THE DAY ALL FILIPINOS IN TAMPA GATHERED

   While the majority of party-goers were in St. Pete this weekend for the Grand Prix, I was stuck behind a booth at a lesser known festival for 11 hours… but I was never bored. Heck yea, of course I wanted to see a bunch of cars and hot racers speeding down the city, but…

TAMPA AND ITS PARADES

It has been two weeks since one of the last great Tampa parades… did you know that Tampa leads as one of the cities with the most parades? In my hometown, parades come often, but every float has the appearance of a Ford Expedition covered in shrink wrap– so it gets boring. But Tampa takes…

BODY WORLDS at MOSI

Seeing the insides come to the outsides. I had the opportunity to see BODY WORLDS– the newest exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Tampa. The idea is: this guy, Gunther Van Hagens, invented this method for preserving bodies and body parts called plastination. BODY WORLDS displays real bodies using his plastination method….

No More Free Beer For You

I was the 33rd last person to receive free beer at Busch Gardens. The newspapers have been talking about it and so have the guests. It seemed that people have linked the end of all days to the end of free beer at Busch Gardens. Months ago, it was announced to the world that InBev…