Happy New Year! Oh, and you need a new calendar.
From what I can tell, Gasparilla is the nation’s biggest pirate festival. It’s gotta be – we stretch this thing out for about two months. It all starts with the Children’s Parade & Extravaganza, and includes the main Invasion, Parade, and PirateFest, the Krewe of the Knights of Sant’ Yago Illuminated Knight Parade, the Gasparilla Distance [...]
While on the set of Flashpoint, I spoke to Christine Burdick about the Tampa Downtown Partnership’s marketing efforts and offered my opinion that the Partnership should put more money into marketing the downtown area and their neighborhoods. But I was wrong about that. They already put plenty of money into marketing, they just [...]
Unless Al Gore’s inconvenient forecast is overly optimistic, and in spite of the best efforts of Rob Higgins and Paul Catoe, Tampa Bay will never host the NHL’s Winter Classic. If you’re not familiar with what that is, it’s a regular season game between two National Hockey League teams… played outdoors. Not an exhibition, [...]
Tonight the JGLB is celebrating Johnny G. Lyon’s birthday at the New Blue Shark in Ybor City! Why don’t you come down, buy the guy a beer, and party with all of us as we rock the night with our new songs? You never know who you might see there!
