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Dishing with Mark & Carrie 2-13-13
Dishing with Mark & Carrie
2-13-13
Happy Valentine’s Day
Sant’ Yago Knight Parade
The Grand Marshall for this years Sant’ Yago Knight Parade was TV show host, Steve Wilkos. We got some great pics with the friendly tv celebrity. The pre-party parade setup has krewes listening to bands, serving awesome tailgate party food & adult beverages all served in red cups! It is a great social community club event The historic Ybor City fun night had an attendance over 140,000 bead hungry grabbing partiers. The more of an adult themed parade had over 140 entries in the annual parade with floats, krewes and high school bands. And yes, tons of pirate thrown beads. The money raised by the krewe goes to the Sant’ Yago Education Foundation for college scholarships.
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Happy Valentines Day Gift Ideas
Always a great I Love You Gift at MC FILM. New Pistol Pete Swimwear & Underwear. Also arriving new UNICO, Go Softwear, Kurt Designs and Clever Swimwear. New colognes ON SALE including Vintage, 747 Club, Code Red and Tuscan. All are all so nice!
Flowers are the best smelling romantic surprise and Roses are in stock at Island Flowers on 7th Ave. What is for Valentine’s Day Night Romantic Special Dinners? 1st … Make Reservations to most restaurants! It is a very busy night. With that someone special a special occasion menu of Filet Mignon and a specially prepared Grouper Dish is set up at The Laughing Cat Restaurant. Special romantic dinner and wine at Carne’s Chop House in Ybor and at the Queen & I Thai Restaurant on Central Ave. have a Special Lovers Appetizer.
Getaway and stay at the St Pete Guest House in St. Pete and receive a FREE bottle of champagne. The Ybor Wine Queen, Jayme at Ybor City Wine Bar is giving an extra long Valentine’s Day Special with 5 glasses of fine wine, 2 red & 2 white and an assortment of deserts for $35.00. Christino’s Italian Restaurant on South Ft. Harrison in Clearwater always has a way with great homemade Italian recipes. This year nothing less with a special over the top pasta dish for 2! Don’t forget about the cabin in the woods getaway at Sawmill Resort in Dade City. The large gay campground has nightly outdoor fun events. Rent a cabin for the night or stay in your own tent or camper and enjoy the campfires.You will meet new friends! And to just enjoy GaYBOR at its best? The Hampton Inn & Suites in Ybor City or the Sheraton Riverwalk Hotel in downtown Tampa will pamper your loving hearts dreams.
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GaYBOR District Coalition’s Planning Meeting
The February GaYBOR District Meeting was at the Metro Wellness & Community Center in GaYBOR/ Ybor City. We were introduced to the new Ybor Community TPD Officer Dianne Lopes helping TPD Officer Sean Mahabir. The first 6 months of 2013 were layed out with events including this weekends big Gay Gasparilla Softball Tourney with 88 teams coming from all over the country playing in Tampa, Fiesta Day Weekend Feb 23, Rough Rider’s St Patty Night Parade – March 16, GaYBOR’s Annual Easter Bonnet Bar Crawl – March 24th, Miss GaYBOR Pageant – May 19th, Annual GaYBOR Days on Memorial Day Weekend that includes a great line up of celebrities, Premier of a new Gay Movie release, GaYBOR’s White Party, Poolside Party, and a host of great shows at all the clubs that weekend – May 25th – 27th.
A new upcoming collaboration in May with Hillsborough Community College & GaYBOR District for a judged Ybor Painted Rooster Art Competition. The springtime event will include an open gallery showing, painted roosters in Ybor City storefront windows. The student winner of the painted rooster contest will receive a tuition voucher at HCC- Ybor City.
The renewals are coming in and can be sent to; GaYBOR 1901 North 15th Street Tampa, Florida 33605.
Yearly membership is $75 for businesses and non profits and $35.00 for any resident that lives anywhere in the US..
Caught @ Hamburger Mary’s
Caught @ Ybor City Wine Bar
GaYBOR Member of the Week
Festive Floats
It is always an exciting time when we go out to the Festive Floats Offices & Float Barn to see all the newly decorated floats getting ready for the 2013 parade season. Owners, Chick and Bruce Adams started the company in 1994 and have over 50 themed floats that are uniquely made and decorated up. The float company has 2 locations to coral all the moving promenade spectacles. New floats are designed and takes 6 months from concept to final product. Chick has a big wall boards for all annual event parade dates and locations in their office off Falkenburg Road in East Tampa. The company contracts out their floats and travel from Key West to Mobile, Alabama and all cities in between.
GaYBOR District Coalition has contracted for floats the past 6 years. Festive Floats are founding members to the GaYBOR District Coalition. When we went to deliver beads and place goodies for the GaYBOR Krewes floatiers in last Saturday nights Sant’ Yago Knight Parade, another GLBT group arrived. A group from The Krewe of the Cavaliers also came to get things delivered and set up on their floats.
We all appreciate the colorful beads, the pretty krewes costumes and rugged pirate groups throwing out the goodies and the chromatic adorned floats as they all pass by. Now you know the rest of the floats story
You Just Can Not Make This Up
The Bucs Win the Super Bowl!!!
What an exciting time that was for Tampa Bay. We decided to go to the stadium to join in the victorious homecoming football Super Bowl Party. We drove over with some friends and our visiting Uncle Gale from Wisconsin in our topless limo, H.R.H. Princess Priscilla. When we arrived at the stadium they saw our extended bright white limo convertible and directed us right up front next to the stadium to park. A most exciting Super Bowl Winning Tampa Bay Buccaneer’s returning Jet stadium fly over, just above the stadium a little over the crowded fans hands it felt like. Then suddenly Black Hawk Helicopters were above our heads and military personnel were lowering themselves onto the playing field. Quite the show. It was a once in a lifetime spectacular energized sight!
The Buc’s came in on a dozen open windowed charter busses. They were amazed as were the standing cheering camera flashing fans. The early morning hour stadium filled crowd went wild. After the Huge Welcoming Home Celebration, it was a parade through Tampa. A policemen told us to pull our limo in behind a couple of police cars with lights & sirens on! The winning Super Bowl Champs Buccaneer team buses were right behind us. The crowds were massive and we slowly proceeded through the stadium area streets. Beads in hand our bartender friend, Jack ran up to a couple of the team bus’s open doors to give them handfuls of rainbow strands of beads. The assistant coach asked if that was our limo. We said yes, and the next thing we knew there were 2 of the winning coaches riding in our limo!! GO BUCS!!! What a parade!!!!