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Photos of the Week
Metro Wellness Community Center
Jermiah, Ybor Youth Clinic Director
Row Boat & R.Bar
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Sarah Birnie
Associate Director at HRC Washington D.C.
Visiting MC Film
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Dishing with Mark & Carrie 2-20-13
The MUST DO Events this Weekend
6 Year Anniversary Celebration
at The Honey Pot
Flan & Fiesta Day
Flan Festival Saturday In Centennial Park
This Saturday, Feb 22nd is the 11th Annual Flan Festival with bragging rights and cash prizes going to the 2 yearly winners. The 2 classifications of flan entries is traditional Spanish & French egg custard style and non traditional with 100’s of possibilities that have included mango, red hot peppers, chocolate, carrot bits and goat cheese.
We know this Saturday at Noon will be no different for lively sweets tammering the judges tastebuds. It is one of the Best Known Fun & Tasty events in Ybor City. The desert cooking contestants travel from 100 miles away to be a top 2 flan favorite contender. Again, Yours truly, Carrie will again be one of the flan tasting judges.
The location is at the Centennial Park and is part of the Ybor City Saturday Market Special Events and in conjunction with Ybor City’s Chamber of Commerce “Ybor City’s Fiesta Day”, an Ybor City celebration day of ethnic heritage & cultural activities on 7th Ave. Live entertainment, exhibits, food vendors, and a 2pm Flan Eating Contest!
Stop by and share the Ybor City experience this Saturday starting at 10 AM.
Guess Who is Reading Dishing!!! Outed…
“Dishing with Mark & Carrie” is read weekly by 10’s of 1,000’s of people locally, across the nation and around the world. We love it when friends tell us stories about people who read our blog.
This week a young friend came in and started with saying, “Your not going to believe this.” His Grandmother in cold weathered Chicago called him and said how good he looked in his pirate costume.
Surprised he asked where she saw this photo. Grandmother laughed and said in “Dishing with Mark & Carrie” of course!
Later he found out that he had forwarded a photo of himself in Dishing to his brother. The brother forwarded it to their Grandmother. She then signed up for the weekly newsletter on the web site. The Grandmother went on to say that his Mom reads Dishing too.
When they come to visit this spring both Grandmother & Mom want to see a drag show in GaYBOR!!!
Our friend was laughing. OMG what did we start! LOL
P.S. Hi, Call Out to our loyal weekly readers in Raleigh Freedom Living in North Carolina.
Three Cheers for Tampa Police Department
GaYBOR/Ybor City has become a much safer & fun place to live, work & play. A huge part of this is the improved communications between The Tampa Police Department & local Ybor City businesses.
There is a facebook page called, “Ybor Watch” https://www.facebook.com/yborcitybusinesswatch?fref=ts Thanks to Tampa Police Officer Sean Mahabir, we also know not only who is protecting us but how to personally contact them.
THANK YOU Tampa Police Department. You’re the BEST!!!
The Israel Trip
Featuring Tel Aviv Pride
Buying Naked Looking for Extras
www.Paperrouteproductions.com were in GaYBOR/ Ybor City looking for extras. Paper Route Productions currently are producing 12 reality TV Shows on 4 different TV networks. Check out their web site and who knows….
THE VIVA PUERTO RICO
GAY CLUB TOUR
featuring
The Queen of Reggaeton
IVY QUEEN – LIVE & IN CONCERT
Sunday, March 2nd!
doors open at 8pm!
General admission $25
VIP admission with autographed CD and photo $50
presented by Aby & Efrain, Filtro Group, and Granda Entertainment!
Aby y Efrain, Filtro Group y Granda Entertainment presentan el cierre de la Gira Gay Visita discoteca
de La Diva, La Potra, La Caballota, La Musa, La Mother Mother
IVY QUEEN EN VIVO!
Puertas abren a las 8pm
Boletos en la puerta $25
VIP para conocerla, recivir autographos con CD y foto
con ella $50
In Case You Missed It.
These were several articles that resulted from the Job Exchange media visit that feature GaYBOR/ Ybor published on bluewin.ch, one of Switzerland’s largest news outlets with 1.7 million readers: Open in Google translate.
General Tampa article: http://www.bluewin.ch/de/leben/reisen/bildergalerien-reisen/13-11/tampa-florida.html
Top Do’s and Don’ts in Tampa: http://www.bluewin.ch/de/leben/reisen/redaktion/2013/11/5-dos-and-don-tstampa.html
WOMAN, women’s interest magazine with a circulation of 190,000: http://www.woman.at/a/florida-tipps
- Weekend Magazin, a travel and lifestyle publication with a circulation of 205,732: http://www.clip.at/archivhades/swiss_2851/print/20131206/001.pdf
Swim Wear & Undies at MC Film
All the HOTTEST & NEWEST Swim wear for the 2014 season are now arriving at MC Film. A new line of unconventional designed underwear from Sweden, Frank Dandy! New to the USA.
And if you want a great deal on GLBT, Classic, Foreign DVD’s, we have 1000’s of specially marked movie titles at $ 4.99!
A Femme & Follies Local Cabaret
The dim lit room was rapturing in 1930’s music. The low bantering burlesques songs of yesteryear were presently murmuring in a surround sound atmosphere. The time was now. The place was a cool Sunday fog filled night at the Social in GaYBOR/Ybor City and the anticipated show created past lives memoirs.
The Femmes & Follies Burlesque Valentines Show was a smashing success. It struck the crowd of all society underground, in a most campy way. Most of the ticketed attendees were dressed in the ritzy burlesque era fashions. The quarterly staged review performance of the yesteryear review troupe has an abundance of loyal followers. They come to re-experience the speak easy times of old Chicago and lower bowery of New York City with comedy, sexy style dance, clothing costume mystic and lively inspired song.
Great talents from the blonde risque Katie James, singing bombshell Anye Cole and the cast of diverse heart throbs Mayven Misbehavin and Les Vixens illusional tease.
Look forward to this springs next upcoming show in May for an Ybor filled dance and song with a side of tryst .
Bear Time Jamboree
What a great GaYBOR/ Ybor City weekend. The Annual Gasparilla Softball Tournament was all over Tampa Bay’s ball fields. 2500 players and teams came from out of state to get out of the northern cold weather states to play ball in the 20th Annual Softball Classic in sunny Florida! Well, at least they played ball in Florida. The nights turned into large sporting bar event socializers and meeting new friends.
The one stop that most of the guys wanted to go to was the monthly Social Bear Party held at The Social in GaYBOR/ Ybor City which is the third Saturday of the month. The placed was packed with Bears and visiting ballplayers from opening the doors at 9PM until closing at 3AM!
It was a great place to meet up with friends and acquaintances from all over the state and out of state players as well. Congratulations Florida Entertainment Group and promoter bartender, Vinny on a very successful ‘Welcome to the GaYBORhood’ event.
Celebration of Life Service
Vincent Parillo, 41, of Tampa passed away Jan 4, 2014. A local landscaper in Lakeland & Tampa. He will be missed by many friends. A Celebration of Life Service for Vinny is this Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 @ 10AM along the Hillsborough River in Tampa.
FMI and location call 813-247-6233.
You Can Not Make This Up.
Carrie and I were going to the Kobe Japanese Steakhouse in Brandon to celebrate our 36th year anniversary together. We made a quick shopping stop at Burlington Coat Factory. It was our first time there. Standing in the check out line in front of us was a well dressed lady. She turned and was looking at us when she asked, “Do you work at Hamburger Mary’s in Ybor?” I smiled and said, “Yes I do!”
The lady went on to say, “Aren’t you Tea Cup? You were our bartender. We had such a great time with you. We were celebrating our 26 anniversary that night.” Carrie & I both smiled and said,”Yes, that was me and we are celebrating our 36th Anniversary today.”
She went on to say, “I will never forget how much fun we had together that night. It was our very last date together. The next day he had a massive stroke and passed away by the end of the week. You were our angel that night.”
WOW… what do you say to that?!?!?!?!? We told her that we were very sorry for her loss. What a coincidence to run into her at that Brandon store.
Mark & Carrie Nephieu/Niece of the Week
Miss Amber Douglas
During the nine years at the Suncoast Resort, Miss Amber became a good friend. We both so enjoyed her performance and the truly wonderful person she is inside. When she would come on stage Amber would say she is just a little country gal. When we adopted our Australian Shepard she was a little country dog.
Trying to pick out her name, the name Miss Amber Jillie came up. We can not look at our Miss Amber and not smile. Just a little country LSU gal!