When planning a late night, your location can help determine just how late. As you know, you can get your drink on in Hillsborough until 3am, while hot spots in Pinellas close at 2am.
Did you know that Death Metal was born right here in Tampa Bay? Sure enough. Brandon's Nasty Savage is credited with influencing Tampa's Death, who's lead singer is called the "father of Death Metal."
With the closing of Valencia Garden, I got to thinking about some of Tampa’s other long-time independents that have gone over the past 15 years or so. It helped that Jeff Houck put up some photos of these places over the years. I was fortunate enough to visit the following places, which no longer [...]
tbt* came out with their list of Tampa area bands. For some reason, they lumped the blues in with country music, and that’s where you’ll find us: Johnny G. Lyon Band: Lyon, a bluesy singer-guitarist with the L.A. band the Hitmakers, returned to Tampa in the mid-’80s and has been a mainstay of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Busch Entertainment Corporation announced that free samples of Busch’s premier product no longer will be provided to theme park patrons. The taps will stop flowing at Busch Gardens on Jan. 25. The theme park had been giving away the beer since 1959 – 50 years! Mark Albright and Rodney Thrash say the announcement is”like a sobering slap [...]
Come on down to Whiskey Joe’s and ring in the new year with the JGLB! You may already know that I sing in a great rock’n'roll band, but you may not know that we’re going to kick it up a notch for New Year’s Eve! At the former home of The Castaway, Whiskey Joe’s is the place [...]
In 1985, Deborah Christen, and her Swiss gourmet chef husband John Christen opened the first Shells restaurant in South Tampa. The couple opened a second location in Tampa and a third in Sarasota, and in 1993, Shells Seafood Restaurants Inc. went public and expanded to the Midwest. They eventually had 45 restaurants across the US. On [...]
