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You Just Can Not Make This Up

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I just love it when people ask me to take a photo of them on their phones. A couple good ones then I ask them to thru their hands in the air like you don’t care! A couple more then I turn the screen around and say give me a SEXY one! Click and take a photo of myself.  I did this one time with a family from up north. The lady looked at the photos and yelled “You took a photo of yourself!! HOW DID YOU DO THAT?” I replied magic.  No really How did you do that? I showed her how to turn the screen. She said “Thank you I didn’t know my phone could do that!”

4-12-18 Dishing with Mark and Carrie

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Tampa Bay Design Week

http://www.tampabaydesignweek.com/

Tampa Bay Design Week have fun design events across Tampa this week. On this weekend the focus will be in Ybor City with 3 event.

 

The Center for Architecture and Design Ribbon Cutting Celebration

Friday, April 13, 2018

4:00 PM  7:00 PM

The Center for Architecture and Design

1315 East 7th Avenue Tampa, FL, 33605 United States (map)

Tampa Bay’s own Center for Architecture and Design is now LIVE in Ybor City.  Join us as we cut the ribbon in honor of the new space and enjoy a reception and exhibit entitled ARTchitecture.

Event Schedule:

4:00 pm Reception

4:30 pm Ribbon Cutting

5:00 pm Open Reception

7:00 pm End

RSVP to Dawn@AIATampaBay.com | 813.229.3411

The Bricks

Enjoy 15% off your food order with TBDW Wristband.  No drinks included.

 

NO VACANCY Pop-Up Festival, Ybor City

Saturday, April 14, 2018

11:00 AM  4:00 PM

1315 East 7the Avenue Tampa, FL 33605 (map)

Our fourth annual Pop-Up family-festival will feature installations dreamed up and built by teams of local designers, artists, engineers, and contractors.  The installations will transform spaces in Ybor City’s historic district – alleyway, storefronts and sidewalks will demonstrate their true potential.  Architecture firms, museums and restaurants will also open their doors.

 

Saturday Bonus Walking Tour

Saturday, April 14, 2018

1:00 PM  2:00 PM

The Center for Architecture and Design

1315 East 7th Avenue, Ste. 105 Tampa, FL 33605 USA (map)

Join us for a walking tour of the No Vacancy Installations and Architecture throughout Ybor City.  Each design team will explain their concept and we will enjoy learning more about some fantastic buildings along the way.

A Run for Tampa Mayor

There will be a very impressive long lists of contenders running in next springs 2019 Tampa Mayoral Race. With Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn at term limits, who will succeed him? It will be very interesting to find out.

At present 3 candidates are getting their teams in motion. Civic activist and former county commissioner Ed Turanchik is working hard getting his name out in the community. United States Ambassador to Liberia and well known Tampa philanthropist David A Straz, Jr. entered the contest 2 weeks ago and Topher Morrison who owns a branding and personal public speaking company who hasn’t been in politics before.

Added to the list considering a Tampa Mayor run include former Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor, Tampa City Council members Mike Suarez and Harry Cohen. There are always the unknowns that will appear coming out of the woods.

It will be a very exciting year for politics in Tampa. The population growth, business expansion, building of residential high rises, new corporations headquartering Tampa as home, possible changes for the Tampa Bay Rays with move to Ybor City and of course the Super Bowl coming to Tampa in 2021.

More interviews with candidates forthcoming.

‘Trading Spaces’ looking to cast Tampa area homeowners.

Several years ago the show was filmed in Ybor City. Maybe again this season? Apply on line at https://www.tradingspacescasting.com/homeowners

Congratulations Joe Redner

The courts have rule in favor of Joe to raise his own medical marijuana.

From the MC Film Mail Bag…

https://youtu.be/jcO0C9qTzd4

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You Can Not Make This Up

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2 nice gay guys from Boston came to the balcony yesterday. The one said with a smile “the last time I was here I had one of your Shazam drinks I blacked out. When I woke up Trump was the President! ” I laughed and said ” would you like another Shazam when you wake up this time  Roseann Barr might be president!”  I jokingly tell people that they are so strong that the police will only let me serve them on Sundays and after 3 your cloths will fall off!!!  Here is how the Shazam was born. In the early 1980’s when we were in collage at USF, Mark bartended at a famous restaurant. Every Sunday after brunch the restaurant would tell the servers to take home the mimosa home. Claiming that it would go bad. The servers would all chip in to buy a bottle of vodka to add to the mimosa. Then by accident we added grenadine to kill that taste of the cheap vodka. So was born…… SHAZAM!!!! It is fantastic!