Music Tampa Bay and Sticks of Fire introduce a new regular column in the hopes of bringing some of the Bay Area's music to you.
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 [...]
“This blog sucks.” OK, he didn’t use those words, but that was what I took from an anonymous comment left by “Droopy,” in early June: Blogs are not supposed to repeat old news the archiac newspapers have already covered. Simply linking to the newspaper websites is not a thing to be valued. After five years of doing this, [...]
Back in April, we learned of the demise of the printed edition of Skirt! Tampa Bay. But not all is lost. Even though they stopped printing the local edition, Media General is (thus far) maintaining the online version. Even better is that Chris Kuhn – who was let go as editor of the tabloid – has been [...]
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Chris Kuhn, Editor of Skirt! Tampa Bay. She wanted to profile me and Sticks of Fire. But there was a catch. Skirt! is a monthly tabloid publication aimed at the fairer sex, and the entire magazine is about what local women are doing. But one feature each month [...]
We’re Five. Today is the fifth anniversary of Sticks of Fire. I should give away t-shirts or something. Or maybe a fifth of something. This is the 4,490th post published. There have been 23,690 comments (since May 2005 – older ones got lost). We got our 1,000,000th visitor in December. We’ve been lucky enough to be named Tampa Bay’s [...]
As you may know, “sticks of fire” is the translation of the Calusan word “tanpa,” where Tampa got its name. Because of that, the phrase “sticks of fire” is used all over this area in various capacities, including a local band, an art sculpture on the grounds of Plant Park, and of course this very [...]
With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, the credited author of A Visit from St. Nicholas. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all ‘cross the Bay Not a creature was stirring, not even a Ray; The beach pails were stacked in the Florida room, ‘Cause St. Nick is coming, or so we assume; The children in shorty pajamas were sleeping, While dreaming [...]
Sticks of Fire has reached another milestone. Today, the one millionth visitor came by to try and figure out what the heck we are talking about. He or she came from an IP address in Florida, and found us via MSNBC’s Tampa page, and landed on our article entitled ‘again, city issues double standard‘ The nine hundred [...]
