has received offers for distribution and representation, which are usually the goals when an independent filmmaler takes a film to a festival.
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Pura Indoor Cycling Studio — Just Don’t Call It The ‘S’ Word!
By Gary Nager
So, even though I work out a minimum of three days a week (and usually more than that), thanks to our new advertisers — Pura Indoor Cycling Studio in the Shoppes at New Tampa in Wesley Chapel (between Publix and Bealls) — I decided to give the sport of indoor cycling a shot.Continue reading
Once Lights Are Sequenced, New BBD Lanes To Open By Jan. 21!
By Matt Wiley
Although the grand opening of the newly widened lanes of Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. north of I-75 a couple of miles south of the Pasco County line has been delayed past the initial completion date of the first of the year, representatives for Hillsborough County say that an official opening date has now been announced.Continue reading