The Ybor City Stogie

Friday, May 14, 2010

Got Transit?

Hillsborough Commissioners Okay Rail Tax Referendum
After a generation of political debate, Hillsborough County voters will finally get a chance to decide on commuter rail.......here

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Gov. Charlie Crist: Florida Tourism Already Hurt By Oil Spill

The oil slick has yet to reach the Florida coast, but Governor Charlie Crist says the state is still being hurt by the spill. He says businesses, especially those linked to tourism, are taking a hit. "I can tell you that from being in the Panhandle this weekend," said Crist at a news conference in St. Petersburg.......here

Drill Baby, Drill.

Ybor Blend From Ybor City Gold

Last weekend, I had enough coffee to get out of bed early and head over to the historic Ybor section of Tampa to check out the farmers’ market. In between the vegetable stands and handmade crafts, I hit gold, the stand for Ybor City Gold. I wanted to try all of their coffees, but I limited myself to just their Ybor Blend to start......here

Homeless In Tampa

Hillsborough And Himes

Republicans Pick Tampa For 2012 Convention

"In greater Tampa Bay, I think the last count is around 56 different clubs that are
adult-oriented."........Paul Allen, NightMoves Magazine Founder

The 29th Annual WMNF Tropical Heatwave

Saturday May 15 5:00PM, Cuban Club, Ybor City
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Local Sprawlmeisters

The Wimauma Sprawl Project, Part 1

Was approved by the county commission today in a 5-2 vote. Al Higginbotham, Jim Norman, & Ken Hagan were joined by Kevin Beckner and Rose Ferlita, who were led down the garden path by our county planners at the Planning Commission......here
Thank you commissioners Mark Sharpe & Kevin White for voting against this horrible sprawl.
Whats up Mr. Beckner?

Republicans Hate Latinos

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

Has signed a bill targeting a school district's ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure. State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district's Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people.......here

Rep. David Rivera: An Expensive Legislator

According to a report from El Nuevo Herald on Tuesday, the state of Florida reimbursed charter travel companies that fly to Cuba $364,000 in legal expenses . This means that we the taxpayers lost $364,000 because of the ignorance and demagoguery of state Rep. David Rivera.......here

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Steve Kmetko on Tampa's NBC affilate

Steve Kmetko visit's the set of WFLA's "Daytime" to promo the Tampa LGBT Film festival and New LGBT Website MyQmunity.com.

Protest BP Oil Spill!

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The Yes Men Fix the World

Free Film: Wednesday, May 12th, 8:30pm
Cafe Bohemia, 937 Central Ave. St. Petersburg

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Picadillo
Yellow Rice And Plátanos
$5.99......At Latin Cafe, W. Cypress Street, In Tampa
How Much Was Your Last Value Meal? Eat Local!

130 Cameras In Tampa Bay

Victor Prout and Nolan Browne
Monitor video screens showing segments of roads in the bay area in the Florida Department of Transportation Traffic Management Center. The center watches 140 miles of Tampa Bay
area roads via 130 cameras.........here

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne

RIP
June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010

4 Million Gallons And Growing, In The Gulf Of Mexico

I've been sick to my stomach over this for weeks now. What on earth have we done to ourselves? It's the economic recession all over again, except with oil instead of money as the object of greed, while wildlife, natural habitat, and indeed ultimately the economic livelihood of those who make their living either in the Gulf waters or on it's beaches will suffer mightily......The Spencerian

Drill Baby, Drill

3rd Annual Blueberry Festival

May 15th & 16th

Keel and Curley Winery
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Carolina Pena And Isidro Rosario

In the pediatric intensive care unit at Tampa General Hospital,
a badly beaten toddler improved from critical to serious condition.......here

Shark In Pickup Truck

The man who caught the shark seen in the back of a pickup truck this weekend has come forward. He's Josh Lipert of St. Petersburg, and he caught the shark off the St. Pete Pier around 2 o'clock Saturday morning........here

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Christopher Lloyd Q&A Tampa

Tampa Theater's Sunset Cinema
Showed Back to the Future in Sulfur Springs. Christopher Lloyd happened to be in town and came after the film to do a Q&A.

The Cigar Maker

Mark Carlos McGinty
The Cigar Maker is the story of a Cuban rebel who battles labor strife and vigilante violence in the Cigar Capital of the World, Tampa's Ybor City in the early 1900s. Based on true events and his family's history, McGinty's second novel celebrates family and culture in a city made famous by hand-rolled cigars and their connection to organized crime, violence and racism.

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Ben Hedblom's Shoes

Were new when he started freshman year at Land O'Lakes High School. He's now a senior, and he's worn those same now-tattered sneakers for the past four years as part of a bet......here

The Cigar Trade In Ybor City

This woman began wrapping tobacco leaves into cigars when she was 16. In her prime, she could produce 400 hand-rolled cigars a day.
here

Bill McCollum And The Gay Baptist Homophobe

Lies, lies, lies. So many lies that the mind reels and the stomach lurches, trying to keep up. The lies that have been told by Christian extremists in Florida to preserve the state’s archaic and cruel law prohibiting gay adoption should shame anyone who still supports it.......here

What Stogie Had For Dinner

Palomilla Steak
With Real Fried Rice (Not New York Style) And Platanos
$7.99.....At Arco Iris, On Columbus Dr. In West Tampa
How Much Was Your Last Value Meal? Eat Local!

Blobs Of Tar Washed Up On Alabama's White Sand Beaches

It could be at least a day before BP can make another attempt at putting a lid on a well spewing thousands of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.
here

Drill Baby, Drill