Dave Seminara

Mar 10, 2025 | flamingomag.com | Dave Seminara

by Dave Seminara | March 10, 2025 How To Attend the Miami Open Like a Pro 40 years ago, Butch Buchholz, a former player and president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) brought a tennis tournament to South Florida with an ambitious goal: to create a two-week tournament like the sport’s four majors (The Austrailian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open) but organized and run by players. The 1985 Lipton International Players Championships was a bit of a mess.

Feb 6, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Dave Seminara

Share The Beat writer Jack Kerouac, who lived and died in St. Petersburg in the 1960s, said that the city was ideal for the “newlywed and the nearly dead.” Kerouac wouldn’t recognize the city now. It’s a booming and contradictory place that’s cool but unpretentious, with a thriving gay scene and an abundance of Midwestern exiles who don’t do winter.

Dec 26, 2024 | thespectator.com | Dave Seminara |Katja Hoyer |Ross Clark |Grace Curley

Matt McCaw doesn’t want to live anywhere but in Oregon. But during the pandemic he felt like he was living under tyrannical rule imposed by the state’s progressive majority in metro Portland. The school that his six children attended closed for more than a year due to a state mandate — and they received just four hours of online instruction per week. His church was forced to close, and his business selling textbooks suffered because school districts were buying online curricula, not physical books.

Oct 22, 2024 | city-journal.org | Dave Seminara

It’s been a brutal few weeks for my adopted hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida. Hurricane Helene battered us with a six-foot storm surge on September 27, and Hurricane Milton brought 17 inches of rainfall and near 100 miles-per-hour winds less than a fortnight later. My home was miraculously spared from flood damage both times, but many of my friends and neighbors lost everything. More than a week after Milton, our city is still a mess.

Oct 18, 2024 | bbc.com | Dave Seminara

Kamikochi: Japan's car-free town that autumn hikers loveAlamyWith a record 35 million foreign visitors expected in Japan this year, Kamikochi is an idyllic, relaxing break from some of the country's more heavily touristed destinations. Nestled in the Japanese Alps at 1,500m elevation, the seasonal resort town of Kamikochi is an idyllic, car-free getaway with cool, crisp mountain air, riverside hiking trails and an abundance of Japanese snow monkeys.