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Dishing with Mark & Carrie 8-13-14
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Ybor City Visitor Information Center
When you are showing your friends GaYBOR/Ybor City do not miss the Ybor City Visitor Information Center. It is located across the street from MC Film on 8th Ave and 16th Street. Here you find a unique collection of Ybor City History. Books, DVD’s, one of a kind collectable’s.
While there you may find a genuine cigar box or Tampa’s Largest Cigar Box. Hint it contains Tampa Beauties!
There is also a very interesting Free short film about Ybor City. You even get to sit on cigar chairs!!!.
Make this a must stop the next time your here.
Humane Society of Pinellas
The Humane Society of Pinellas Annual Awards Dinner will be held at Ruth Echerd Hall on Oct 2, 2014. This year there is a competition for 4 local singers to entertain that night. We might be a little bit BIASED but our vote goes to Judy B. Goode!!! Here is here audition video. We think she should win!!! If you agree drop a note to Events@HumanePinellas.org
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GaYBOR August Events
- Thursday August 14th – GaYBOR’s Monthly Meeting is this Thursday August 14 at GameTime Ybor from 5pm -7pm (social time from 5-6 with meeting starting at 6; FREE).
- Sunday August 17th – GaYBOR’s Monthly Social Event will be on Sunday August 17th “MarGAYBORita Madness” at Tequilas ($5 donation) from 2pm – 6pm.
- Sunday, August 31st we will be hosting our annual Labor Day Pub Crawl visiting several GaYBOR member businesses in Ybor City($20 at the door or advance tickets available at www.GaYBOR.com)
What is a T-Dance? T-Dances are a fun way to enjoy a Sunday afternoon at a GaYBOR member business while socializing and making new friends among GaYBOR members and supporters. Gaybor has held several of these social events over the past couple of months and we have averaged 100 people at each T-Dance. We always bring a DJ and this is a great chance to meet dozens and dozens of GaYBOR members while supporting one of our GaYBOR member businesses. Our T-Dances and Pub Crawls are a great companion to our meetings – at our monthly meetings we discuss GaYBOR activities, and at the T-Dances and Pub Crawls we socialize over cocktails.
If you want to learn more about GaYBOR and what we do, we invite you to attend one of our events and talk with the GaYBOR Board and the dozens of other supporters who attend our monthly events. As always, we invite EVERYONE to join us – no membership is ever required to attend our events. If you want to join GaYBOR or renew your membership, we can answer all your questions and help you become one of the latest GaYBOR members. Individual Memberships are $35 and Business Memberships are only $75.
Note – our meetings are always free; we request a $5 donation at the door for our T-Dance and the Pub Crawl is $20 (advance tickets available on our website www.GaYBOR.com or you can register at the start of the Pub Crawl).
Auntie Fee
This week our Face book was lit up with friends telling us about Felicia A. Odell, “Auntie Fee” https://www.facebook.com/felicia.a.odell WHAT A HOOT! From California her videos have gone viral and she has appeared on TMZ. When you search on youtube there are many videos about her and her unique way with cooking and words. Here is her “Chicken Recipe” 142,000+ people have viewed this video. We actually would like to try this. Maybe there could be a Auntie Fee Cooking Party!?!?!? WARNING ADULT LANGUAGE
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NEW Summer Fragrant Soaps at MC FILM
The new beautifully designed handmade glycerin soaps have arrived for late summer. New scents include Ginger Bear, Rainbow Sky, and Lavender Oatmeal. Highly choice bar soaps include Tahitian Vanilla, Eucalyptus Moon and Stain Glass.
Stop in for the Handmade Glycerin Soap Specials at MC FILM on the corner of 8th Ave & 15th St in GaYBOR/ Ybor City.
Tampa PRIDE is Coming in Spring 2015!
Go to Facebook and “LIKE” Tampa PRIDE! and at TampaPride2015@gmail.com
Volunteer for this Spring historical Tampa Gay PRIDE Event.
You Can Not Make this Up.
The Sunday Fun Day SHAZAM Parties on Hamburger Mary’s balcony in GaYBOR are always way over the top! On a recent Sunday there was quite the mix of people enjoying the day. On one end was our BFF Brian Chan from the Queen & I Restaurant in St. Petersburg with a gallery of people. Then there were several fun Gay Guys. 3 straight? couples that were bi sexual swingers (Fetish Con was in town).
At a table on the end were 8 people who had just come from Sunday church. So it was a very fun mix of people all eating & drinking S HAZAMS!!! Then in walks a straight cross dresser with his wife. Now I mean this with all due respect…. I was not sure if this was a costume or for real. It turned out it was for real.
He/She was wearing a puffy blue tutu tank top, super wild hair, heavy dark blue eye shadow and a ton of bejangled jewelry. The impromptu walk-in visiting couple were actually really fun pair. They told me that they both drive 18 wheelers for a living. Then tell me that they have their semi parked behind a building on 15th.
Everybody is on their 2nd or 3rd SHAZAM when a Florida afternoon rainstorm breaks out. The groups all squeeze together at the bar during the storm. After the storm is over the trucker couple are arm in arm with one of the straight bi swingers. They announce to the group they are leaving to the truck cab for fun…wink,wink.
OMG About an hour later I was off work and walking to the parking garage. There behind a building on 15th next to railroad tracks was a large semi parked.
On the side of the truck it reads, “QUEEN+ Adam Lambert”
OMG. Did this couple make the truck story up or was it for real???? LOL LOL
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cocktails-with-Tea-Cup-on-Marys-Balcony/833723116647654
Mark & Carrie Nephieu/Niece of the Week
Jarred Nicolaou
Original from SE Florida Jarred now call Tampa his home. A graduate of University of Florida, Jarred is currently working as a manager at Carne’s in Ybor City.
From the MC Film Mail Bag
2nd Annual Summer of Rum Festival
Summer of Rum Festival, an island-inspired celebration of everything rum,
returns for a second year to a new venue at the Cuban Club in Ybor City on
National Rum Day. The Cuban Club’s 3 floors of inside space will be transformed
into multiple “Rum Zones”. The top floor ball room will be turned into the “Island
Party”, the second floor lobby & theatre will be “The Pirate’s Cove”, and the
ground floor cantina will be turned into the “Mojito Lounge”. Cuban Club’s newly
expanded outside concert area will ‘transport’ attendees to a Caribbean Island
with street vendors, street performers, live entertainment and multiple custom
built rum shacks serving multiple varieties of rum drinks.
To accommodate the event, 9th Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic between Avenida Republic de Cuba and 13th Street starting at 9am until midnight.
$20 general admission in advance, $95 VIP in advance
| 2-11 p.m. The Cuban Club, 2010 Avenida Republica de Cuba |
SummerofRumFest.com | www.facebook.com/SummerofRum
Tampa Noles Pub Crawl
The Tampa Bay Seminole Club gears up for another football season with this
signature event. Seminole legends and football experts will breakdown the
upcoming season from 3-4 p.m. Starting at 4 p.m., the pub crawl is on.
No street closures are planned for this event.
$20 in advance, $30 at the door
| 2:30 p.m. Italian Club, 1731 E. 7th Ave.
Dishing with Mark & Carrie 8-11-14
THIS WEEKEND…
Fetish Con 2014
Creative Loafing Photos from 2013 http://cltampa.com/dailyloaf/archives/2013/08/27/fetish-con-2013-in-pictures-nsfw#.U-E4wPldV8E
Femmes & Follies Comic Burlesque
Katie James and the burlesque troupe of Femmes & Follies had a packed house for their special performances of Comic Characters Burlesque! The Social Club event Sunday night had the tables filled and hundreds of great bizaro dance art enthusiasts standing and cheering.
That was ok because the two darling bartenders, Danielle and Chou had them all warmed up with great specialty designed spirits. The fun themed cleverly prepared drinks included the Superman, Artists Falling, Aqua Mann Martini & Kryptonite Pleasures.
The show glowed with energy expelled from the exotic female dancing burlesquesters right down to the skinny! The pretzel doll, the fire eating busty dame and the magic sparking grinder gal, well… wow!
The next monthly show of Femmes & Follies show will be again be most entertaining. The group has helped numerous non profits here in Tampa Bay. Be friends with Femmes and Follies on Facebook for special event dates.
New LGBT Club Opening in GaYBOR
The new Mist Martini Lounge is set to open this week. GRAND Opening is this Friday at 6 pm.
The new owners are David Shortino and partner Daniel Campbell. The redone dining room portion of the old Laughing Cat Restaurant have the new entrepreneurs opening the quieter more quaint and an after dance and music scene martini get-a-way spot in Ybor.
They are now accepting applications for friendly bartenders and security. http://mistmartinilounge.com/
Next to Mist is the new proposed new Coffee & Tea Shop in the main part of the old Laughing Cat Restaurant facing the streetcar line. Work is continuing on the build out with no announced opening date
What Else We Can’t Wait To Try, ‘CIDER & MEAD’
The Cigar City Cider and Mead is a unique brewery. It is part of Cigar City Brewing Company owned locally by Joe Redner, Jr. The local Tampa craft beer was named “#3 Best Brewery in the World” by RateBeer.com in 2010 out of 10,000 breweries. It is opening in the old Roosvelt Building on 15th Street. Big stainless steel brewing vats are being set up and the building progress is seen daily.
We can’t wait for the highly rated brew stop to open in the next couple of weeks. www.cigarcitybrewing.com https://www.facebook.com/CigarCityCider
People Are Talking
Check out the new lunch buffet at Cristino’s Italian Coal Oven Pizza… Every Mon, Tue & Wed. While we were at Cristino’s what arrives but 6 ton of coal from Pennsylvania. Now that is a lot of coal. The coal comes in 2-3 times a year we were told. This Italian eatery is famously known for their best ever Italian pizza cooked in their coal ovens. Yumm https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cristinos-Coal-Oven-Pizza-Restaurant-Ybor-City/581786438532980?ref=br_tf
Yborites Rich Kerin, Mike Olds and Scott W returned after a month in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. They really wanted to check out the gay scene thoroughly. The smiles they have on their faces they must of achieved their mission. Welcome back guys! Mark & Carrie entertained 3 nieces the last couple of weeks. Wisconsin nieces Nikki & Karmen and Satellite Beachster Miss Natalie. Oh, the fun they had in GaYBOR and the St. Pete beaches.
Margaret Murray, Exec Director from TIGLFF returned from San Francisco film festivalwith many new GLBT movies put on the schedule for this years 25th Anniversary Gay Film event at Tampa Theater October 3 – 11.
The TIGLFF 25th Anniversary Launch Party is set at the Tampa Museum of Art, September 4th. www.TIGLFF.com It will be a ‘Fabulous Movie Festival Season’ again in Tampa Bay.
A lot of land has changed hands in the last 2 months in Ybor City. The new land acquisitioner is local resident, Daryl Shaw from Pearl Veterinarian Services. He has purchased many Ybor buildings, Ybor City vacant land, the old Blue Ship Building on 7th, Underground Church Bldg, old Olivia Cigar Factory, Barbarella Building (old Frankies Patio Bldg) and the Don Vicente Historic Hotel. He said that he wants to add more residences in Ybor City. Many locals and leaders were talking in wonder. But new housing and residences, What a relief!!! Now how about a grocery store?
Comic Con was last weekend with 45,000+ family members attending the Tampa Convention Center to see a wide variety of characters and dress up as their fantasy comic heroes. This weekend is the infamous “Fetish Con” with visitors and couples in fetish attire walking downtown Tampa and Ybor City. Visitors come from around the world to be a part of this long Tampa convention tradition show. Well as witnessed in past years, some leather dressed slaves and latex attired mistresses might not be walking!!! Headquartered at the Hilton downtown it opens your eyes to new possible play out fantasies and adventures…
GaYBOR Monthly Meeting
The next GaYBOR District Coalition Meeting is Thursday, August 14 at Game Time in Ybor City at 6pm. Many new wonderful community ideas and networking opportunities.
GaYBOR is happy to participate in the “Back To School Back Pack” program associated with East Ybor City Civic and Neighborhood Association, ‘ help the school kids out program.’
Many of the upcoming August primary election candidates will be in attendance. www.gaybor.com
Chris Sullivan, Local Artist Celebrity
Local artist Chris Sullivan has been selected by Acura (luxury division of Honda) to debut his art work along with their newest model, August 21st in Houston Texas. This Friday, Aug 9th 5-8:00 pm will be a Premier Showing at the (Our Favorite) The Hollandar Hotel in St. Pete. The event will feature 14 of his painting. A portion of the sales will benefit The Metro Wellness and Community Center.
Tampa PRIDE Returning to Tampa
A Tampa PRIDE Meeting will be held Tuesday, August 12th at Don Vicente Historic Inn on 9th Ave. at 5 pm.
Updates on the planned weekend will be discussed. Committees members are needed and will be setup. Volunteers are asked to sign up at TampaPride2015@gmail.com.
Sign Up and “Like” for your support of Tampa PRIDE also on Facebook at Tampa PRIDE!
Please tell your friends to help make this new historical Tampa PRIDE event one of the Best PRIDES in Florida!
R.I.P. Helen Chavez
The always out spoken Helen Chavez passed away in Tampa this week at the age of 89. Serving her community on Tampa City Council 1979 – 1987 she fought for women’s rights, Tampa historic preservation and an early advocate of glbt equality even though she was a Republican! Was famous for being a critic of ‘ shirtless men’ at the Buccaneer football games calling the shirtless, ‘primitive’.
She was also the owner of the popular, “Chavez at the Royal “ restaurant, which we had visited often on South Howard Ave and ‘Tea Room’ in Old Hyde Park plus other Tampa restaurants.
She greeted you at the door with a large smile and was very welcoming. Helen will be missed.
