Photos of the Week
H.R.H. Princess Priscilla
on the town with Michael, Carrie & Mathieu
Snow @ HCC Ybor
Tequila Bar Ybor
Great Street Performers
Happy 50th Birthday Elliott
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Dishing with Mark & Carrie 2-26-14
BIG News at the Ybor City Wine Bar
Having just celebrated their 1 Year Anniversary BIG new was just announced. The Ybor City Wine Bar was just approved by “The Society of Wine Educators” as a wine school.
Beginning the 1st Saturday in April. The program to be taught is the “Certified Specialist of Wine Certification (CSW)”. this is for anyone who has a serious interest in wine. the cost of the program is$750 and includes your book, exam fee, internet access, 24 hours of class time, certified instructors and all the wines that will be tasted during the program.
Flan Festival
Again, the desert carriers were carefully opened and presented for the Annual Flan Festival in Centennial Park. A full array of Flans were up for the cash Grand Prizes and of course a year of flan bragging rights. The many entrants had flan in traditional and non traditional categories.
The selected judges including myself, had their hands and mouths full tasting all the different varieties that were prepared. Some recipes had been generational hand me downs in the family and others were modern take with a light calorie conscious recipe.
The Ybor City Saturday Market had the park filled and the peoples sweet tooth appetite palates drooling. Congratulations on a packed day in Ybor.
Fiesta Days
The Ybor City Chamber of Commerce had a very lucky weatherperson overssing there Fiesta Day. Rain started during the early morning setup but had left by 11:00AM to bright and very warm sunny skies. An assortment of Tents and vendors had aligned 7th Ave into a huge fair festival and as why we celebrate a diverse, cultural and ethnic, “Fiesta Day”.
6 Year Anniversary of the Honey Pot
New in GaYBOR/Ybor
New in GaYBOR/Ybor
This Saturday at the Ybor Social will a new monthly event called “Fetish Divine”
This is a PANSEXUAL Event. Guess that means everything goes? All we know is that both floors will be packed with interesting people and very adult toys! Hosted by Keevan LuCre this is going to be HOT! Be sure to check out their web site at www.FetishDivine.com Tell them the naughty Mark & Carrie sent you!
You Can Not Make This Up.
OK… Hum us a Tune
The year was 1996. Tampa was the host city for the largest to date convention at Tampa Convention Center, the “GALA Choruses Festival V”. http://galachoruses.org/about/history There were 86 choruses, 23 small ensembles and more than 4,700 singing delegates registered from around the world. Again, this was the largest convention Tampa had ever seen. The Hillsborough County Commission and Tampa City Council fought for this convention and had passed sexual orientation rights in the city and county but the county was wavering!
We were proud to be the hosts for the OK Gay Men’s Chorus with friend/ director Rev. Franklin Roberts from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. We said that the 40 singers and back up band had to sing for their supper! In our back yard we had cooked a huge Cuban Tampa Feast of BBQ Roast Pork, Seafood Paella, black beans, yellow rice, Cuban bread & plantains.
After the Festive dinner the group serenaded us and 100 of our close friends in our back yard to a full monumental concert. Of course we had invited all our neighbors too. The Oklahoma Cowboys had also brought with then a couple of their friends. The friends turned out to be none other than the outlandish Gay comedy singing duo, Romanovsky and Phillips. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanovsky_and_Phillips We had all of their CDs.
They did a surprise set also to add to the beautiful Tampa night surrey! The guys were the headliners for the big Pride Show the next day!!!
Tampa had a major Gay Pride event with all the visiting choruses marching in the Tampa Pride Parade. It was like no other Tampa Gay event since.
A few days after the Festival V had finished in Tampa came some very sad news. The men’s chorus from France left JFK in New York on Flight TWA 800 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 . 12 minutes after take off the plane blew up and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. All 230 onboard were killed. This was at the time, the 3rd deadliest airline crash in America.
Mark & Carrie Nephieu/Niece of the Week
Mark & Carrie Nephieu/Niece of the Week
David Rodriguez
This HOT nephew is from Miami. With a killer smile and great personality David is one nice guy! You will find him working hard at Cristino’s Coal Oven Pizza and Hamburger Mary’s in GaYBOR.
