So after my recent post about the fun to be had downtown in St Pete (as opposed to downtown Tampa which is about as fun on a Saturday as a root canal) I promised that I would also post about the nighttime scene there. Autopsy kindly offered to be my guide since he lives nearby [...]
A couple of weeks ago (remember the sticky heat of summer?) my girlfriend and I had the bright idea of going to Lowry Park Zoo. Now I have been to the Zoo plenty of times over the years and usually had a good time, the last time I was there was maybe two years [...]
I went on down to Ybor this past Saturday night to check out the drag show I’d heard about at Flirt nightclub at 1909 N 15th Street in Ybor. I hadn’t been to a drag show in a lot of years (can you say Stephanie Shippae-aaayyyyyy!) and was up for some fun. Flirt [...]
I visited the Ringling Museum in Sarasota recently and learned three important facts that I would not otherwise have known. There is a Friendly’s restaurant in Sarasota now, Tony Little is doing ok, and being a Circus kingpin in the 20’s was a very very good thing. Stopping for gas on the way south, my [...]
Sherriff David Gee got to break out the old handcuffs for the first time in a long time Saturday night. TBO reports that Gee observed “a DUI suspect who nearly caused an accident,” so he followed and arrested T. J. Hoffmann at a convenience store (while the suspect was picking up some more beers). [...]
So last week Ellen Gedalius reported in the Trib that the City has come to an agreement with M&J Wilkow who bought the struggling Complex last year. I posted on it back in November 2006 when Wilkow first bought the property and more recently we talked about the positive attitude some of the current [...]
A quick mention for you furniture depleted value seekers out there. The Sticks and Stuff on Gandy in Tampa just east of Manhattan is having a store closing sale. The site is being sold off to Wal-Mart and for once nobody is arguing against the giant retailer. It is as if folks don’t like [...]
The St Pete Times reported on Saturday that USF has inked a deal to rename the Sun Dome for a company that finances student loans. Aside from the apparently signing a deal with the Gotti family wing of the Student Loan industry (and aside from completely ignoring that the Times themselves renamed the Ice Palace [...]
A few months back I heard from Bill Sharpe that the SoHo Starbucks was going 24 hours. Even though I live in South Tampa and typically love anyplace open all night I hadn’t made it to this place in part because I assumed it would be packed with all the nearby nightlife. So I [...]
