TECO Line Streetcar Festival This Saturday!!!

The TECO Line Streetcar Line is celebrating 10 years of service. Sometimes under community controversy, the streetcar is a major Tampa Brand! The streetcar travels Historic Ybor City thru Channelside and ends at downtown Tampa.

Great entertainment is planned all along the route for the upcoming anniversary celebration. Lowery Park Zoo has an animal arena, bands playing in Centro Ybor, circus acts, Streetcar Barn open for tours and food samples at different stops for the special celebration. It is always a great family friendly party day.

MC FILM has Annual 20% OFF SALE all day Saturday. Just show us your TECO 10 Cent ticket! It all is happening Saturday 10 AM until 2AM.

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New Gay Drama Filming in Ybor City

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New Sunday FUNday Tea Party in GaYBOR

Putting the Tea into T-ParTy

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GaYBOR Meeting has Local TV Reporter/ Anchor As Special Guest

October’s GaYBOR District Coalition has a long list of activities planned for the next 6 months! Included is a “GaYBOR Student Art Competition”, Decorated Storefronts Contest in historic Ybor City for Holiday Spirit in Ybor in December and the State of GaYBOR in January with guest speaker, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn.

“Close to the 300 GaYBOR member mark and what a positive accomplishment to our historic district.” said Carrie West, President of GaYBOR District. ” That is worldwide advertising to entice tourists to come to historic Ybor City. That’s only $6.00 per month for each business!”

Guest speakers at the monthly meeting held at Hampton Inn & Suites were Preston Rudie, WTSP TV anchor /reporter talking about media and community relations in historic Ybor City and GaYBOR. Also guest speakers included Sally Phillips, Florida State Dem Committeewoman on the upcoming November Florida ballot and Tom Keating, President of Ybor City Chamber of Commerce, talking about the upcoming Guavaween weekend the end of October 27th.

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People Are Talking

More talk is in the breeze of a new gay restaurant/club rumored to be opening in St Petersburg. Good St. Pete friends said that the deal was sealed 2 weeks ago for the old Detours location. Still looking into it.

The 112 ‘murdered Trees’ in Ybor will be having a new flowery look. The city wants to plant Crape Myrtles and a few Olive Trees in place of the mowed downed and stumped 20 year old oak and holly tress on Ybor sidewalks that occurred 1 month ago. It is in the Master plan we were told! But were we!!!

Big Birthday week bedsides TeaCup was Miss Joey Brooks at Bradley’s on 7th and Sheriff Mike at Hamburger Mary’s. Happy Birthday to the October Birthday Readers!

Fresh Mouth in Centro Ybor closed it’s doors for good. The other 2 locations owned by the same owner Centro Cantina and JJ’s Cafe are still open. “Just making things more manageable.” said owner, Joe V. Who wants to open a diner?

Guavaween is making a major change! No fenced in area and no paying to get into Ybor City. This year a musical staged venue will be replacing Mama Guava parade October 26th and the permitted fence and wet zoning for 7th Ave. Halloweeen weekend. The Ybor City Chamber of Commerce oversees Guavaween and benefits from the annual event

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TIGLFF Finished On Top

The 23rd Annual Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival showed better revenue this year than for last year with 25% increase in moviegoers. Changes this year were: a shorter film festival schedule (9 days instead of 11 days) , more visual appearances by film directors and actors, Surge (Men’s) & Sugar (Women’s) After Party was held at 1 location instead of 2 saving money and a new Film Festival Food Truck Rally opening night at the downtown Tampa Theatre which was a huge success. More changes as the festivals board gets together for their final numbers.

TIGLFF Executive Director Larry Biddle was hoping for 7,000 movie attendees to see the 60 movies scheduled. “We over did expectations.” Bidddle smiled.

New BEARhood Take Over Party

Congratulations to the party organizer/ bartender Vincent Salpietro. The new 2nd Saturday of the month Bear Party is held in the basement of the Ybor Social. See all the photos at www.mcfilm.co You will not want to miss the next party. Become a friend of Vinny today at https://www.facebook.com/vincent.salpietro.5?fref=ts

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Wild Night at New York New York Pizza

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Everybody knows that the must do last stop in GaYBOR/Ybor City is to NY NY Pizza. The Best pizza and wildest floor show and they don’t even have a floor show!!!! One night it was after 2AM and the place was busy. All of a sudden a man fell out of the ceiling!!!! Everybody screamed! The owner Freddie ran up to the very drunk guy and asked… “Are you OK? Where did you come from? What’s going on?”

The drunk actually said, “Those’s Mother F***ers locked me into the mewsroom. So I had to crawl up into and out thru the ceiling!!!”

Freddie stated, “What there is no lock on the door!” The Drunken customer replied he had pushed & pushed and the door wouldn’t open IT WAS LOCKED!!!!!” Freddy replied, “It wasn’t locked all you have to do was to pull the door not push!” Freddie and another employeeshowed the intoxicated gent, then escorted him out the door.

Featured GaYBOR Member of the Week

Centro Ybor

Centro Ybor, LTD, the new mall in central historic Ybor City, have been a member since the beginning of GaYBOR District Coalition and great team players in all historic Ybor City Events. Providing and managing a mall right smack in the middle of the old historic district, They have a modernized mall and commons area in the historic district including restaurants; Hamburger Mary’s, Carne, the Tampa Bay Brewing Company, Samarai Blue . Other businesses include Muvico Theatres, Joeffry’s, Tampa Improv and 6 major business office complexes. Plus so much more.

This week they are hosting Centro Ybor’s concerts for the TECO Line Streetcars 10 Year Anniversary. They also have the huge Ybor Holiday Spirit Christmas Tree on there property also.

Centro Ybor property owners are M&J Wilkow, LTD in Chicago. Senior VP David Harvey, Vivian, Carl and staff all have helped all of historic Ybor City and Tampa. We Congratulate You on All Your Successes.

Mark & Carrie’s Nephew/ Niece of the Week

Chi Chi Lalique

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One of the most beautiful ladies in GaYBOR/Ybor City. Chi Chi can even made old eyesores look FANTASTIC!! By day she is the reigning Mayor of New Port Richey!!! She holds court there daily at Salon Ke-lani https://www.facebook.com/SalonKeLani By night she is thrilling audiences across Tampa Bay!. Check her out at Hamburger Mary’s this weekend!