Caught @ Steam Friday’s
From The MC Film News Bag
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Monday,November 9, 2015 |
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Mayor Bob Buckhorn joins local muralists Tes One and Bask, along with their incredible team, as they put the finishing touches on the new Poe Parking Garage mural dubbed “Stay Curious.” |
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| “From the Desk of Mayor Buckhorn” is designed to give citizens greater insight into the Mayor’s Office. Every week, Mayor Buckhorn will offer a snippet of what he’s currently working on.“Since the Affordable Healthcare Act, more than 1.7 million Floridians have signed up for healthcare – 77,256 in Hillsborough last year alone. Even with these gains, living without health insurance is still a scary reality for families across the state. Now is the time to learn about your healthcare choices at HealthCare.gov. There, you will find financial assistance, options to find a plan that works for your family, and an application that takes about 10 minutes to complete. The deadline is January 31, 2016. Together, we can make sure no one in our city lives with the fear of getting sick or injured. Tell anyone you know who isn’t insured to visit HealthCare.gov and learn about their choices.”
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11/4: Tampa Bay Business Journal: Buckhorn: Downtown Tampa close to landing a grocery store – for real this time – Adding to the live, work, play atmosphere, a potential grocery store could be a big win for downtown 11/5: FDOT offers to work with HART on comprehensive transit study – Florida Department of Transportation District 7 Secretary Paul Steinman, offered at a Tampa city council meeting last week, to fund a transit study which will outline a regional rail plan for Tampa Bay. 11/6: Tampa Tribune: Half-cent sales tax hike recommended for transportation needs – The Policy Leadership Group voted to move forward with a sales tax referendum for roads and transit projects last week after completing the Go Hillsborough public outreach projects. 11/6: Tampa Bay Times: Tampa Bay transportation leaders excited at prospects of turning CSX train tracks into commuter rail system – Tampa Bay leaders gathered to discuss the potential of turning current CSX freight lines into commuter rail for Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, and Pinellas counties. The Florida Department of Transportation has committed to work with local agencies to research the possibilities. 11/6: Tampa Tribune: Tampa officials see Google Fiber’s potential for tech startups – The announcement of Google Fiber’s potential expansion into the Tampa market has ignited a firestorm of interest into what gigabit internet speeds, 100 times faster than the average internet speed in Florida today, could do for tech-startups and entrepreneurs in Tampa. 11/6: Tampa Bay Business Journal: Here’s what happens when you Google Tampa: – The search engine giant has put Tampa on its map, and that’s leading to a lot of questions about what to expect, and when. 11/7: WUSF News: Obama Targets Tampa, Other Cities For HealthCare.gov Enrollment – President Obama announced last week that Tampa is joining 20 other cities in a White House Healthy Communities Challenge to enroll uninsured people in this year’s Affordable Care open enrollment. The enrollment period ends January 31, 2016.
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Photos of the Week
Photos of the Week
 Go Keith
 Carne’s on 7th
 La France
 New York New York Pizza
 Lumber Jacks
   Bradley’s on 7th Centro Cantina
 Cristino’s Coal Oven Pizza
& Italian Restaurant
 District Tea
  Hamburger Mary’s
  Liquid Lounge
 Tea Cup
  Steam Fridays
 Ybor Wine Bar
     GaYBOR-Ybor City
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Dishing with Mark and Carrie 11-4-15
Dishing with Mark and Carrie
11-4-15
Last week over the Halloween Weekend, we took over 2,000+ photos. The best 500+ are now up on our web site at www.MCFilmFest.com
Just click on the club that you were at and chances are that you will know somebody!
Ybor City – GaYBOR Community SPIRIT
Is Ybor/GaYBOR one of your favorite places?
Would you like to meet fun people who also enjoy Ybor/GaYBOR?
Like to show some Community Spirit?
HERE IS YOUR CHANCE!!!
Join your old and soon to be new friends, decorating Ybor/GaYBOR for the Holidays.
Everyone is welcome to help out. Children to Seniors, Leather to Feathers and everyone in between 11am Meet Sunday, Nov. 15th at the Reservoir Bar on 7th Ave for a light breakfast then hit the streets decorating Ybor with old and new friends at noon time. Hey even your neighbors may be there.
The Must Do Holiday Events Coming Up.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
Visit these facebook invites and invite your friends.
Nov 15th Community Decorating Party
Nov 18th Holiday Tree Lighting
Dec 6 Holiday Bar Crawl
Dec 13th
Snow on 7th Parade
The Belated Friend, Rex Maniscalco’s GLBT Photo Collection
Several years ago Mark & Carrie donated 16 boxes of historic GLBT photos & memorableily from the estate of Rex Maniscalco, to USF Special Library Collections. Rex was a legendary photographer in Tampa Bay having taken thousands of pictures at the old 1980’s Tampa Pride and other Pride events, Gay Day at Disney, Political arena Photos, area gay bar/club pictures and many of the Tampa Bay GLBT organizations and their charity events.
After several years of library scanning, a portion of the collection is now online for review and historical research at http://digital.lib.usf.edu/SFS0039845/00001 . USF wants the Special GLBT Library Collection to be one of the largest and re known in the country. There are a lot of chances you may have valuable GLBT memorabilia for the University Special Collection.
We are sure there were a lot of Rex’s cat photos that didn’t make it.
LOL THANK YOU REX.
MUST DO EVENT
We are so excited that our good friends at Femms & Follies Burlesque Show this Saturday. https://www.facebook.com/FemmesandFollies/?fref=ts are entertaining at this years charity benefit for Metro Wellness & Community Centers Gala!
DONT MISS IT!!! GO Katie!!!
Opening Nov 15th
There is a new Tampa Indie Flea Market opening soon in the historic Rialto Theatre in Tampa Heights. This is located across the street from the former Chambers Night Club on Franklin St. in Tampa Heights. Read the complete story in The Tampa Bay Times at http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/indie-flea-market-set-for-tampa-heights/2251743
93.3 WFLZ LIVE
Thursty Thursdays at Liquid are the official spot for the live 93.3WFLZ broadcast! Come out and see the beautiful people, crazy awesome music, and drink specials (including our signature 93cent Liquid Shots). Spin the prize wheel, take a selfie on the 93.3 red carpet, and interact with radio personalities. Bringing the party back to Ybor on Thursday nights at Liquid! See you there
You Just Can Not Make This Up
One night we walked into one of our favorite Ybor Gay Bars. A good friend and celebrity bartender who we will call Mike walked in. He insisted on buying us a drink. Mike ordered a round of drinks and asked the bartender (Who knows us all very well) to start a tab. The bartender asked for a credit card which is standard at the club.
Mike said, “You know I always pay in cash. Just start a tab.” The bartender said ‘NO’ and asked for a credit card again.
Mike then took his…. shoes off and slammed them on the bar top saying a little upsetting, “Here keep my shoes you know I’m not walking out with out them!!!”
We all laughed. The next day we saw Mike and commented on how funny it was last night when he left his shoes on the bar top. Mike looked surprised and said, “OMG!! I lost my shoes last night! Do you think I paid my tab?”
After several calls we found out that Mike did pay his tab and told them to keep his shoes. LOL
MC Film Nephew/ Niece of the Week
Marley Mon
Marley’s other name is Mr. Jameson! He loves Jameson almost as must as his fiancee Summer Alexander. When not busy working Marley & Summer are out living the life of true Yboresta.
