Dishing with Mark & Carrie 7-7-11

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 * GaYBOR Days Health Fair
    The 7th Ave FREE Community Health & Wellness Fair was held at the new and beautifully restored large Metro Wellness & Community Center on 7th Ave in historic Ybor City. Sixteen companies displayed information and offered a variety of Free medical testing to the many attendees including American Cancer Society, American Diabetes, Bioscrip Pharmacy, Metro Wellness, Sonia Plotnick Women’s Health Fund, FORGE, Tampa Bay Crisis Center, Russell Fox Massage, Walgreen’s Pharmacy, and the Veterans Administration. The band, Roots of our Culture, played for the event outside in the Metro Wellness patio prior to the rain storm. The event was a co-sponsored event by the Ybor City Development Corp.
    It is giving back to all the people in need during this economic slowdown including bartenders, restaurant workers, artists and families in the Ybor City area to receive medical monitoring and testing for a healthier city. Health wellness fairs are happening in all parts of the country and Ybor isn’t immune to this non insured medical crisis.
   Refreshments and food was donated by Ritz Ybor, Bioscrip Pharmacy and NY, New York Pizza.

GaYBOR Days Harvey Milk Movie Night

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    Friday night started out with dining out at many GaYBOR restaurants and showcasing the neuvo eclectic district. At the Blue Dog Bistro a pre-movie party had a chance to meet up with special guests. The special guest, Stuart Milk, human rights activists and nephew to gay slain supervisor in San Francisco Harvey Milk addressed the audience with his memorable recollections of his uncle and mission of the Harvey Milk Foundation. The movie, “The Times of Harvey Milk” was shown to the Turkey National Assembly and to the French Parliament bodies of government. Proclamations were given to GaYBOR Days 2011 board members from Hills County Board of Commissioner Kevin Beckner. He questioned the reasoning of the other county commissioners not wanting to sign the proclamation in a growing and steadfast Historic Ybor City. Sally Phillips, President of Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus, spoke about her recent GLBT leaders dinner with President Barack Obama about GLBT political issues. Florida Other proclamations were received from the White House- President Barack Obama, U.S. House of Representatives Cathy Castor, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and from the entire City of Tampa City Council.

* GaYBOR Days Annual Bar Crawl

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    The GaYBOR Bar Crawl on Sunday was nothing less than an adventure of meeting new friends and tasting some 15 new tasty concoctions at the same number of shot stops. Heading the hundreds of participating revelers was none other than Mama from the Reservoir Bar dressed with a 4th of July colored scepter and wearing a swank risque dress!. All along the streets of Ybor people toasted and cheered the 4th of July celebration bar hoppers. Bands were playing at Play, Crowbar, Green Iguana, JJ’s, Centro Cantina, Gaspar’s Grotto and ended at Hamburger Mary’s with RuPaul’s Drag Race Winners Alexis Demateo.  
     “It is a sea of people having fun” said Jason Fernandez, owner of Bernini’s Restaurant on 7th

GaYBOR Music Festival

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    * Music Festival
    A major lineup of singing and performing stars were cheered at Crowbar & Gaspar’s Grotto. Singing Carlos Lopez, DJ Power Infiniti, Daphne Ferraro, Divinity Everlasting and Judy B. Goode & Pianoman Paul Thomas.
    * DJ David Knapp, Intl. known artists had a special packed performance at Honey Pot
    * RuPAUL Drag Race Winners at Hamburger Mary’s
    * Thousands of Visitors and Locals  kept Ybor economy alive and “open For Business”   
     * Clubs, Shopping, Having Fun thousands came to be tantalized by the historic district
    * Fire Works from the rooftop of Rise at Tabu
    * And so much more