You Just Can Not Make This Up

Posted on April 20, 2017 by admin

Easter 2017 just brought back a memory from Easter at the SunCoast Resort. There were 20+ business at the Suncoast. One Easter the merchants all came together to pass out Easter Eggs. Each merchant packed 500+ eggs with Coupons and gifts from their stores. Then we rented a Easter Bunny costume to pass out the eggs. The SunCoast resort didn’t like the idea. So they packed their eggs with…… Sand. Yes SAND and thought it was very funny when the eggs were tossed out and hit people. But the big joke was on them. Customers un taped the resorts eggs in the bars, restaurants and hotel rooms. There was sand everywhere. LMAO

From The MC Film News Bag

Posted on April 20, 2017 by admin

April 20 – April 26 Events

April 20 – April 26

Arts and Cultural Events in Hillsborough County
Please check with venues for changes in schedules.

DANCE

Spring Dance Concert
HCC Ybor Mainstage Theatre
Apr 20, 2017 – Apr 22, 2017

FESTIVALS

10th Annual Aficionados Taste of Ybor
Historic Ybor
Apr 22, 2017

12th Annual Tampa Caribbean Carnival 2017
Florida State Fairgrounds
Apr 22, 2017

Indian Classical Dance and World Fusion Music
Sickles High School Auditorium
Apr 23, 2017

FILM

Flicks And Food Trucks
The Grand Central at Kennedy
Apr 20, 2017 – Mar 15, 2018

Pete’s Dragon
Tampa Theatre
Apr 23, 2017

GALLERIES

43rd Annual HCC Juried Student Art Exhbition
Ybor Art Gallery
Apr 05, 2017 – Apr 26, 2017

Closing Reception, Blake H.S. Senior Show
Gallery 501 at Blake High School
Apr 21, 2017

Donne Bitner: Inner Visions, Paintings, and Monotypes
Clayton Galleries
Mar 17, 2017 – May 27, 2017

Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr & Mary Mirabal: Color Chemistry
Red Door No. 5 Gallery
Apr 07, 2017 – May 12, 2017

Mark Joseph Oliver: Not Here But There
Gallery 221, HCC Dale Mabry
Mar 20, 2017 – Apr 27, 2017

HISTORY, HERITAGE

Florida History Group Tours
Florida State Fairgrounds
Mar 14, 2017 – May 12, 2017

KIDS & FAMILY

37th Annual Storytelling Festival
Robert W. Saunders Library
Apr 22, 2017

LECTURES, ART TALKS, DISCUSSIONS

Antiquities Circle: Professor Michael Koortbojian
Tampa Museum of Art
Apr 25, 2017

Art Talk: Crazy Quilts with Susan Lord
Life Enrichment Center
Apr 26, 2017

Kennedy Artist in Residence: Stephanie Syjuco
USF Fine Arts Hall Lecture Room
Apr 20, 2017

Copyright and the Appropriation of Art
Tampa Museum of Art
Apr 20, 2017 – Apr 21, 2017

MUSEUMS

Alex Katz: Black and White
Tampa Museum of Art
Feb 23, 2017 – May 29, 2017

Art Spot
Tampa Museum of Art
Feb 04, 2017 – Apr 29, 2017

By the Yard: Cirkut Camera Photography
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
Jan 27, 2017 – Dec 17, 2017

Every Disaster Made Us Wish For More: 2017 MFA Exhibit
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Mar 31, 2017 – May 06, 2017

Menus: The Epicurean Experience
Henry B. Plant Museum
Mar 17, 2017 – Dec 23, 2017

Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present
Tampa Museum of Art
Feb 04, 2017 – Apr 30, 2017

MUSIC

Grateful Dead Nite with Uncle John’s Band
Skipper’s Smokehouse
Mar 15, 2017 – Mar 07, 2018

Holey Miss Moley and Ajeva
Skipper’s Smokehouse
Apr 22, 2017

Jim Burge Jazz Festival
Carrollwood Cultural Center
Apr 22, 2017 – Apr 23, 2017

Latin Nights
Maestro’s at the Straz
Jan 19, 2017 – Sep 14, 2017

Live Music Friday and Saturday
Maloney’s Local Irish Pub
Mar 24, 2017 – Feb 24, 2018

Music in the Museum
Henry B. Plant Museum
Jun 16, 2016 – May 18, 2017

Nafapalooza Benefit
Skipper’s Smokehouse
Apr 23, 2017

Popa Chubby
Skipper’s Smokehouse
Apr 25, 2017

Psych Chillers
Skipper’s Smokehouse
Apr 12, 2017 – May 31, 2017

Singin’ and Swingin’: A Century of Ella
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Apr 21, 2017

USF Choral Concert
USF Concert Hall
Apr 21, 2017

USF Concert Bands
Concert Hall
Apr 26, 2017

USF Symphonic Band: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
USF Concert Hall
Apr 25, 2017

USF Symphony Orchestra
USF Music Concert Hall
Apr 23, 2017

USF Wind Ensemble: A Glorious Day
USF Concert Hall
Apr 20, 2017

Red Light Cafe Live, Local Music
Tre Amici at The Bunker
May 26, 2016 – May 01, 2018

Yeoman’s Saturday LIVE
Yeoman’s Cask & Lion Downtown
Aug 27, 2016 – Aug 26, 2017

OPEN MIC, IMPROV

Felicitous Coffee & Tea Open Mic Night
Felicitous Coffee & Tea
Mar 08, 2017 – Oct 01, 2018

Straight UP Poetry The National Poetry Month Edition!
Ybor City Jazz House
Apr 25, 2017

Yeoman’s Open Mic Night
Yeoman’s Cask & Lion Downtown
Feb 28, 2017 – Aug 28, 2018

SPECIAL EVENTS

Dedication Ceremony Honors Teresa Winston
Gallery 501 at Blake High School
Apr 21, 2017

THEATRE

All My Sons
Carrollwood Players Theatre
Apr 21, 2017 – May 06, 2017

Falling by Deanna Jent
Powerstories Theatre
Apr 20, 2017 – May 07, 2017

The Azure Sky in Oz
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Apr 21, 2017 – Apr 30, 2017

The Mountain Top By Katori Hall
The Heather
Apr 07, 2017 – Apr 22, 2017

Upstairs/Downstairs at the Tampa Bay Hotel
Henry B. Plant Museum
Sep 03, 2016 – May 28, 2017

VISUAL ART

Art Around Town Exhibit
Gallery at 1914 Plant City High School Community Center
Aug 25, 2016 – Aug 26, 2017

Beth Kokol: Indigo Blue
Public Art Gallery
Mar 02, 2017 – Apr 30, 2017

Landscape, Seascape and Cityscape Exhibit
Old Hyde Park Art Center
Apr 04, 2017 – Apr 28, 2017

Willy Rivera & Tim Gibbons: Fools for Art
Bamboozle Cafe
Apr 01, 2017 – May 06, 2017

Caught @ Bradley’s on 7th

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Caught @ Hamburger Mary’s

Posted on April 20, 2017 by admin

Caught @ Steam Friday’s

Posted on April 20, 2017 by admin

Photos of the Week 4-12-17

Posted on April 12, 2017 by admin

Photos of the Week

Backstage @ Steam

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Miss Richfield 1981 @ NY NY Pizza

Bradley’s on 7th

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Centro Cantina

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Hamburger Mary’s

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Steam @ The Honey Pot

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Tea Cup

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Ybor Wine Bar

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GaYBOR-Ybor City

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Dishing with Mark and Carrie 4-12-17

Posted on April 12, 2017 by admin

Top Breaking Story: Barry Manilow … is Still Gay!

V.M. Ybor Easter Egg Hunt

https://www.facebook.com/events/1863362393931385/

Easter Brunch

What is New in Tampa Bay GLBT?

Well things are positioning with the Tampa Bay Diversity Chamber have a proposal in play for the 2019 National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Convention here in Tampa Bay. Good Luck on the great groups and government officials trying to make Tampa Bay more readily identified as a GLBTA Friendly area to live and prosper.

TAMPA PRIDE 2017 Gives Back

TAMPA PRIDE 2017 is Proud to give to these local organizations. Tampa Bay Pride Band and Tampa’s Plant High School Marching Band Fund.

Tampa Pride 2018 Kicks Off with Charity Drag Queen Bingo in Brandon

Not even 2 weeks passing of this years huge and successful Tampa Pride 2017 and Tampa Pride 2018 is having its first charity Drag Queen Bingo at Hamburger Mary’s Brandon, Tuesday, May 2nd starting at 7pm.

You know it gets crazy. Make reservations now!

TAMPA PRIDE 2018 Plans…

A lot of interested individuals inquiring and wanting to be a part of next years TAMPA PRIDE 2018 events.

Thank You for your genuine interest! Mean while enjoy the upcoming Gay Days in Orlando beginning of June, Pride events in Polk County and St Pete Pride in June.

FYI … In July we will be having another Community Gathering for the makeup of next years planning of Tampa Pride 2018. Stay Tuned!!!

GaYbor Meeting

This Thursday, 6PM at Southern Nights.

https://www.facebook.com/events/673147386229294/

What Happened in the GaYBOR District, 2013?

From the “Dishing with Mark & Carrie” issue, 4/10/2013

The Roosters have Landed in GaYBOR/ Ybor City!

Rich Kerin, GaYBOR District Coalition project mgr. of the Roosters of Ybor Community Partnership Art Project welcomes the delivery of the Roosters to the Hillsborough Community College (HCC) work room, readying them for the students to decorate!
There are a lot of planned events in conjunction with the GaYBOR Community partnership project.
The Roosters of Ybor Gallery Opening is slated for May 2nd in the Main Gallery of HCC’s Ybor City Campus from 5pm – 7:30pm where 10 HCC students will compete for a $1000 tuition voucher to HCC. The exhibit will be judged that evening by a Board member of the GDC….

Look Who was LIVE in Concert

Bertie Higgins

We all know this song…..

https://youtu.be/X0LOgSD5jrE

ITALIANO INSURANCE

PROUD Sponsors of Tampa Pride

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Aficionado Taste of Ybor

https://www.facebook.com/events/1329826287099213/

You Just Can Not Make This Up

Posted on April 12, 2017 by admin

We once had a renter who drove for Yellow Cab. He was very nice but also very strange. His small apartment was filled with boxes. Every box had witting on it with a professional label gun tag. You had to walk sideways in the apartment there were so many boxes. There was no cable or TV. He said the government was watching him thru the TV. He was also had a germ phobia. Everything was spotless clean. This is not the strangest part. The very first time rent was due he showed up with…. a brick shape wrapped in aluminum foil. Inside were 475 one dollars bills that he washed, then ironed, stacked and wrapped!!! We took the dollars to the bank and he was right on every time. This went on for about 3 1/2 years. One day he was 2 days late. Very strange even for him. We went to check on him and he had moved out. He left us a plant and a thank you note. We called his employer and the same thing happened there. He just didn’t show up.