Dishing with Mark & Carrie 1-14-15

Radio AM 820, Our Gay Story
    What an honor to have the former 4 term Tampa Mayor Dick Greco & Radio Celebrity Dan Maduri to ask us to be on his highly rated radio program on Tampa radio station, News Talk 820 AM. He called and said directly as the mayor always had.
     ” With Same -sex Marriage now legal in Florida, Gays in the Tampa news, I want you & Mark to come on my radio show! I want you to help educate my listeners.”
    In historic GaYBOR /Ybor City our store, ” MC Film Fest “ Gay Pride Store & GLBT Information Center is located at 8th Ave & 15th Street in what was for 50 years the home of Dick Greco’s parents hardware store, ‘ King -Greco Hardware.’ Dick also grew up in the diverse Hispanic/ Cuban/ Italian area of Tampa, Ybor City. We have pictures and bullet holes to prove his stories!
    The noon time weekly Monday radio show focused on a different subject matter for his huge statewide audience, Gay life in Tampa.
     We have had many great visits with the former mayor and his lovely doctor wife, Linda. Dick asked us to go on the air and talk about local & state LGBT issues and help educate and inform his audience. Here is that interview in 4 parts.

Thank You Metro Wellness & Community Center

 for your very generous sponsorship to Tampa PRIDE!!!

Celebrating an Ybor City Icon
 
Official Tampa PRIDE Event
 

The DIAMOND DINNER

 

This Saturday 7:30 – 10PM

Holiday Inn, 3535 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater

 

Reserve your tickets today at www.tbglcc.org Members are $50 and Non Members $75. This is the annual fundraiser for the LGBT Chamber of Commerce. We will have music, dancing, silent auction, and we will be giving out our diamond awards to the top LGBTA people and businesses of the year.

There is also special pricing for rooms at the hotel for those coming from out of town! Cocktail Attire or better Requested. #lgbtdiamondawards

The Interview
    The curiosity got the best of us. We are well known local ‘moviebuffers.’ We watched the worldwide North Korean controversial & talked about movie, “The Interview” on Bright House cable.  
    The movie was very light hearted and full of very funny jokes. There were a lot of Gay ones that would go right over a straight persons head…  Or Maybe not? We give “The Interview” 3 out of 5 stars.
A Valentine’s Day Love Story presented by ArtsFusion

Tampa, FL- January 9, 2015- The unique and imaginative theatre piece, Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will be presented in celebration of Valentine’s Day by ArtsFusion.

This charming, poignant play centers on just two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at a table and read the notes, letters and cards – in which over nearly 50 years, they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats – that have passed between them throughout their separated lives. Audiences love this show! Join us to celebrate Valentine’s Day!!
“A wonderfully diverting fun fest! Constantly amusing and rewarding.” –The Mirror.

 

The show features Michael DuMouchel and Midge Mamatas directed by Anna Brennen.

 

Four performances at two different venues:

First two:

Firehouse Cultural Center call: 813.645.7651  www.firehouseculturalcenter.org

ticket prices from $12.-$20.
Saturday February 7th at 7PM cabaret seating

Sunday February 8th at 2PM

101 1st Ave NE

Ruskin, Florida 33570

Two additional performances in St Petersburg

Studio@620 call: 727.895.6620   www.studio620.org

all tickets: $15

Saturday February 14th and Monday February 16th at 7PM

620 1st Ave S
St.Petersburg, Florida 33701

ArtsFusion is a nonprofit umbrella organization which serves as a catalyst for individual Performing and Visual Artists and nascent Arts Groups to collaborate, showcase and celebrate their work in a non-profit public forum. Founded by Anna Brennen in 1983.

 

For further information contact:                                                         ArtsFusion Founder

ArtsFusion Marketing Director                                                            Anna Brennen

Midge Mamatas                                                                               anna.brennen@gmail.com

midge.mamatas@gmail.com                                                              813-251-8984

727-488-4322