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 [...]
In the race for School Board between Stephen Gorham and Carol Kurdell, the daily newspapers disagree. The Tampa Tribune says that challenger Stephen Gorham is the best choice for school board: Gorham represents… real change. … would bring a keen eye and a questioning mind to the dais. … would still bring the sensibilities of a parent and [...]
We’ve already gone over the Tribune’s endorsements for BOCC – Hagan (District 2), Higginbotham (Dist 4), and Beckner (Dist 6). The St. Pete Times echoes those endorsements, but in recommending the two incumbents, the Times whines a bit harder about the lack of viable choices: District 2 (north Hillsborough) Ken Hagan… has a sorry record [...]
Tax Collector Doug Belden is running against Beverly P. Harris for the Tax Collector office. Your Tax Collector: Collects property taxes for every local government agency with the power to levy taxes. Serves the state as an agent for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Florida Game [...]
The local daily offered their suggestions for Hillsborough County Commission this past weekend. Not surprisingly, the Tampa Tribune endorsed Kevin Beckner over Brian Blair. Also not surprising was their endorsements of Ken Hagan and Al Higginbotham. However, the reasons for these last two endorsements are quite disheartening. There were simply no real choices, and the Trib [...]
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 [...]
