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sticks booked, film at eleven

Sticks of Fire has added another writer! Lisa has two blogs already, Tampa Film Fan and Tampa Book Buzz. Lisa has agreed to share her Tampa-related findings in both the Film and Book worlds with us here at Sticks of Fire. By day I’m a productive member of society, hard at work for a [...]

feeling powerful

On October 7, Federal ICE Agent Frank Figueroa bragged about his concern for children. After busting a head shop selling cartoon character bongs, he said: “There’s no doubt that these items were made to make drug use attractive to kids and we simply will not tolerate this type of activity in our community.” [...]

Al Lopez has passed on

October 31, 2005One comment so far, add yours!

Tampa’s first Hall of Fame baseball player, Al Lopez passed away Sunday morning. He suffered a heart attack, and at 97 years old, it was a fatal blow. El Señor helped to put Tampa on the map – at least in the sports pages. Many other great baseball players [...]

spooky odessa

October 31, 2005Leave your thoughts!

Perhaps it should be renamed Odeatha?.

walk among the dead

If you’re not too hung over from Guavaween and would enjoy learning a bit of Tampa history, you have an excellent opportunity this Sunday to join a Gothic Graveyard Walk. On October 30 at 4pm you can walk with a guided one hour tour through the historic Oaklawn Cemetary in downtown Tampa. Oaklawn is Tampa’s [...]

where to put them all

Let’s say you are a manager at a call center. You are in charge of seven people. They were all hired on the same day, and all do the same job. In fact, they each do a great job, no one better than the other, and no slackers. Each of the [...]

she gets around

October 27, 2005Leave your thoughts!

Check the byline on the current Weekly Planet cover story. You may have heard of her. Congrats, you! Great job on the article too.

private note

to my beautiful, loving, perfect wifey: Hey there, sweetie. I sure do love ya! ahem. A lot!

nocturnal banquet

As mentioned in my intro, I am all about giving back to my community. So when good times are to be had for a worthy cause, I love to spread the word. Tomorrow, Friday, October 28th at 7:30pm, the doors will open at Gaspar’s Grotto in Ybor City to celebrate the “Feast of the [...]

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