On Tuesday night, Creative Loafing announced the winners of their annual Best of The Bay awards for 2009, and Clark Brooks was there to tell us about the highly anticipated award for best local blog! This year’s winner for Tampa Bay’s Best Local Blog is WEDNESDAY-MUSIC!!! For those that don’t know ‘em, WEDNESDAY-MUSIC has been [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
Antigua (yep, that Antigua) Sun columnist Arvel Grant recently wrote his suggested peoples’ commandments to their politicians. Throughout the column, Grant makes fun of the officials in his homeland. But included in the 20 commandments is this gem: 14. No politician shall covet Maginley for his failure to find the keys to Mount St. John or [...]
Congratulations to Deborah Newell Tornello, aka LitBrit! Her blog was chosen by the Creative Loafing staff as the Best Local Blog in their Best of the Bay 2008.: Staff Pick BEST LOCAL BLOG: Litbrit She’s progressive. She’s a hottie. And she is a major Frank Zappa fan, posting little-known clips of the late composer-rocker on her blog each [...]
According to the print edition of this week’s Creative Loafing, they received over 3,000 ballots for the 2008 Best of the Bay readers’ poll. We are proud to announce that Sticks of Fire has been named a finalist for Best Local Blog, along with two other great blogs, Seminole Heights and Creative Loafing. We also want to [...]
It’s been a week (well, six days) since I got robbed and I’m fine. Thank you for all the well wishes; very much appreciated. While going through the process of dealing with the aftermath (replacing my driver’s license, picking up a police report, figuring out how to get my hands on cash for gas and [...]
You’ll remember that SohoTampa and Sticks of Fire were named to Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay list for 2006. Sticks of Fire was chosen the Best Local Blog by readers of Creative Loafing, and SoHoTampa.com was the CL staff pick for Best Local Cultural Website. I went over to American Stageon Monday evening to accept [...]
Marketing Gorilla gives writers their due: [Sticks of Fire has] … great contributors and they offer a unique citizen journalist viewpoint to life in the Tampa Bay area. How about a big round of applause for all of the contributors here. As the Gorilla notes, they really do a great job.
