L’Olivier Restaurant and Cabaret is one of Ybor City’s… and Tampa Bay’s newest and most unique nightspots. Seriously, outside of Disney or Chuck E. Cheese, where can you find a place that offers dinner and a show anymore? Not to mention a full bar and a dessert menu. As guests of owner Mike Edmondson and general manager [...]
Saturday’s Tribune carries a passionate call to arms asking citizens to help save Egmont Key. Bay Soundings editor Mary Kelly Hoppe writes, “It’s time to call in the cavalry. Deliberations in Tallahassee may seal the fate of this beloved historical island. Letters and calls to legislators are needed now if we are to muster the support [...]
Creative Loafing published their annual Urban Explorer issue. Ever since they began the series (and columns), I’ve thought it provided an interesting look at parts of Tampa Bay life from various perspectives. In years past, the annual has taken a closer look at places you can’t go (2006) using your five senses to get around (2007), [...]
Allright, so our efforts over the last ten years to prepare for drought times have been, uh, let’s just say “somewhat short of a complete success.” And once again, we are facing severe water shortages where we are basically demanding everyone just stop watering the grass. But wait… Haven’t we been under restrictions [...]
At a cost of $146 million, the C.W. Bill Young Reservoir is supposed to hold 15 billion gallons of water, in order to get us through the dry season. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly working as we would like. We get an average of about 25 inches of rain from June through September (you may recall [...]
We decided to build a Seawater Desalination Plant in late 1996. Construction began in 2001, and was to be finished in 2003. Between 2000 and 2005, everything related to the desalination plant was a comedy of errors, and the plant finally became fully operational by the end of 2007 – nearly six years behind its [...]
Ever hear of the Tampa Bay Water Ski Show Team? Me either. But apparently, our hometown water skiers are pretty good. In fact, they are famous all over the world: [As of July, 2008,] The team has won six consecutive Southern Region titles and is the No. 1-ranked team in the Southeast region. In 2000, Tampa [...]
We kept the soft opening on the DL, just in case. But a crowd of over 200 of our friends came out to celebrate the re-opening of the Proud Lion. Let me back up. A couple of weeks ago, Johnny G. Lyon and friends (you might remember Johnny G’s, too) decided to take an interest in [...]
You may have heard that the Tampa Bay area is in the midst of a (thus far) 3 year drought. The Hillsborough River is low, as is the Alafia (look at the photo). The rainy season doesn’t begin until June. The C.W. Bill Young Reservoir that we built in 2005 – just 3.5 years ago! – [...]
