Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Florida Dancers To Perform At Mt. Obama Dedication

Antigua’s highest peak, known by islanders as Boggy Peak, will change its name to Mount Obama on August 4th, Barack Obama’s birthday. Last year, after the island’s people wore Barack Obama hats, shirts and buttons to promote Obama’s presidential bid, Antigua’s prime minister, Winston Baldwin Spencer, had the idea of changing the peak’s name in honor of the newly-elected president. Now preparations are underway for next week’s ceremony..........here

Nolan Canova: Tampa's Pop Culture Guru

Nolan Canova is the curator of CrazedFanBoy.com, a website devoted to the exploration of and the commentary on pop culture, including independent film, music and art reviews..........here

Reservoir Bar Of Ybor City

Influenced by the world of gangsters and Quentin Tarantino, Ybor City’s Reservoir Bar is a dive bar with big ambitions.........here

City of Tampa Green Business Designation Program

As of this week, the City of Tampa became one of just a handful of cities nationwide to start a green business designation program........here

Monday, July 27, 2009

Florida Skunk Ape Hunter

My name is Tim Fasano and I am a Florida Skunk Ape Hunter. He is known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch or Swamp Monster depending on what part of North America you live. I search in the remote parts of Florida, the Cypress domes, the black water rivers, the muddy bayous and the thick Palmetto palms.......here

Monochrome Weekly: Ybor's Cigar Factory

This is the original cigar factory built by Vicente Martinez Ybor in 1886. Ybor brought cigar-making to Tampa in 1885 after growing tired of labor unrest at his factory in Key West, Florida. He bought 40 acres of land northeast of Tampa and took advantage of the area's port and later the railroad. It was the beginning of Ybor City's meteoric rise to prominence as the Cigar Capital of the World........here

Tampa's Central Avenue Remembered

Rowing through South Tampa

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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Babalú, South Florida's Premier Right Wing Blog

Will Not Sell Stogie Ad Space

Thanks for the inquiry but we have decided that we are not interested in posting advertising for your blog.........From: "Henry Louis Gomez" conductor@babalublog.com

Hemingway Look-Alike Contest In Key West

David Douglas (C) is surrounded by previous winners as he celebrates winning the 2009 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Florida, July 25, 2009........here

Tampa Euro GetToGether

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The Phony-Baloney Citation

The National Right to Life Committee, the nation's premiere pro-life organization, awarded its first-ever "Phony-Baloney Citation" to Representative Kendrick B. Meek.........here

Congratulations Mr. Meek

The International Amalgamated Association Of Blogging

In the meantime, I’ll blog my way and you can blog yours. I’m really not interested in becoming part of some sort of cyber community. I’m not a joiner. I’ve never belonged to any journalistic associations. I never joined a fraternity in college. Or put another way, if I was going bald I still wouldn’t join the Hair Club for Men..........Daniel Ruth

The Manatee Narc Force

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Carlos Miller: Contempt Of Cop

By now you surely heard the story of the black Harvard professor who forgot his key, so had to break into his own house, which resulted in police being dispatched and him being arrested.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. didn’t get arrested for breaking and entering, but for disorderly conduct after he asked the cop for his name and badge number..........here

Lindsay Lohan Steals St. Petersburg Chemist’s Formula

Lindsay Lohan and her business partner, Lorit Simon, are embroiled in a lawsuit, accusing the pair of stealing a St. Petersburg chemist’s formula for Lohan’s sunless tanning line, Sevin Nyne........here

Seven of Nine (born Annika Hansen) is a fictional character on Star Trek: Voyager, portrayed by actress Jeri Ryan. Born human, she was assimilated by the Borg at the age of six.

Gary Maxwell And Blas Hernandez Of Tampa

Not many know how the two men, living in tiny apartments in a South Tampa high-rise, spend their days. • With decades of honed talent, both have crafted hidden treasures.........here

Where Have All The Hippies Gone?

In Tampa

Two Tampa Companies Form “Green Team”

The team’s goal is the give clients a sense of order and balance in greener living and working environments.......here

Persia

Protesters Across The World!

Tampa's Creative Loafing Looking For Volunteers

Tampa's Creative Loafing Recruits More Bloggers from roblimo on Vimeo.

Friday, July 24, 2009

The Hillsborough County Commission

In A Rare Moment Of Social Enlightenment

"They're not animals, The homeless are you. They are me."............ Mark Sharpe
"They're still going to be in this community. There is never a right location."............. Jim Norman
"The face of homelessness continues to change."........... Kevin Beckner
For today's East Lake Park homeowner could just as easily be tomorrow's welcome guest of Catholic Charities.

Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay

Raised the funds to send life saving bed nets to all inhabitants of the African refugee camp Bakavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.........here

Meeting Gerald In Downtown, Tampa