I have no idea why this show flew so far under the radar and I have no idea what (or really where) the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa is but I do know this: This Friday night (as in tonight!) Sara Lee Guthrie (daughter of Arlo, grandaughter of Woodie) and Johnny Irion are playing there. [...]
With the economy tanking, the writer’s strike taking over TVland, and local leaders once again plying taxpayers with ambitious dreams about the Godzilla of sports stadiums, where can a girl go to get some cheap art? This Friday, the answer is The Wine Exchange in Hyde Park, where eleven/17 will be holding its own art show [...]
At a public hearing next Friday, Hillsborough County’s Legislative Delegation will vote on 7 state laws affecting our county, including one that would allow half-acre wetlands to be destroyed on any land designated Agricultural, without regard for our county’s wetland regulations. Hugh Gramling, representing the Ag industry, shocked everyone by filing for this sneaky end run [...]
When I started ninebullets.net I had these naive fantasies of sprinkling local Florida bands into my daily musical ramblings, and thus giving them an even larger audience outside of the local area. After a few months of working on the site, I started sending out emails. I quickly learned that, by and large, the Tampa/St. [...]
The Rays have launched a companion site tied to their stadium efforts, entitled Major League Downtown. This, of course, is the Tropicana Field site redevelopment along with the new stadium construction on the site of Al Lang Field. On a sidenote with all these renderings — ST. PETERSBURG everywhere you can see on [...]
A couple of months ago, the Tampa Tribune revealed a wishful-thinking stadium design for the Devil Rays baseball team… Little did we know that, at the time, the franchise was secretly in talks with the city of St. Petersburg about getting out of Tropicana Field and into a new waterfront ballpark. That little [...]
The State of Florida unveiled a new website recently, FloridaPerforms.com. The website includes a scorecard that gives you an overview of various state agencies, and if they are getting better or worse. Here’s the intro from Charlie: Each year, the Legislature fulfills its constitutional duty to pass a budget that provides state government [...]
Friends of the River is a citizen support group concerned with promoting health and environmental policies that affect the quantity and quality of water in the Lower Hillsborough River and the Tampa Bay by actively promoting the development and implementation of natural resource management strategies which will improve and enhance the current and future health, [...]
On a recent Sunday, the St. Pete Times opined that the city of Tampa should make downtown more neighborly, and offered suggestions for improvement. They said that nobody is taking the time to find out if people can live there comfortably, and the area remains unfriendly to pedestrians. Roads. Transit policy downtown is [...]
